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Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1940
Physical Desc
312 p.
Language
English
Description
These wonderfully funny short stories feature a cast of outrageous characters, all plotting to save themselves from wedlock, poverty, or ignominy, with various degrees of success. This recording includes the following stories: 'All's Well with Bingo,' 'Bingo and the Peke Crisis,' 'The Editor Regrets,' 'Sonny Boy,' 'Anselm Gets His Chance,' 'Romance at Droitgate Spa,' 'A Bit of Luck for Mabel,' 'Buttercup Day,' and 'Ukridge and the Old Stepper.'
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hayley Mills stars as Susan and Sharon, identical twins separated at birth, and neither twin knows the other exists until a twist of fate finds them at the same summer camp. In Parent Trap II Sharon is a grown woman with a mischievous daughter Nikki, who turns into a scheming matchmaker to get her mother together with her friend's widowed father.
Publisher
Columbia (Usa)
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Marcus Burnett is now a police inspector and Mike Lowery is in a midlife crisis. They unite again when an Albanian mercenary, whose brother they killed, promises them an important bonus.
64) In dog we trust
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Jocelyn Hilliard is named legal guardian for the late Mr. Allardyce's pack of pedigreed Labrador retrievers, her world is flipped upside down. She's spent her entire life toiling in the tourism industry in Black Dog Bay and never expected to be living the pampered life of a seasonal resident in an ocean side mansion, complete with a generous stipend. But her new role isn't without its challenges: the dogs (although lovable) are more high maintenance...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First United States Edition.
Physical Desc
238 p.
Language
English
Description
"Perplexing, unfathomable, and perhaps unimportant, the cases that Malmo's Department of Sensitive Crimes take on will test them to their limits. Life--and crime--is not always as it seems for Ulf Varg and the other fearless detectives in Malmo's Department of Sensitive Crimes. There are always surprising new cases to take on, and the latest batch is no exception. And that's not to mention Ulf's struggle to contain his feelings for his colleague Anna...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory memoir that delivers a powerful message of hope and persistence. In an extraordinary story that only he could tell, Matthew Perry takes readers onto the soundstage of the most successful sitcom of all time while opening up about his private struggles with addiction. Candid, self-aware, and told with his trademark...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Millions of people visit Randall Munroe's website each week. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have an enormous following as do his deeply researched answers to his fans' strangest questions. This book features the most popular answers to many of the questions he receives.
71) Candide
Author
Series
Publisher
The Franklin Library
Pub. Date
1979
Physical Desc
154 p. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow, painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not rejecting optimism outright, advocating a deeply practical precept, "we must cultivate our garden", in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, "all is for the best" in the "best of all possible worlds".
Candide is characterised by its...
Author
Series
Miss Julia volume 18
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Description
When Miss Julia is named executrix of Miss Mattie Freeman's estate, she finds the task complicated when a young man claiming to be Mattie's great-nephew arrives and demands to stay in her apartment.
Publisher
Mad Books
Pub. Date
c2015
Physical Desc
205 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
For more than a century, MAD has satirized politics, celebrity, pop culture, sports and everything else in between. But for its first 23 issues, MAD existed as a comic book that spoofed other comic books. This volume is a compilation of Will Elder's illustrations for his work in MAD comics for issues #1-23.
Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
c2015
Physical Desc
64 pages : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1975 Saturday Night Live came out of the gate swinging, with a daring, bold, and rebellious vibe that was new to television back then. With a cast of comedic actors known as the Not Ready for Prime Time Players, television producer Lorne Michaels launched a style of live television comedy that appealed specifically to young viewers with a taste for questioning authority-and that style stood the test of time. From hilarious characters-the Conehead...
Author
Series
Wildstone volume 3
Language
English
Description
Discovering that her late husband had been living a double life, Lanie struggles to trust again when she falls for an Air Force veteran and member of the boisterous Capriotti winery family.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Follows three under appreciated and over burdened women as they rebel against the challenges and expectations of the Super Bowl for moms: Christmas. If creating a more perfect holiday for their families wasn't hard enough, they have to do all of that while hosting and entertaining their own mothers.
79) Dog days
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the latest diary of middle-schooler Greg Heffley, he records his attempts to spend his summer vacation sensibly indoors playing video games and watching television, despite his mother's other ideas.