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Slicing Heaven: Tales, Poetry, and Recipes from The Slice of Heaven 24-Hour Pie Shop and Driving Range
ISBN: 9780615935188 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the end of the first decade of the current century, most Americans were filled with questions about Barack Obama's fledgling administration, the economy, and foreign policy.
At the Slice of Heaven 24-Hour Pie Shop and Driving Range, somewhere on the edge of the Everglades, though, we tended to set those concerns aside lest they interfere with our search for the ultimate slice of Key lime pie, our hopes that the ringing pay phone would be a call from you, and the fantasy that our missing luggage would finally return from Havana. And, of course, we never stopped believing that some... At the end of the first decade of the current century, most Americans were filled with questions about Barack Obama's fledgling administration, the ec...
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Culture Crash!: A California Yankee Transplanted to Texas
ISBN: 9781495358449 / Angielski / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What happens when a woman from California moves to Texas and ends up with a born-and-bred in Texas husband? Get ready for a "Culture Crash " that is as surprising as it is hilarious. Read about her one summer at a kid's dude ranch in West Texas, when putting coke in your canteen instead of water for a horseback ride means a long ride home with sticky stuff dripping down your leg. And how the youngest riders seem to have the most ancient horses, which can and do expire mid-session. Where barbequing is a sacred smoky bond between man and meat that requires rubs, spices, music and beer to do it...
What happens when a woman from California moves to Texas and ends up with a born-and-bred in Texas husband? Get ready for a "Culture Crash " that is a...
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The Bridesmaids: True Tales of Love, Envy, Loyalty . . . and Terrible Dresses
ISBN: 9781250041777 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "An entertaining beach read... and] a nice way to provide your besties with reading material for the bachelorette weekend."--Lauren Conrad Each year 11 million bridesmaids lead their best friends down the aisle. Most wear matching dresses, and nearly all have a thing or two to say about the bride. In this uproarious oral history, editor and journalist Eimear Lynch offers us an intimate... "An entertaining beach read... and] a nice way to provide your besties with reading material for the bachelorette weekend."--Lauren Conrad<... |
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Mismatched Shoes and Upside Down Pizza
ISBN: 9781494476182 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lori Duff had two choices: she could have a career ending mid-life crisis or she could write a book. Lucky for you, she decided to write a book. This book, filled with hilarious essays covering such diverse subjects as male-female relationships, parenting, grammar, travel, and the general disasters that occur to the good, the bad, and the clumsy, will give you the laughter you need to survive. Sometimes, you might even find unexpected wisdom. Here you will discover the law of conservation of head hair (every hair that falls from a man's scalp reappears on mature woman's face); what happens...
Lori Duff had two choices: she could have a career ending mid-life crisis or she could write a book. Lucky for you, she decided to write a book. This ...
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Was It Something I Said?: Misadventures in Suburbia
ISBN: 9781742585567 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ros Thomas is a familiar face in Australia, having worked as a journalist for 25 years, 17 of them in television. Ros writes a weekly op-ed column in West Weekend magazine, with a readership of 850,000. Her column is about accessible everyday topics of memory, family, working mums, nostalgia, and humor. Whether writing about her foiled attempt to seduce her husband, her encounter with the homesick Irishman she found on the beach, or why dog-people and cat-people can never be friends, Ros does so with the kind of humor and clarity that keeps her readers coming back week after week. Was It...
Ros Thomas is a familiar face in Australia, having worked as a journalist for 25 years, 17 of them in television. Ros writes a weekly op-ed column in ...
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Life: It is what it is
ISBN: 9781494798130 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We expend massive amounts of energy in pursuit of perfection. If only we could never make mistakes or encounter unpleasant obstacles, oh, wouldn't life be just perfect? Maybe, but it would also be static, unfulfilling, and really, really boring. Humorist Lisa Sugarman knows that life is a work in progress. She knows what we all suspect-life is at its best when it's fluid, unpredictable, and gloriously imperfect. And if this means life sometimes turns ugly and unpleasant, it only makes the good times that much sweeter. Author of opinion column It Is What It Is, Lisa... We expend massive amounts of energy in pursuit of perfection. If only we could never make mistakes or encounter unpleasant obstacles, oh, wouldn't ... |
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Pull the Trigger: On Life, Career, and not being a D-Bag
ISBN: 9781495466038 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of short essays that view life, family, gut checks and day to day events through the eyes of the author with the hopes that you will walk away with knowing how to...Pull The Trigger on Life, Career, and not being a D-Bag
A collection of short essays that view life, family, gut checks and day to day events through the eyes of the author with the hopes that you will walk...
