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Remember When
Remember When Trilogy, #1
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
** Author's Note: Remember When is the first book in a trilogy series but there is NO CLIFFHANGER. This romantic comedy novel is intended for mature teen readers and immature adult readers due to some high school sex scenes, underage drinking, questionable language and 1980s flashbacks. **
Years...
Little Known Facts
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
The people who orbit around Renn Ivins, an actor of Harrison Ford-like stature--his girlfriends, his children, his ex-wives, those on the periphery--long to experience the glow of his flame. Anna and Will are Renn's grown children, struggling to be authentic versions of themselves in a world where...
Let There Be Laughter
A Treasury of Great Jewish Humor and What It All Means
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
From the host of NPR affiliate’s Forum with Michael Krasny, a compendium of Jewish jokes that packs the punches with hilarious riff after riff and also offers a window into Jewish culture.
Michael Krasny has been telling Jewish jokes since his bar mitzvah, and it’s been said that he knows...
Max Danger
The Adventures of an Expat in Tokyo
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
"Mr. Collins is a funny writer [who puts] his finger on exactly what
makes Japan bewildering, endearing, amusing inspiring…"
-The New York Times
Follow the adventures of Tokyo’s favorite expatriate Max Danger, as he weaves his way in and out of the intricacies and dilemmas of...
by Ефим Курганов, Efim Kurganov
Language: Russian
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Language: Russian
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Входит в топ-50 книг 2015 года по версии «НГ Ex Libris».
Судьба у русского анекдота крайне сложная и даже истинно драматическая. Целые столетия его упорно старались не...
Life Is Not a Stage
From Broadway Baby to a Lovely Lady and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
For millions of people around the world, Carol Brady is synonymous with motherhood, but growing up as the youngest of ten children in rural Indiana in the aftermath of the Great Depression, Florence Henderson lived a life quite different from that of the quintessential TV mom she later played on television.
Florence's...
Disquiet, Please!
More Humor Writing from The New Yorker
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
The New Yorker is, of course, a bastion of superb essays, influential investigative journalism, and insightful arts criticism. But for eighty years, it’s also been a hoot. In fact, when Harold Ross founded the legendary magazine in 1925, he called it “a comic weekly,” and while it has grown...
How to Be Alone
If You Want To, and Even If You Don't
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
The former Sex & Relationships Editor for Cosmopolitan and host of the wildly popular comedy show Tinder Live with Lane Moore presents her poignant, funny, and deeply moving first book.
Lane Moore is a rare performer who is as impressive onstage—whether hosting her iconic show Tinder...
by George Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
The breakout book from "the funniest writer in America"--not to mention an official...
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Essays and Arguments
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
In this exuberantly praised book - a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner - David Foster Wallace brings...
by Tom Paolangeli
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
From the Introduction:Okay, first of all, if you’re looking for the book “Fifty Shades of Grey” by E.L. James, this ain’t it. Sorry about that, dang those stupid search engines, now go and try again. Second, what you’re reading here is just for guys. If you’re a woman, please stop reading...
Fraud
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2002
From This American Life alum David Rakoff comes a hilarious collection that single-handedly raises self-deprecation to an art form. Whether impersonating Sigmund Freud in a department store window during the holidays, climbing an icy mountain in cheap loafers, or learning primitive survival skills...
Don't Get Too Comfortable
The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2005
A bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess from an award-winning humorist.
Whether David Rakoff is contrasting the elegance of one of the last flights of the supersonic Concorde with the good-times-and-chicken-wings populism of Hooters Air; working as a cabana boy at a South Beach...
Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble
Some Things About Women and Notes on Media
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Two classic collections of Nora Ephron’s uproarious essays—tackling everything from feminism to the media, from politics to beauty products, with her inimitable charm and distinctive wit—now available in one book for the first time.
This edition brings together some of Ephron’s most...