The Girl with the Golden Bouffant: An Original Jane Bond Parody

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When James Bond lands in the hospital with nasty facial burns (the result of an explosive encounter between a bird's fag and his hair pomade), the home office once again calls on Jane Bond, James's lesbian twin sister -- aka 0071/2 -- to don suit, sneer, and scars and masquerade as the infamous 007. Her destination: the annual men-only International Spy Convention in glamorous Las Vegas. Her assignment: to steal a secret spy invention. As a double agent for Her Majesty's Secret Service and for G.E.O.R.G.I.E., the all-girl secret organization of she-spies, Jane must complete her mission and keep her brother's reputation intact by guzzling martinis, flirting with near-nude showgirls, and -- most important -- remembering to use the men's room.

Along for the ride is Jane's only ally in the male spy world, retired special agent Cedric Pumpernickel, and two G.E.O.R.G.I.E. gals, Bridget St. Clare and Bibi Gallini, who will attempt to blend into the tourist crowd in their Mary Quant dresses.

But Jane's stay in Sin City becomes doubly dangerous when an American agent is thrown over the Hoover Dam and all fingers point to Jane.... What's a girl to do?

Mabel Maney is the author of the Nancy Clue and Hardly Boys mystery series. She lives in San Francisco, California.

This book was not published, authorized, or endorsed by the proprietors of the James Bond motion pictures or books.

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 "Great Writer" 2005-08-02
By localreader
Mabel Maney is a great writer, full of exuberance and wit. So many books these days are so glum, it's a pleasure to enter Maney's world and see the colors and sights jump off the page. I will definitely read any other books she has coming out!

 "Not up to par" 2004-07-20
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I am a huge Mabel Maney fan, but I was disappointed in this book. There's no light hearted romance in this book--just endless inventories of horrible 1950s pop culture items, and tiresome characters beating each other up. Jane spends the entire book in drag with a glued-on unibrow. Way too much of the book is about Cedric and his unappealing love interest. I kept waiting to be entertained and charmed, as I inevitably am by Maney, and instead I felt just slightly ill. Read the Nancy Clue books or the original Jane Bond parody, but borrow this one from someone who will take it back.

 "Spytacular!" 2004-06-07
By Sarah A. Perine (San Francisco, CA, United States)
Mabel Maney, yeah, YOU! Keep writing PLEASE! And do a tv show or a cartoon or something! Or how about a video game, breakfast cereal, or a school snack? This is just another marvelous Mabel Maney masterpiece! Mabel Maney wrote the book on inside jokes in queer fiction. Please bring Midge and Velma back in another Nancy book and lots more Jane! Thanks for the fun!

 "Maney is smart, sexy, and shakes a good martini" 2004-05-22
By (San Francisco, CA United States)
If God is in the details, Mabel Maney is surely going to heaven in a diamond-studded dog collar! The research it must have taken her to get this parody oh-so-right boggles the mind. I no longer wish I were around in the sixties to see Vegas in its heyday because Maney has recreated the scene(s) to such hilarious perfection and detail that I don't need to taste the fondue to know it was disgusting.
As for Maney, all her books are a fun romp filled with joy, silliness, and chutzpah, and Girl With The Golden Bouffant is another notch in her lipstick case.

 "Hugely intelligent, achingly funny" 2004-05-08
By (san francisco, ca United States)
Mabel Maney is in cahoots with her reader and trusts them to get the jokes, and this James Bond parody abounds with them. She's a hugely intelligent writer, but don't let that stop you. There's a gem lurking in every sentence--her writing bears close inspection. Maney's sly social commentary sneaks up on you, and her own sense of laughter is infectious. Wonderful foolishness combined with a keenly observed sense of the world we live in.


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When James Bond lands in the hospital with nasty facial burns (the result of an explosive encounter between a bird's fag and his hair pomade), the home office once again calls on Jane Bond, James's lesbian twin sister -- aka 0071/2 -- to don suit, sneer, and scars and masquerade as the infamous 007. Her destination: the annual men-only International Spy Convention in glamorous Las Vegas. Her assignment: to steal a secret spy invention. As a double agent for Her Majesty's Secret Service and for G.E.O.R.G.I.E., the all-girl secret organization of she-spies, Jane must complete her mission and keep her brother's reputation intact by guzzling martinis, flirting with near-nude showgirls, and -- most important -- remembering to use the men's room.

