Black Dog, White Couch, and the Rest of My Really Bad Ideas
by Dawn Weber
Kentucky Curiosities (Kentucky Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff)
by Vince Staten and Liz Baldi
One day a year Kentucky is the most famous state in the union. That's Kentucky Derby Day, the first Saturday in May when the annual Kentucky Derby is run at Churchill Downs. On that day, Kentucky is the home to fast horses, beautiful women, and great whiskey. For the other 364 days it is home to fast women, beautiful horses, and people recovering from too much whiskey.This duality -- hey, we're important today; but tomorrow we're nothing -- is a perfect reflection of a state of great contrasts.K...
This laugh-out-loud guide will introduce readers to the offbeat people, places, and events of the Treasure State.
Dave Barry's Greatest Hits & Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys
by Dr Dave Barry
Collects more than seventy-five "Philadelphia Inquirer" columns by John Grogan that cover such topics as families, animals, and life in modern America.
'Wodehouse would have made an excellent sports writer' Sunday TimesAs Wodehouse’s biographer Frances Donaldson observed, it was vitally important to the boy Plum that he was ‘above average at games’. Luckily, he was known at school as ‘a noted athlete, a fine footballer and cricketer [and] a boxer’, and sport inspired much of his earliest writings, as well as some of his very finest and laugh-out-loud funniest. Wodehouse wrote with trademark wit on a rich range of games – and on cricket and golf...