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Parenting, Humour
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Featured on The Ellen DeGeneres Show sharing her "Holiday Magic" viral video. Hope, humor, and spiritual inspiration to families in…
the trenches of parenthood from the founder of Mom Babble. Mary Katherine Backstrom spends her days mending booboos, conquering the boogie man, comforting heartaches, laughing at knock-knock jokes, cooking pancakes, throwing baseballs, and mopping muddy floors. In other words she spends her days relishing in the beautiful, constant noise that is a life with children. In Mom Babble Mary Katherine (MK) Backstrom, founder and personality behind the Mom Babble online community, offers up hope, humor, and spiritual inspiration to families in the trenches of parenthood. With laughter, crying, and eye-rolls MK’s, oh so, real essays about raising littles will delight all the not perfect, not always holy, not completely normal, messy, honest and wonderful moms that read them. MK’s conversational approach connects with readers like dear friends cozied up on a coffee date. Praise for Mary Katherine Backstrom "I love how honest and relatable Mary Katherine is in her writing. When an author is raw, it is easy to make a connection to their work." – Meredith Masony, Founder of That’s Inappropriate "One of Facebook’s funniest parents!" – Today Show Parenting Team "Mary Katherine brings love, wisdom, compassion, humor, and insight to her writing that is a must read for every parent." – Love What Matters "I have probably read more parenting essays than anyone on the planet, and Mary Katherine’s voice still surprises me. I laugh out loud, cry, and recall the magic of being a mother in those fresh early years. She is a friend to the struggling moms in the trenches of motherhood." – Jill Smokler, Founder of Scary Mommy and New York Times Best-selling author "Thank you for cracking us up." – Today with Hoda & Jenna Product Features: Features funny and relatable personal essays. Expands on Backstrom’s already popular Mom Babble community posts and stories. Includes a forward by Meredith Masony, founder of That’s Inappropriate and That’s Inappropriate Parents online communities with nearly 1 million followers across multiple channels. 4-color photographs throughout. Grain embossed hardcover with ribbon.
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The Joy of Photoshop is the long-awaited book from the social media sensation James Fridman.Have you ever taken a seemingly…
perfect picture only to have it ruined by one tiny detail? Photoshop master James Fridman is only too happy to help, even if he sometimes takes requests a little too literally.The Joy of Photoshop contains James's best-loved and funniest image alterations. From the woman who wished to look like a mermaid, to super-fans who want to be edited into their favourite movies, his followers never get quite what they asked for. Including plenty of never-before-seen pictures, this meme-tastic book will have you in stitches!
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The Joy of Photoshop is the long-awaited book from the social media sensation James Fridman.Have you ever taken a seemingly…
perfect picture only to have it ruined by one tiny detail? Photoshop master James Fridman is only too happy to help, even if he sometimes takes requests a little too literally.The Joy of Photoshop contains James's best-loved and funniest image alterations. From the woman who wished to look like a mermaid, to super-fans who want to be edited into their favourite movies, his followers never get quite what they asked for. Including plenty of never-before-seen pictures, this meme-tastic book will have you in stitches!
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Family and relationships, Parenting, Humour
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Energize your relationship with this quiz book for couplesCuriosity is a great way to create and sustain intimacy in relationships.…
Create curiosity in your relationship with quizzes that will have you competing against one another to see who really knows who best.The first part focuses on you as an individual. The quizzes shine a light on your personal likes and dislikes as you answer questions about your partners' preferences.The second part contains quizzes focused on you both as a couple. Answer questions together as a couple and compare your similarities and differences.In each part, there are light and playful themes mixed with complex and challenging ones. You'll get a chance to reminisce about your past, explore the present, and dream about the future together.Create a deeper connection with your partner and grow your relationship with this standout among relationship books for couples.
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Humour, Reference
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Minding your manners is a blast with these etiquette lessons for kids ages 7 to 12 Today's kids need a…
fresh approach to manners that resonates with them. A Kids' Guide to Manners goes beyond saying "please" and "thank you" with fun, practical lessons that bring manners into the modern world.From meeting new people to being a courteous guest to texting a group of friends, kids will have fun as they learn to use manners in a way that will make their lives easier and more enjoyable. With 50 essential manners, plus interactive quizzes, entertaining examples, and at-home practice exercises, A Kids' Guide to Manners teaches kids where, when, and how to use manners as they relate to everyday life.With this true manners how-to guide kids will:Build good communication skills that will make it easy to get along with others, such as constructive ways to express emotions to the power of writing a thank you note.Feel confident in new situations by knowing what to do and say when meeting new people, dining in a more formal environment, or dealing with conflict and gossip.Learn proper tech etiquette that represents their best self over text, email, social media, as well as tips for knowing when it is or isn't appropriate to be using technology.With A Kids' Guide to Manners, both boys and girls will understand why manners matter and feel better than ever showing off their new social skills to everyone they know!
