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Join the Carmitchell sisters on an unexpectedly funny and fearlessly frank journey through the 78 cards in the tarot deck.
Annie Carmitchell had long used her tarot decks as a tool for spiritual guidance. During one of many late-night chats with her sister, it occurred to Annie that almost every shared memory reminded her of a particular tarot card. Her father? The Emperor. Her mother? Most certainly the Queen. And though, her sister might take a...
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I don't pretend to be any kind of historian. These stories are just that. In my family back in West Virginia, any story that dickered
with the truth was considered to be a yarn. It was intended to be just passed on down to a group of rapt youngsters. These stories do however reflect the life of a young whippersnapper living in a small town in the middle of 20th-century America,
and could be a sort of chronicle of same. To witness my yarns all...
43) Mental
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Eddie Sarfaty's astute and acerbic stand-up effortlessly captures the everyday absurdities of life, blending self-deprecation and sarcasm with a razor-sharp instinct for the ridiculous. In Mental, he expands his hilarious insights into a collection of autobiographical essays that explore career lows, cheapskate exes, the wonder and hell of family, psychopathic felines, and so much more. . .
Whether recounting a family trip to Paris, where his ailing...
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I probably watch too much news, read too many newspapers, magazines, and blogs, and have too many conversations with people about politics. Often in my mind, I consider myself better than politicians. I may be better than some but not all of them. What I notice is that I make similar mistakes to those in charge. Because of this, I'm willing to say I'm not perfect. And I have the experiences to prove it. Join me in a journey to tell people why I should...
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From the first time he strapped on a tool belt to the last time he required first aid, Steve was involved with every aspect of the alarm industry and lived to tell about it. Throughout his twenty-five years in the field, Steve dealt with angry pets, furious consumers and more than his share of the insect world while providing a much needed but usually under-appreciated service to his customers. His insight into human behavior forces us to take a good...
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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Pulp Fiction. Friends. Need I say more? The 90's were hands-down the best years to be alive.
You'd come home from school, grab a packet of gushers or dunkaroos as your afternoon snack, and relax on the sofa as you watched your favorite television show reruns.
Whatever it is that stands out from your childhood, it's definitely something that puts a smile on your face whenever you think about it.
Let's jump back to the...
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Readers may be shocked to discover that America's most provocative (and conservative) satirist, P. J. O'Rourke, was at one time a raving pinko, with scars on his formerly bleeding heart to prove it. In Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut, O'Rourke chronicles the remarkable trajectory that took him from the lighthearted fun of the revolutionary barricades to the serious business of the nineteenth hole. How did the O'Rourke of 1970,...
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Before Google, there was only one place for a young person to find the answers to life's great mysteries: rock 'n' roll and comic books. Funny, touching, and thoughtful, Rock 'n' Roll & Comic Books Taught Me All I Know by Rob Errera is a collection of essays spanning topics as diverse as The Incredible Hulk, Spiderman on Broadway, Wu Tang Clan, professional sports, unprofessional parenting, questionable life choices, fake nostalgia, literary idols,...
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An incomparable collection of wit and wisdom from a master of comic writing After creating the popular Franglais! series, Miles Kington always had an ambition: to write a book in English as well. An endlessly curious and observant hack", as he described himself, here a gentle wit and wide-ranging intelligence are brought to bear on everything from the curious geography of Jersey to anthropological studies on German prisoners of war; from an interview...
50) 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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Kinky Friedman, who would be our contemporary Will Rogers if Will Rogers had been Jewish, smoked cigars, and foolish enough to believe he could govern the great state of Texas, returns with this collection of hilariously raunchy, sometimes poignant, and always insightful essays. With fearless wit and wisdom born from many a late night's experience, Kinky offers both pearls and cowpats that touch on life, death, and everything in between.
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Mary Ann Hoyt's collection of humorous essays are tongue-in-cheek views of her everyday observations and quirky experiences. The pages are filled with anecdotes about her fear of hummingbirds, the burial of the family cat in a cardboard box decorated with her son's Grateful Dead pencil drawings, and her concern that, because of her unphotogenic smile, she won't have enough decent photos for the obligatory collage at her funeral. Surviving an interstate...
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From "A Scooter Dork on His Way to Nowhere" to "Female Football with Very Little Padding (Except Silicone)" I SEEM TO HAVE MISPLACED MY MARBLES is a fun, fearless and funky collection of the popular Saturday morning newspaper humor columns called "Hay's Daze". For author Harley Hay, no topic is taboo, no subject is without a smidgen of silly, and it's no time like the present for a nice nap. With an infectious joie de vivre, and a wordsmith savoir...
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Readers are invited to join a typical busy family for one year of hysterical and true-life interruptions. Their beloved pets create more havoc and chaos than deserved with harrowing trips to the veterinarian, injuries, and quirky personalities of their own. Add in the wildlife who regularly appear (pigs, skunks, muskrats, mice and occasional "two-legged" animal) and readers will be shaking their heads in incredulous disbelief, and snorting at the...
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Suburgatory lampoons the absurdities and contradictions that Linda Keenan has witnessed since leaving New York City, where she was a thoroughly urban CNN news producer for seven years, and settling down as a hapless stay-at-home suburban mother. The original proposal for this book was picked up by Warner Brothers, and you can see their imagining of Suburgatory on the ABC show of the same title. Keenan was forced by the man in her life to leave her...
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C'est le 1er septembre 2010, le jour même de ses 40 ans, que Jérme de Warzée distille sa première chronique sur les ondes de Vivacité. Chaque matin, il brocarde tour à tour ces "froucheleurs" de politiciens, ces "barakis" de supporters et ces "Ménapiens extrémiss", tentant l'équilibre entre écriture polysémique et vitriolée mais toujours au second degré, sarcasmes, jeux de mots et vérités (?). Cet ouvrage renferme quelques-uns de ses...
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A collection of newspaper columns and editorials by Glenn Alan Cheney published between January 2020 and August 2021. In a warm, human, often humorous style he discusses such topics as penmanship, couches, covid, a Model T, a hermit, golf, statues, mascots, elections, history, litter, skunks, dogs, the Mayflower, and much more.
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D'étranges évènements viennent bouleverser la quiétude de la ville d'Arlon, au coeur de la province de Luxembourg : des morceaux de corps humains sont retrouvés, sanguinolant dans divers endroits de la ville. Que signifient ces crimes ? Pourquoi cette une mise en scène si sordide ? Un sérial killer rode dans la bourgade luxembourgeoise et terrorise ses habitants ! Sous l'oeil avisé – mais légèrement imbibé de maitrank - de Jean-Luc Fonck,...