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Andrew Collins was born 37 years ago in Northampton. His parents never split up, in fact they rarely exchanged a cross word. No-one abused him. Nobody died. He got on well with his brother and sister and none of his friends drowned in a canal. He has never stayed...
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Ebury Digital
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2008-09-04
ePub
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'This week the first pet passports came into effect. Around the country dogs have been hopping into photo booths and trying to look as relaxed as possible, which is not easy when you know you're not allowed on the chair.'Gathered here are the best of John O'Farrell's...
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Transworld Digital
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2008-09-04
ePub
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Everyone's Crazy Here...In his twenty years on the radio, the mononymous Lionel ("one name, like God," as he is fond of saying) has forged his reputation as an irreverent, ribald, take-no-prisoners analyst of culture, politics, and the world at large. Now America's...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2008-08-05
ePub
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Escape to the country with Gervase Phinn's heartwarming tales of life as a school inspector in Yorkshire'Gervase Phinn's memoirs have made him a hero in school staff-rooms' Daily TelegraphHis colourful cast of characters have become firm favourites: the mostly mad staff...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2008-06-26
ePub
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Jack Handey is one of America's favorite humorists, from his New Yorker pieces to his Deep Thoughts books and Saturday Night Live sketches. Now, in What I'd Say to the Martians, Handey regales readers with his incredible wit and wacky musings.
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2008-04-08
ePub
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My War is a blunt, funny, idiosyncratic account of Andy Rooney's World War II. As a young, naïve correspondent for The Stars and Stripes, Rooney flew bomber missions, arrived in France during the D-Day invasion, crossed the Rhine with the Allied forces, traveled to...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2008-03-18
ePub
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In this laugh-out-loud compendium, Lauren Allison and Lisa Perry take on soccer moms, video dads, rabid gardeners, and grating couples in a collection of short, punchy essays.You know that overprotective PTA mom who needs to be resuscitated after she finds out you fed...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2008-03-06
ePub
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Andy Rooney has been at it for twenty-five years. It's time to celebrate. So here's the ultimate gift for every Rooney fan: an illustrated collection of Rooney's very best pieces from a quarter centur
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2007-10-09
ePub
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"Andy Rooney's Sunday evening observations on 60 Minutes are an American institution, shaping the way people see everything from coffee percolators to the state of the nation."
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2007-10-09
ePub
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The author of Fat Girls and Lawn Chairsis back with a funny and poignant new collection of personal stories about growing up a misfit.A collection of stories for anyone who shuddered at the idea of senior prom, Revenge of the Paste Eaters is about the way the...
Editeur :
5 Spot
Parution :
2007-07-31
ePub
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Every Sunday evening, millions of viewers tune in to 60 Minutes to hear Andy Rooney riff on everything from coffee percolators to the state of the union. Millions more read his weekly newspaper column. Why? Because Rooney tells it like it is. But Rooney fans have never...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2007-03-31
ePub
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Born to be Riled is a collection of hilarious vintage journalism from Jeremy Clarkson. Jeremy Clarkson, it has to said, sometimes finds the world a maddening place. And nowhere more so than from behind the wheel of a car, where you can see any number of people acting...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2007-01-25
ePub
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Escape to the country with Gervase Phinn's heartwarming tales of life as a school inspector in Yorkshire'Gervase Phinn's memoirs have made him a hero in school staff-rooms' Daily Telegraph______What's your name? I asked the child.'Tequila,' she replied. I'm named after...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2005-03-31
ePub
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Take a trip to the country with Gervase Phinn's heartwarming tales of life as a school inspector in Yorkshire'Gervase Phinn's memoirs have made him a hero in school staff-rooms' Daily Telegraph_______ As the newly appointed County Inspector of Schools in North...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
1999-04-01
ePub
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In ''Pluck and Luck'' there are two main types of Benchley writing here, genre parody and slice-of-life humor. The former are the most unhinged bits of the book, in which popular literary styles of the day and various types of stuffed-shirt academic writing are folded,...
Editeur :
Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2025-08-26
epub sans DRM
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This is a collection of Readers’ Choice of the best columns of America’s favorite newspaperman, Damon Runyon.
Editeur :
Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2021-11-06
epub sans DRM
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A collection of humorous essays, accompanied by the author's own bizarre drawings, presenting Thurber's unremitting retort to the multitude of "self-help" books which were widespread in the 1930s and whose successors are still with us today.
Editeur :
Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2021-11-04
epub sans DRM
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Longlisted, 2018 Leacock Medal for HumourA hilarious collection of Jack Knox's best-loved humour columns.In this side-splitting follow-up to the bestseller Hard Knox: Musings from the Edge of Canada, Jack Knox presents his best writing, marking his twenty-year...
Editeur :
Heritage House
Parution :
2017-10-13
ePub
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“HowYaGettin’On?” is how downtown St. John’s, Newfoundland, corner boy Snook says hello. He’s been hanging around, telling yarns, and having a laugh for over thirty years now, and this is his welcome for you to read all about some of that.
Known as a fast talker and...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2017-08-23
PDF sans DRM
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“HowYaGettin’On?” is how downtown St. John’s, Newfoundland, corner boy Snook says hello. He’s been hanging around, telling yarns, and having a laugh for over thirty years now, and this is his welcome for you to read all about some of that.
Known as a fast talker and...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2017-08-23
epub sans DRM
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