Peter Farrelly: 4 books

Abigale the Happy Whale finds a clever solution to stop pollution in this funny story from Hollywood writer and director Peter Farrelly and illustrator Jamie Rama. Features: Read Aloud functionality [where available] Book Description: Abigale is a happy whale who wants to find...

Outside Providence is a hilarious yet melancholy novel of a young man's coming of age in the 1970s. When Timothy Dunphy, native of working-class Pawtucket, Rhode Island, is packed off to a fancy prep school, he finds that the privileged elite is hardly immune to life's screwups. Dunphy must reconcile...

A Confederacy of Dunces meets The Player in an offbeat, sidesplittingly hilarious novel about making it against all odds in 1990s' Hollywood, by the co-writer/director of Dumb and Dumber. When Henry Halloran's girlfriend dumped him, his Boston-based life suddenly seemed pointless. He was thirty-two...

This volume, with contributions from scholars in political science, literature, and philosophy, examines the mutual influence of reason and religion at the time of the American Founding—especially in the writings and speeches of critical figures in that period, such as Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin,...