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Report copyright infringementby Peter A. Oldham (Author)"This book is about my life-leaving school with no education but finishing up as a mechanical engineer. Keep trying, and you will get what you want. Stand outside a barbershop long enough, and you will get a haircut. This book is for people who want to make it to the top of their game. Bullshit is the name of the game you find out in life that people who are above you are sometimes not as good as they think they are. Either they have jum...

The Thing about Florida: Exploring a Misunderstood State

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Report copyright infringementby Tyler Gillespie (Author)A journey beyond fears and stereotypes The memes. "Because Florida" jokes. "Florida Man" stories. Tyler Gillespie was once embarrassed to call Florida home, concocting fantasies he'd been born somewhere else. In The Thing about Florida, Gillespie faces his Florida denial and takes readers on an exuberant search for the state behind the caricatures, cutting through the media storm with curiosity and humor. Gillespie's journey leads him in...

Confessions of a Recovering Slut: And Other Love Stories

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Report copyright infringementby Hollis Gillespie (Author)The next "screamingly hilarious"(Miami Herald) installment in the wild ride that is the life of Hollis Gillespie. Confessions of a Recovering Slut is the hilarious and often heartrending sequel to Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch, which concludes with Hollis Gillespie, the daughter of a missile scientist and an alcoholic traveling trailer salesman, at last finding a home of her own. Unfortunately that home just happens to be in one of Atlant...

Covet the Comeback: How a Son of Greek Immigrants Found Success, Lost Everything, Then Built a Fashion Empire

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Report copyright infringementby Christos Garkinos (Author)Long before creating Covet by Christos, the world's leading livestreamer of all things luxury, future founder and CEO Christos Garkinos grew up in Detroit as the gay son of Greek immigrants and started working in his parents' diner at the age of four. Seeking a bigger life post-college, Garkinos took a job under Richard Branson in the mid-90's heyday of Virgin Megastores. Beginning to rub shoulders with A-list celebrities, he embarked ...

Funny Because It's True: How the Onion Created Modern American News Satire

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Report copyright infringementby Christine Wenc (Author)Discover the real truth behind the original fake news with this in-depth history of beloved humor publication, The Onion. In 1988, a band of University of Wisconsin-Madison undergrads and dropouts began publishing a free weekly newspaper with no editorial stance other than "You Are Dumb." Just wanting to make a few bucks, they wound up becoming the bedrock of modern satire over the course of twenty years, changing the way we consume both ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jean Grae (Author)A collection of darkly humorous, intensely personal essays by cult fave and multi-hyphenate artist Jean Grae In My Remaining Years, by creative juggernaut Jean Grae, debunks the myth that coming-of-age narratives should be reserved for the kids, providing a much-needed rallying cry for those of us still trying to figure it out in our forties. These laugh-out-loud essays cover everything from aging gracefully (with and without botox), what happ...

Spellbound: My Life as a Dyslexic Wordsmith

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Report copyright infringementby Phil Hanley (Author)Comedian and severe dyslexic Phil Hanley reveals his unlikely path to success in a story that is equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking. When Phil Hanley was in first grade, he realized something that would forever set him apart from his peers: he couldn't read. His teachers were ill-equipped to assist him, and he slipped through the school's cracks, year by year falling further and further behind his friends. Finally, he was diagnosed with...

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Report copyright infringementby Lauren Oyler (Author)"The essay collection everyone's talking about."--New YorkA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024: Elle, The Millions, LitHub, Nylon, BookPage, PureWow, and moreFrom the national bestselling novelist and essayist, a groundbreaking collection of brand-new pieces about the role of cultural criticism in our ever-changing world.In her writing for Harper's, the London Review of Books, The New Yorker, and elsewhere, Lauren Oyler has emerged as one of the...

My 11th Commaddment: Thou Shalt Not B.S. Thyself or You

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Report copyright infringementby Alexander Haber (Author) Number of Pages: 1026 Dimensions: 2.02 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: March 18, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Fawn Germer (Author)Fawn Germer did not climb Mount Everest, hike the Pacific Crest Trail, or eat, pray, and love her way around the world. All she did was get a van and go for a really long ride with her dog. People do that all the time. It doesn't seem special; you wouldn't say it was extraordinary.But it was.Fawn woke up one day feeling like time was running out. Having seven friends die in their 50s and 60s will do that to you. She wondered how many years s...

The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance

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Report copyright infringementby Elna Baker (Author)"A wickedly funny debut. Baker is both self-absorbed and generous, whip-smart and naïve; she apologizes for none of it."--People It's lonely being a Mormon in New York City. Every year, Elna Baker attends the New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance. This year, her Queen Bee costume (which involves a funnel stinger stuck to her butt) isn't attracting the attention she'd anticipated. So once again, Elna finds herself alone, standing ...

