Résultats Éditeur "Author's Republic" dans Comédie et humour

In 2017, David got what he thought was a mild touch of the flu. This book is the story of why David would make a lousy doctor. Contrary to the book’s title, David had lymphoma and it was terminal. But A Mild Touch of the Cancer isn’t your standard "how I survived" compendium. It is a hilarious tale, written while battling one of life’s greatest challenges. It’s a book about living with optimism and positivity, by a self-proclaimed Genetically Modified Organism.

A classic guide to tricks and tactics for winning arguments, with commentary on the use of and defense against each tactic. The best summary of this audiobook is "being right doesn’t mean you’re gonna win, and this is why". It’s the ultimate guide to spotting the many different kinds of bull people pull in order to win over the crowd, rather than argue the point at hand. There’s very few of them that don’t immediately bring examples to mind, and having it laid out clearly like this is the perfect armour to stop people derailing you.

Red Green is celebrated as one of the handiest men in North America. But as well as being a purveyor of inventive practical advice on, for example, making a jetpack from two propane tanks, Red Green is also noted for his insights into that most difficult of assembly jobs, human relationships. Set out in approximately chronological order, from teen dating to the last words of men ("You know, honey, in the last couple of years, you've really packed on the beef"), this is the testosterone owner's manual to every aspect of finding a mate and then learning to deal with her growing disappointment in you.

The fix is in, and the bodies are piling up. A dead actress, a dead gambler, and that’s for starters. With murder following his every step, determined underachiever Steele Hill is tangled in layers of intrigue and deviousness. Pulled from his 1980s cozy world of the racetrack, the rock-music pub, and his favorite band in the world, the Go-Betweens, everybody the wisecracking Hill meets is in danger.

When marijuana enthusiast Blue McKenna suffers an apocalyptic case of writer's block, reality TV seems like an easy way out. A conglomerate of kooky contestants invades the polygamist community of Navel, Utah, to compete in a TV reality show. Participants include Steven Finch, a lovable stoner who develops a conspiracy theory involving a rock band called the Rectal Surgeons, and Randall Smoot, a member of the Gay Mafia.

In Flatland, originally published in 1884, a humble square describes his two-dimensional world to benefit the inhabitants of Spaceland, the three-dimensional realm he discovers when he is visited by a being from beyond his plane. With dry wit and wild imagination, author Edwin Abbott Abbott builds a meticulous fantasy world rooted in an astute apprehension of psychology, politics, and social structures, as well as basic geometry. The story of Flatland, at once ridiculous and profound, delivers an incisive satire of social discourse that remains remarkably relevant today.

Within the Multiverse sits a fantastic magical realm. This is the world of Magus Elgar. When you’re traveling though the magical world of Hearth, magic is as dangerous as it is exciting. It’s important to have a great magus to guide your way. It’s a shame he’s as clueless as any of us. With luck, he might finally have a student that lives through the lessons.

Life can be overwhelming. Here is the fatherly guidance you need to pull through your toughest times.

In the eyes of Nadine, a polygamist and serial bride, nudging her husbands into heaven is a testament to love. Even Nancy Neptune, a notorious shock jock, is gobsmacked by Nadine's so-called “Celestial Send-Offs.” Things go to hell in a hurry when Nadine offs the wrong guy and is charged with assisted suicide. Meanwhile, Blue McKenna has problems of her own. A power outage has leveled Blue's medical marijuana dispensary. Scottie Sphincter, lead singer of a band called The Rectal Surgeons, is fingered as a suspect.

Dette er den sjuende historien i serien om Miss Susie med de magiske solbrillene. Miss Susie er den mest bedårende katten i hele universet. Det synes hun i hvert fall selv, selv om dem hun møter på sin vei, ikke alltid er enige. Faktisk synes de fleste at hun er spenna gæren. I denne historien forteller hun om den verste julaften i sitt liv hvor alt går galt. Hennes menneske har invitert gjester, og det er alle dem hun har blitt uvenner med i løpet av året. Til slutt blir Miss Susie nødt til å bruke all sin list for å få kastet dem ut av huset sitt.

A further collection of entertaining short stories to complete the author’s trilogy of world-wide adventures. His intriguing tales are spiced with lively encounters and astute observations, full of humor and wit. His fascinating historical facts are particularly enlightening, and will have you saying, "Really? I didn’t know that." Each story will leave you wanting more.

Is the town eccentric an evil genius or model citizen? Rumors about his past include adventures overseas, Interpol, money laundering, gun running, international terrorism, witnesses disappearing without a trace, artificial intelligence, publishing empire, private jets, luxury hotels, hot women, sex research, an underground complex hidden behind a mausoleum hand-carved into a limestone cliff, and weaponization of humor.

This is educational entertainment humor filled with real-life experiences. It is unconventional in nature. Topics such as dealing with Assholes in all walks of life, and what not to do with cantankerous people. Yet it deals with God, What Men and Women Really Want, Blog Movie Reviews, PTSD, Alcoholism, Why Losing in Short Run is Better in the Long Run, Teaching; How to Teach to Students Who Are Jacked, and Achieving Any Goal, if You Believe in God and Yourself.

Miss Susie er den mest bedårende katten i hele universet. Det synes hun i hvert fall selv, selv om dem hun møter, ikke alltid er helt enige. Faktisk synes de fleste at hun er spenna gæren. I denne historien forteller hun om en skrekkelig dag i sitt liv, da hun møtte Miss Maggie med den røde hatten. Det går så galt at de to til slutt ryker i tottene på hverandre.

The life of Poppy, a struggling actress, is turned upside down when she witnesses the burial of an urn in her yard. Poppy gets entangled with the “dead girl,” Dalia, a Latina health guru, whose mourners show up in the yard, and whose criminal antics, ranging from Miami to New York to L.A., sends her into a witness protection program.

A unique award-winning novel that combines side-splitting humor with the quest for enlightenment. Orthodontist Jacob Silverstein is not your typical tooth-straightener. He’s a novelist by night who dreams of becoming a best-selling author.

It's about a little dole bludging bogun loser from the Hawkesbury in Sydney Australia. As our story begins, he discovers he has two brothers whom he never knew he had, is heir to a multi-million dollar fortune and that the pheromone wipes in the new machine at the Imperial Hotel really do drive women wild. He gathers around him an unlikely retinue of odd characters, goes to Japan, is chased by the Yakuza and becomes part of a punk band called Ferret and the Pheromones.

After hitting rock bottom mentally via a road sign in Bedford, Danny Murdo bounces back and straight into the Serbian mafia, the Hungarian aristocracy, and an American film producer, amongst others, as he flounders through an Eastern Europe lurching worryingly to its right. He somehow solves crimes, aided by his heroic homosexual brother and hindered by his devoutly pious brother-in-law.

Banjo "Jo" Mitchell has a lot to drink about: he's 25, his boyfriend walked out, he's not paid the rent and Australia is voting on his right to marry. Overwhelmed by shame, every passing bus is a tempting opportunity for Jo to leave this life behind. The only thing stopping him is a last glimmer of hope that things may get better, but is a glimmer enough?

Le ton de l'ouvrage est vif, voire lapidaire, le style particulièrement cru et chatoyant. Pierre Louÿs use volontiers d'ironie pour évoquer les amours viles des jeunes filles perverses, et cette relative distanciation lui permet de faire fi de toute censure morale (inceste, pédophilie). De fait, on est loin du raffinement précieux des Chansons de Bilitis par exemple, et le Manuel de civilité est sans doute l'œuvre la plus subversive de Louÿs, véritable attaque en règle contre le puritanisme bourgeois de la Belle Époque.