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Paris I've Grown Accustomed to Your Ways.
ISBN: 9781432796983 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Metro Cowboys, Tiny Elevators, Trusting The New Patisserie..."Paris, I've Grown Accustomed To Your Ways" continues the saga begun in Me, Myself and Paris, humorist and writer Ruth Yunker's account of her forays into life in Paris, part time tourist, part time resident. In Paris, I've Grown Accustomed To Your Ways the training wheels have come off. Ms. Yunker negotiates the exquisitely charming, but impossibly exacting, City of Light with a new sense of ease, and an increasing sense of feeling right at home. She revels in the amber warmth of Angelina's chocolate Eden on a cold November day....
Metro Cowboys, Tiny Elevators, Trusting The New Patisserie..."Paris, I've Grown Accustomed To Your Ways" continues the saga begun in Me, Myself and Pa...
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People Are Dumb: A Humorous Approach to Modern Social Problems
ISBN: 9781475959604 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. People Are Dumb is a humorous contemporary approach to evaluating social problems in the world. The author's views on areas such as politics, education, religion, prejudice, and the danger of ignorance, are dilligently expressed with a realistic tone and demeanor. People Are Dumb was initially written as a personal journal under the author's pretense that the best way to reach his audience is by making the material personal, so that it can be applied to practical use. Some of the other subjects that are discussed throughout the book are history, science, philosophy, addiction, sex, and... People Are Dumb is a humorous contemporary approach to evaluating social problems in the world. The author's views on areas such as politics, educa... |
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Irked by Kirk: Nutty Prank Letters from Japan
ISBN: 9780615697802 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is Kirk Dunkirk insane? Who is he and why do he and his imaginary wife insist on bothering the fine people of Japan and the residents of Buckingham Palace?
Do we really need to know why the CEO of Honda Motors hates human cannonballs? Or if Prince Charles would spank Japanese university girls for a good cause? No one cares how his smoke alarm plays Jackson 5 ringtones or that his goldfish formed a thrash metal band from Syracuse. In the same, some might say insane, tradition of "Letters from a Nut," "ps. My Bush Pig's Name is Boris," and "The Henry Root Letters," Kirk Dunkirk takes... Is Kirk Dunkirk insane? Who is he and why do he and his imaginary wife insist on bothering the fine people of Japan and the residents of Buckingham Pa...
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Bedtime Poop Stories
ISBN: 9781479301621 / Angielski / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is this book funny? Well, just like Grandma's underwear, it depends. This book is for those of you who find bathroom humor funny. If that does NOT describe you, then DON'T BUY THIS BOOK But if you do find poop, and stories about poop, funny, then this book is perfect for you. A series of short stories suitable to tell at bedtime when putting Grandma or Junior to bed, this book contains loads of humor. And if you don't like to hear about poop, there is even a story about pee and one about.... Well, we don't want to give it away, but we do think you'll get a laugh out of our humor. And if...
Is this book funny? Well, just like Grandma's underwear, it depends. This book is for those of you who find bathroom humor funny. If that does NOT des...
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Don't Be a Penguin: Live Your Life Like an Alien
ISBN: 9781480074538 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How does pissing all over a toilet seat in a public restroom help our economy? Why did I deliver a case of cream cheese to a food bank? Why do I wash my hands before going to the bathroom instead of after? Why did I spend an entire family vacation fighting with the FDA over the number of servings in a can of PAM? This book will be answering these important questions and will be telling you the tales of America's top free thinker. Or maybe America's biggest idiot. Either way, if you are looking for a self-help book on how to become a more productive member of our society, this book is not for...
How does pissing all over a toilet seat in a public restroom help our economy? Why did I deliver a case of cream cheese to a food bank? Why do I wash ...
