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New York West Side Stories
ISBN: 9781461159537 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The New York West Side Stories are a collection of contemporaneous events observed over a period of ten years. They are a permanent attempt to get to the point. If there ever was one in the first place ...
The New York West Side Stories are a collection of contemporaneous events observed over a period of ten years. They are a permanent attempt to get to ...
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If You Can't Stand The Fun, Stay Out Of The Go-Go: And Other Perspectives On Everyday Life In Pattaya, Thailand's Extreme City
ISBN: 9781461171959 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Go-go bars as a cultural asset, dentists, chicken's feet, soapy massage, trousers, being struck by lightning, tattoos, luck, breast enhancements, beards and being a foreigner - these are just some of the aspects of living in Pattaya, Thailand's most exciting city, that come within range of Kuhn Pobaan's seeing eye in this lively and revealing book. Originally published as The View from the Hill in the leading fortnightly Pattaya Today, each chapter takes a light-hearted but incisive look at the quirky side of living in a city that is unusual even by Thai standards. Firmly in the foreground of...
Go-go bars as a cultural asset, dentists, chicken's feet, soapy massage, trousers, being struck by lightning, tattoos, luck, breast enhancements, bear...
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50,37 |
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From Diapers to Dorkville: Essays on Life, Love, and Why Growing Up Is So Hard to Do
ISBN: 9781462033942 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,63 |
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Swygert: Growing Up in the Middle of Nowhere in a Little Town Nobody Ever Heard of
ISBN: 9781462054558 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Growing up in a tiny rural town may not be appealing to everyone, but in this collection of short stories, author Jeffrey Harold Utterback shows that he can at least laugh about it. Each chapter is a stand-alone tale that provides a whimsical look at what life was like for a small-town boy growing up in the middle of nowhere. Utterback is a natural story teller. He welcomes the reader into his unusual world as his boyhood adventures and misadventures are brought to life on the page. The agricultural backdrop provides a unique canvas as the author lovingly uses the quirks and... Growing up in a tiny rural town may not be appealing to everyone, but in this collection of short stories, author Jeffrey Harold Utterback shows th... |
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68,23 |
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Swygert: Growing Up in the Middle of Nowhere in a Little Town Nobody Ever Heard of
ISBN: 9781462054565 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Growing up in a tiny rural town may not be appealing to everyone, but in this collection of short stories, author Jeffrey Harold Utterback shows that he can at least laugh about it. Each chapter is a stand-alone tale that provides a whimsical look at what life was like for a small-town boy growing up in the middle of nowhere. Utterback is a natural story teller. He welcomes the reader into his unusual world as his boyhood adventures and misadventures are brought to life on the page. The agricultural backdrop provides a unique canvas as the author lovingly uses the quirks and... Growing up in a tiny rural town may not be appealing to everyone, but in this collection of short stories, author Jeffrey Harold Utterback shows th... |
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106,24 |
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The Get-Over-Yourself Self-Help Book and Other Essays: The Collected Works of a Misunderstood Curmudgeon
ISBN: 9781462060863 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Get-Over-Yourself Self-Help Book and Other Essays presents a collection of vignettes, narratives, and rants that detail the often absurd business of getting on with life. In an attempt to aspire to a so-called higher life, many of us fear both death and youth, reaching for perfection through the latest technical gadgets that encourage us to cling to preconceived notions of ourselves and to define ourselves through a text message. But is that really any way to truly live? Baby boomer columnist and curmudgeon Sylvia Shawcross believes that satirists have a purpose in this world-to help...
The Get-Over-Yourself Self-Help Book and Other Essays presents a collection of vignettes, narratives, and rants that detail the often absurd business ...
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87,23 |
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The Get-Over-Yourself Self-Help Book and Other Essays: The Collected Works of a Misunderstood Curmudgeon
ISBN: 9781462061136 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Get-Over-Yourself Self-Help Book and Other Essays presents a collection of vignettes, narratives, and rants that detail the often absurd business of getting on with life. In an attempt to aspire to a so-called higher life, many of us fear both death and youth, reaching for perfection through the latest technical gadgets that encourage us to cling to preconceived notions of ourselves and to define ourselves through a text message. But is that really any way to truly live? Baby boomer columnist and curmudgeon Sylvia Shawcross believes that satirists have a purpose in this world-to help...
