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The dog who wouldn't be (Seal books)
By Farley Mowat. 1957
Sports hall of fame, weird
By Kevin Sylvester. 2005
Take a walk on the weird side! Odd, weird and just plain gross moments in sports await you, including yucky…
bathroom incidents, cursed teams, and spectacular losers. Find out why some hockey fans throw an octopus on the ice, how a dead guy got drafted, and how the hand of God may have decided a soccer game. Grades 4-7. 2005.SEND: the essential guide to email for office and home
By David Shipley, Will Schwalbe. 2007
When should you email, and when should you call, fax, or just show up? What is the crucial - and…
most often overlooked - line in an email? What is the best strategy when you send (in anger or error) a potentially career-ending electronic bombshell? This guide shows how to write the perfect email, and also points out the numerous times when email can be the worst option and might land you in hot water (or even jail!). 2007.Rick Mercer Report: the book
By Rick Mercer. 2007
A collection of rants, writings, and comic encounters with the great and good of politics, showbiz, and literature. Relive Pierre…
Berton offering advice on rolling a joint or Margaret Atwood showing off her hockey skills as a goalie. Mercer has selected the best of his rants, sprinkled in choice moments from interviews, added other material that has never been broadcast, and arranged the whole into revealing themes and groupings with all-new introductions, reflections, and updates. Some strong language. 2007.Fiston: le testament de conseils
By Jonathan Roberge. 2015
" C'est alors qu'il regarde son fils dormir que Jonathan Roberge prend conscience des innombrables dangers qui menacent sa progéniture…
à tout instant. Pris de panique, il entreprend de léguer à son fils quelques conseils d'homme qui le guideront tout au long de sa vie, des conseils prodigués par le biais d'une série web qu'il réalise et coécrit. Testament teinté d'humour mordant et truffé de vérités crues, Fiston est en ligne depuis 2012 et a récolté au-delà de 13 millions de clics. Le rythme et la qualité des textes de cette série lui ont valu plusieurs mises en nomination ainsi que de nombreux prix, dont deux Oliviers pour la meilleure émission ou série originale nouveaux médias. Ce livre est l'adaptation remaniée et augmentée de la série web. " -- 4e de couv.Never stand behind a loaded horse
By Gordon Kirkland. 2004
The author's syndicated newspaper column is familiar to Canadian and US audiences, and in this collection, his fans will find…
it all. Drawing humour out of everyday situations such as trying to stay awake while on an all-night drive through the mountains, or the skewed memory of a long lost office affair, he keeps the lines rolling and the laughs churning. 2004.Marley et moi: mon histoire d'amour avec le pire chien du monde
By John Grogan, Carole Delporte. 2007
Si le chien est le meilleur ami de l'homme, il peut parfois être le pire. C'est ce que vont découvrir…
John et Jenny Grogan, quand ils décident d'acheter un labrador peu de temps après leur mariage, afin de tester leurs capacités parentales. D'adorable petite boule de poils, Marley se transforme en un mastodonte de quarante-cinq kilos, qui détruit tout sur son passage, dévore quantité de nourriture et d'objets en tout genre, et témoigne d'une affection aussi débordante qu'envahissante envers ses maîtres. 2007. Titre uniforme: Marley & me.I'll seize the day tomorrow
By Jonathan Goldstein. 2012
The epic story of Goldstein’s journey to find some great truth on his road to age forty. The host of…
CBC’s WireTap recounts the highs and lows of his last year in his thirties. Throughout the year, Goldstein asks weighty questions that would stump a person less seasoned. For instance: What is it about a McRib that drives people crazy? Can we replace extending an olive leaf with extending an olive jar? How much wisdom can we glean from episodes of Welcome Back, Kotter? His friends and family weigh in with hilarious results as Goldstein eats, sleeps, and watches bad TV all the way to his date with destiny. 2012.Farewell to the twentieth century: a compendium of the absurd
By Pierre Berton. 1996
In almost fifty vignettes, Berton lampoons some of the stranger features of twentieth-century customs. His pet peeves include top-fifty radio…
stations, instant coffee, and perfumed magazine ads. He also speculates on how supersonic airliners will show full-length movies on short flights and wine critics who actually swallow the wine. 1996.A Canadian resource of practical tips and products that helps you do your part for the environment. Information on what…
not to buy and why, services such as computer recyclers and hazardous waste disposal, and tips on sustainable food choices and how to reduce energy use. Includes a city-by-city guide. 2007.Crazy plates: low-fat food so good, you'll swear it's bad for you!
