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Fiction. An overweight Mafioso wants to dance like Michael Flatley. A comedian hires an unreliable heckler to disrupt the high profile gig of a rival. A young boy develops a bizarre addiction to communion wafers. Just some of the stories from JUGGLING WITH TURNIPS. A book with very little juggling. And no turnips. JUGGLING WITH TURNIPS contains twenty-three stories of short comic fiction. It also contains one reference to Harry Dean Stanton.
'Fiercely funny stories of love, angst, dreams, delusions and failure but also a collection that is sharp, honest and true.'--Ardal O'Hanlon 'These stories spring from a reckless comic imagination, there's a marvellous and irresponsible wit to these pieces...a stubborn refusal to take reality seriously. They are superbly funny and delightfully composed. He's the real deal.'--TommyFiction. An overweight Mafioso wants to dance like Michael Flatley. A comedian hires an unreliable heckler to disrupt the high profile gig of a rival. A young boy develops a bizarre addiction to communion wafers. Just some of the stories from JUGGLING WITH TURNIPS. A book with very little juggling
Fiction. Meet Roddy Bodkin. Age 43. He has recently lost his job. His long-term girlfriend is tiring of him. He feels he is getting old and life is passing him by. Can things get any worse? Oh boy. Definitely. Yes. Because he now wants to try his hand at becoming a stand-up comedian. Set in Galway,
A darkly humorous Czech satire: a new super-breed tries to conquer the world... | War with the Newts (1936) is Karel Capek's darkly humorous allegory of early 20th-century Czech politics. Captain van Toch discovers a colony of newts in Sumatra which can not only be taught to trade and use tools, but
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It's not easy being a Provincial Lady in Devonshire in the 1920s, juggling a grumpy husband, mischievous children and a host of domestic dilemmas - from rice mould to a petulant cook. But this Provincial Lady will not be defeated; not by wayward flower bulbs, not by unexpected houseguests, not even
A classic of early modernism, Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian capitalist society. It has proved to be the most influential work in twentieth-century social science; Marx did for social science what Darwin had done for
In Freedom under the Word, top-tier scholars offer critical engagements with Karl Barth's exegesis of Christian Scripture and explore its implications for contemporary hermeneutics and biblical interpretation. Focusing on rare texts from the Barth corpus, the book considers the legacy and potential
'Penny is a major literary figure--right up there with Madame Bovary.' -- David Sedaris This colorful graphic novel features the philosophical and existential musings of a cat named Penny. Told through a collection of stories, Penny: A Graphic Memoir wanders through her colorful imagination as
This very entertaining volume with its delightfully humorous pictures should be read by all gardeners. -- NatureMr. Čapek writes with sympathy, understanding, and humor. -- The New York TimesHas a mellowness and a charm that give it a high place in the humorous literature of gardening ... will
Lunch is reserved for meetings, technology makes us available anytime, anywhere-and somewhere along the way 9-to-5 morphed into 24/7, and technology makes us available anytime, anywhere. Our demanding schedules crowd out what matters most: family, friends, even our faith. Although it may feel like
After a chance meeting with a genie in the park, young Karl travels to Farawayland where he learns that his true name is Mio, and that his real father is the king. There he receives the love that he craved, but never had, from his foster parents back in Stockholm. But an evil tyrant terrorizes the
The lowly, downtrodden Paris civil servant Jean Folantin seeks respite from the boredom and isolation of his life in the small joys of food and the occasional embraces of a prostitute. But whatever he does, wherever he turns in his quest for some pleasure, his dissatisfaction only increases, until
'How do you do it all?' That's the question that wife, mom, actress, and best-selling author Candace Cameron Bure is often asked. And it's a question that women everywhere are asking themselves as we seek to balance all of our roles, responsibilities, and opportunities. So, how do we do it? Working
Stop juggling and start managing everything you need to do at home and at work.It used to be simple before kids: Say yes to everything, stay late, turn in flawless work, catch up on sleep later. But now you need a different mindset to succeed at work, as a parent, and as a family member.Getting It
Perfect...perfectly evil. Brady Karlin is getting on with his life. The memory of his girlfriend -- killed in a gruesome sledding accident last year -- is beginning to fade. Now he's met Rosha Nelson, the girl of his dreams. And he's never been happier. Until Brady starts to see a strange figure
After Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) is the man most associated with communism and its influence and reach around the world. Lenin was the leader of the communist Bolshevik party during the October 1917 revolution in Russia, and he subsequently headed the Soviet state until 1924, bringing
Delightfully funny and original story about a small and cheeky mouse with very big ideas and no shortage of
Karl Rossman has been banished by his parents to America, following a family scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into the strange experiences that lie before him as he slowly makes his way into the interior of the great continent. Kafka's first novel (begun in 1911 and
'Workers of the world, Unite!' With these words, concludes one of the world's most influential political texts--The Communist Manifesto. Surviving through countless decades of revolution and counter-revolution, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' work remains as relevant today as it was in 1848,
One of the great anti-utopian satires of the twentieth century, an inspiration to writers from Orwell to Vonnegut, at last in a modern translation. Man discovers a species of giant, intelligent newts and learns to exploit them so successfully that the newts gain skills and arms enough to challenge
2014 Reprint of 1934 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. 'The Civil War in France' was a pamphlet written by Karl Marx as an official statement of the General Council of the International on the character and significance of the
Working on the garden with his father, Sonny is full of curiosity. Then the back door eases open and she comes down the path towards him. Vera. Chance meetings become shy arrangements, and soon Sonny is in love for the first time. Casting off his lonely life of dreams, he longs to know Vera. But
Children love card tricks, and with this book by an expert in magic and card conjuring, youngsters will be able to master a host of tricks especially designed for them.Tricks are arranged in order of difficulty, with the simplest at the beginning of the book. Clearly written, easy-to-follow