Go the Fuck to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send a toddler sailing off to dreamland.
Garfield's back in this brand-new full-color compilation comic strip book-truly a must-have for fans!
Garfield was born to be wired! Coffee-and lots of it-is the only way to kick-start his day. Got chocolate? He'll binge on that, too. Garfield lovers will get a jolt of joy from this new collection of comics guaranteed to boost your spirits!
Covering subjects from God to dogs, this collection is a gathering of British wit, featuring: Jane Austen, Pam Ayres, Alan Bennett, Jeffrey Bernard, John Betjeman, Jo Brand, Craig Brown, Winston Churchill, Alan Clark, Jeremy Clarkson, Billy Connolly, Peter Cook, Tommy Cooper, Noel Coward, Quentin Crisp, Les Dawson, Stephen Fry, and others.
A compendium of decadence, depravity and horse-sense. From Private Thompson in trouble with the air force, to the devastating portrait of the ageing Muhammad Ali, it considers the Kentucky Derby, Freak Power in the Rockies, Nixon in '68, McGovern in '72, Fear and Loathing at the Watergate, Jimmy Carter and the Great Leap of Faith and more.
Orient/Occident, mode d'emploi (East Meets West), phénomène mondial sur Internet, est le premier volume de la célèbre série infographique de l'artiste Yang Liu. Conçus et dessinés avec beaucoup de soin, d'esprit et d'humour, les pictogrammes de Yang Liu illustrent les différences évidentes - ou, parfois, plus subtiles - entre la culture chinoise, par exemple, et celle de l'Occident.
Grâce à ses pictogrammes limpides, qui montrent avec une efficacité étonnante à quel point Occidentaux et Asiatiques pensent différemment, l'oeuvre de Yang Liu est non seulement devenue un des chouchous des réseaux sociaux et des magazines, mais a également été utilisée pour des formations en entreprise dans le monde entier: ou comment faire prospérer son activité en apprenant à mieux connaître la culture de l'autre!
Dans cet ouvrage, on retrouve des blagues qu'on a le plaisir de voir ici transposées en saintongeais: La boune manière de vère les chouses, Ine jhène mariée, A l'houpitau, Les deus émis qui vendiant des gorets, In' énarque en Saintonjhe, Les heut' et les mojhètes...
Georges Chapouthier, né en 1945 à Libourne (nord-Gironde), est originaire du sud-est de la Charente-Maritime (de La Clotte, canton de Saint-Aigulin), en limite du Pays Gabaye de Gironde saintongeaise.Il fonde, en 1999, le prix Carquelin Chapouthier récompensant de jeunes écrivains d'expression saintongeaise. Il est par ailleurs docteur en biologie et en philosophie, directeur de recherche au CNRS, et a publié de nombreux ouvrages sur le cerveau et sur les animaux.
Les illustrations humoristiques sont de Ludovic Nadeau, originaire de l'île d'Oléron, lui-même auteur de deux « BD » en saintongeais (Le Blues dau Galop' Chenaux et Galop' Chenaux: mais y'zen dizant!..), et peintre professionnel tenant atelier-galerie dans l'île.
Préface de Jean-Claude Beaulieu, député, conseiller général, vice-président du conseil général de Charente-Maritime.
En fin d'ouvrage, Eric Nowak propose une petite étude sur la langue de l'auteur, et la resitue dans l'ensemble poitevin et saintongeais.
It's a good time to be a woman: we have the vote and the Pill, and we haven't been burnt as witches since 1727. However, a few nagging questions do remain... Why are we supposed to get Brazilians? Should we use Botox? Do men secretly hate us? And why does everyone ask when you're going to have a baby? This title provides answers to such questions.
