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Legs Talk: Let Your Legs do the Talking
Click Here To Purchase Legs Talk Author: D.E. Boone: ISBN-10: 0979745349ISBN-13: 978-0979745348 An Interesting and Playful Little BookLegs Talk is an interesting, hilarious and playful little book. I cannot stop smiling and laughing when I read the book. It tells the age-old story visually through a pair of legs: man notices beautiful legs and meets woman, flirting, dating, falling in love, breaking up and almost getting back together with an unexpected twist at the end. The...
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5-18-2008
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Emails from Hell (The Wrath of William Wyndell)
Author: David EarthmanISBN: 1-933538-45-7Publisher: Synergy BooksClick Here To Purchase This Book From Amazon David Earthman came up with a brilliant and amusing idea after receiving so many online advertisements - by replying to the senders giving them bizarre requests and comments. Many emails later David had enough stories to tell everyone and what better way of spreading his amusing online tales then through Emails from Hell, his newly published book.
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7-29-2007
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Headless Body in Topless Bar
Click Here To Purchase Headless Body in Topless Bar Author: The Staff of The New York PostISBN: 978-0-06-134071-0Publisher: HarperEntertainment
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6-2-2008
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Madonna of the Toast
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Madonna of the ToastAuthor: Buzz Poole ISBN 10: 0-9772827-7-5 ISBN 13: 978-09772827-7-7 Publisher: Mark Batty Publisher A cow whose spot looks like Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse? You have to laugh when you first hear this but the fac
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3-3-2008
Views: 2820
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Who Me Paranoid?
Click Here To Purchase This Book From Amazon Author: Erica StuxPublisher: Wheatmark ISBN-10: 1587366762 ISBN-13: 978-1587366765‘Who Me Paranoid?’ is presented as a series of humor laced essays. The Section designated as HOUSEHOLD HANG-UPS consists of ‘Who’s Really in Charge Here,’ and a hilarious accounting of new
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8-4-2007
Views: 3010
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Yes, You’re Pregnant, But What About Me?
Click Here To Purchase Yes, You’re Pregnant, But What About Me?Author: Kevin NealonISBN: 978-0-06-121520-9 This memoir has potty humor that women will enjoy. I don’t want to give anything away, so let’s just say that Kevin Nealon, celebrity comedian, shows us his vulnerable side as he recounts the time his girlfriend/future wife came to his aid in the bathroom. The result is a story that is hilarious and
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6-25-2008
Views: 2399
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101 HAIKU FOR MOMS
Author: Faith R. FoyilISBN: 1-59526-079-XThe following review was contributed by: Jennifer Brown : Click Here To View Jennifer Brown's Reviews“So he’s got a straw.It’s still not polite to say‘You suck’ to your friend” (p. 69)Faith R. Foyil is a woman of many talents. She can raise a family of turtles. She can write a mean humor essay. She can take care of sick children, make it to a play date, and start up an emergency generator all at the same time. And while she’s at it, why not write a...
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3-29-2006
Views: 5091
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A Foreign Education
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Author’s name: Craig Alan WilliamsonPublisher: Exposure PublishingISBN: 978-1-84685-694-5Craig Alan Williamson took a year studying in America, it was such an amusing and different experience to life in
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6-28-2007
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A Year with the Hoopers by James Hoby
Author James HobyHesitation PressISBN: 0-9729804-2-3There is, in our culture, a voyeuristic tendency that somehow compels us to constantly observe the lives of others. This is why people are always tying to spy on their neighbors. It is also why reality television is so successful and the country has an obsession with pop icons and celebrities.James Hoby’s second book, A Year with the Hoopers, parodies this phenomenon by providing us with a candid and unwitting glimpse into the lives of a...
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4-4-2007
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Admit It, You’re Crazy!Quirks, Idiosyncrasies, and Irrational Behavior
Author: Judy ReiserISBN: 0740751093 The following review was contributed by: Ernest Dempsey, pen name of Karim Khan. To read more of Karim's Review CLICK HERE Ever heard of someone who makes holes in her socks? A person who irons his newspaper? What about a cat who runs a treadmill? These and many other quirks are now available in one book to tickle your sane nerve. Author Judy Reiser brings to public notice the many quirks and idiosyncrasies of people in her recent book Admit It, You’re...