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Report copyright infringementby Khaya Dlanga (Author) Number of Pages: 304 Dimensions: 0.76 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: March 01, 2025

Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion, and Tech

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Report copyright infringementby Maureen Dowd (Author)A sly and chatty collection of the revered Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist's most notorious celebrity profiles.Shining a white-hot spotlight on America's famous, from Hollywood legends to Broadway stars to media moguls, Notorious is a captivating assortment of Maureen Dowd's most compelling style features and profiles. Using her signature wit and incisive commentary as a scalpel, Dowd dissects influential cultural elites, in...

Self-Sabotage: And Other Ways I've Spent My Time

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Report copyright infringementby Jeffery Self (Author)In the vein of works by Gary Janetti and Danny Pellegrino, an honest, funny, and heartfelt memoir-in-essays about chasing your dreams, making big messes, and finding yourself along the way.In in his debut book for adults, Jeffery Self invites readers into his world, taking them through the usual foibles of gay adolescence, amplified in the vast wasteland of the American South and the odd characters who peopled it, from shoddy community thea...

If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

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Report copyright infringementby Geraldine Deruiter (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the James Beard Award-winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays on how food and cooking stoke the flames of her feminism. "With charm and humor, Geraldine DeRuiter welcomes us into her personal history and thus reconnects us with ourselves."--Mikki Kendall, New York Times bestselling author of Hood Feminism ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR When celebrity chef Mario Batali sen...

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Report copyright infringementby Shelley Mickle (Author)A beloved NPR storyteller and award-winning author discovers life after kids when a neighbor's dog steals her things--and her heart--in this hilarious and uplifting memoir. In this hilarious memoir, award-winning author Shelley Fraser Mickle takes readers on a humorous yet heartwarming and intimate journey into a slice of her life. Itching to Love gives readers not only laughs but also a realization that their own lives are a singular mag...

Milk & Mocha Comics Collection: Our Little Happiness - Hardcover

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by Melani Sie (Author)Cozy up with a warm cup of tea and follow the sweet scenes of Milk and Mocha, from the popular webcomic @milkmochabear. Milk and Mocha share their sweet slice-of-life moments in this new collection, including never-before-seen comics! Milk and Mocha are charming bears with opposite personalities. These uplifting comics remind us of the sweet moments we share with our friends, family, and loved ones.Author BiographyMelani Sie is an illustrator and part of the Indonesia-ba...

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Report copyright infringementby Jeanne Darst (Author)"Beautifully paced . . . heartbreaking and hilarious."--USA Today Augusten Burroughs meets Mary Karr: a deeply funny and wickedly entertaining family memoir. The youngest of four daughters in an old, celebrated St. Louis family-- of prominent journalists and politicians on one side, debutantes and equestrians on the other-- Jeanne Darst grew up hearing stories of past grandeur. And the message she internalized as a young girl was clear: Wh...

Confessions of a Helmet-Free Childhood: True-ish Tales of an Analog Upbringing

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Report copyright infringementby Cinnia Curran Finfer (Author)"Finfer tells wry, often riveting stories of facing a school bus bully, inadvertently destroying her sister's banana-seat bike, and becoming entangled in scrapes not always of her making." - Publishers Weekly BooklifeWhether she's taking a face plant in a second-grade war, lying her way into pet ownership, setting the fondue kit on fire or taking the Fifth after an epic food fight, Confessions of a Helmet-Free Childhood chronicles C...

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by Keiichi Arawi (Author)In this just-surreal enough take on the "school genre" of manga, a group of friends grapple with all sorts of unexpected situations in their daily lives as high schoolers. The gags, jokes, puns, and haiku keep this series off-kilter even as the cast grow and change. Check it out and meet the new ordinary.Author BiographyKeiichi Arawi (1977-) is a professional comic artist and illustrator. Originally from Gunma, Japan, he was raised in the city of Maebashi. By the time...

Terrible Omens: Happiness is the Other Way

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Report copyright infringementby Alane Gray (Author)Terrible Omens is a darkly witty, fast-paced ride through a fifteen-year relationship that starts with a twenty-something romance and ends in divorce. It is the story of a marriage that is eventually unmasked to reveal its true self--a strangely hilarious horror story.This betrothal ends in betrayal with a seemingly endless stream of undeniable warning signs along the way--a crazy mother-in-law, unauthorized photocopies of a private journal, ...

101 Ways I Have Tried to Make Money: or Things I Learned After It Was Too Late

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Report copyright infringementby Diana Dunaway (Author)Beginning at age five, selling rocks to neighbors, to real estate broker, to hot air balloon pilot, to bag lady in a mink coat selling frozen beef, this memoir chronicles a serial entrepreneur's attempts to earn cash to buy the good things in life. The failures and successes recounted, if not always profitable, often have hilarious and unexpected consequences. Although not a financial analyst, the author shares her opinion about why things...

