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"Everything an aspiring memoirist needs to know, in one readable volume, a follow-up to the acclaimed writers' handbook Why We Write For the many amateurs and professionals who write about themselves--bloggers, journal-keepers, aspiring essayists, and memoirists--this book offers inspiration, encouragement, and pithy, practical advice. Twenty of America's bestselling memoirists share their innermost thoughts and hard-earned tips with veteran author...
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"Author of the international bestseller I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie, Pamela Des Barres shares with women the art of memoir writing. For the last fourteen years, Pamela Des Barres has been teaching an eight-week women's "femoir" writing workshop. She found that the music-loving ladies who showed up at her door had pent-up stories to tell. Many of them had read her two memoirs, which were wildly personal and deeply confessional, and...
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The Devil's Dictionary (1906) is a work of satire by Ambrose Bierce. Although he is commonly remembered for his chilling short stories on the experiences of Civil War soldiers, Bierce was recognized in his day as a leading journalist and humorist who spent decades ruffling feathers and drawing laughter with his witty opinion columns, poems, and definitions. Toward the end of his career, he decided to compile these satirical definitions into a book,...
12) Ukridge
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Ukridge is a collection of short stories by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 3 June 1924 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on 30 July 1925 by George H. Doran, New York, under the title He Rather Enjoyed It. The book contains ten short stories relating the adventures of Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, narrated by Ukridge's long-suffering friend, the writer "Corky" Corcoran.
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Ob es nun eine Kaffeegrundsatzentscheidung oder eine Kaffeesatzgrundentscheidung war, die Sie zum Kauf des Buches gebracht hat, wissen nur Sie. Mit dieser Entscheidung haben Sie die Möglichkeit Erkenntnisse darüber zu erlangen, was eine ablassbedürftige Notlage ist und was flotte Blomster sind. Was hat es mit den mysteriösen Fällen des Herrn Bäckermeisters auf sich und warum ist ein Garten ein unheilvolles Wesen.
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Maximum Maxims of Count Sneaky. A brief, tightly-packed, summation of experience relating to some experience, fantasy or disappointment. It may also be foolish nonsense. But never, I say never, sir or madam should it ever devolve into mere word play unless the Count is having a little pun with you. Maxims can be written by anyone but should be left to those with life experiences longer than a box of crayons or shorter than a the main concourse of...
15) 101 Funny Facts
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101 Funny Facts is a humours parody book - a lot of the facts are 100% genuine but some other "facts" are for comedic effect.But either way they will make you smile and laugh in equal measure.Facts like:FACT: Will Smith, Nicolas Cage, Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp, and Leonardo DiCaprio were all offered the part of Neo in The Matrix before Keanu Reeves took the role.COMMENT: The next option after Keanu was a lump of 2 by 4!#FACT: Dogs experience a chemical...
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After my diagnosis and during treatments for breast cancer, lots of people (including good friends who should have known better) said to me, "Oh! You've got such a good attitude!" To which my invariable reply was, "Honey, this ain't 'good' attitude, it's just attitude." As you read these brief chapters, you will come to understand why. Many well-meaning guides already exist for journeys like mine: doctors, nurses, physicians' assistants, lab techs,...
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From G. Gaynor McTigue, the author who brought you the original commendium of life's annoying problems-Life's Little Frustration Book-come 365 even more ignominious irritants and aggravations that suck the joy out of life. More Life's Little Frustration Book shares even more ridiculous problems that you'd rather live without.
For even more annoying problems, read the original: Life's Little Frustration Book.
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From the bestselling, award-winning author of You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start In The Morning, comes another collection of hilarious observations that will resonate with women, mothers, and girlfriends everywhere
In her newest wickedly irreverent humor collection, Celia Rivenbark cracks up while getting her downward facing dog on, pines for a world in which every mom gets to behave like Betty Draper and wonders why everybody's so excited...
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'How to Live in a Flat', if posed as a question, is worth asking today with so many articles on tiny flats with hugely inflated price tags in the newspapers. Flat-dwellers were faced with very similar problems in 1936. During 1932 and 1933 Heath Robinson had drawn a series of cartoons for 'The Sketch' entitled 'Flat Life', which depicted various gadgets designed to make the most of the limited space available in the contemporary flat. It was this...
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What is absurd, ridiculous, random, and downright hysterical? The inside of Timmy Boyle's mind. If laughter is the best medicine, you will be healthy for months after reading Inside Timmy's Mind - a collection of insanely pointed and laugh out loud funny accounts of everyday life, as seen through the eyes of Canadian up-standing comedian Timmy Boyle. Inside Timmy's Mind was not written to enlighten you with life-changing secrets or to bombard you...
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