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From the razor-sharp mind of comedian Iliza Shlesinger comes a collection of hilarious and insightful essays about the exasperating issues of everyday life. All Things Aside is a punchy, honest, incisive book that shares a view of the world through the eyes of the inimitable Iliza Shlesinger. From the macro to micro, Shlesinger tackles it all with her no-bullshit comedic style. Throughout the book, Shlesinger dives from one subject into the next,...
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"Growing up in small-town Ohio isn't easy, particularly when you're a closeted gay kid surrounded by... no one openly gay. Luckily, Danny Pellegrino grew up in the '90s, coming of age when the internet opened up a whole new world for a curious kid itching for life outside of Midwest suburbia. Danny escaped the pains of growing up by submerging himself in a sea of pop culture-bingeing The Nanny until he had the confidence of Fran Fine, belting out...
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Jorie Green was a practical, levelheaded, modern woman before she got engaged. But, the moment boyfriend Barry slid that sparkly ring onto her finger, she went a little insane.
Adventures in the life of a bride-to-be:
- Waiting for the proposal...and waiting...and waiting
- Sometimes love means compromising on your china pattern
- The "slightly less painful than sawing off a limb" wedding-dress diet
- Merging families, and living to tell the...
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The Alaska Gold Rush is the least studied era of United States history. If you pull up Alaska Gold Rush on Wikipedia, you will get the Klondike Gold Rush. The Klondike Gold Rush was centered around Dawson in Canada's Yukon Territory and lasted 14 months. The Alaska Gold Rush lasted 40 years, from 1880 to the end of the First World War, and covered an area one-fifth that of the Lower 48 states. Bonfire Saloon is not a work of narrative poetry. It is...
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Slothilda is your spirit animal!
Enjoy this completely relatable comic series about an adorable little sloth who's driven by her desire for self-improvement. Unfortunately, achieving her goals isn't always so easy. After all, she is a sloth, and being innately lazy often poses some interesting challenges to her personal growth. She constantly struggles to overcome procrastination, her love for junk food, and her addiction to modern day technology.
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A few years ago, an email from AT&T misspelled Indah Gunawan's name as "India Guinea Pig." Every time she told people she was an international student from Indonesia, the most common follow-up question was about why her "English is so good" and how she "doesn't even have an accent."
Growing up at international schools gave Indah a skewed sense of identity. Her sense of belonging always rested in her relationships with other third-culture kids who...
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Correct preparation is important in all aspects of life, but if you fail to warm up properly before playing tennis it could land you in the hospital for weeks. Just look how often professional tennis players are getting injured-sometimes bringing an early end to a promising career-and consider that these athletes are in peak physical shape. So just imagine the risk you are putting yourself at when you venture out for your weekly tennis match.
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Word of Mouth: More Conversations is Hansen's follow-up to Word of Mouth: Nashville Conversations, the visually stunning coffee table book that inspired yearlong art installations and partnerships with Vanderbilt University, the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, and the Nashville International Airport.
As Shannah Game of the Millennial Money Podcast has put it best, "Lily Clayton-Hansen captures people's lives through storytelling and photography, with...
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"I wanna become a teacher and then teach in another country," an eight-year-old Canadian girl decided.
By the age of twenty-five, she had checked this-her main goal in life-off her bucket list.
In March 1992, Lorna Stuber stepped off an Air Canada plane in Tokyo, and embarked on a three-year adventure in a country she had never even thought about visiting until six months prior. Teaching ESL in a suburb of Tokyo-sometimes charging her way ahead,...
1630) The World According to Bess: A Funny, Unfiltered Memoir of Life Lessons from My 90-Year-Old Mom
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As we grow up, our moms are the lenses through which we see our lives, and even as adults, they anchor us and give us comfort. While our moms always offer us wisdom, when they get in their 90s, things get a little crazy, and sometimes downright hilarious.
At least, that's been true for Bonnie Lorber Habyan's 90-year-old mother Bess.
In “The World According to Bess”, Habyan has created a funny memoir that weaves her mother's wit, wisdom and warm-hearted...
