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81) Brave enough
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A collection of quotes from the columnist and author captures her wisdom, courage, honesty, spirit, and outspoken humor.
Author
Publisher
Encounter Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Getting About gathers over a hundred articles about journeys by boat, train, or plane, representing a lifetime of adventure around the world. An elegant jetsetter with a flair for literary journalism, Buckley had few rivals in the art of travel writing. A master storyteller, he adeptly wove devices of fiction together with reportage to craft entertaining pieces full of exuberance and authority. Buckley's talent for arranging a mise-en-scène stands...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"As a columnist for the Washington Post, Alexandra Petri has watched in real time as those who didn't learn from history have been forced to repeat it. And repeat it. And repeat it. If we repeat history one more time, we're going to fail! Maybe it's time for a new textbook. Alexandra Petri's US History contains a lost (invented!) history of America. (A history for people disappointed that the only president whose weird sex letters we have is Warren...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From the iconic creator of the "Cathy" comic strip comes a collection of funny, warm, and wise essays centered around the particular challenge of caring for aging parents and growing children, all while trying not to lose oneself in the process.
Author
Publisher
The Countryman Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The story of Olive and Mabel, Labrador retrievers who rose to internet fame as the subjects of Andrew Cotter's BBC sports parodies. Filled with stories about how Cotter fell in love with his dogs, his passion for hiking with them through the glens and over the peaks of his native Scotland, and the ongoing relationship between Olive and Mabel, the memoir is by turns side-splittingly funny and thoughtfully tender.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
The creator of Hyperbole and a Half presents a new collection of comedic, autobiographical and deceptively illustrated essays on topics ranging from childhood and very bad pets to grief, loneliness and powerlessness in modern life.
Author
Language
English
Description
David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't it? In his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His...
91) How to be a family: the year I dragged my kids around the world to find a new way to be together
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
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Description
The writer and actress best known as Kelly Kapoor on "The Office" shares observations on topics ranging from favorite male archetypes and her hatred of dieting to her relationship with her mother and the haphazard creative process in the "Office" writers' room.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The Old Man and the Gun," is the story of a man who idolized the likes of Pretty Boy Floyd and, as a result, fashions himself into a notorious bank robber and escape artist. "The Chameleon" is the tale a French con artist gets in over his head when he impersonates a missing Texas teenager and raises the suspicions of a local private investigator. "True Crime" follows a riveting investigation in which a Polish cold-case detective makes an unlikely...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A collection of hilarious essays about how food became one man's obsession and coping mechanism, and how it came to rule-and sometimes ruin-his relationships, from the actor, stand-up comic, and Food Network host. Ahdoot began to obsess over food and make it central in all his relationships. This, he admits, is probably crazy, but it makes for good stories. From breaking up with girlfriends over dietary restrictions, to hunting just off the Long...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After Kim and her husband decide to quit their jobs to travel around the world, they're given a yellow envelope containing a check and instructions to give the money away. As she distributes the gift to people she encounters along the way she learns that money does not have a thing to do with the capacity to give, but that giving is transformational.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw Dog, will take you on a cross-country road trip in the summer of 2021, and reveal what the creation, culture, and class influence of hot dogs says about America now. You can love them, you can hate them, but you can't avoid the great American hot dog.
100) Diagnosis
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
50 difficult medical cases that served as inspiration for an upcoming Netflix original series, including a vacationer who was poisoned after eating barracuda and a middle-aged woman with a purple streaked rash.
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