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8-15-2006
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Baminals ( All Creatures Big and Boggin’)
Click Here To Purchase Baminals Author: Scott SimpsonPublisher: lack and White publishing ISBN: 978184502185-6 Baminals by bestselling author Scott Simpson, is a right laug
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9-4-2008
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Breakfast at Noon
Author: C.R. YeagerISBN: 9-780977-066209You Can Purchase This Book From Amazon Mr. Yeager grew up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio – with a British mother and American father. And, he is dyslexic. Yeager explains that people with dyslexia as those “whose brains were wired by non-union electricians, resulting is us doing things in reverse, getting lost in intersections, feeling like a cat on a screen door when called on in class.” The author claims that there is a tendency to think the...
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7-24-2007
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Breakfast at Noon: Backwards in the ‘Burbs
Author: C.R. YeagerIllustrator: Thom Zahler Publisher: Raku PublishingISBN: 0-9770662-0-7C. R. Yeager, an author who survived the Cuyahoga River fire, has written this amusing book, drawn partly from his own experiences. This is a man who is often to be found driving on the wrong side of the road due to suffering from dyslexia. He lives with his wife Marsha and daughter Anna, where he can often be found glued to televised soccer games and consuming ethnic food. Breakfast at
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6-18-2007
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Build To Laugh: How to Construct Sketch Comedy with the Fast and Funny Formula
Author: Cherie KerrISBN: 0-9648882-2-X“So George Washington is Standing there in the Boat and He says…” Build to Laugh: How to Construct Sketch Comedy with the Fast and Funny Formula is no recent release. Still in print and readily available, the book has already encouraged a decade of emerging comedy writers to think about their material in deeper ways. The long shelf life came from its clarity and its playful explanations. It actually helps writers learn to be funny. My own reasons for...
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3-26-2007
Views: 6299
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CRACKED AT BIRTH: One Madcap Mom’s Thoughts on Motherhood, Marriage, & Burnt Meatloaf
Author: Kathryn S. MahoneyPublisher: Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing, Inc.ISBN: 1-932279-19-9The following review was contributed by: Jennifer Brown & Click Here To View Jennifer Brown's ReviewsSome lives were just made to be made fun of. Some lives are so wacky, so silly, so undeniably cracked up, you just can’t help but chuckle. Kathryn S. Mahoney is living one of those lives.Kathryn Mahoney, who thinks she was CRACKED AT BIRTH, takes time to sit back and good naturedly marvel at the...
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9-14-2005
Views: 6628
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E-Mails From Hell
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Emails From Hell Author: David EarthmanIBSN: 1-933538-45-7The Internet is our day’s most precious technological gift, both for communication and for wasting our precious time. David Earthman’s latest humor book E-Mails From Hell (Synergy Book, Texas, 2007) takes up the latter aspect of online communication via e-mail. Through a series of biting e-mails and their replies, Earthman’s book makes a light-hearted spoof on the abuse of Internet correspondence for...
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10-19-2007
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Forward O Peasant
Click Here To Purchase Forward O Peasant Author: MacLean J StorerISBN-10: 0980514908 ISBN-13: 978-0980514902 Having person
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8-14-2008
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Funny Business: How to Make You Laugh on the Job Every Day
Author: Cherie Kerr:Jim Doody, Illust. ISBN: 9780976597018You’ve Tried ‘Excellence?’ Now try ExuberanceCherie Kerr teaches professionals how to “lighten up.” But for those of us unable to attend a seminar, Funny Business, summarizes her approach to maintaining peace of mind by offsetting daily and unavoidable stress with good doses of healthy laughter. A more elegant phrasing is--in the author’s words-- “For every down experience on the job, we need an up one to achieve balance.” And Kerr...
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1-4-2007
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Glasgow Urban Myths
Click Here To Purchase Glasgow Urban Myths Author: Ian BlackPublisher: Black and White publishingISBN: 1-84502-127-4I started this excellent book and found it hard to put it down between fits of laughter. Glasgow Urban Myths is probably just that - a load of myths that were dreamt up and “told to a friend of a friend of an enemy of a friend of a friend.” Nevertheless, it certainly doesn’t spoil my pleasure in reading the stories. Some are far-fetched but if these are only myths, and there...