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Frontier and pioneer life, Humour, Anthologies, Essays, History
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""Trillin on Texas" gathers some of the author's best writing on subjects near to his heart--politics, true crime, food, and…
rare books, among them--which also have a Texas connection. Sure to entertain Texans and other readers alike, Trillin proves once again that he is one of America's shrewdest observers and wittiest writers." -- publisher marketing. Adult. Some strong language. Some violence
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Animal stories, General fictionHumour
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One day, Benjamin's mother asks him to get three things from the store. He promises he won't forget anything, but…
he hadn't counted on Elephant and his silly elephant games. For grades K-3
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Humour, Arts and entertainment, History
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"The History of Sketch Comedy will appeal to all kinds of comedy fans as well as fans of Keegan-Michael Key.…
With epic personal tangents and hilarious asides, their story takes you on an illuminating look at all facets of comedy from the stock characters of commedia del arte in the 16th century, to the rise of vaudeville and burlesque, the golden age of television comedy, the influence of the most well-known comedy schools, and ascension of comedy films and TV specials--all the way through to a look at the future of sketch on social media platforms. Part masterclass, part memoir, and hilariously embellished with priceless commentary, The History of Sketch Comedy illuminates the essential building blocks of sketch comedy while interweaving Key's experiences of personal discovery and influence of his comedy heroes. The text is complemented by original art by Elle Key and exclusive essays compiled from conversations with some of their famous comedy friends and performers who have influenced the development of comedy, such as Jordan Peele, Mel Brooks, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Mike Myers, Chris Rock, John Oliver, Tracy Morgan, Carol Burnett, Jim Carrey, and more"--Provided by publisher
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Humour, Reference, Sports and games
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Are you a college football superfan? Prove it! With more than a century of football history to pull from, this…
trivia compilation will put your college football memory to the test. Use the trivia in this book to build your knowledge; test what you already know about college teams, coaches, and traditions; then challenge others to see who is the bigger fan of this Saturday sports tradition.What sets this football book apart:700 questions—From the sport's earliest days to its most memorable games throughout the years, there's a fun quiz question for all of college football's unforgettable moments.A full roster—Explore players, coaches, conferences, bowl games, and national championships with an organized format that lets you get right to the info you're looking for.Extra credit—Each chapter includes a cool end section with even more insider knowledge about college football, like an explanation of the Heisman curse and a quick history of the NFL draft.Get ready to put your college football knowledge in play!
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Humour, Reference, Sports and games
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Are you a real football fan? Prove it!Put your knowledge of the NFL and pro football to the test! With…
this book in hand, you'll be able to quiz yourself and your friends on the league's all-time great players and franchise dynasties, as well as the coaches, larger-than-life owners, and others who helped etch the sport deep into American culture.What sets this football book apart:700 questions—Even the most avid fan will be challenged by trivia covering everything from football's earliest days and most memorable moments to famous quotes and off-the-field antics.Complete coverage—This collection of football trivia will grill you on your gridiron knowledge across seven different categories, starting with the NFL draft and finishing with the Hall of Fame.Bonus facts—Learn even more with sections that explore the evolution of the Super Bowl's halftime show, the story of the USFL, and more.Show off your sports trivia skills with this standout among football books.
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Sharpen your chess skills with winning tactics and strategiesThe skill and strategy required to win at chess can feel intimidating,…
but Chess for Beginners breaks it down into manageable lessons to help new players up their game. Start with a rundown of the basic game mechanics, then explore clear and concise guidance for the strategies and tactics that will help you achieve consistent success.Learn to position your pieces and coordinate your attack with:A comprehensive overview—Find clear illustrations and directions that show you all the components of a chessboard, how each piece moves, and how to read chess notation.10 Powerful short-term tactics—Practice shorter sequences of chess moves—like deflections, sacrifices, and forks—that help you put your strategy in play and take control of the board.10 Essential long-game strategies—Learn how to activate your pieces, keep track of the whole board, think several moves ahead, go for a quick checkmate, and more.From your first move to your last, Chess for Beginners shows you how to play a better game.
