Author: Lance Rubin
Publisher: Ember
ISBN: 0525644709
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A tragicomic story of bad dates, bad news, bad performances, and one girl's determination to find the funny in high school from the author of Denton Little's Deathdate. Winnie Friedman has been waiting for the world to catch on to what she already knows: she's hilarious. It might be a long wait, though. After bombing a stand-up set at her own bat mitzvah, Winnie has kept her jokes to herself. Well, to herself and her dad, a former comedian and her inspiration. Then, on the second day of tenth grade, the funniest guy in school actually laughs at a comment she makes in the lunch line and asks her to join the improv troupe. Maybe he's even . . . flirting? Just when Winnie's ready to say yes to comedy again, her father reveals that he's been diagnosed with ALS. That is . . . not funny. Her dad's still making jokes, though, which feels like a good thing. And Winnie's prepared to be his straight man if that's what he wants. But is it what he needs? Caught up in a spiral of epically bad dates, bad news, and bad performances, Winnie's struggling to see the humor in it all. But finding a way to laugh is exactly what will see her through. **A Junior Library Guild Selection**
Crying Laughing
Author: Lance Rubin
Publisher: Ember
ISBN: 0525644709
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A tragicomic story of bad dates, bad news, bad performances, and one girl's determination to find the funny in high school from the author of Denton Little's Deathdate. Winnie Friedman has been waiting for the world to catch on to what she already knows: she's hilarious. It might be a long wait, though. After bombing a stand-up set at her own bat mitzvah, Winnie has kept her jokes to herself. Well, to herself and her dad, a former comedian and her inspiration. Then, on the second day of tenth grade, the funniest guy in school actually laughs at a comment she makes in the lunch line and asks her to join the improv troupe. Maybe he's even . . . flirting? Just when Winnie's ready to say yes to comedy again, her father reveals that he's been diagnosed with ALS. That is . . . not funny. Her dad's still making jokes, though, which feels like a good thing. And Winnie's prepared to be his straight man if that's what he wants. But is it what he needs? Caught up in a spiral of epically bad dates, bad news, and bad performances, Winnie's struggling to see the humor in it all. But finding a way to laugh is exactly what will see her through. **A Junior Library Guild Selection**
Publisher: Ember
ISBN: 0525644709
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A tragicomic story of bad dates, bad news, bad performances, and one girl's determination to find the funny in high school from the author of Denton Little's Deathdate. Winnie Friedman has been waiting for the world to catch on to what she already knows: she's hilarious. It might be a long wait, though. After bombing a stand-up set at her own bat mitzvah, Winnie has kept her jokes to herself. Well, to herself and her dad, a former comedian and her inspiration. Then, on the second day of tenth grade, the funniest guy in school actually laughs at a comment she makes in the lunch line and asks her to join the improv troupe. Maybe he's even . . . flirting? Just when Winnie's ready to say yes to comedy again, her father reveals that he's been diagnosed with ALS. That is . . . not funny. Her dad's still making jokes, though, which feels like a good thing. And Winnie's prepared to be his straight man if that's what he wants. But is it what he needs? Caught up in a spiral of epically bad dates, bad news, and bad performances, Winnie's struggling to see the humor in it all. But finding a way to laugh is exactly what will see her through. **A Junior Library Guild Selection**
Mom Life: Perfection Pending
Author: Meredith Ethington
Publisher: Absolute Love Publishing
ISBN: 9780999577318
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Out-parented at PTA? Out-liked on social media? Wondering how your best friend from high school’s kids are always color-coordinated, angelic, and beaming from every photo, while your kids look more like feral monkeys? It’s okay. Imperfection is the new perfection! Join Meredith Ethington, “one of the funniest parents on Facebook,” according to Today.com, as she relates encouraging stories of real-mom life in her debut parenting humor book, Mom Life: Perfection Pending. Whether you’re buried in piles of laundry, packing your 50th sack lunch for the week, or almost making it out the door in time for school, you’ll laugh along with stories of what real-mom life is like—and realize that sometimes simply making it through the day is good enough. An uplifting yet real look at all that is expected of moms in the 21st century, Mom Life: Perfection Pending is so relatable you’ll find yourself saying, “I guess I’m doing okay after all.”
Publisher: Absolute Love Publishing
ISBN: 9780999577318
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Out-parented at PTA? Out-liked on social media? Wondering how your best friend from high school’s kids are always color-coordinated, angelic, and beaming from every photo, while your kids look more like feral monkeys? It’s okay. Imperfection is the new perfection! Join Meredith Ethington, “one of the funniest parents on Facebook,” according to Today.com, as she relates encouraging stories of real-mom life in her debut parenting humor book, Mom Life: Perfection Pending. Whether you’re buried in piles of laundry, packing your 50th sack lunch for the week, or almost making it out the door in time for school, you’ll laugh along with stories of what real-mom life is like—and realize that sometimes simply making it through the day is good enough. An uplifting yet real look at all that is expected of moms in the 21st century, Mom Life: Perfection Pending is so relatable you’ll find yourself saying, “I guess I’m doing okay after all.”
Cry Until You Laugh
Author: Kim Sorrelle
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
ISBN: 1630472689
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
There are so many things that we do not have control over, things that we would not ever choose: cancer, loosing a spouse, tragic accidents. But we can choose how we will handle these things. Joy is a choice that anyone can make but not everyone knows how. Facing cancer, becoming a widow, loosing the future as the author saw it made her recognize that she had to choose a way to deal with the present.
