Rhymes My Mother Never Told Me

Author : Marilyn Huntman Giese
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1796064769
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nursery Rhymes Your Mother Never Taught You written by Marilyn Huntman Giese and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nursery Rhymes Your Mother Never Taught You brings wry humor in the form of parodies to twenty-four of the world’s best-loved nursery rhymes. The parodies in Part I are a reaction to the people and politics of the 21st century. They are matched with the traditional nursery rhymes that are found in Part II. These original versions include some bizarre historical theories as to derivation; also, their first known publication dates are given. All the rhymes are divided into four sections: Food, Fun, People, and Politics. At the end of each section in Part I there are three thoughts to ponder for each parody. They range from such as, ‘What does food have to do with marital bliss?’ to ‘Who was the bully in your school?’ Caution: discussions are recommended for good-natured groups only!

Author : Ann Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Mother written by Ann Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kaylie Jones
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061883719
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lies My Mother Never Told Me LP written by Kaylie Jones and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her mother was a brainy knockout with the sultry beauty of Marilyn Monroe, a raconteur whose fierce wit could shock an audience into hilarity or silence. Her father was a distinguished figure in American letters, the National Book Award–winning author of four of the greatest novels of World War II ever written. A daughter of privilege with a seemingly fairy-tale-like life, Kaylie Jones was raised in the Hamptons via France in the 1960s and '70s, surrounded by the glitterati who orbited her famous father, James Jones. Legendary for their hospitality, her handsome, celebrated parents held court in their home around an antique bar—an eighteenth-century wooden pulpit taken from a French village church—playing host to writers, actors, movie stars, film directors, socialites, diplomats, an emperor, and even the occasional spy. Kaylie grew up amid such family friends as William Styron, Irwin Shaw, James Baldwin, and Willie Morris, and socialized with the likes of Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, George Plimpton, and Kurt Vonnegut. Her beloved father showed young Kaylie the value of humility, hard work, and education, with its power to overcome ignorance, intolerance, and narrow-mindedness, and instilled in her a love of books and knowledge. From her mother, Gloria, she learned perfect posture, the twist, the fear of abandonment, and soul-shattering cruelty. Two constants defined Kaylie's childhood: literature and alcohol. "Only one word was whispered in the house, as if it were the worst insult you could call someone," she writes, "alcoholic was a word my parents reserved for the most appalling and shameful cases—drunks who made public scenes or tried to kill themselves or ended up in the street or in an institution. If you could hold your liquor and go to work, you were definitely not an alcoholic." When her father died from heart failure complicated by years of drinking, sixteen-year-old Kaylie was broken and lost. For solace she turned to his work, looking beyond the man she worshipped to discover the artist and his craft, determined that she too would write. Her loss also left her powerless to withstand her mother's withering barbs and shattering criticism, or halt Gloria's further descent into a bottle—one of the few things mother and daughter shared. From adolescence, Kaylie too used drink as a refuge, a way to anesthetize her sadness, anger, and terror. For years after her father's death, she denied the blackouts, the hangovers, the lost days, the rage, the depression. Broken and bereft, she began reading her father's novels and those writers who came before and after him—and also pursued her own writing. With this, she found the courage to open the door on the truth of her own addiction. Lies My Mother Never Told Me is the mesmerizing and luminously told story of Kaylie's battle with alcoholism and her struggle to flourish despite the looming shadow of a famous father and an emotionally abusive and damaged mother. Deeply intimate, brutally honest, yet limned by humor and grace, it is a beautifully written tale of personal evolution, family secrets, second chances, and one determined woman's journey to find her own voice—and the courage to embrace a life filled with possibility, strength, and love.

Author : Mark Barry
Publisher : SP Books
ISBN 13 : 9781561710454
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jokes My Mother Never Told Me written by Mark Barry and published by SP Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's most outrageous jokes told the way they should be--with no guilt, shame, or beating around the bush. These jokes are so off-color and gross that not even Sam Kinison or Andrew Dice Clay would touch them! Barry has appeared on the Regis Philbin Show and hundreds of humorous TV commercials.