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Drivel: Deliciously Bad Writing by Your Favorite Authors
ISBN: 9780399168888 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The writing in this book is so bad, it deserves its own taxonomy of suckitude.
Gillian Flynn, Mary Roach, Dave Eggers, Rick Moody, Chuck Palahniuk, Amy Tan, A.J. Jacobs, Daniel Clowes, Jeff Greenwald, Po Bronson the list goes on. They all sucked once, and they all have the guts to share some of their crappiest early work in Drivel: an uplifting bit of voyeurism, based on the sold-out Regreturature stage shows in San Francisco, and brought to you by Litquake and the San Francisco Writers Grotto. Within these pages you ll find abstruse and esoteric poetry (bad); incoherent and... The writing in this book is so bad, it deserves its own taxonomy of suckitude.
Gillian Flynn, Mary Roach, Dave Eggers, Rick Moody, Chuck Palahniuk... |
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Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living
ISBN: 9780451467096 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Parks and Recreation actor Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in this New York Times bestseller.
Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman--who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreation's Ron Swanson? Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in woodworking--he runs his own woodshop--Paddle Your Own Canoe features tales from Offerman's childhood in small-town Minooka, Illinois--"I... Parks and Recreation actor Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in this New York Times<...
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15 Months of Winter: My Year in North Dakota
ISBN: 9780615938813 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In July 2012, John Bayer left Los Angeles and moved to North Dakota. He moved there with a dream in his heart - the dream was to not live in Los Angeles anymore. John quickly discovered that North Dakota is the most "not Los Angeles" place in the world. Fifteen Months of Winter: My Year in North Dakota contains John's reflections and musing about living in the Dakota that doesn't have Mount Rushmore. Many of the essays in this book come directly from his award winning O Pioneer newspaper column (ND Newspaper Association - 2012 First Place Humor column - weeklies 2000+ circulation). Also...
In July 2012, John Bayer left Los Angeles and moved to North Dakota. He moved there with a dream in his heart - the dream was to not live in Los Angel...
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Hair of the Corn Dog
ISBN: 9780991375929 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY STARRED REVIEW: The third book in the Tales of Imperfection series from Turner (This Little Piggy Went to the Liquor Store, Mommy Had a Little Flask), a mother of two from Idaho, provides another hilarious account of parenthood. A self-admitted neat freak, the author details the important distinctions between paper towels and dishcloths, and wishes she could "conduct a class highlighting these differences and then create a test with various scenarios." Also a lover of travel, she signs up for HomeExchange.com - a house-swapping service - in hopes of a family holiday to an...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY STARRED REVIEW: The third book in the Tales of Imperfection series from Turner (This Little Piggy Went to the Liquor Store, Mommy Ha...
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Lost In Spain: A Collection Of Humorous Essays
ISBN: 9781495334764 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scott Oglesby moved to Spain with the thought that it was the perfect chance to start over. Unfortunately, he brought himself with him. The result was dysfunction, delusion, chaos and one hilarious book. Lost in Spain is a collection of humorous essays centered around one very awkward American. With irreverent imagination, larger than life characters posing as humans, and surprising heart, this book will move you. Whether to laughter, tears, anger, or even an adventure in another country is anybody's guess.
Scott Oglesby moved to Spain with the thought that it was the perfect chance to start over. Unfortunately, he brought himself with him. The result was...
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I Just Want to Be Alone
ISBN: 9780988408043 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Scrunchie-Fried
ISBN: 9781490910765 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The laughs continue in this sequel to the best-selling Reflections On A Middle-Aged Fat Woman. In Scrunchie-fried the author shares stories on everyday life, bad haircuts, family interactions and everything in between. This compilation of stories provides continued proof that life is full of joy, surprises and unexpected twists. The author's unique gift for storytelling draws in and captivates the reader by laughing at life's experiences along the way. Join her on this fun and entertaining romp as she continues in this crazy thing called life and you, too, may find yourself Scrunchie-fried.
