Phil Camp has a problem. Not the fact that he wrote a parody of a self-helpbook (Where Can I Stow My Baggage?) that the world took seriously and thatbecame an international bestseller, or that he wrote the book under a phony name, Marty Fleck, and the phony name became a self-help guru overnight. Phil cannot be Marty Fleck. He can barely be himself.
No, Phil's problem is that he has been walking with a limp for nine months. Phil is in constant pain, yet there is nothing physically wrong with his body that would cause such agony. This problem leads him to the controversial Dr. Samuel Abrun, a real doctor who wrote a real self-help book (The Power of "Ow!") that made thousands of people pain-free.
So what happens when the self-help fraud meets the genuine item? Does he get better? Can he hobble out of his own way to help himself? Most important, can the reader make it through fifty pages without thinking, Wait a minute. Is that a twinge I feel in my lower back or just gas?
Award-winning humorist Diana Estill sets loose her alter ego Deedee Divine in this hilarious life survival guide. In her native Texas tongue, she explains why "family that doesn't kill you makes you stronger," women won't read maps, and men should never use the "B-word": budget. If you've ever wondered what keeps couples together (they accept flatulence as a sign of relationship comfort), where to find the path to success (follow the "7 habits of highly self-absorbed people"), or what regifting has to do with America's GNP ("Gross Needless Products"), Deedee has these answers and more. In Deedee Divine's Totally Skewed Guide to Life, Estill, author of Driving on the Wrong Side of the Road, has once again turned life's absurdities and annoyances into side-splitting laughs.
The Best College Stress-Reliever Has Only One Pesky Side Effect
When the stresses of studying and coping with college life reach a boiling point, the remedy does not require a doctor’s prescription. Neither does it call for fake I.D. or cause you to wake up bleary-eyed and fuzz-brained. The best pressure release is laughter, and it comes not in a pill bottle or beer can—it comes in a book. Specifically Party Thru College, by Dennis Bruce. The only caution is that readers might end up with sore sides from incessant snickering, chuckling and guffawing.
This laugh-a-line spoof puts college into perspective and is best taken liberally at the first signs of stress.
When Jim Roastbeef Hume embarks on a quest to sprinkle his father's ashes in each of the forty-eight contiguous states, he has no idea that a series of bizarre and ridiculous adventures await. But nothing will deter him from fulfilling the promise he made to his dying father--not a brief incarceration in Iowa or a punctured lung in South Dakota. As he travels across the country, he picks up numerous new friends, presides over the ultimate party, poses as a lesbian s boyfriend, and gives away a very pregnant bride in a Las Vegas wedding. And who could have dreamed that somewhere amidst the craziness of dropping ashes from a crop duster and finding Elvis's toenail, Roastbeef would stumble upon a lucrative new career?
From school pranks to Plato, from yearbook to the gym, It Happened in School takes the reader on an entertaining and enlightening journey through the uniquely American institution, the public high school.
After teaching English and journalism, and coaching for more than thirty-five years, author Bob Crosby has seen it all--and enjoyed most of it. With a keen eye for detail, and a sharp ear for language, Crosby has crafted fifty stories from the fun side of high school life. Readers will enjoy learning about Crosby's experiences almost as much as he enjoyed writing them. Anyone who has ever experienced high school, and that includes most of us, will appreciate the resounding truth and uplifting joy that Crosby captures on this page. Pink tennis shoes, jellyfish, and Bacigalupis--look for them all in this delightfully upbeat collection of stories, It Happened in School.
In this collection of humorous essays, the author considers hitting the streets with a sign that says: Will Work for Botox. She also contemplates, along with many other burning issues of our time, the "joys" of staying in cramped home offices instead of a hotel when visiting friends. This is a delightful potpourri of rants, nostalgia, and just plain fun.