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Humour, Reference
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Become a triumphant trivia bossIf you want to impress people with your wide-ranging knowledge at the next game night, pick…
up Ultimate Trivia, Vol. 1. The 800-plus questions in this book are spread over amusing and diverse categories creating a wide and fun playing field for everyone.Pass the time on a cross-country road trip with questions on literature and fine arts. Test your family's historical knowledge at the next holiday gathering. Or belly up to the bar and engage in a Q&A about animals and nature. It doesn't matter the setting—this trivia book is perfect.Ultimate Trivia, Vol. 1 includes:A variety of formats—Try team vs. team in group play or go head-to-head with a friend to see who comes out as a trivia master.Checked and double-checked—All the information has been strenuously fact-checked to ensure everything is accurate and up to date.So many subjects—You name it, it's probably covered: US and world history, pop culture and food and drink—it has it all.Leave a lasting impact at the next trivia night with this brain-busting book.
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Humour, Nature, Science and technology, General non-fiction
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The end of life, the universe and humanity as we know it – in a handy A to Z format.From…
the Atomic bomb to the Zombie apocalypse (via Black holes, Killer diseases and Space invaders), learn the truth about twenty-six fascinating doomsday scenarios. Featuring scientific facts, entertaining anecdotes and expert advice, this is a jaw-dropping book about what should REALLY be keeping you up at night.Funny, eye-opening and charmingly illustrated, this is the perfect book for doomsayers, cynics and pessimists everywhere.
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Humour, Reference
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The 20th anniversary edition of the international bestseller, perfectly timed for everyone needing extra help to be adequately prepared for…
dire situations in today's world.Danger! It lurks at every corner. Quicksand. Sharks. Cyberbullies. Super Flu. From wrestling an alligator to evading drones to landing an airplane if the pilot passes out, The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook is here to help with expert, illustrated, step-by-step instructions for the best ways to tackle life's sudden turns for the worse. Needed now more than ever, this revised and expanded edition of the international bestseller delivers frightening and funny real advice readers need to know fast, including crucial information added from across the Worst-Case series and 20 all-new scenarios for 21st-century threats, from extreme weather and "fake news" to dropping a cell phone in the bathroom toilet.EMERGENCY INSTRUCTION FOR ANXIOUS TIMES: This ultimate survival book is packed with expert—and humorous—advice for extreme situations, including tips on great escapes and entrances (how to escape from a sinking car), hacks for technical trouble (how to survive an out-of-control autonomous car), skills for adventure survival (how to survive an avalanche), and more. INFORMATION ANYONE CAN USE: From your nephew who loves camping in the wilderness to your great aunt who became a doomsday prepper during the pandemic, this complete survival guide is the ultimate preparedness tool for people of all ages. A FAVORITE BOOK TO SHARE WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY: Readers rave about the reactions this entertaining volume elicits, sharing that it's "an absolute hit" as a gift and a "great tabletop item for guests to pick up and browse for a few minutes." One reviewer notes this is "one of the best gifts that I have ever purchased" while another calls the book "a fun read and conversation starter."Perfect for:Kids, teens, and adults interested in learning how to survive anything, from a sudden natural disaster to a zombie apocalypseAnyone who enjoys funny booksBirthday, holiday, or graduation gag gifts
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Humour, Writing, General non-fiction
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Why do fish live in salt water? Because pepper makes them sneeze! Discover more than 800 silly jokes for kids…
in this hilarious kids joke book Reading jokes can tickle your funny bone AND help boost reading skills. The Big Book of Silly Jokes for Kids is chock-full of knock-knock jokes, riddles, tongue twisters, and puns you can share with your friends and family for hours and hours of laughing!Funny facts and illustrations—Find some very silly illustrations that match the jokes, and fun trivia about the joke topics—did you know that elephants can't jump?Beginner joke-writing tips—This joke book for kids explains how setups and punchlines works and includes tips and exercises to help you write your own jokes.Take jokes anywhere—Bring this book on road trips, plane trips, and more so you can have fun everywhere you go.Give the gift of laughter—Whether it's a birthday gift, a stocking stuffer, an Easter basket stuffer, or a present for any occasion, this book makes an educational and hilarious gift for every kid who loves to laugh!The perfect joke book for kids of all ages, The Big Book of Silly Jokes for Kids promises to keep the young readers entertained and amused.
