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Top Books (Humor)
1971
| A hilarious book by one of the country's most popular humorists. |
2005
| Everything you need to know to keep yourself amused without running up an embarrassingly expensive cable bill or getting arrested can be found in this book. Step-by-step instructions and illustrations guide you through an array of arts and crafts, rituals and recipes, games and pastimes. All you need are the items found in your hotel room, some creative thinking, and plenty of time to kill. Book jacket. |
2005
| If you can change a diaper in an airplane lavatory. . . If you can recite "The Cat in the Hat" by heart . . . If you find cookie crumbs in your pocket ... then you're a parent who'll get a good laugh--and inspiration--from "In the Beginning ... There Were No Diapers." Tim Bete understands that in the midst of the challenges of parenting there's always a chance to smile and recognize the miracle of the youhg life that is yours to care for. His real life stories will make you laugh out loud and th....[more] |
| Focusing on the Gospel of Matthew, humorist Martha Bolton helps teens think about how their choices reflect God's priorities. Each vignette offers down-to-earth advice for handling life's little crises. Each devotion contains a prayer, a Scripture, and an idea. |
1979
| Not only has author Marsha Marks believed the lies many of us hear and tell on a daily basis-she's willing to talk about them! |
2002
| Rendering with warmth the endless human capacity to persevere, this Pulitzer Prize-winning work is the long-awaited first novel from the unmistakable voice behind the short story collection "Drown." |
2008
| Rising from the smoldering quagmire of political correctness overload, author and underpaid social analyst J. S. Buckingham arrives on the scene to deliver his no-holds-barred assessment of society at large. With intelligent humor, dry wit and biting sarcasm, Buckingham unleashes his observational assault on every subject from politics to cell phone abuse and virtually everything in between. Nothing is safe from his no-frills style of scrutiny. For those faint of heart or thin of skin, this may....[more] |
| The Devil's Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906. In that year a large part of it was published in covers with the title The Cynic's Word Book, a name which the author had not the power to reject or happiness to approve. Meantime, too, some of the enterprising humorists of the country had helped themselves to such parts of the work as served their needs, and many of its definitions, anecdotes, phrases and so forth, had ....[more] |
| Aesop's Fables or Aesopica refers to a collection of fables credited to Aesop (620?560 BC), a slave and story-teller who lived in Ancient Greece. Aesop's Fables have become a blanket term for collections of brief fables, usually involving personified animals. The fables remain a popular choice for moral education of children today. Many stories included in Aesop's Fables, such as The Fox and the Grapes (from which the idiom "sour grapes" was derived), The Tortoise and the Hare, The North Wind an....[more] |
2007
| Russell Ash has trawled parish registers and censuses going back 900 years to compile the first ever complete book of breathtakingly unlikely-but-true British names. It features an incredible and diverse range of totally genuine names, evoking everything from body parts (Dick Brain), sex (Matilda Suckcock), illness (Barbaray Headache) and toilet functions (Peter Piddle) to food (Hazel Nutt), animals (Minty Badger) and places (Phila Delphia). Every single one has been checked for authenticity and....[more] |
1999
| So what will happen at the stroke of midnight on January 1, 2000? Just how seriously should you take this Y2K mania and the fact that your neighbor is stocking up on canned tuna and bottled water? |
| A title by Peter Bernard Kyne, who was an American author. Amongst his most famous works are The Long Chance (1914), Cappy Ricks, or, The Subjugation of Matt Peasley (1916), The Valley of the Giants (1918), Captain Scraggs, or, The Green-Pea Pirates (1919), Kindred of the Dust (1920), The Go- Getter: A Story That Tells You How to be One (1921), The Pride of Palomar (1921) and Cappy Ricks Retires (1922). |
2001
| For over a generation, the illustrious Dr. Foth has dispensed doses of his irrepressible wit and pith in the most eagerly devoured columns to appear in the newspapers and magazines of our day. In Fotheringham's Fictionary of Facts & Follies, Allan Fotheringham offers his loyal readers an hilarious compendium of opinions, Fothisms and profiles from the many subjects (and targets) that have fallen under his busy pen. From Lord Almost to Larry Zolf, The Zalm to the Argos, the Foth's telling anecdot....[more] |
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