If you're a dinosaur, all of your friends are dead. If you're a pirate, all of your friends have scurvy. If you're a tree, all of your friends are end tables. Each page of this laugh-out-loud illustrated humor book showcases the downside of being everything from a clown to a cassette tape to a zombie. Cute and dark all at once, this hilarious children's book for adults teaches valuable lessons about life while exploring each cartoon character's unique grievance and wide-eyed predicament. From the sock whose only friends have gone missing to the houseplant whose friends are being slowly killed by irresponsible plant owners (like you), All My Friends Are Dead presents a delightful primer for laughing at the inevitable.Review"What a charming way to introduce wee ones to all the downers in life." - crushable.com"Darkly comic. Funny." - Pop Candy, USA Today"Finds humor in mortality." - Paste Magazine"Hilariously morbid." - Laughing Squid"Laugh out loud funny, and a tiny bit disturbing. In other words, perfect." - The Huffington Post"One of the most reblogged things of all time (of all time!) on Tumblr." - urlesque.com"This is a cartoon-with-captions book, about the size of your hand."--Harry C. Holloway, Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological ProcessesAbout the AuthorAvery Monsen is an actor, artist, and writer.Jory John is a writer, editor, and journalist. They are friends, and neither is dead. Yet. Views: 71
A Stairway to Paradise is classic Madeleine St John: poignant, witty and full of sharp and subtle observations.Alex and Andrew are friends. And Barbara...Barbara is a goddess. Here is the eternal triangle, the story of three people locked in an unhappy tangle of emotions, none able to articulate the precise quality of their longing and dissatisfaction. Are any of them truly interested in reaching the 'paradise' they claim to be seeking, or are they actually trying to avoid it?In St John's hands, what is commonplace is transformed and transcendent. This is the work of an extraordinary writer.'Not many novelists have a posthumous resurrection as striking as St John's...She was quite simply, a great Australian novelist...St John's touch is light, but like a cat paw can draw blood when needed...a delight.' Sunday Age Views: 71
An intimate profile of one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century, this first full-length biography of Karen Carpenter details every aspect of her life, from her modest Connecticut upbringing and her rise to stardom in southern California to the real story of her tragic, untimely death. Views: 71
This hysterical collection of stories of actual crimes committed by clumsy crooks and fumbling felons will have you laughing out loud at painfully dumb attempts at crime. Illustrated. Views: 71
It was a tank battle exceeded in size and significance only by the famous defeat of Germany's Panzer force near Kursk in 1943. And yet, little is known about this weeklong clash of more than two thousand Soviet and German tanks in a stretch of northwestern Ukraine that came to be known as the "bloody triangle. This book offers the first in-depth account of this critical battle, which began on 24 June 1941, just two days into Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union.Author Victor Kamenir describes the forces arrayed against each other across that eighteen-hundred-square-mile-triangle in northwestern Ukraine Providing detailed orders of battle for both Wehrmacht and Red Army Forces and contrasting the strengths and weaknesses of the Soviet and German tanks, he shows how the Germans slowly and decisively overwhelmed the Russians, apparently opening the ... Views: 71
Daughters Rule Number Six: Never talk to the press about your parents. After leaking a story about the family business, impetuous high school freshman Carina Jurgensen is cut off by her billionaire father. Always resourceful, she fibs her way into a job as a party planner for New York's annual Silver Snowflake Ball. But when Carina finds out that the party committee expects favors and freebies from her dad's A-list connections, a choice must be made: Does she get real about her downgraded status, or pretend she's still the ultimate heiress? Best friends and fellow daughters of celebrities Lizzie Summers, Carina Jurgensen and Hudson Jones are back in Joanna Philbin's second stylish and heartfelt Daughters novel. Views: 71
Coffee has never tasted so sexy.Becca always starts her day sipping a latte and watching the piping hot Mr. Sexy. When they get stuck together in an elevator, it only takes a minute for Becca's panic attack to take over. What she needs is to focus on something else. Something hot. Something dirty. Good thing Mr. Sexy knows a thing or two about distraction.Review"Quality erotica at its best, Her Five Favorite Words, is a short, sexy quickie you won't want to miss."--A Romance Review"This story packed a punch." --You Gotta Read Reviews"If you want a steamy read you won't be able to put down, then you need to get a copy of Her Five Favorite Words. This 4 cherry book is one you won't want to miss."--Whipped Cream Reviews Views: 71
