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English
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The author of 'Dad is Fat' returns to ask: Have you ever eaten in your car so you wouldn't have to share with your children? Does the presence of green vegetables make you angry? Stand-up comic Gaffigan has made his career rhapsodizing over the most treasured dishes of the North American diet ('choking on bacon is like getting murdered by your lover') and decrying the worst offenders ('kale is the early morning of foods') Now he will give them what...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xvii, 363 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Simply the best storyteller around, Weingarten describes the world as you think it is before revealing how it actually is—in narratives that are by turns hilarious, heartwarming, and provocative, but always memorable. Millions of people know the title piece about violinist Joshua Bell, which originally began as a stunt: What would happen if you put a world-class musician outside a Washington, D.C., subway station to play for spare change? Would...
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
xxi, 497 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, he called it a "comic weekly." And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the founderś description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists in the modern era--among them Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, James Thurber, S. J. Perelman, Mike Nichols, Woody Allen, Calvin Trillin, Garrison Keillor, Ian Frazier, Roy Blount, Jr.,...
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
274 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Crosley's easy, charming voice in the face of minor suffering or potential drudgery has been described as a mix between Dorothy Parker and David Sedaris. In these hilarious and insightful essays, she packs up her sensibility and takes readers with her to Paris, to Portugal (where she falls in with a group of Portuguese clowns), and to Alaska (where she discovers wearing bear bells is a matter of self-defense). Then it's back to New York, where new...
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Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
1992, c1950
Physical Desc
230 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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English
Description
Ever wonder what Nero did before he began fiddling about in Rome, or wanted the bare facts about Lady Godiva? Maybe you've found the story of Lucrezia Borgia a bitter pill to swallow, or wanted the straight skinny on corpulent King Henry the Eighth, but you haven't the stomach for stuffy history books. Now these and twenty-two more of history's most famous personages are brought brilliantly to life, in this collection of unfailingly accurate yet undeniably...
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Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
ix, 139 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Ant Farm, former Harvard Lampoon president Simon Rich finds humor in some very surprising places. Armed with a sharp eye for the absurd and an overwhelming sense of doom, Rich explores the ridiculousness of our everyday lives. The world, he concludes, is a hopelessly terrifying place--with endless comic potential. If your girlfriend gives you some "love coupons" and then breaks up with you, are the coupons still valid? What kind of performance...
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
[359] p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Like its predecessor, MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE compiles incredibly handy made up facts into brief articles, overlong lists, frighteningly complex charts, and beguiling narratives on new and familiar themes such as: THE PAST (because there is always more) ; THE FUTURE (because they say there is still some left to discuss) ; THE METHOD BY WHICH WE "ELECT: OUR PRESIDENTS (as this will be happening soon) ; THE STRANGE OKAPI (an actual animal)...
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Language
English
Description
In the ten years since her Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, bestselling author Amy Krouse Rosenthal has been quietly at work on this modest but mighty magnum opus, creating a distinct blend of nonlinear memoir, observational humor, wistful reflections, and interactive connections with readers. A collection of insights, memories, and moments that are at once intimate and universal. Why the title Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal? Because each piece of...
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Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
Physical Desc
ix, 222 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck–impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and, finally, a comedy writer and actress prone to starting fights with her friends and coworkers with the sentence “Can I just say one last thing about this, and then I swear I’ll shut up about it?” Perhaps you want to know what Mindy thinks makes a great...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
“Is there a secret to happiness?” asks comedian Paula Poundstone. "I don’t know how or why anyone would keep it a secret. It seems rather cruel, really . . . Where could it be? Is it deceptively simple? Does it melt at a certain temperature? Can you buy it? Must you suffer for it before or after?” In her wildly and wisely observed book, the comedy legend takes on that most inalienable of rights — the pursuit of happiness. Offering herself...
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Language
English
Description
Me Talk Pretty One Day, tells a most unconventional life story. It begins with a North Carolina childhood filled with speech-therapy classes ("There was the lisp, of course, but more troubling than that was my voice itself, with its excitable tone and high, girlish pitch") and unwanted guitar lessons taught by a midget. From budding performance artist ("The only crimp in my plan was that I seemed to have no talent whatsoever") to "clearly unqualified"...
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Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
111 pages : color illustrations ; 16 cm
Language
English
Description
Endearing cat photography complements a sequence of short advice columns written in the wry voices of kitties who would counsel humans on how to cope with romance, survive a social gathering or claw to the top of the corporate ladder, cat-style. --Publisher's description.
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