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by Celia Rivenbark
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
From the author of the bestselling classics We're Just Like You, Only Prettier, and Bless Your Heart, Tramp, comes a collection of essays so funny, you'll shoot co'cola out of your nose. Topics include such gems as:
• Why Miss North Carolina is too nice to hate
• How Gwyneth Paltrow...
I'll Mature When I'm Dead
Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
I'll Mature When I'm Dead is the New York Times bestseller from "the funniest man in America" (New York Times). Let Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist and nationally unrecognized voice of maturity Dave Barry make the journey to adulthood a little easier—and a lot funnier.
Not everyone...
Can't Stop Won't Stop
A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Can't Stop Won't Stop is a powerful cultural and social history of the end of the American century, and a provocative look into the new world that the hip-hop generation created.
Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a generation-defining...
Schuyler's Monster
A Father's Journey with His Wordless Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Schuyler's Monster is an honest, funny, and heart-wrenching story of a family, and particularly a little girl, who won't give up when faced with a monster that steals her voice but can't crush her spirit.
When Schuyler was 18 months old, a question about her lack of speech by her pediatrician set...
The Girls' Guide to Surviving a Break-Up
The Essential Companion from Getting Over Him
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
The essential female companion from the moment he walks out of your life. The Girls' Guide to Surviving a Break-Up offers step-by-step advice for getting over him, including:
* What to do the first night
* How not to Drink & Dial
* How to tell parents and friends about the breakup
* The...
London's Sinful Secret
The Bawdy History and Very Public Passions of London's Georgian Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Georgian London evokes images of elegant mannered buildings, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife and houses of ill repute widespread in a sex trade that employed thousands.
In London's Sinful Secret, Dan Cruickshank explores this erotic Georgian underworld and shows how it affected...
Kill Bin Laden
A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The mission was to kill the most wanted man in the world--an operation of such magnitude that it couldn't be handled by just any military or intelligence force. The best America had to offer was needed. As such, the task was handed to roughly forty members of America's supersecret counterterrorist...
That Costs How Much?: The Bride's Guide to Budgeting for an Unforgettable Wedding
The Bride's Guide to Budgeting for an Unforgettable Wedding
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Previously published as part of The Big White Book of Weddings.
Entertaining expert David Tutera opens his files to reveal a wealth of detailed information about budgeting for the perfect wedding.
It's tough to be a bride on a budget—but David reveals his personal tips of the wedding...
Napoleon Wasn't Short (& St Patrick Wasn't Irish)
When History Gets it Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
A fun exposé of many commonly believed historical facts that are, in fact, total fiction
After falling for one historical misconception too many, the time is now right to launch a spirited fightback to set the record straight, once and for all. Leading the way in this modern crusade comes this...
In Putin's Footsteps
Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
In Putin’s Footsteps is Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler’s unique combination of travelogue, current affairs, and history, showing how Russia’s dimensions have shaped its identity and culture through the decades.
With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev’s great grand-daughter,...
Is This a Great Game, or What?
From A-Rod's Heart to Zim's Head--My 25 Years in Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
ESPN's Tim Kurkjian has spent over twenty-five years covering almost 3,000 Major League Baseball games and interviewing about that many players, coaches, managers and executives.
In Is This a Great Game, or What?, Kurkjian combines his years of experience, uncanny knowledge and deep love of the game,...
Working on the Edge
Surviving In the World's Most Dangerous Profession: King Crab Fishing on Alaska's High Seas
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1993
No profession pits man against nature more brutally than king crab fishing in the frigid, unpredictable waters of the Bering Sea. The yearly death toll is staggering (forty-two men in 1988 alone); the conditions are beyond most imaginations (90-mph Arctic winds, 25-foot seas, and super-human stretches...
Travelers' Tales Paris
True Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Paris is one city that you should endeavor to know over the course of a lifetime, and not just in one or two visits. It is the center of the civilized universe, and it belongs to everyone-even to those who see it only in their dreams. The City of Light has bestowed on millions the gift of the incandescent...
Laughter Really Is The Best Medicine
America's Funniest Jokes, Stories, and Cartoons
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
This collection of laugh-out-loud jokes, one-liners, and other lighthearted glimpses of life-drawn from Reader's Digest magazine's most popular humor columns-is sure to tickle the funny bone. Packed with more than 1,000 jokes, anecdotes, cartoons, quotes, and stories contributed by professional comedians,...