The Man Who Cancelled Himself

The Man Who Cancelled Himself
Author: David Handler
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 581
Release: 2012-06-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1453259732

A witty amateur sleuth deals with a disgraced sitcom star and a deadly mystery: “Great fun” (Publishers Weekly). Lyle Hednut, known to America as Uncle Chubby, has been the top draw in television comedy for three seasons straight. He is three hundred pounds of good humor and wholesome charm, beloved by children and adults alike until the day the police find him enjoying the show at the wrong kind of movie theater in Times Square. The arrest destroys his image, but his sitcom is too popular for the network to shut down. About to start production on the fourth season, he decides to tell his side of the story, and hires Stewart Hoag—failed novelist and ghostwriter for the disgraced—to do the writing. Hoagy quickly sees that Uncle Chubby’s cheer is no more than an act. The comedy icon is thin-skinned, irrational, and prone to rage. With a man like that in charge of a TV show, it won’t be long before comedy violence turns into the real thing.

Dude

Dude
Author: G. B. Trudeau
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2005-12
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0740755366

Presents selections from the Doonesbury cartoons from Zonker Harris's formative years as a freaked-out college student to his legendary status as a surfer, nanny, and former sun god.

A Serpentine Path

A Serpentine Path
Author: Carol P. Christ
Publisher: FAR Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2016-12-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1457545969

A Serpentine Path: Mysteries of the Goddess is Carol P. Christ’s moving memoir of her journey from death to rebirth and regeneration, culminating on the first Goddess Pilgrimage to Crete. Having left behind the male God of traditional religion who rules the world from outside it, Christ hopes that the Goddess can help her manifest her heart’s desires. Deeply disappointed, she discovers the Goddess as a personal presence who is always with her and every other individual in the world, but whose power is not omnipotence. The mystery of the Goddess is revealed at the ancient site of Kato Zakros in Crete as the dance of life: a serpentine path with no beginning and no end, into the darkness, into the light, and back again. Thea-logy, reflection on the meaning of Goddess, emerges from and takes root in a woman’s embodied experience, inspiring others to join the dance.

ExecTV

ExecTV
Author: David A. Brensilver
Publisher: ENC Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2005
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0975254030

Fast-forwarding Reality TV to its logical extreme, an unemployed documentary filmmaker extraordinaire arranges to have an execution broadcast live on pay-per-view television, in as flamboyant a form as his bizarre vision can conjure to amuse the masses.

African American Slang

African American Slang
Author: Maciej Widawski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2015-03-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1107074177

A pioneering exploration of form, meaning, theme and function in African American slang, illustrated with thousands of contextual examples.

The Best Man Problem

The Best Man Problem
Author: Mariah Ankenman
Publisher: Entangled: Lovestruck
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2020-01-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1682815269

Lilly Walsh is used to keeping things buttoned-up and aboveboard. After all, the last time she hooked up with someone in a wedding party, it nearly cost her her wedding planning business. Thankfully, those rules don’t apply when she meets a handsome stranger in a hotel bar. One bad pirate joke leads to the best night of her life, but come morning, she’s got a wedding to plan. Lincoln Reid never imagined he’d see the woman who rocked his world last night and then ran out on him ever again. But there she is, planning his best friend’s wedding with the same passion and drive that brought him to his knees. She’s adamant that wedding planner and best man can never mix, but that just means he’s got four weeks to make her see him as more than just a one-night guy. Because he’s itching for more than one night...or five, or ten...

Slam Dunks and No-Brainers

Slam Dunks and No-Brainers
Author: Leslie Savan
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2006-10-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0375702423

In this marvelously original book, three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Leslie Savan offers fascinating insights into why we’re all talking the talk—Duh; Bring it on!; Bling; Whatever!—and what this reveals about America today. Savan traces the paths that phrases like these travel from obscure slang to pop stardom, selling everything from cars (ads for VWs, Mitsubishis, and Mercurys all pitch them as “no-brainer”s) to wars (finding WMD in Iraq was to be a “slam dunk”). Real people create these catchy phrases, but once media, politics, and businesses broadcast them, they burst out of our mouths as celebrity words, newly glamorous and powerful. Witty, fun, and full of thought-provoking stories about the origins of popular expressions, Slam Dunks and No-Brainers is for everyone who loves the mysteries of language.

Straight Acting Gay Men

Straight Acting Gay Men
Author: Angelo Pezzote
Publisher: Kensington Books
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2008
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780758219435

The author, drawing on his years of experience as a gay psychotherapist and advice columnist (AskAngelo.com), offers practical and thoughtful relationship strategies, as well as insight into such issues as coming out, dating, avoiding players, and maintaining a satisfying sex life. Original.

Staying Happy, Healthy, and Hot

Staying Happy, Healthy, and Hot
Author: Dick Summer
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2012-10-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781475955620

In Staying Happy, Healthy and Hot, author and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame radio personality Dick Summer introduces us to his brand new Louie Louie Generation. Louie Louie Ladies and Lads dont look like the people in the beer commercials with their fancy abs and perky breasts any more. But like their theme song, they have an avalanche of attitude. Its a happy attitude. And as you know, being happy helps keep you healthy. And when youre healthy you tend to be hot. Staying Happy, Healthy And Hot is a collection of true stories about Dick Summers life as a husband, a father, a grandfather, and just an every day guy. There are stories about his days as a national broadcasting personality, his career as a hypnotherapist and his passion for flying his airplane. But mostly it tells about his long, hot romance with his wife Barbara, or as he calls her, My Lady Wonder Wench. With humor and candor, this memoir shows how one man refuses to allow all the candles on his birthday cake to set off any sprinkler system that could put out the fire in his love affair with life, and with his wife.

Skiing

Skiing
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Total Pages: 210
Release: 2006-11
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