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21) Meanderings
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Betty McKenzie-Tubb has been scribbling since youth, beginning with contributions to the Sydney Morning Herald and to the ABC radio programme The Argonauts. She was Ancona 49 and wrote regularly to 'Anthony Inkwell'. Degrees in Education and Arts have helped nourish her writing. She spent most of her working life as a teacher of the deaf, for whom the door to literacy is sometimes difficult to open. She is grateful to Montaigne, the father of the...
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Over 60 high-calorie recipes made with lots of butter, refined sugar, white flour and chocolate. Virtual exercises: NordicSnack, Pie-lates, Relaxin' To the Oldies. Stop dieting & start living. Make up the rules as you go! "I gained 145 pounds in just six months, became emotionally insulated, and allowed food to control every aspect of my life . . . now you can too." - The North Beach Diet author Kim Bailey
23) Mishegas of Motherhood: Raising Children To Leave The Nest...As Long As They Come Home For Dinner
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The book explores Jewish holidays, traditions, rituals, recipes, as well as humorous insights into how the ancient advice of the sages relates to modern parenthood. Chapters include topics that appeal to all generations of parents and include "Planning A Dream Bar Mitzvah Is A Nightmare," "Why Every Mom Should Own A Dog," "Turning Your Dinner Table Into An Altar," "Holiness of Chores," and "Jewish Girls Don't Camp," which inspired a webisode on the...
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Become a moist meat master with this giggle-inducing (and actually delicious) cookbook packed, until bursting, with 50 grilling favorites you can fork with. Stop jerkin' it in private, it's time to get off the couch and start sharing your meat with everyone. This Kama Sutra of cookbooks is overstuffed with the important BBQ techniques you need to know to keep your partygoers begging for more. Learn everything from how to maintain that low-and-slow...
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Filipino humorist RJ Ledesma shares the five universal steps of flirting that women use to ensnare clueless men; he raises male literacy levels by educating men in the finer points of female body language; and reveals the secrets of professional pick-up artists that make women do things that they will regret in the morning.
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When nature calls, disaster sometimes answers. Flush This Book: True Tales of Bodily Malfunctions is a collection of funny, gross and totally true stories about poop mishaps and messes. A portion of the proceeds from sales of this ebook benefit the World Toilet Organization. Find out about their important work improving sanitation in some of the world's most impoverished nations at www.worldtoilet.org This is a book for the non-squeamish among us...
27) Me Funny
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Humor has always been an essential part of North American aboriginal culture. This fact remained unnoticed by most settlers, however, since non-aboriginals just didn't get the joke. For most of written history, a stern, unyielding profile of the Indian" dominated the popular mainstream imagination. Indians, it was believed, never laughed. But Indians themselves always knew better. As an award-winning playwright, columnist, and comedy-sketch creator,...
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Les hommes préfèrent les grottes... C'est avec ce titre étrange qui fait référence au film culte du même nom que Jean-Luc Fonck nous revient avec une histoire bizarre qui a les Grottes de Han comme toile de fond. Attention, les mots « toile » et « fond » ne sont pas choisis au hasard...
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A text-only edition of the hilarious Letters of Not. A collection of remarkable and completely made-up correspondence from the great and the good across history. Many books have collated the exceptional letters and personal writing of the famous, offering a fascinating insight into well-known figures' personal lives and hidden desires. But what of the undistinguished epistles of the renowned? Can their less auspicious musings divulge clues to their...
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Ever get laid off while wearing a costume? Forced to get over a fear in less than 10 hours? Hey, we've all been there, right? These are just a few of the weird woes that writer and blogger Roberto Scarlato has had to face. A collection of six humorous essays of true events that happened in his life. It tackles subjects like Apartment Hunting, Traveling, Acting, Halloween Contests, and Scammers.
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The Family Mix: Essays on Family Life from Midlife Mixtape is a collection of best loved essays on family life by Nancy Davis Kho that originally appeared on her blog, Midlife Mixtape. Parenting, school days, home life, pet ownership: Davis Kho tackles them all with a sharp eye, self- deprecating wit, and the occasional '80s music reference. Whether it's laying down ground rules for elementary school play dates that include the 50/50 rule (if you'll...
