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Compilation of Amazing, Hilarious and Poignant True Parrot Stories
For over a decade, I have been interviewing and meeting many top parrot breeders from all over the UK - and Spain - while working as a freelance writer for Cage & Aviary Birds, Bird Keeper magazine, Parrots magazine and Australian Bird Keeper. This put me in the unique position of having an amazing collection of truly wonderful parrot stories. So, I decided to put together a compilation of 64 of the very best 'real-life' parrot stories that I have - along with 42 full-colour and 32 black and white photographs - to create this unique book of amazing short stories dedicated completely to parrots. Parrots are complex, intelligent and awe-inspiring creatures and what they are capable of will simply astonish you. As I collected hundreds and hundreds of stories, I realized that no two parrots - whether kept in breeding pairs or as pets - are the same. All parrots have strong, individual characters and a remarkable deep sense of intuition and resourcefulness that certainly goes beyond our comprehension. Even if you do not keep parrots yourself, you could not help but be amazed at some of the things that parrots get up to - or the things that have happened to them! But, there is one thing for certain; as you make your way through this book - jumping from one incredible story to another - it will make you realize that there is a lot more to parrots than first meets the eye..
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The Last Single Woman in America
The funniest, freshest essayist since David Sedaris, Cindy Guidry examines American culture and present-day gender relations in all their confusing, heartbreaking, and hilarious glory. After losing both her job and a potential husband, Cindy sets off to figure out why on earth she’s so happy and soon must combat an onslaught of unsolicited advice from her mother, her “have it all” friends, and a Yoda-like waxing lady, and the guy next door. Making pit stops along the way to ponder everything from the satanic origins of the Internet to her disturbing discovery that men are the new women, Cindy ultimately finds inspiration in her CD collection and renewed hope via a love letter from an Indian gas station attendant. Cindy Guidry is a self-aware woman with a razor-sharp wit, and in The Last Single Woman in America she takes us on an outrageously funny romp through her own unique mind, uncovering universal truths along the way..
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The Quotable Woman: Witty, Poignant, And Insightful Observations From Notable Women
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Box of Delights, A: An A-Z of the Funniest, Wisest, and Most Poignant Stories, Proverbs, Jokes, and One-Liners
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Professional Savages: Captive Lives and Western Spectacle
In August 1882 the circus impresario P. T. Barnum called for examples of “all the uncivilized races in existence ” In response, the showman R. A. Cunningham shipped two groups of Australian Aborigines to the United States. They were displayed as “cannibals” in circuses, dime museums, fairgrounds, and other showplaces in America and Europe and examined and photographed by anthropologists. Roslyn Poignant tells the fascinating and often searing story of the transformation of the Aboriginal travelers into accomplished performers, professional savages who survived at least for a short time by virtue of the strengths they drew from their own culture and their individual adaptability. Most died somewhere on tour. A century later, the mummified body of Tambo, the first to die, was discovered in the basement of a recently closed funeral home in Cleveland, Ohio. Poignant recounts how Tambo’s posthumous repatriation stimulated a cultural renewal within the community from which he came, exposing the roots of present social and economic injustices experienced by indigenous Australians. .
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Telegram!: Modern History as Told Through More than 400 Witty, Poignant, and Revealing Telegrams
There was a time when the sight of a Western Union delivery boy coming up the walk filled Americans with a sense of excitement or trepidation. Between its invention in the mid-nineteenth century and its post-1960s relegation to money transfer and congratulations, the telegraph served as the primary medium for urgent messages. Telegram! collects the most poignant and revealing examples of this earliest form of instant communication.
Organized into categories such as "Parents and Children," "Hooray for Hollywood," and "Lincoln in the Telegraph Office," the telegrams range from such moving personal notes as W.C. Fields's wire to his dying friend John Barrymore, "You can't do this to me," to political advice, such as one voter's telegraphed suggestion to President Herbert Hoover: "Vote for Roosevelt and make it unanimous."
The communication compiled here also provides a novel and engaging perspective on modern history. Abraham Lincoln virtually conducted the Civil War over the telegraph wires, financial nabobs used them to discuss (and fail to predict) the stock market crash that precipitated the Great Depression, and Japanese diplomats in Washington sent a flurry of encoded telegrams to Tokyo in the weeks leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
This handsome volume blends history, sociology, wit, and creativity as captured and dispatched by the telegram in its golden age.
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Pearls of Childhood: The Poignant True Wartime Story of a Young Girl Growing Up in an Adopted Land
In June 1939, shortly before her 11th birthday, Vera Gissing escaped from occupied Czechoslovakia, leaving behind her parents, family, and friends, to spend six years in Britain. Throughout the war years, Vera kept a diary, recording her day-to-day experiences, her longing for her parents, her hopes, and her prayers for the freedom of her country. By the time she returned to Prague to set up home with her aunt in 1945, she knew that both her parents had died—her mother in Belsen, her father on a death march. She came back to England in 1949 and has lived there ever since. The memories and emotions rekindled by a reunion of the Czech school in Wales where she was educated encouraged Vera to go back to her diaries and the letters from her parents that she had not touched for 40 years, resulting in this powerful and moving account of the life of one child growing up in extraordinary circumstances. .
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