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Beet
Roger Rosenblatt · Ecco; First Edition edition
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Beet College is doomed...and nobody really cares. The Board of Trustees, led by developer Joel Bollovate, has squandered the endowment. Debutante-cum-self-styled-poet Matha Polite, an indiscriminate radical with a four-student following, wants to bring the institution down. Sweet-tempered... |
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Ernie: The Autobiography
Ernest Borgnine · Citadel Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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We wept at his Oscar-winning role in Marty. . .we gasped when he took on Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity. . .we were riveted by his compelling performances in The Dirty Dozen, Bad Day at Black Rock, and Ice Station Zebra. . .and we laughed at his television sitcom McHale's... |
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Scrappy Little Nobody
Anna Kendrick · Touchstone
Pages: 275
Format: Print book
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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An "honest, effortlessly funny, and alternatively relatable" (Harper's Bazaar) collection of autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Up in the Air, Pitch Perfect, and Trolls, "Scrappy Little Nobody... |
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Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff
Calvin Trillin · Random House; 15th edition
Format: Hardcover
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For at least forty years, Calvin Trillin has committed blatant acts of funniness all over the place—in The New Yorker, in one-man off-Broadway shows, in his deadline poetry for The Nation, in comic novels like Tepper Isnt Going Out, in books chronicling his adventures as a happy eater,... |
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Real Ponies Don't Go Oink
Patrick F. McManus · Henry Holt & Co; 1st edition
Pages: 198
Format: Hardcover
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"True-life" tales of man against nature in a collection sure to entertain the most hard-to-please listener. 2 cassettes.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. |
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Early Bird: A Memoir of Premature Retirement
Rodney Rothman · Simon & Schuster; 1ST edition
Format: Print book
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In this hilarious and insightful memoir twenty-five-year-old Rodney Rothman, burned out from his big-city life, decides to get a jumpstart on the golden years...four decades before his time. He retires and moves to South Florida and finds an elderly roommate, Leslie, a former piano teacher... |
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Wishful Drinking
Carrie Fisher · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 163
Format: Print book
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In WISHFUL DRINKING, Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitable wit. Born to celebrity parents, she was picked to play a princess in a little movie called Star Wars when only 19 years old. "But it isn't all sweetness and light sabres."... |
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Stephen Colbert's Midnight Confessions
LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT. · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Forgive him, Father, for Stephen Colbert has sinned. He knew it was wrong at the time. But he went ahead and did it anyway. Now he's begging for forgiveness. Based on his popular segment from The Late Show, Stephen Colbert and his team of writers now reveal his most shameful secrets to millions... |
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Fowl Weather
Bob Tarte · Algonquin Books; First Edition edition
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover
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In Bob Tarte's home, pandemonium is the order of the day, and animals literally rule the roost—thirty-nine of them at last count. Whether it's the knot-tying African grey parrot, or the overweight cat who's trained Bob to hold her water bowl just above the floor, or the nightmarish... |
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