Author : Yvonne Craig Inskip
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1481796496
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Things My Mothers Never Told Me written by Yvonne Craig Inskip and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Im six years old and having a life crisis. Are you my mummy? is the question I could never ask because I love both my mothers equally: Tyna, the tiny one and Bigga, who is bigger. I havent got a daddy either, and it seems rude to ask. This is a sharp and entertaining true story, beginning in war-torn London, of how the author navigated her way through family passions and oddities, secrets and multiple identities. On the way she encounters a Christmas pudding sent annually care of the Bank of Scotland; sitting on a Tutors cat during a Cambridge University interview; running the family corner shop as a school girl; discovering a cache of beautiful postcards from all over Europe; and the seaside wedding of one of her mothers. One of my mothers is has yet another stroke. Im by her side when the consultant points to a scar on her belly and asks her what it is. Silently she raises her hand and gestures towards me. A Caesarean section all those years ago. I am her daughter. We never speak of it. After Bigga and Tyna died, I begin a paper trail to find news of my father. One morning I walk across Westminster Bridge to meet a half-sister. I have been an only child for 50 years. Over lunch I discover that I am the sixth of seven siblings born to four women - and I have a famous Swiss grandfather. The book ends by tackling some questions Im often asked, such as: Were your mothers lesbians? Does a child need a father? Is the past good for you? Do therapists help?

Author : Chris Harris
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316266590
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I'm Just No Good at Rhyming written by Chris Harris and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times bestseller featured on NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon! B. J. Novak (bestselling author of The Book With No Pictures) described this groundbreaking poetry collection as "Smart and sweet, wild and wicked, brilliantly funny--it's everything a book for kids should be." Lauded by critics as a worthy heir to such greats as Silverstein, Seuss, Nash and Lear, Harris's hilarious debut molds wit and wordplay, nonsense and oxymoron, and visual and verbal sleight-of-hand in masterful ways that make you look at the world in a whole new wonderfully upside-down way. With enthusiastic endorsements from bestselling luminaries such as Lemony Snicket, Judith Viorst, Andrea Beaty, and many others, this entirely unique collection offers a surprise around every corner. Adding to the fun: Lane Smith, bestselling creator of beloved hits like It's a Book and The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, has spectacularly illustrated this extraordinary collection with nearly one hundred pieces of appropriately absurd art. It's a mischievous match made in heaven! "Ridiculous, nonsensical, peculiar, outrageous, possibly deranged--and utterly, totally, absolutely delicious. Read it! Immediately!" --Judith Viorst, bestselling author of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Author : Robert Michael Ballantyne
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016398336
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Mother written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Sundae Merrick
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1412014034
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divine Reason and Rhyme written by Sundae Merrick and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get practical answers easily, communicating with Divine Inner Guidance. Learn secrets of psychics. Use intuition, dreams, nature's wisdom and mystical symbols for health, personal growth, self-empowerment, relationship and financial success.

Author : John Jacob Niles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Songs My Mother Never Taught Me written by John Jacob Niles and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W. J. Burkland
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781482326567
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhymes My Mother Never Told Me written by W. J. Burkland and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-04-27 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recalling Shel Silverstein's "Falling Up" by way of Comedy Central's "South Park", Burkland's collection of bawdy rhymes is as clever as it is irreverent, skewering the politically correct at every turn. Never crossing the line into the profane, he is able to entertain while pushing the limits of the crude, silly, and sophomoric. Perfect bite-sized nuggets of hilarity that are sure to leave you laughing out loud, Rhymes My Mother Never Told Me tickles the funny bone as it challenges the status quo. Wonderfully playful and always mischievous, Burkland's debut defiantly thumbs its nose at the world of propriety and decorum. This collection features beloved classics such as: “Sweet Bread Farts,” where Nick's special talent is having the gas he passes smell like freshly baked maple bars; “Tony's Tiny Bladder,” where a boy with a tiny bladder goes from disgraced pants-wetter to superhero; and “Sammy Squirrel's Tragic Picnic,” where Sammy Squirrel and his animal friends are enjoying a tasty picnic…until a speeding truck puts an end to their fun. The author turns the world on its head to find humor in the oddest of places. Illustrations by Duncan Beedie bring to life the wonderfully twisted world of taunting floaters, adventurous boogers, untimely sneezes and squirrels in imminent danger. Rhymes My Mother Never Told Me includes; Sweet Bread Farts Sammy Squirrel's Tragic Picnic When I sleep, I drool A Baby and his Coffee The Epic Tale of Nate's Booger Egg Salad Toes Jimmy vs. The Floater The Impact of Old Age on Jack, Who Was Once a Nimble Boy The Poop Between Her Toes An Untimely Sneeze The 7th Planet Big Bird and Barney Makeshift Candle The Zit on the Wart on My Chin Idunno & Idontcare Underwear Art Nose Hair Back Splash Sniffer the Dog Distinctive Chins Urinal Cakes An Older Sister's Perspective Santa's Annual Check-up My Spleen Does Very Little Scab Picker (and Eater) Tony's Tiny Bladder Misplacing Baby Emily While Finding a Deal on Beef Stew