Author: Bill Barich
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 163450948X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Bill Barich burst onto the literary scene more than twenty-five years ago with this remarkable account of racetrack life. Holed up in a cheap motel in Albany, California, only a few miles from Golden Gate Fields, he looked to the track to help him make sense of his life during a dark peiod of loss and challenge. With rare sensitivity, he captured the gritty world of the backstretch, and also its poetry, as few other writers have done. Laughing in the Hills, which was first serialized in the New Yorker, has become a classic of sporting literature and a must for anyone who loves horses and the world they create. “It is a lovely, valuable book, introspective without being self-servingly so, affectionate but never saccharine in its evocation of racetrack life, witty and perceptive throughout.” —Jonathan Yardley, Sports Illustrated Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. In addition to books on popular team sports, we also publish books for a wide variety of athletes and sports enthusiasts, including books on running, cycling, horseback riding, swimming, tennis, martial arts, golf, camping, hiking, aviation, boating, and so much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Author: Denis Johnson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374709238
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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Denis Johnson's New York Times bestseller, The Laughing Monsters, is a high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world that shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game. Roland Nair calls himself Scandinavian but travels on a U.S. passport. After ten years' absence, he returns to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to reunite with his friend Michael Adriko. They once made a lot of money here during the country's civil war, and, curious to see whether good luck will strike twice in the same place, Nair has allowed himself to be drawn back to a region he considers hopeless. Adriko is an African who styles himself a soldier of fortune and who claims to have served, at various times, the Ghanaian army, the Kuwaiti Emiri Guard, and the American Green Berets. He's probably broke now, but he remains, at thirty-six, as stirred by his own doubtful schemes as he was a decade ago. Although Nair believes some kind of money-making plan lies at the back of it all, Adriko's stated reason for inviting his friend to Freetown is for Nair to meet Adriko's fiancée, a grad student from Colorado named Davidia. Together the three set out to visit Adriko's clan in the Uganda-Congo borderland—but each of these travelers is keeping secrets from the others. Their journey through a land abandoned by the future leads Nair, Adriko, and Davidia to meet themselves not in a new light, but rather in a new darkness.
Author: Marlo Thomas
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 1401396178
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 319
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"Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny is a book that only Marlo Thomas could write -- a smart and gracious, witty and confident autobiographical journey. For as long as Marlo Thomas can remember, she's lived with laughter. Born to comedy royalty--TV and nightclub star Danny Thomas--she grew up among legendary funny men, carved much of her career in comedy and, to this day, surrounds herself with people who love and live to make others laugh. In this long-awaited memoir, Thomas takes us on a funny and heartwarming adventure, from her Beverly Hills childhood, to her groundbreaking creation of That Girl and Free to Be . . . You and Me, to her rise as one of America's most beloved actress-comediennes, to her marriage to talk-show king Phil Donahue. Her youth was star-studded--Milton Berle performed magic tricks (badly) at her backyard birthday parties. George Burns, Bob Hope, Sid Caesar, Bob Newhart and other great comics passed countless hours gathered around her family's dinner table. And behind it all was the rich laughter nurtured by a close and loving family. Growing Up Laughing is not just the story of an iconic entertainer, but also the story of comedy. In a voice that is curious, generous and often gleeful, Thomas not only opens the doors on the funny in her own life, but also explores the comic roots of today's most celebrated comedians, in personal interviews with: Alan Alda, Joy Behar, Stephen Colbert, Billy Crystal, Tina Fey, Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Griffin, Jay Leno, George Lopez, Elaine May, Conan O'Brien, Don Rickles, Joan Rivers, Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Stewart, Ben and Jerry Stiller, Lily Tomlin, Robin Williams and Steven Wright.
Author: Bill Mares
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781578690602
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Bill Mares & Don Hooper are at it again with a history, and a potpourri, of Vermont humor, stretching back over 100 years. While re-telling some stories from previous collections, "I Could Hardly Keep from Laughing" gathers together more than a dozen modern humorists. With brilliantly novel cartoons of Don Hooper, almost all entirely new!
Author: Ted Cunningham
Publisher: Focus on the Family
ISBN: 1684282128
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 223
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Be Intentional and Laugh Together to Enjoy a Happier, More Satisfying Marriage. Life can be a grind, but marriage can be a source of joy and refueling. When you intentionally look for the funny moments of life and enjoy them together, you’ll see that married life doesn’t have to be as hard as we sometimes make it out to be. In A Love That Laughs, you’ll learn that you don’t need to choose between work and play, duty and fun, laughter and responsibility. Use humor to lighten the load of everyday life, reduce stress, and grow closer together. Pastor and comedian Ted Cunningham will help you: Learn comedic skills, such as effectively using the “callback” as a laughter toolInitiate laughter by using two activities at the end of each chapterRate Your Laughter Score (and your spouse’s) by following the ten types of laughter explained in the book (hint: you can get points for a smirk)Tally all of your laughter points for a final laughter score A Love That Laughs may be your favorite marriage book that will help you enjoy your spouse more. It even includes a bonus chapter: “Extra Credit: Ten Fast, East, and Free Ways to Make Your Spouse Laugh.”
Author: L. Rust Hills
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9780879239695
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Obsessively-detailed, and very funny, instructions on nearly everything in life you are very possibly doing all wrong. Help is here! From how to eat an ice-cream cone to developing "principles" when you have none, the author's mission is to elevate, and ennoble, those fleeting instincts we all harbor to get our lives in order. "Hills is preoccupied primarily with the little things," Nora Ephron wrote in the New York Times"and he writes about them deliciously." This volume includes three titles previously published individually: How To Do Things Right, How to Retire at 41, and How to Be Good. They have been edited, revised and combined into one volume and the contents will have you laughing out loud, thinking hard, and at least temporarily rearranging your frazzled life. Hills is wise, witty, and very, very funny. But behind the humor, Hills remains a deeply sage and serious writer. This is his best advice, from years of experience, served up from the heart of one of the most charming humorists to grace the American scene.
Author: Lillian Beckwith
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 075510269X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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"When Lillian Beckwith advertised for a secluded place in the country, she received a letter with the following unusual description of an isolated Hebridean croft: 'Surely it's that quiet even the sheeps themselves on the hills is lonely and as to the sea it's that near as I use it myself everyday for the refusals...' Her curiosity aroused, Beckwith took up the invitation. This is the comic and enchanting story of the strange rest cure that followed and her efforts to adapt to a completely different way of life."--Back cover.
Author: Julia Keller
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250003482
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383
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Prosecuting attorney Bell Elkins and her estranged teenage daughter, Carla, try to protect their town and each other in the aftermath of a shocking triple murder committed by an unknown shooter whose identity is gradually realized by Carla.
Author: Elissa McKay
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780645034806
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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In March 2020, the state of Victoria entered what would become one of the world's longest lockdowns to date. As the capital city was abruptly struck silent, a daily news review began to appear every morning.Writing from the community in the heart of Melbourne's spectacular Dandenong Ranges, Elissa McKay's media reviews provided an insider's view of Australian politics, social insight and a little science. These are the wildly popular reviews which found readers all over the world and kept Hills families connected in lockdown.Poignant, powerful and relentlessly funny, Moments of Hysteria captures the journey of the Hills community through the chaos, loneliness and laughter that was 2020.
Author: Andrew Perry
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416537570
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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This guide is the official companion to "The Hills," MTV's popular spin-off of its hit reality drama "Laguna Beach."
