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In a surreal and unprecedented year in which even the most seasoned commentators have struggled to keep pace with the news cycle, letter writers to “The Daily Telegraph” have once again provided their refreshing and witty take on events. Now in its twelfth year, this new edition of the bestselling series is a review of the year made up of the wry and astute observations of the unpublished Telegraph letter writers.
Readers of the “Telegraph...
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Charming, poignant, and occasionally salacious, That's So New York is brimming with little snapshots of humanity that make one thing clear: There's no place like New York.
New York Times editor and lifelong New Yorker Dan Saltzstein compiles hundreds of distinctly New York moments for this peek at the city that never sleeps. Inspired by Saltzstein's viral Twitter thread, this illustrated book features hilarious anecdotes from locals and transplants,...
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Il y a eu des grands acteurs belges de cinéma avant Benoît Poelvoorde. Mais ils étaient obligés de se fondre dans le moule du cinéma français. Benoît, lui, a déboulé au Festival de Cannes en 1992 avec une bombe, « C'est arrivé près de chez vous », pseudo-reportage délirant dans lequel il incarne un truculent tueur à gages... D'emblée, il a imposé un humour belge irrésistible et un tempérament d'acteur inimitable. En près de vingt-cinq...
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"Now I've seen it all!"
This is an expression frequently used in the English lexicon.
Based on Kurt Geisinger's experience as a police officer, you have never actually seen it all, nobody has. Over the years, his friends, family, and even random people frequently asked, "What's the craziest thing you've ever seen while on duty?" Geisinger never had to pause for even a moment to find an entertaining story.
“Two Decades Behind the Badge” contains...
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If you've ever had the uneasy feeling that the Japanese do things better, this book may be the ideal antidote. Even the Japanese are quick to admit that despite their enthusiasm for learning it, they still have a certain amount of difficulty with the English language. This is no new phenomenon. Shortly after Japan opened her ports to foreign traders, one doctor advertised himself as "a Specialist in the Decease of Children"; eggs were sold as "extract...
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xxi, 248 pages ; 22 cm
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The Naked Mountaineer recounts a series of solo journeys to some of the world's most exotic peaks in places such as Switzerland, Japan, and Borneo. However, it is far from the typical heroic mountain-expedition book. Although Steve Sieberson did reach many summits, in most cases his travels were more memorable for what he encountered along the way than for the actual climbing. His real adventures involved particular people, strange foods, and tropical...
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"In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment"--
In this affecting memoir, O'Kane (Guatemala in Focus), a natural sciences lecturer at the University of Vermont, elegantly weaves personal and natural history as she details how her fascination with birds compelled her to quit her journalism career, return to school at age 45 to get a PhD in environmental...
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"Most of what we say about books is really about the words inside them: the rosy nostalgic glow for childhood reading, the lifetime companionship of a much-loved novel. But books are things as well as words, objects in our lives as well as worlds in our heads. And just as we crack their spines, loosen their leaves and write in their margins, so they disrupt and disorder us in turn. All books are, as Stephen King put it, 'a uniquely portable magic'....
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Découvrez le quotidien d'un chauffeur de taxi parisien, entre rire et larmes.
Dix-huit mille taxis circulent à Paris. Un chauffeur raconte ici ce qu'il a vécu au milieu d'eux durant près de dix mois, en 2015. Les anecdotes foisonnent, les clients qu'ils a transportés surprennent ou interrogent, qu'il s'agisse d'une caissière de la tour Eiffel, de Jean d'Ormesson, de la dame qui fait pipi dans le taxi, du légionnaire qui a failli lui envoyer...
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In this timeless classic that topped the New York Times bestseller list in 1966 and 1967, Sam Levenson recalls his childhood with the warmth and affectionate humor that endeared the author and humorist to millions of Americans. He describes the cramped New York tenement which he shared with his parents, his six older brothers, and his sister as a "a life of plenty"-plenty of relatives, neighbors, boarders, janitors, hugs, slaps, books, music, weddings,...
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Alfred Ryan Nerz is a Yale-educated author, journalist, and TV producer. He's also a longtime marijuana enthusiast who has made it his mission to better understand America's long-standing love-hate relationship with our favorite (sometimes) illegal drug. His cross-country investigation started out sensibly enough: taking classes at a cannabis college, hanging out with a man who gets three hundred pre-rolled joints per month from the federal government,...
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Le festin des Bouffons offre un repas complet à base de savoureuses gaudrioles : amuse-gueules pour ouvrir l'appétit avec des faux proverbes, des lettres au maire en entrée froide, des policiers et des douaniers au rapport pour attaquer l'entrée chaude et le plat de résistance, suivis des salades des futurs bacheliers, avant le fromage et les desserts servis par des enfants et des parents terribles, un café-devinettes, quelques histoires chaudes-crues...
1115) You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson
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The author and humorist Sam Levenson is quoted hundreds of time each day on Twitter, and his sayings appear on everything from t-shirts to inspirational signs. To read through and savor You Don't Have To Be In Who's Who To Know What's What is to discover much of the source material for his timeless wisdom. It is a treasure trove of topics ranging from family ("Insanity is hereditary; you can get it from your children") to perseverance ("Don't watch...
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May your yogurt be teeming with bacteria. International best-selling author Bradley Trevor Greive bestows this blessing on readers and many more in his newest gift book, Curses and Blessing For All Occasions. Mixed in are as many respectable curses for good measure. Witty, warm, and engaging, BTG brings his trademark style to this humorously twisted book for all events, circumstances, and occasions. Blessings include: * May your excuses for avoiding...
1117) Ten Camels for My Wife
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A highly entertaining anecdotal collection of humorous life observations during a trip around the world. Travelling by bus to Kathmandu, the author experiences hair-raising misadventures: a chase through Jerusalem, a gun battle in Jordan, a pummeling by a gargantuan masseur in Istanbul, a python in India, and the terrifying James Bond encounter in Australia. His portrait of an Afghani shopkeeper has a bizarre twist. Time-travelling detours punctuate...
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The beloved humorist and author Sam Levenson finds that some of his old worldviews don't fit the new one he now sees. Levenson's grew up the youngest of eight children in a large Jewish immigrant family in New York. He evolved from a Spanish teacher in Brooklyn to working the Catskills circuit as a comedian. By the 1950s, Levenson was a fixture in American homes as television personality, appearing and guest hosting numerous times on classic shows...
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Lee Hoyle - philosopher, man on the street or genius? Perhaps after reading this book you will make your own mind up. Unedited from his original manuscripts, this eBook contains a large number of 'mini articles' with Lee's thoughts on everything from films to planets, cranes to drugs and almost everything inbetween. This book will almost certainly reduce you to tears - some of sadness, and some of laughter. Not always factually correct, but certainly...
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"You Could Lose an Eye" is the expression David Reich's mother often used for those she loved. It is the story of a family's transition from the wretched oppression they left behind when they arrived in Quebec. They had only to learn new languages and adapt to a new political, economic and not always welcoming social culture. It recounts the laughter and the tears, the triumphs and the failures as Ma established her dynasty, as Pa built his business...
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