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A Laugh a Day Keeps the Doctor Away is a humor book by Irving S. Cobb. It features a collection of humorous anecdotes and stories, with a focus on the absurdity of everyday life. The book aims to bring laughter and joy to its readers and help them escape from the stresses of daily life. Through his writing, Cobb seeks to remind readers of the importance of humor and how it can improve our mental and physical well-being.
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Get the Summary of Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Eleanor Oliphant, a finance clerk with a life of solitude and routine, develops a crush on a musician, believing he could be her future husband. Her social life is nonexistent, and she is often mocked by colleagues. Eleanor's life is marked by independence, suppressed desires, and a longing for connection. She...
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Life is never dull in Little Bardon, as Kelvin Brown discovers in 'I'm not one to gossip - tales from a small village'.
The 32 short stories about characters living - and dying - in this small country village close to Essex Marshland paint a picture of a community from whom no secret is safe and no opportunity to gossip is missed.
Each story is stand-alone, but they mostly interlink in some way.
Many of the stories revolve around the pub,...
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With the new four-team English Super League dominating football, supporters Billy, Spud, Amanda and Trevor have had enough.
The four, all supporters of small clubs, have decided that they just can't sit around while their beautiful game becomes the plaything for the rich.
Frustrated, they plan to fight back and sabotage the ESL and somehow replace the big clubs with the little clubs.
But there is only one problem with this plan. How do four...
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Excerpt: "I did not need a war of nations to learn about the courage and humour of the British soldier. As a book I wrote called "Mr. Thomas Atkins" shows, I had studied and appreciated him during the thirty-one years in which I served as Chaplain to the Forces. Still, it was pleasant to read despatches and letters from the seat of war highly praising my old friend. This book is based upon the strong, clear letters of Mr. Thomas Atkins (I am never...
46) Keeping Joy
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In this stunningly insightful and humours sequel to Finding Joy, Keeping Joy explores the long terms consequences of chronic illness. Through the eyes of Joyce, Aunt Beth and Logan we follow Joyce's fight to regain her health and her freedom after nearly a decade of being housebound with Lyme disease.
47) Gingersnaps
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"The author designates her main female characters 'gingersnaps-spicy, and hard, brown and bold-women who refuse to let their cookies crumble when faced with a challenge.' All women have experiences that elicit actions that affect their relationships with each other and the men in their lives. They engage and interact in a world filled with jealousy, ambition, love, and hate, yet each possesses that inner strength to overcome adversity and rebound...
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Get the Summary of Bonnie Garmus's Lessons in Chemistry in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Lessons in Chemistry" follows the story of Elizabeth Zott, a chemist and mother in 1961, who becomes an unexpected television star with her cooking show "Supper at Six." Despite her scientific expertise, she faces sexism and professional challenges, including being nicknamed "Luscious Lizzie" by the media. Her life's trajectory...
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In Maggie Barlow's world, reality is overrated. So what if her singing career has hit a sour note or she's no longer the ingénue that she used to be? So what if she drinks and smokes a bit too much or likes to chat with a fairy godperson who appears to her from time to time? She's the queen of denial and an actress to boot-she can just take on the role of someone she likes better than her sorry self. Regrettably, that role is currently Dorothy in...
50) Lazy Boyz
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A group of friends who everyone thinks are lazy slobs turn out to be extremely wealthy.
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In one of his Independent pieces Miles Kington once referred to a volume of Edward Lear's limericks translated into French. Not an easy task, you might think, and in translating Alphonse Allais into English, Miles Kington set himself a similar challenge. He carried it off with panache. As Max Harrison said in The Times, '... has done a difficult job well, even preserving some of Allais's puns'.Alphonse Allais has been described as the greatest humorous...
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After years locked in conflict, many a cat and dog have turned to professional help for their fraught relationships. Can session time mend burnt bridges and resurrect broken trust built up between these adversaries? Joint counselling appears a wise decision back in the comfort of home - but inside the therapist's office, it may prove a catastrophe!
Follow along as age-old enemies attempt reconciling their differences under one roof. Laugh, cry and...
53) One on the House
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Flat broke at the end of their stay in New York City, Mrs. Feeley, Mrs. Rasmussen, and Miss Tinkham can only make it as far as New Jersey on their voyage back home. When they stop by a local bar for something to lift their spirits, they find it in disrepair and the owner in none too better shape himself. As desperate as they are to make it back to San Diego, it's just not in their nature to leave the poor guy there. And if they're going to lend a...
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Bruce Jay Friedman is the reigning don of the ironic comic novel. Now he triumphantly returns to the form with Violencia!, a crackling satire of show-business pomposity, flimflam, and dreck in the spirit of Mel Brooks's The Producers. Paul Gurney is a struggling civilian clerk working the desk at a major New York homicide precinct who runs a department newsletter, The Homicider, that covers the goings-on at the precinct, dispenses advice, and disseminates...
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To quote John Lennon, "Imagine." Imagine eighteen-year-old Holden Caulfield, Richie Cunningham, Otter, Bluto, Archie McNally, and Kramer all thrown backward or forward in time to the summer of 1969. Imagine if, unknown to one another, they each blindly pledge to a ruckus fraternity house at a conservative and highly respected Midwestern university. Imagine their metamorphosis from innocent and naive high school graduates with lofty aspirations to...
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Haderlump und Brezensalzer—Nun gibt es die Bayernkomödien im Doppelpack!
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Zurück zur Natur—das ist sein Vorsatz. Vor allem jetzt, wo das niederbayerische Pfarrkirchen von einer Einbruchserie heimgesucht wird, erscheint die Anschaffung eines Hundes als das geeignete Mittel. Doch anstatt für Sicherheit zu sorgen, bringt Boxerhündin Inara das Leben der ganzen Familie erst einmal gehörig durcheinander. Mit dem 'Haderlump', wie sie...
57) Future Fish
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‘ Fast, funny and freaky' Luke HealySacked from his first job in Dublin, Mark McGuire arrives in the dismal town of Ashcross to take up a new role as customer service assistant for Ireland' s second-biggest pet food brand, WellCat. From his initial impressions, it' s a toss-up whether he' ll die of misery or boredom.He couldn' t be more wrong. For starters, the improbably...
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What you're reading right now is known as the "cover copy," or "flap copy." This is where the 84,951 words of my latest book are cooked down to 350 words or less to capture your imagination.
I pondered how to do that. Should I cut to the chase and reveal pivotal plot points like the one at the end of the book where the little girl on crutches points an accusing finger and shouts, "the killer is Mr. Porter"? No. I have too much respect for you as...
59) Crashing Out
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Jacen Manson is a 'well-paid' junior doctor struggling to balance his career with love and a 'normal' life.
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From one of the sharpest observers of the modern scene, comes this witty, intelligent, and irresistible novel in the tradition of Gosford Park and Snobs.
A man of wealth and privilege, Anthony Anscombe has everything he could ever want: an exquisite family estate, enviable social standing, and a desirable inheritance. But, with all of his money and privilege, Anthony still has an aching desire for one thing: the perfect match. Running headlong into...
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