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  I Never Danced With an Eggplant...

  Errol Laborde

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  Vivid vignettes rich with the sights, sounds, and tastes of New Orleans: “A worthy contribution to the library of books celebrating life in the Big Easy.” —Times-Picayune Offering innovative insights into such New Orleans mainstays as Carnival and the Quarter, as well as food, music, sports, politics, history, and more, Errol Laborde provides a look at aspects of Crescent City living usually reserved for residents. The essays include an Orleanian ode entitled “In Praise of the Potato Poor Boy” and several explorations and explanations of Mr. Bingle, the only symbol of Christmas that is unique to New Orleans. These eighty-one vignettes originally appeared in Laborde’s Streetcar column, which currently runs in New Orleans Magazine.  “Strung together like a handful of Mardi Gras beads thrown from a passing float, Laborde’s tales reveal the bright and beautiful as well as the dim and gaudy sides of the city.” —Southern Living

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  Don't Whiz on an Electric Fence...

  Roy English

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  The author of Advice from a Country Farmer and When I Am an Old Coot drops some commonsensical knowledge on country folk everywhere.    Henry Ward Beecher said “the common sense of one century is the common sense of the next.” That said, these pocket-sized humor books pack quite a bit of punch—lines that is. With more than 1.5 million copies in print, an all-new look will leave a whole new generation in stitches! From grandpa’s mouth to his ears, former judge Roy English shares what he’s learned about life, success, and farm animals.    “Don’t name a pig you plan to eat.”“Early to bed and early to rise will pretty much shut down the domino game.”“Trouble is a private thing; don’t lend it, and don’t borrow it.”“Country fences need to be horse high, pig tight, and bull strong.”“The weather can make a farmer look mighty smart, or mighty dumb.” “Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.”

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  White Linen Nurse The (version 2)

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

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  Throughout three years of school, Rae Malgregor had been perfectly pliant, perfectly compliant to all the demands placed on her.  But now, on the eve of graduation, she couldn’t go on with the mask of artificiality and the air of perfection.  She had been chasing this nursing job three whole years, but there was just no wag to it!  The Superintendent was stunned.  Her best student!  The Senior Surgeon was all grey granite business and livid that his time was being taken up with a hysterical nurse!  And yet, though he wouldn’t have admitted it to anyone, especially himself, his interest was piqued. (Introduction by MaryAnn)

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  Aunty Acid: Laugh 'Til You Leak!

  Ged Backland

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  In this collection from the hit webcomic, everyone’s favorite pink-haired, sassy senior is ready to make you laugh so hard you’ll…well, you know. Created to give “the crazy old lady in all of us” a voice that can be heard from ten blocks away, Aunty Acid, along with her long-suffering husband, Walt, tells it like it is and has her own unique opinions on everything. This collection gathers her best gags, one-liners, and wisecracks that are sure to split your sides, bust your gut, and then some. Aunty Acid is created by Ged Backland and is brought to life by the team at the Backland Studio in Bradford, West Yorkshire, in Northern England.

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  Three Sisters The (Librovox)

  May Sinclair

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  Fascinated as she was by the lives of the Brontë siblings, May Sinclair loosely based her subtly sensual, quietly insurrectionary 1914 novel The Three Sisters on the Haworth moor milieu of the three literary Brontë sisters. Alice, Gwenda, and Mary Cartaret are the daughters of the Vicar of Garth, an abusive father with rigid, selfish expectations for female behavior. Hope of rescue seems to dawn in the person of an idealistic young doctor in the village, but this is no Austen romance. Described with Edwardian restraint, it is still sexual passion that is the underlying theme of the story: the rebellion of human sensuality in almost every major character in the story against the artificial constraints of conventional Society and Religion. Sinclair, herself a fascinating hybrid of Victorian and modern, shows the desperate, inertial ennui inherent in the lives of unmarried late-Victorian women dependent on their male guardians but fired by dreams and desires of their own. Sinclair's gently seditious fiction is always deeply imbued with philosophy as well as human psychology, giving it rich layers of interest. - Summary by Expatriate

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  The Atheist's Guide to Christmas

  Stephenie Meyer, Robin Harvie

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  This funny, festive, and thoughtful collection delves into age-old holiday questions for the non-believer—like what do you get an atheist for Christmas? 
   
  If you’re an atheist, you don’t believe in the three wise men, so this Christmas, we bring you not three, but forty-two wise men and women, bearing gifts of comedy, science, philosophy, the arts, and knowledge. What does it feel like to be born on Christmas day? How can you most effectively use lights to make your house visible from space? And where can you listen to the echoes of the Big Bang on December 25? The Atheist’s Guide to Christmas answers all these questions and more:Richard Dawkins tells an original Christmas story.Phil Plait fact-checks the Star of Bethlehem.Neal Pollack teaches his family a lesson on holiday spirit.Simon Singh offers a very special scientific experiment.Simon le Bon loses his faith (but keeps church music).AC Grayling explains how to have a truly happy Christmas. 
   
  Plus thirty-six other brilliant, funny, free-thinking pieces perfect for anyone who doesn’t think of holidays as holy days.

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