Posts Tagged ‘humour’
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy TP
Adams’s beloved and enduring sci-fi/comedy classic is now available in this beautiful, clothbound, elegantly presented book, filled with never-before-published material, original scripts from the BBC radio series, and much more to please any fan.
Read MoreVinyl Cafe Notebooks
Selected from 15 years of radio-show archives and re-edited by the author, this wonderfully eclectic essay collection gives a glimpse into the thoughtful mind at work behind “The Vinyl Cafe.” From meditations on peacekeeping to praise for the toothpick, “The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks” runs the gamut from considered argument to light-hearted opinion. Whether McLean is…
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The Island of the Sequined Love Nun
Take a wonderfully crazed excursion into the demented heart of a tropical paradise—a world of cargo cults, cannibals, mad scientists, ninjas, and talking fruit bats. Our bumbling hero is Tucker Case, a hopeless geek trapped in a cool guy’s body, who makes a living as a pilot for the Mary Jean Cosmetics Corporation. But when…
Read MoreThe Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Schumer “mines her past for stories about her teenage years, her family, relationships, and sex and shares the experiences that have shaped who she is–a woman with the courage to bare her soul to stand up for what she believes in, all while making us laugh”–Amazon.com.
Read MorePoles Apart
Eve of Equality, a new feminist blog, becomes an overnight sensation when a wildly popular talk show host stumbles upon it, tweets about it, and promotes it on her show. The anonymous blog is intelligent, thoughtful, and bold, brazenly taking on various injustices in the lives of women. But it’s the blogger Eve’s post about…
Read MoreHIGH ROAD, THE
“Honest Angus McLintock is an amateur politician who dares to do the unthinkable: tell the truth. Political aide Daniel Addison thought he just might escape from his job until “his” candidate brings down the government and decides to run again.” – publisher.
Read MoreThe Best Laid Plans
“Here’s the set up: A burnt-out political aide quits just before an election – but is forced to run a hopeless campaign on the way out. He makes a deal with a crusty old Scot, Angus McLintock – an engineering professor who will do anything, anything, to avoid teaching English to engineers – to let…
Read MoreScrappy Little Nobody
“A collection of whimsical autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Up in the Air recounts memorable milestones from her New England upbringing to the blockbuster films that have made her one of Hollywood’s most popular actresses, “–Baker & Taylor.
Read MoreTalking as Fast as I Can
In her first work of nonfiction, the star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood recounts her experiences on Gilmore Girls, the first and second time, and shares stories about life, love, and working in Hollywood.
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