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Every day stories from American history that are not true are repeated in museums and classrooms across the country. Some are outright fabrications, others contain a kernel of truth that has been embellished over the years. Collaborating with The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Mary Miley Theobald has uncovered the truth behind many widely repeated myth-understandings in our history in Death by Petticoat including:
* Hat makers really were driven...
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If coffee is the foundation of your food pyramid, then this is your book. Inspired by Ryoko Iwata's popular Web site, I Love Coffee (en.ilovecoffee.jp), Coffee Gives Me Superpowers is overflowing with infographics and fun, interesting facts about the most awesome beverage on earth written by Ryoko, a Japanese coffee-lover living in Seattle. The book includes the most popular pieces on the site, such as "Your Brain on Beer vs. Coffee," "10 Coffee...
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Life at Death Cabin: a deadly comedy.
It is 1977, and a 60's pop idol, Loretta Traveler, rents her estate in a small, conservative town to a group of ex-hippies. Her tenants are exactly the type of people the townsfolk wish to avoid, and before long they became mired in accusations of littering, overcrowding, and murder.
Loretta might still harbor some empathy for a last-gasp effort at communal living by some aging children of Woodstock Nation. In...
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"Who Cut The Cheese?" is the updated 2011 edition of the razor-sharp parody dedicated to the millions of readers who either enjoyed or suffered through the motivational bestseller "Who Moved My Cheese?(tm)" "Who Cut the Cheese?" is a parable in which four characters must find a way through a maze in their hunt for "Cheese." But this cheese is actually symbolic of the things that we all want out of life: success and self-confidence, a nice house, a...
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Is Wilber Winkle a consumer advocate extraordinaire or just a nut with too much time on his hands? Whatever the verdict, this hilarious collection of complaint letters to American corporations and their responses are a laugh-aloud page-turner. Readers everywhere will recognize the beefs that Wilber strives to get to the bottom of: Denny's waitresses disturbing the delicate balance of cream and sugar in their coffee, the disappearance of the almond...
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Humorist and poet Michael Pollick grew up in the small Midwestern city of Stow, Ohio during the 60s, 70s and 80s. The Stowbilly Chronicles is a collection of humor essays covering everything from the mind-altering 2-2-2 school system to the amazingly loud Fourth of July parade. Pollick also looks at favorite Stowbilly foods, like chipped chopped ham, Spin Blend salad dressing and Lawson's Chip Dip. There are also stories about Hoolihan and Big Chuck,...
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"Sven & Ole" humor is a staple of Upper Midwest culture, a product of Scandinavian settlement. Sven and Ole are not simple to a fault, they are simple to a dangerous level. In this collection of short stories, they navigate life in our complicated world. Whether it's little-known things about snowshoe hares or geese migration, keeping the Great Lakes straight, getting rich off aluminum cans, using time zone boundaries to fish longer, or the unappreciated...
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Dancing in My Underwear
Little Writer in the Big House
Stand Up, Sit Down, Kneel, Repent
A Pyramid Scheme
Surely Shirley
The Hoe Must Go On!
Singing for Obama
1-800-Rent-A-Puppy
That's So Not Cute
Legends of the Jennifer Lawrence Fall
Cheating on the German Test
GUNS
Let's Go to the Movies!
It's a Small, Small, Small, Small World
The Ernesto Manifesto
Adventures of a Panamániac
The One Kylie
I Still Call Australia Hoime
Hearts &...
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When a zombie is taken prisoner by the Army, it need not be uselessly destroyed. In fact, just as our Army trains dogs for combat roles, it has a program to train the captured Undead for combat roles. No zombie that our Army can capture will go unutilized. This is our Army's "No Zombie Left Behind" policy.The manual in your hands is the Department of Defense's principal source of information on care, conditioning, training, and operations of our Army's...
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