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
ISBN: 1630472689
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
There are so many things that we do not have control over, things that we would not ever choose: cancer, loosing a spouse, tragic accidents. But we can choose how we will handle these things. Joy is a choice that anyone can make but not everyone knows how. Facing cancer, becoming a widow, loosing the future as the author saw it made her recognize that she had to choose a way to deal with the present.
Inside Jokes
Author: Matthew M. Hurley
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026201582X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Some things are funny -- jokes, puns, sitcoms, Charlie Chaplin, The Far Side, Malvolio with his yellow garters crossed -- but why? Why does humor exist in the first place? Why do we spend so much of our time passing on amusing anecdotes, making wisecracks, watching The Simpsons? In Inside Jokes, Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennett, and Reginald Adams offer an evolutionary and cognitive perspective. Humor, they propose, evolved out of a computational problem that arose when our long-ago ancestors were furnished with open-ended thinking. Mother Nature -- aka natural selection -- cannot just order the brain to find and fix all our time-pressured misleaps and near-misses. She has to bribe the brain with pleasure. So we find them funny. This wired-in source of pleasure has been tickled relentlessly by humorists over the centuries, and we have become addicted to the endogenous mind candy that is humor.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026201582X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Some things are funny -- jokes, puns, sitcoms, Charlie Chaplin, The Far Side, Malvolio with his yellow garters crossed -- but why? Why does humor exist in the first place? Why do we spend so much of our time passing on amusing anecdotes, making wisecracks, watching The Simpsons? In Inside Jokes, Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennett, and Reginald Adams offer an evolutionary and cognitive perspective. Humor, they propose, evolved out of a computational problem that arose when our long-ago ancestors were furnished with open-ended thinking. Mother Nature -- aka natural selection -- cannot just order the brain to find and fix all our time-pressured misleaps and near-misses. She has to bribe the brain with pleasure. So we find them funny. This wired-in source of pleasure has been tickled relentlessly by humorists over the centuries, and we have become addicted to the endogenous mind candy that is humor.
When Silence Knocks, Will You Answer?
Author: Eudese-Elisabeth Willins
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0999438212
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
A collection of poetry by Eudese-Elisabeth Willins.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0999438212
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
A collection of poetry by Eudese-Elisabeth Willins.
How to Tell If He's Really in to You
Author: Miichael Maxx
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 166244107X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
How to Tell if He’s Really into You is a quick read that’s incredibly fun and entertaining but also very informative about the intricacies of all men, significantly increasing a woman chances of finding real true love and succeeding in a complicated thing we all call “dating.” This book is guaranteed to transform the world of dating and will most likely become the world’s number one dating guide!
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 166244107X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
How to Tell if He’s Really into You is a quick read that’s incredibly fun and entertaining but also very informative about the intricacies of all men, significantly increasing a woman chances of finding real true love and succeeding in a complicated thing we all call “dating.” This book is guaranteed to transform the world of dating and will most likely become the world’s number one dating guide!
Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
Author: Sigmund Freud
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393001457
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Observations of the Viennese psychoanalyst on curious plays on words that occur in dreams, and the unconscious sources of pleasure in jokes, wit, and humor.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393001457
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Observations of the Viennese psychoanalyst on curious plays on words that occur in dreams, and the unconscious sources of pleasure in jokes, wit, and humor.
Empower Yourself with Golden Inspirations
Author: Leonard S. Cummings
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456853317
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456853317
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The Vicious Cycle
Author: Timmy Ray
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1646109783
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
The Vicious Cycle By: Timmy Ray This book is a fiction based on real life situations. It has some very graphic and explicit content. Follow the life of Sheila Jones as she goes from High School to adulthood and the experiences she has to make her question her sexuality, and sanity. Challenge what she thought about good and evil. Re-think what she thought success was. She gets caught up in a vicious cycle of sex, drugs, and hiding who she truly was. It’s truly a recovery and redemption story. It shows that no matter how low you sink you can rise again.
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1646109783
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
The Vicious Cycle By: Timmy Ray This book is a fiction based on real life situations. It has some very graphic and explicit content. Follow the life of Sheila Jones as she goes from High School to adulthood and the experiences she has to make her question her sexuality, and sanity. Challenge what she thought about good and evil. Re-think what she thought success was. She gets caught up in a vicious cycle of sex, drugs, and hiding who she truly was. It’s truly a recovery and redemption story. It shows that no matter how low you sink you can rise again.
The Bleeding
Author: Lee Tillman
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595186130
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The Bleeding is a collection of poetry and short stories created and directed by God. Inspired by His blessings as well as His curses. It is a detailing of the wide range of emotions that I have experienced throughout my short time on this planet. The Bleeding is neither religious nor Christian writing. It is real poetry and real stories. It’s happy, it’s romantic, it’s inspiriting and at times even depressing. But it’s all real. Only after you’ve read it will you truly understand. As long as you don’t fear reality you won’t fear The Bleeding.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595186130
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The Bleeding is a collection of poetry and short stories created and directed by God. Inspired by His blessings as well as His curses. It is a detailing of the wide range of emotions that I have experienced throughout my short time on this planet. The Bleeding is neither religious nor Christian writing. It is real poetry and real stories. It’s happy, it’s romantic, it’s inspiriting and at times even depressing. But it’s all real. Only after you’ve read it will you truly understand. As long as you don’t fear reality you won’t fear The Bleeding.