Baby Laughs: The Naked Truth About the First Year of Mommyhood
Jenny McCarthy’s hilarious, no-holds-barred personality has made her an instantly recognizable TV personality and a bestselling author. In Baby Laughs she examines the full range of challenges that new mothers face, including:* The humiliations of postnatal “numbing spray,” Tucks medicated pads, and adult diapers; jelly belly, balding, and gum disease; and becoming a “five-foot puke rag” for the baby* Heart-stopping …
The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass
From the New York Times bestselling author and host of HBO’s Real Time, Bill Maher’s latest collection of political riffs and savagely funny suggestions for preserving sanity in an insane world. New Rule: The next Republican Convention must be held in a giant closet. Every week there’s a new gay Republican outed. I have a feeling that …
Listen to Al Franken as interviewed by Dan Susskind of Another Perspective on VoiceAmerica.com!Get the free Real PlayerAl Franken, one of our “savviest satirists” (People), has been studying the rhetoric of the Right. He has listened to their cries of “slander,” “bias,” and even “treason.” He has examined the Bush administration’s policies of squandering our surplus, ravaging the environment, and alienating …
The Big Jewish Book for Jews: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Really Jewish Jew
A hilarious compendium of traditional wisdom, recipes, and lore from the authors of the bestselling Yiddish with Dick and Jane. Modern Jews have forgotten cherished traditions and become, sadly, all- too assimilated. It’s enough to make you meshugeneh. Today’s Jews need to relearn the old ways so that cultural identity means something other than laughing …
Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday!: More Magical Tales from the Bestselling Author of God, No!
Let’s be honest – nobody has more fun than atheists. Don’t believe it? Well, consider this: For non-believers, every day you’re alive is a day to celebrate! And no one celebrates life to the fullest like Penn Jillette – the larger, louder half of legendary magic duo Penn & Teller – whose spectacularly witty and sharply observant essays …
Is the year ahead looking much the same as the last? Another 365-day grind of meetings, dinner dates, and deadlines? If so, try this book.Part instruction manual, part therapy, part religious cult, part sheer anarchy, This Book Will Change Your Life will help you poke a stick in the spokes of your routine.It’s not the soft-hearted kind of …
A simple, easy-to-follow guide for staying fit while pregnant and shedding the post-baby pounds after! Being a mom is the toughest job in the world. It’s difficult to take time for yourself. Now, in How to Exercise When You’re Expecting, even the busiest moms can learn how to stay strong and fit during their pregnancy and …
“Hi, I’m the guy who reads your e-mail, and also, I love you . . . ” From the award-winning author of Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, and Landline comes a hilarious and heartfelt novel about love in the workplace.Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder know that somebody is monitoring their work e-mail. (Everybody in the newsroom knows. It’s company …
The 1987 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for DramaFrom August Wilson, author of The Piano Lesson and the 1984-85 Broadway season’s best play, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, is another powerful, stunning dramatic work that has won him numerous critical acclaim including the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize. The protagonist of Fences (part of …
August Wilson has already given the American theater such spell-binding plays about the black experience in 20th-century America as Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Fences. In his second Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Piano Lesson, Wilson has fashioned his most haunting and dramatic work yet.At the heart of the play stands the …