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...on the Scent of Planet Sex
ISBN: 9780595283699 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Zach Rogers hates to work but has a plan. First, get a rock band together and get a few tunes together. Second, record a CD, play the circuit and get some exposure. And finally, get signed and become a serious ass-kickin' rock star. Sounds easy enough, right? Well that's for you to decide as you explore Zach's mirthful journey in attempting to make some headway into the world of rock and roll. Meet sexy Veronica Grace, singer for Planet Sex and even more determined to make it than Zach. Or Stevo, bass player extraordinaire, metaphysical guru and genuine "good guy." Zach's buddy, Bob "Bad...
Zach Rogers hates to work but has a plan. First, get a rock band together and get a few tunes together. Second, record a CD, play the circuit and get ...
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But Sir!
ISBN: 9780595284665 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Orton Rumstad joins the faculty of North Star Military Academy as a wet-behind-the-ears country bumpkin fresh out of college, he has no idea what is in store for him. He is walking into a school with more than its fair share of juvenile delinquents among the cadets and with a faculty even more in need of professional help than the students placed in their charge.
Oliver Andresen, as Lieutenant Rumstad, narrates the increasingly bizarre series of events which transform the naive young man into a more experienced but still perplexed man of the world. Andresen's wry wit and admittedly... When Orton Rumstad joins the faculty of North Star Military Academy as a wet-behind-the-ears country bumpkin fresh out of college, he has no idea what...
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Eh Mail
ISBN: 9780595287918 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A hilarious and timely little book that had me laughing out loud on almost every page--though as a Canadian I find it curious and even disturbing that Craig's publisher is...American."
--Ian Ferguson, author of "Village of the Small Houses," co-author of "How to be a Canadian," In these troubled times, the CIA decided to send Avery Beckett--one of its veteran spies--to the Canadian capital of Ottawa to find out why there are so many Canucks infiltrating American society, particularly Hollywood. After Beckett's mysterious death, the emails found on his computer could shatter... "A hilarious and timely little book that had me laughing out loud on almost every page--though as a Canadian I find it curious and even disturbing tha...
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My First Bicycle Was A J.C. Higgins
ISBN: 9780595294336 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comedy about a 9 year old boy who is disappointed and concerned about his social status in his grammer school and community becauses he receives a J.C.Higgins bicycle instead of a Schwinn. To make his point he compares his J.C.Higgins to America's laughable version of an automobile....The Edsel. He talks about kids so desperate to not be associated with either the Edsel or the Higgins that they invented "Edsel Escape Diving." This was a precision move designed by kids so that when the parents slowed the family Edsel in order to pull into the school yard, the kids would leap from the car...
A comedy about a 9 year old boy who is disappointed and concerned about his social status in his grammer school and community becauses he receives a J...
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Humor Scene Investigation: An Operator's Manual for the Laf-Graf Model 1300 Humor Analyzer
ISBN: 9780595314126 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Laf-Graf system of humor analysis began as a simple checklist of comedic literary devices compiled by the author during the writing of his first novel, "Rhapsody In Overdrive." Further investigations into the principles of humor lead him straight to the heart and soul of philosophy. From there he discovered a clear view of the world through the fractured perspective of humor. Peterson developed the theoretical Laf-Graf humor analysis instrument--with the help of the mental giants at The Institute that bears his name--to guide the operator through any scenario that the human mind can...
The Laf-Graf system of humor analysis began as a simple checklist of comedic literary devices compiled by the author during the writing of his first n...
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The Last Tale of Mendel ABBE: Sonny Bush and the Wise Men of New Chelm
ISBN: 9780595322695 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I truly love your little novel. It reads splendidly, and was quite delightful."--Douglas Messerli, Publisher, Green Integer
"I congratulate you for it. It's very inventive, makes a lot of head (way) humor by all the name-plays. And the self-conscious narrator is also a fine turn in the narrative. Many laughs, recognitions and delights in the text...and the satiric level is also suggestive and successful..."--San Francisco poet and linguist Jack Hirschman The Last Tale of Mendel Abbe Mendel Abbe is an aging manic depressive story teller deeply affected by events in the world. On September... "I truly love your little novel. It reads splendidly, and was quite delightful."--Douglas Messerli, Publisher, Green Integer
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Paternity
ISBN: 9780595325504 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. So what are your choices today? John Grisham or Patricia Cornwell. I sense you nudging towards Grishers while your lady friend is sounding off about the finer qualities of the trials and tribulations of Kay Scarpetta.
