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  Bill Nye: Bill Nye's Funniest...

  Bill Nye

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  Bill Nye was a famous American humor columnist in the middle 1800's. He said "We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves." And he did exactly that in hundreds of newspaper columns that were later collected into books. This is a selection of just 35 of the most humorous, wry and downright funny cogitations of his, written of course in the somewhat convoluted style common in the 19th century which just adds to their flavor in my opinion. The selection process was rigorous: only those that made me laugh, giggle or snort are included.

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  Ridiculously Rewarding...

  Steve Pavlina

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  When you desire to attract and meet a new relationship partner, a common approach is to be more social, start connecting with new people, and try to be as likeable as possible.    I think that's a mistake...

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  A Christmas Blizzard

  Garrison Keillor

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  A short comic novel about a Hawaii-bound holiday traveler who ends up stranded in his North Dakota hometown during a blizzard.A wealthy and depressed man (thanks to the economy he’s not quite rich enough to expand his cache of paintings by Vincent Van Guy, the famed Dutch realist) bound for Christmas in the tropics is abruptly summoned home to North Dakota to visit an ailing aunt. He arrives just in time to be trapped there by a blizzard. The electricity goes out, and when it does, figures from his childhood appear, and historical figures too, for a festive candlelit holiday. In his reverie, our man reaches an epiphany worthy of the season—he hears the harkening angels sing, he is awed by the silence of the night (dead quiet: not even TV) and when he is finally rescued, leaves North Dakota resolved to simplify his life.

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  NPR Kitchen Moments: Celebrating...

  NPR

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  You’re preparing to share the food you love with the friends and family you love—while stories from NPR provide the inspiration. You’re enjoying a Kitchen Moment!
   NPR celebrates the joyful, inspiring, and downright delicious culture of food with this smorgasbord of radio stories, featuring visits with celebrity chefs and famous foodies Gastón Acurio, Mark Bittman, Alton Brown, Julia Child, Amanda Cohen, Dana Goodyear, Dorie Greenspan, Jeff Henderson, Christopher Kimball, Maricel Presilla, Ruth Reichl, Marcus Samuelsson, William Sitwell and many others. This collection, both savory and sweet, is a veritable feast of unique and rewarding food stories, eating experiences and cooking insights that will capture the imaginations and whet the appetites of food lovers everywhere. Featuring: • Julia Child: An American, Forever in Paris • Ruth Reichl: Dining in Disguise and Going “Gourmet” • Alton Brown: Foodie Wannabe? Here's How to Fake It • Chef Jeff Henderson Collects Soul Food Through the Generations • Marcus Samuelsson: The Fight for the Right to Hear “Yes, Chef” and many more!

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  Man of the Year - A Memoir

  Lou Cove

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  For one 1970's family, the center may not hold, but it certainly does fold. 
  In 1978 Jimmy Carter mediates the Camp David Accords, Fleetwood Mac tops charts with Rumours, Starsky fights crime with Hutch, and twelve-year-old Lou Cove is uprooted from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Salem, Massachusetts—a backwater town of witches, Puritans, and sea-captain wannabes. After his eighth move in a dozen years, Lou figures he should just resign himself to a teenage purgatory of tedious paper routes, school bullies, and unrequited lust for every girl he likes. 
  Then one October morning an old friend of Lou's father, free-wheeling (and free-loving) Howie Gordon arrives at the Cove doorstep from California with his beautiful wife Carly. Howie is everything Lou wants to be: handsome as a movie star, built like a god and in possession of an unstoppable confidence. 
  Then, over Thanksgiving dinner, Howie drops a bombshell. Holding up an issue of Playgirl Magazine, he flips to the center and there he is, Mr. November in all his natural glory. Howie has his eye on becoming the next Burt Reynolds, and a wild idea for how to do it: win Playgirl's Man of the Year.  And he knows just who should manage his campaign. As Lou and Howie canvas Salem for every vote in town — little old ladies at bridge club, the local town witch, construction workers on break and everyone in between — Lou is forced to juggle the perils of adolescence with the pursuit of Hollywood stardom.  
  Man of the Year is the improbable true story of Lou's thirteenth year, one very unusual campaign, and the unexpected guest who changes everything.A Macmillan Audio production.

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  Ali in Wonderland - And Other...

  Ali Wentworth

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  Mix 1 oz. Chelsea Handler, 1.5 oz. Nora Ephron, finish with a twist of Tina Fey, and you get Ali in Wonderland, the uproarious, revealing, and heartfelt memoir from acclaimed actress and comedian Ali Wentworth. Whether spilling secrets about her quintessentially WASPy upbringing (and her delicious rebellion against it), reminiscing about her Seinfeld "Schmoopie" days and her appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The View, and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, or baring the details of starting a family alongside husband George Stephanopoulos, one thing is for sure-Ali has the unsurpassable humor and warmth of a born storyteller with a story to tell: the quirky, flavorful, surprising, and sometimes scandalous Ali in Wonderland. 
  "Ali Wentworth is funny and warm and crazy all at once. Like Barbara Eden. But on something. Like crystal meth." -Alec Baldwin

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