The Get-Over-Yourself Self-Help Book and Other Essays presents a collection of vignettes, narratives, and rants that detail the often absurd business ...
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125,24 |
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It's All about the Story: Composing a Life in Books
ISBN: 9781462877652 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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63,82 |
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It's All about the Story: Composing a Life in Books
ISBN: 9781462877669 / Angielski / Twarda / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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119,68 |
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So Much Sky: Essays on the fun and folly of living in the country
ISBN: 9781463502430 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In her delicious collection of essays, "So Much Sky," author Karen Weir-Jimerson offers up bite-sized gems that view modern life through a rural lens. Many of these pieces were originally published in the author's popular "Slow Lane" column for Country Home magazine, and seeing them here collected one is convinced that the column was aptly named. Time does indeed seem to slow as Weir-Jimerson lures us into a charming world of chirping crickets, rogue tornados, and country characters both animal and human. The essays are arranged by season. In spring we meet Rose, a Border collie puppy who...
In her delicious collection of essays, "So Much Sky," author Karen Weir-Jimerson offers up bite-sized gems that view modern life through a rural lens....
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63,86 |
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Bits O' Betsy Biesenbach
ISBN: 9781463575250 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Betsy Biesenbach is a freelance writer and title examiner based in Roanoke Virginia. Her commentaries appear regularly in the Roanoke (VA) Times, and are mostly her quirky observations about life and political issues. This book marks her 25th year as a contributor to the newspaper.
Betsy Biesenbach is a freelance writer and title examiner based in Roanoke Virginia. Her commentaries appear regularly in the Roanoke (VA) Times, and ...
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71,84 |
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How The (Bleep) Did I Get This Old?: And other catastrophes that attack and assault when your back is turned.
ISBN: 9781463667917 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "How The (Bleep) Did I Get This Old?" showcases the best of "LAVERNE'S VIEW," a humor column she began writing in 1999, that has been syndicated since 2004. The author returns to the single life after the breakup of a twenty-one year marriage. Men are older, but still motivated by the same primal urges, and four decades and three children later, she is still trying to preserve her virginity. Years bring bodily assaults, including cataracts, joint replacements, sagging boobs and a dying libido. Bardy describes the virtues of growing up in the forties and fifties when people survived bike...
"How The (Bleep) Did I Get This Old?" showcases the best of "LAVERNE'S VIEW," a humor column she began writing in 1999, that has been syndicated since...
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57,87 |
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Pencils Make Good Darts
ISBN: 9781463671235 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Humorous and poignant, serious and funny (exactly what you get when a middle age man with the mind of a child less mature than his own children writes about life), Pencils Make Good Darts is a collection of short nonfiction essays that are well suited for reading on the toilet or before you go to bed and will either make you curse the author for wasting your time or laugh and cry like you are young again.
Humorous and poignant, serious and funny (exactly what you get when a middle age man with the mind of a child less mature than his own children writes...
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27,74 |
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My Life in Thin Slices
ISBN: 9781463714079 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. My Life in Thin Slices is a very humorous collection of anecdotes about the day-to - activities of the award-winning international cartoonist and media columnist, Peter Bromhead. Subjects range from the complexities of the author's sex life, to his secret desires to own an alien 'Roswell' wristwatch. About the Author Peter Bromhead is married with children, a dog and a number of goldfish all dependent on his earnings. He has published a number of cartoon and children's books. He is currently resident in Auckland, New Zealand.
My Life in Thin Slices is a very humorous collection of anecdotes about the day-to - activities of the award-winning international cartoonist and medi...
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79,62 |
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Raised By White Trash
ISBN: 9781463716905 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Steven Berger proves that the real life stories are the best In this wildly witty collection of essays he recalls his white trash family only one generation with indoor plumbing, the church lady he stabs and recounts the long distance road trip that could still be smelled for over a decade. Berger also fondly relives the stories of attempted Bubbacide (killing of his brother, Bubba), his foray into being the superstar of family weddings and a very passionate account of the sex goddess in cut-off jeans that taught him how to kiss. Raised By White Trash is sometimes dark, sometimes outrageous...
