Tag: humor
Interview: Mayor Concocts Elaborate Lie to Save His Town
Interview: The Patron Saints of Second Chances, Christine Simon, Atria Books – If the plumbing in the tiny village of Prometto, Italy, isn’t fixed, all the residents will have to move out. The cost of the repairs is enormous.
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Building a Short Story Collection with Patience and Persistence
We Love Anderson Cooper, R. L. Maizes, Macmillian – In her debut short story collection, We Love Anderson Cooper, R.L. Maizes takes readers into some intriguing scenarios: a young man who decides to come out during his bar mitzvah, a disfigured tattoo artist who discovers healing powers, a therapist, whose new couch has the power to take away sadness, a woman haunted by the spirit of her dead dogs.
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You Can’t Fall Off the Floor by Harris and Nick Katleman
You Can’t Fall Off the Floor, Harris and Nick Katleman, Rosetta Books – From watching his colleague get shot in the testicles by a jealous producer to running Hollywood’s most successful television studio, Harris Katleman had a front row seat in the development of the television industry.
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Trying: A Humorous View of Juggling Babies and Careers
Trying, Emily Phillips, Hodder & Stoughton – Olivia and Felix want to have a baby. Most of Olivia’s friends and co-workers are somewhere on the same continuum – trying, pregnant, babe in hand.
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The Last of the Stanfields by Marc Levy
The Last of the Stanfields, Marc Levy, Amazon Crossing – London, England: Eleanor-Rigby Donovan’s family life is fun, yet when she receives an anonymous letter it upsets everything. The letter writer alleges that thirty-six years ago Eleanor-Rigby’s late Beatles-loving mother Sally-Anne once led a completely different life.
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Dance In America Edited by Mindy Aloff
Dance In America, Mindy Aloff Editor, Library of America – Historian and dance critic Mindy Aloff has assembled the most thought-provoking and entertaining writers, performers, and critics and produced a treasure trove of information on dances unique to the United States.
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Evergreen Tidings by Gretchen Anthony Views Public and Private Family Life
Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners, Gretchen Anthony, Park Row Books – Christmas letters don’t always paint a true picture of a family’s life.
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Horse Meets Dog by Elliott Kalan Tim Miller
Horse Meets Dog, Elliott Kalan Tim Miller, Harper Collins – Horse Meets Dog is celebrity author Elliott Kalan first children’s picture book. Kalan has previously written for adults on such television classics as Mystery Science Theater 3000
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Screenwriter Seth Greenland on His Latest Novel
Hazards of Good Fortune, Seth Greenland, Europa Editions – What does it mean to be a good guy in a world fraught with racial tensions and steeped in egos?
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Match Making for Beginners by Maddie Dawson
Match Making for Beginners, Maddie Dawson, Lake Union – Marnie McGraw, an ordinary young woman from Florida, is all at sea when she encounters her fiance Noah’s old money Virginian family for the first time.
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Jen Hatmaker: On How to Live a Courageous, Grace-Filled Life
Of Mess and Moxie: Wrangling Delight out of this Wild and Glorious Life, Jen Hatmaker, Thomas Nelson – Beloved Jen Hatmaker, Texan pastor, homemaker, blogger, and the star of the HGTV show, My Big Family Renovation – is the author of several successful books and the highest-profile evangelical to affirm same-sex relationships.
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