Humour & Riddles Books

Most of these anecdotes are funny, but some are touching rather than humorousSome samples:1) When major-league baseball star Barry Bonds was still attending classes and playing games at Arizona State, he visited his grandfather for a while when he had...

This is a short, quick, and easy read.Samples:• Songwriter Steve Earle also occasionally acts. To prepare for a role as a recovering junkie in the HBO TV series The Wire, he allowed his hair to grow long and he didn't shave. The preparation worked well...

This is a short, quick, and easy read.Samo Sample Anecdotes:• In 1966, women were not allowed to run in the Boston Marathon. Fortunately, an "uppity" woman did not let that stop her. Roberta Gibb (Bingay) (a rather apt last name) traveled to Boston by...

This is a short, quick, and easy read.Most of these anecdotes are probably just OK (humor is hard!), but there should be at least one or two that you will want to tell your friends.Anecdotes are retold in my own words to avoid plagiarism.Most of these...

Mass Insanity explores the roles of immigration, diversity, ideologies, the far right, Islamism, and multiculturalism in shaping modern society. Unlike many works that advocate for progressive principles without addressing the fears and misconceptions...

É com muito gosto que venho publicar minha primeira obra individual: uma pequena antologia reunindo várias anotações que eu espontaneamente fiz ao lon

Seit wann fahren Vögel mit dem Zug?Braucht man zum Kochen von Eiern Eierkohle?Lieben Schwalben den Bordstein?Leben Wasserhähne im oder am Wasser?Wird Butter aus Butterblumen gemacht?Was macht ein Spitz mit einer Tafel?Eine Brücke nur für Esel?Sollte man...

Der kleine Rauhhaardackel Toni findet nach dem dritten Anlauf sein Für-Immer-Zuhause. Mit seiner neuen Menschenfrau hat Toni es nicht immer leicht. Das menschliche Verständnis in die Denkweise eines Dackels muss Toni seiner Menschenfrau erst noch...

Ob in großen Gruppen oder kleinen Gruppen oder auch einmal ganz alleine, ob mit Alt oder Jung - Lachyoga hebt die Stimmung im Handumdrehen und macht uns nicht nur zu gesünderen, sondern auch zu glücklicheren Menschen.Lachyoga, das beinhaltet intensive...

Zum Vortragen auf einem Fest, zum Vorlesen auf einer Familienfeier, einfach zum Verschenken oder für das eigene Lesevergnügen - ein besonderer Spaß ist dieses etwas andere Tagebuch garantiert.Es verrät in 600 lustigen - frei erfundenen - Einträgen und...

Nach ihren ersten beiden historischen Romanen „DER HEISTERKAMP" und „VERLASSENES OSTPREUSSEN" erscheint nun, wie sie selber sagt: „Etwas zum Schmunzeln für zwischendurch..."

Es gibt selten Menschen, die sich freiwillig mit der Bezeichnung Vollpfosten beschreiben würden. Wäre sich Rolihlahla Schneider-Hundeloh seiner Handlungen immer voll bewusst, stünde er wohl kurz davor, dass ihm dieses Wort zur Charakterisierung seiner...

♥ Surprise them ♥Get Yours Now - They are worth it! Surprise and melt their heart.This funny "engaged.af" engagement journal is a funny gift idea for engagements and weddings.It also makes...

♥ Surprise them ♥Get Yours Now - They are worth it! Surprise and melt their heart.This funny "single.af" ex journal is a funny gift idea for birthdays, wedding anniversaries, Valentine's...

"Tells of a Southern Boy: Precious Memories" is a sequel to Paul "Buster" Turner's first book, "Tells of a Southern Boy; A Life In Stories". It is exciting stories (memories) from his childhood, school years, professional career, and his senior years...

I spent most of the 70's living by definition as a part time student in the UK. I was more intoxicated by the 'school of life', rather than the tedious dedication to the university lecture hall. This preoccupation took me by way of Newcastle, via London,...

Children are precious, uniquely designed, and, at times, quite funny. Kids have a talent for telling it like it is. In Chicken Pops and Weasels, author Kitty Mears offers a collection of stories that schoolchildren said to her during her many years of...

Stuart Owen is a British author born in 1964 in Brighton, England. Despite being born with a significant facial deformity, Stuart has always had a passion for the performing arts, music, and comedy. He's been married twice, but not for romantic reasons -...

There's no getting around it: with every breath we take—we’re a couple of seconds older than we were before, and there's no going back. The last census showed nearly 60-million people in the United States are now older than 60. Face...

We live in the modern society where social media has become a global phenomenon and where individuals are continuously connected through mobile devices. A social media is any medium of communication that allows two-way interactive participation. It is a...

The Work from Work from Home Book of Cartoons is two books in one.  A hybrid book of humor for hybrid times.   A carefully curated collection of work cartoons with a strong resume, previously published in The New Yorker, The Wall Street...

