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We all know what it means these days to be a grumpy old man, because part of that role is to be outspoken. Well, we've heard just about enough out of the men, thank you very much! Grumpy Old Women gives us the other perspective: the female take on the million...
Editeur :
Bbc Digital
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2009-05-04
ePub
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This vibrant collection of expat essays from legendary humorist David Sedaris is a cause for jubiliation. Sedaris's move to Paris in the early aughts inspired hilarious pieces, such as "Me Talk Pretty One Day", about his attempts to learn French. His...
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Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2009-05-04
ePub
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Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris! In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview-a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2009-05-04
ePub
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What is it about men that drives women to distraction? Could it be the way they flick to the footie results while you're trying to watch your favourite television programme? Is it their dogged inability to admit that they might - just might - be wrong? Or is it the...
Editeur :
Headline
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2009-05-03
ePub
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An irreverent look at culture and learning from cult author Karl Pilkington Drawing from visits to national museums, galleries and places of cultural interest Karl Pilkington explores the world of knowledge from his own unique viewpoint.Read Karl’s irreverent...
Editeur :
Dk
Parution :
2009-05-01
ePub
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Andy Rooney is a classic chronicler of America and her foibles. Over more than six decades of intrepid reporting and elegant essays, Rooney has told it to us straight and without a hint of sugar coating, but with more than a grain of truth and humor.Andy Rooney: 60...
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PublicAffairs
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2009-04-30
ePub
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In the age of Oprah, Dr. Phil, and countless other self-help disciplinarians, indulging in any kind of pleasurable pastime is on the brink of extinction. But it's not too late to revive those lost pleasures that make life worth living. The Hedonism Handbook can help put...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2009-04-29
ePub
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Reverend Billy's revival tour across America is the subject of the upcoming Morgan Spurlock film What Would Jesus Buy?, his first movie since the national hit Super Size Me! The book is an inspiring -- love-a-lujah! -- compendium of the reverend in full flow, from his...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2009-04-29
ePub
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'Personal and engaging . . . anyone who agrees that Star Wars was a defining moment of our collective childhood will love this book' - The Times'Funny and affectionate' - Time Out'Will have you hitching aboard the Millennium Falcon to a galaxy overflowing with infinite...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2009-04-16
ePub
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Danny Wallace is about to turn thirty and his life has become a cliché. Recently married and living in a smart new area of town, he's swapped pints down the pub for lattes and brunch. For the first time in his life, he's feeling, well ... grown-up. But something's not...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2009-04-15
ePub
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I'm much older than my computer -- are you suggesting that the older something is, the more uselss it becomes Because that's whatI'm hearing (althoughI'm not hearing it very well.....) Love, your old mom Yes, I am a pest, but I just looked at Iowa weather and it will...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2009-04-01
ePub
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National Review has always published letters from readers. In 1965 the magazine decided that certain letters merited different treatment, and William F. Buckley, the editor, began a column called "Notes & Asides" in which he personally replied to the most notable and...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2009-03-17
ePub
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Get to know 'Not-so Great Britain' in this crackingly acerbic collection of insulting and downright offensive quotations about cities, towns and other locations in the British Isles.Towns, cities, counties and constituent countries all come in for a lambasting in this...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2009-03-12
ePub
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WARNING: THIS BOOK MAY CAUSE HYSTERICAL LAUGHTER. In the hallowed literary tradition of The Darwin Awards and Headlines comes this mind-boggling collection of the most outrageous warning labels ever slapped onto perfectly good products. Before you try to dry your hair...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2009-02-28
ePub
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'Having a baby is like watching two very inefficient removal men trying to get a very large sofa through a very small doorway, only in this case you can't say, "Oh, sod it, bring it through the French windows"' Victoria Wood'It's not easy being a mother. If it were,...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2009-02-26
ePub
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This is a collection to which everyone can relate: a multidimensional look at the universal challenge of keeping our stuff, our dwellings, and our personal space clean and uncluttered. How we feel about keeping house speaks volumes about who we are, our roots,...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2009-01-21
ePub
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From the host of Comedy Central's newest program, The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, comes the first paperback reprint of his funny and provocative musings on race in America and other nightly topics--updated with new material for this edition. Now boasting three new...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2009-01-20
ePub
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In 1989, Tim Moore moved into the last house in Chiswick with an outside toilet. Intrigued by a subsequent encounter with an elderly former resident, he finds himself inspired to travel back to the land before now, experiencing the hardships and pleasures enjoyed and...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2008-12-26
ePub
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From the Grammy-nominated star of Saturday Night Live and his equally talented sister comes a delightfully cynical look at life through a half-full glass.I HATE THIS PLACE is the book for anyone who’s ever tired of crossing to the sunny side of the street, looking...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2008-12-14
ePub
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THE SUDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe laugh-out-loud funny memoir and book of anecdotes about his life and loves from the nation’s favourite ‘Big Dog’ celebrity Traitor!Why is catalogue shopping responsible for Jonathan Ross's inimitable sense of style?Why does Jonathan wince...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2008-11-20
ePub
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