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100 Ways to Write Badly Well
ISBN: 9781743340899 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "His use of language, his ability to twist the narrative and turn the obscure into the profound is outstanding." - The Stage Looking for a creative writing guide out there that will tell you how to write better? A book to tell you how to structure a perfect plot, create great characters, use language in a powerful and poetic way? This is not that book. 100 Ways to Write Badly Well is an adventure in drivel. It will teach you how to botch a plot, how to create characters that no one in their right mind would identify with and how to reduce the beauty of...
"His use of language, his ability to twist the narrative and turn the obscure into the profound is outstanding." - The Stage ...
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Butter in the Morning
ISBN: 9781936138548 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Mostly True: A Surgeon's Reflections on Life, Health, Medicine, and Power Tools
ISBN: 9780615728797 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Have you ever wondered what golf clubs have to do with a devastating medical condition? Would you like to know the important role chainsaws play in surgical education? Did you know that pizza can be lifesaving? Dr. Alan Muskett has had careers in both cardiothoracic and now plastic and reconstructive surgery. He has been writing features on medical topics for years, exploring everything from the business of medicine to the intensely personal relationship between physical and spiritual health. Across the broad range of topics, these "insider" views are presented with an edgy humor as well as a...
Have you ever wondered what golf clubs have to do with a devastating medical condition? Would you like to know the important role chainsaws play in su...
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Things Go Wrong For Me (when life hands you lemons, add vodka)
ISBN: 9780982772027 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Things Go Wrong For Me is a memoir of sorts, a road map of Rodney Lacroix's haywire life thus far. From his childhood, through the raising of his own kids, to his vasectomy and post-divorce world ... this book is more than just a culmination of outrageous stories woven into a cohesive narrative, it's a testament for the "little guy." In this case, literally. Rodney is 5'3." He's very little. Almost tiny. Bank tellers offer him lollipops. He makes holiday money wearing green stockings and fake ears. But even though he's small in stature, his stories and the laughs that accompany them are...
Things Go Wrong For Me is a memoir of sorts, a road map of Rodney Lacroix's haywire life thus far. From his childhood, through the raising of his own ...
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Emails from Austria: Lost my dignity, found my soul
ISBN: 9781475152784 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Sound of Music meets Fawlty Towers in this Austria-lian adventure. Penny Baker-Fischer was a dynamic, moderately successful yet ambitious inner-city dwelling international marketing exec, but upon turning forty, a new man arriving and being made redundant, her life changed quickly and dramatically. In March 2004, she stumbled across a website featuring an old and rather battered guesthouse for sale high in the Austrian Alps south of Salzburg. It looked to have "potential." Without ever having viewed the business or even visited the area, contracts were completed and significant sums of...
The Sound of Music meets Fawlty Towers in this Austria-lian adventure. Penny Baker-Fischer was a dynamic, moderately successful yet ambitious inner-ci...
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Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral
ISBN: 9781401312831 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Folks in the Delta have a strong sense of community, and being dead is no impediment to belonging to it. Down South, they don't forget you when you've up and died--in fact, they visit you more often. But there are quintessential rules and rituals for kicking the bucket tastefully. Having a flawless funeral is one of them.
In this deliciously entertaining slice of Southern life (and death), inveterate hostess Gayden Metcalfe explains everything you need to know to host an authentic Southern funeral. Can you be properly buried without tomato aspic? Who prepares tastier funeral fare, the... Folks in the Delta have a strong sense of community, and being dead is no impediment to belonging to it. Down South, they don't forget you when you've...
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Eldercare Is Making Me Fat
ISBN: 9780988220508 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "You can make this stuff up, but in our marriage, you don't have to."
What do you do when your 96-year-old mother-in-law gets stuck on the sofa and a neighbor has to call the rescue squad? Or when your own 91-year-old mother decides to give up underpants? If you are Charlotte Johnson Jones, first you go to the kitchen and eat every cookie, buttery snack, and piece of chocolate you can get your hands on. Then you sit down and write. "Eldercare Is Making Me Fat" is a set of tales about the challenges Jones and her husband, Herman, have faced as they try to manage the health and affairs of... "You can make this stuff up, but in our marriage, you don't have to."
