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By Ruth Paget
My sister worked as a waitress at the Ho-Ho Inn, a Chinese restaurant, on Cass Street in Detroit. She sat a plate of Egg Foo Yung in front of five-year-old me. I had a way with words and quickly renamed this Egg Foo "Yuck." Tears ran down my cheeks as I thought about eating this worm-like mess of food. The Chinese waiter called George came in and looked at me. He took the Egg Foo "Yuck" and threw it in the garbage. Then he went to the freezer and got me one of those ice cream treats that Chinese restaurants serve; a coconut flavored outer shell of ice cream surrounding a mango core. My sister came in and glared at me. George said, "She ate everything, so I gave her an ice cream." I smiled sweetly at George. My love for the Chinese, if not their food, began at that instant. -The Edible Tao
FORMAT: Softcover
By Beverly Walton
If the opportunity to reflect and reconsider the move did present itself in those early weeks of planning, I certainly ignored it. I steamrollered my way through preparations for the move to Tasmania, happy in my favourite role of problem solver. It wasn't until I walked into the strange kitchen, located the pantry, and stored the few bits I had picked up at the supermarket near the airport that I understood the enormity of my decision. And I'd forgotten to buy milk. The property in Tasmania was beautiful, isolated and I was alone. This was sink or swim stuff. It would last a year; a year in which I would be resentful, defiant and sometimes content.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Lizlee Payant
While trying to teach her children about wildlife and what to feed birds, the squirrels kept getting in the way. Her husband got avidly interested in outwitting the lovable critters. For 25 years, he provided hilarious entertainment for everyone with his inventions and antics. Guess who won the battle?
FORMAT: Softcover
By Gerry Tortorelli
Loose Screws is a collection of sixty-nine amusing, often touching, anecdotes from the life of a Bronx boy who has lived and traveled throughout the world. The author, Gerry Tortorelli, is a retired business executive, who immigrated to Switzerland in his thirties with his young family. With stints in England and Canada and frequent visits to the family roots in Italy, his stories explore many cultures. Whether it be the story of how his sister celebrates Christmas in “The Twelve Weeks of Advent,” or how German words can be misinterpreted in English in “A Good Fahrt….and a Douche,” the anecdotes have a personal touch with which the reader can connect. A 22-year-old grudge is settled in the story “Toothpaste, Mayonnaise, and Big Ben” while fundraising for a new church in Canada is detailed in “A Pregnant Nun and a Chicken at Mass.” Not far away from any story, is Gerry’s wife (the Queen), his daughters (the Princesses), and his serf sons-in-law. Loose Screws is a unique view of a life through the eyes of the one who lived it, a kid from the Bronx.
FORMAT: Hardcover
By Gerry Tortorelli
Loose Screws is a collection of sixty-nine amusing, often touching, anecdotes from the life of a Bronx boy who has lived and traveled throughout the world. The author, Gerry Tortorelli, is a retired business executive, who immigrated to Switzerland in his thirties with his young family. With stints in England and Canada and frequent visits to the family roots in Italy, his stories explore many cultures. Whether it be the story of how his sister celebrates Christmas in “The Twelve Weeks of Advent,” or how German words can be misinterpreted in English in “A Good Fahrt….and a Douche,” the anecdotes have a personal touch with which the reader can connect. A 22-year-old grudge is settled in the story “Toothpaste, Mayonnaise, and Big Ben” while fundraising for a new church in Canada is detailed in “A Pregnant Nun and a Chicken at Mass.” Not far away from any story, is Gerry’s wife (the Queen), his daughters (the Princesses), and his serf sons-in-law. Loose Screws is a unique view of a life through the eyes of the one who lived it, a kid from the Bronx.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Gerry Tortorelli
Loose Screws is a collection of sixty-nine amusing, often touching, anecdotes from the life of a Bronx boy who has lived and traveled throughout the world. The author, Gerry Tortorelli, is a retired business executive, who immigrated to Switzerland in his thirties with his young family. With stints in England and Canada and frequent visits to the family roots in Italy, his stories explore many cultures. Whether it be the story of how his sister celebrates Christmas in “The Twelve Weeks of Advent,” or how German words can be misinterpreted in English in “A Good Fahrt….and a Douche,” the anecdotes have a personal touch with which the reader can connect. A 22-year-old grudge is settled in the story “Toothpaste, Mayonnaise, and Big Ben” while fundraising for a new church in Canada is detailed in “A Pregnant Nun and a Chicken at Mass.” Not far away from any story, is Gerry’s wife (the Queen), his daughters (the Princesses), and his serf sons-in-law. Loose Screws is a unique view of a life through the eyes of the one who lived it, a kid from the Bronx.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Phil Freedman
Author Phil Freedman offers a humorous collection of "wit and wisdom" from his local newspaper column, WHATEVER. Freedman published WHATEVER in a local paper in Aspen, Colorado, until his editor fired him for anti-semantic (please read the preceding word carefully) reasons. He subsequently published WHATEVER for three years on a weekly Web site. Izzy, Do We Have Any Trojans? is a compendium of the best of those columns. Freedman is no James Thurber, but neither is Dave Barry. In fact, his readers have favorably compared Freedman with Barry, but his style is more thought provoking and reflects his academic background. He uses sarcasm, irony (both steam and dry), wit (and without), cynicism, mysticism, insane-icism, mixed metaphor, oxymorons, regular morons, pun, parody, parable, alliteration, and even misquotes. When the situation invites, he enjoys playing with phonynyms. Phonynym, as you may have guessed, is a term for made-up words that don't exist. But don't look it up. Phonynym is a phonynym. His readers have referred to him as a "word crafter." Others, as a "word crap-per."