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8-15-2008
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Help! My Face Has Fallen And It Can’t Get Up!
Click Here To Purchase Help! My Face Has Fallen And It Can’t Get up! Author: Carole BlakeISBN 1-4196-2845-3 “Carole Blake has been a song lyrist for over 30 years. Several of her songs – from Disco to Country to Children’s Songs – have been recorded and released on various record labels. Sh
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6-13-2008
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How To Be A Creative Genius (in five minutes or less)
Author: Gary UngerISBN: 0-9795676-2-9Publisher: Sherian Publishing “Genius Fun” Don’t skip the introduction to this little book or you will likely miss the perspective you’ll need to appreciate it. The unusual format of bullet lists, no more than three or four per page, and a couple of short summary paragraphs scattered throughout each chapter, make for quick reading and easy remembering. Unger takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to stating the obvious; at least what is obvious to geniuses. He...
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1-29-2008
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IN THE BEGINNING…THERE WERE NO DIAPERS
Author: Tim BetePublisher: Sorin BooksISBN: 1-893732-87-8 The following review was contributed by: Jennifer Brown & Click Here To View Jennifer Brown's Reviews
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7-17-2005
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LIVING WITH BIG DOGS
Click Here To Purchase Living With Big Dogs Author: Louise FritzPublisher:Vantage Press, Inc.ISBN: 978-0-533-15690-0
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9-9-2008
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Look What I Found Underneath The Bed
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Look What I Found Under The Bed Author: K. DavidPublisher: BookSurge ISBN: 978-1-4196-7169-2 K. David has worked in the removal business for fifteen years. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Massachusetts. Currently David lives in Boston, Massachusetts. This book is everything city lovers will lap up. It is full of wit, humour, lots of laughs and reminders that you should never give up.
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10-19-2007
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Look What I Found Underneath the Bed
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Look What I Found Under The BedAuthor: Kamaul DavidISBN: 978-1-4196-7169-2Work-life Memoir Is Candid And HumorousKamaul David, crew chief for a Boston-area moving company, can boast of accomplishments that include earning a degree from the University of Massachusetts; buying a house and paying off his student loans by the age of twenty-seven; and running the Boston marathon in three hours, twenty-one minutes. His newest accomplishment, an anecdotal work-life...
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11-8-2007
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Mama Peavy says,” Women, It’s OK to Marry an Ugly Man.”
Author: Mary R, ButlerISBN: 978-0-9636963-7-3You Can Purchase This Book From Amazon This is book one of six in the Mama Peavy series and is light humor about marriage. Mama Peavy claims she is now called “Pastor Mama Peavy,” since establishing a “church for single women only,” and it’s called “The Tabernacle of Sorrow.” The mission of the new church is to get as many women married off as possible and she sells “Triple M” spray – it will have money falling out of the trees, cures your fever...
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7-23-2007
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Miscellaneous Philosophy
Author: Stefan Koski Publisher: Hats Off Books (February 28, 2005) ISBN: 1587364115 Category: HumorThe following review was contributed by: Jennifer Murray I find it rather fascinating how memory works - how a smell or a comment will quickly transport you back to a particular moment in time. While traveling through a day in the life of [at the time] high school sophomore Stefan Koski, I found myself remembering things from my double digit years ago time in high school. The intense...
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4-5-2005
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Pacifist Chicken And Other Largely Humorous Stories of small Hopes
Author: Andrea KampicISBN: 0976790939 Andrea Kampic has extended the title of her debutant book of humor Pacifist Chicken (Blue Agave Press, California, 2006) to specify that the stories are largely humorous but also include pieces that fall into the genre of monologues bordering on the line of cynicism. This book by Andrea Kampic is an enjoyable addition to humorous-satirical literature of our time on account of the many individual oddities and collective madness that we are all living with....
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10-22-2006
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Pretzel on Prozac - the Story of an Immigrant Dog
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Pretzel on Prozac - the Story of an Immigrant DogAuthor: Ellen PalestrantPublisher: Elusive PressISBN: 9781587368417Pretzel is a pet dog of the author and when she immigrates to USA from South Africa, it also goes along. Unlike the other pet dog, Pretzel doesn't adjust well and later when the author's house is being remodelled, all the noises made by men and machines add to Pretzel's problems and it develops depression, anxiety etc. The vet puts Pretzel on...
