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  How to spoil your health? Bad...

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  Fictional funny health steps you should follow. Just for fun!!!

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  I Don't Believe It! - Terrific...

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  Laugh out loud, a master class on grumbling
  Shock horror! Here is a little book on the art of Britain's favourite pastime: grousing. It boasts the best and most amusing letters to the editor of British peeves from the time of Agatha Christie to P.G. Wodehouse and shows us why it is just so much fun to complain about everything! Never mind WWI and WWII, what about filthy streets, rubbish trams, yelling vendors, turf rage, death-trap trees and many more. These letter writers fix their glaring eye on the small things in life. Complaining has never been more entertaining!

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  Making of Swallows and Amazons...

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  In 1973 Sophie Neville was cast as Titty alongside Virginia McKenna, Ronald Fraser and Suzanna Hamilton in the film Swallows & Amazons. Made before the advent of digital technology, the child stars lived out Arthur Ransome's epic adventure in the great outdoors without ever seeing a script.Encouraged by her mother, Sophie Neville kept a diary about her time filming on location in the lakes and mountains of Cumbria. Bouncy and effervescent, extracts from her childhood diary are interspersed among her memories of the cast and crew as well as photographs, maps and newspaper articles, offering a child's eye view of the making of the film from development to premiere - and the aftermath.

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  The Journey to the West: Volume II

  Anthony C. Yu

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  A monk contends with dangers, demons, and spirits as he makes a pilgrimage to India in the second volume of this classic Chinese fantasy adventure. 
   
  Anthony C. Yu’s translation of The Journey to the West, initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, it is the saga of the fourteen-year pilgrimage of the monk Xuanzang, one of China’s most famous religious heroes, and his four supernatural disciples, in search of Buddhist scriptures. Throughout his journey, Xuanzang fights demons who wish to eat him, communes with spirits, and traverses a land riddled with obstacles both real and fantastical. An adventure rich with danger and excitement, this seminal work of the Chinese literary canon is by turns allegory, satire, and fantasy. 
   
  In this new edition, Yu has made his translations even more accurate and accessible with new explanatory notes, additions to the introduction, and modernized transliterations using the now-standard Hanyu Pinyin romanization system. 
   
  “In 1983, [Yu’s] The Journey to the West conveyed intact to readers of English the classic that had enthralled Chinese children for centuries. . . . This new version draws on thirty years of the author’s further studies in literature and religion. It traces one theme after another to the Quanzhen Daoist movement and its new synthesis of religious thought. The translation is a joy to read, and the introduction and commentary reveal the deep foundations on which this fantastic tale of adventure is built.” —Nathan Slavin, University of Pennsylvania 
   
  “A monumental achievement that takes the reader to the heart of one of the most important narratives in the Chinese tradition . . . The adoption of Pinyin romanization will make this much more convenient for classroom use as a teaching edition.” —Waiyee Li, Harvard University 
   
  “One of the great works of world religious literature. This updated translation is a significant publishing milestone.” —Robert Company, Vanderbilt University 
   
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  Sweet Georgia Brown

  Cheryl Robinson

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  The Charlotte Post hails Cheryl Robinson as "fresh and exciting." Her popular novels include If It Ain't One Thing.  
  Here listeners meet Georgia Brown, a housewife of 11 years who is married to a radio personality who might be having an affair. Georgia is fed up and set to break out on her own. But when her husband puts her on the air to tell "her side" of their story, she discovers she likes it behind the mic. And this will have major consequences for their marriage.

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  Self-Destruction Made Easy

  Bill Little

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  "Virtually anyone who reads this book can appreciably widen his or her free will and intentionally create happiness and satisfaction instead of needless pain." --Albert Ellis, Ph.D."By poking fun at my frailties, Bill makes it impossible to ever again take them quite so seriously." --Jeff Lair, Ph.D., author of I Ain't Much, Baby--But Im All I've Got and I Ain't Well--But I Sure Am BetterBuilding on twists and paradoxes, Bill L. Little shows you how to get rid of problems by understanding how they are produced. This warm-hearted, witty book dares you to cling to your neurotic symptoms, your depressions, your anxieties, and your unhealthy relationships and mess up your life with sundry colorful phobias, dependencies, and addictions. By taking a light-hearted look at how you perceive your limitations, you can make positive changes that will enhance the quality of your life.

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