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  Uncle John's Bathroom Reader...

  Institute Bathroom Readers'

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  History repeats itself as Uncle John presents another volume of funny stories and fascinating facts about the past!   For our historical trivia collection number two, we dug ever deeper into our bottomless vaults to bring you more of history’s most colorful characters, cultural milestones, funniest mishaps, and earth-shattering events. More than 500 pages of great stories, fascinating facts, and fun quizzes await you.   Read about . . . * Philosophers who fought with fireplace pokers * “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this Wall!” * Where are they now—the Goths * The golden age of wife-selling * History’s most horrible dentist award * The French monks who invented tennis * What William the Conqueror was called before he conquered * Where are they now—the Neanderthals * Women of the Gold Rush * and much, much more!

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  Instant Humor - How to Be Funny...

  The INSTANT Series

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  So you want to be funny...or funnier?Let's face it, funny people are fun people. The more funny you are, the more fun you have. And who doesn't want to have fun? Not just girls, but everybody. (Sorry Cyndi Lauper.)Goes without saying, people love to be around funny fun people who know how to have a good time and make others laugh. Why?Laughter is the best medicine in the world that can make worries go away.Laughter is the ultimate euphoric feeling that can lift the human spirit.Laughter is the positive viral effect that can contagiously spread happiness.Laughter is the lubricant that can ease tensions and solve problems.Laughter is the universal glue that can unite people to all come together.Simply put, if you can make people laugh, they'll love you for it! That can open many doors for you in relationships, jobs, and even getting out of trouble. :)We are constantly told you're either born with a funny bone or not. After all, being funny is utilizing your creativity with your own view of the world of what's widely accepted notion of the truth, or challenging those beliefs disguised in humor. It's all a personalized creative-involved endeavor; it's not like there is a technical step-by-step blueprint to follow into the working madness of the mind of the funniest man in the world, unlike fixing a car, right?Not so fast grasshopper! Comedy is more formulaic than you may think (i.e., buildup, anticipation, tension, and release). There are structural elements to guide the creative process to being funny. Most people who are funny already have some forms of subconscious structures they follow without realizing, to generate jokes and come up with their materials, after using them for so long. It's called "a sense of humor"

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  Lazarus Is Dead - A Novel

  Richard Beard

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  This story of Jesus’s childhood best friend is “a thrilling meta-novel” and one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of the Year (Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette).   Like most successful men in their early thirties, Lazarus has plans that don’t involve dying. He is busy organizing his sisters, his business, and his women. Life is mostly good until far away in Galilee, without warning, his childhood best friend, Jesus, turns water into wine. Immediately, Lazarus falls ill. And with each subsequent miracle his health deteriorates: a nasty cough develops into an alarming array of afflictions unresponsive to the usual remedies.   His sisters think Jesus can help, but the two men haven’t spoken for years. Lazarus is willing to try anything to make himself well, anything, that is, except ask Jesus for help. Lazarus dies. Jesus weeps. Lazarus rises. This part we all know. But Lazarus is about to discover that returning from the dead isn’t easy at all . . .   An ingeniously funny and moving novel disguised as biography, Lazarus Is Dead recounts the story of a great friendship lost and regained that unabashedly turns convention on its head. Richard Beard draws on biblical sources, historical detail, art, and contemporary literature to cast a spell that remains unbroken until the final pages of this story about second chances.   “Beard’s take on Lazarus is nothing less than astonishing—and he respects the reader by taking religion and religious questions seriously.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)   “Thoroughly entertaining . . . a brilliant, genre-bending retelling and subversion of one of the oldest, most sensational stories in the western canon.” —Sunday Business Post (Ireland)   “Clever and original . . . keeps the reader guessing until the death—and beyond.” —The Financial Times

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  Embassy Wife

  Katie Crouch

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  Persephone Wilder, a displaced genius posing as the wife of an American diplomat in Namibia, takes her job as a representative of her country seriously and comes up with an intricate set of rules to survive a range of problems: how to dress in hundred-degree weather without showing too much skin, how not to look drunk at embassy functions, and how to eat roasted oryx with grace. She also suspects her husband is not actually the ambassador’s general counsel but instead a secret agent in the CIA. Ever the embassy wife, she takes the new trailing spouse, Amanda Evans, under her wing. Amanda Evans has just arrived in Namibia, mere weeks after giving up her Silicon Valley job, as her husband, Mark, has accepted a Fulbright. But once they arrive in the sub-Saharan desert, it becomes clear that Mark, who lived in Namibia two decades earlier, had other reasons for returning. Their marriage, which seemed solid in the safety of home, feels tenuous in the glaring heat of the Kalahari. Mark, it seems, has secrets born twenty years ago, and this journey is actually a quest to find a woman he left behind. When Amanda’s daughter becomes involved in an actual international conflict, lines are drawn in the sand, and it is clear that her own government won’t stand up for her or her daughter. Propulsive and provocative, this satirical page-turner compellingly explores the limits of human resiliency and loyalty.

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  Viggo: A PietSmiet Story...

  Mikkel Robrahn

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  Am 29.7.2012 wurden die Zuschauer des Kanals "PietSmiet" Zeugen eines folgenschweren Verbrechens. In Folge 99 des Let's Plays zum Videospiel "DayZ" wird ein unschuldiger Zivilist namens Viggo von Peter Smits auf einem Krankenhausdach erschossen. Seit diesem Tag rätselt die Community: War es kaltblütiger Mord, oder wurde Peter von seinem PietSmiet-Kollegen Brammen zur Tat nur angestiftet? Eine Legende formt sich. Die Frage nach der Schuld bleibt bis zum heutigen Tage ungeklärt. Der Roman "Viggo" klärt die Frage nach dem Opfer. Wer war Viggo? War er bloß zur falschen Zeit am falschen Ort? War er wirklich unschuldig, oder hat die plötzlich hereinbrechende Zombieapokalypse auch in ihm die schlechtesten Seiten geweckt? Der Roman schildert die letzten Tage in Viggos Leben und setzt dem Verstorbenen damit ein Denkmal in Schriftform, auf dass er niemals in Vergessenheit gerate. #NeverForgetViggo

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  The Devereaux File

  Ross H. Spencer

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  Wisecracking Chicago PI Lacey Lockington gets caught in a dangerous game of international espionage in this gritty, “truly hilarious” mystery (Kirkus Reviews).   Former Chicago police detective Lacey Lockington isn’t much for small talk. But when he hears ex-CIA agent Rufe Devereaux is coming to town, he looks forward to arguing baseball with his old drinking buddy. Unfortunately, Rufe is involved in a more sinister kind of game—one that gets him killed shortly after his arrival. And as Lacey is about to find out, the other players aren’t playing around.   The moment Lacey start investigating, he finds himself chased by the Mafia, the CIA, and a homicidal politician-turned-evangelist. And “help” arrives in the sultry form of a KGB agent named Natasha. He knows he’s in over his head. Because what starts as a search for the truth quickly becomes a desperate race for survival taking him from the gritty bars of Chicago to Miami’s cocaine-filled underbelly and culminating in “a slam-bang ending” (Publishers Weekly).   “Spencer keeps the plot racing with amusing dialogue.” —Publishers Weekly

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