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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Inspired by the "editorial" he delivers at the end of each episode of Real Time, this hilarious work of commentary about American life speaks exactly to the moment we're in, covering free speech, cops, drugs, race, religion, cancel culture, the media, show biz, romance, health and more."--
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Publisher
SAGA Egmont
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
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"Cobo piensa con nostalgia en ese personaje de ojos tristes que, abandonado en el rincón de la sala, parecía implorarle que le permitiera llegar con vida al final de la historia". Con espíritu zen, cada uno de estos 23 cuentos breves retrata una escena cotidiana que conduce a una revelación, a una comprensión espiritual. Curiosos, a veces divertidos o inquietantes, estos relatos están protagonizados por personajes del día a día: un escritor,...
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English
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"Calvin Trillin can write just about anything--and has. He covered the Civil Rights movement in the South for Time, chronicled stories from small towns and cities for The New Yorker, and wrote comic poetry for The Nation. He has been called "perhaps the finest reporter in America" (The Miami Herald), "our funniest food writer" (The New Yorker), and "one of the most brilliant humorists of our time" (Charleston Post and Courier). But one of his favorite...
4) Space jokes
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The Child's World
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Presents simple jokes and riddles revolving around the subject of outer space.
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English
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"In The Bottoms, tiny Cotswold villages on the English countryside, filthy rich Tata Hawkins is in a tizzy when her husband runs off with a bikini designer; her glamorous new neighbor, an American divorcée, refuses her overtures at friendship; and her two best friends are distracted by their own problems."--
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Publisher
Lux ÉDiteur
Pub. Date
2022
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Français
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Après Trouve-toi une vie, paru en 2016, Fabien Cloutier revient en force avec un nouveau recueil de textes comiques dont il a le secret. Avec le ton à la fois tendre et abrasif qu'on lui connaît, il aborde les grands sujets qui nous préoccupent tous : l'environnement, les retraites, Capitaine Déneige, le mystère des magazines Passe-Partout que l'on garde dans le fond d'un garde-robe sans trop savoir pourquoi. Fabien Cloutier offre même des...
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Suzanne T. Murray ÉDitions Inc
Pub. Date
2024
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Français
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L'ex-éditeur, journaliste, animateur et producteur télévision de renom, Alain Stanké, dévoile dans ces pages un aspect méconnu de lui-même.
On a longtemps apprécié son sens de l'humour dans le cadre de la populaire série des Insolences d'une caméra, mais on ignorait à quel point son esprit potache l'animait en dehors du petit écran.
Dans MALICES AU PAYS DES MERVEILLES, c'est son cœur d'enfant farceur qui se révèle. Ces pages prouvent...
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Stripe Press
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English
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""Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up," Charles T. Munger advises in Poor Charlie's Almanack. Originally published in 2005, this compendium of eleven talks delivered by the legendary Berkshire Hathaway vice-chairman between 1986 and 2007 has become a touchstone for a generation of investors and entrepreneurs seeking to absorb the enduring wit and wisdom of one of the great minds of the 20th and 21st centuries"--...
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Pub. Date
2024
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English
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Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they come up with a plan: They'll date each other and break up. Their curses will cancel each other's out, and they'll both go on to find the love of their lives. It's a bonkers idea... and it just might work. Emma hadn't planned that...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"In the vein of acclaimed popular-science bestsellers such as Atlas Obscura, Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry, The Way Things Work, What If?, and Undeniable, the co-founders of the global science organization Nerd Nite bring readers a collection of wacky, yet fascinating STEM topics. For 20 years, Nerd Nite has delivered to live audiences around the world, the most interesting, fun, and informative presentations about science, history, the...
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LSJ Éditions
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Français
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Dès ses premiers pas, Lili accumule boulettes, gaffes et situations rocambolesques. Ses mésaventures vous plongeront dans un mémorable bêtisier et feront ressurgir vos propres souvenirs. Car, ne nous leurrons pas, nous sommes toutes et tous des Lili en puissance, ou, tout du moins, avons-nous des êtres tendres et extravagants parmi nos proches qui ressemblent à cette pétillante jeune femme. Ne tardez pas, venez
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Max Marshall
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Español
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En este cuento de hadas para niños con ilustraciones, usted aprenderá la historia de Jordania el ratón, que se convirtió en un piloto de un barco de pasajeros. Él fue a Hawaii y llevó a los pasajeros. Pero en el camino, problemas que sucedió y él tenía la urgencia de la tierra en un solar abandonado de la isla en el medio del océano. Y no era un criminal peligroso y un hombre enfermo a bordo.
...14) Out on a Limb
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English
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"Winnifred "Win" McNulty has always been wildly independent and not one to be coddled for her limb difference. Win has spent most of her life trying to prove that she can do it all on her own. With some minor adjustments, she's done just fine. Then a one-night stand at a costume party with the incredibly charming Bo changes everything. Win finds herself pregnant--and decides to keep it. While Bo is surprisingly elated to step up to the plate, Win...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam "West" Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA. She also thought she'd signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tossed, and they both went on their merry ways. Three years later, Anna is a starving artist living paycheck to paycheck while West is a Stanford professor. He may be one of four heirs to the Weston Foods conglomerate, but he has little interest in working for the...
16) Funny story
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English
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Barrington New Books - Adult - Fiction
NYT - Audio Fiction
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
NYT - Hardcover Fiction
NYT - Audio Fiction
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"A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to...
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Keylight Books, an imprint of Turner Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"Melvin Levin is dissatisfied--with his job, with life, with it all. He's too polite and too boring, and the monotony of his days is only broken when he has to clean up after his neighbor's frequently vomiting cat. That is, until he receives a mysterious death threat in the mail. Under the thrill of potentially getting murdered, Melvin begins to feel truly alive again. The threat gives Melvin a sense of self-importance--someone wants him dead--and,...
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Publisher
William Morrow & Company
Pub. Date
20231114
Language
English
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From Rebecca Shaw and Ben Kronengold, the youngest comedy writers ever forThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonand masterminds behind the viral 2018 Yale graduation speech, comes a hilarious collection of short stories taking on coming-of-age, memes, sex, politics, relationships, and Goop, with satire, self-deprecation, and utter irreverence.Showing off their trademark humor and writing chops that have made them a viral sensation, Rebecca Shaw and...
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Anna Clerc
Pub. Date
2022
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Français
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Lucie, en première année de médecine, se rend régulièrement à la bibliothèque universitaire de sa fac, où elle peut travailler au calme. Un jour, elle se rend compte qu'un mec plutôt mignon la regarde discrètement...et elle aime bien cela.
Tous les jours, ils se regardent, furtivement, timidement. Il est plutôt baraqué, un peu intimidant avec son regard noir, et
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