“My experience hitchhiking proved to me that out in that big, bad world, when you don't have two nickels to rub together at times, when you become a shadow in the midst of a sea of humanity, when you understand that you are merely a speck of...

Ripped from the headlines, Meet the Deplorables: Infiltrating Trump America ventures deep into Red State territory and explores the current shape of our divided country, providing a fresh, first-hand perspective of right-wing subcultures and the mindsets...

Not everyone feels the need to point out ridiculous things when they see them, or make jokes about very serious things; but some of us do. This book is for us.Not everyone wakes up in the morning wondering who uttered the first word, how weather...

When you see a mascot, do you ever wonder … Is it hot in there? Is that a full time job? Belayed Gratification answers these questions and shares other wild and crazy stories from my journey in a career as a Professional Mascot for...

Tim Grobaty was promoted to columnist at his newspaper back when it was still a glamorous and coveted job. In I'm Dyin' Here: A Life in the Paper, the author means two things: He'll likely die at the job (unless he lives too long) that he's spent...

Be warned! The far-ranging notes and essays of Sweet Marjoram are addictive. Once I began reading, I couldn’t stop. I wanted more of Henry’s wit and wisdom, his dazzling, surprising juxtapositions. I wanted to see him keep making the familiar...

A funny thing happened on my way to growing older. I came into my White Chair Day. One enters into the White Chair Day zone only after an amusing and sometimes painful voyage through life’s milestones. When you look for and enjoy the humor as you...

Americans gesture a lot! Do you know what they mean? American Gestures illustrates more than 125 common gestures in close-up and in context, along with an explanation of how and when to use each gesture. Sections on obscene gestures and impolite...

"Is that a so tale?" the author's mother would ask when he repeated an anecdote or used a funny story. It was her way of asking if it were true. This collection of 200+ true stories using wit, wisdom, and humor reveals a Southern lad with English roots...

A Magical AutobiographyAbsence of Moves is a seventy-year life story, from birth to retirement and beyond. Ken writes affectionately about his childhood, family, and school days in the fifties and sixties. His struggle with shyness as a teenager is...

A collection of poems and rhymes inspired by a love of animals, of nature and the world in which we all live. This book- written in a humorous but also thought provoking way- aims to raise awareness to the frailty of life and the fragile balance that...

Back Cover, Seeee!These are common problemsI'm quite certain we all face,This oughtta cheer us up When we get stuck in our bad place.And if you wanna get to know me,As you'll see there are no Author's Notes,This book is full of my experiencesAnd...

George Jack presents a literary concoction that is as daring as it is delightful. The book is structured in two distinct parts yet is unmistakably unified by George's inventive wit.In the first half of the book, George transforms classic poetry into a...

Shakespeare in the Parking Lot is an anthology of the three plays author and screenwriter Peter Fenton developed during his undergraduate years at Wheaton College. It's a literary collection meant to be a fun night of three adventure comedy plays...

Still Angry Little Girls is the sequel to the best-selling Angry Little Girls! book. In this collection of delightfully simple comics with classic characters and bright colors, the Angry Little Girls are still chipping away at the stereotypes and...

A hilarious new collection of the worst poetry ever composed, by authors both eminent and obscure. Walt Whitman enigmatically wrote, "Did you fear some scrofula out of the unflagging pregnancy?" And Keats actually exclaimed, "I am wound up in deep...

<p>A comically illustrated book full of&nbsp;funny yet&nbsp;insensitive&nbsp;comments made by people who obviously don't agree that YOUR baby is a perfectly beautiful bundle of joy.&nbsp; Everyone has an opinion about babies,...

Boonetown is a small southern town with more limousines than taxis, more buggies than bicycles and more church signs than street signs. You'll meet the ladies who lunch and the men who drink morning coffee; the museum curator who keeps the dinosaur egg...

What do you do when the man of your dreams comes with two angry kids and a crazy ex-wife?Marie Aaron never meant to fall for a guy with two kids. And she certainly never meant to fall for a guy with two kids and a cruel, manipulative ex-wife-who sets out...

Pandemic Scrapbook is a collection of "Covid and Yossarian," a clever and engaging comic strip about the lives of an earnest virus and his quarantine roommate, Yossarian. Published toward the end of the 2020-2021 pandemic, the book offers readers a...

When Marianne walks down the gangway after her Caribbean cruise, she can't believe the stroke of luck that sends her right back to the MS Minerva, this time with a staff duty. As they set a course for the ancient Mayan world of Central America, Marianne...

Does the idea of exploring foreign cities on your own without a tour guide make you anxious? Do you worry about how you would manage a medical emergency on the other side of the world? Have you ever wondered what it's really like to travel around the...

From a chance encounter with ‘the dog with not one f*%k to give’, Jennifer Gunn began to think about how we react to stressful situations.With humor and candid honesty, Jennifer lays out some concise guidelines to help you decide what is...