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At the age of twenty-five, Marian Thurm began publishing short stories in the New Yorker, and over a remarkable career, her work has been compared to the short fiction of Lorrie Moore, Ann Beattie, and Amy Bloom. Known for her uncanny sense of the absurd along with her empathy for her characters, Thurm's acclaimed writing has been featured in The Best American Short Stories, as well as numerous other anthologies. This volume, selected from her four...
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Bruce Stockler captures the chaos, joy and challenges of becoming the father of triplets in this hilarious, fast-paced, and refreshingly honest memoir.
From the moment Stockler and his wife, Roni, learn they have hit the fertility jackpot, their lives are turned upside down. The day the babies are born-in an operating room bustling with 30 doctors, nurses and technicians-is the first jolt in a physical and emotional roller-coaster ride. And, every...
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One-one was a racehorse. Two-two was one too. One-one won one race. Two-two won one too.
How much wood would a groundhog chuck if a groundhog could chuck wood?
The instinct of an extinct insect stinks!
Belly Laugh Totally Terrific Tongue Twisters for Kids is full of hilarious tongue-twisting fun! From snappy one-liners to hilarious stories and jokes, this collection is complemented by sidesplitting line drawings and an uproarious tongue-tied babbling...
7425) Idiophone
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Leaping from ballet to quilt making, from the The Nutcracker to an Annie-B Parson interview, Idiophone is a strikingly original meditation on risk-taking and provocation in art and a unabashedly honest, funny, and intimate consideration of art-making in the context of motherhood, and motherhood in the context of addiction. Amy Fusselman's compact, beautifully digressive essay feels both surprising and effortless, fueled by broad-ranging curiosity,...
7426) Sextet
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Music has long been considered beneficial in enhancing cognitive skills, and some have even suggested that music constitutes its own category of brain function; that it is, in fact, a separate and distinct type of thought. As is sex, which can produce, aside from children, complete dysfunction, confused mental activity - even, quite possibly, a compromised immune system, and certainly, in many cases, complete and utter memory loss - both before and...
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Discover the secret hints, tips and winning ways of the Bananagrams® bunch! This little book contains the insider secrets to help you become Top Banana ... Packed with curious words and fascinating facts, this is a real treasure trove and the perfect gift for word lovers and Bananagrams® players of all ages the world over, and includes: Proper nouns that you can play - in any word game!
Five ways to turn tiles that save vital seconds.
Easy-to-make...
7428) Bazooka Joe and His Gang
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The story behind the iconic comic characters and the bubble gum they came with-includes over 100 reproductions spanning six decades.
Bazooka Joe and his Gang have been synonymous with bubble gum ever since their debut in 1953, providing an irresistible combination of cheap laughs wrapped around pink, sugary sweetness. This book celebrates the iconic mini-comics that are recognized the world over and reveals their origins in midcentury New York City....
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Women. Young women, old women. The hair-obsessed, the politically driven, the sure-footed, the bony-butted, the awkward and compulsive and alone. Sleep-deprived and testy. Exhausted and accepting. Among the innumerable wives, husbands, sisters, and in-laws vexed by short temper and insecurity throughout this short story collection, Cynthia Flood's protagonists stand out as citizens of a reality that the rest of the world will only partially understand....
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Escapade dans le jardin secret d'un grand-père attentif à ses petits-enfants
« Et voilà qu'un beau jour, je fus grand-père. Alors à intervalles plus ou moins rapprochés, je vis débouler mes petits-enfants dans mon jardin, le jardin de Babou, ainsi qu'ils prirent l'habitude de l'appeler. Ses petits-enfants, on les aime deux fois, dit-on. Une fois quand ils arrivent et une fois quand ils repartent. Et en effet, je les ai quelquefois aimés...
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The wild inside story of the birth of CNN and dawn of the age of 24-hour news.
How did we get from an age of dignified nightly news broadcasts on three national networks to the age of 24-hour channels and constantly breaking news? The answer-thanks to Ted Turner and an oddball cast of cable television visionaries, big league rejects, and nonunion newbies-can be found in the basement of an abandoned country club in Atlanta. Because it was there,...
7432) Preschool Confidential
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So you thought the difficult stage was over: the midnight feedings, the colic, the breast pumps, the endless diaper changings. Just when you thought you'd reached the blissful stretch of parenthood...here come the toddler/preschool years! Only Sandi Kahn Shelton could deliver such a dead-on, hilarious, true-ringing look at the walking, talking, crazy years.
In Preschool Confidential, she explores such universal topics as:
--Dealing with the mutiny...
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This latest entry in the National Geographic Angry Birds series will take you on an amazing journey with Red, the leader of the Angry Birds flock, along with Matilda, Chuck, Bomb, Terence, and the mysterious Mighty Eagle.
Featuring The Angry Birds Movie (2016) story world, this book is filled with all the fun facts and information Red and the flock need to embark on their big adventure. From identifying wildlife to navigating by the stars to building...
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Growing up with a lifelong aversion to all things new, strange, and uncomfortable, Dr. U was inspired by his much more open-minded wife to take on a project to promote personal growth and freedom from all things routine. His New Year's Resolution and the resulting journal chronicles the hilarious true stories shared in this book.
Once he sheds his own inhibitions, Dr. U becomes more receptive to the not-so-subtle lessons each experience offers. Whether...
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"I wanna become a teacher and then teach in another country," an eight-year-old Canadian girl decided.
By the age of twenty-five, she had checked this-her main goal in life-off her bucket list.
In March 1992, Lorna Stuber stepped off an Air Canada plane in Tokyo, and embarked on a three-year adventure in a country she had never even thought about visiting until six months prior. Teaching ESL in a suburb of Tokyo-sometimes charging her way ahead,...
7437) The World According to Bess: A Funny, Unfiltered Memoir of Life Lessons from My 90-Year-Old Mom
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As we grow up, our moms are the lenses through which we see our lives, and even as adults, they anchor us and give us comfort. While our moms always offer us wisdom, when they get in their 90s, things get a little crazy, and sometimes downright hilarious.
At least, that's been true for Bonnie Lorber Habyan's 90-year-old mother Bess.
In “The World According to Bess”, Habyan has created a funny memoir that weaves her mother's wit, wisdom and warm-hearted...
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Who hasn't experienced life's painful jabs-especially those of us who have rounded the corner into middle age? Emotional family events, stress from lousy jobs, the bittersweet feelings when the kids leave home, body image issues, and turning the big 5-0... it's all covered here in Cindy Eastman's collection of personal and insightful essays.
In Flip-Flops After Fifty, Eastman tackles the sublime and the ridiculous, the sacred and the profane, with...
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The official oral history book of "The Office," featuring exclusive interviews with every major player and never-before-seen photos, pulling back the curtain on the absurdity and genius that went in to creating this unstoppable force in American popular culture and why it continues to resonate with audiences today.
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A handy guide to legal wisdom past and present.
To be a lawyer or a politician or a judge, one must dedicate their lives to serving the public good. For anyone considering a career in law or anyone interested in philosophy, politics, and/or government, herein you will find an entertaining and educational collection of legal wisdom from some of history’s greatest thinkers. The road to justice is not always easy. It is fraught with conflict, scandal,...
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