Along for the ride is Jane's only ally in the male spy world, retired special agent Cedric Pumpernickel, and two G.E.O.R.G.I.E. gals, Bridget St. Clare and Bibi Gallini, who will attempt to blend into the tourist crowd in their Mary Quant dresses.

But Jane's stay in Sin City becomes doubly dangerous when an American agent is thrown over the Hoover Dam and all fingers point to Jane.... What's a girl to do?

Mabel Maney is the author of the Nancy Clue and Hardly Boys mystery series. She lives in San Francisco, California.

This book was not published, authorized, or endorsed by the proprietors of the James Bond motion pictures or books.

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 "Great Writer" 2005-08-02
By localreader
Mabel Maney is a great writer, full of exuberance and wit. So many books these days are so glum, it's a pleasure to enter Maney's world and see the colors and sights jump off the page. I will definitely read any other books she has coming out!

 "Not up to par" 2004-07-20
By
I am a huge Mabel Maney fan, but I was disappointed in this book. There's no light hearted romance in this book--just endless inventories of horrible 1950s pop culture items, and tiresome characters beating each other up. Jane spends the entire book in drag with a glued-on unibrow. Way too much of the book is about Cedric and his unappealing love interest. I kept waiting to be entertained and charmed, as I inevitably am by Maney, and instead I felt just slightly ill. Read the Nancy Clue books or the original Jane Bond parody, but borrow this one from someone who will take it back.

 "Spytacular!" 2004-06-07
By Sarah A. Perine (San Francisco, CA, United States)
Mabel Maney, yeah, YOU! Keep writing PLEASE! And do a tv show or a cartoon or something! Or how about a video game, breakfast cereal, or a school snack? This is just another marvelous Mabel Maney masterpiece! Mabel Maney wrote the book on inside jokes in queer fiction. Please bring Midge and Velma back in another Nancy book and lots more Jane! Thanks for the fun!

 "Maney is smart, sexy, and shakes a good martini" 2004-05-22
By (San Francisco, CA United States)
If God is in the details, Mabel Maney is surely going to heaven in a diamond-studded dog collar! The research it must have taken her to get this parody oh-so-right boggles the mind. I no longer wish I were around in the sixties to see Vegas in its heyday because Maney has recreated the scene(s) to such hilarious perfection and detail that I don't need to taste the fondue to know it was disgusting.
As for Maney, all her books are a fun romp filled with joy, silliness, and chutzpah, and Girl With The Golden Bouffant is another notch in her lipstick case.

 "Hugely intelligent, achingly funny" 2004-05-08
By (san francisco, ca United States)
Mabel Maney is in cahoots with her reader and trusts them to get the jokes, and this James Bond parody abounds with them. She's a hugely intelligent writer, but don't let that stop you. There's a gem lurking in every sentence--her writing bears close inspection. Maney's sly social commentary sneaks up on you, and her own sense of laughter is infectious. Wonderful foolishness combined with a keenly observed sense of the world we live in.


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The Encyclopedia of Guilty Pleasures : 1,001 Things You Hate to Love

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What do Neil Diamond, Touched by an Angel, Pamela Anderson, The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, White Castle hamburgers, Benny Hill, Thomas Kinkade, and the song 'You Light Up My Life' have in common? They're all guilty pleasures -- and they're all celebrated in this massive A-to-Z encyclopedia.
Authors Sam Stall, Lou Harry, and Julia Spalding have unearthed fascinating trivia about literature (Valley of the Dolls, The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue), television (The Real World, Land of the Lost), fashion (Members Only jackets, the WonderBra), and more. Every page features a sophisticated two-column design and handy guide words for quick at-a-glance reference. Best of all, we've illustrated 100 of the guiltiest pleasures with the same portrait style used by the Wall Street Journal.
Complete with 1,001 entries, it's the ultimate guide to everything you hate to love!
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 "Hilarious in bed!" 2009-07-28
By Philia (North Carolina)
The Encyclopedia of Guilty Pleasures: 1,001 Things You Hate to Love (Stall, Harry, & Spalding), is my official new favorite for that old game of adding "in bed" to anything to make it hilarious. From the first entry, ABBA, to the last, Zima, this book chronicles a thousand (and one!) things that you'll want to try in bed with your spouse, significant other, or a random person you picked up on the street (and a couple of good-quality condoms, please!).



