Resultados para "Fun" en Literatura y ficción

Tyler, Channing, and Sammy Clauster have descended on their childhood home, with significant others and four-year-old twins in tow, for another good old-fashioned Christmas. Overwhelming holiday magic, as always, comes courtesy of their mom, Claire. They know she’s thrilled to cook, wrap gifts, decorate, accommodate, play games, overprepare every Christmas Eve Eve Eve tradition, and still let Dad be known as the Fun One. It’s her thing, right? Maybe the family should have paid closer attention. Because this year, something is a little off-key—and it’s not just the carols.

Four Finn Briscoe adventures: 1) Smuggling pot from Mexico to Massachusetts as a wild and wide-eyed Amherst College freshman from Missouri. 2) Three hippies are on a road trip from Missouri to Florida when their car blows up in Atlanta. They crash at the Salvation Army while looking for a $100 set of wheels, but can they keep the pet clownfish alive? 3) Finn and friends get construction jobs with a bunch of prisoners on daytime work release—who corrupts who? 4) Finn comes back to Missouri and gets work on the Mississippi River.

Em um dos programas, Lucas resolve debochar de uma astróloga, Dandara. Acontece que ela não é uma astróloga comum e, como punição, joga uma maldição no apresentador: pelos próximos doze dias, daquele até o dia do aniversário de Lucas, ele despertará com as piores características de cada um dos signos. Se não conseguir se tornar uma pessoa empática até lá, o ciclo da maldição se repetirá para sempre.

El practicante Sergei Kuzmich Kuriatin sustituye al médico titular del hospital. A la sala de visitas entra el sacristán Vonmiglásov con un dolor horrible en una muela. Kuriatin le pide que se siente en el sillón y que abra la boca. Afirma que la cirugía de muelas es una cosa sencilla, basta con tener práctica y mano firme.

Do you enjoy comedy? Do you know what "more cowbell" means? Infused with the crack-up-worthy spirit of Will Ferrell's classic SNL skit, these hilarious short stories transform even the most mundane events into meme-worthy moments. Everything's better with more cowbell. TV and radio personality R. Scott Murphy is a pro at finding "the funny" in everyday life.

They don't call him Lucky Les for nothing. A ticket in a raffle and Norton was off to the US of A, where it turned out hot, red hot, and it wasn't just the weather. Night club brawls, mafia hitmen, and too many girls called Lori, all in a sea of margaritas. Even for Les Norton, it was just too hot to handle. So it was off to the Caribbean, where Millwood Downie - schoolteacher, historian, and would-be stand-up comic - helps Les trace his family tree and possibly uncover the biggest earn ever.

The road to Hell is paved through Indiana. When a funeral calls, paranormal detectives Arturo Brooks and Edward Smith pack their physical and emotional baggage and take a road trip to Smith’s hometown. That's Mistake #1. On a tip, they begin investigating a multidimensional business conglomerate. That's Mistake #2. The detectives soon find themselves in a parallel universe that’s even worse than their original destination.

What if a reality TV show like Jersey Shore set up production in the fictional seaside resort Sea Haven? What if hitting the gym, tanning, and doing a little laundry aren't the only things the contestants get into? By-the-book officer John Ceepak and his wisecracking young partner, Danny Boyle, have to babysit the buff and boozy kids partying it up in a Jersey shore rental house for TV’s summertime hit Fun House while simultaneously trying to stop the rowdy kids from breaking the law up and down the beach. But even Ceepak and Danny can’t stop one young cast member from being murdered—and others from being threatened with the same fate.

Finn’s next job takes him out on the Mississippi where a redneck boss isn’t fond of long haired hippies. Will the first mate kick "Mary Jane’s" ass bust him for pot, or go home to find the donkey man who’s screwing his wife? If Mark Twain were a baby boomer coming of age during the Vietnam War, maybe he'd have written about the adventures of Finn Briscoe. But since the great Missouri scribe is long gone, Finn himself is doing his best to carry on the literary tradition of his native state.

Another road trip in the Fun Loving Finn series, this one finds Finn and friends heading southeast from Missouri to Florida. Finn got a good number in the crazy Vietnam lottery and decides to learn something about life in the real world and drops out of college. When their car breaks down in Atlanta and they’re short on cash, they hole up at the Salvation Army and try to find a new ride while protecting the only possession anybody cares about: his friend Stan’s fish. Will these teenage hippies find a ride, get ripped off, or make it safely to Florida with the fish?

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER! “WITTY, ROMANTIC, AND ADDICTIVELY FUN!” —Sarah Beth Durst, New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop Ten years ago, they saved the realm—and it ruined their lives. Now, four former heroes must reunite, and hopefully live to tell the tale, in this charming...

In the year 2054, reality is a really dumb place. The only time the young, freedom-loving, 1980s pop culture and sex-obsessed Bowie Jackson really feels alive is when he's huddling in a rusted metal lean-to in rural Wisconsin, jacked into the virtual, hyper-sexualized utopia known as the O-Face.

Stories for Fun: Insanity is a delightful collection of short stories that celebrates the lighter side of life. In this second installment of the Stories for Fun series, author Brad S. Wilson brings his signature wit and warmth to tales of everyday madness and mirth.

Das Leben ist ein Spiel - mal gewinnt man, mal endet es tödlich: Eine Freundin von Schwiegermutter Anke Blum, der "Queen von Bayreuth", wird vermisst, und Kati soll sie ausfindig machen. No risk, no fun!, denkt Kati und stürzt sich in die Ermittlungen.Dank ihrer ausgeprägten Spürnase dauert es auch nicht lange, bis sie über die Leiche stolpert. Doch schon bald steckt sie mitten in den gefährlichen Kreisen von Bankberatern, Pokerspielern und Kleinkriminellen. Hauptkommissar Lars ist davon wenig begeistert.

Join the job search. Experience employment. A fun-filled non-stop comedy satire about employment counselling services and survival jobs.

Straitlaced Jean has just broken up with her overgrown baby of a boyfriend. At 30, she's always done what's expected of her - by her traditional parents, by her demanding boss and by her disaster of an ex-boyfriend - and if she doesn't have some fun now, when will she? Taking her life into her own hands, she decides to do something that takes her out of her comfort zone and embarks on a sexual awakening. A woman heels-over-head, and not head-over-heels, in love. Jean's sexual liberation is off to a cracking start when she meets married-but-open pianist Gabriel.

Explore the cautionary tales of "101 Ways a Dog Can Go to Hell." From causing neighborhood digital disasters to digging so deep they fall into a never-ending abyss, each story highlights the wilder side of our beloved dogs and their journey to the darker realms. Meet the dog whose fascination with gadgets caused a digital disaster in the neighborhood, or the adventurous pup that digs so deep it ends up in a never-ending abyss. Discover the antics of the dog that loses its temper at the gates of heaven, resulting in eternal damnation.

Adventures with Cowboy Bob is a collection of short stories about country life and the funny things that tend to happen whenever animals are involved.

Finn spins a captivating memoir story about two college freshmen who have a hare-brained drug smuggling scheme. It’s the spring of 1970, and hippy culture is in full bloom. After a road trip down Route 66 to Arizona in a '55 Chevy, their plan is to import at least 50 pounds of marijuana from Mexico to Massachusetts over spring break. If they make it, the pot-smoking hippies could each make a cool couple of grand. Plan B is prison.

Mocking the national debt proved deadly for the entertainer.