By Janet Podleski, Greta Podleski. 1999
Janet and Greta Podleski, also known as The Looneyspoons Sisters, present Crazy Plates, a collection of low-fat recipes. Also includes…
fat facts (for example, a pound of body fat--representative of 3,500 calories--if shaped into a ball, would be the size of a softball and equal four sticks of butter), "Trivial Tidbits" (baking soda used to be added to the water for boiling vegetables until it was discovered that it destroyed the veggies' vitamin C), "You Do the Math" (substituting Canadian bacon for the regular high-fat stuff once a week for a year will cut your fat intake by 1,196 grams), and a lot of corny humour ("Did you hear what happened to the peanut when he walked through the park? He was a salted"). These recipes can be prepared quickly and are aimed at the home cook with a family to feed. 1999.At the cottage: a fearless look at Canada's summer obsession
By Charles Gordon. 1989
This humourous guide to cottage life teaches the vital Law of Flashlights and explains the peril of docks with wanderlust.…
A survival manual for those who eagerly await the opportunity to open up the cottage, and just as eagerly await its closing. c1989.Area woman blows gasket: and other tales from the domestic frontier
By Patricia Pearson. 2005
A tour of twenty-first-century obsessions and distractions, including adult education classes, therapy, $100 haircuts, and the latest news on what…
causes cancer. Columnist Pearson plumbs every facet of modern life, marriage, and motherhood, from choosing the right vegan-bran-hemp diet for your family to confronting your husband's irrational fear of mayonnaise. Some strong language. c2005.The private capital: ambition and love in the age of Macdonald and Laurier
By Sandra Gwyn. 1984
A compelling account of private life in the age of Macdonald and Laurier. The author has used personal letters, diaries,…
scrapbooks, memoirs and social columns. 1984 Governor General's Award winner. c1984.The Penguin anthology of Canadian humour
By Will Ferguson. 2006
Seventy-one distinctly Canadian selections from fifty-four writers represent over a century's worth of accomplishments in humour. Includes pieces by Stephen…
Leacock, Douglas Coupland, Robertson Davies, Miriam Toews, Thomas King, W.P. Kinsella, and Stuart McLean. Some descriptions of sex, violence and strong language. 2006.Vous n'aurez pas le dernier mot !: petite anthologie désinvolte des plus belles réparties (Humour Ser. #Vol. 6123368)
By Jean Piat, Patrick Wajsman. 2006
La repartie est le sommet de la conversation. L'esprit à besoin d'un partenaire pour s'exercer. Dans cet échange dialogué, la…
repartie - bienveillante, ironique et cruelle - est un sommet, le point culminant de la conversation : celui où l'on cloue le bec à un interlocuteur en lui ôtant la possibilité d'avoir le dernier mot. Jean Piat et Patrick Wajsman se sont amusés à escalader ce commet. De Richelieu à Woody Allen, de Churchill à Groucho Marx, une promenade littéraire en 200 reparties, une échappée vers l'imprévu. Pour rire ou sourire...Waiting for the punch: words to live by from the WTF podcast
By Marc Maron, Brendan McDonald. 2017
Each week over a million and a half listeners tune into WTF with Marc Maron to hear Marc and a…
guest do something remarkable: talk. 'Waiting for the punch' is not simply a collection of these interviews, but instead something more wondrous: a running narrative of the world's most recognizable names working through the problems, doubts, joys, triumphs and failures we all experience. With each chapter covering a different topic: parenting, childhood, relationships, sexuality, success, failures and others, Punch becomes a sort of everyman's guide to life. 2017. Uniform title: WTF (Podcast)Includes both Reagan's own writing and his favourite quotations, proverbs, and excerpts from speeches, poetry, and literature. The breadth of…
these notes sheds light on a man who was deeply engaged with the arts, culture, and politics. Known as the "Great Communicator," Reagan sought wisdom from a wide-ranging set of political figures, philosophers, novelists, and poets. Some strong language. c2011.Tout bas ou à voix haute
By Marie-Lise Pilote. 2018
Avec ce livre, Marie-Lise Pilote partage avec nous ses expériences de la vie de tous les jours. Au fil des…
pages, on reconnaît l'humoriste, la fille drôle qui aime rire et faire rire, mais on découvre également Marie-Lise la marraine, la féministe, la solitaire, la femme qui doute et qui apprend, peu à peu, à surmonter ses peurs. Elle nous parle de ses passions, petites et grandes, qui la ramènent à l'essentiel et l'aident à décrocher du quotidien. Elle nous raconte ses douces folies, celles qui apportent de la légèreté et du piquant à l'existence. Elle se remémore aussi les moments-clés de son parcours et les rencontres inattendues qui lui ont permis de se découvrir et d'avancer. Des histoires simples, sans prétention dans lesquelles plusieurs se retrouveront. 2018.The truth: a novel of Discworld
By Terry Pratchett. 2000
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first newspaper. Now he must cope with the traditional perils…
of a journalists's life - people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography, some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes. 2000.