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Have you ever finished a meal that tasted horrible but not noticed until the last bite? Eaten in your car so you wouldn’t have to share with your children? Gotten hungry while watching a dog food commercial? Does the presence of green vegetables make you angry?
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A candid, hilarious look at women of a certain age and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.
“Wickedly witty ... Crackling sharp ... Fireworks shoot out [of this collection].” —The Boston Globe
With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron chronicles her
...“Highly amusing."—New York Times
Jacob Tomsky never intended to go into the hotel business. As a new college graduate, armed only with a philosophy degree and a singular lack of career direction, he became a valet parker...
Funny, self-deprecating, and marred by only a few acts of great fortitude, Peking to...
If you can't resist shouting out "Who's there?" on cue, The Everything Kids' Knock Knock Book is for you! Features hilarious sections such as:
26) Me the People: One Man's Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America
Until now.
Perfection is at hand. A new, improved Constitution is here. And you are holding it.
But first, some historical context: In the eighteenth...
27) New Rules
2007 Grammy® Nominee - Best Spoken Word Album
FROM HIS HUGELY POPULAR HBO SHOW, REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER, COME MORE NEW RULES. NO ONE IS SAFE FROM MAHER'S SCATHING HUMOR IN THIS HILARIOUS COLLECTION. NEW RULE: Former drug addicts and alcoholics have to stop saying "I almost died." No. Cancer survivors almost died. Mary Jo Buttafucco almost died. You almost had too good a time.
Guys have long been the most popular subject of Dave Barry's columns, rivaled only by dogs (not that there's such a big difference). Here is Dave's mission for Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys: A Fairly Short Book: "What we need on the part of both genders is more under standing of guyness. And that is why I wrote this book. I intend to explore every facet of guyhood, including the historical facet, the sociological facet, and the facet of how
...“The funniest cry for help you'll read this year.”—BJ Novak
Well, well, well. Look at you, ogling my...
In Tinsel, Hank Stuever searches out the most outlandish cultural excesses as well as the secret beauties of modern America's half-trillion-dollar Christmas holiday.
When Stuever's narrative begins, he's standing in line with the people waiting to purchase flat-screen TVs at Best Buy on Black Friday. From there he follows Tammy Parnell, the proprietor of "Two Elves with a Twist," a company that decorates other people's houses for Christmas;
...34) Wildflower
Wildflower is a portrait of Drew's life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges, and incredible experiences...
From Stephen Colbert, the host of television's highest-rated punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23¬ø hours of your day. I Am America (And So Can You!) contains all of the opinions that Stephen doesn't have time to shoehorn into his nightly broadcast.
Dictated directly into a microcassette recorder over a three-day...
From the New York Times bestselling author of How Do I Un-Remember This? and host of the hit podcast Everything Iconic with Danny Pellegrino comes a collection of tragically hilarious holiday mishaps.
For many families, the holiday season is—quite frankly—unhinged. Whether that involves inappropriately improvised monologues at the children's Christmas pageant, gifts that land someone in the emergency room, or just sitting
...“The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York Times
Back in America after...
“If there is no blood, don’t get up.” This single nugget of parenting gold, offered by a French friend at the end of a long dinner party, changed everything for writer Catherine Crawford, her...
It's no secret, but we are judged by our bookshelves. We learn to read at an early age, and as we grow older we shed our beloved books for new ones. But some of us surround ourselves with books. We collect them, decorate with them, are inspired by them, and treat our books as sacred objects....
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