In this omnibus of characteristically hilarious short stories and novels, Jeeves is for the first time shockingly employed to resolve the woes of someone other than Bertie Wooster. Contains The Mating Season, Ring for Jeeves and Very Good, Jeeves.

    Once there he slipped so easily into Deric and Aileen's lives that there was an unspoken agreement that he had found his real home. Little did he know that he had entered the Longden world, in which the unexpected (almost) always happens. . .Aileen being Aileen, it was probably inevitable that sooner or later the kitten would be trapped in the refrigerator. And Deric being Deric, the obvious way to thaw him back to life was to make a little coat for him out of a shrunken thermal vest. Thus the cat who came in from the cold got his name - Thermal - and joined the wonderful cast of characters in the ongoing Longden saga.

    Also meet hunting dog Strange, dog delinquent, whose prey of choice is year-old roadkill. Readers of McManus's humor column in Outdoor Life will enjoy his observations on the joys of pig-back riding, workshop puttering, and Sasquatch ducking. So will those who, like McManus's wife Bun, appreciate nature most from the window of a seven-story luxury hotel.Contents:Controlling My LifeStrange Meets Matilda JeanTough Guys Don't BirdA Good Deed Goes WrongThe Fishing BoxSocial SkillsThe ClownA Good Night's SleepA Brief History of Giving (1942-89)Pouring My OwnTeenagers From HellSecret PlacesPutteringSearch and - Uh - RescueThe BustReal Ponies Don't Go Oink!Blood SausageCrash Dive!My Abduction by Creatures From Space, for What It's WorthPhantom of the WoodsThe Piano LessonZumbo and the Misty Mountain GhostsThe Road HunterWhy Is It?The Late Great FourthCamping In

    She was first featured in Diana's Story, which Longden wrote some years after his wife's death. Now the author's mother appears as the central character in this book, which takes the story forward to the time after Diana's death, and also back to Deric Longden's childhood. She makes her eccentric way through Marks & Spencer, converses with her two cats, offers comments on the fresh developments in her son's life, and finally endures the stroke that led eventually to her death.

    Yet most of us utter that sound every day. And have used it all our lives...Uh-oh is way up near the top of a list of small syllables with large meanings...Uh-oh...is a frame of mind. A philosophy. It says to expect the unexpected., and also expect to be able to deal with it as it happens most of the time. Uh-oh people seem not only to expect surprise, but they count on it, as if surprise were a dimension of vitality."These words from the opening of Uh-oh describe a special vitality that, in fact, infuses the writings of Robert Fulghum with the incomparable joie de vivre and sense of wonder that have made his books, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten and It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It, modern classic, translated into twenty-five languages.In this third volume, Fulghum explores a variety of subjects from both sides of the refrigerator door—from meatloaf to the Salvation Army Band, from fireflies to funerals, from hiccups to a watch without hands. One again, Fulghum celebrates everyday life in all its richness, subtly weaving a theme of balance throughout, balance between the mundane and the holy, between humor and grief, and between what is and what might be.

    Erma Bombeck, whose books have sold more than 15 million copies, takes her show on the road with this devastatingly witty and quintessentially Bombeckian book about family travel--here and abroad.

    For the first time between the covers of one book, these are the complete Adrian Mole diaries, taking him from 13 3/4 to 23 3/4.

    The former is a psychological thriller set in the Hollywood of the 1940s, while the latter reinvents the 1930s gangster film.

    Her only commandment: "Be Kind". Her challenge: To save a world not eager to be saved. An enchanting, humorous, timely novel, in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and Tom Robbins, about our culture of celebrity and spirituality on the brink of the Millennium.

    Michael Leunig contributes cartoons and drawings to various papers and magazines in Australia, including the "Melbourne Age". His work has appeared in "Woman's Day" and "London Oz".

    No agonizing choices between light reading and the serious stuff. This little volume has it all: Entertainment, humor, education, trivia, science, history, pop culture...and more! And it's even divided by length-you can spend a minute with the Quickies, relax with Normal-Length articles, or really get comfortable with Long Items.With Uncle John's Bathroom Reader strategically placed in your home, you'll settle in happily and read about:-The origin of common words and phrases-The 7 wonders of the ancient world-The origin of Ronald -Elvis's letter to Richard Nixon-The curse of King Tut-World-class winners & losers-Famous pirates-And a host of great bathroom topics

    Mama Sue, Papa Joe and the kids prepare a fiery pot of stew for visiting Aunt Tootie.