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Escapade dans le jardin secret d'un grand-père attentif à ses petits-enfants
« Et voilà qu'un beau jour, je fus grand-père. Alors à intervalles plus ou moins rapprochés, je vis débouler mes petits-enfants dans mon jardin, le jardin de Babou, ainsi qu'ils prirent l'habitude de l'appeler. Ses petits-enfants, on les aime deux fois, dit-on. Une fois quand ils arrivent et une fois quand ils repartent. Et en effet, je les ai quelquefois aimés...
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My name is Marc. And, I am a Dick. I'm a Dick to all of my friends. And, to my family. I'm a Dick to people I know. And, to people I don't know. In fact, if we were to bump into each other someday, whether it be online or in real life, I would probably be a Dick to you, too. It's nothing personal. It's just who I am. And, who I believe we all should be.
Be a Dick: How One Person Can Change the World in the Most Unexpected Way is the true story of...
1633) Sextet
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Music has long been considered beneficial in enhancing cognitive skills, and some have even suggested that music constitutes its own category of brain function; that it is, in fact, a separate and distinct type of thought. As is sex, which can produce, aside from children, complete dysfunction, confused mental activity - even, quite possibly, a compromised immune system, and certainly, in many cases, complete and utter memory loss - both before and...
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This latest entry in the National Geographic Angry Birds series will take you on an amazing journey with Red, the leader of the Angry Birds flock, along with Matilda, Chuck, Bomb, Terence, and the mysterious Mighty Eagle.
Featuring The Angry Birds Movie (2016) story world, this book is filled with all the fun facts and information Red and the flock need to embark on their big adventure. From identifying wildlife to navigating by the stars to building...
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Feminist Stitches offers twelve empowering feminist-themed cross-stitch patterns that celebrate strong women.
Decorate your home with framed pieces or use the patterns to personalize items like denim jackets and backpacks.
The book includes twelve fun and original patterns featuring various designs and quotes that have been popularized by the feminist movement. The book offers step-by-step instructions with full-color photographs of the finished...
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For the Marshalls, laughter is the best medicine. Especially when combined with alcohol, pain pills, excessive cursing, sexual escapades, actual medicine, and more alcohol.
Meet Dan Marshall. 25, good job, great girlfriend, and living the dream life in sunny Los Angeles without a care in the world. Until his mother calls. And, he ignores it, as you usually do when Mom calls. Then she calls again. And, again.
Dan thought things were going great at...
1637) Preschool Confidential
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So you thought the difficult stage was over: the midnight feedings, the colic, the breast pumps, the endless diaper changings. Just when you thought you'd reached the blissful stretch of parenthood...here come the toddler/preschool years! Only Sandi Kahn Shelton could deliver such a dead-on, hilarious, true-ringing look at the walking, talking, crazy years.
In Preschool Confidential, she explores such universal topics as:
--Dealing with the mutiny...
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Poppy Mortimer is hungry for love. Will she find The One, or lose her appetite for men, forever?
Smart, attractive, and fueled by wide-eyed optimism, Poppy Mortimer leaves rainy England to start a new life, and find the perfect man, in exotic Australia. Surely somewhere out there, a Chris Hemsworth impersonator is just waiting to whisk her off her feet and show her the real charms of 'Down Under'.
But as Poppy launches into 28 dates, ranging from...
1639) Texas Spirit
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In The Texas Spirit David M. Smith has written a series of spirited and insightful essays about the chemical industry, events and personalities in his life, and his views on trends in the national economy and other aspects of American life that concern him. The zesty style, folksy humor, and unabashed candor combine in this admirable example of the Texas Spirit.
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Meet Jane Smith, college professor. That's it. No life. Not much to offer anyone except great copy-editing skills. She has experienced life vicariously through others. Untraveled, unmarried, dull. Then she met the beautiful and exotic Anita from Brazil. And sweet earth mother Greta from Poland. And, pious Fanta from Pakistan. Jane saw them as a connection to the outside world, but with Jane, they felt they had a "home."
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