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Product Description: Not sure what to do next?Sometimes the big and small decisions in life seem overwhelming. How do you know what choices to make about your career, kids, and relationships? Even when you make good decisions, how do you avoid temptation along the way? In What to Do When You Donât Know What to Do, renowned bible teacher Dr...read more
Hardcover:
9780517552001, titled "The Hitchhiker's Trilogy" | Crown Pub, January 1, 1984, cover price $15.95 | also contains The Hitchhiker''s Trilogy | About this edition: Three science fiction satires follow the adventures of Arthur Dent and his friend from Betelgeuse, Ford Prefect, who is a roving researcher for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Paperback:
9781434764515 | Cook Communications Ministries intl, March 1, 2009, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Not sure what to do next?
Product Description: The cult favorite absurdist comedy by a writer who inspired Wilde, Forster, and WaughThe fairly young and entirely alive Mrs. Shamefoot wants nothing more than to have a memorial stained-glass window installed in her honor in an English cathedral...read more
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9780141196336 | Reprint edition (Penguin Classics, July 31, 2012), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The cult favorite absurdist comedy by a writer who inspired Wilde, Forster, and WaughThe fairly young and entirely alive Mrs.
Product Description: P. G. Wodehouseâs uproarious portrait of an aristocratic family whose lives revolve around an enormous Berkshire sow. Welcome to Shropshire, England-in this dreamy countryside lies Blandings Castle, seat of the ninth Earl of Emsworth...read more
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9780393341270 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, October 3, 2011), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: P.
Product Description: Mon Dieu! The extraordinary, sabre-rattling adventures of Gerard, a young French cavalry officer in the time of the Napoleonic wars, introduce a hero who will be adored by fans of Flashman and Sherlock Holmes alike. Gathered here in one edition are both volumes of Conan Doyle's much loved tales, which will delight modern readers with their absurdist humour, infectious warmth and swash-buckling energy...read more
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9781847679192 | Reprint edition (Canongate Books Ltd, September 1, 2011), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Mon Dieu!
9781420943450 | Digireads.Com, January 31, 2011, cover price $10.99 | also contains The Complete Brigadier Gerard | About this edition: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are commonly considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction.
Hardcover:
9781590204115 | Overlook Pr, October 28, 2010, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In the heart of London's clubland there stands a tall and grimly forbidding edifice known to taxi-drivers and the elegant young men who frequent its precincts as the Drones Club.
Paperback:
9780393339437 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 18, 2010, cover price $21.95
Product Description: Naughtily hilarious parodies of children's stories as read on Terry Wogan's breakfast showFor the last four years, eight million listeners to BBC Radio 2's Wake Up To Wogan have been beguiled and bewitched by the naughty but nice adventures of John and his wife Janet...read more
Hardcover:
9780755361700 | Headline Book Pub Ltd, October 14, 2010, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Naughtily hilarious parodies of children's stories as read on Terry Wogan's breakfast showFor the last four years, eight million listeners to BBC Radio 2's Wake Up To Wogan have been beguiled and bewitched by the naughty but nice adventures of John and his wife Janet.
Product Description: Four hilarious tales to tickle the funny bone are gathered in this side-splitting collection. Zak's pet cat pays the price for tomcatting around in Alan Durant's "The Kindest Cut;" a routine crime turns out fishier than imagined in Gillian Philip's "Jez Fisher and the Case of the Cocky Robin;" Martin finally gets the hang of Mondays in Alex Stewart's "Asking Andrea;" and Sweeney Todd helps a girl get some well-earned revenge in Julia Williams' "A Dish Best Served Cold...read more
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9780237539436 | Mms Gold, June 1, 2010, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Four hilarious tales to tickle the funny bone are gathered in this side-splitting collection.
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9781407115962 | Gardners Books, November 2, 2009, cover price $17.35
Product Description: P. G. Wodehouse is recognized as the greatest English comic writer of the twentieth century. His characters and settings have entered our language and our mythology. Launched on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, the Overlook Wodehouse will eventually contain all the novels and stories, edited and reset...read more
Hardcover:
9781590202333 | Overlook Pr, August 6, 2009, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: P.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780754008484 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, August 1, 2002), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: A collection of stories in which Wodehouse brings together some of his favourite characters for a party.
Hardcover:
9780517226957 | Gramercy, November 1, 2005, cover price $19.99
9780517124857 | Random House Inc, July 1, 1999, cover price $9.60
9780517149256 | Random House Value Pub, January 1, 1996, cover price $14.99
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9780753458761 | Kingfisher, June 2, 2005, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Collects silly stories and humorous cartoon illustrations, featuring such characters as a rogue elephant, a nearsighted dentist, and killer germs.
9780753411452 | Pan Macmillan, April 18, 2005, cover price $6.65 | About this edition: Collects silly stories and humorous cartoon illustrations, featuring such characters as a rogue elephant, a nearsighted dentist, and killer germs.
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9780486433615 | Dover Pubns, March 23, 2004, cover price $12.95
Paperback:
9780486297170 | Dover Pubns, July 10, 1997, cover price $8.95
Hardcover:
9780517405383 | Gramercy, December 1, 1995, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Five novels take a humorous look at horse racing, Bertie's attempt to escape his former fiancee, Hollywood, a secret marriage tontine, and the diary of a famous actress
Hardcover:
9780517693117 | Bonanza Books, May 1, 1990, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Contains the unabridged texts of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,' 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe,' 'Life, the Universe, and Everything,' 'So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish,' and 'Young Zaphod Plays It Safe'
Hardcover:
9780060159689 | Harpercollins, June 1, 1989, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Thirty-four tales relate the adventures of Jeeves, the perfect butler, and his scatterbrained employer, Bertie Wooster, as they fumble their way through London and the English countryside in the 1920s
Paperback:
9780060972448 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, October 1, 1989), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Thirty-four tales relate the adventures of Jeeves, the perfect butler, and his scatterbrained employer, Bertie Wooster, as they fumble their way through London and the English countryside in the 1920s
Hardcover:
9780681403222, titled "More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide: Complete & Unabridged" | Longmeadow Pr, November 1, 1987, cover price $19.95
Hardcover:
9780517564257 | Harmony Books, November 1, 1986, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Four science fiction novels and a short story describe the humorous adventures of Arthur Dent
Hardcover:
9780517552001, titled "The Hitchhiker's Trilogy" | Crown Pub, January 1, 1984, cover price $15.95 | also contains What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do | About this edition: Three science fiction satires follow the adventures of Arthur Dent and his friend from Betelgeuse, Ford Prefect, who is a roving researcher for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Paperback:
9780140059021 | Reprint edition (Viking Pr, September 1, 1983), cover price $15.95
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