The Little Book of Love: Words from the Heart-Inspiring and Thought-Provoking Reflections and Declarations of Love - Hardcover

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by Hippo! Orange (Editor)The most inspiring, beautiful and thought-provoking reflections and declarations of love, all in one place. From Shakespeare's sonnets to the rom coms of modern-day cinema, Enlightenment philosophy to the latest Nicholas Sparks novel, one could say that no other topic has inspired such beauty - in art, literature, poetry or music - than that of love. In The Little Book of Love the words of civil rights activists sit alongside those of movie stars, world leaders and th...

A Bathroom Book for People Not Pooping or Peeing But Using the Bathroom as an Escape - Hardcover

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by Joe Pera (Author), Joe Bennett (Illustrator)A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!The cozy comedy of Joe Pera meets the darkly playful illustrations of Joe Bennett in A Bathroom Book for People Not Pooping or Peeing But Using the Bathroom as an Escape, a funny, warm, and sincere guide to regaining calm and confidence when you're hiding in the bathroom. "Nothing says 'class' to your dinner guests more than a Joe Pera book next to the can." --Seth Meyers Joe Pera goes to the bathroom a lot. And his friend,...

Godzilla Mad Libs: World's Greatest Word Game - Paperback

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by Laura Macchiarola (Author)Look out, there's a giant ANIMAL-like creature destroying the city Oh wait, that's just Godzilla Mad Libs Godzilla attack This classic franchise gets the Mad Libs treatment as the larger-than-life kaiju stomps its way to shelves Relive the fun and terror of this essential film series through 21 hilarious fill-in-the-blank stories that are perfect for die-hard supporters and the new generation of fans alike.Author BiographyLaura Macchiarola is a children's book...

Messages from Mooseville: A Year in Alaska

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Report copyright infringementby Leigh Richards (Author)Happily living a suburban matron's life in Texas, Kitty Eppston is shocked when her husband announces that they will be moving--as the Johnny Horton song goes--"North to Alaska." Once settled in the "Last Frontier," Kitty writes to her friends about her many adventures--from mining for gold to getting weighed in front of strangers before boarding a small aircraft, from the dog sled ride that had her dodging frozen flying feces to her perf...

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Report copyright infringementby Fawn Germer (Author)Here Comes the SunThe Hardest Thing About Middle Age is Growing Out of ItFawn Germer did not climb Mount Everest, hike the Pacific Crest Trail, or eat, pray, and love her way around the world. All she did was get a van and go for a really long ride with her dog. People do that all the time. It doesn't seem special; you wouldn't say it was extraordinary.But it was.Fawn woke up one day feeling like time was running out. Having seven friends di...

The Secret to Happiness Is Low Expectations: Living with a Funny Bone, a Wishbone, and a Backbone

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Report copyright infringementby Isabel Bolt (Author)Any way you look at it, life is full of expectations. Those you have for yourself. Those you have of others. Those others have of you. Mine have always been high. Across the board. It's an obsessive struggle. For many years, success to me meant arranging people, places, and situations in a particular order and then keeping all of them together. Like a puzzle, I could force it to fit and then glue it into place. Firmly. But more often than no...

Shock Value: a Cam Girl's Sexy and Hilarious Stories of Capitalizing on Sexual Desire

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Report copyright infringementby Eliza Wilde (Author), Rebecca Coleman (Editor), Domini Dragoone (Cover Design by)Shock Value is the brutally honest story of one webcam model's sexual encounters with her online clients. In a world of sexual deviants, "Angelina" entices various men to her chat room to fulfull their sesxual fantasies that some would consider taboo. This book of short stories encompasses the provocative world of web camming, fetishes, kinks, role plays and sexual desires. Her web...

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Report copyright infringementby Artie Lange (Author), Anthony Bozza (Author), Howard Stern (Foreword by)Outrageous, raw, and painfully funny true stories straight from the life of the actor, comedian, and much-loved cast member of The Howard Stern Show--with a foreword by Howard Stern. When Artie Lange joined the permanent cast of The Howard Stern Show in 2001, it was possibly the greatest thing ever to happen in the Stern universe, second only to the show's move to the wild, uncensored front...

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Report copyright infringementby Katherine Brady (Author)In this captivating and often humorous collection of short stories, Katherine Brady recounts the true stories of her late father Terry, bringing them to the page from the table around which the family used to gather. The tales come from Terry's days as a Marine probie cleaning the latrine with a toothbrush, youth spent getting into trouble in small-town Massachusetts, his days fishing with family and friends, and more, offering a portrai...

Love, Death, the Cosmos and the Kitchen Sink

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Report copyright infringementby Terry Deague (Author)Over the years I, scientist turned writer of fiction, have taken to writing blogs, describing my musings, memories, and misgivings. I now publish a selection of these blogs covering the years just prior to the Covid pandemic, the Covid years themselves, and the years we have presumed and hoped are post-Covid.There are eighty-one blogs so there's something here for everyone. There's the burning of rainforests not to mention the rest of the c...