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Haiku for the Single Girl
Beth Griffenhagen · Penguin Books
Format: Book
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An uproarious, uplifting, and brazenly honest celebration of the single girl's life. Unsolicited relationship advice from relatives, disastrous dates, men who wear thumb rings, and the moments of deep satisfaction when a single girl realizes that she can do whatever she wants with... |
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Bossypants
Tina Fey · Reagan Arthur Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian... |
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Cheaper by the Dozen
Frank B Gilbreth · HarperCollinsPublishers
Pages: 207
Format: Large Print Hardcover
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No growing pains have ever been more hilarious than those suffered loudly by the riotous Gilbreth clan. First there are a dozen red-haired, freckle-faced kids to contend with. Then there's Dad, a famous efficiency expert who believes a family can be run just like a factory. Finally... |
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Muse: A novel
Jonathan Galassi · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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From the publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux: a first novel, at once hilarious and tender, about the decades-long rivalry between two publishing lions, and the iconic, alluring writer who has obsessed them both. Paul Dukach is heir apparent at Purcell & Stern, one of the last independent... |
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Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live
Tom Shales · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 566
Format: Hardcover
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WHEN A YOUNG WRITER named Lorne Michaels talked NBC executives into taking a chance on a new weekend late-night comedy series, nobody really knew what to expect-not even Michaels. But Saturday Night Live, launched in 1975 and still thriving today, would change the face of television. It introduced... |
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Hark! The Herald Angels Scream
Christopher Golden · Anchor
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
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Eighteen stories of Christmas horror from bestselling, acclaimed authors including Scott Smith, Seanan McGuire, Josh Malerman, Michael Koryta, Sarah Pinborough, and many more.That there is darkness at the heart of the Yuletide season should not surprise. Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol... |
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Are You Anybody: A Memoir
Jeffrey Tambor · Crown/Archetype
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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It's rare that an actor embodies even one memorable character over the arc of a career. Jeffrey Tambor has managed to create three, beginning with Hank "Hey Now!" Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show, the series created by Garry Shandling, Jeffrey's first mentor in television. He went... |
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Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies
Hadley Freeman · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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From Vogue contributor and Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman, a personalized guide to eighties movies that describes why they changed movie-making forever - featuring exclusive interviews with the producers, directors, writers and stars of the best cult classics.For Hadley Freeman, movies... |
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A Year and Six Seconds: A Love Story
Isabel Gillies · Hyperion
Format: Hardcover
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A real-life romantic comedy about getting dumped and getting over itIsabel Gillies the New York Times bestselling author of Happens Every Day has written another irresistibly moving and funny memoir A Year and Six Seconds A Love Story When our story opens its a dark and slushy winter in New York... |
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The Girl on the Balcony: Olivia Hussey Finds Life after Romeo and Juliet
OLIVIA HUSSEY · Kensington
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In 1968, Olivia Hussey became one of the most famous faces in the world, immortalized as the definitive Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet. Now the iconic girl on the balcony shares the ups and downs of her truly remarkable life and career . . . At only sixteen-years-old,... |
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Credos and Curios
James Thurber · HarperCollins
Pages: 180
Format: Paperback
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Gathers humorous essays, short stories, and Thurber's profiles of seven American writers, including Benchley, Kaufman, and Fitzgerald |
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Why Not Me?
Mindy Kaling · Crown Archetype
Pages: 228
Format: Print book
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From the author of the beloved New York Times bestselling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? and the creator and star of The Mindy Project comes a collection of essays that are as hilarious and insightful as they are deeply personal. In Why Not Me?, Kaling shares her ongoing journey... |
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Wild Thing: A Novel
Josh Bazell · Reagan Arthur / Back Bay Books
Pages: 388
Format: eBook
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Beat the Reaper left critics applauding, readers gasping, and Dr. Pietro Brnwa on the run from the mob. WILD THING finds him adrift: at sea, literally, as a cruise ship doctor under an assumed name. So when a reclusive billionaire offers him a job accompanying a sexy but self-destructive... |
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