Author: T. M. Wright
Publisher: Leisure Books
ISBN: 9780843950847
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
New York City detective Jack Erhmun has his own peculiar ways of solving homicides--ways which can frighten his colleagues. Assigned to a series of gruesome murders, Jack delves into facts that make it seem no human killer can be involved. He soon becomes more and more erratic. Is it the case that affects him, or is it something no one dares to consider? Original.
Laughing Man
Author: T. M. Wright
Publisher: Leisure Books
ISBN: 9780843950847
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
New York City detective Jack Erhmun has his own peculiar ways of solving homicides--ways which can frighten his colleagues. Assigned to a series of gruesome murders, Jack delves into facts that make it seem no human killer can be involved. He soon becomes more and more erratic. Is it the case that affects him, or is it something no one dares to consider? Original.
Publisher: Leisure Books
ISBN: 9780843950847
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
New York City detective Jack Erhmun has his own peculiar ways of solving homicides--ways which can frighten his colleagues. Assigned to a series of gruesome murders, Jack delves into facts that make it seem no human killer can be involved. He soon becomes more and more erratic. Is it the case that affects him, or is it something no one dares to consider? Original.
The Man Who Laughs
Author: Victor Hugo
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775452786
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 821
Book Description
Moving away from the explicitly political content of his previous novels, Victor Hugo turns to social commentary in The Man Who Laughs, an 1869 work that was made into a popular film in the 1920s. The plot deals with a band of miscreants who deliberately deform children to make them more effective beggars, as well as the long-lasting emotional and social damage that this abhorrent practice inflicts upon its victims.
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775452786
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 821
Book Description
Moving away from the explicitly political content of his previous novels, Victor Hugo turns to social commentary in The Man Who Laughs, an 1869 work that was made into a popular film in the 1920s. The plot deals with a band of miscreants who deliberately deform children to make them more effective beggars, as well as the long-lasting emotional and social damage that this abhorrent practice inflicts upon its victims.
Ghost in the Shell
Author:
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1682334503
Category : Science fiction comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1682334503
Category : Science fiction comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The laughing man
Author: Victor Hugo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Laughing Man of Woodmont Coves
Author: Tom T. Hall
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Country singer and songwriter Tom T. Hall turned to fiction in this novel (first published in 1982) about the absurdities of everyday life in the small, bend-in-the-river community of Woodmont Coves. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Country singer and songwriter Tom T. Hall turned to fiction in this novel (first published in 1982) about the absurdities of everyday life in the small, bend-in-the-river community of Woodmont Coves. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh
Author: Helen Rutter
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338652281
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
When life is funny, make some jokes about it. Billy Plimpton has a big dream: to become a famous comedian when he grows up. He already knows a lot of jokes, but thinks he has one big problem standing in his way: his stutter. At first, Billy thinks the best way to deal with this is to . . . never say a word. That way, the kids in his new school won’t hear him stammer. But soon he finds out this is NOT the best way to deal with things. (For one thing, it’s very hard to tell a joke without getting a word out.) As Billy makes his way toward the spotlight, a lot of funny things (and some less funny things) happen to him. In the end, the whole school will know -- If you think you can hold Billy Plimpton back, be warned: The joke will soon be on you!
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338652281
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
When life is funny, make some jokes about it. Billy Plimpton has a big dream: to become a famous comedian when he grows up. He already knows a lot of jokes, but thinks he has one big problem standing in his way: his stutter. At first, Billy thinks the best way to deal with this is to . . . never say a word. That way, the kids in his new school won’t hear him stammer. But soon he finds out this is NOT the best way to deal with things. (For one thing, it’s very hard to tell a joke without getting a word out.) As Billy makes his way toward the spotlight, a lot of funny things (and some less funny things) happen to him. In the end, the whole school will know -- If you think you can hold Billy Plimpton back, be warned: The joke will soon be on you!
