Kathryn Ross: 170 books
That Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means
The 150 Most Commonly Misused Words and Their Tangled Histories
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
An entertaining and informative guide to the most common 150 words even smart people use incorrectly, along with pithy forays into their fascinating etymologies and tangled histories of use and misuse.
Even the most erudite among us use words like apocryphal, facetious, ironic, meteorite, moot,...
B Is for Botox
An Alphabet Book for the Middle-Aged
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Remember when A was for apple? Well, now (sigh) A is for aging.The A, B, Cs of adulthood differ ever so slightly from the popular grade school primers of the past inside Ross and Kathryn Petras's B Is for Botox: An Alphabet Book for the Middle-Aged. This hilarious board book has a fun, retro...
by Matthew Davenport, Sue Raymond, Steve Havemann
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Experience the Strong Literary Culture of Local Iowa Authors
Independent or Traditionally Published, it doesn't matter. In the end, we're all IOWA.
Step into a world of fantasy, love, business, mystery, adventure, and horror as you open the pages of this book to discover the intense...
by Kathryn Petras, Ross Petras
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Inside Jane's Guide to Dicks (and Toms and Harrys), best-selling humorists Ross and Kathyrn Petras offer tongue-in-cheek lessons to help your average Jane suss out all the Dicks (and Toms and Harrys) they encounter along the way to finding Mr. Right.Once upon a time, Jane didn't know Jack about...
Wretched Writing
A Compendium of Crimes Against the English Language
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Wretched writing is the lowest of the low; it is a felonious assault on the English language. Exuberantly excessive, it is a sin committed often by amateurs and all-too-frequently by gifted writers having an off day. In short, it’s very bad writing. Truly bad. Appallingly bad.
It’s also...
"Nothing Is Worth More Than This Day."
Finding Joy in Every Moment
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
A book of inspirational quotations, Nothing Is Worth More Than This Day presents hundreds of reminders from some of the smartest people who ever lived—from Dr. Seuss to Erma Bombeck, Thich Nhat Hanh to Lena Dunham—that happiness is everywhere and the glass is half-full. It’s the perfect gift of optimism, for good times and not-so-good times.
Bad Girls Go Everywhere
Wisdom, Humor, and Inspiration from Women with Attitude
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Women with attitude; chicks with balls; and spirited females who proudly own the word bitches.” Bad Girls Go Everywhere is a collection of 300 kick-ass quotes with words of wisdom, inspiration, humor, and sass from past and present-day women who aren't afraid to tell it like it is. From Queen...
You're Saying It Wrong
A Pronunciation Guide to the 150 Most Commonly Mispronounced Words--and Their Tangled Histories of Misuse
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
For word nerds and grammar geeks, a witty guide to the most commonly mispronounced words, along with their correct pronunciations and pithy forays into their fascinating etymologies and histories of use and misuse.
With wit and good humor, this handy little book not only saves us from sticky...
Stupidest Things Ever Said
Book of All-Time Stupidest Top 10 Lists
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Not just stupidity, but obsessive stupidity! Not just random stupidity, but organized stupidity! Here, from the celebrated collectors of the stupidest things ever said, it’s the cre`me de la cre`me of stupidities, made even funnier and more compelling in an irresistible top 10 list format. Try one:
The...
by Ross Petras, Kathryn Petras
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
A connoisseur's compendium of Freudian slips, spoonerisms, double-talk, and utter bosh from famous and infamous figures past and present -- a complete course in anti-eloquence by the foot-in-mouth champions of all time.
Stupid Movie Lines
The 776 Dumbest Things Ever Uttered on the Silver Screen
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
The creme de la crud of screen history
"War! War! That's all you think of, Dick Plantagenet! You burner! You pillager!"
--Virginia Mayo as Lady Edith to George Sanders in King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)
"Visits? That would indicate visitors."
--Army captain...
by Kathryn Petras, Ross Petras
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Writing very bad poetry requires talent. It helps to have a wooden ear for words, a penchant for sinking into a mire of sentimentality, and an enviable confidence that allows one to write despite absolutely appalling incompetence.
The 131 poems collected in this first-of-its-kind anthology...
Here Speeching American
A Very Strange Guide to English as It Is Garbled Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2004
THE STRANGEST (AND FUNNIEST) TRAVEL GUIDE YOU’LL EVER READ
The celebrated authors of the perennial bestseller The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said set the typical travel guide squarely on its head–taking you from the airport to the hotel, from sightseeing to dining out–by using 100 percent...
Cinematic Canines
Dogs and Their Work in the Fiction Film
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Dogs have been part of motion pictures since the movies began. They have been featured onscreen in various capacities, from any number of “man’s best friends” (Rin Tin Tin, Asta, Toto, Lassie, Benji, Uggie, and many, many more) to the psychotic Cujo. The contributors to Cinematic Canines take...