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81) Maid Not For You
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As Bergman becomes dismayed and disillusioned about the realities in the low-waged workplace, she rails against them in sometimes snarky and irreverent tones. She uses her stories to draw attention on how she and her low-waged coworkers play a significant role in shaping the workplace culture as well as the socioeconomic life of this country. Along this winding and revealing path through the low-wage culture of New York City, Bergman is compelled...
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Now available from Grove Press, P. J. O'Rourke's classic, bestselling guided tour of the world's most desolate, dangerous, and desperate places. "Tired of making bad jokes" and believing that "the world outside seemed a much worse joke than anything I could conjure," P. J. O'Rourke traversed the globe on a fun-finding mission, investigating the way of life in the most desperate places on the planet, including Warsaw, Managua, and Belfast. The result...
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"Rex Menudo and Satellites" is an adult comic novel in a similar vein as my first,, "The Adventure of the Knight Terrors". Rex tells of his wives, hepcats, friends Natasha Portmandu, Mike Drop, and Oscar LaWaigeau. There is anecdote about the superhero Les Moore. Rex meets other colorful characters over the course of his life.
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Bill Crawford follows up his hit books Rock Stars do the Dumbest Things and Movie Stars do the Dumbest Things with a volume that reinforces what we've known all along, Republicans do the Dumbest Things. From George Bush barfing on the Japanese prime minister to Ronald Reagan's announcement of nuclear war, Republicans do the Dumbest Things is the first book to celebrate and catalogue the hilarious heritage of the GOP. This collection includes all the...
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Bigly is an hilarious compilation of memorable quotes from President Donald Trump, arranged as poetry that will have the president's fiercest supporters and harshest critics asking the same question: Can a president appoint himself Poet Laureate? Divided into sections on Life, Love, Beauty, and Death - and including a dedicatory haiku by Milo Yiannopoulos, a foreword by How to Lose Friends and Alienate People author Toby Young, and poignant editor's...
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Ein Buch zu Fußball-Fan-Kultur und den wahren Gründen für den Titelgewinn der Fußball-WM in Brasilien 2014. Gewidmet ist das Werk "Allen friedlich gemeinsam feiernden Fans dieser Welt".
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Vier Fußball-Fans auf einem wunderbaren Road-Trip - wenn da nicht immer eine Frau dazwischen kommen würde ...
Die Freunde Michel, Norberto, Herrmann und Osvaldo wollen unbedingt in Rio de Janeiro unmittelbar vor dem größten Stadion...
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Originally published in 1984, Senator Ervin's delightful collection of stories and anecdotes winds its way from his native Morganton through Chapel Hill and Harvard, the military, the North Carolina Supreme Court, the United States Senate, and Watergate. It represents a lifetime of wit and wisdom--told in the late Senator Ervin's inimitable style.
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The final chaotic season of Codco had just wrapped when Mary Walsh sat down at a Toronto bistro with George Anthony, then creative head of CBC TV's arts programming. She'd been thinking about a news-based comedy show--did he think that would fly? He did. That was the early '90s. Twenty-five seasons later, hundreds of thousands of Canadians continue to tune in weekly to This Hour Has 22 Minutes for its unashamedly Canadian, biting satirical take on...
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A humorous story for young ones and the young at heart (9 - 99 years), especially those who love cats! It comes with stunning water-colour paintings.
Ginsy is a ginger and white Australian cat with dignity, character and a fierce sense of protection for what he considers part of his turf. That includes his owners, which he owns and tries to educate as to proper behaviour towards cats in general. Feeling discouraged at times at the slowness of their...
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On the surface, Bucky has everything he needs. A beautiful family, a humble home, and the rural life he has always wanted. Then again, he's a deer. One night, while out looking for his delinquent daughter, he comes across a self-destructive man whose honesty Bucky finds sad yet strangely refreshing. But when his only fawn, Beauty, starts coming home late after hanging out with the wrong crowd, the cracks begin to appear, and fate is about to push...
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About four years ago, I was walking along a boardwalk that helps park goers traverse a beautiful floodplain in one of our city's metro parks. I was watching where I was stepping and not paying attention to my surroundings. For some reason, I stopped looking down and I looked to my left. Staring at me, probably no more than ten yards away, was a huge buck. Here's the weird thing: the first thought I had was, Does he know it's Tuesday? Subsequent quirky...
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Synopsis:Revealing the Hidden Secrets delves into the mysteries of the Book of the Revelation to John, offering a deeply spiritual message that is both timely in its response to current events and urgent in its plea for the salvation of the world. Author Emad Wissa brings to light amazing details about the Churchs life on earthher history, her times, and her reign. In addition to Church history, the book proposes the spiritual meaning of major historical...
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Laugh Your Way Through a Sticky Situation Life is full of problems: there's not enough time in the day, your kids won't stop fighting, and those cars won't let you merge onto the highway. Not to mention the really bad stuff: your best friends are getting divorced, and your close relative is sick. It's enough to make you want to scream and cry and stomp your feet. But then you remember you're not three. Life is like a refrigerator--it offers us a lot...
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Sitting in my Parliamentary Office nearly two weeks after the 2010 Election, the Australian people are still somewhat uncertain as to who will lead them over the coming three years. As you'll read in this book, I make that observation with a sense of pride rather than with concern. Australia's Democracy is like Jimmy Barnes: it can abuse itself endlessly and still rock at the end of the day. Whatever the final composition of the Government, I'm confident...
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The work is a lighthearted and surprisingly informative read, featuring on-the-ground stories from scores of participants in Colorado's historic transformation into a cannabis-friendly state. The book doubles as a reference guide, listing Colorado dispensaries, marijuana stocks and more. "Legalizing pot in Colorado changed everything. Cultures were transformed, entrepreneurs descended on the state, and people couldn't stop talking about it," says...
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This book is for all women who find their fifties closing in on them. It's an attempt to prepare you for the signs of aging before they catch you by surprise. Little things like a noticeable stomach that used to be flat. Or only being able to text with your reading glasses on. Or where did all those lines around your mouth come from all of a sudden? Mary McHugh, best-selling author of If I Get Hit by a Bus Tomorrow, Here's How to Replace the Toilet...
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One more night to live it up, perhaps before ending it? The next thing he knows, he's accepting drinks from a beautiful barmaid with golden blond hair who is wearing a gold cross. Pulled from his self-destructive haze by this Angelic woman, he's led through the smoke-filled bar into a private room where everything changes. Instantly he and this Angel are nude - and.... Little does John know how interesting his life is about to become. Memories of...
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When politics and policy clash, politics always win. And in this case, senior diplomat Percy Williamson loses. At odds with Canadas new Minister of Foreign Affairs, George Crowley, Percy draws an overseas assignment as ambassador to Bharalya, a small country in Asia that recently discovered a big cache of oil. When Percy and his wife Marilyn arrive in Bharalya they are quite unprepared for the bizarre experiences they will share and the eccentric...
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