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 "Actually VERY Good" 2007-01-27
By Shamus Macgillicuddy (Brooklyn, NY United States)
Well-written, well-selected, and often very funny. The entries do a good job pinpointing the appeal of their respective cultural oddities, and the array is pretty dazzling. Heavily weighted toward the generation that came of age in the eighties, but hey, where else can you go for so much guilt in one place? Our colleges should consider giving it to foreign graduate students on their way through customs--it's a guide to all that's 'essentially useless', the hidden flotsam and jetsam of our culture.



I got this as an 'extra' gift from a friend, and expected to find it moderately amusing, something to thumb through. Surprise: My partner and I were so impressed with the book that we both wound-up reading through the entire thing.

 "Afterthought ends up being great purchase!" 2006-06-30
By Chris, "TZoner"
I bought this book simply to bring my purchase up to the free shipping total, but it ended up being a great purchase! It's a hilarious look at all those guilty pleasures we all harbor. Don't pass up this little gem of a book. You'll be laughing for hours! It's illustrated, too.

 "This book is itself a guilty pleasure" 2006-04-10
By T. Davis (Seattle, WA)
What's not to like? Three hundred pages of your favorite trash, elevated to nostalgia, handily packaged, and punchily, pithily, wittily written. Makes a great gift! (see "Infomercials")

 "From ABBA and Abbott & Costello to Ziggy and Zima" 2006-01-29
By Michael K. Smith (Gonzales, Louisiana)
Please! _Doctor Who_, a "guilty pleasure"?! Or anime, which is a genuine art form? And I'm very good at "Trivial Pursuit" -- most reference librarians are. It's also obviously a generational thing; my mother was a Liberace fan in the `50s, and I loved Jiffy Pop in the pre-microwave days myself. (I was already too old when MTV debuted in 1981, or for paintball, which appeared that same year.) And is there anyone who *doesn't* have a few souvenir T-shirts in the closet? On the other hand, who's gonna admit to deliberately watching Hanna-Barbera cartoons? Or _Leave It to Beaver_ reruns, or _The Gong Show_? Or to drinking Big Red? This is the perfect book for a long road trip, for reading aloud to each other and starting arguments. There are some odd omissions, though: How can you talk about "End-of-the-World Movies" without mentioning _On the Beach_? Or "Elvis Impersonators" without noting Andy Kaufman's eerily accurate version early in his career? Or, for the ultimate in self-reference, why isn't there a listing under "Trivia Books"?


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What do Neil Diamond, Touched by an Angel, Pamela Anderson, The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, White Castle hamburgers, Benny Hill, Thomas Kinkade, and the song 'You Light Up My Life' have in common? They're all guilty pleasures -- and they're all celebrated in this massive A-to-Z encyclopedia.
Authors Sam Stall, Lou Harry, and Julia Spalding have unearthed fascinating trivia about literature (Valley of the Dolls, The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue), television (The Real World, Land of the Lost), fashion (Members Only jackets, the WonderBra), and more. Every page features a sophisticated two-column design and handy guide words for quick at-a-glance reference. Best of all, we've illustrated 100 of the guiltiest pleasures with the same portrait style used by the Wall Street Journal.
Complete with 1,001 entries, it's the ultimate guide to everything you hate to love!
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 "Hilarious in bed!" 2009-07-28
By Philia (North Carolina)
The Encyclopedia of Guilty Pleasures: 1,001 Things You Hate to Love (Stall, Harry, & Spalding), is my official new favorite for that old game of adding "in bed" to anything to make it hilarious. From the first entry, ABBA, to the last, Zima, this book chronicles a thousand (and one!) things that you'll want to try in bed with your spouse, significant other, or a random person you picked up on the street (and a couple of good-quality condoms, please!).



[...]

