Amber Ruffin and her sister Lacey Lamar share absurd anecdotes about everyday experiences of racism with humor and heart.
Anecdotes
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Author:Ruffin, AmberSummary: - Author:Bourdain, AnthonySummary:
Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. This book presents his life of experience collected into an entertaining, practical, fun, and frank travel guide to some of his favorite places, in his own words. Supplementing...
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Author:Greenwood, ThereseSummary:Four years after Therese Greenwood and her husband moved to Fort McMurray, Alberta, their new community was devastated by one of the worst wildfires in Canadian history. As the flames approached, they had only minutes to pack, narrowly...
- Author:Barris, TheodoreSummary:
On Easter Monday April 9, 1917, sixteen battalions of the Canadian Corps rose along a six-kilometre line of trenches in northern France against the occupying Germans. All four Canadian divisions advanced in a line behind a well-...
- Author:Tomlinson, Sarah, Glazer, JaySummary:
Jay Glazer shares insights gleaned from his fight through depression and anxiety, providing a relentless, unapologetic, and no-nonsense approach to overcoming your self-doubts, fears, and excuses.
- Author:Koeppel, Dan.Summary:
When the author's father Richard was 11 years old, he spotted a Brown Thrasher, and his fascination with birds began. Now a "Big Lister," Richard is one of only 10 or so people to have recorded more than 7,000 species in his notebook....
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Author:Read, Charles H.Summary:Dr. Read entered the Royal Canadian Navy in 1943 and worked for three years as a flight surgeon. When the war was winding down, he realized that his career as a flight surgeon was also over. But he remembered how much he had enjoyed the...
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Author:Lebovitz, DavidSummary:An American pastry chef living in Paris shares his deliciously funny, offbeat, and irreverent look at the city of lights.
- Author:SALE, CharlesSummary:
The Specialist is one of the world's favourite humour classics. Generations of readers have enjoyed its gentle wisdom about the building of privies and applauded Lem Putt's devotion to making a privy a thing of beauty. Lem...
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Author:Morris, ThomasSummary:"Delightfully horrifying."-Popular Science This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a unique portrait of a bygone era in all its jaw-dropping weirdness. A puzzling series of dental...
- Author:Sander, Jennifer BasyeSummary:
From a snowy impromptu game of Frisbee in the center of a holiday light display to a woman's trepidation as she arrives home on Christmas Eve with crates of rescued shelter dogs, these stories will brighten the spirit of you and...
- Author:Jerome, JohnSummary:
Author and athlete John Jerome offers basic guidelines for beginning joggers as well as those preparing for marathons.
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Author:Russell, Ted, Miller, ElizabethSummary:Pigeon Inlet is the setting for Ted Russell’s stories, written for radio between 1953 and 1961. Here you will meet not only Uncle Mose, but other characters whose names have become synonymous with traditional outport life: Grampa and...
- Author:HILL, AnthonySummary:
An entertaining mixture of fact and fiction about experiences in a small N.S.W. town, prompted by the decision of a family to escape the tensions of life in Canberra.
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Author:Hoggard, Liz, Conville, Clare, Lovett, Sarah-JaneSummary:Ever wonder how to best dress your apple-shaped figure? Do you know the top twelve rules on how to properly (and discreetly) conduct an affair? The Book for Dangerous Women is a sly, elegant encyclopedia of practicalwisdom by three...
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Author:Childs, CraigSummary:Nature writer Craig Childs presents a collection of forty essays, each of which focuses on a personal encounter with a particular species. Replete with astonishing facts about the species' behavior, habitat, breeding, and lifespan...
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Author:LINGENFELTER, MikeSummary:It was 1994, and Mike Lingenfelter expected his life to end soon. Two heart attacks and open-heart surgery had stripped away the pleasure he had in life. But then a golden retriever named Dakota helped Mike in his rehabilitative therapy...
- Author:Katz, Jon.Summary:
Katz illuminates the interaction between humans and animals. Although he features his ever-faithful border collie Rose, Katz also includes revealing observations about Mother the murderous barn cat, Elvis the doughnut-loving steer, and...
- Author:Landry, JaniceSummary:
Janice Landry asks the question, "What are you the most grateful for?" to fifteen Canadians from five provinces and two Americans. One of the seventeen is Dr. Bob Emmons, considered to be the world's pre-eminent expert in the study of...
- Author:Bythell, ShaunSummary:
Here is the latest and perhaps most complete attempt to classify people who shop in bookstores. It takes all kinds, and Shaun Bythell knows them all.
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