Resultados para "River" en Comedia y humor

River Rules is a small-town environmental suspense novel with a deep heart and powerful conscience. What the housing bubble didn’t break in Bridgeville - a small New England community blessed by the Connecticut River - greed, double-dealing, and rapid-fire change just might. Peter Russo, a part-time farmer and full-time rambler with his rescue dog, has a knack for conflict, and a burning desire to protect Bridgeville’s land and water from exploitation.

The mighty river has broken. Everyone wants to get to the other side. Ain’t that always the way?

After being laid off from his executive job with a California high-tech company, a man and his wife decide to leave the “rat race” and move to a tropical island on the coast of North Carolina. The culture of the island and its people are completely different from this cosmopolitan couple, who struggle to adapt to the island’s Southern, down-home, Redneck residents.

Karl, Eleanor, and their daughter, Irina, arrive from New York City in the wake of Karl's infidelity to start anew. Karl tries to stabilize his flailing art career. Eleanor, a successful commercial novelist, eagerly pivots in a new creative direction. Meanwhile, 12-year-old Irina becomes obsessed with the brutal murders that occurred in the house years earlier. And, secretly, so does her mother.

In 1967, nine-year-old AJ wins a trip to Ireland to spend Christmas in a medieval castle. There's only one drawback; she has to bring her big Italian family along. It doesn't take long for AJ to drive her prom-queen sister crazy with her newly acquired Irish accent, or to take revenge on her brother with her Spooky Suzu doll hanging above his bed at night. Hop on the Blarney bus with the Degulio's , a group of tap dancers, and a family of yodelers for a rip roaring ride around Ireland.

With his inimitable combination of wit and wisdom, John Gierach once again celebrates the fly-fishing life in Standing in a River Waving a Stick and notes its benefits as a sport, philosophical pursuit, even therapy: "The solution to any problem-work, love, money, whatever-is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be." After all, fly-fishing does teach important life lessons, says Gierach-about solitude, patience, perspective, humor, and the sublime coffee break.

There's nothing that Angelique Barbetta can't handle, no illness she can't recover from, not one item on her outrageous bucket list that she can't conquer - not even alligator wrestling! But after discovering her fiancé in a less-than-professional position with their perky assistant, even tough-as-nails Angelique needs a break. Her law firm sends her to Red River to work on a case that should be a piece of cake. Until she meets her sexy neighbor, Blake Holloway...one of the proprietors who will lose everything if Angelique wins.

Cursed thief Cord relies on his partner, Nenn, to recover his body, stash the money, and convince the authorities that there are no leads left to follow. They spend their days hitting low-tier lenders and banks, but after a botched robbery, Cord begins to think they need something bigger, something that will set them up for life. When that thing happens to be a heist no one else in the kingdom has the stones to pull off, he gathers a group of rogues with a particular set of talents....

Join me on a witty romp through subdivision living. A River To My People is a collection of short stories about life in the suburbs and the funny and infuriating antics, behaviors, rules, and regulations of community life. While every neighborhood is unique, people are people, and you are going to bump into many of the same types: the gossip, the penny-pincher, the blowhard, the maverick, and all the rest. Our subdivision is no exception to the rule that truth is stranger than fiction. Every story is true, only the names have been changed to be more ridiculous.

The classic novel of fly fishing and spirituality republished with a new Afterword by the author. Since its publication in 1983, The River Why has become a classic. David James Duncan's sweeping novel is a coming-of-age comedy about love, nature, and the quest for self-discovery, written in a...

Lose yourself in the south of France this summer in this fabulously feel-good beach read! Carrie Hayes has a job she enjoys and a perfectly nice boyfriend. She’s sorted. Isn’t she? But Carrie’s life wasn’t always like this. As a young, wild drama student, she married fellow actor...

The Otis, an inconsequential river—not the Hudson—flows through Wattsville, a small city a few hours north, but a universe away from the real City, capital C. You might think the everyday people who live here, in this land of scarce opportunity, are also inconsequential. Until you meet them.