 "Actually VERY Good" 2007-01-27
By Shamus Macgillicuddy (Brooklyn, NY United States)
Well-written, well-selected, and often very funny. The entries do a good job pinpointing the appeal of their respective cultural oddities, and the array is pretty dazzling. Heavily weighted toward the generation that came of age in the eighties, but hey, where else can you go for so much guilt in one place? Our colleges should consider giving it to foreign graduate students on their way through customs--it's a guide to all that's 'essentially useless', the hidden flotsam and jetsam of our culture.



I got this as an 'extra' gift from a friend, and expected to find it moderately amusing, something to thumb through. Surprise: My partner and I were so impressed with the book that we both wound-up reading through the entire thing.

 "Afterthought ends up being great purchase!" 2006-06-30
By Chris, "TZoner"
I bought this book simply to bring my purchase up to the free shipping total, but it ended up being a great purchase! It's a hilarious look at all those guilty pleasures we all harbor. Don't pass up this little gem of a book. You'll be laughing for hours! It's illustrated, too.

 "This book is itself a guilty pleasure" 2006-04-10
By T. Davis (Seattle, WA)
What's not to like? Three hundred pages of your favorite trash, elevated to nostalgia, handily packaged, and punchily, pithily, wittily written. Makes a great gift! (see "Infomercials")

 "From ABBA and Abbott & Costello to Ziggy and Zima" 2006-01-29
By Michael K. Smith (Gonzales, Louisiana)
Please! _Doctor Who_, a "guilty pleasure"?! Or anime, which is a genuine art form? And I'm very good at "Trivial Pursuit" -- most reference librarians are. It's also obviously a generational thing; my mother was a Liberace fan in the `50s, and I loved Jiffy Pop in the pre-microwave days myself. (I was already too old when MTV debuted in 1981, or for paintball, which appeared that same year.) And is there anyone who *doesn't* have a few souvenir T-shirts in the closet? On the other hand, who's gonna admit to deliberately watching Hanna-Barbera cartoons? Or _Leave It to Beaver_ reruns, or _The Gong Show_? Or to drinking Big Red? This is the perfect book for a long road trip, for reading aloud to each other and starting arguments. There are some odd omissions, though: How can you talk about "End-of-the-World Movies" without mentioning _On the Beach_? Or "Elvis Impersonators" without noting Andy Kaufman's eerily accurate version early in his career? Or, for the ultimate in self-reference, why isn't there a listing under "Trivia Books"?


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The Rise And Fall Of A Hustler: A Winter Giovanni Novel

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Meet Mercedes...sexy, goal driven, and smart. But what Mercedes has against her is that "weakness" for the benjamins, the d*ck, and yes-The Hustlers. Determined not to allow her past to get the best of her or become a product of it, she makes a vow to never catch feelings for nigga...ever! But living in the projects, a sistah's gotta do what a sistah's gotta do...f*ck, suck, duck bullets while getting paid for the damn inconvenience! After her quiet life of getting her "nutts" off, Mercedes cuts into one of 757's biggest known hustlers name Polo, who rolls with DC's prime gangsta, not to mention paid up the ass, Rayful Edmonds. Polo invites her to their private party they're gonna be throwing and like a dummy, she accepted the invite and reminded herself to just say "no" to drug...dealers! Unbeknown to her, Mercedes' life is about to change and for the worst!
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 "A true page turner" 2009-09-29
By Kenneth Spencer (Indy)
Winter Giovanni words paint a picture so vivid,it fires off a movie projector in the reader's mind.You won't be diappointed.Nice twist of an ending. I can't wait to read part 2.

 "not too good" 2009-07-21
By Steppo72 (Lake Village, AR)
The title of the story threw me a little after I read the book. it actually took me about two weeks to read it. There were too many mispellings, words used out of context, and the editing wasn't good at all. Overall, the story was okay. I didn't really enjoy the book until the end, which is why it took me so long to read it.

 "very good" 2009-06-26
By S. Harris (Indianapolis IN)
All I can say is... this book is off the chain

I can't wait until part 2 is out.

Pick the book up soon and get to reading, I will not gave away the story.

I read in 2 days


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The World in a City: Traveling the Globe Through the Neighborhoods of the New New York

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“The whole world can be found in this city. . . .”
–from the Preface

Fifty years ago, New York City had only a handful of ethnic groups. Today, the whole world can be found within the city’s five boroughs–and celebrated New York Times reporter Joseph Berger sets out to discover it, bringing alive the sights, smells, tastes, and people of the globe while taking readers on an intimate tour of the world’s most cosmopolitan city.