Freedom Summer
Author: Bruce Watson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101190183
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
A riveting account of one of the most remarkable episodes in American history. In his critically acclaimed history Freedom Summer, award- winning author Bruce Watson presents powerful testimony about a crucial episode in the American civil rights movement. During the sweltering summer of 1964, more than seven hundred American college students descended upon segregated, reactionary Mississippi to register black voters and educate black children. On the night of their arrival, the worst fears of a race-torn nation were realized when three young men disappeared, thought to have been murdered by the Ku Klux Klan. Taking readers into the heart of these remarkable months, Freedom Summer shines new light on a critical moment of nascent change in America. "Recreates the texture of that terrible yet rewarding summer with impressive verisimilitude." -Washington Post
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101190183
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
A riveting account of one of the most remarkable episodes in American history. In his critically acclaimed history Freedom Summer, award- winning author Bruce Watson presents powerful testimony about a crucial episode in the American civil rights movement. During the sweltering summer of 1964, more than seven hundred American college students descended upon segregated, reactionary Mississippi to register black voters and educate black children. On the night of their arrival, the worst fears of a race-torn nation were realized when three young men disappeared, thought to have been murdered by the Ku Klux Klan. Taking readers into the heart of these remarkable months, Freedom Summer shines new light on a critical moment of nascent change in America. "Recreates the texture of that terrible yet rewarding summer with impressive verisimilitude." -Washington Post
No Laughing Matter
Author: Joseph Heller
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743272617
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
An uproarious and frank memoir of illness and recovery, No Laughing Matter is a story of friendship and recuperation from the author of the classic Catch-22. It all began one typical day in the life of Joe Heller. He was jogging four miles at a clip these days, working on his novel God Knows, coping with the complications of an unpleasant divorce, and pigging out once or twice a week on Chinese food with cronies like Mel Brooks, Mario Puzo, and his buddy of more than twenty years, Speed Vogel. He was feeling perfectly fine that day—but within twenty-four hours he would be in intensive care at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. He would remain hospitalized for nearly six months and leave in a wheelchair. Joseph Heller had Guillain-Barré syndrome, a debilitating, sometimes fatal condition that can leave its victims paralyzed from head to toe. The clan gathered immediately. Speed—sometime artist, sometime businessman, sometime herring taster, and now a coauthor—moved into Joe's apartment as messenger, servant, and shaman. Mel Brooks, arch-hypochondriac of the Western world, knew as much about Heller's condition as the doctors. Mario Puzo, author of the preeminent gangster novel of our time, proved to be the most reluctant man ever to be dragged along on a hospital visit. These and lots of others rallied around the sickbed in a show of loyalty and friendship that not only built a wild and spirited camaraderie but helped bring Joe Heller, writer and buddy extraordinaire, through his greatest crisis. This book is an inspiring, hilarious memoir of a calamitous illness and the rocky road to recuperation—as only the author of Catch-22 and the friend who helped him back to health could tell it. No Laughing Matter is as wacky, terrifying, and greathearted as any fiction Joseph Heller ever wrote.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743272617
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
An uproarious and frank memoir of illness and recovery, No Laughing Matter is a story of friendship and recuperation from the author of the classic Catch-22. It all began one typical day in the life of Joe Heller. He was jogging four miles at a clip these days, working on his novel God Knows, coping with the complications of an unpleasant divorce, and pigging out once or twice a week on Chinese food with cronies like Mel Brooks, Mario Puzo, and his buddy of more than twenty years, Speed Vogel. He was feeling perfectly fine that day—but within twenty-four hours he would be in intensive care at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. He would remain hospitalized for nearly six months and leave in a wheelchair. Joseph Heller had Guillain-Barré syndrome, a debilitating, sometimes fatal condition that can leave its victims paralyzed from head to toe. The clan gathered immediately. Speed—sometime artist, sometime businessman, sometime herring taster, and now a coauthor—moved into Joe's apartment as messenger, servant, and shaman. Mel Brooks, arch-hypochondriac of the Western world, knew as much about Heller's condition as the doctors. Mario Puzo, author of the preeminent gangster novel of our time, proved to be the most reluctant man ever to be dragged along on a hospital visit. These and lots of others rallied around the sickbed in a show of loyalty and friendship that not only built a wild and spirited camaraderie but helped bring Joe Heller, writer and buddy extraordinaire, through his greatest crisis. This book is an inspiring, hilarious memoir of a calamitous illness and the rocky road to recuperation—as only the author of Catch-22 and the friend who helped him back to health could tell it. No Laughing Matter is as wacky, terrifying, and greathearted as any fiction Joseph Heller ever wrote.
