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From everyone's favorite TikTok oracle, Devrie Donalson (aka @devriebrynn), comes a hearty dose of her sometimes jaded, always funny, and surprisingly soulful wisdom. For fans of Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson and Everything's Trash, But It's Ok by Phoebe Robinson.
Through her TikTok videos, Devrie has chronicled only a small part of her journey as a single woman-leaving her unsatisfying life behind and flying to Scotland in pursuit of a version...
2) Hey Gary
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A collection of dumb things the writer texted to his friend, Gary. Gary did not listen to any of these suggestions. You probably did not even read them. That's Gary for you. It is a dust devil of absurdist ideas and configurations. This could be the kind of book you need to read if you are waiting for the volcano to erupt. Author Jeffrey Campbell read some of this book and gave this blurb that's good enough to be on the cover, "Yeah. I think this...
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The jOYs of Live by comedy author Michelle Hoppe is a look into the ups and downs of raising a family while attempting to become an author. Take a peek into the family life of the Hoppe clan and discover how Michelle turned oys into jOYs…or at least delightfully funny stories. "My life was a sort of series of random disasters." Claire Tomalin I was blessed with the ability to view life through rose tinted glasses. This, along with a twisted sense...
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Presenting laugh-out-loud stories for lovers of absurd comedy, featuring an eccentric cast of characters including Derek Organ: Private Investigator, Lionel the Moth, Roman slave Servus Minimus, the Battlefield Masseur, ambulance chaser Bradley Scherp, the Incredibly Delusional Shrinking Man, Compound Fracture the Clown, and of course, the Dancer on the Ceiling.
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Get the Summary of Dolly Alderton's Dear Dolly in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Dear Dolly" by Dolly Alderton is a collection of advice and reflections on various aspects of life, particularly focusing on relationships, self-esteem, and personal growth. Alderton shares her experiences as a tall woman in the dating world, discussing the challenges and insecurities that come with it, as well as the importance of...
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Get the Summary of Laurie Notaro's Excuse Me While I Disappear in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Laurie Notaro humorously navigates the trials of aging in "Excuse Me While I Disappear." She embraces her gray hair, despite initial resistance, and learns to appreciate the wisdom it represents. Notaro also discovers the unexpected power of invisibility that comes with age, finding humor in the ability to go unnoticed....
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Un caballero pide el tocho más pesado (literalmente) que aflija las estanterías, otro necesita adquirir cincuenta y dos metros de lomos más o menos vistosos y un tercero quiere leer la edición débil de cierta obra. Una dama sospecha que las novelas de Dickens fueron escritas por su hermana Charlene, otra busca libros de color verde y una tercera pregunta por relatos donde Robin Hood no robe a los ricos. Demencias como éstas (e incluso más dementes)...
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Get the Summary of Leslie Jones's Leslie Fcking Jones in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Leslie Fcking Jones" is the candid memoir of comedian Leslie Jones, chronicling her life from a challenging childhood to her rise as a comedy star. Born to a military family, Leslie faced racism early on but was instilled with pride in her Black heritage by her parents. Her father, an army electronics engineer, and her mother,...
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From the wildly popular Instagram account, Disappointing Affirmations hilariously counters the culture of relentless toxic positivity with a realistic take on a disappointing world where failure is always an option, but that's okay.
Pairing lovely vacation photos taken by the author himself with sayings that are amusingly self-critical, encouraging, disillusioned, or all three at once, Tarnowski points to feelings commonly...
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Finally, life advice from our favorite feline friends who always seem to land on their feet. Stink Outside the Box features sweet, funny photos of kitty experts along with hilarious and thoughtful tidbits of timeless advice for both cats and humans alike. To move on with our nine lives, we must forgive our siblings for what they did to us as kittens, learn not to get haired out when we see how much fur we've gained in the winter, and accept that while...
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A mind-bending collection of 70 puzzles from the New Scientist published in book form for the first time. You'll find puzzles and problems drawn from real-life situations, games with intriguing strategies, and puzzles with such creative and whimsical storylines that they need to be explained to be believed.With the solutions you'll read the untold back stories behind the puzzles, and a fascinating exploration of related puzzles and mathematical ideas....
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Berlin steckt voller Überraschungen. Der Journalist und Stadtführer Harald Neckelmann erzählt in über 70 kurzweiligen Texten von originär Berliner Erfindungen wie dem Eierschneider oder dem Handy, von kulinarischen Spezialitäten wie dem Berliner Schnitzel aus Kuheutern, von Superlativen wie der größten Quallenzucht in Europa, von Skurrilitäten wie einem rechnenden Pferd oder einem Autowrack, das seit Jahrzehnten regelmäßig eine neue TÜV-Plakette...
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* Stage a coup * Swim with sharks * Beat a breathalyzer *
The Forbidden Knowledge series has taken readers over the edge before, but never like this. The Most Forbidden Knowledge jam-packs the best and baddest how-tos into one car-stealing, keg-kicking, base-jumping-off-a-skyscraper collection. You'll find everything you ever wanted to learn (though probably never should) in this ultimate self-destruction manual.
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Seit vielen Jahren erzählt Torsten Harmsen in der "Berliner Zeitung" von den Herausforderungen und Überraschungen, die das Berliner Alltagsleben mit sich bringt. Mal belauscht er unfreiwillig skurrile U-Bahn-Gespräche, mal wundert er sich über merkwürdige Halloween-Riten, kämpft gegen bissige Großstadt-Mücken und freche Wildschweine oder sinniert über die Lebensweisheiten seiner Ur-Berlinerischen Tante.
Harmsen beobachtet nicht nur das merkwürdige...
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Wer Berlin verstehen will, der sollte dieses Buch lesen. Torsten Harmsen, langjähriger Redakteur der "Berliner Zeitung", erforscht die Abgründe des Hauptstadtalltags und versucht, sich einen Reim auf die Eigenarten seiner Mit-Berliner zu machen. Ob es um geheime Raumstationen geht, um undankbare Möwen oder kuriose S-Bahngespräche—nichts ist ihm zu abseitig, um nicht einen Funken Welterkenntnis daraus zu schlagen.
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The snow is falling, the holidays are approaching and…It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Zombies! This delightfully depraved book of classic Zombie Christmas carols by Michael P. Spradlin is guaranteed to spread Yuletide cheer to all those good boys and ghouls who devoured the monster New York Times bestsellers Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and World War Z, as well as fans of 28 Days Later and Shaun of the Dead. With an introduction by the inimitable...
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Here it is, the book you've been longing for... The ULTIMATE Blonde Joke Book! Includes: Over 250 Blonde Jokes Brand-New Jokes by Guy A. De Marco Get the upper hand in a Blonde Joke contest Rule the playground (or water cooler, if you're an older kid) Alarm people around you as you laugh out loud Spew drinks from your nose at passers-byGet your copy today!
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Did you know Thomas Edison proposed to his wife in Morse code? Or that the CIA considered covering Castro's shoes in thallium to get rid of his iconic beard? The strange facts and foibles of history's famous figures are divulged in Famous Freaks. The book is a fun, bite sized compendium of the weird and unbelievable. Big names-small disclosures. Important historical data-little to none. This book can be picked up and read anywhere, from any starting...
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Dive headfirst into the pages of this darkly comical memoir, where Mom's sardonic reply to the question of her smoking habits echoes through the narrative: "Not enough, John. Not nearly enough." Prepare for a journey into the heart of a blue-collar neighborhood, where hard work, hard drinking, hard smoking, and hard language were the order of the day. This riveting tale kicks off by setting the stage by offering a concise account of how this waning...
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