Well, take her hand and lead her to a brave new world--amateur writing in its most mediocre form. A novel about pregnancy, short tempers, irritating husbands, late trains, lesbian midwives, crazy Grandads, ante natal classes, groins, beautiful children, Jerry Springer and internal audit. Need I say more? Anyway, this could be the start of something big. Probably won't be... So what are your choices today? John Grisham or Patricia Cornwell. I sense you nudging towards Grishers while your lady friend is sounding off about t...
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Life with Boo: Venturing Boo
ISBN: 9780595326129 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Writing in a style best described as "tempered-sarcasm," Duane brings to the literary world a unique blend of humor and insight through the detailed lives of his stuffed animals.
Third in the World of Boo series, "Life with Boo" humorously chronicles the daily adventures of the middle-aged author and his stuffed rabbits serving life's penance in the Mid-Atlantic region. Join the author and his World of Boo characters on their exploits to see just how much fun insanity can be.
Writing in a style best described as "tempered-sarcasm," Duane brings to the literary world a unique blend of humor and insight through the detailed l...
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Burton Toys
ISBN: 9780595328352 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The products of Burton Toys may have been designed for children, but it was the childish adults producing them that made it a special place. It was an environment where educated men could debate the physics behind a Wile E. Coyote cartoon. It was a place where a woman with years of training in literature could celebrate the works of Dr. Seuss and be taken seriously. Burton Toys was the place that all children envisioned working as an adult, and the place where working adults could act like a child. "Burton Toys" is an awkward mishmash of heartfelt sincerity and absurd comedy that blends...
The products of Burton Toys may have been designed for children, but it was the childish adults producing them that made it a special place. It was an...
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Life Is Too Short For Long Stories: Light-hearted Tales of Sex, Love, Life and Lots of Humor
ISBN: 9780595330973 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vondell Prince's collection of short stories expresses her vivid imagination of true and fictional characters using humor to its fullest. Her first work, "Life Is Too Short For Long Stories: Light-hearted Tales of Sex, Love and Life and Lots of Humor" is a hilarious view of clippings from life. Good reading for the heart, the soul and laughing out loud. "Mullgillicutty Sisters" captures the essence of delightful scenarios of three sisters shopping around for the perfect man. Clotilda tiptoes into a romance that quickly turns into a sad love song, while Wilmeda experiences the thrill of her...
Vondell Prince's collection of short stories expresses her vivid imagination of true and fictional characters using humor to its fullest. Her first wo...
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Jackpot
ISBN: 9780595332564 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a small city in northwest Wisconsin in 1955, loan collector Curt Kissow's fortunes are in decline after his wife of six years divorces him on unfounded grounds that he is trying to poison her. Unlucky at love, Kissow soon finds himself fabulously lucky at games of chance when he wins the Irish National Lottery.
His good fortune confers instant celebrity upon Kissow, a private man ill-equipped to handle notoriety. He is beset by alms seekers of all kinds - friends, neighbors, city officials, strangers with proposals involving dubious charities and get-rich-quick schemes. When his... In a small city in northwest Wisconsin in 1955, loan collector Curt Kissow's fortunes are in decline after his wife of six years divorces him on unfou...
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Dear Jon
ISBN: 9780595333165 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jon is a southern woman who lived a simple life until her husband found greener pastures after their only child went away to college. No female in her family had ever worked outside of their own home. No one in her family had ever been divorced. Forced now to rely on early childhood experiences and lessons learned from her father and grandmother, Jon is thrown into one disaster and rescue after another as she tries to get her life back together.
Jon becomes a detective when her friend Jimmie, enlists her aid in finding an employee's family. Their adventures lead them into some unusual... Jon is a southern woman who lived a simple life until her husband found greener pastures after their only child went away to college. No female in her...
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Graham Place Manor
ISBN: 9780595334612 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If you have lived in an apartment community you may indeed appreciate this book for its characters and humor. "Graham Place Manor" will take you immediately into the lives of the staff, and residents of this grand old apartment home. The occupants of Graham Place Manor come in all shapes and sizes with an assortment of personalities. You will meet the illusive and sometimes vindictive Uncle Tom, the concierge staff including the sarcastic Devaney, and the Brazilian, Jose. From his position in maintenance you will see the rise to management of Shane Sullivan, and meet his wife Maeve. In all...
If you have lived in an apartment community you may indeed appreciate this book for its characters and humor. "Graham Place Manor" will take you immed...
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In Search of Rhett Butler
ISBN: 9780595334858 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What typical Southern girl who grew up in the decades of the 40's and 50's hadn't wanted to be Scarlett O'Hara -- "especially" if she happened to be the namesake of that character? Born on the very day and at the precise time "Gone With the Wind" premiered in Atlanta, Scarlett Harwood's destiny had simply collided with the stars, or so went the thinking of her dreamy-eyed, melodramatic young mother whose address was Cloud Nine.
