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Be Ready When the Sh*t Goes Down
A Survival Guide to the Apocalypse
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Ultimate Fighter champ Forrest Griffin and Erich Krauss, who previously brought you the New York Times bestseller Got Fight, now offer a hilarious and very timely guide to surviving the coming apocalypse. Be Ready When the Sh*t Goes Down provides everything an aspiring Mad Max needs to know about...
Story
Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress and putting major screenwriting careers back on track. Quincy Jones, Diane Keaton, Gloria Steinem, Julia Roberts, John Cleese and David Bowie are just a few of his celebrity...
by Stanley Newman, Daniel Stark
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
With more than 1,300,000 answers, this volume contains more than twice as many words as any other crossword dictionary.
Meticulously compiled by two crossword professionals with a combined fifty years in the field and based on a massive analysis of current crosswords, there has never been a...
Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut: Essays and Observations From An Odd Mom Out
Essays and Observations
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The star of Bravo’s new comedy Odd Mom Out and author of The Ex Mrs. Hedgefund and Wolves in Chic Clothing firmly believes in Woody Allen’s magical math equation: Comedy = Tragedy + Time. Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut is a delightful collection of essays and observations based on Jill Kargman’s...
The Ballad of Bob Dylan
A Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Drawing on revelatory interviews, a rich analysis oflyrics, and a lifelong study of one of the greatest songwriters of our time,Daniel Mark Epstein delivers a singular, nuanced, and insightful examination ofBob Dylan—the poet, the musician, and the man. Interweaving in-depthconversations with Dylan...
by Phil Hellmuth Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Now you can play and win at the world's most popular gambling card game with the help of the "Poker Brat" himself. It makes no difference if you're a novice or a serious player, gambling online, in casinos, or in a friend's basement, Hellmuth can help you elevate your game with the secrets...
by Michael Perry
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“A touching and very funny account. . . . Thoroughly engaging.”—New York Times
Hilarious and heartfelt, Truck: A Love Story is the tale of a man struggling to grow his own garden, fix his old pickup, and resurrect a love life permanently impaired by Neil Diamond. In the process, he sets...
Birth of the Chess Queen
A History
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Everyone knows that the queen is the most dominant piece in chess, but few people know that the game existed for five hundred years without her. It wasn't until chess became a popular pastime for European royals during the Middle Ages that the queen was born and was gradually empowered to become the...
by Alex Ayres
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Arranged alphabetically by topic, from Adam to Youth, and culled from his novels, speeches, letters, and conversations, this anthology of quotes is timeless and represents the very essence of Mark Twain -- hilarious, cranky, and insightful.
Do Dead People Walk Their Dogs?
Questions You'd Ask a Medium If You Had the Chance
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Highly unorthodox questions and answers about life after life from America's most delightful medium
Concetta Bertoldi has been communicating with the "Other Side" since childhood. In her previous book, the bestselling Do Dead People Watch You Shower?, she addressed questions about...
When Did I Get Like This?
The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I’d Never Be
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
“Amy Wilson’s hilarious, tender memoir…had me laughing out loud with recognition. She captures the small moments of motherhood in a way that is both funny and thought-provoking.”
—Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project
From the creator and star of the one-woman...
Girls to the Front
The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
“For a Second Wave feminist like myself, Girls to the Front evokes wonderfully the way the generation after mine soaked up the promise and the punishment of feminist consciousness....A richly moving story.” —Village Voice writer Vivian Gornick
Girls to the Front is the epic, definitive...
Coop
A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
In over his head with two pigs, a dozen chickens, and a baby due any minute, the acclaimed author of Population: 485 gives us a humorous, heartfelt memoir of a new life in the country.
Living in a ramshackle Wisconsin farmhouse—faced with thirty-seven acres of fallen fences and overgrown...
by Catherine Price
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
“I had no idea so many god-awful places exist in this world….Catherine Price is a hilarious guide to all that is sucky.”
—Novella Carpenter, author of Farm City: the Education of an Urban Farmer
Irreverent and compulsively readable, 101 Places Not to See Before You Die highlights...