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  Living From A Suitcase - Join...

  Chirag Patel

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  A collection of comic articles, collecting humorous travelogues as a Brit wanders the wilds of Africa and Asia. Includes... 
  - A rock diary following a gigging band in London in the mid 2000s, who might be any aspirant post student band you've ever known 
  - Travels around Asia on the modern Grand Tour, back in the years before the crisis hit 
  - Strange journeys and getting attacked at a go kart track in India 
  - The ruminations of an Englishman emigrating to South Africa and wondering what the hell is going on, but loving it 
  - collected journalism from Durban in South Africa, early in the Zuma years 
  - selected short fiction

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  Biltmore Oswald

  Jr. J. Thorne Smith

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  The hilarious diary of a young man's recruitment into, and service in a navy, which, though well equipped and disciplined, remains woefully ill prepared for his arrival and dubious contribution. (Introduction by Nigel Boydell)

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  We'll Laugh About This (Someday)...

  Anna Lind Thomas

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  A hilarious argument in favor of taking life a smidge less seriously 
  Popular humor writer Anna Lind Thomas had an epiphany after her essay about a humiliating fart went mega-viral: Everything’s funny . . .eventually. You’ll cry-laugh your way through the many grave offenses she’s endured, likenot getting credit for Lady Gaga’s career,an epic financial crisis,and exercising while her children dole out biting critiques about her dimpled thighs. 
  Anna’s wit, charm, and painful relatability will encourage you to remember that your most humiliating moment may be the best thing to ever happen to you—or at the very least, it’ll make for a really good story. 
  “A hilarious, heartwarming trip.” 
  —Bunmi Laditan, bestselling author of Confessions of a Domestic Failure and humorist behind The Honest Toddler 
  “I couldn’t put this down.”  
  —Tiffany Jenkins, bestselling author of High Achiever and humorist behind Juggling the Jenkins 
  “Deep, bowel-loosening laughs, along with a side dish of humanity and understanding.” 
  —Johanna Stein, author of How Not to Calm a Child on a Plane and award-winning television writer and producer 
  “Full of humor and heart.” 
  —Cindy Chupack, New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-winning writer/producer of Sex and the City, Modern Family, Otherhood, and more

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  Seven Kinds of People You Find...

  Shaun Bythell

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  From the author of Confessions of a Bookseller, a cankerous and darkly funny field guide to bookstore customers.  
   
  It does take all kinds and through the misanthropic eyes of a very grumpy bookseller, we see them all. There’s the Expert (with subspecies from the Bore to the Helpful Person), the Young Family (ranging from the Exhausted to the Aspirational), Occultists (from Conspiracy Theorist to Craft Woman). 
   
  Then there’s the Loiterer (including the Erotica Browser and the Self-Published Author), the Bearded Pensioner (including the Lyrca Clad), the The Not-So-Silent Traveller (the Whistler, Sniffer, Hummer, Farter, and Tutter), and the Family Historian (generally Americans who come to Shaun’s shop in Wigtown, Scotland).Don’t forget the Person Who Doesn’t Know What They Want (But Thinks It Might Have a Blue Cover) and the harried Parents Secretly After Free Childcare. Two bonus sections include Staff and, finally, Perfect Customer—all add up to one of the funniest books about books you’ll ever find. 
   
  Shaun Bythell and his mordantly unique observational eye make this perfect for anyone who loves books and bookshops. 
   
  Praise for Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops 
   
  “Bythell continues his seriocomic take on his profession . . . he spares no one.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post 
   
  “Cheers to Shaun Blythell for this delightful taxonomy of bookstore customers and visitors.” —Pamela Pescosolido, bookseller, The Bookloft 
   
  “Bythell is having fun and it’s infectious.” —The Scotsman (UK) 
   
  “Virtuosic venting . . . pantomime misanthropy is tempered with bursts of sweetness in the secondhand bookseller’s latest dispatches from Wigtown [Scotland].” —The Guardian 
   
  “Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops (a parody of the sort of self-help titles Bythell absolutely loathes), is a series of Orwellian-incisive character sketches.” —The Critic (UK) 
   
  “Bythell distills the essence of his experience into a warm, witty and quirky taxonomy of the book-loving public.” —The Week (UK)

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  Magnificence

  Lydia Millet

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  This stunning novel introduces Susan Lindley, a woman adrift after her husband's death. Suddenly gifted her great uncle's Pasadena mansion, Susan decides to restore his extensive collection of preserved animals, tending to 'the fur and feathers, the beaks, the bones and shimmering tails.' Meanwhile, a menagerie of uniquely damaged humans - including a cheating husband and a chorus of eccentric elderly women - joins her in residence. Funny and heartbreaking, Magnificence is the story of a woman emerging from the sudden dissolution of her family. Millet's trademark themes - evolution and extinction, children and parenthood, loss and wonder - produce a rapturous final act to the critically acclaimed cycle of novels that began with How the Dead Dream.

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  I Hate Everyone Except You

  Clinton Kelly

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  Clinton Kelly is probably best known for teaching women how to make their butts look smaller. But in I Hate Everyone, Except You, he reveals some heretofore-unknown secrets about himself, like that he's a finicky connoisseur of 1980s pornography, a disillusioned critic of New Jersey's premier water parks, and perhaps the world's least enthused high-school commencement speaker.Whether he's throwing his baby sister in the air to jumpstart her cheerleading career or heroically rescuing his best friend from death by mud bath, Clinton leaps life's social hurdles with aplomb. With his signature wit, he shares his unique ability to navigate the stickiest of situations, like deciding whether it's acceptable to eat chicken wings with a fork on live television (spoiler: it's not). Clinton delves into all these topics-and many more-in this thoroughly unabashedly frank and uproarious collection.

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