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21) Last laugh!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
While Sydney, Australia prepares for the 2000 Olympics with its brash Down Under flair, the neurotic psychologist, Dr. Peter Pinowski, attends a transformational retreat in the Blue Mountains. He hopes to "Find the Way Home," as the seminar's brochure promises. Instead, he hurtles headlong into his own personal Olympics when he takes the road less traveled and gets lost in the Australian bush. Terrified, he hears the eerie laughter of a kookaburra,...
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The story of an aging doorman whose happiness crumbles when he is relieved of the duties and uniform which had for years been the foundation of his happiness and pride. More than the plight of a single doorman, however, it is a mourful dramatization of the frustration and anguish of the universal working class. -- Based on container summary.
26) The last laugh
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A wordless tale in which a clever duck outwits a bullying snake.
Author
Series
Jade Fever volume 2
Language
English
Description
After years of getting the raw end of the deal with Scrappy Larry, Robin pulls a prank on his old buddy, but the fun and games end when Claudia's buyer makes an unexpected request.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"From Richard Zacks, bestselling author of The Pirate Hunter and Island of Vice, a rich and lively account of Mark Twain's late-life adventures abroad In 1895, at age sixty, Mark Twain was dead broke and miserable--his recent novels had been critical and commercial failures, and he was bankrupted by his inexplicable decision to run a publishing company. His wife made him promise to pay every debt back in full, so Twain embarked on an around-the-world...
Author
Series
Harley Quinn volume 22
Language
English
Description
At last, Harley Quinn and The Joker come face-to-face in these stories! Harley's got an endangered friend to save, but there's just one problem: she's got to get through Arkham Asylum first! Unsurprisingly, Harley's not eager to set foot in the site of some of her darkest hours...and she definitely isn't ready to face a certain someone who's laughing at the end of a dark hallway. The life of Harley's new love, Mason Macabre, is in The Joker's hands...but...
Author
Language
English
Description
In Pumping Irony, fitness expert Andrew Ginsburg presents a workout and diet program that helps one lose weight, build muscle, and sculpt a unique body. Ginsburg treats each physique as an art project, except the body is the canvas, the weights are the paintbrush, and the food is the paint. In addition to the diet and exercise regime, this book offers unique insight into finding the right trainer, advice on how to sniff out fake trainers, gym etiquette,...
Author
Language
English
Description
William David Thoreau says, "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; ....... Now put the foundations under them." Lynn Ruth Miller found her castle when she was 70 years old. She began building her foundation even though she was ignored, rejected and blocked at every turn. She persevered until she finally found a way to make that dream happen. Now it is her reality. This book will tell you how she created that success and...
35) Woody's Last Laugh: How the Extinct Ivory-billed Woodpecker Fools Us into Making 53 Thinking Errors
Author
Language
English
Description
Woody's Last Laugh explores a simmering controversy amid scientists, conservationists, birders and the media: the supposed "extinction" of American ivory-billed woodpecker. Among the first to identify rampant mental errors inside conservation and environmental professions, the book identifies 53 distinct kinds of cognitive blunders, psychological biases, and logical fallacies on both sides of the woodpecker controversy. Few species have ever provoked...
Author
Series
Jacky Ha-Ha volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Jacky spends the last weeks of summer at theater camp with new friends, lots of jokes, and plenty of drama.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the beginning, marriage doesn't seem as though it should be all that difficult. But it doesn't take long for trouble to seep in and for bad habits to become entrenched. Before long, many married couples may be wondering when the "worse" part ends and the "better" part starts. Pastor and author Kevin A. Thompson has good news for couples: the "better" part is always within reach when they practice eight specific commitments to each other. These...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Bizarro decides to try to make a mess of the nice, clean city of Metropolis, Superman and his cousin, Supergirl, work together to foil his plan, but not before getting a little messy themselves.
39) The last laugh
Author
Series
Hardy boys casefiles volume 42
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English