Steven Berger proves that the real life stories are the best In this wildly witty collection of essays he recalls his white trash family only one gen...
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59,83 |
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Mom's Had A Rough Day: A Collection of Humorous Essays
ISBN: 9781466214262 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Popular blogger and newly-published first-time humor author Julie R. Harrison writes a 240-page book of hilarious essays based on her life as a mom. With her quirky, edgy writing style, and uncanny ability to see the humor in the mundane, she is the David Sedaris or Laurie Notaro of the mommy set. With her debut compilation of essays, Ms. Harrison invites you into her delusional Virgo mommy universe, where she explores her love affair with Target, her insecurities at the local pool where the Cool Mommies thrive, and her misguided attempts to expose her children to high culture. She writes...
Popular blogger and newly-published first-time humor author Julie R. Harrison writes a 240-page book of hilarious essays based on her life as a mom. W...
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Fifty Is The New Nothing: Starting over in the middle
ISBN: 9781466214293 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ..". I don't want to go to law school, or pursue another advanced degree, or change my career, which would be funny if I had a career to begin with. I might do all of those things come the next season, but this is summer and I'm about to turn 50 and suddenly I have the makings of a gym in my basement and it's clear to me. I want to be Batman." --The Dark Knight of the Soul Some people age well. Others, not so much. When it came to turning 50, though, Pacific Northwest columnist Chuck Sigars realized it was an ideal time to start over. From his popular newspaper columns for Beacon Publishing,...
..". I don't want to go to law school, or pursue another advanced degree, or change my career, which would be funny if I had a career to begin with. I...
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Blog It Out, Bitch
ISBN: 9781466270619 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Blog It Out, Bitch is a collection of humor blogs from author/blogger, Nina Perez. Once called The Oprah of Myspace due to her mass appeal and uncanny ability to get readers hooked on almost anything from green tea to TV shows, she successfully launched her own site in 2009 and started a series of spin-off blogs, Blog It Out, Baby. In Blog It Out, Bitch you'll meet her long-suffering husband Donny, who Nina swears will one day kill her in a fit of "white boy crazy" rage, and her inquisitive daughter, Kali. Each blog is a look into the life of a 30-something wife, mother, blogger, and...
Blog It Out, Bitch is a collection of humor blogs from author/blogger, Nina Perez. Once called The Oprah of Myspace due to her mass appeal and uncanny...
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59,83 |
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Employee of The Month And Other Big Deals
ISBN: 9781466378025 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You may know Mary Jo Pehl as "the guy from Mystery Science Theater 3000 that's a woman." But besides her stints as a writer-performer on the beloved Peabody-winning TV show, and now with the movie-riffing crew Cinematic Titanic, Mary Jo has survived one of the most traumatic, glorious, terrifying, joyful challenges known to humankind, a little thing she likes to call real life. With biting wit, bracing satire, and boundless good cheer, Mary Jo-distinguished member of the First Family of Circle Pines, Minnesota; she'll explain-takes you on a poignant, hilarious journey through the world of...
You may know Mary Jo Pehl as "the guy from Mystery Science Theater 3000 that's a woman." But besides her stints as a writer-performer on the beloved P...
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24,55 |
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Dr. Boli's Encyclopedia of Misinformation
ISBN: 9781466411760 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Did you know that "apricot" is merely an inferior grade of peach? That the judge at the first Westminster Kennel Club show narrowly avoided being crushed by the paw of a giant schnauzer? That Pertinax was the first Roman emperor to hop on one foot for more than three hours straight? If you did not know these important facts, then you have not been "reliably misinformed." Do not despair Help is at hand. Dr. Boli has gathered all the misinformation in the known universe and compressed it between the covers of this handy portable volume. Read it, and you can be as completely... Did you know that "apricot" is merely an inferior grade of peach? That the judge at the first Westminster Kennel Club show narrowly avoided being c... |
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