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  A Big Storm Knocked It Over - A...

  Laurie Colwin

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  “Laurie Colwin’s beautiful final book, A Big Storm Knocked It Over, is funny and moving and rich with complicated happiness—a love story for anyone who tends to overthink things, a comic novel about trying to find a place in the world.” — Maile Meloy, author of Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It 
  In her fifth and final novel, acclaimed author Laurie Colwin explores marriage and friendship, motherhood and careers, as experienced by a cast of delightfully idiosyncratic Manhattanites. At once a hilarious social commentary and an insightful, sophisticated modern romance, A Big Storm Knocked It Over stands as a living tribute to one of contemporary fiction’s most original and beloved voices. 
  In her late thirties, Jane Louise Parker has just married a man whose native decency leaves her almost breathless at her good fortune. After the wedding, she returns to work at a small and tony publishing house whose finances are in disarray. Alongside her best friend, Edie, Jane Louise patiently waits to become pregnant, wondering if a baby will provide a sense of rootedness that still seems to elude her. When that longed-for child arrives, it transforms the Parkers’ lives in a way that is as unexpected as it is rapturous.

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  "How to Fix Your Life (But Let’s...

  Dicholas Chad Pansy

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  Congratulations! You’ve found yet another self-help book that you’ll skim through, feel briefly inspired by, and then completely ignore while continuing to make the same bad decisions. 
  🚨 THIS IS NOT A REAL SELF-HELP BOOK. 🚨 
  This is a book for people who have: 
  ✔️ Bought planners they never use. 
  ✔️ Watched productivity videos while actively avoiding work. 
  ✔️ Googled “how to get my life together” at 2 AM while eating cold pizza. 
  Inside, you’ll find: 
  ✅ A step-by-step guide to pretending you’re working on yourself. 
  ✅ The absolute dumbest life advice you will never follow. 
  ✅ A checklist for success (that will collect dust on your desk). 
  This book will NOT help you: 
  🚫 Get your finances in order. 
  🚫 Find motivation. 
  🚫 Stop dating red flags wrapped in human skin. 
  But it WILL help you laugh at your own failures, which is basically therapy (but cheaper). 
  If you’re tired of reading books that try to fix you, this book is here to roast you instead. 
  📢 Go ahead, buy it. (But let’s be real, you’ll probably never finish it.) 🙃

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  Is Sex Necessary? Or Why You...

  James Thurber, E.B. White

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  Is Sex Necessary? Or, Why You Feel the Way You Do (1929) is a brilliant satirical work that humorously dissects the popular psychological and social theories about sex, love, and human behavior prevalent in the early twentieth century. Written by E. B. White and James Thurber, the book adopts the tone of a mock scientific study, complete with absurd charts, invented terminology, and tongue-in-cheek definitions.
  
  Rather than offering genuine explanations, the authors parody the era's obsession with analyzing emotions through pseudo-scientific language. Topics such as romance, neurosis, marriage, passion, repression, and gender relations are treated with elegant irony and playful exaggeration. The humor lies in exposing how attempts to rationalize feelings often lead to confusion rather than clarity.
  
  The book does not aim to answer whether sex is "necessary" in any serious sense; instead, it mocks the cultural impulse to intellectualize what is fundamentally emotional and irrational. With sharp wit and understated elegance, White and Thurber critique modern society's faith in psychology as a universal explanatory tool.
  
  Enduringly fresh, Is Sex Necessary? remains a classic of American humor, celebrated for its intelligence, restraint, and timeless commentary on human relationships and emotional bewilderment.

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  Raising Olives in Provence - A...

  Kenneth R. Timmerman

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  Americans have long had a love affair with Provence: its glamour, its mystique, its foreignness. But never have they had a guide like Ken Timmerman. Bursting with humorous stories about local characters and vivid description of French landscapes and customs gleaned from thirty-five years in the country, Raising Olives in Provence tells the story of how the author improbably came to renovate a run-down house and raise olive trees in the hills above Saint-Tropez. From olive presses to truffle markets, from Templar hostelries to lunch at a beachside club with the king and queen of Sweden, Timmerman takes us to places and introduces us to people we would never find on our own. 
   
