Humour collections and anthologies Books

Welcome to the Fox household, where siblings, parents, and a recalcitrant iguana are engaged in an ongoing duel of wit and wits. In the world of FoxTrot, no-holds-barred competition and tenuously touching alliances between Peter, Paige, and Jason engage...

"Crankshaft has touched on a raft of senior concerns with humor and often poignancy, including illness, mortality, making out a will, literacy, physical deterioration, vulnerability, security, and, recently, muggings and Alzheimer's disease." -The...

Why do some jokes evaporate after the telling while others are transmitted to subsequent generations? Just what property of humor allows it to touch diverse members of a culture at a given time? As a penetrating and refracting angle of history, humor...

This book is a humorous collection of anecdotes, poems, wills, epitaphs, and other miscellany from genealogy. A quote of just one item will convince you that you should have this entertaining work-- "Old genealogists never die/They just lose their census...

The metaphysical outrage and indignation contained within these verses, for the most part formal yet seething with fury, has its only parallel in Wilfred Owen's terrible indictments of the first Great War.There is a significant difference, however. The...

250 Recent (And Overly Decent?) Limericks is an evidently protracted attempt. The attempt is toward something like formal excellence. The form-in-question is (let's say) valid English, whereas the limerick form remains merely adventitious.Here beneath...

Real Owls Don't Bark is a charming, quirky, and sometimes deeply moving collection of true stories that will convince anyone that who we are and what matters is often shaped by the most ordinary people and events we encounter in our daily lives.Drawn...

Move over Bill O'Reilly! Watch out Rush! Run for the hills Michael Moore! America has a new loudmouth and his name is Kevin Craig. Letters From an All-American Loudmouth is a collection of hilarious, many times controversial, and occasionally inspiring...

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...

In her writing of Poetically Speaking--100 or So Poems, Irene Senior-Pomeroy addresses the whimseys, misadventures and triumphs of all age groups. She criss-crosses humor with pathos in ballads, sonnets, haikus and a wide variety of other poetic forms...

Ever have one of those days? Like the kind where you find yourself selling garbage or hiking in the middle of someone's backyard? Well, Victoria Schmitz has had plenty. Call it a young heart or sheer stupidity, but it is obvious that she has had her...

Have you met people that just do funny things without even trying? For some folks, simple, everyday events create opportunities for comedy. In Karen Shulman's case, the funniest stories she has encountered have involved her mother, grandmother, and even...

Here's aviation humor with a twist of fun! Sift through a flight attendant's logbook. Discover what really goes on in the cockpit of a major airline. Learn the real differences between male and female pilots. Enjoy an aviation fashion show featuring...

Greg Dorchak's family moved to upstate New York in 1965 when he was just a baby. For the next 13 years his playground was the High Peaks Region of the Adirondack Park, 6 million acres of lakes, trees, mountains and colorful people.Though he has been gone...

These "Odes to the Messiest, Wackiest, & Wildest Presidential Transition in Modern History" capture the faces, events, and overall absurdity of the period following the 2020 US election. Notwithstanding the humor and playful illustrations, they...

CruisingHumourTravelA complete and funny guide to cruising. This is a book packed with tips and filled with short, funny cruising stories that are intended to make the reader laugh and to specifically give them helpful information on booking and taking a...

Naugle provides an amusing tale of passion, adventure and misadventure in Obits and Pieces of My Life: A Saga of Family, Friends and Basketball. He relates his baby-boomer experiences growing up in a middle-class, blue-collar family in Hagerstown,...

We all know Earth is in space, and we all somehow live with the knowledge every day. We also know a bunch of other things that are simply part of living on this planet, out here in space. Some of those thoughts can be a little terrifying, and it can...

<p>Our West Berlin! The beloved urban island where bars and pubs were open all night so the locals could plot the revolution! Where beer was cheap and sausage on a roll was considered dinner. Where the tenements still bore bullet holes from World...