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2-8-2008
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Real Men Don't Apologize
Author: Jim Belushi ISBN: 1-4013-0182-7The following review was contributed by: Sue Vogan: To read more of Sue's reviews Click HereJim Belushi is a celebrity name that most everyone is familiar with. He has starred in movies, television shows, performed on stage, and is the voice of animated characters. Born in Chicago, June 15, 1954, it is no wonder Mr. Belushi's current project, "Ac
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8-17-2006
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Scars of the Square Needle
|Author: Pierre R. Beaumier ISBN: 1-59800-002-0The following review was contributed by: Ernest Dempsey, pen name of Karim Khan: To read more of Karim's Reviews CLICK HEREDick Boucher is a Franco-American who gets himself caught in an alienating Navy venture as he tries to save himself being drafted for the army against Vietnam. What follows is enigmatic, humorous, satirical, and adventurous in Pierre R. Beaumier’s ‘Scars of the Square Needle' (Outskirts Press, Denver, 2005). Beaumier’s...
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4-2-2006
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Scotland vs. England
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Scotland vs.England Author: Ian BlackPublisher: Black & White PublishingISBN: 978-1-84502-147-4Ian Black who is the best-selling author behind Edinbuggers vs Weegies, Mair Edinbuggers vs Merr Weegies and Mancs vs Scousers, has published his latest edition, Scotland vs England. A book that has you laughing-out-loud at all the jibes and rants packed within.It is well known that the Scots are renowned for their independence, wishing to be looked upon as a...
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10-31-2007
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Slouching Toward Zion and More Lies
Author: Robert FlynnPublisher: University of North Texas PressISBN 1-57441-183-7 The following review was contributed by: SHELDON (SHELLY) WAXMAN
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1-8-2005
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Star Von Bunny (A Model Tale)
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Star Von Bunny (A Model Tale)Author: Kym Canter (illustration by Ellen Kahn)Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 978-0-06-134997-3 Do you wish to be famous or perhaps live the dream through someone else? Then this little book is the one for you. We follow a stuffed bunny, Star Von Bunny to be exact, as she embarks on a journey to stardom. From finding the right agent through to meeting the stars (Beyonce, Nina Garcia etc) Von Bunny lives the dream. She eats a...
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12-7-2007
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SUNNY DAZE: The Humorous Misadventures of a Tropical Island Mom
Author: Faith R. Foyil ISBN: 1-59526-150-8The following review was contributed by: Jennifer Brown : Click Here To View Jennifer Brown's ReviewsAaah, what could be better than life in Paradise? The warm, sunny beaches, the tropical island sun, the laid back island attitude…the…the…The constant power outages? The sparse grocery selections? The gecko infestations? What happened to Paradise?Faith R. Foyil can tell you all about it and does in her hilarious new book, SUNNY DAZE. Foyil’s...
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3-29-2006
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The Best Of Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Just Shit
Click Here To Purchase Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit Authors: Steve Lowe and Alan McArthur Publisher: SphereISBN: 978-0-7515-4174-8 Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit? I can safely say no, it is not just you everything really is, ahem, shit. Here is an A-Z book containing the very best of the Is It Just Me or Is Everything Sh
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9-20-2008
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The Developers
Author: Ben WoodsISBN: 0976432285Genre: fiction/humourThe following review was contributed by: John Walsh: CLICK TO VIEW John Walsh's ReviewsIn the small Michigan town of Malorett, where winter and snow seem perpetualphenomena, a group of five young people work together as an internet technologycompany known as The Developers. In a world of sexual tension, low-brow popularculture and seemingly endless junk food, the developers work on their firstproduct, deal with the implications of its...
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1-13-2006
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The Door Whore (Confessions of a Restaurant Diva)
Click Here To Purchase The Door Whore: Confessions of a Restaurant Diva Author: Fern Esposito ISBN 10: 0-9799843-0-0ISBN 13: 978-0-9799843-0-3 Publisher: Little Print Press
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6-7-2008
Views: 5915
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