What do you do when your 96-year-old mother-in-law gets stuck on the sofa and ... |
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Barack Like Me: The Chocolate-Covered Truth
ISBN: 9781439156827 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. FROM GROWING UP IN DETROIT, where he marched as a ten-year-old with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to attending the inauguration of President Barack Obama, where he narrowly avoided the Purple Tunnel of Doom but still saw nothing, David Alan Grier examines how he -- and America -- have changed for the better and the funnier.
Within these pages, Grier imagines being called to serve in President Obama's cabinet as the "secretary of mirth"; takes you to a wild and emotional election night party he hosted that didn't go as planned; explains the true meaning of the "magical Negro"; recalls the... FROM GROWING UP IN DETROIT, where he marched as a ten-year-old with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to attending the inauguration of President Barack Obam...
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Me, Myself and Paris: One Toe Under the Eiffel Tower, The Other In the Grocery Store
ISBN: 9781432798635 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Me, Myself & Paris is author Ruth Yunker's droll pastiche of her days, free and unaccompanied, in Paris. Three years in a row she rents an apartment, stays for six weeks, and takes on Paris, half resident, half visitor. She is a short attention span tourist, a wide-eyed voyeur, and irreverence saves the day when the chips are down. Her stories are about bonhomie and savoir-faire, American style, while treading the hallowed and slippery cobblestones of Paris. It's about every day errands, and sorties into dutiful sightseeing. It's about run-ins with grocery store cashiers and metro ticket...
Me, Myself & Paris is author Ruth Yunker's droll pastiche of her days, free and unaccompanied, in Paris. Three years in a row she rents an apartment, ...
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Growing Up Bulldog: The Stowbilly Chronicles
ISBN: 9781479344178 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Trying on Bathing Suits & Other Horror Stories
ISBN: 9781481132114 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of twenty-two stories answers life's burning questions such as: "If you can't whistle 'Dixie' and your spouse flunked clarinet, are viola lessons for your child really a good investment?" "How can a middle-aged woman with a hatred of exercise and sweat get in touch with her inner Schwarzenegger?" "Is it possible for a woman to pee in a hole in the ground in France and still maintain her dignity?"
This collection of twenty-two stories answers life's burning questions such as: "If you can't whistle 'Dixie' and your spouse flunked clarinet, are vi...
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Too Small To Fail: The Tweets Of Keith Wisniewski
ISBN: 9781481183918 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With well over dozens of followers enjoying his 140-character view of the world, Keith Wisniewski truly is one in a million when it comes to humorists on Twitter. Now, for the first time ever, Wisniewski's best and funniest thoughts are compiled into one handsome collection. Widely hailed as the Citizen Kane of books of tweets, this compilation covers everything from pop culture to politics to just random thoughts. It's all here in print for longtime fans, as well as the Amish, to enjoy.
With well over dozens of followers enjoying his 140-character view of the world, Keith Wisniewski truly is one in a million when it comes to humorists...
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Running with Stilettos: Living a Balanced Life in Dangerous Shoes
ISBN: 9781481216692 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After a long fall from a tall horse put journalist and soccer mom Mary T. Wagner in a body cast for three months, she didn't take it as a sign to ease up on the throttle. Instead she changed careers, went to law school, became a prosecutor, and bought her first pair of spike heels. By turns funny, touching, courageous and enterprising, this award-winning and inspiring collection of slice-of-life essays is what one reviewer called "life writing at its best." Wagner takes her readers along as she discovers the freedom and joy of riding on the back of a Harley; learns to embrace power tools...
After a long fall from a tall horse put journalist and soccer mom Mary T. Wagner in a body cast for three months, she didn't take it as a sign to ease...
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The Ferrari in the Bedroom
ISBN: 9780385237925 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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You're Finally Reading Something I Wrote
ISBN: 9781530844845 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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