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So Much I Want to Tell You: Letters to My Little Sister
ANNA AKANA · Ballantine Books
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
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From Internet sensation Anna Akana comes a candid and poignant collection of essays about love, loss, and chasing adulthood. In 2007, Anna Akana lost her teen sister, Kristina, to suicide. In the months that followed, she realized that the one thing helping her process her grief and begin... |
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Jason Molina: Riding with the Ghost
Erin Osmon · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Erin Osmon presents a detailed, human account of the Rust Belt-born musician Jason Molina - a visionary, prolific, and at times cantankerous singer-songwriter with an autodidactic style that captivated his devoted fans. The songwriting giant behind the bands Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric... |
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Kompromat
Stanley Johnson · Oneworld Publications
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Stanley Johnson's new satirical thriller KOMPROMAT purports to tell what really happened in the run-up to those two recent political earthquakes, the Brexit Referendum in the UK in June 2016 and the US Presidential Election in November of that year. What was the real reason, for example,... |
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Pattern Behavior: The Seamy Side of Fashion
Natalie Kossar · Running Press
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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McCall's Pattern Behavior couples beloved vintage sewing patterns with captions that are droll, deadpan, and hysterically funny. Budding comedian Natalie Kossar began publishing her snarky cartoons on a Tumblr blog in 2015, and has since won the attention of Kate Harding at Jezebel,... |
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Eat Cake. Be Brave.
MELISSA RADKE · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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My name is Melissa Radke, and there is a very real chance you have no idea who I am or why I wrote a book. But admit it, you're curious! Even though millions of people seem to like watching my videos bemoaning the trials of parenting, marriage, French braiding, faith, and living life... |
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Go Ask Ali: Half-Baked Advice
Ali Wentworth · Harper
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Ali Wentworth offers her hilarious and unique advice on surviving the absurdity of modern life in her third collection of laugh-out-loud comic vignettes.Ali Wentworth's first two books, Ali in Wonderland and Happily Ali After, were lauded by readers, critics,... |
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America, We Need to Talk: A Self-Help Book for the Nation
Joel Berg · Seven Stories Press
Pages: 688
Format: Paperback
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How did we get here, America? How did our relationship get so broken? And where do we go now? Starting with the premise that Americans' most important relationship is with their nation, Joel Berg's second book, America We Need to Talk: A Self-Help Book for the Nation, makes a case... |
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Watching Porn: And Other Confessions of an Adult Entertainment Journalist
LYNSEY G · The Overlook Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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One feminist's candid account of her unexpected adventure in the world of porn journalism, and her discovery of an industry that is more nuanced than she ever imaginedLynsey G. never imagined that she would ever work in porn, but at 24 years old, with a degree in English literature... |
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Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films
Molly Haskell · Yale University Press
Pages: 248
Format: Print book
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A film-centric portrait of the extraordinarily gifted movie director whose decades-long influence on American popular culture is unprecedented "Everything about me is in my films," Steven Spielberg has said. Taking this as a key to understanding the hugely successful moviemaker,... |
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101 Epic Dishes: Recipes That Teach You How to Make the Classics Even More Delicious
Jet Tila · Page Street Publishing
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
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Every Recipe and Skill You Need To Be A Great CookHere's the truth: making food worth savoring and showing off isn't as difficult as you like to think it is. All it really takes is a solid foundation of cooking techniques, and lucky for you, celebrity chef and self-proclaimed Mr. Miyagi... |
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Manchild: My Life Without Adult Supervision
Alan Olifson · Six Gallery Press
Pages: 146
Format: Paperback
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Alan Olifson has a knack for taking relatable experiences - parenting mistakes, botched home improvements, the hassles of having to act like a grownup - and making them way funnier than I remember them being when they happened to me. - Jonathan Green, writer/producer of Superstore and The Office... |
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A Woman First: First Woman: The Deeply Personal Memoir by the Former President
David Mandel · Harry N. Abrams
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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In this brave, beautiful, revealing, and deeply personal memoir, Selina Meyer, one of our most beloved former presidents, tells her own extraordinary story.Born and raised deep in the American heartland of God-fearing suburban Maryland, young Selina Eaton learned to love her country and her fellow... |
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His Other Life: Searching For My Father, His First Wife, and Tennessee Williams
Melanie McCabe · University of New Orleans Press
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
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When Melanie McCabe's father died in 1973, she learned a startling truth about his life before he settled into a quiet suburban existence. Terrence McCabe had been married before; his first wife, Hazel, was Tennessee Williams' childhood sweetheart; and Williams wrote characters based on both... |
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Planet Funny: How Comedy Took Over Our Culture
KEN JENNINGS · Scribner
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From the brilliantly witty and exuberant New York Times bestselling author Ken Jennings, a history of humor - from fart jokes on clay Sumerian tablets all the way up to the latest Twitter gags and Facebook memes - that tells the story of how comedy came to rule the modern world.For millennia... |
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The Murder of My Aunt
Richard Hull · Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARTIN EDWARDSEdward Powell lives with his Aunt Mildred in the Welsh town of Llwll. His aunt thinks Llwll an idyllic place to live, but Edward loathes the countryside - and thinks the company even worse. In fact, Edward has decided to murder his aunt.A darkly humorous... |
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