Best of
Comedy
1984
'Toons for Our Times: A Bloom County Book of Heavy Meadow Rump 'n Roll
Berkeley Breathed - 1984
No Coins, Please
Gordon Korman - 1984
Dennis is in heaven - he thinks he and his friend Rob have scored the perfect summer jobs. But Rob quickly points out what Dennis never factored in - the group of boys they're now completely responsible for. That includes Artie Geller - Donald Trump in a 10-year-old's body. Artie gives his counsellors the slip whenever possible to set up new business opportunities. Dennis and Rob soon learn they can't control Artie, and that they have to hide every one of his schemes from the tour boss to protect their own skins.Visions of beautiful female counsellors are replaced by visions of bankruptcy... and the FBI.
James Herriot - If Only They Could Talk/It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet/ Let Sleeping Vets Lie/ Vet in Harness/Vets Might Fly/Vet in a Spin
James Herriot - 1984
IBSN 0 86273 172 0This the same book listed on above IBSN but with Book Art Work
The Adrian Mole Diaries
Sue Townsend - 1984
The difference, though, between young Master Mole and his peers is that this British lad keeps a diary - an earnest chronicle of longing and disaster that has charmed more than five million readers since its two-volume initial publication. From teen-aged Adrian's anguished adoration of a lovely, mercurial schoolmate to his view of his parents' constantly creaking relationship to his heartfelt but hilarious attempts at cathartic verse, here is an outrageous triumph of deadpan - and deadly accurate - satire. ABBA, Princess Di's wedding, street punks, Monty Python, the Falklands campaign . . . all the cultural pageantry of a keenly observed era marches past the unique perspective of Sue Townsend's brilliant comic creation: A . Mole, the unforgettable lad whose self-absorption only gets funnier as his life becomes more desperate.
Garfield: His 9 Lives
Jim DavisValette Hildebrand - 1984
. . 9 times!Cave Cat—the first cat crawled out of the sea 10 million years ago. He was happy to be out of the water—until he met Big Bob!The Vikings—he was big, he was mean, he was a Viking. Garfield the Orange had looted a lot of cities, but none like St. Paul, Minnesota.Babes and Bullets—Sam Spayed wasn’t the best private investigator in the world, but he did have one terrific thing going for him—a secretary who made a great cup of coffee.The Exterminators—no mouse was safe from the exterminators. Catching mice was their life. It wasn’t a pretty job—especially the way they did it.Lab Animal—Specimen 19-GB was not happy at the prospect of being dissected, so he did something about it. What happened set the federal government on its ear.The Garden—life was a carefree romp among hovering harmonicas for Cloey and the orange kitten . . . until they confronted the crystal box.Primal Self—he was an ordinary house cat leading an ordinary existence. A shadowy memory from another time changed all that.Garfield—the marvelous cat we all know and love. This is his life in a nutshell.Space Cat—he was lost in space with a computer built by the lowest bidder. And, he was not about to let his life slip away that easily.
Herman: The Fourth Treasury
Jim Unger - 1984
Herman is Everyman--he's a doctor, a waiter, a loan applicant, a duck, a Hun, even a she! He's that invariably hapless goof who wears a bow tie on his head and removable feet on his legs.Join the millions who already read Herman and become a new fan with Herman: The Fourth Treasury.
Elvis is Dead And I Don't Feel So Good Myself
Lewis Grizzard - 1984
For Lewis Grizzard, gallivanting meant hanging out at the store eating Zagnut bars -- the worst thing a kid ever did was slick back his hair in a ducktail and try gyrating like Elvis. But the '60s exploded with assassinations, terrorism, free love, Vietnam and drugs. In place of Elvis, the Pied Piper of his generation, scuzzy Liverpudlians performed half-naked or in costumes straight from Zasu Pitts. ELVIS IS DEAD AND I DON'T FEEL SO GOOD MYSELF is Grizzard's account of coping with a changing world. We may not feel so good ourselves, but Grizzard's commentary and humor help make us feel better." (Publishers Source)
Manners from Heaven: A Divine Guide to Good Behaviour
Quentin Crisp - 1984
The Donkey's Gift
Thomas M. Coffey - 1984
A strong, rebellious donkey with a checkered career is sold to a man named Joseph, and during a journey to Bethlehem proves a great help to him and his pregnant wife Mary.
The Illustrated Winespeak: Ronald Searle's Wicked World of Winetasting
Ronald Searle - 1984
It has since been constantly reprinted to meet demand and has become a classic of its kind. For all those mystified by the strange pontifications of wine-buffs, Ronald Searle's The Illustrated Winespeak is the perfect guide to the meaning behind "distinctive nose", "full bodied" and "elegant but lacks backbone".
McBroom's Almanac
Sid Fleischman - 1984
Entries in McBroom's almanac include farm tips, how-to's, McProverbs, nature lore, cartoons, and McBroom's Calendar of Important Dates.
More Than a Month of Sundays: A for Better or for Worse Sunday Collection
Lynn Johnston - 1984
Games Magazine Big Book of Games
Ronnie Shushan - 1984
Mixing off the wall humor with on-the-ball logical puzzles, here is a thousand hours of brainteasers and word twisters in one giant book. From Think-and-Blink to Eyeball Benders, from Dszquphsbnt! to Sequences, each page is a winner for both aces and amateurs. A special 32-page section in full color presents artistically pleasing and logically enigmatic labyrinthine dilemmas. (Try dodging the hidden cameras in the three-dimensional maze.) Answers are revealed in the back of the book. Selection of the Literary Guild. 356,000 copies in print.
Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home
Dave Barry - 1984
He examines the new federal law requiring prospective fathers to free themselves from their self-made macho prisons--to laugh, cry, love and just generally behave like certified wimps.Dave also reveals, for the first time in print, the secret chant for painless childbirth.Then learn why no secret chant could possibly take a woman's mind off the fact that she is in such pain that she wants a gigantic comet to crash into the earth and kill her and her husband and the dotor and the nurses and everyone else in the world.