Die Laughing
Author: Andre Franquin
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1683960912
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
This is a collection of darkly comic standalone strips by a cartoonist Herge (Tintin) idolized. Die Laughing, which is executed in stark black and white, takes aim at everyone and everything in its scathing critique of modern life, but is particularly ruthless toward animal abusers, the military industrial complex, and death penalty enthusiasts. Franquin’s loose but meticulous line work features expressionistic shadows and silhouettes that infuse his depressed, repressed, and oppressed characters with a disturbing manic energy. Die Laughing is filled with visual gags and gag-inducing visuals that will haunt you.
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1683960912
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
This is a collection of darkly comic standalone strips by a cartoonist Herge (Tintin) idolized. Die Laughing, which is executed in stark black and white, takes aim at everyone and everything in its scathing critique of modern life, but is particularly ruthless toward animal abusers, the military industrial complex, and death penalty enthusiasts. Franquin’s loose but meticulous line work features expressionistic shadows and silhouettes that infuse his depressed, repressed, and oppressed characters with a disturbing manic energy. Die Laughing is filled with visual gags and gag-inducing visuals that will haunt you.
The Man Who Made Elvis Laugh
Author: Sammy Shore
Publisher: Tcb Joe Pub
ISBN: 9780977894581
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
"Very funny man. And, a very, very funny book." - Larry King. Las Vegas, Nevada - 1969: Two forces collide that change the entertainment world forever. Elvis Presley is launching a comeback career that reignites Rock 'N' Roll, and stand-up comic Sammy Shore is firing up audiences in breathless anticipation of "The King." What brought these unique talents together, not only in laughter and friendship, but also in the loneliness and insecurity that fame can bring? Sammy Shore reveals it all, as only he can, in this hilariously funny and highly poignant story of his life with Elvis and beyond. You'll eavesdrop on Sammy's intimate talks with Elvis and his detailed conversations with the music and comedy greats of all time. Milton Berle, Sid Caesar and Jan Murray, to name just a few.and also be front row center for all the hysterical routines that "killed" or bombed. You'll meet Sammy's son, Pauly Shore, just starting out in showbiz, the enigmatic Col. Parker, "Brother Sam" (Elvis' favorite preacher man) and the crazy cast of characters that formed Sammy's irreverent take on life today. So, join Sammy on his journey through it all-'the smooth cruisin' and the #$&% potholes of life! Because, he's The Man Who Made Elvis Laugh!
Publisher: Tcb Joe Pub
ISBN: 9780977894581
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
"Very funny man. And, a very, very funny book." - Larry King. Las Vegas, Nevada - 1969: Two forces collide that change the entertainment world forever. Elvis Presley is launching a comeback career that reignites Rock 'N' Roll, and stand-up comic Sammy Shore is firing up audiences in breathless anticipation of "The King." What brought these unique talents together, not only in laughter and friendship, but also in the loneliness and insecurity that fame can bring? Sammy Shore reveals it all, as only he can, in this hilariously funny and highly poignant story of his life with Elvis and beyond. You'll eavesdrop on Sammy's intimate talks with Elvis and his detailed conversations with the music and comedy greats of all time. Milton Berle, Sid Caesar and Jan Murray, to name just a few.and also be front row center for all the hysterical routines that "killed" or bombed. You'll meet Sammy's son, Pauly Shore, just starting out in showbiz, the enigmatic Col. Parker, "Brother Sam" (Elvis' favorite preacher man) and the crazy cast of characters that formed Sammy's irreverent take on life today. So, join Sammy on his journey through it all-'the smooth cruisin' and the #$&% potholes of life! Because, he's The Man Who Made Elvis Laugh!