Author : Bill Mares
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 2021-08-23
Category :
ISBN : 9781578690602
Bill Mares & Don Hooper are at it again with a history, and a potpourri, of Vermont humor, stretching back over 100 years. While re-telling some stories from previous collections, "I Could Hardly Keep from Laughing" gathers together more than a dozen modern humorists. With brilliantly novel cartoons of Don Hooper, almost all entirely new!
Author : Martine Agassi
Publisher : Free Spirit Publishing
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 47,20 MB
Release : 2014-09-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1575427788
It’s never too soon for children to learn that violence is never okay, hands can do many good things, and everyone is capable of positive, loving actions. In this bright, inviting, durable board book, simple words and full-color illustrations teach these important concepts in ways even very young children can understand. Created in response to requests from parents, preschool teachers, and childcare providers, this book belongs everywhere young children are. Includes tips for parents and caregivers.
Author : Victoria Zackheim
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 20,44 MB
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1583944087
There’s nothing funny about dying … or is there? Malachy McCourt, Jacquelyn Mitchard, and 22 more share hilarious and moving stories of confronting death. Exit Laughing makes death more approachable as it reveals the funny side of “passing on.” As painful as it is to lose a loved one, Exit Laughing shows us that in times of grief, humor can help us with coping and even healing. Best-selling author Amy Ferris explains how her mother’s dementia led to a permanent ban from an airline. Ellen Sussman writes of flying her mother's body home and watching the burial wardrobe spill out on the baggage carousel. Broadway and television actor Richard McKenzie shares the riotous story of a funeral procession led by a lost hearse. Bonnie Garvin even manages to find a heavy dose of dark humor in her parents’ three unsuccessful attempts at a double suicide. These stories, along with tales from Joshua Braff, Barbara Graham, Dianne Rinehart, and more, constitute a book whose purpose is to remind readers that when dealing with illness, aging, and dying, there is an important place for laugh-out-loud humor.
Author : Lance Rubin
Publisher : Ember
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 16,94 MB
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0525644709
A tragicomic story of bad dates, bad news, bad performances, and one girl's determination to find the funny in high school from the author of Denton Little's Deathdate. Winnie Friedman has been waiting for the world to catch on to what she already knows: she's hilarious. It might be a long wait, though. After bombing a stand-up set at her own bat mitzvah, Winnie has kept her jokes to herself. Well, to herself and her dad, a former comedian and her inspiration. Then, on the second day of tenth grade, the funniest guy in school actually laughs at a comment she makes in the lunch line and asks her to join the improv troupe. Maybe he's even . . . flirting? Just when Winnie's ready to say yes to comedy again, her father reveals that he's been diagnosed with ALS. That is . . . not funny. Her dad's still making jokes, though, which feels like a good thing. And Winnie's prepared to be his straight man if that's what he wants. But is it what he needs? Caught up in a spiral of epically bad dates, bad news, and bad performances, Winnie's struggling to see the humor in it all. But finding a way to laugh is exactly what will see her through. **A Junior Library Guild Selection**
Author : Shari MacDonald
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 27,90 MB
Release : 2008-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 031031951X
But be forewarned, once you start, you may not be able to stop! Help, I Can’t Stop Laughing! offers a collection of nonstop fun, foibles, and rib-tickling humor for those who know that laughter is the best medicine.Contributors like Barbara Johnson, Martha Bolton, Mark Lowry, Patsy Clairmont, Becky Freeman, and Chonda Pierce share their most hilarious and embarrassing moments to remind you that God’s love and a little laughter will keep you smiling no matter what curves life throws you.This cheerful collection of quips, stories, anecdotes, and quotes offers a continual source of refreshment in the midst of life’s struggles and stresses. Let the laughter begin!
Author : Talia Hunter
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 36,52 MB
Release : 2020-12-27
Category :
ISBN : 9780648534037
Author : Danielle Fuentes Morgan
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,94 MB
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252085307
By subverting comedy's rules and expectations, African American satire promotes social justice by connecting laughter with ethical beliefs in a revolutionary way. Danielle Fuentes Morgan ventures from Suzan-Lori Parks to Leslie Jones and Dave Chappelle to Get Out and Atlanta to examine the satirical treatment of race and racialization across today's African American culture. Morgan analyzes how African American artists highlight the ways that society racializes people and bolsters the powerful myth that we live in a "post-racial" nation. The latter in particular inspires artists to take aim at the idea racism no longer exists or the laughable notion of Americans "not seeing" racism or race. Their critique changes our understanding of the boundaries between staged performance and lived experience and create ways to better articulate Black selfhood. Adventurous and perceptive, Laughing to Keep from Dying reveals how African American satirists unmask the illusions and anxieties surrounding race in the twenty-first century.
Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 18,74 MB
Release : 1952
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
A novel about Black life.
Author : Ferrel Moore
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 42,26 MB
Release : 2001-01
Category :
ISBN : 0595211100
Author : Carson Boss
Publisher : LifeRich Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 37,41 MB
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1489745211
The war for souls has been raging since the dawn of humanity. And now it’s coming to a head for a young man who must stop an agent of darkness from opening a door to our dimension. Mark Banks, a nineteen-year-old freshman at the University of Maryland, has enrolled in a class on spiritual and psychic phenomena. He has had seemingly paranormal experiences that he cannot explain, and he’s doing his best to understand what’s going on. But he soon learns that he has the gift to contact those beyond the grave. This discovery leads him to an even more disturbing revelation. Now, to protect humanity and those he loves—including the young woman who has captured his heart—he will need to learn how to use his ability to slam the door shut on the forces of evil before it’s too late. In this novel, a young man with a special gift must stop an agent of darkness from entering our dimension and wreaking havoc on the souls of humankind.