Two childhood friends from Scotland and two illegitimate half-brothers from the deep South suffer and enjoy all manner of bizarre adventures that, it turns out, are somehow interconnected and, even more surprisingly, meaningful. The eclectic cast of characters features Socrates, Carl Jung, and Tony Randall, along with an ex-television evangelist with a penchant for booze, prostitutes, and uncomfortable knitwear who gets mugged in Miami by an almost pure-blooded Watusi warrior - and sets off on a road trip in a stolen motor home.

Endlich Zeit für den eigenen Garten. Oder für ausgiebige Urlaube, unabhängig von allen Ferienzeiten. Und lange, nette Weinabende mit guten Freunden - wann immer Sie Lust darauf haben! Moment - das klingt so gar nicht nach Ihrem Alltag jenseits der 60? Weil Sie viel zu sehr damit beschäftigt sind, ermüdende Gespräche über Krankheiten zu führen oder mal wieder auf die Enkel aufzupassen, weil deren Eltern "ganz spontan" etwas dazwischengekommen ist? Schluss damit! Lassen Sie sich von Jürgen Brater in den Ruhestand führen, von dem Sie immer geträumt haben.

Sie stehen im Supermarkt, in der U-Bahn oder an der Brüstung eines Hochhauses - Menschen! Man kann ihnen nicht entkommen und sie haben alle etwas gemein: Sie tun irgendetwas, meist nervt es... In diesem sarkastischen Pamphlet verleiht Alexander Prinz, besser bekannt als Der Dunkle Parabelritter, seinem Frust über unsere Spezies Ausdruck. Er kommentiert die verschiedenen Abschnitte unseres Lebens, philosophiert über die Liebe und rechnet mit der Gesellschaft ab. Welche Kindheitstraumata sind vielleicht doch ganz nützlich? Kann der Spagat zwischen On- und Offlinewelt gelingen?

Manchmal, wenn man an nichts denkt und gar nichts will, passieren Dinge. Sie können Ihren persönlichen Selbstwert noch heute, in dieser Stunde aktivieren - wenn Sie es nur wirklich wollen. Wenn Sie es nach der Lektüre dieses Buchs nicht schaffen, wollen Sie es wahrscheinlich nicht richtig. Dann kann ich Ihnen auch nicht helfen. Wenn Sie es hingegen wollen, dann wird es Ihnen nach der Geschichte vom Kaffee am Arsch der Welt sehr viel besser gehen.

In The Very Best Bad Idea, Kirk Westwood steamrolls the long-held premise that right is good and wrong is bad. He paves the way to give anyone who sees situations differently the permission to be proud of their brilliantly unbridled “bad ideas”.

Two years after the unexpected death of his wife, Turner Grant was ready to consider love once more. Yet everything had changed, and he soon found himself adrift in the digital-dating world.

Der ewige Konflikt zwischen Mann und Frau ist so alt wie die Menschheit. Zu dieser Erkenntnis gelangt auch der von seiner Freundin Heike im Streit vor die Tür gesetzte Tom. Im "magischen Unterwäschekreis" erscheint ihm sein männlicher Urahn, der Caveman, der den ahnungslosen Kerl über die evolutionsgeschichtlich bedingten Unterschiede zwischen Mann und Frau ins Bild setzt.

Tedros Teclebrhan hat als Comedian eine Vielzahl an Charakteren ins Leben gerufen: Percy, Carlos, Ernst Riedler oder Antoine. In den wechselnden Rollen seiner Kultfiguren improvisiert Teddy fünfzehn klassische Märchen: Schneewittchen, Rumpelstilzchen, Froschkönig oder das tapfere Schneiderlein werden so ganz neu erzählt. Teddys Hörbuch für unterwegs wurde von unterwegs aufgenommen - im Urlaub auf Mallorca, im Auto, auf der Straße und manchmal sogar im Tonstudio.