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  Uncle John's Plunges into New York

  Institute Bathroom Readers'

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  From the number one source of bathroom reading, an illustrated guide to trivia surrounding the City That Never Sleeps. You think you know New York? Fugeddaboutit!  Uncle John takes you on a whirlwind tour of the greatest place on Earth! Discover fascinating history, odd facts, and the unique people who make New York the Big Apple of the world’s eye. Read all about . . .  ·      UFOs visit the Empire State  ·      What ever happened to Crazy Eddie?  ·      The history of bagels & The New Yorker ·      The Kingdom of Zog & other lost landmarks  ·      New York’s grumpiest tourist: Charles Dickens  ·      Could you pass the Ellis Island immigration test?  ·      The New York Times crossword puzzle goofs  ·      The Borscht Belt comedians  ·      The incredible natural phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge  ·      The public library, the subway, and the city’s narrowest house  ·      The Naked Cowboy and Lady Liberty’s big feet  ·      People who actually tried to sell the Brooklyn Bridge  ·      No soup for you!  And much more

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  The Travel Bog Diaries - One...

  Liz Deacle

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  Meet Liz. Mother of two teenage kids and wife of Brian. 
  Faced with midlife & realising that unless she gets her skates on, she'll never get to live out her fantasy of travelling the world with her family (and be like that woman from Eat, Pray Love), Liz plans a year-long globetrotting trip. 
  Annoyingly, things don't quite go as expected. 
  This is probably because Liz is slightly deluded & chooses to ignore the fact that her husband has acid reflux & can't eat anything foreign, & her teenage children would rather scroll funny Snapchat videos than look at old things in Europe. 
  From an ill-fated yoga class in India, ancient ruin humiliation in Italy, to getting sloshed at a charity festival in rural England, Liz’s endless mishaps and hysterical far-flung flops make for an unforgettable experience that no family could ever forget. 
  Even if they wanted to. 
  Armed with humour, optimism, this feel-good hilarious pee-your-pants, laugh-out-loud memoir will have you changing your life and racing to book your next adventure. 
  Prepare to laugh, cry & curl your toes. 
  Clench those buttocks, fellow traveller. We're off on a (real) family vacation...! 
  What readers are saying:  
  "…brilliantly entertaining writing…read it all in one sitting..." 
  "... Bridget Jones crossed with Eat, Pray, Love...a wickedly funny delight!..." 
  “…I snorted with laughter, Liz is genuinely hilarious…” 
  “…everything you could want in a travel memoir & more…” 
  “…inspiring, funny, cringe-worthy & heartwarming, often all at the same time. Fabulous…” 
  “…I laughed out loud throughout…British humour at it's best!'” 
  "...Relatable, hilarious, funny stories: everything from being a wife, mother to family travel...LOVED IT!"

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  The Rivals

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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  The play is set in Bath in the 18th century, a town legendary for conspicuous consumption and fashion at the time. Wealthy, fashionable people went there to "take the waters", which were believed to have healing properties. The plot centres on the two young lovers, Lydia and Jack. Lydia, who reads a lot of popular novels of the time, wants a purely romantic love affair. To court her, Jack pretends to be "Ensign Beverley", a poor officer. Lydia is enthralled with the idea of eloping with a poor soldier in spite of her guardian, Mrs. Malaprop, a moralistic widow. Mrs. Malaprop is the chief comic figure of the play, thanks to her continual misuse of words that sound like the words she intends but mean something completely different. (The term malapropism was coined in reference to the character.) Lydia has two other suitors: Bob Acres (a somewhat buffoonish country gentleman), and Sir Lucius O'Trigger, an impoverished and combative Irish gentleman. Sir Lucius pays Lucy to carry love notes between him and Lydia (who uses the name "Delia"), but Lucy is swindling him: "Delia" is actually Mrs. Malaprop. (Summary by Wikipedia)Cast:Fag: Algy PugThomas/Servant: Brett W. DowneyLucy: Linda HoganLydia Languish: Elizabeth KlettJulia Melville: Arielle LipshawMrs. Malaprop: Mil NicholsonSir Anthony Absolute: Andy MinterCaptain Jack Absolute: John FrickerFaulkland: mbBob Acres: Peter BishopBoy/Maid: rashadaSir Lucius O'Trigger: Lars RolanderDavid: Matthew ReeceNarrator: Mary AnnAudio edited by: Elizabeth Klett

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  The Wit and Humor of America Vol 07

  Various Various

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  The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the seventh volume, 43 short stories and poems have been gathered from 35 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)

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  Dr Edith Vane and the Hares of...

  Suzette Mayr

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  Dr. Edith Vane, scholar of English literature, is contentedly ensconced at the University of Inivea. Her dissertation on pioneer housewife memoirist Beulah Crump-Withers is about to be published, and her job's finally safe, if she only can fill out her AAO properly. She's a little anxious, but a new floral blouse and her therapist's repeated assurance that she is the architect of her own life should fix that. All should be well, really. Except for her broken washing machine, her fickle new girlfriend, her missing friend Coral, her backstabbing fellow professors, a cutthroat new dean - and the fact that the sentient and malevolent Crawley Hall has decided it wants them all out, and the hall and its hellish hares will stop at nothing to get rid of them.

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  Mother of Pearl - A Novel

  Edward Swift

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  The hilarious chronicle of the McAlister clan, a collection of bickering southern eccentrics whose family history is a parade of missteps, mishaps, and certifiable insanityIn the later years of her life, widow and grandmother Pearl decides to return to East Texas and move in with her sister, Wanda Gay—despite the fact that the two have never agreed on anything. (It is no wonder that brother Frank preferred the relative quiet of a prison cell.) A particular bone of contention seems to be the perceived saintliness or demonic nature of their late mother, Eugenia Fane. An unbending, overbearing, man-hating matriarch who not-so-stoically endured her own mother, Eugenia set a standard that the McAlister women would find nearly impossible—and quite mad—to try to live up to. Through the disputed remembrances, distortions, and wound saltings of Wanda Gay and Pearl, the twisted personal history of the McAlister dynasty comes to light, revealing what it is exactly that makes a family endure in spite of itself.Like Faulkner in a funhouse, in Mother of Pearl, acclaimed author Edward Swift (Splendora) gives readers an extraordinary Southern gothic tale filled with unbridled dark humor, outrageous incidents, and wildly unforgettable characters.

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