Never Wink at a Worried Woman

Never Wink at a Worried Woman PDF Author: Lynn Johnston
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 0740754440
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Book Description
Art imitating life is what happens in Johnston's perennially popular comic strip, "For Better or For Worse." In this newest collection, life is progressing for each character in the Patterson family.

Never Wink at a Worried Woman

Never Wink at a Worried Woman PDF Author: Lynn Johnston
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 0740754440
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Book Description
Art imitating life is what happens in Johnston's perennially popular comic strip, "For Better or For Worse." In this newest collection, life is progressing for each character in the Patterson family.

Middle Age Spread

Middle Age Spread PDF Author: Lynn Johnston
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 9780836268225
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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Book Description
A collection of comics from Lynn Johnston's daily strip "For Better or For Worse", which chronicles the daily ups and downs of the Patterson family.

Growing Like a Weed

Growing Like a Weed PDF Author: Lynn Johnston
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 9780836236859
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Book Description
Follows the trials and tribulations of the Patteson family, featuring Michael's initiation into adulthood, Elizabeth's summer in Manitoba, and April's first time in Kindergarten.

In the Beginning, There Was Chaos

In the Beginning, There Was Chaos PDF Author: Lynn Johnston
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1449409547
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Book Description
"The strips in this treasury include almost everything published between the spring of 1981 and the fall of 1983"--Page [2].

Reality Check

Reality Check PDF Author: Lynn Johnston
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 9780740738104
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Book Description
Struggling to adjust to their new lives, Mike and Deanna discover that an unexpected baby is on the way, while Grandpa Jim and Iris elope to England, and Elizabeth dumps her unfaithful boyfriend, in cartoons from the comic strip.

Life's a Joke

Life's a Joke PDF Author: Dr. J. T. Dock Houk
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1480918199
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Book Description
Sometimes life hands you lemons. In this collection of jokes, autobiography, and personal philosophy, author and businessman Dr. J. T. Dock Houk makes an ocean of lemonade. Life’s a Joke compiles four books – “It’s All About Me,” “My Life with a Girl,” “Kids and Pets,” and “Life Around Us” – recounting 1,162 jokes, funny anecdotes, and descriptions of Sunday morning comics, clippings of which Dock has been collecting for an incredible amount of decades. As the author writes, “What I mean to convey by saying ‘life is a joke’ is that humor has helped me over some of the rough spots by showing me a side of life that either explains what I am feeling, or gives me a glimpse of something I also see. Humor, whose visual expression is often a joke, makes me smile or even laugh out loud. And sometimes, if you don’t laugh, you might cry.” So crack open Life’s a Joke and crack a smile. You might learn a little wisdom – but if not, at least you’ll get a laugh

She's Turning Into One of Them!

She's Turning Into One of Them! PDF Author: Lynn Johnston
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 0740758152
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 131

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Book Description
The Patterson family undergoes more humorous changes as their youngest daughter, April, becomes a teenager.

August

August PDF Author: Callan Wink
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812983904
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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Book Description
A boy coming of age in a part of the country that’s being left behind is at the heart of this dazzling novel—the first by an award-winning author of short stories that evoke the American West. LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE • “August reads like early Hemingway, retooled for the present.”—William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Barbarian Days Callan Wink has been compared to masters like Jim Harrison and Thomas McGuane. His short stories have been published in The New Yorker and have won numerous accolades. Now his enormous talents are showcased in a debut novel that follows a boy growing up in the middle of the country through those difficult years between childhood and adulthood. August is an average twelve-year-old. He likes dogs and fishing and doesn’t mind early-morning chores on his family’s Michigan dairy farm. But following his parents’ messy divorce, his mother decides that she and August need to start over in a new town. There, he tries to be an average teen—playing football and doing homework—but when his role in a shocking act of violence throws him off course once more, he flees to a ranch in rural Montana, where he learns that even the smallest communities have dark secrets. Covering August's adolescence, from age twelve to nineteen, this gorgeously written novel bears witness to the joys and traumas that irrevocably shape us all. Filled with unforgettable characters and stunning natural landscapes, this book is a moving and provocative look at growing up in the American heartland.

It's One Thing After Another!

It's One Thing After Another! PDF Author: Lynn Johnston
Publisher: Andrews Mcmeel+ORM
ISBN: 1449452728
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 566

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Book Description
Since its debut in 1979, For Better or For Worse has touched comic strip readers as few cartoons ever do. Lynn Johnston's eye for detail and her uncanny sense of what real parents and children struggle with daily are a big part of her success. The comic strip now appears in 1,550 papers in the U.S. and Canada. Read by people of all ages, the award-winning For Better or For Worse deals honestly with both the light-hearted and the serious, and to many readers, the Pattersons feel like family!

Dog Run Moon

Dog Run Moon PDF Author: Callan Wink
Publisher: Dial Press
ISBN: 0812993780
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Book Description
In the tradition of Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, and Kent Haruf comes a dazzling debut story collection by a young writer from the American West who has been published in The New Yorker, Granta, and The Best American Short Stories. SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE • 2017 PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD HONORABLE MENTION A construction worker on the run from the shady local businessman whose dog he has stolen; a Custer’s Last Stand reenactor engaged in a long-running affair with the Native American woman who slays him on the battlefield every year; a middle-aged high school janitor caught in a scary dispute over land and cattle with her former stepson: Callan Wink’s characters are often confronted with predicaments few of us can imagine. But thanks to the humor and remarkable empathy of this supremely gifted writer, the nine stories gathered in Dog Run Moon are universally transporting and resonant. Set mostly in Montana and Wyoming, near the borders of Yellowstone National Park, this revelatory collection combines unforgettable insight into the fierce beauty of the West with a powerful understanding of human beings. Tender, frequently hilarious, and always electrifying, Dog Run Moon announces the arrival of a bold new talent writing deep in the American grain. Praise for Dog Run Moon “[An] excellent first book of stories . . . One of the great things about Dog Run Moon is how resilient and funny [the characters] are. They’re at the end of their ropes, but they can still howl about the joy and pain each day brings, as if the young Levon Helm were singing their stories. . . . This is Thomas McGuane territory, and also that of writers like Joy Williams and Jim Harrison.”—The New York Times “Wink is definitely not a writer of half measures; each of these stories demonstrates his ability to lay life bare. A significant collection highly deserving of the spotlight.”—Library Journal (starred review) “Myth and history color these highly satisfying fictions about the way men and women struggle to shape their lives.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “The perils of work and the weight of bequeathal fuel these stories, and each one holds a lasting, unshakable image. Sometimes grace is bestowed upon the characters in a sidewindering, not altogether fabulous fashion; sometimes it’s not bestowed at all. Callan Wink seems to know well the stratagems and delusions of men’s hearts. He also seems born and bred to short-story mastery.”—Joy Williams, author of The Visiting Privilege “Callan Wink’s debut is impressive indeed. Fine, old-fashioned, rich and juicy fiction. Weeks later I’m still living with the characters.”—Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall “Callan Wink’s fresh, urgent stories have an energy and propulsion that set them well apart from the cerebral finger painting of so much literary fiction. Here is a writer with a great big horizon.”—Thomas McGuane, author of Crow Fair “Callan Wink’s stories remind me of expertly tied trout flies—beautifully crafted, true to reality, and barbed. What a fine young writer.”—Ron Rash, author of Above the Waterfall “As in all the best collections, each and every story in Dog Run Moon sings in the essential registers of love and death, work and nature. Callan Wink has the wisdom to write only of the things that matter, and the talent to make these stories as fresh as the literary headwaters from which they come.”—Smith Henderson, author of Fourth of July Creek