These are notebooks. The special thing about them is that they’ve got words and pictures on them that were also in the book Hyperbole and a Half. If that is something that you have always wished existed, you’re in luck! You can draw pictures over the pictures, or, really, do whatever you want. Make lists of things, write …
This pocket-sized companion features everything a woman should know including: • How to Ask for a Raise • Ten Stylish Pieces Every Woman Should Own • How to Throw a Football • Good Responses to Bad Pick-Up Lines • How to Host a Cocktail Party • How to Parallel Park …
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Middle School (Worst Case Scenario Junior Editions)
Homework, hormones, heartache…middle school has no shortage of perils. Never fear, the authors of the best-selling Worst-Case Scenario series return with a survival guide for those who are facingor just about to facethis big transitional time in school and life. The handbook is packed with funny-but-useful tips for the trickiest situations that crop up in middle school, like …
How to Be Happy, Dammit: A Cynic’s Guide to Spiritual Happiness
Guaranteed to perk up even the most cynical spirit, HOW TO BE HAPPY, DAMMIT is the first and only self-help book that merges psychology, biology, eastern and western philosophies, quantum physics, and the Zen of Bazooka Joe. Think love and happiness have passed you by? Think no schmaltzy book can help you capture the life-joy you’re looking for? …
Sphinx is the remarkable debut novel, originally published in 1986, by the incredibly talented and inventive French author Anne Garréta, one of the few female members of Oulipo, the influential and exclusive French experimental literary group whose mission is to create literature based on mathematical and linguistic restraints, and whose ranks include Georges Perec and Italo Calvino, among …
Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up (Sather Classical Lectures)
What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to feara world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What role did it play in …
The Bounce Back Book: How to Thrive in the Face of Adversity, Setbacks, and Losses
“Salmansohn’s writing is bold, playful, insightful—with powerful metaphors that provoke and inspire. Her kinetic images amplify her message and take the book to a new level of literary experience.” – Deepak Chopra, author of Seven Laws of Spiritual Success A bad breakup. A serious illness. The loss of a job. Life has a habit of throwing people …
“With zombies in vogue and his books coming back onto the market after decades out of print, maybe old Willie Seabrook, the lost king of the weird, can finally get the recognition and infamy he earned.” ― Benjamin Welton, Vice.comThis dramatic memoir recounts an eight-month stay at a Westchester mental hospital in the early 1930s. William Seabrook, a …
How could it get any worse? For the latest book in the phenomenally successful Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series, the authors have pulled out all the stops, harkening back to the core appeal that made the first book a runaway bestseller. Here are all new scenarios for living life on the very edge. Imperiled readers will learn immediate, …
The #1 New York Times bestseller―now in a fresh new format, offering a new generation simple yet powerful wisdom. The Life’s Little Instruction Book series has sold more than ten million copies, spent more than two years atop the New York Times bestseller list, and has been translated into 33 languages. Originally written from a father to a son, …