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Laughing matters: a celebration of American humor
Par Gene Shalit. 1987
An anthology of American humour that includes the works of Mark Twain, Woody Allen, Garrison Keillor, Ogden Nash, Garry Trudeau,…
Jack Benny and the Marx Brothers. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. c1987.Exercices de style
Par Raymond Queneau. 1995
Enter laughing: the early years
Par Neil Crone. 2013
Kitchener's men: the King's Own Royal Lancasters on the Western Front, 1915-1918
Par John Hutton. 2008
This text provides an account of the raising, training and fighting experiences of the Service and Territorial battalions of the…
King's Own Royal Lancasters in France during the Great War. It gives a graphic insight into the daily routine and grim reality of warfare on the Western Front. 2008.Kid confidential: an insider's guide to grown-ups
Par Monte Montgomery. 2012
Let’s face it: Being a kid isn’t easy. Compared to adults, kids are inexperienced, powerless, and short. Just as it…
would be irresponsible to send travellers to a strange city without a map, it would be wrong to let defenceless kids navigate a world inhabited by parents, teachers, and other adults without an in-depth guide to how the older (although not necessarily smarter) half lives. This book explores the strangest and most mysterious facets of adult life, such as: What do teachers really talk about in the teacher’s lounge? And how can adults stand to drink a beverage as disgusting as coffee? With tongue-in-cheek sidebars and tips for good-natured trickery throughout, this fully loaded guide will be a “must have” for every kid. Grades 4-7. 2012.Collected tarts and other indelicacies
Par Tabatha Southey. 2017
Tabatha Southey is possessed of the wisdom of the ages. She understands the psychological struggles of shadowy Russian pee traffickers.…
She recognizes the PR benefits of puppy-throwing. She has deeply considered the moral quandaries presented by sea-slug penises. She even knows her own bra size (really, please stop asking). Showcases the many lessons learned from over a decade of column writing. For example, you don't want to piss off the jazz enthusiasts. And you really, really don't want to piss off the homeopaths. Along with these thorny issues, Southey has covered the most pressing topics of our times, from the struggles of having an unusually handsome prime minister to the impending dystopic future faced by the Trump United States and Casino Resort. 2017. Uniform title: Newspaper columns.It's always darkest before the fridge door opens: Finding Joy In The Cold Places Of Life
Par Phil Callaway, Martha Bolton. 2006
It's raining pigs & noodles: poems
Par Jack Prelutsky. 2000
A collection of more than one hundred humorous poems with titles such as "Deep in Our Refrigerator," "Butterflies, You Puzzle…
Me," "We Are Plooters," and every child's lament, "Why Do I Have to Clean My Room?" For grades 2-4. 2000.If it's a jungle out there, why do I have to mow the lawn?
Par Joey Slinger. 1992
Slinger, a humourist and columnist with the "Toronto Star," has collected some of his columns on the subject of "urban…
ecology." They are arranged by groups like "Endangered species," "Field marks," and "Animal behaviour." 1992.Into the blizzard: walking the fields of the Newfoundland dead
Par Michael Winter. 2014
Michael Winter’s narrative follows two parallel journeys: the first is that of the young men who came from Newfoundland’s outports,…
fields, villages and narrow city streets to join the storied regiment that led many of them to their deaths at Beaumont-Hamel during the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916. The second is the author’s, taken a century later as he walks in the footsteps of the dead men to discover what remains of their passage across land and through memory. Part unconventional history, part memoir-travelogue, part philosophical inquiry, the author uniquely captures the extraordinary lives and landscapes, both in Europe and at home, scarred by a war that is just now disappearing from living memory. 2014.I'd rather we got casinos, and other Black thoughts: And Other Black Thoughts
Par Larry Wilmore. 2009
Within these pages are the musings, the revelations, the ruminations, and the reflections of comic Larry Wilmore. Here, collected for…
the first time, all in one place, are his Black Thoughts. From why black weathermen make him feel happy (or sad) and why brothas don't see UFOs to his search for Black Jesus or his quest to replace "African-American" with "chocolate". 2009.I'm not really here
Par Tim Allen. 1996
Known for his starring role in the sitcom Home Improvement, Allen humorously describes an unusual weekend. Alone while his wife…
and daughter have gone camping, he puzzles over "the big questions" brought on by his midlife crisis--while he searches for a missing hood ornament. Strong language. 1996.I love my computer because my friends live in it: stories from an online life
Par Jess Kimball Leslie. 2017
From accounts of the lawless chat rooms of early AOL to the perpetual high school reunions that are modern-day Facebook…
and Instagram, the essays paint a clear picture: That all of us have a much more twisted, meaningful, emotional relationship with the online world than we realize or let on. Coming of age in suburban Connecticut in the late '80s and early '90s, Jess looked to the nascent Internet to find the tribes she couldn't find IRL: fellow Bette Midler fans; women who seemed impossibly sure of their sexuality; people who worked with computers every day as part of their actual jobs without being ridiculed as nerds. It's in large part because of her embrace of an online life that Jess is where she is now, happily married, with a wife, son, and dog, and making a living of analyzing Internet trends and forecasting the future of tech. 2017.A collection of humorous essays dealing with marriage, children, the national anthem, lettuce, and other suburban, domestic concerns. Bombeck asks…
"Who killed apple pie?" and instructs readers "How to speak child fluently". 1978.I lost everything in the post-natal depression
Par Erma Bombeck. 1973
I'll seize the day tomorrow
Par Jonathan Goldstein. 2012
The epic story of Goldstein’s journey to find some great truth on his road to age forty. The host of…
CBC’s WireTap recounts the highs and lows of his last year in his thirties. Throughout the year, Goldstein asks weighty questions that would stump a person less seasoned. For instance: What is it about a McRib that drives people crazy? Can we replace extending an olive leaf with extending an olive jar? How much wisdom can we glean from episodes of Welcome Back, Kotter? His friends and family weigh in with hilarious results as Goldstein eats, sleeps, and watches bad TV all the way to his date with destiny. 2012.I totally meant to do that
Par Jane Borden. 2011
Jane Borden was reared in a proper Southern home in Greensboro, North Carolina, sent to boarding school in Virginia, and…
then went on to join a sorority in Chapel Hill. She next moved to New York and discovered that none of this grooming meant a lick to anyone. The result of this epiphany is her musings on the intersections of and altercations between Southern hospitality and Gotham cool. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2011.Earth (the audiobook): a visitor's guide to the human race
Par Jon Stewart. 2010
Where do we come from? Who created us? Why are we here? These questions have puzzled us since the dawn…
of time, but when it became apparent to Jon Stewart and the writers of The Daily Show that the world was about to end, they embarked on a massive mission to write a book that summed up the human race: what we looked like; what we accomplished in society, government, religion, science and culture. 2010.Eats, shoots & leaves: the zero tolerance approach to punctuation
Par Lynne Truss. 2004
Who would have thought a book about punctuation could cause such a stir? This spirited and wittily instructional little volume…
was a huge bestseller. You don't need to be a grammar nerd to enjoy this book. 2003.Hell's corner: an illustrated history of Canada's Great War, 1914-1918
Par J. L Granatstein. 2004
In the triumphs of their victories and the horrors of their losses, Canadian combatants first tested their military skills on…
the battlefields of Europe. Granatstein, one of Canada's master historians, tells the story of how Canada became involved in World War I, how it fought the war, and how it emerged from that conflict a stronger and more unified nation. Some descriptions of sex, violence and strong language. 2004.