The Best of Reader's Digest : timeless favorites.

9781621455905

vi, 314 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Timeless favorites

"Stories that inspire, amuse, and entertain"--cover

Where success comes from / By Arthur Gordon
An electric nightmare / by John Robben
Anybody want to buy a $2,300 dog? / by Robert de Roos
Terror in the night / by Dave Shiflett
My bad genes / by Michael Ian Black
A soldier's story / by Robert Hodierne
Tear down this wall / by Peter Robinson
The night I met Einstein / by Jerome Weldman
Awake through a brain operation / by Annette Anselmo
My fight with Jack Dempsey / by Paul Gallico
So long, duck / by Virginia Bennett Moore
The case of the swaggering smuggler / by Richard and Joyce Wolkomir
The greatest quotes never said / by Ralph Keyes
My father's music / by Wayne Kalyn
There's a tidal wave loose in here! / by Lawrence Elliott
Bit by the fitbit / by David Sedaris
1,000 men and a baby / by Lawrence Elliott
The kidnapping of Christine Aragao / by Malcolm McConnell
Princess power / by Ashley Lewis
Call of the wild / by Penny Porter
How we kept Mother's day / by Stephen Leacock
A life in buttons / by Karen Grissinger
Deadly cargo / by Christopher Davis
The funniest football game ever played / by O.K. Armstrong
Killer connection / by Ann Rule
you two must meet! / by Cornelia Otis Skinner
The will to live / by Gail Cameron Wescott
Well, this is awkward / by Jessica Hagy
I hunted down the woman who stole my life / by Anita Bartholomew
My mother barked like a seal / by Jeanmarie Coogan
50 seconds from death / By Robert Kiener
America's 10 funniest jokes / by Andy Simmons
A dog like no other / by Peter Muilenburg
The book that changed my life / by Rick Bragg
Twas the night after Christmas / by Corey Ford
I never forgot you / by Martina Lopes
The almost-perfect kidnapping / by Joseph P. Blank
Bad puns are how eye roll / by Peter Rubin
My journey to Moscow / by Ed Sullivan
Almost ready to do my taxes! / by Emma Rathbone
The case of the blasted bank / by Evan McLeod Wylie
Beyond tragedy / by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
25 jokes that make you sound like a genius / by Andy Simmons
The sweet uses of solitude / by Joan Mills
Alone with a madman / by William M. Hendryx
I died at 10:52 am / by Victor D. Solow
What I learned from Hemingway / by W. J. Lederer
Early to bed and late to rise / by Don Herold
How to be true to you / by Scott Russell Sanders
I once who lost / by Antwone Quenton Fisher
Credits and acknowledgments

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Anselmo, Annette. Awake through a brain operation
Armstrong, O. K. (Orland Kay), 1893-1987. Funniest football game ever played
Bartholomew, Anita. I hunted down the woman who stole my life
Black, Michael Ian, 1971- My bad genes
Blank, Joseph P. Almost-perfect kidnapping
Bragg, Rick. Book that changed my life
Cameron, Gail. Will to live
Coogan, Jeanmarie. My mother barked like a seal
Davis, Christopher. Deadly cargo
De Roos, Robert William, 1912-2002. Anybody want to buy a $2,300 dog?
Elliott, Lawrence. 1,000 men and a baby
Fisher, Antwone Quenton. I once who lost
Ford, Corey, 1902-1969. Twas the night after Christmas
Gallico, Paul, 1897-1976. My fight with Jack Dempsey
Gordon, Arthur, 1912-2002. Where success comes from
Grissinger, Karen. Life in buttons
Hagy, Jessica. Well, this is awkward
Hendryx, William M.. Alone with a madman
Herold, Don, 1889-1966. Early to bed and late to rise
Hodierne, Robert. Solider's story
Kalyn, Wayne. My father's music
Keyes, Ralph. Greatest quotes never said
Kiener, Robert. 50 seconds from death
Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944. How we kept Mother's day
Lederer, William J., 1912-2009. What I learned from Hemingway
Lewis, Ashley. Princess power
Lopes, Martina. I never forgot you
McConnell, Malcolm. Kidnapping of Christine Aragao
Mills, J. Elizabeth. Sweet uses of solitude
Moore,Viriginia Bennett. So long, duck
Muilenburg, Peter, 1945- Dog like no other
Porter, Penny, 1927- Call of the wild
Rathbone, Emma. Almost ready to do my taxes!
Reader's Digest Association
Robben, John. Electric nightmare
Robinson, Peter, 1938- Tear down this wall
Rubin, Peter (Pop culture writer). Bad puns are how eye roll
Rule, Ann. Killer connection
Sanders, Scott R. (Scott Russell), 1945- How to be true to you
Sedaris, David. Bit by the fitbit
Shiflett, Dave. Terror in the night
Simmons, Andy. 25 jokes that make you sound like a genius
Skinner, Cornelia Otis, 1901-1979. You two must meet!
Solow, Victor D. I died at 10:52 am
Sullivan, Ed, 1901-1974. My journey to Moscow
Townsend, Kathleen Kennedy, 1951- Beyond tragedy
Weldman, Jerome. Night I met Einstein
Wolkomoir, Joyce. Case of the swaggering smuggler
Wolkomoir, Richard. Case of the swaggering smuggler
Wylie, Evan McLeod, 1916- Case of the blasted bank