Author: Gene Perret
Publisher: Hannibal Book
Keywords: laughed, god, day
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 1995-05-01
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0929292812
ISBN-13: 9780929292816

Who says God doesn’t have a sense of humor? Certainly not three-time Emmy Award winner Gene Perret, who’s laughed his way through life while he has earned his living writing jokes for such illuminaries as Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, Carol Burnett, Bill Cosby and a host of others. On the 8th Day . . . God Laughed! is Perret’s 17th book and contains 900 jokes, arranged alphabetically by topic and fully indexed, to make them readily accessible for writers, speakers, and yes--even preachers. Perret says God created the world, and us, in six days. On the seventh day, He rested, but

Author: Slavenka Drakulic
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: laughed, communism, survived
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1993-05-12
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0060975407
ISBN-13: 9780060975401

Hailed by feminists as one of the most important contributions to women’s studies in the last decade, this gripping, beautifully written account describes the daily struggles of women under the Marxist regime in the former republic of Yugoslavia.

Author: Kevin Crossley-Holland
Publisher: Oxford University Pre
Keywords: tales, laughed, fish
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2002-03-14
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0192751875
ISBN-13: 9780192751874

This collection is a celebration of diversity. There are tales from Asia and India, Central and South America, and North America and the Pacific. Through marvellous stories of emperors, princesses, dragons, fishes and birds, we see the fabulous variety of customs and beliefs in our world. This collection forms a pair with "The Nightingale that Shrieked". The stories in the two collections were originally published together in "The Young Oxford Book of Folk Tales".

Author: Robert Darde
Publisher: Abingdon Pre
Keywords: humor, power, redemptive, laughed, jesus
Number of Pages: 138
Published: 2008-08-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0687644542
ISBN-13: 9780687644544

Agony and hilarity, said Norman MacLean, are both necessary for salvation. We Christians seem to know a lot about the agony part, but what about hilarity? Why do we have to remind ourselves so often that the Bible is full of funny and ridiculous stories and situations? Why do so few of the pictures we ve drawn of Jesus show him laughing? Because we ve forgotten the redemptive power of humor, that s why.

Author: Ira Flatow
Publisher: Harper Paperback
Keywords: inventions, changed, lives, stories, fascinating, light, bulbs, lasers, laughed
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1993-06-30
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0060924152
ISBN-13: 9780060924157

An enlightening and fun look at scientific discoveries and the often wacky and accidental ways in which they have led to some of the most important inventions--by award-winning journalist Ira Flatow.

Author: Carolyn Hart
Publisher: William Morrow
Keywords: demand, death, mysteries, mystery, til, laughed, died
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1969-12-31
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0061453099
ISBN-13: 9780061453090

Intrigue and foul play are no strangers to the idyllic South Carolina sea island of Broward’s Rock. Mystery bookstore owner Annie Darling and her husband, Max, who specialize in solving problems, plunge into a startling web of danger and deceit when a trio of deaths is linked to the island’s youth recreation center. With the evidence mounting against her, the center’s director seeks out Max to clear her name. When it comes to intrigue, where Max goes, Annie isn’t far behind. To save an innocent woman, the pair scrambles to unravel three complex interlinked puzzles: t