    With his sidekick Baldrick he begins his journey through the ages.

    J. O'Rourke's savagely funny and national best-seller Parliament of Whores has become a classic in understanding the workings of the American political system. Originally written at the end of the Reagan era, this new edition includes an extensive foreword by the renowned political writer Andrew Ferguson -- showing us that although the names and the players have changed, the game is still the same. Parliament of Whores is an exuberant, broken-field run through the ethical foibles, pork-barrel flimflam, and bureaucratic bullrorfle inside the Beltway that leaves no sacred cow unskewered and no politically correct sensitivities unscorched.

    As chunky as its subject, chock full of hilarious full-color illustrations, Santa Claus's strictly unauthorized biography contains a ho, ho, ho--or an oh, oh, oh--on every page. 125 full-color illustrations.

    

    . . Bart as a baby! Marge as a pre-teen! Homer with hair! Grampa with teeth! and . . . a potato grown in the shape of Millard Fillmore!Don't laugh! Take the bait!It's the definitive memoir of an all-American nuclear family.

    "Bawdy, bitter, very funny...Jenkins's farewell salute to big-time sportswriting is a tell-all novel that deflates the hype around each and every event, from the Olympics to the Kentucky Derby to Wimbledon (Kirkus Reviews).

    Jon is breaking all records for standing, sitting, or lying down boredom. And Jon's apathy is really starting to bug Garfield! It's clear to him that Jon needs friends, Jon needs excitement, Jon needs . . . a life!As Jon and Garfield set off in search of excitement, what they find are lots of laughs, plus a few important lessons about love and loyalty.Of course Garfield knows the secret to a happy life: you just take it one meal at a time!

    Features George Burns, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams, Lily Tomlin, Billy Crystal, Bob Hope, and many others. Photographs.

    His fantastic life readily accommodates hatchet men and sentimentalists, moralists and aesthetes. There is food enough for every prejudice. Moreover, the few objective appraisals succeed only in deepening enigma and compounding the paradox. Fore Wilde created a fiction out of his life and a life out of his fiction. And all the Freuds in the world cannot reduce this ill-fated meteor to a case history. Something elusive and tantalizing will remain always. The sum of his parts is never quite equal to the whole man. Perhaps only a Euripides might envision the total truth. One thing is certain, however: much of his work will endure. And in these five major plays-The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and Salomé-he bequeathed to us a unique legacy whose coruscating wit and brilliance will never tarnish.Complete and Unabridged

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    A must read for writers interested in the field of screenwriting for film and television.

    One by one they find their way into a mysterious valley filled with wonderful and terrifying creatures. The first chapter in the exciting adventure that became a worldwide graphic novel phenomenon!

    Accompanying each of these wonderful photos is a CV (cat vita) giving the name, age, breed and place of business, as well as comments from the owners.

    Key Story; The Ballad of Peanut Butter; Winged Motivational Products; Twelfth Street Tag; The Old Shower Stall; Am I Boring?; Adversity; Bob Wilson Month; Mavis & Marvin Smiley; American Music Association; Losing Your Job; Vanilla; How Does Our Brain Work?; Dad Angel; Old Folks at Home Cottage Cheese; Swanee Tag; The Announcer; Tuna the Food of My Soul

    Matching the raven-haired beauty's courage is the one man who can lay claim to her proud heart--Jason Kincaid, a bold and dashing patriot who fearlessly distributes banned pamphlets in the guise of the notorious Devilrider.

    Jerome. Written in his own inimitable style, this marvellous selection of stories includes the funniest episodes from Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel, as well as many hilarious pieces from other works not currently in print. Those new to Jerome's work will delight in such minor comic masterpieces as 'The Polite Art of Buying Boots', 'The Man Who Was a Hospital', 'How to Go to Bed in Germany' and 'How to be Healthy and Unhappy', while those who are committed fans will have the chance to rekindle forgotten pleasures. No one who likes to laugh should be without this book.

    Jamieson's third novel, an experimental 'soapoperama' covers a day and a night in the life of a nameless narrator who conjures out of his existence the interlinked stories of three young people - Ray, Helen and Douglas. The drama centres on the character's varying involvement with the drug world and explores the legacy of the sixties to the youth of today.

    Australian political satire