Funny Cars

What did George Michael crash into while driving past a Gay Pride parade? What percentage of Americans wash their car every week? Which car marque launched its own cotton branded face mask? How do you take a corner sideways? What supercar has ten radiators? During what motoring emergency are you advised to burn your CDs? Which part of a car contains more germs than a toilet seat?After breaking the world record for driving to the most countries in one day and driving from Land’s End to John O’Groats in a car that cost £50, former Top Gear and Jeremy Clarkson backroom writer and ...

FULL COLOUR 30th ANNIVERSARY RECORD EDITION Rosco McGlashan is an icon of drag racing and an Australian land speed record holder. This book tells the unbelievable and remarkable story of his life. I believe it is one of the best motorsports biographies and land speed record books you will ever read. Told in 370 action-packed pages with 160 incredible colour photos of Rosco's life, cars and racing career. His early years were very tough. He spent time in state-run homes and remand centres, eventually driving away from his home and school at twelve after a run-in with his family and ...

If you're ready to have some fun with your language learning adventure and leave the yawns behind, "The 2000 Most Common Mandarin Chinese Phrases for Conversations" will transform you into a Mandarin-speaking wizard. It's about getting you to speak the language like you've been doing it for years, all while having a great time. Let us get this language party started!

Boxed set of the first three bestselling Vampire Love Story novels, including: VAMPIRE LOVE STORY (#1) Josiah Reign is a lover and a fighter. Out for a simple jog, he happens upon a young woman who needs help. So Josiah does what he does best. He takes on her attackers...all five of them, in fact. Little does Josiah know that this one act of goodwill will introduce him to a very strange world, a world of dreams...and nightmares. For this woman, Lena, is not who she seems, and her friends are the stuff of legends. Worse yet, Josiah finds himself falling for not one, but two of these deadly ...

A thought-provoking novel for readers who enjoy literary fiction, unpredictable originality, bizarre mystery and cool, philosophical reasoning., An old lady and a young man meet on a crosswalk in Manhattan in bizarre circumstances which drastically change the directions of their lives. A foul-mouthed youth is killed in a traffic accident. The old lady’s apartment is visited by folks that would make most people run to their psychologist. A mass murderer explains why he thinks he is a good man. A cool Jesus asks for parts of The Bible to be rewritten. Literary characters come alive and ...

There’s never a dull moment with silly jokes just for kids! Forget being bored. That should never be a thing! Keep the fun and laughter going whether at home, on the go, or quite honestly…wherever! This book is overflowing with rounds of children friendly jokes!

A friendly drag race proves fatal for one of the members of a car club. Sabotage is soon suspected. Friends and acquaintances from Eve’s old life in Chicago all become murder suspects. Suspicion and confusion run rampant throughout the rural Northern Arizona hotel as items go missing and different items appear. When damning evidence is found in Eve’s ex-boyfriend’s room, she hurries to clear his good name before he is officially charged with murder. Although one of Eve’s employees succeeds in helping her solve the complicated mystery, other staff members impede her investigations of...

Buddy Banzai and the Intergalactic Echo A Sequel to The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension Forty years after Buckaroo Banzai vanished into deep space chasing Lectroids and lost dimensions, his son Buddy has built a strange life of his own, part-time lawyer, part-time astronomer, full-time rock 'n' roll adrenaline junkie. But when an encrypted signal echoes from beyond the stars, speaking in a voice only Buddy could recognize, the past comes crashing into the present. Joined by his equally eccentric crew, the UFO-hunting bass player Skipper, drummer-attorney George ...

London, 1965-69…Hilarious whodunit with quirky characters for fans of the Beatles, Golden Girls and Murder She Wrote. A clean, fun read. Beatles abound! The Cozy Beatles Mystery series is definitely a page turner! Helen Spencer's got a problem with stolen cars. What do you get when you cross 1960s supermodels, jealous neighbors and envious businessmen with the Beatles, their wives and girlfriends, and the music of the Summer of Love? A whole bunch of suspects... The one thing you can’t do is panic. So why was I panicking? Because John Lennon's psychedelic Rolls Royce had just been ...

Join Paul and Rob as they ditch their walking boots for something a little faster—an electric car. But not just any electric car, oh no—a first-generation Nissan Leaf. That’s right, our intrepid duo is setting out on a road trip across England to answer the ultimate question: Can you actually go on a road trip in an electric car? Spoiler alert: the answer might just be “sort of, but it’s complicated.” Will the car make it to the next charger? Will the charger even exist when they get there? And if it does exist, will it actually work? As Paul and Rob discover, there are a lot of...

“After the Fall is a compelling work steeped in folklore and thriller components alike. It's highly recommended for readers seeking well-done characters, a fast pace, and a story that assumes no prior familiarity with folk legends in order to prove accessible and engrossing.” — Midwest Book Review ★★★Fans of The Prometheus Wars rejoice. Wes is back in an all-new, stand-alone adventure★★★ The Olympian gods exist, but our world is not ready for them. Wes is a wisecracking Australian known to President Elizabeth Clarke. Yet when he inexplicably materializes in the Oval Office...

The Americanization of a British icon... Was it even possible? He’s a World Famous Reality TV Star obsessed with fast cars, descended from nobility. She’s a broke but independent American mechanic with nefarious ancestors, just trying to make ends meet in the swamplands of Louisiana.What will happen when they work together on the classic ’64 Musang that nearly ended his life? Will his stalkers catch up to him at his hidden estate in Forever, Montana? And what’s with Pepé the hitchhiking skunk? Laugh out loud at the collision of cultures and attitudes when two very different people ...

This book is wildly funny. I lost track of how many times I laughed out loud. -- Kathleen, Amazon ReviewerAuthor Al Macy is a character and a tightwad with a unique sense of humor. He and his wife squirreled away enough money to retire early, do interesting things, and take unusual trips. As he puts it: “Every day I wake up with nothing to do, and by the end of the day, I've only gotten half of it done.” During his working life, Macy was a neuroscientist, computer game programmer, jazz trombonist, chef, CEO, piano player, clam digger, and technical writer. The book is a journal of a car...

Brooke Cohen thinks this 4th of July is about kicking back, relaxing and spending time with her husband’s weirdly too close family. Boy is she in for a sexy surprise. Elliot has it all planned, the who, the what and the when but even he can’t predict his wife’s immediate need for fireworks. Tommy is home for the parade, sweating his balls off in his dress blues, hoping to catch the eye of Elliot’s sexier than sexy wife and dang, does he ever. And fast. Brooke’s never been as into the action before and it has all of them overstimulated before the fireworks even go off. Hometown ...