Erma Bombeck: 19 books

Even after her death, Erma Bombeck remains one of America's best-loved writers of all time. Eat Less Cottage and More Ice Cream is based on one of her most requested columns.In 1979, someone asked humorist Erma Bombeck, If you had your life to live over, would you change anything? Her immediate...

New York Times Bestseller: This anthology of Erma Bombeck’s most memorable and humorous essays is a tribute to one of America’s sharpest wits. When she began writing her regular newspaper column in 1965, Erma Bombeck’s goal was to make housewives laugh. Thirty years later, she had published...

Three hilarious books in one from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author on marriage, motherhood, and the absurdities of suburban life.   If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? is Erma Bombeck’s timelessly witty look at the hidden side of married life. Motherhood...

The hilarious #1 New York Times bestseller: Erma Bombeck’s take on marriage and family life is “fun from cover to cover” (Hartford Courant). Ever since she was a child, Erma Bombeck has been an expert worrier, and married life has only honed that skill. She gets anxious about running...

Erma Bombeck remains one of America's favorite humorists. When God Created Mothers republishes one of her most popular Mother's Day columns as an illustrated keepsake book that offers a touching description of all the characteristics a mother must possess.When it first appeared in Erma Bombeck's...

The #1 New York Times bestseller about one woman’s doomed quest for self-improvement by a writer “blessed with the comic equivalent of perfect pitch” (The Boston Globe). As far as Erma can tell, her life is going well. Her children speak to her, her husband smiles at her, and she’s...

**#1 New York Times bestseller:**A hilarious look at one of the toughest jobs on earth, by a writer “with the comic equivalent of perfect pitch” (The Boston Globe).   Anyone who thinks motherhood is easy has never had children. To care for children, a husband, and oneself is a superhuman...

A collection of mordantly hilarious and sharply-observed stories on motherhood from the bestselling author of Family—The Ties That Bind . . . And Gag! Erma Bombeck has learned a few things about children and family over the years—and in a way that is uniquely and wonderfully her own, she...

"She goes a long way with her book to prove that humor is the best -- possibly the only -- way to keep the world on an even keel." CHICAGO SUN-TIMES Remember the things Mother used to say? Erma Bombeck remembers them all and now she's using them on her own kids! With clever illustrations...

Haben Sie etwa geglaubt, alles würde einfacher, wenn die Kinder aus dem Gröbsten raus sind? Dachten Sie etwa, Sie seien unter erwachsenen Menschen, wenn Sie und Ihr Mann wieder “unter sich” sind? Dann lassen Sie sich von Erma Bombeck eines Besseren belehren. Denn auf eines sollten Sie vorbereitet...

The “marvelously funny” and much-loved humorist explores the perils of suburban living in this New York Times bestseller (Vogue). For years, the Bombecks have heard rumors of a magical land called Suburbia where the air is clean, the grass is trimmed, and children don’t risk getting mugged...

Der ganz normale Alltagswahnsinn einer viel beschäftigten Hausfrau und Mutter... Genau den beschreibt Erma Bombeck so treffend, warmherzig und witzig in ihren Büchern – zum größten Vergnügen ihrer Millionen Leserinnen auf der ganzen Welt. Jahrelang hat sich die Amerikanerin über ihren süßen,...

"America's irrepressible doyenne of domestic satire." THE BOSTON GLOBE Madcap, bittersweet humor in classic Erma Bombeck-style. You'll laugh until it hurts and love it! "Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet, he's...

Noch einmal bereitet Erma Bombeck ihren Leserinnen ein garantiert sonniges Vergnügen mit erprobten Patentrezepten gegen alle möglichen und unmöglichen Probleme im Familienalltag. Und für Sommernächte hält sie Sternstunden der Elternschaft bereit, von denen sie augenzwinkernd und mit unvergleichlichem Humor erzählt.