It was on her fifteenth birthday that Scarlett Harwood finally saw the movie from which her name had come. From the moment Vivien Leigh's character materialized on... What typical Southern girl who grew up in the decades of the 40's and 50's hadn't wanted to be Scarlett O'Hara -- "especially" if she happened to be t...
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My American Dream
ISBN: 9780595334964 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When friendships have no boundaries, anything can happen. Mario and Robert, boyhood friends from the barrio, find themselves in a whirlwind frenzy in their journey to becoming men. Mario is a Mexican-American ex con just getting out of prison trying to find his place in the world. His parents are a humble people who came to this country to survive the third world conditions of their native Mexico. Both have sacrificed so much with so little return from their son. Lisa, Mario's ex-girlfriend, trying to cope with raising a daughter alone, while Mario's attempts to prove that he's changed are...
When friendships have no boundaries, anything can happen. Mario and Robert, boyhood friends from the barrio, find themselves in a whirlwind frenzy in ...
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The Mysterious Chinese Book of Everything
ISBN: 9780595335077 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "The Mysterious Chinese Book of Everything," eleven stories deliver a unique, sometimes tender, often laugh-out-loud glimpse into one man's evolution from a strict Catholic upbringing in Midwestern America to an experimental and unorthodox adulthood oceans away.
Whether it's a nostalgic story of the first-time, drop-your-drawers physical of a terrified teenage boy, or the fanciful tale of his efforts to stump Dr. Ng's mysterious Chinese volume, the adventures of author Tim Casart are familiar enough to kindle our own coming-of-age memories and offbeat enough to capture our imagination.... In "The Mysterious Chinese Book of Everything," eleven stories deliver a unique, sometimes tender, often laugh-out-loud glimpse into one man's evoluti...
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Whitewash: The Definitive Insider's Account of the Shocking Valeria Soledad Scandal
ISBN: 9780595336333 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Praise for ""Whitewash""
"F***ing Brilliant" - The Estate of Euan O'Dell "How does Blair do it? Everyone in this town talks to Erik Blair, because if you don't, you're screwed." - Paris Biddle Blumenthal "Blair's paroxysms of outrage at being a victim of deception speak for all of us who thought we knew what we knew when we knew it. And his unparalleled gift for the intimate anecdote reveals an inner Washington we all should have seen coming a long time ago" - Frank Arouet "A disarming account which reveals the salient fact of modern political life: the perpetual war between... Praise for ""Whitewash""
"F***ing Brilliant" - The Estate of Euan O'Dell "How does Blair do it? Everyone in this town talks to Erik Blair, becau... |
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Valentine's Day
ISBN: 9780595337682 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The path of true love rarely runs smoothly. Sometimes it needs a gentle helping hand - and sometimes it needs a good sharp kick up the backside!
This is the story of one woman's search for love, a man's desire for revenge, a youth's longing for a purpose in life, a tax inspector's quest for just repayment, a young woman's bewilderment at being hooked into a situation getting seriously out of control, and a feral cat's wish for a bit of peace and quiet. The path of true love rarely runs smoothly. Sometimes it needs a gentle helping hand - and sometimes it needs a good sharp kick up the backside!
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They Say: and WHO ARE THEY
ISBN: 9780595338092 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ever wondered to yourself who "They" are? Well, I have asked myself that very question for years.
Have you ever been in a conversation and someone will say something like, "They say it's going to rain tomorrow." Well, who the heck are They? Are They some type of authority on the subject? Are They just people giving their opinions? Who are They and where do They come from? Over the past year, I have consulted with many friends, family members, and colleagues to investigate the mystery of "They" and what I have found may entertain you. I have compiled a list of 100 "They Say..." anecdotes... Ever wondered to yourself who "They" are? Well, I have asked myself that very question for years.
Have you ever been in a conversation and someone ... |
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Bert, A Story All About Me!
ISBN: 9780595338788 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Bert, A Story All About Me " is a touching story about the life of a good-natured dog named Bert and his quest to bring happiness to others.
Author Joan Wilson intersperses her personal experiences of growing up on an isolated farm with the fictional tale of Bert's adventures. Bert, a beloved black dog with a caring and sensitive nature, narrates his own poignant story. Bert's story begins with his loving canine parents and his playmate, Ben. But too soon, Bert's life is turned upside down when a human family with mischievous children adopts him. Banished to living outdoors and... "Bert, A Story All About Me " is a touching story about the life of a good-natured dog named Bert and his quest to bring happiness to others.
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