Ten Years in the Tub

Ten Years in the Tub

Author: Nick Hornby

Publisher: McSweeney's

Published: 2016-04-12

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1944211152

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"How often do you begin reading a book that makes you—immediately, urgently, desperately—want to read more books?” (Booklist). Nick Hornby has managed to write just such a book in this hilarious, insightful, and infectious volume. Ten Years in the Tub chronicles Hornby's journey through a decade’s worth of books, as related in his wildly popular Believer column “Stuff I’ve Been Reading.” Ten Years in the Tub is a one-way ticket into the mind of one of the most beloved contemporary writers on his favorite pastime, but it's also a meditation on what Celine Dion can teach us about ourselves, a warning about how John Updike can ruin our sex lives, and a recommendation for the way Body Shop Vanilla Shower Gel can add excitement to our days. This "decade-long addiction for many... makes standing in line at the bank a blessed interval for snorting another page.” (the New York Times Book Review)


No More Water in the Tub!

No More Water in the Tub!

Author: Tedd Arnold

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1998-12-01

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 0140564306

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William is getting ready for his bath when the faucet breaks, sending him and his tub surfing through the building! On his wet ride, he collects a strange fleet in his wake -- from Uncle Nash, who sits in the trash, to Little Dottie, who sails the potty. Who will William carry off next? Bath-lovers and bath-haters alike will want to know!"Full of amusing detail that will keep young readers coming back again and again." -- School Library Journal


Ten Pigs: An Epic Bath Adventure

Ten Pigs: An Epic Bath Adventure

Author: Derek Anderson

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2015-04-28

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 0545825695

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Laugh out loud in this hysterical epic counting bath adventure with a squeaky clean twist! From Derek Anderson, the illustrator of the bestselling Little Quack series!One very happy pig --one bubbly bathtub.Everything is perfect until nine more join in!And ten?Ten wiggles and squeezesAnd surfs his way in.One pig looks to take a relaxing bath in solitude, only to be joined by another pig, then another, then another. When Pig Number 10 jumps into the crowded tub, the first pig comes up with a plan to enjoy his bath.


No Jumping on the Bed!

No Jumping on the Bed!

Author: Tedd Arnold

Publisher: Pan

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780330300438

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Walter lives near the top floor of a tall apartment building, where one night his habit of jumping on his bed leads to a tumultous fall through floor after floor, collecting occupants all the way down.


My Four Score and Ten Years

My Four Score and Ten Years

Author: James W. Drury

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2010-03

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1450210740

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My Four Score and Ten Years is the memoir of a nonagenarian husband, father, grandfather, Kansas University professor, and world traveler. Jim Drury tells the story of his life, which spans most of the twentieth century, beginning with stories of his own grandfather in the 1880s. His recollections include the time he spent in Japan, Pakistan, Costa Rica and Poland, on the campus of KU and touring around the world with his wife in their later years. Jim Drury was born in 1919 in East St. Louis, Illinois. He studied at the University of Illinois and did his graduate work at Princeton. He lived in Washington, D.C., during the Second World War and served in the US Army. He remained an Army Reservist until his retirement. It was in Washington that he met and married his wife of over sixty-five years, Florence (nicknamed Danny). He and Danny later moved to Lawrence, Kansas, where they have lived for most of their lives and where Jim was a Professor of Political Science at Kansas University for over forty years. Jim and Danny have traveled extensively and lived for short periods in Japan, Pakistan, Costa Rica, and Poland.


How to be Good

How to be Good

Author: Nick Hornby

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2005-05-05

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0141925280

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How to be Good is Nick Hornby's hilarious bestselling novel on life, love and charity 'I am in a car park in Leeds when I tell my husband I don't want to be married to him any more. . . ' London GP Katie Carr always thought she was a good person. With her husband David making a living as 'The Angriest Man in Holloway', she figured she could put up with anything. Until, that is, David meets DJ Goodnews and becomes a good person too. A far-too-good person who starts committing crimes of charity like taking in the homeless and giving their kids' toys away. Suddenly Katie's feeling very bad about herself, and thinking that if charity begins at home, then maybe its time to move. . . This laugh-out-loud novel, from the bestselling author of About a Boy and High Fidelity, will have you gripped from start to finish and will appeal to fans of David Nicholls and Jonathan Coe, as well as readers in need of a moral compass everywhere. 'Pins you in your armchair ad won't let go . . . How to be Good? How to be bloody marvellous, more like' Mail on Sunday 'It does exactly what it says on the cover. Hornby's prose is artful and effortless, his spiky wit as razored as a number-two cut' Independent 'The writing is so funny, and the set-pieces so brilliant...Hornby's best book since Fever Pitch' Lynn Truss, The Times


Under the Bleachers

Under the Bleachers

Author: Seymour Butz

Publisher:

Published: 2015-11-25

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780977274796

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250 book titles that have never seen the light of day (and one haiku). Family-friendly fun for chronic quipsters and perpetual punsters! Guaranteed G-rated groans on every page."Managed to read it all in one sitting. For me, that's quite an accomplishment."Ivan Auflitch, author of Can't Sit Still."Took this along on our latest expedition and roared with laughter."Claude Yarmoff, author of The Lion Attacked."Captivating!"Barb Dweyer, author of Prison Security.


May Bird and the Ever After

May Bird and the Ever After

Author: Jodi Lynn Anderson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2006-05-23

Total Pages: 25

ISBN-13: 141690607X

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Lonely and shy, ten-year-old May Ellen Bird has no idea what awaits her when she falls into the lake and enters The Ever After, home of ghosts and the Bogey Man.