The Ark's Anniversary by Gerald Durrell When Gerald Durrell was six years old, he informed his
mother that he intended to have his own zoo. This is
the story of how that little boy grew into his big ambition
and how his dream grew into The Jersey Wildlife
Preservation Trust, which today is a major world force
in wildlife conservation. Whether the author is on the
trail of a pigmy hog or a bank manager, whether he is
courting patrons or tracking down a Gunther's gecko,
Durrell does it with equal parts enthusiasm, optimism
and good humour.
The Bafut Beagle by Gerald Durrell One of Gerald Durrell's most popular and best-loved books, the Bafut Beagles was the name which Durrell bestowed the pack of African hunters and their mongrel dogs with which he hunted and captured many of the oddest and most elusive creatures in the Cameroons. His adventures in pursuit of such fauna as flying mice and booming squirrels were often as strange as the animals themselves. From thoughtfully providing hunters with magic potions to repel instant death from the Que-Fong-Goo, to teaching the Fon, King of Bafut and his councillors to dance the Conga, Durrell endears and endures it all.
The New Noah by Gerald Durrell In The New Noah, Gerald Durrell packs humour and love along with his nets, traps and mad schemes as he journeys across the world in search of animals for his zoo? hunting down, trading and often rescuing rare, beautiful animals. Ant-eaters, electric eels, porcupines, moustached monkeys, curassows, toucans, hairy frogs, the odd boa-constrictor... all as pampered and fussed over as luxury cruise-liner guests aboard Gerald Durrell?s arkcruise-ark.
A fabulous treat for anyone with a taste for adventure.
Bindi Babes by Narinder Dhami Girl Power meets Goodness Gracious Me! This is a Bend it Like Beckham for pre-teens. Three feisty, fun-loving Anglo-Asian sisters rule the roost over their dad since their mum died. They've got a reputation at school for being the coolest, most sorted babes in town - and what they certainly DON'T need is an interfering Auntie-ji from India inviting herself over to England and cramping their style. Which is exactly what their dad organizes.
The girls decide the only way out of this nagging-adult dilemma is an arranged marriage - for their auntie! Enter Mr Arora, the dream boat teacher who just might whisk Auntie off in his arms and into the sunset.
Khushwant Singh's Joke Book 6 by Khushwant Singh The biggest Joke of recent years is that in a nation as humourless as us Indians, joke books sell like hot Pakoras. This is the sixth compilation of jokes culled from my columns in The Hindustan Times and the Tribune to be published by Orient Paperbacks. Every one of the earlier books in the series has gone into more than a dozen reprints. They are to be seen on pavement, railway station and airport book stalls as well as book stores extending from Murree (Pakistan) to Chittagong (Bangladesh). Not many people know me as a novelist, writer of short stories, a historian of the Sikhs or translator from Urdu to English but as a compiler of Jokes. No one take me seriously; I am a joker. Wherever I happen to be, men and women cluster round me and demand, Koi Joke-Shoke ho jai-tell us the latest joke.
Author?s discovery is that his fellow countrymen are about the most laughable in the world today. Nowhere else will you find so much disparity between what they say and what they mean. We proclaim that we are a spiritual people indifferent to material well-being; in fact, we are more obsessed with many than most others. The most effective weapon to puncture their inflated egos is to make fun of them and make them appear as ridiculous as they are.Read More...Hide Pages: 143
Samplings from some of your favorite authors-including Pasty Clairmont,Martha Bolton,Dave Meurer,Nancy Kennedy,and many more-will energize any worn-out mom and remind you of teh joys of motherhood.
Take a deep breath,inhale the joy,soak up the merriment,adn you'll surely find that your heart is lighter,your day brighter, and your soul hilariously refreshed.Read More...Hide Pages: 233
DORK: The Incredible Adventures of Robin Einstein Varghese by Sidin Vadukut In April 2006 Robin "Einstein" Varghese, a stupendously naïve but academically gifted young man (he was ranked 41st in his class), graduates from one of India's best business schools with a Day-Zero job at the Mumbai office of Dufresne Partners, a mediocre mid-market management consulting firm largely run by complete morons. Varghese finds that he fits into the culture remarkably well. Or does he?
Through a stunning series of blunders, mishaps and inadvertent errors, Robin begins to make his superiors rue the day they were driven by desperation into hiring him. To make matters worse, Robin realizes that his mad, passionate, steamy one-sided relationship with B-school batchmate Gouri Kalbag might be over before it ever started. With things going spectacularly wrong in his professional and personal life, will Robin manage to achieve his short-term goal of being promoted to Associate in under a year and beat the record set by Boris Nguyen at Dufresne's Vietnam office? Will Gouri walk with him through Dadar Department Stores with her hand in the rear pocket of his jeans?
Dork: The Incredible Adventures of Robin "Einstein" Varghese is for all of those who've ever sat depressed in cubicles-and wanted to kill themselves with office stationery. Especially that letter opener thing.
Join Robin as he navigates his first insane year at Dufresne Partners in this first volume of the Dork trilogy.Read More...Hide Pages: 235
Love and Marriage by Bill Cosby Remember your first kiss?Your first crush?Your first date?Bill Cosby remembers his and is telling all.The king of Comedy with warmth, wit, and wisdom as takes on two subjects close to all as he shares his thoughts on everything from childhood romances and adolescent crushes to first lovers, dating, and the rewards of marriage.A sly, wry look at why love can be a funny little thing.Read More...Hide Pages: 280
What were they thinking! by Shefali Tripathi Mehta Ordinary life throws up many such situations which we want to mock at as much as tear your hair out. In a new book of observational humour titled,"What were they thinking!",Shefali Tripathi Mehta describes many such situations with a sense of wit and satire.
Like: men left holding ladies bags at amusement parks or weddings; guys who get off escalators and then refuse to move on; guests who allow their kids to run their chocolate fingers through the walls of your home; about a certain expression of English ("Shy is coming") which will make you blush or a gentleman behind you blithely leading his companion in as you hold the heavy cinema door open.....Read More...Hide Pages: 96
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