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On Sleep: The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep. attributed to Senator S.I. Hayakawa On Record Executives, Great Decisions of: You'll never make it-four groups are out. Go back to Liverpool. Decca Records executive to the Beattles in 1962 On Quiet: If you can't keep quiet, shut up! Gregory Ratoff, 1930's and 40's Hollywood director of films such as Intermezzo, to his crew On Fly Balls: Eric Show will be oh for ten if that pop fly
...42) Anything for a Vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots, and October Surprises in U.S. Presidential Campaigns
In this collection of stories about life and living from Bailey White—the former first-grade teacher, avid gardener, and frequent host of NPR's All Things Considered—recalls anecdotes about her rural upbringing, her eccentric mother, and other tales tinted with her southern charm. In addition to "Among the Mushrooms," the stories in this recording include "Flying Saucer," "Music," "Sidewalk Diagnosis," "In the Bleak Mid-Winter," "Movie
...Did you know that "Karaoke" is Japanese for "Empty orchestra"? Or that all snowflakes have six sides? With this collection of over 350 fascinating, little-known facts, you'll be ready to get any conversation off and running. Hand-drawn illustrations and a charming conversationalist...
The Useless Information Society's latest collection, The Amazing Book of Useless Information, will answer questions readers never even knew they had. From space travel to the history of jelly beans, this wideranging, brain-teasing, and altogether useless book...
50) Away Happens
A unique glimpse of real life on an island off the coast of Maine
Master storyteller and satirist Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most in-demand commencement speakers of his time. For each occasion, Vonnegut's words were unfailingly unique, insightful, and witty, and they stayed with audience members long after graduation.
As edited by Dan Wakefield, this book reads like a narrative in the unique voice that made Vonnegut a hero to readers of all ages. At times hilarious, razor-sharp, freewheeling, and deeply serious,
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âI regret that I have but one life to give for my country.â These are the famous last words of Nathan Hale, a spy for the American rebels in the Revolutionary War.
But who was this Nathan Hale? And how did the rebels defeat an army that was bigger, better, stronger, and more heavily armed than...
Dave Barry exposes natural childbirth for what it is: a pop phenomenon of the 1960s that, along with paisley bell-bottoms and creative sideburns, deserves a rest. His new book gives parents-to-be the hard facts they need. He examines the new federal law requiring prospective fathers to free themselves from their self-made macho prison—to laugh, cry, love and just generally behave like certified wimps. Barry reveals, for the first time, the
...Whoopi Goldberg has been an electrifying, envelope-pushing public figure of many stripes: acclaimed actor,...
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