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Now available as an eBook.
A collection of jokes with a holiday theme from Edward Phillips:
Office manager: 'Will you ever forget that marvelous weekend we spent in Paris? 'Secretary: 'How much are you offering?'
'We are now passing one of the biggest breweries in Ireland,' announced the guide on a coach trip. 'Why?' protested a voice from the back
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When he's not negotiating his way around a sand bar, there's nothing a sailor likes more than propping up the bar - and telling tall tales and saucy jokes. The World's Best Sailing Jokes is the ultimate collection of nautical naughtiness, quayside quips and high-seas hilarity for everyone from salty sea dogs to the youngest yachtsmen.
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Sick as a parrot becasue the big match has been cancelled or the TV's broken down? Then this brilliant collection of the very best football jokes ever will soon have you over the moon - and rolling in the aisles.
A group of flies were playing football in a saucer, using a lump of sugar as a ball. One of them said, 'We'll have to do better than this, lads - we're playing in the cup tomorrow!'
Whether you are a football widow or a fanatical follower...
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Is joint pain holding you back? Perhaps an achy ankle or sore knee is making it difficult to enjoy a run through your favorite park or even a short walk? Or a throbbing hip or shoulder prevents you from driving a golf ball down the fairway or from performing simple tasks like carrying a bag of groceries into your home? The exercises in this report can help relieve ankle, knee, hip, or shoulder pain, and help you become more active again, which in...
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A Geoffry Chadwick Misadventure, Book 6 – Geoffry Chadwick loves a good party: what better way to send off his late wife, Elinor, than a party to celebrate her life? Geoffry wants to remember their marriage, love, and all the peaceful Sundays they shared together in the best way he knows how. His decision directly triggers a chain of surprising events: in the midst of party planning and grief, a curveball arrives in the form of Harold, the son Geoffry...
7) Sunday Best
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A Geoffry Chadwick Misadventure, Book 3 – Geoffry Chadwick is back and this time the reluctant hero and social observer is going to a wedding - or maybe not. Geoffry's niece, Jennifer, is about to marry Douglas, son of a prominent – or at the very least notorious – Montreal socialite, Lois Fullerton. Lois is a wealthy widow with an impressive list of discarded lovers and it looks like she's decided Geoffry will be her next conquest. But after...
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A Geoffry Chadwick Misadventure, Book 1 - Lawyer Geoffry Chadwick is 50, Canadian, single, gay and, after a brief struggle with a hustler who tries to shake him down, a murderer. Herein lies the device for this macabre, funny, first novel. Although Geoffry must dispose of the body-which he does by dropping off sections of it around town at night-the trauma of the murder affords him the opportunity to reminisce and ruminate: on the recent termination...
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A tale of mystery and suspense brims with human drama, both poignant and comic: It turns out that one of the other hostages, now married, had once been Chadwick's lover. As the hours of their forced confinement turn into days, a flood of bittersweet memories engulf Chadwick, of an affair whose painful end he could never forget, of a lover who had changed the course of his life. As the weekend moves toward its powerful denouement, Chadwick comes to...
10) The Malefactor
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This 1907 novel was one of the early popular novels of society by E. Phillips Oppenheim. The story revolves around the conflict between a gentleman's obligation to defend the honor of a lady, and his responsibility to his own feelings, family, and freedom. Sir Wingrave, imprisoned wrongfully for killing a man, finishes his sentence and plans his vengeance against those who would not tell the truth to help him during his trial. He becomes misanthropic,...
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In this classic espionage thriller, a chance meeting of doppelgängers threatens to plunge Europe into war Crazed with thirst and fever, Everard Dominey staggers out of the jungle and awakens to find himself in German East Africa. His rescuer is Leopold von Ragastein, a colonial governor whose impeccable manners belie nefarious intentions. A loyal servant of the Kaiser, von Ragastein has been looking for a way to sneak into England. Discovering that...
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Alfred Burton's entire life and demeanor changes when he eats fruit from a plant that suddenly compels him to speak and see the truth. Regardless of intent, his change of heart has a devastating effect on his personal and professional relationships. Alfred is a sly and charismatic auctioneer's clerk, who uses embellishments and half-truths to maintain his job. One day he comes across a random plant in an old house and eats some of its fruit. Once...
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The sins of the father are visited on the son twofold in this classic mystery from one of the early twentieth century's most popular authors Kingston Brooks has just made his debut on the speaker's platform at the local party headquarters when a stranger brings word that the young lawyer's father has died on the far side of the world, where he was spreading the gospel as a missionary. Brooks has heard nothing from the old man since he disappeared...
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Originally published in 1903, The Yellow Crayon further explores the adventures of Mr. Sabin whose wife Lucille has been targeted by a mysterious secret society. Her sudden disappearance drives him to uncover the truth about her professional connections.
The Yellow Crayon is another one of E. Phillips Oppenheim's memorable mysteries. It features a beloved protagonist as he tries to uncover a shocking truth. The story is full of revelations rooted...
16) A Monk of Cruta
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A beautiful story involving a wealthy Englishman, who falls in love with the daughter of an Italian nobleman, who lives on the island of Cruta in the Mediterranean. Their progeny, and a very dark influence of the Catholic church, conspire to defeat both love and happiness...
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An English nobleman and his resourceful niece work together to uncover an international plot that hinges on the actions of a reserved but unpredictable prince. This multilayered story is full of political intrigue, informed by the leaders of its day. Nigel Kingley has grown concerned about the state of England's public affairs. The country's government is focused on singular interests that have left them vulnerable to attack. He and his partners discover...
18) The Pawns Count
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In this 1918 novel, set on the eve of World War I, the stolen formula for a powerful new explosive becomes the object of a desperate search by the top spies of the United States, Germany, England, and Japan. The American, a wealthy socialite named Pamela Van Teyl, matches wits-and hearts-with three handsome but deadly opponents.
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Mystery novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim involving a handicapped art collector. The book concerns recently demobbed and down on his luck Major Owston, who becomes the bodyguard of the deformed amoral art collector Martin Hews. Enabled by his enormous wealth to buy the world's most beautiful works of art. Hews is plunged into a bitter rivalry with a gang leader simply known as ‘Joseph’. This is a thrilling and tense story of a struggle between master...
20) The Devil's Paw
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In the midst of World War I, the son of a British aristocrat and daughter of an English colonel are roped into a treasonous plot. They must navigate secret agents and spies who are convinced of their guilt. A chance meeting between Catherine Abbeway and Julian Orden leads to an intricate tale of suspicion and government corruption. Catherine is the daughter of an English colonel and is targeted due to secret files in her possession. Julian obtains...