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Humour, Criticism, General non-fiction
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CHOICE: OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLEA scholarly and thought-provoking work that places Jewish humor at the center of a discourse about Jewish…
and German relations through most of the twentieth century.At Wit’s End explores the fascinating discourse on Jewish wit in the twentieth century when the Jewish joke became the subject of serious humanistic inquiry and inserted itself into the cultural and political debates among Germans and Jews against the ideologically charged backdrop of anti-Semitism, the Jewish question, and the Holocaust.The first in-depth study to explore the Jewish joke as a crucial rhetorical figure in larger cultural debates in Germany, author Louis Kaplan presents an engrossing and lucid work of scholarship that examines how “der jüdische Witz” (referring to both Jewish wit and jokes) was utilized differently in a number of texts, from the Weimar Republic to the rise of National Socialism, and how it was re-introduced into the public sphere after the Holocaust with the controversial publication of Salcia Landmann’s collection of Jewish jokes in the reparations era (Wiedergutmachung). Kaplan reviews the claims made about the Jewish joke and its provocative laughter by notable writers from a variety of ideological perspectives, demonstrating how their reflections on this complex cultural trope enable a better understanding of German–Jewish intercultural relations and their eventual breakdown in the Third Reich. He also illustrates how selfcritical and self-ironic Jewish Witz maintained a fraught and ambivalent relationship with anti-Semitism.In reviewing this critical and traumatic moment in modern German–Jewish history through the deadly discourse on the Jewish joke, At Wit’s End includes chapters on the virulent Austrian anti-Semitic racial theorist Arthur Trebitsch, the Nazi racial propagandist Siegfried Kadner, the German Marxist cultural historian Eduard Fuchs, the Jewish diasporic historian Erich Kahler, and the Jewish cabaret impresario Kurt Robitschek, among others. Shedding new light on anti-Semitism and on the Jewish question leading up to the Holocaust, At Wit’s End provides readers with a unique perspective by which to gain important insights about this crucial historical period that reverberates into the present day, when potentially offensive humor coupled with a toxic political climate and xenophobia can have deadly consequences.
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Mysteries and crime stories, Suspense and thrillers, Adventure storiesHumour
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The la Torre family left Cuba after swindling the Delgado family of $2 million. Twenty-five years later Luis Delgado escapes…
in turn, goes to see them in Miami and they call a hit man. On hearing the story, PI Lupe Solano is skeptical, until her investigator is strangled with piano wire. By the author of Bloody Shame. Adult. Some violence
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Family stories, General fiction, Humourous fictionHumour
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When a joking uncle collects hammer, pliers, and screwdriver to help a child with her loose tooth, the tooth amazingly comes out by itself. For grades K-3
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A bilingual collection of essays that are equal parts social commentary and humor. Some have previously appeared in Texas Monthly,…
others in the Hispanic Link News Service. The author sees with the eyes of a reporter and writes with the pen of an artist, making people--Latinos and non-Latinos alike--laugh. His aim is breaking down the barriers of understanding between our two cultures. English/Spanish language
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Journals and memoirs, Humour
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America&’s most beloved wiseass finally tells his life story with all the humor you&’d expect from a man who made…
a career out of making fun of pretty much everything.How does the son of a Presbyterian minister wind up winning a Pulitzer Prize for writing a wildly inaccurate newspaper column read by millions of people? In Class Clown, Dave Barry takes us on a hilarious ride, starting with a childhood largely spent throwing rocks for entertainment—there was no internet—and preparing for nuclear war by hiding under a classroom desk. After literally getting elected class clown in high school, he went to college, where, as an English major, he read snippets of great literature when he was not busy playing in a rock band (it was the sixties). He began his journalism career at a small-town Pennsylvania newspaper where he learned the most important rule of local journalism: never confuse a goose with a duck. His journey then took a detour into the business world, where as a writing consultant he spent years trying, with limited success, to get corporate folks to, for God&’s sake, get the point. Somehow from there he wound up as a humor columnist for The Miami Herald, where his boss was a wild man who encouraged him to write about anything that struck him as amusing and to never worry about alienating anyone. His columns were not popular with everyone: He managed to alienate a vast army of Neil Diamond fans, and the entire state of Indiana. But he also developed a loyal following of readers who alerted him to the threat of exploding toilets, not to mention the fire hazards posed by strawberry pop-tarts and Rollerblade Barbie, which he demonstrated to the nation on the David Letterman show. He led his readers on a crusade against telemarketers that ultimately caused the national telemarketers association to stop answering its own phones because it was getting—irony alert—too many unwanted calls. He has also run for president multiple times, although so far without success. He became a book author and joined a literary rock band, which was not good at playing music but did once perform with Bruce Springsteen, who sang backup to Dave. As for his literary merits, Dave writes: &“I&’ll never have the critical acclaim of, say, Marcel Proust. But was Marcel Proust ever on Carson? Did he ever steal a hotel sign for Oprah?&” Class Clown isn&’t just a memoir; it&’s a vibrant celebration of a life rich with humor, absurdity, joy, and sadness. Dave says the most important wisdom imparted by his Midwestern parents was never to take anything too seriously. This laughter-filled book is proof that he learned that lesson well.