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  We're Just Like You Only...

  Celia Rivenbark

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  In this collection of essays Celia Rivenbark shows how to be a true Southerner. For starters, don't forget that Chuck E. Cheese's is a place where a kid can be a kid—while mommie gets hammered on watered-down Bud Light. And never marry your cousin—unless he's got cable.

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  Dirty Yiddish - Everyday Slang...

  Adrienne Gusoff

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  Next time you’re chattin’ with your khaverim (friends) and mishpukheh (family), bust out some Yiddish expressions that’ll liven up the conversation. 
   
  Nothing is censored in Dirty Yiddish. It includes phrases for any situation, so readers have enough chutzpah (balls) to tell the local deli that they’ve waited long enough for their knish, and explicit swear words crude enough to shock Bubby and everyone else at the Passover seder. There’s even vulgar sex terminology so graphic it puts the outspoken Lower East Side princesses to shame. Bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including cool slang, funny insults, explicit sex terms, and raw swear words.  
   
    
   
  Dirty Yiddish teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of New York . . . What’s up? Vos makhst du?Crazy bastard! Meshuggeneh momzer!I’m hammered. Ikh bin fershikkert.Don’t fuck with me! Bareh mikh nit!I have the shits. Ikh hob a shittern mogn.Lick my pussy. Lekh meyn lokh.Was it good for you? Tsufreedn?

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  Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man

  Mark Twain

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  Mark Twain (Samuel Lengkhorn Clemens) was an outstanding American writer, journalist, and public figure. "Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man" by Mark Twain was published in "Sketches New and Old " in 1875. In this story the author speculates on the family happiness. The author receives a letter from a young lady named Aurelia. She is in a quandary as to whether she should marry a young gentleman, who has a problem of loosing his body parts. The first time the very day before the wedding he catches smallpox and his face gets pitted. After that, the young man loses one of his legs. Finally, he loses his eye before the wedding-day. After Mark Twain has thought the matter over carefully  he  gives the lady a piece of advice. Which one? Get acquainted  with "Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man" to know it! This story combines wise thoughts  and humour. Enjoy the brilliant style of the outstanding American writer. "Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man" will put you in good spirits.A SmartTouch Media production.

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  A Parthenon on our roof -...

  Peter Barber

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  Alexandra, a product of Greek Fire. Born into the cradle of civilization. Weaned on the teachings of ancient Greek philosophers, thrilled by the bravery of Spartans and thousands of years of cultural heritage. 
  Peter, her future husband, a tea-drinking, digestive-dunking product of British society. Working to make a living with no real ambitions or dreams. But then, he fell in love. Everything changed. 
  At times hilarious, always embarrassing, Peter's story of how he became Greek enough to live with a Greek family includes a near-death experience on a mountain road, eccentric aunts, Greek bureaucracy, melting flip-flops, and the decision to demolish the much-loved family home, replacing it with a five-storey apartment block, complete with a Parthenon on the roof terrace. 
  To cap it all, someone thought it a good idea to put Peter in charge of the rebuild project, despite not speaking a word of Greek. 
  What could possibly go wrong?

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  Conditions of Unconditional Love

  Alexander McCall Smith

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  In this latest installment of the beloved Isabel Dalhousie series, Isabel finds herself navigating tricky problems both public and personal“McCall Smith’s assessments of fellow humans are piercing and profound . . . [His] depictions of Edinburgh are vivid and seamless.” —San Francisco ChronicleIsabel Dalhousie, everyone's favorite moral philosopher, is once again called on to help navigate a decidedly delicate dispute with all of the insight and compassion she has become known for. What makes Isabel's investigations so unique is her uncanny ability to view all sides of a situation with coolness and reserve — and she will tap deep into her stores of both in order to help see this one through. Meanwhile, Isabel and her husband Jamie will together be dealing with tricky personal issues of their own. Philosophical observations and humorous asides abound in this fifteenth installment of the beloved series.

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  Car Talk: The Hatchback of Notre...

  Tom Magliozzi

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  The Hatchback of Notre Dame includes many memorable Car Talk classics, including Morley Safer of CBS's Sixty Minutes, displaying a downright embarrassing obsession with his Peugeot, and space shuttle astronaut John Grunsfeld, who calls from Hawaii. (Well, 700 miles over Hawaii, actually). And, there's one of Click and Clack's all-time favorite callers, their pal Dave from Bemidji, sharing the sordid tale of his journey to Alaska.

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