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  Normal Is Just a Setting on the...

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  When the self-help books just aren’t helping, it’s time to call in the experts: real people . . .  
   
  San Francisco Chronicle columnist Adair Lara polled her readers for life lessons learned through experience, receiving thousands of heartfelt and irreverent responses. The best are compiled here in more than two hundred bits of priceless counsel, accompanied by witty, whimsical illustrations by award-winning artist Roxanna Bikadoroff.  
   
  This handy little volume is filled with humor, unconventional insights, and the kind of common wisdom that will always bear repeating.

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  Everyone In LA Is An Asshole:...

  Sarah Fuller, Sarah Noffke,...

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  LA is a beast. A city that swallows most with its glamour and glitz. 
  However, as a science fiction writer, Sarah Fuller has a hard time trying to fit in with the socialites, granola moms and trendy hipsters. That’s why she chooses to passively sit by and make fun of them. No one is safe from her ridicule. 
  Thrown back into the dating arena in her late thirties, Sarah encounters brand new challenges. 
  Readers will laugh out loud at the adventures and mishaps this sassy protagonist gets herself into. She explores LA life, seeing it through her unique lens. 
  Adventures in WeHo, drag queen bingo, pot dispensaries and all the strangeness that comes out of LA weave together in this crazy, episodic adventure. 
  Can you handle the absurdities?  
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  Fight Tub

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  The story of a man who became his bathroom.

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  Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye

  Florence King

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  In this collection of essays, Florence King confirms her position as one of the wittiest social critics now writing-and certainly the most uninhibited. Nothing escapes her withering gaze, from our greatest national institution ("Democrazy"), to the cult of Helpism ("Does Your Child Taste Salty?"), to the rules of historical romance writing ("Sex and the Saxon Churl"). If caring 'n' compassion are getting you down, open this book for a refreshing whiff of vitriol.

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  Model Home - A Novel

  Eric Puchner

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  Warren Ziller moved his family to California in search of a charmed life, and to all appearances, he found it: a gated community not far from the beach, amid the affluent splendor of Southern California in the 1980s. But his American dream has been rudely interrupted. Despite their affection for one another-the "slow, jokey, unrehearsed vaudeville" they share at home-Warren; his wife, Camille; and their three children have veered into separate lives, as distant as satellites. Worst of all, Warren has squandered the family's money on a failing real estate venture.As Warren desperately tries to conceal his mistake, his family begins to sow deceptions of their own. Camille attributes Warren's erratic behavior to an affair and plots her secret revenge; seventeen-year-old Dustin falls for his girlfriend's troubled younger sister; teen misanthrope Lyle begins sleeping with a security guard who works at the gatehouse; and eleven-year-old Jonas becomes strangely obsessed with a kidnapped girl.When tragedy strikes, the Zillers are forced to move into one of the houses in Warren's abandoned development in the middle of the desert. Marooned in a less-than-model home, each must reckon with what's led them there and who's to blame-and whether they can summon the forgiveness needed to hold the family together. Subtly ambitious, brimming with the humor and unpredictability of life, Model Home delivers penetrating insights into the American family and into the imperfect ways we try to connect, from a writer "uncannily in tune with the heartbreak and absurdity of domestic life" (Los Angeles Times).

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  Dirty Spanish Flash Cards -...

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  Quickly memorize the dirty words and off-color expressions not taught in any Spanish class. 
   
    
   
  Flashcards aren’t just for developing an SAT vocabulary. With Dirty Spanish Flashcards, readers can quickly master the bawdy Spanish terms never seen in a textbook. From casual greetings and cutting put-downs to explicit sex terms and filthy swear words, each flashcard presents a hip vocabulary word and example sentence on one side and an English definition on the reverse. It’s a fun and fast way to learn the real Spanish spoken daily on the streets of Latin America and Spain. This deck is designed for readers to master Spanish and engage people in a foreign language on an entirely new level. With phrases like “I’m plastered!” and “Let’s hit the clubs!”, readers will be making new friends in no time. In addition to pickup lines and insults, the deck contains other contemporary slang like globos, literally “globes” but which can also refer to a woman’s personal endowments; or malparido, which means “badly born,” but can be used to call someone an a**hole. 
   
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  • Cool slang 
   
  • Funny insults 
   
  • Explicit sex terms 
   
  • Raw swear words

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