FORMAT: Softcover
By Craig Wolff
October Songs is an orgasmic romp through the English language; like a mirror, these poems are harsh and bitter, yet unrelenting in their honesty. If you like letters randomly arranged into words that have no meaning, then this is not the book for you, but maybe a more intelligent relative, friend, or pet would enjoy it.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Phillip Hand
They were a motley crew, these sawmill workers, loggers, farmers and factory workers who frequented a nondescript saloon in a small town in northeastern Pennsylvania in the 1950s. Their pursuit of love, riches and enough beer to get them over the edge led to some hilarious incidents witnessed and enjoyed by Johnny Sovich, the benevolent proprietor of The Club. There was Sammy Griney, a kewpie doll little man in pursuit of romance. There was Peg Cavanaugh, who walked tall among men and who had a couple of assets that kept them drooling. There was By God Harry Hollis, who could drink a quart of beer in less than a minute and keep doing it for three days straight. There was Rhymin’ Pete Williams, a poet laureate who never wrote anything that made any sense to anyone. There were Shake Keller and Ed Hooker, two ugly brutes with the dubious distinction of having never won a fight, ready to put their perfect records on the line. All were members of good standing in The Club.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Phillip Hand
They were a motley crew, these sawmill workers, loggers, farmers and factory workers who frequented a nondescript saloon in a small town in northeastern Pennsylvania in the 1950s. Their pursuit of love, riches and enough beer to get them over the edge led to some hilarious incidents witnessed and enjoyed by Johnny Sovich, the benevolent proprietor of The Club. There was Sammy Griney, a kewpie doll little man in pursuit of romance. There was Peg Cavanaugh, who walked tall among men and who had a couple of assets that kept them drooling. There was By God Harry Hollis, who could drink a quart of beer in less than a minute and keep doing it for three days straight. There was Rhymin’ Pete Williams, a poet laureate who never wrote anything that made any sense to anyone. There were Shake Keller and Ed Hooker, two ugly brutes with the dubious distinction of having never won a fight, ready to put their perfect records on the line. All were members of good standing in The Club.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Jason J. Tavares
1 West 26th Street is a look into a small mid-western college where weekends are what you make of them and trouble is where you least expect it.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Jason J. Tavares
1 West 26th Street is a look into a small mid-western college where weekends are what you make of them and trouble is where you least expect it.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Steve Sheffey
Why is God Has Brought Me Laughter different from all other joke books? Some joke books are arranged by subject or theme. Some joke books are arranged alphabetically. Some joke books are arranged by author. This book is not like any of them. This book is arranged by the Torah portion of the week. Author Steve Sheffey takes you through the Torah (five books of Moses) and provides jokes inspired by the Bible itself. Every week, in traditional Jewish synagogues, the Torah portion of the week is read. As there are 54 portions, some weeks more than one portion is read, culminating in reading the entire Torah once a year. Looking for just the right joke to illustrate a Biblical theme, or just a great joke? Look no further, for here you will find just the right joke for each weekly Torah portion. You don't have to be Jewish or even familiar with the Bible to enjoy God Has Brought Me Laughter, although it will add to the laughter if you are. So turn to any page in this book and allow yourself some humor that is simply divine. If not now, when?
FORMAT: Softcover
By Steve Sheffey
Why is God Has Brought Me Laughter different from all other joke books? Some joke books are arranged by subject or theme. Some joke books are arranged alphabetically. Some joke books are arranged by author. This book is not like any of them. This book is arranged by the Torah portion of the week. Author Steve Sheffey takes you through the Torah (five books of Moses) and provides jokes inspired by the Bible itself. Every week, in traditional Jewish synagogues, the Torah portion of the week is read. As there are 54 portions, some weeks more than one portion is read, culminating in reading the entire Torah once a year. Looking for just the right joke to illustrate a Biblical theme, or just a great joke? Look no further, for here you will find just the right joke for each weekly Torah portion. You don't have to be Jewish or even familiar with the Bible to enjoy God Has Brought Me Laughter, although it will add to the laughter if you are. So turn to any page in this book and allow yourself some humor that is simply divine. If not now, when?
FORMAT: E-Book
By Lewis Green
The human interest stories and reviews in this book are woven from the author's forty-plus years of experience as a prize-winning reporter, an author, an editor-publisher, a college professor and an undercover investigator for local, state and federal law enforcement agencies, and for the East Tennessee Attorney General. The stories are set in the often mysterious and closed-in back mountain country of Western North Carolina before it began filling up with outlanders, and the relatively cosmopolitan Asheville-Buncombe County area of another time, which includes interviews with Carl Sandburg, Martin Luther King Jr., Julian Bond, etc. The stories range from the subtle and wry political wit of the mountaineers to often hilarious trials in Superior Court to the trial in Federal Court of the man who sold off most of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the 1960s to bloody demonic murders and the tragedy of simple people growing old. There are lawyers and cops, political and law-enforcement corruption. The author handles much of it with the blunt irony and wit of a native writer.
FORMAT: Softcover
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