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Comedians really want to make us cry. The best reaction they can hope to elicit is tears — laughter, sure, but it’s the tears they’re after. Like almost every other human emotion, there is an emoji depicting this phenomenon online: a round yellow face with an absurdly broad, open smile, eyebrows furrowed and eyes pressed closed, a pendulous teardrop dangling from each corner. It’s the face comedians want to see most, along with “Spit-take...
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Sentenced to Lockdown, regarded as «non-essential», a group of 30 South African writers get together in a virtual Corona Collective, to pen Lockdown Extended. This historical gem includes a list of South Africa's most celebrated and awarded fiction and non-fiction authors, including: Sisonke Msimang, Lebo Mashile, Fred Khumalo, Khaya Dlanga and Marianne Thamm. Profound, mad, sad, insightful and also hilarious and uplifting, each writer digs deep to find true meaning in the time of Corona.
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"There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold;The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold." Robert W. Service, «The Cremation of Sam McGee.» The High Arctic has long been a land of romance, a magnet drawing adventurers. From the 60th Parallel to the North Pole across the tundra and the Barren Lands, the Far North has beckoned the brave, the foolhardy, and the curious. The mystery of the Land of the Midnight Sun has...
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Sport, fitness, games and murder are the main themes of this collection of wicked and witty crime fiction and poetry by the Ladies’ Killing Circle, who brought you Menopause is Murder and Cottage Country Killers. From the gym to the golf course to the supposedly peaceful practice of tai chi, murder, rage and revenge refuse to respect the human quest for immortality through fitness and can victimize the most tanned and toned bodies as easily as those of couch potatoes and gourmands. Excessive...
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The period from the early 1880s through the First World War has been called «The Golden Age of the Storytellers.» These were the writers who sought not to write great literature, but to entertain, spinning yarns to be printed and read, just as their predecessors, the minstrels and bards, recited and were listened to. Through their countless tales of adventure and derring-do they brought romance and colour to the lives of those who could do no more than dream. This was the age of Sir Arthur Conan...
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Over eighty per cent of Canadians live near a body of waterand that means when Canadians turn to crime, somebody usually ends up all wet. In this anthology of original crime fiction, editors Violette Malan and Therese Greenwood celebrate that most Canadian of locations: the ocean, lake, or river near you. With tales set across Canada, by award-winning authors like James Powell, Rick Mofina and Barbara Fradkin, and even a crossover story from fantasy writer Tanya Huff, you may just find your next...
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Meet some fascinating females: Jennie Baxer, 1890s journalist and world traveller Nelvana of the Northern Lights, created for comic book-starved Canadians during the Second World War the 60s’ Eve Adam, the «Rock Hit of Prague,» whose methods violate all the «rules» for detective books and, very much of the 1990s, vampire detective Vicki Nelson, whose beat is Toronto’s Queen Street West As well as the fifteen investigating women in the book, Skene-Melvin’s introduction describes hundreds of...
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Music may soothe the savage breast, but in this fifth collection of witty and wicked crime fiction from the Ladies’ Killing Circle, music provides the background for tales of murder and mayhem. Eighteen stories by Canadian women crime writers along with poems from Joy Hewitt Mann take their inspiration from titles as varied as the upbeat «Wake Up Little Suzie» through the romantic «Summertime» and musicals such as «There’s No Business Like Show Business». It’s a collection you won’t want to put...
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Nikki begin uiteindelik in haar nuwe skool aanpas. Sy het twee cool vriende en Brandon het haar uiteindelik begin raaksien. Nikki wil saam met Brandon na die skooldans gaan, maar wanneer MacKenzie begin spog dat sy saam met Brandon gaan, besluit Nikki om liewer na haar sussie se partytjie te gaan. Later vind sy uit dat MacKenzie gejok het, en Nikki besef haar droom om saam met Brandon dans toe te gaan kan waar word. Maar hoe woon jy twee partytjies tegelyk by?
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This richly photographed travel pictorial tours Korea—a place of dynamic innovation with strong traditional currents. Several years ago, a columnist at one of Korea's English language newspapers used the byline «Only the Morning is Calm.» And while Korea is known as the Land of the Morning Calm, that columnist was right on target. From the hectic sidewalks of the cities, to skiers zipping down mountain slopes, Korea is anything but a country stuck in time. Yet, the past is not...
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