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Author
Pub. Date
1983
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is a collection of perfect yet imaginary reviews of nonexistent books. With insidious wit, the author beguiles us with a parade of delightful, disarmingly familiar inventions. "Lem is Harpo Marx and Franz Kafka and Isaac Asimov rolled up into one and down the white rabbit's hole" (Detroit News). A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
2) Vacuum
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
168 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a drug kingpin gives up his evil ways, he leaves his empire open for takeover. Harpur and Iles try to prevent a bloody war as other firms fight to fill the vacuum.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A bug flies through an open door into a house, through a bathroom, across a kitchen and bedroom and into a living room ... where its entire life changes with the switch of a button. Sucked into the void of a vacuum bag, this one little bug moves through denial, bargaining, anger, despair and eventually acceptance -- the five stages of grief -- as it comes to terms with its fate. Will there be a light at the end of the tunnel? Will there be dust bunnies...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Peggy Rowe is at it again--this time giving a hilarious inside look at her writing career."--Provided by publisher.
Rowe has been writing all of her adult life- even through years of constant rejection from publishing houses. Between her tenacity and the encouragement of her family, her breakthrough finally came-- at the age of eighty! Here she shares her journey of attending myriad writers' conferences and honing her ability to see humor in everyday...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Mona is twenty-six and cleans houses for a living in Taos, New Mexico. She moved there mostly because of a bad boyfriend-- a junkie named Mr. Disgusting, long story-- and her efforts to restart her life since haven't exactly gone as planned. For one thing she's got another bad boyfriend. She calls this one Dark, and he happens to be married to one of Mona's clients. Dark and his wife aren't the only complicated clients on Mona's roster...there's also...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Do you believe in magic? Can you imagine a war between wizards? An exciting journey in an airship or down in a submarine? Would you like to meet the fastest truncheon in the Wild West? The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner is the second short-story collection from the late acclaimed storyteller Terry Pratchett, featuring stories that were written when he was a teenager and working as a junior reporter.
Author
Language
English
Description
The best-selling author offers a new collection of satirical and humorous essays that chronicle his own life and ordinary moments that turn beautifully absurd, including how he coped with the pandemic, his thoughts on becoming an orphan in his seventh decade, and the battle-scarred America he discovered when he resumed touring.
8) Chilton's guide to vacuum diagrams 1980-86 domestic cars: vacuum diagrams for 1980-86 domestic cars
Pub. Date
[1988]
Physical Desc
1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
American chillers volume 30
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
208 pages : map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
While working in her uncle's vacuum cleaner repair shop, Brooke Whipkey and her friend Spider Murphy come up with a fabulous new invention - a robotic vacuum! Unfortunately their experiments lead to horrifying results that spill out of the repair shop and into the neighborhood. How can they reign in their "vicious vacuums" before these wayward inventions suck up everything and everybody in their paths?
11) Chilton's guide to vacuum diagrams, 1980-86 import cars: vacuum diagrams for 1980-1986 import cars
Pub. Date
[1988]
Physical Desc
318 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Watch out for Jake! volume 1
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
26 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Jake's mother orders him to vacuum, he discovers that all kinds of things can fit into a vacuum cleaner.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
256 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book provides a step-by-step guide to modern vacuum therapy, which stems from an ancient healing technique that creates suction and negative pressure through the use of both stationary and moving cups on the skin. A form of alternative medicine, the cups create suction that helps with pain, inflammation and blood flow, and can provide relief for sciatica and sinus congestion. More than 200 photos and full colour pages make it easy to follow...
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