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Wisdom may be in holding your opinions close, but there's definite freedom in letting them fly. I HAVE STRONG OPINIONS is a collection of twenty-five no-holds-barred rants from award-winning author Laura Anne Gilman on the everyday frustrations and irritations of life in the 21st century, from Facebook to fireworks, sex ed to snow tires.
"So, go on the journey. Buckle up. Get ready for some salt. You're in good hands. You're in an expert's hands"
For years, Cathy and her mother have been working out their relationship on the comic pages in such an honest, relatable, humor-filled way that thousands of mothers and daughters have written to say the comic strip is the single thing that has helped them keep speaking to each other over the years.
In Confessions to My Mother, Cathy helps daughters speak to their mothers in an even more poignant way—with page after page of everything
...Elvis fans of all ages will delight in this witty and revealing look at the King of Rock and Roll. Endlessly entertaining and surprisingly informative, E is for Elvis is essential reading for any Elvis aficionado. Every page is filled with amusing anecdotes, little known facts, and lively illustrations...
France is a land of many treasures. Human, senic, historic and cultural.
Although justly famed for it's wine, gastronomy,and fashions, France's greatest treasures are it's people.
They are the heart and soul of the French Nation. And,until you know them, personally, you really don't know this fascinating country.
Luckily for me - I do know them.Personally.
After cycling the French Country back roads for
...From critically acclaimed comedian Becky Lucas comes a funny, consoling and very candid collection of stories and essays about friends, enemies and figuring it out that establishes her as one of today's most original comedy writers.
There's no such thing as a perfect life, but there are perfectly hilarious moments. The best stories are often about the lowest points in our lives - the soul-crushing jobs, the bad boyfriends,
...Here is the good, the bad, and the ugly of librarian William Ottens's experience working behind service desks and in the stacks of public libraries, most recently at the Lawrence Public Library in Kansas. In Librarian Tales, published in cooperation with the American Library Association,...
For years, the Bombecks have heard rumors of a magical land called Suburbia where the air is clean, the grass is trimmed, and children don’t risk getting mugged on their walk to school. After watching their friends flee the city for subdivided utopias like Bonaparte’s Retreat...
In Your Life Is a Life of Hope!, the Internet’s favorite mustachioed king presents a series of short, illustrated essays in which he argues for hope by way of absurdity and transcendence by way of the mundane. In his signature childlike, dryly humorous style, Lord Birthday explores the things that make life so great, including jackets and bags and “booping someone on the nose.” Both strange and strangely moving,
...In India's tropical paradise, stands a town wrapped around a giant roundabout, where a canny caretaker with a French connection holds sway. Vying for his attention are two competing neighbours. Appu holds lessons for the living but Maya cares only for the dead. And a gastronome dog plays ball girl to tennis-loving nuns.
At the centre is an imposing temple so ancient that no one knows exactly when it was built. Here, even a tiny railway station
...From Rebecca Shaw and Ben Kronengold, the youngest comedy writers ever for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and masterminds behind the viral 2018 Yale graduation speech, comes a hilarious collection of short stories taking on coming-of-age, memes, sex, politics, relationships, and Goop, with satire, self-deprecation, and utter irreverence.
Showing off their trademark humor and writing chops that have made them a viral
...The Boondocks is a rich, multilayered comic strip that offers a frank yet often funny look at race in America. It starts with a simple premise: Two young boys, Riley and Huey, move from inner-city Chicago to live with their grandfather in the suburbs. The tension increases, however, because the two boys are African-Americans now compelled to adapt to a white suburban world. They must take all they've learned in the "hood" and apply it to
...If a cartoonist successfully captures life's humorous and ironic moments in three short panels, readers applaud. When Wiley does the same in his single-scene format, they roll on the carpet laughing.
Non Sequitur not only breaks the three-panel mold, it succeeds without regular characters, standard settings, or repeat situations to fall back on. Each piece, in other words, hangs out there as Wiley's snapshot of the worlds of work,
...Faster than you can dial 9-1-1, author Leland Gregory delivers his follow-up to What's the Number for 911 with more real-life calls to the country's emergency operators. What's the Number for 911 Again' answers the urgent call for more of these wacky conversations. "Can you unplug my coffeepot I left on at my house" "Where can I get rid of my Christmas tree" Amazing and hilarious!
Get the western woman’s take on life with this collection of wise and witty quips and quotations.
“Callin’ women the weaker sex makes about as much sense as callin’ men the stronger one.”
“Anybody who thinks they know everything ain’t been around long enough to know anything.”
“When a cowboy gives you the key to his truck, you know you’re close to winning the key
No one walks away from a Close to Home cartoon unscathed. John McPherson's lumpy characters and bizarre situations are tailor-made for gut-splitting laughs. And then there are the cartoons that leave readers shaking their heads, sputtering, "Oh my gosh" as a guilty smile passes across their faces. The Scourge of Vinyl Car Seats delivers what fans expect from McPherson: jokes about everything from parenting to dating to car repairs.
...I come from a family of unashamed pet-owners, though it seems to me that the pets we have owned have done more of the owning of us than we have of them.
Watching our feline and canine companions over the years has led me to the inescapable conclusion that the term pe(s)t is more accurate. I doubt any of them did not, at one time or another, thoroughly get in our ways – sometimes bizarrely, sometimes bewilderingly, and often humourously.
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...In the tradition of humorist Will Rogers, Don’t Squat with Your Spurs On takes a look at life through the eyes of the cowboy. It’s filled with quips and quotes that represent the Code of the West, like: “Always drink...
It’s easy to win at solitaire, just shoot all the witnesses.
The shallower the stream, the louder the babble.
Don’t worry too much about what other people think about you. If...
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