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  The Best Of Yesteryear - Classic...

  Wasim Shah

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  Welcome to "The Best of Yesteryear: Classic Jokes for Today's Laughs", an audible journey through the timeless humour that has kept generations chuckling. This book celebrates the adage that "the old ones are the good ones," bringing vintage wit and age-old punchlines to the forefront of today's entertainment. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the laughter that has transcended time.

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  The Family Radio

  Garrison Keillor

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  A sampler of crowd-pleasers from A Prairie Home Companion: four "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues, "commercials" for Bertha's Kitty Boutique and the Fearmonger's Shoppe, and great  music.  All selections are from original live radio broadcasts.Contents:World Theater, Here We Come!Powdermilk BiscuitsThe Family RadioBertha's Kitty BoutiqueLifestyle WaltzFearmonger's ShoppeAs We Get OlderJason's SongDave's HarmonicaPorch SongNews from Lake WobegonBallad of The Autoharp ManOrigins of Lake WobegonMeatballsNews from Lake WobegonThe Song of the Exiles (The Lake Wobegon Anthem)News from Lake WobegonWhy Must the Show Go On?Hotel MinnesotaO Father Dear Why Did You Roam?ObedienceThe Whippets RagNews from Lake WobegonAjua!

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  Uncle John's Bathroom Reader:...

  Institute Bathroom Readers'

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  For 25 years, there’s always been a home in Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader for those times in life you wish you could take back--“oops” moments, embarrassing accidents, spectacular failures. Because we never get tired of reading about unfortunate accidents (as long as they’re happening to someone else), here is a whole book of “the best of the worst,” the troubling and funny stories of things got terribly awry. Read all about:* The little math error that took down a spaceship.* A sexy stimulant that led to a man’s multiple amputations.* The politician who lost by one vote . . . because he was out campaigning and forgot to vote.* The couple that won millions in the lottery . . . and lost the ticket.

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  The Conditions of Unconditional...

  Alexander McCall Smith

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  Everyone’s favorite moral philosopher and amateur sleuth, Isabel Dalhousie, is  
  back and once again finds herself facing a number of tricky situations and  
  philosophical questions, both public and private. 
  Isabel’s life has fallen into a comfortable and tidy rhythm. Well, as tidy as things  
  can be with two small boys wreaking havoc around the house. But when her  
  husband, Jamie, invites a woman named Dawn—recently embroiled in a  
  contentious affair with a member of Jamie’s orchestra—to stay with them, things  
  begin to go awry. Strange noises can be heard from the upper floor, even when  
  Dawn is supposedly at work, and the couple wonders whether something more  
  nefarious may be afoot. 
  If that weren’t enough, Professor Robert Lettuce is staging an academic  
  conference and has asked Isabel to publish the conference papers in a special  
  issue of the Review of Applied Ethics. But something is definitely suspect about  
  the funding, and it will be up to Isabel to sort it out. As the truth comes to light,  
  Isabel must once more rely on her kindness, powers of deduction and  
  philosophical expertise to navigate these sensitive matters.

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  The Abstinence Teacher - A Novel

  Tom Perrotta

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  “A sad-funny-touching story that looks at the frustrations and perils of life in suburbia through darkly-tinted, not rose-colored, glasses.” —The New York Times 
   
  The Abstinence Teacher illuminates the powerful emotions that run beneath the placid surface of modern American family life, and explores the complicated spiritual and sexual lives of ordinary people. It is elegantly and simply written, characterized by the distinctive mix of satire and compassion that has become Tom Perrotta’s trademark. 
   
  Stonewood Heights is the perfect place to raise children: it’s got good schools, solid values and a healthy real estate market. Parents in the town are involved in their children’s lives, and often in other children’s lives, too—coaching sports, driving carpool, focusing on enriching experiences. Ruth Ramsey is the high school human sexuality teacher whose openness is not appreciated by all her students—or their parents. Her daughter’s soccer coach is Tim Mason, a former stoner and rocker whose response to hitting rock bottom was to reach out and be saved. Tim’s introduction of Christianity on the playing field horrifies Ruth, while his evangelical church sees a useful target in the loose-lipped sex ed teacher. But when these two adversaries in a small-town culture war actually talk to each other, a surprising friendship begins to develop. 
   
  “With abstinence programs and disputes over what can be taught in schools regularly making the front page, The Abstinence Teacher hits on prominent social fault lines.” —People (four stars) 
   
  “A soul-searching comedy.” —USA Today 
   
  “A mischievous bard of the ‘burbs for the twenty-first century . . . Perrotta is an acute observer of social mores among the affluent middle class.” —Entertainment Weekly

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  Food of the Gods and How It Came...

  H. G. Wells

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  Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood have invented a substance that causes living things to grow - and grow - and grow!  As their experiments progress, the substance quickly gets out of control and the fun begins as insects and plants receive the benefit of the Food of the Gods.  Surely nobody would dream of feeding such a thing to a human child… would they?In this little-known science fiction satire, Wells takes potshots at every member of society: scientists, ministers, charitable heiresses, revolutionaries, and everyone in between.  Yet in the end, Wells shows his faith both in humanity and its never-ceasing progress. - Summary by Catharine Eastman

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