Powderhouse is a novel which is set in an asylum for the criminally insane, where the narrator functions as a kind of porter, observing and commenting on the foibles of inmates and keepers alike
Does a lifetime of friendship prepare one for the truth, no matter how startling? Five dynamic women wrangle over their foibles about sex, jobs, politics, and love while being confronted with death an
(Applause Books). These are the best of Moliere's masterful one-acts, blending broad farce and pointed wit to express his never-ending delight in human foibles. But Moliere is more than just the "mast
For over three decades editorial cartoonist and BC resident Adrian Raeside has trained his laser wit on a subject he knows well--the foibles of life on Canada's wet coast. From yoga devotees to rednec
A retelling of ancient biblical stories highlights the foibles, strengths, struggles, and joys of familiar Bible characters, yielding fresh and relevant spiritual lessons for life in the modern world.
Keith Hutson is a comedy writer turned poet. His debut book from Bloodaxe celebrates the lives and foibles of extraordinary music hall and variety artistes past and present.
Around the beginning of the common era, Indian Buddhists began to collect fables, or jataka tales, illuminating various human virtues and foibles - from kindness, cooperation, loyalty and self-discipl
Recounts the daily foibles of middle school life through the perspectives of four students including Jake, who prepares for his bar mitzvah while becoming increasingly estranged from his best friend;
A head writer for E! Entertainment's The Soup presents a celebration of disastrous group meals that celebrates foibles ranging from undercooked Thanksgiving turkey and runny polenta to guests who arri
A sharply observed tale inspired by the highs and lows of marriage explores the marital foibles of such characters as a long-time wife who looks back on the dissolution of her previous marriage, a par
Four bumbling members of a nineteenth-century London social club, known as the legendary Pickwick Club, journey to places outside the city and become involved in romantic foibles, danger, and a few le
A wry, on-target look at the institutions of love and marriage recalls with humor first crushes, first dates, and first kisses, and explores the foibles of both modern and postmodern love
Organized according to such themes as "Bosses Gone Bad" or "Criminally Creative Accounting," this entertaining look inside the follies and foibles of the business world examines ruinous deals, highly
An eclectic assortment of humanity, with all their foibles and failings, lived in the house on Moody Avenue over a period of ninety years. I tell their stories.Lisette, her unshakable faith sustaining
An Everyman who expressed the defiant spirit of freedom, Charlie Chaplin was first lauded and later reviled by the audience that made him Hollywood’s richest man. He was a figure of multiple paradoxes, and Chaplin looks afresh at this classic comedian and his most recognizable character: The Tramp. Louvish charts the tale of the Tramp himself through his films—from the early Mack Sennett shorts through the major features (The Gold Rush, City Lights, Modern Times, The Great Dictator) and weighs the relationship between the Tramp, his creator, and his worldwide fans. Chaplin is an epic journey, summing up the roots of Comedy and its appeal to audiences everywhere, who revelled in Chaplin’s raw energy, his ceaseless struggle against adver sity, and his capacity to represent our own fears, foibles, dreams, inner demons and hopes.
From the beloved best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author―a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one Baltimore family’s foibles, from a boyfriend with a red Chevy in the 1950s up to a longed-for reunion with a grandchild in our pandemic present.The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever leave home, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband, Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping his family’s orbit, for reasons none of them understand. Yet, as these lives advance across decades, the Garretts’ influences on one another ripple ineffably but unmistakably through each generation. Full of heartbreak and hilarity, French Braid is classic Anne Tyler: a stirring, uncannily i
For a boy, an obsession with fish can be a handy way to escape the trials of growing up. That's especially true for Greg Keeler, whose failings and foibles persist in marking the difference between h
"The gods of Olympus are the most colorful characters of Greek civilization: even in antiquity, they were said to be cruel, oversexed, mad, or just plain silly. Yet for all their foibles and flaws, th
Washington, Adams, Henry, Jefferson, Franklin, and Hamilton: their ambitions, intrigues, and jealousies shaped the birth of the nation, but they overcame their foibles and imperfections to throw off t
The fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen have delighted readers for generations with their originality, whimsy, and humorous treatment of such human foibles as vanity, snobbery, and greed. This coll
