More Great Aussie Jokes

More Great Aussie Jokes
Author: Five Mile Press Pty Limited, The
Publisher:
Total Pages: 287
Release: 1999
Genre: Australian wit and humor
ISBN: 9781741781434

More Great Aussie Jokes

More Great Aussie Jokes
Author: Five Mile Press Pty. Limited, The
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2002
Genre: Australian wit and humor
ISBN: 9781865036663

Hola Papi

Hola Papi
Author: John Paul Brammer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2022-06-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1982141514

The popular LGBTQ advice columnist and writer presents a memoir-in-essays chronicling his journey growing up as a queer, mixed-race kid in America's heartland to becoming the "Chicano Carrie Bradshaw" of his generation.

Brown Girl Dreaming

Brown Girl Dreaming
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2016-10-11
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0147515823

Jacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner is a powerful memoir that tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. A President Obama "O" Book Club pick Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child’s soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson’s eloquent poetry also reflects the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, despite the fact that she struggled with reading as a child. Her love of stories inspired her and stayed with her, creating the first sparks of the gifted writer she was to become. Includes 7 additional poems, including "Brown Girl Dreaming." Praise for Jacqueline Woodson: "Ms. Woodson writes with a sure understanding of the thoughts of young people, offering a poetic, eloquent narrative that is not simply a story . . . but a mature exploration of grown-up issues and self-discovery.”—The New York Times Book Review

Elements of Wit

Elements of Wit
Author: Benjamin Errett
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2014-10-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0698153863

Got wit? We’ve all been in that situation where we need to say something clever, but innocuous; smart enough to show some intelligence, without showing off; something funny, but not a joke. What we need in that moment is wit—that sparkling combination of charm, humor, confidence, and most of all, the right words at the right time. Elements of Wit is an engaging book that brings together the greatest wits of our time, and previous ones from Oscar Wilde to Nora Ephron, Winston Churchill to Christopher Hitchens, Mae West to Louis CK, and many in between. With chapters covering the essential ingredients of wit, this primer sheds light on how anyone—introverts, extroverts, wallflowers, and bon vivants—can find the right zinger, quip, parry, or retort…or at least be a little bit more interesting.

Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling!

Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling!
Author: Emer McLysaght
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2017-08-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 071717980X

Aisling is twenty-eight and she's a complete ... Aisling. She lives at home in Ballygobbard (or Ballygobackwards, as some gas tickets call it) with her parents and commutes to her good job at PensionsPlus in Dublin. Aisling goes out every Saturday night with her best friend Majella, who is a bit of a hames (she's lost two phones already this year – Aisling has never lost a phone). They love hoofing into the Coors Light if they're 'Out', or the vodka and Diet Cokes if they re 'Out Out'. Ais spends two nights a week at her boyfriend John's. He's from down home and was kiss number seventeen at her twenty-first. But Aisling wants more. She wants the ring on her finger. She wants the hen with the willy straws. She wants out of her parents' house, although she'd miss Mammy turning on the electric blanket like clockwork and Daddy taking her car 'out for a spin' and bringing it back full of petrol. When a week in Tenerife with John doesn't end with the expected engagement, Aisling calls a halt to things and soon she has surprised herself and everyone else by agreeing to move into a three-bed in Portobello with stylish Sadhbh from HR and her friend, the mysterious Elaine. Newly single and relocated to the big city, life is about to change utterly for this wonderful, strong, surprising and funny girl, who just happens to be a complete Aisling.