The laughs continue in this sequel to the best-selling Reflections On A Middle-Aged Fat Woman. In Scrunchie-fried the author shares stories on everyda...
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I'm a Humdinger: And How You Can Be One, Too, with the Help of a Child
ISBN: 9781496020611 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. LOOK FOR THE LAUGH, says author, octogenarian, and former U.S. Senator Jean Carnahan. She always does and she usually gets it. In this wise and deeply funny collection of essays, she explores the nuances, mysteries, and delights of parenting, grandparenting, friendship, health, youth, technology, and old friends. In the tradition of Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron, Jean Carnahan will make you laugh out loud as she illuminates the funny and poignant aspects of growing old. In these forty laugh-out-loud essays, Jean and her old friend Edna (who fans will remember from WITH A LITTLE HELP... LOOK FOR THE LAUGH, says author, octogenarian, and former U.S. Senator Jean Carnahan. She always does and she usually gets it. In this wise and dee... |
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Fake Plastic Souks - The Fear Returns
ISBN: 9781496109040 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alexander McNabb's Dubai based blog, Fake Plastic Souks, has charted an erratic little course over the years. Like a little pea green boat, it has bobbed on the waves of opulence and the stormy seas of the global financial crisis, throwing inane commentary and half-thoughts out to the benefit of a tiny audience. This wholly irrelevant collection contains the best of the second two years of Fake Plastic Souks.
Alexander McNabb's Dubai based blog, Fake Plastic Souks, has charted an erratic little course over the years. Like a little pea green boat, it has bob...
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Gibberish: Tall Tales & Domestic Disasters From Beyond the Microphone
ISBN: 9781496125118 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What? You think this stuff just happens to you? Gibberish is a collection of previously-published essays from Peterborough, Ontario broadcaster and humourist Gordon Gibb that will make you laugh, cry, and relish the revelation that you're not the only one. Stories that have proven fan favourites with readers of Maclean's, The Globe and Mail, Canadian Living, Reader's Digest and the Peterborough Examiner. And with you too, with any luck...
What? You think this stuff just happens to you? Gibberish is a collection of previously-published essays from Peterborough, Ontario broadcaster and hu...
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Love, Regret and Accidental Nudity: My true stories, unusual circumstances, unpredictable outcomes
ISBN: 9781496153579 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why do I suppose my life is fascinating enough to write about? Love? Hmm, between my mom, dad and myself, we've racked up thirteen marriages-if not romantic, certainly optimistic. Regret? Well, if embarrassing, eye-squinting, throat closing, breathless, cringing describes it...I've got a few tales to tell, like budget plastic surgery and herding roaches at a party. Accidental nudity? My nudity is about as spontaneous as a space shuttle launch-even so, there's still the unexpected.
Why do I suppose my life is fascinating enough to write about? Love? Hmm, between my mom, dad and myself, we've racked up thirteen marriages-if not ro...
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Ham: Slices of a Life: True Life Tales
ISBN: 9781476733449 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a collection of personal essays that are "both rip-roaringly funny and sentimental, drawing natural (and justified) comparisons to David Sedaris and David Rakoff" (Esquire), longtime recording artist and actor Sam Harris recounts stories of friendship, love, celebrity, and growing up and getting sober. In sixteen brilliantly observed true stories, Sam Harris emerges as a natural humorist in league with David Sedaris, Chelsea Handler, Carrie Fisher, and Steve Martin, but with a voice uniquely his own. Praised by the Chicago Sun-Times for his "manic, witty commentary," and...
In a collection of personal essays that are "both rip-roaringly funny and sentimental, drawing natural (and justified) comparisons to David Sedaris an...
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Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates: And a Thousand Cocktails
ISBN: 9781476760070 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM 20TH CENTURY FOX Two reckless but lovable all-American bros make a strong case for maturing slowly through their outrageous yet enlightening misadventures across this great country of ours. My brother and I are looking for wedding dates for our cousin's wedding. We've been told by the bride that bringing dates is "mandatory" so we "won't harass all of my friends all night" and "stay under control." Rather than ask some fringe women in our lives to go and face the inevitable 'does this mean he wants to take it to the next level? '...
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM 20TH CENTURY FOX Two reckless but lovable all-American bros make a strong case for maturing slowly through ...
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