   
   
  In his other life as a war correspondent and investigative reporter, Timmerman deals with the horrors and betrayals of a world gone mad, always returning to this hillside in the south of France as a refuge. But even here, intrigue and treachery lie just beneath the surface, along with mysterious visitors on the hillside, an olive thief, phony artists and wannabe aristocrats, and the endless love adventures of his French neighbors. 
   
   
   
  Love, faith, marriage, and friendship—with a sprinkling of salt, thyme, and some olive oil, please! And don't forget the rosé.

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  The Quarantine Princess Diaries...

  Meg Cabot

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  Mia Thermopolis knows just what to do in a crisis: Rule. 
  During the Covid-19 pandemic, a section of the diary of Princess Mia Thermopolis of Genovia fell into the hands of Meg Cabot, the Princess’s royal biographer. 
  As reported in media outlets such as Entertainment Weekly, The Mary Sue, Refinery 29, Bustle, and more, from March until June of 2020, sixteen entries of the princess’s diary were leaked onto Ms. Cabot’s blog, to the delight of over a million fans. 
  In these entries, titled The Coronavirus Princess Diaries, the princess recorded her most heartfelt emotions while dealing with her husband’s quarantine after exposure to the virus; her personal (and political) battles while imposing health restrictions on her small European nation; life during lockdown (even in as idyllic a location as a palace on the Riviera); and of course, dealing with her demanding royal family, especially her grandmother. 
  Since then, readers have been clamoring for more chapters of Mia’s coronavirus diary . . . and here they are at last: The Quarantine Princess Diaries include not only the previously released entries (now edited and updated with new content), but two hundred more pages of entirely original, never-before-seen entries, including the princess’s worries over a possible royal affair; a showdown between Mia and Grandmère over the latter’s intended nuptials; the eventual development and distribution of a groundbreaking intranasal vaccine for every citizen in Genovia; and, as always, a royally happy ending. 
  After all we’ve been through, what could be more comforting for any lover of royal romance than snuggling up with a brand new installment of the diary of Mia Thermopolis, the princess who started it all? 
  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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  The Babylon Bee Guide to Gender...

  The Babylon Bee

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  From the satirical minds behind the viral sensation The Babylon Bee comes the latest installment of its guide series. This looks at the two original gangsta genders—male and female—shows us the progressively insane slide into the multiplying number of genders that has lately been spiraling out of control. IF YOU’RE CONFUSED ABOUT GENDER, YOU’VE PICKED UP THE RIGHT BOOK. IT’S TIME FOR YOU TO EXPLORE THE WACKY, WILD WORLD OF GENDER THEORY: AND YOU JUST MIGHT DISCOVER YOURSELF ALONG THE WAY. Join the writers of the satirical sensation The Babylon Bee as they walk you through the following ideas: What is a MAN? What is a WOMAN? How to PICK YOUR GENDER How to CHANGE GENDERS How to RAISE WOKE THEYBIES How to ATTRACT OTHER GENDERS Sex vs. GENDER IDENTITY Incredible GENDER FLAGS Fabulous SEXUAL ORIENTATIONS Drag queen STORY HOUR All 437 NEW genders AND MORE! Every page of this guide is jam-packed with 100 percent true facts delivered through fabulous illustrations, handy infographics, and, of course, stick figures of all genders and orientations. In The Babylon Bee Guide to Gender, we’ll take you on a journey to the two “original gangsta” genders— male and female. Then, we’ll show you the progressively insane slide into the increasing number of potential genders that has spiraled out of control in the last few years. We’ll teach you how to pick your gender, educate you on how to tell if you’re a man or a woman, and show you the limitless cornucopia of gender identities to choose from. Just don’t use our incorrect pronouns—we go by Bee/Beeself.

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