A book to deal with the highs and lows of success and failure through the romantic depths of love - to both encourage and inspire lovers. This unique compilation of poem and verse, interrupted with a bite-sized love story, is breathtakingly current. No...

Imagine... your friend's messy boundaries as a blender with the lid offyour heart like an overstuffed closetyour attention like a puppy on a leash.Metaphors have the power to capture the complexity of our human experience and distill it down to...

The Poet is a daily comic strip about celebrating the little things and has been described as being like PEANUTS, but if Linus was an old man and Woodstock had an attitude. This is the first full-color collection of The Poet comic strips, and follows its...

From gifts to greatness. This story is a tale of a  caterpillar in search to find her own uniqueness. Her curiosity leads her on a journey to explore how she is gifted. As she compares her gifts to how others are naturally gifted she feels she...

本書集結旅美華裔女作家余國英女士發表的三十九篇散文，中英雙語對照；其中《我們的小妹夫》也在2020年"天津好家風小說─成人組競賽"得獎，另二篇英譯作品《The first prize winner》與《One Red Flower among Ten Thousands Green Leaves》也已經蒐錄於"2020-2021 English Short Story Conference Anthology"。...

What do you get when you mix hilarious faith cartoons with sweet but profound devotions? You not only get a belly laugh for the day but your soul will be revived! It’s the spiritual equivalent of bringing peanut butter and chocolate together for...

John and Martha, in their seventies and about to celebrate their fiftieth anniversary, find themselves in a state-mandated COVID-19 lockdown, requiring them to be together 24/7. John chronicles this adventure through the lens of observational humor. As...

Growing up on a farm can be a special experience. It can be hard at times because parents expect kids to start helping at an early age. But, it also can be a great playground, a place of adventure and space to wander.I wrote this collection of stories as...

This collection of true life stories loaded with life lessons is guaranteed to make you laugh and laugh ... and then learn. The book should not be read by anyone allergic to laughter. But whether you laugh or not, it will stir something in you.Chris...

If you want to please a dog lover, give them this book.If you want to piss off a cat lover, give them this book.Dogs vs. Cats: Which Pet Is Superior?This is the first book to reveal the truth about cats: They are not-very-bright, difficult-to-train,...

Take a ride with Rick Reale down Nostalgia Lane through the forties, fifties and sixties when cars were cars, kids were kids and when the two got together, there was always an adventure. In 1963, unable to sell his '55 Buick for the then exorbitant price...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. ...

Title: Traits of American humour.<br /><br />Author: Thomas Chandler Haliburton<br /><br />Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana <br /><br />Description: <br /><br />Based on Joseph Sabin's famed...

Title: Traits of American humour.<br /><br />Author: Thomas Chandler Haliburton<br /><br />Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana <br /><br />Description: <br /><br />Based on Joseph Sabin's...

Greater peace of mind is attainable by accepting the things that cannot be changed.Treat others with kindness, compassion, and respect. Focus on living a virtuous life to gain a greater sense of purpose and meaning in life.

In this book, Helen Potter uses her years of experience in the entertainment industry to provide readers with a hilarious send-up of popular celebrities of her time. Through clever impersonations and use of comic timing, Potter takes the reader on a...

Ce livre satirique explore la place des chats dans la société égyptienne ancienne, en mettant l'accent sur les privilèges spéciaux dont ils ont joui. Il est écrit dans un style humoristique et est un must pour tous les amoureux des chats et de l'Egypte...

You are invited to Tinley Luby's vacation from her parents. Join her in a vacation of a lifetime. You can even go on your own vacation. See if Frost the dog joins her on her adventure. Come along and see what Tinley Luby is doing today.

Entertaining, thought-provoking, hilariously funny, and deftly serious … More Australian bush poetry at its best!This volume is a second helping of comical antics and outrageous yarns — as told by the infamous Dinkumous J. Dodger, a...

Providing both theory and praxis, this insightful and creative textbook explains how to write humor, comedy, satire, parody, nonsense, and both the literary and the joke monologue.  Through its close analyses of short stories, sketches, essays, and...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...