For urban enthusiasts and armchair explorers alike, The World in a City is a look at today’s polyglot and polychrome, cosmopolitan and culturally rich New York and the lessons it holds for the rest of the United States as immigration changes the face of the nation. With three out of five of the city’s residents either foreign-born or second-generation Americans, New York has become more than ever a collection of villages–virtually self-reliant hamlets, each exquisitely textured by its particular ethnicities, history, and politics. For the price of a subway ride, you can visit Ghana, the Philippines, Ecuador, Uzbekistan, and Bangladesh.

As Berger shows us in this absorbing and enlightening tour, New York is an endlessly fascinating crossroads. Naturally, tears exist in this colorful social fabric: the controversy over Korean-language shop signs in tony Douglaston, Queens; the uneasy proximity of traditional cottages and new McMansions built by recently arrived Russian residents of Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn. Yet in spite of the tensions among neighbors, what Berger has found most miraculous about New York is how the city and its more than eight million denizens can adapt to–and even embrace–change like no other place on earth, from the former pushcart knish vendor on the Lower East Side who now caters to his customers via the Internet, to the recent émigrés from former Soviet republics to Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach and Midwood whose arrival saved New York’s furrier trade from certain extinction.

Like the place it chronicles, The World in a City is an engaging hybrid. Blending elements of sociology, pop culture, and travel writing, this is the rare book that enlightens readers while imbuing them with the hope that even in this increasingly fractious and polarized world, we can indeed co-exist in harmony.
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 "Where are the stories?" 2008-05-18
By ash (Phoenix)
I happened upon this book and thought it would be a perfect one while I prepare for our trip to NYC this summer. I thought it would tell me many interesting neighborhoods to check out, as well as tell me some stories about the places - given his background as a journalist, I would not have assumed otherwise. Well, he's good at telling about neighborhoods, but their stories are all the same - old immigrants are replaced by new ones. Too many census statistics, too few interesting tales. Oh, and the map is very unsubstantial. I got a few ideas, but in general it was not as good as I thought it would be.

 "The Other New York City" 2008-03-11
By Stan-the-Scribbler (New York, NY USA)
Manhattan, with its gleaming skyscrapers, shopping and entertainment, financial district, street-life, etc. etc. IS WONDERFUL. But there is still more to New York City, and that "more" is found in the ethnic neighborhoods of its other boroughs. And Joseph Berger, himself a first-generation American, brings many of these immigrant neighborhoods to life with chapters on each. There's Astoria, long known as a Greek-American stronghold which is changing as other groups move in, and East Harlem, now as much Mexican as Puerto Rican, and areas of The Bronx where emigres from Ghana now predominate. The city constantly changes, which makes it an always fascinating place, but one with which it is sometimes hard to keep up. Berger's book makes the task easier, providing a look at areas of the city that aren't, but should be, in the tourist guides. And, best of all, each chapter concludes with a list of things to see AND places to eat! Overall, an excellent book.

 "Joe Berger does it again" 2007-11-08
By J. P. Rosen (NYC)
Joseph Berger, who has delighted us for years with his articles in the NY Times and prevous books, delights us once again with a vivid and fascinating portrayal of life in the City (there is no other). The pictures of prayer services around the City is enthralling.Great book.

 "A Magnificent Book that New Yorkers and non-Yorkers Will Relish" 2007-10-24
By B. Rom (New York, NY USA)
Joe Berger's magnificent new book deserves to become another filament in the tapestry of the city he so eloquently and lovingly describes. He has a sixth sense about people, place and time that bring to life the essence of New York . He weaves history, sociology, politics and personal anecdotes into a seamless whole that illuminate the nooks and crannies of our great metropolis. In conclusion, this reader, for one, cannot wait for the opportunity to embark on the world tour lying outside his doorstep with "The World in a City" as my Baedeker!


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Hanging Out: Community-Based After-School Programs for Children

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There has been a huge increase in government and foundation funding for after-school programs, but there is very little published research on processes and outcomes (what is available is single-program analysis, often in the form of reports to funding agencies). This collection provides data on the operation of many programs and takes community contexts into account, showing what children actually like and how programs can attract and retain them.
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