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  New Rules - Polite Musings from...

  Bill Maher

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  Bill Maher first came to national attention as the host of the hit program Politically Incorrect, in which he offered a combustible mixture of irreverence and acerbic humor that garnered him a loyal following. In his popular and long-running HBO television show, Real Time with Bill Maher, his reputation for being a hilarious provocateur continues. One particular segment of the show—             "New Rules"—             strikes a chord with viewers every week. Within these rules, Maher takes comic and serious aim, bringing all his incisiveness, wit, and signature exasperation to bear on topics ranging from cell phones ("I don't need my cell phone to take pictures or access the Internet. I just need to make a phone call!") to the conservative agenda ("Stop claiming it's an agenda. It's not an agenda! It's a random collection of laws that your corporate donors paid you to pass!"). In this collection, Maher brings these brilliantly conceived riffs to audio, along with some singularly Maher-ian "editorials"—             editorials nothing like the standard fare found on the pages of the local newspaper!

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  Andrea Hoffman Goes All In

  Diane Cohen Schneider

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  Andrea Hoffman is an overeducated, underemployed, and unmotivated recent 
  college graduate until a harrowing robbery blasts her out of her funk and 
  into a job in the finance world of early-1980s Chicago. At first, it seems like a bad fit.  
  But the world of finance has its own weird charm, and she grows increasingly 
  fascinated by the strange language of trading, the complexity of the stock market, 
  and her colleagues, who navigate it all with ruthless confidence. Even though she 
  has two strikes against her - Jewish and female- Andrea’s quick wit 
  and strong work ethic propels her into an actual sales job and her career takes off. 
  But this is the Wall Street of the eighties, and along with making a lot more money, 
  Andrea adopts a new, fast life of cocktails, cocaine, and casual sex. Drunk on her 
  achievements, she gradually realizes, she’s going to have to 
  decide what success really means to her.

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  Give Up - 150 Demotivation Posters

  Paul Koehorst, Ivor Jones

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  Do sugar-coated lies and cliché photos actually motivate you to do better? Of course not! If you want to get ahead in life, you need to know how things really work. You need posters that reveal the cold, hard truth. You need to be demotivated. By offering demotivational messages accompanied by ridiculous images, the author turns the motivational message upside down with very funny results. Faux versions of the kitschy motivational poster are already a wildly popular Internet phenomenon, but never have they been done with such savage humor as in this book. The author offers a variety of entertaining options, such as a baseball player eating dirt while missing a fly ball paired with the caption "Humiliation: There's no Point Trying, You Just Look Ridiculous." Another poster pairs a distressed surgeon with, "Failure: Sometimes it is a Matter of Life and Death."

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  Texts from Jane Eyre - And Other...

  Mallory Ortberg

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  Mallory Ortberg, cocreator of the cult-favorite Web site The Toast, presents this whimsical collection of hysterical text conversations from your favorite literary characters. Everyone knows that if Scarlett O'Hara had an unlimited text-and-data plan, she'd constantly try to tempt Ashley away from Melanie with suggestive messages. If Mr. Rochester could text Jane Eyre, his ardent missives would obviously be in all-caps. And Daisy Buchanan would not only text while driving, she'd text you to pick her up after she totaled her car. Based on the popular Web feature, Texts from Jane Eyre is a witty, irreverent mash-up that brings the characters from your favorite books into the twenty-first century.

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  More of the 776 Stupidest Things...

  Ross Petras

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  Freudian slips, spoonerisms, double-talk, and nonsense from famous and infamous figures past and present, are all here in one digest that will have you howling with laughter. Imagine saying to the Beatles, "You'll never make it...Go back to Liverpool." That's what a Decca Records executive told the Fab Four in 1962. Senator S.I. Hayakawa allegedly pointed out, "The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep."  Siblings and stupidity experts Ross and Kathryn Petras continue their foray into the world of awkward utterances, slips of the tongue, and just plain dumb statements from politicians, celebrities, sports figures, social leaders—even average Joes. When laughing out loud listening to this wacky compendium, remember: "If you can't keep quiet, shut up!"

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  The Darwin Awards Vol 6 -...

  Wendy Northcutt

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  This sixth installment features all-new stories of the human race’s lowest rung on the evolutionary ladder, and is the latest addition to this successful brand. Aside from the bestselling book and audio-book collection that has sold over 1.5 million copies, The Darwin Awards brand includes a website that gets over 1 million hits per month and has over 100,000 newsletter subscribers, 2 miniature book editions, a movie starring Winona Ryder and Joseph Fiennes, t-shirts, greeting cards and much more merchandise.
  After majoring in theatre at Loyola Marymount University, Julie Schaller performed in a variety of stage and Director's Guild projects, as well as voice-overs for industrials, commericals and animation. She currently lives in Los Angeles.
  
  Patrick Girard Lawlor, a classically-trained stage actor, has performed on-stage throughout the US and Europe. He has appeared in several feature films, as well as on the TV series, "LA Heat."
  
  ©2011 Wendy Northcutt (P)2011 Listen & Live Audio, Inc.

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