Kategoria BISAC: Humor >> Form - Essays

A) Have been desperately seeking a book exactly like this one or,
B) Have secretly become British without realizing it.

If you chose A, congratulations, you are an Anglophile And, if you chose B, don't panic. With the help of Stuff Brits Like, you will soon discover the joy of these and many more delightful British peculiarities and can develop an upper lip as stiff...

Hi, I'm Jenny Mollen, an actress and writer living in Los Angeles. I'm also a wife, married to someone more famous than me, which is especially annoying because all the free clothing he gets never come in a size small.

This is my book, an assortment of stories about not doing the right thing. Yes, it's about me. But it's also about women, who all come in two types: those that are totally batshit crazy, and those that are liars. It's a book about acting on impulses, plotting elaborate hoaxes, and refusing to acknowledge boundaries in any form. Like hiding in the trunk of a car to get...

Is the idea of free beer too good to be true?

In the battle of boy versus squirrel, who will emerge victorious?

And just what could go wrong when a group of teens decides to wade a mile out, barefoot, in Utah's Great Salt Lake?

These questions and more are addressed in "Under Every Stone," a humorous and nostalgic look at one man's adventurous youth and travels.

From moral dilemmas, to perseverance, to serendipity and luck, this collection of fourteen true stories was carefully chosen from F.P. Nieman's repository of life experiences to reflect a wide range of different themes....

The sole purpose of this book is to give you, dear reader, something to read that will make you laugh, or at least smile. We hope that the selections here are different enough from the ones you have found in most superficially similar anthologies that you will find many surprises, and perhaps strike up friendships with some worthy writers whose names you have never heard before. An Ojibwe Myth
Benjamin Franklin
Francis Hopkinson
Hugh Henry Brackenridge
Salmagundi
Washington Irving
James K. Paulding
Major Jack Downing
James Fenimore Cooper
Fanny Fern
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