The Mr. Men have been tickling children for generations with their funny and charming antics. The Mr Men for Grown-Ups series now gives adults the chance to laugh along as the Mr Men and Little Miss try to cope with the very grown-up world around them. Featuring Roger Hargreaves classic artwork alongside hilariously funny new text. Mr Happy is usually a very happy fellow. But the morning after the office party, he doesn''t feel so happy. In fact, he loses his smile. It couldn''t be that bad, could it? The perfect book for anyone who has ever been to a work party and lived to tell the tale. Also available in The Mr Men for Grown-Ups series: Little Miss Shy Goes Online Dating, Mr Greedy Eats Clean to Get Lean and Little Miss Busy Surviving Motherhood, Mr Grumpy Nails Fatherhood and Little Miss Lucky is Getting Married.
Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director Nora Ephron turns her sharp wit on to her own life. This work includes her insights such as: never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from; if the shoe doesn't fit in the shoe store, it's never going to fit; and if only one third of your clothes are mistakes, you're ahead of the game.
A blend of literary history, memoir, and self-help that shows how French literature can bring humor, happiness, and romance to our lives Like many people the world over, Viv Groskop wishes she was a little more French. A writer and comedian, Groskop studied the language obsessively starting at age 11 and spent every vacation in France, desperate to escape her Englishness and to have some French chic rub off on her.
In Au Revoir, Tristesse , Groskop mixes literary history and memoir to show how the classics of French literature can expose us to another way of living, infuse our days with joie de vivre, and teach us how to say goodbye to sadness.
Groskop explores the frothy hedonism of Colette, the wit of Cyrano de Bergerac , the intoxicating universe of Marguerite Duras, and the heady passions of Les Liaisons Dangereuses .
With chapters on Marcel Proust, Victor Hugo, Gustave Flaubert, Stendhal, Honore de Balzac, Albert Camus, and, of course, Francoise Sagan, this is a delectable read for lovers of books and all things French.
Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse is Volume 1 of a satirical poetry collection from award-winning actor and bestselling author John Lithgow. Chronicling the last few raucous years in American politics, Lithgow takes readers verse by verse through the history of Donald Trump''s presidency.
- Lampoons the likes of Betsy DeVos, William Barr, Rudy Giuliani, and dozens more.
- Illustrated from cover to cover with Lithgow''s never-before-seen line drawings.
- Draws inspiration from A. A. Milne, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, and even Mother Goose.
- Great for fans of A Very Stable Genius by Mike Luckovich, Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don''t Matter by Scott Adams, and The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.
The poems collected in Dumpty draw inspiration from A. A. Milne, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Mother Goose, and many more.
A feat of laugh-out-loud lyrical storytelling, this timely volume is bound to bring joy to poetry lovers, political junkies, and Lithgow fans alike.
Twenty-three illustrated gothic tales from the dark corridors of the imagination of the creative genius behind Batman, Edward Scissorhands and Big Fish. Burton's lovingly lurid illustrations evoke both the sweetness and tragedy of a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children - hopeful, yet hapless beings.
La légende de Kaelig Morvan - La prophétie de Viviane (t.1 : isbn 9782737365485) Un druide apprend au seigneur Kaelig Morvan que sa fille est la descendante de la fée Viviane et qu'une mystérieuse secte cherche à tuer l'enfant. Aidés du barde Caerwyn et du chevalier Madur, Kaelig et sa fille Aela vont partir en quête d'une arme légendaire, seule capable de terrasser le chef de la société secrète.
Un voyage extraordinaire au coeur de l'imaginaire celte débute alors pour la jeune fille en compagnie des trois plus redoutables hommes du monde breton. La légende de Kaelig Morvan - Le sang de la pierre philosophale (t. 2 : isbn 9782737365478) Devant son impuissance à contrôler l'esprit torturé de sa fille, Kaelig Morvan décide de rejoindre la caste alchimique de la croix d'émeraude pour se lancer dans la quête de la pierre philosophale.
En compagnie de Tanguy, le jeune ami d'Aela, et de la sylphe Naloe, le seigneur et sa fille vont marcher dans les pas de leurs aïeux et découvrir en Bretagne l'essence même de leur nature. Mais une ombre plane au-dessus des compagnons et la soif de pouvoir de la fée d'Huelgoat met en péril leurs vies.
