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A Wonderfully Hilarious Joke Book for your parents, grandparents, friends and colleagues. You'll want to read these jokes again and again! "Jokes for Retirees and Seniors (That You May Not Want To Tell The Boss) is a fantastic retirement or birthday gift with humor that will last a lifetime. Retirement is very much a "good news-bad news" event in one's life. The "good news" is that you're retiring - the "bad news" is that you're retiring. How the...
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"It's an ordinary Thursday lunchtime for Arthur Dent until his house gets demolished. The Earth folows shortly afterwards, to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and his best friend has just announced that he's an alien. At this moment, they're hurtling through space with nothing but their towels and an innocuous-looking book inscribed with the big, friendly words: DON'T PANIC. The weekend has only just begun..."--Back cover.
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Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
c1977
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English
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Sadie Shapiro, the world's best knitter, her long-lost old flame, the legendary Prince of Pot Cheese, her new husband, and assorted others become implicated in a scandal concerning the construction of a revolutionary new project for senior citizens.
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Warlock Holmes volume 3
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Titan Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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As they blunder towards doom, Warlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson find themselves inconvenienced by a variety of eldritch beings. Christmas brings a goose that doesn't let being cooked slow it down; they meet an electricity demon, discover why being a redhead is even tricker [sic] than one might imagine, and Holmes attempts an Irish accent. And, naturally, Moriarty is hanging around, in some form or other. -- Cover, page [4]
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today, says a character in Sigrid Nunez's ninth novel. The Vulnerables offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history and considers how our present reality affects the way a person looks back on her past. Humor, to be sure, is a priceless refuge. Equally vital is connection with others,...