Posts Tagged ‘humour’

The Book Of Awesome

Presents a treasury of simple pleasures, including popping bubble wrap, fixing electronics by smacking them, and wearing clothing right out of the dryer.

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They Left Us Everything

A warm, heartfelt memoir of family, loss, and a house jam-packed with decades of memories. After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents–first for their senile father, and then for their cantankerous ninety-three-year old mother–author Plum Johnson and her three younger brothers have finally fallen to their knees with conflicted feelings of grief and…

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Razor Girl

A lovable con woman and a disgraced detective team up to find a redneck reality TV star in this raucous and razor-sharp new novel from Carl Hiaasen, the bestselling author of Bad Monkey. Merry Mansfield, the eponymous Razor Girl, specializes in kidnapping for the mob. Her preferred method is rear-ending her targets and asking them…

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The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove

The town psychiatrist has decided to switch everybody in Pine Cove, California, from their normal antidepressants to placebos, so naturally—well, to be accurate, artificially—business is booming at the local blues bar. Trouble is, those lonely slide-guitar notes have also attracted a colossal sea beast named Steve with, shall we say, a thing for explosive oil…

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The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window and Disappeared

“After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home. The only problem is that he’s still in good health, and in one day, he turns 100. A celebration is in the works, but Allan isn’t interested (and he’d like a bit more control over his vodka consumption). So he decides…

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One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of this will Matter

“A debut collection of essays about growing up the daughter of Indian immigrants in Canada, “a land of ice and casual racism,” addressing sexism, cultural stereotypes and the universal miseries of life by the irreverent, hilarious and incomparable rising star and cultural observer, Scaachi Koul. In suburban Calgary, at a young and impressionable age, Scaachi…

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The Little Old Lady Behaving Badly TP

Another hilarious crime caper from the #1 bestselling author of the The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules continues the misadventures of the Senior League—who now have their sights set on Saint-Tropez . . . Nothing can stop the Senior League. They have a plan and it’s going to need money. Lots of…

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The Little Old Lady Strikes Again TP

Martha Andersson and the League of Pensioners have left behind their dreary old-age home in Stockholm and are headed for the bright lights of Las Vegas. This is their chance at a new lease on life, and they plan to make the most of it. But before long they are up to their old tricks,…

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The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules MM

“Funny, smart and heartwarming.”—Canadian Family on the #1 bestseller The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules The heroes of the #1 national bestseller are back and breaking more rules! Martha Andersson and the League of Pensioners have left behind their dreary old-age home in Stockholm and are headed for the bright lights of…

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