Essays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446539692Author Demetri MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Warner Books IncPublisher Time Warner Trade PublishingWeight(grams) 363g

Kessaris manages to convey a sense of shared history through the prose itself, bringing the Montreal immigrant experience to life with wry humour and painstaking attention to detail. -Montreal Review of BooksThe Butcher of Park Ex is a humorous...

A book that proves idiocy is as old as timeThink civilization has deteriorated and that people these days are dumber than ever? Dumb History proves that we didn't invent stupidity in the 21st century. You'll find facts from throughout the ages about...

Cops on bikes, undercover security in the supermarket, TSA agents wondering why there appears to be a gun in his bag, Keith Lowell Jensen has a lot of run-ins with all manner of cops. Sometimes they arrest him. Sometimes they beat him up and arrest him...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439142745Author Samantha BeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345416605Author Dave BarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm) 171mm...

Twitter Trolls. Facebook Freaks. Instagram Exhibitionists. These are just a few of the creatures our technology-obsessed culture has spawned in its quest to simplify our lives. The madness is so universal now that everyone has dealt with it. You login to...

Wall Street Journal columnist and New York Times bestselling author Jason Gay takes a humorous and insightful look at life in the face of a seemingly overwhelming series of ongoing societal changes and phenomena that we never anticipated, exploring the...

In her highly anticipated nonfiction debut, comedian Kelly Bandas uses her trademark humor to recount stories of growing up and becoming a semifunctional adult in a dysfunctional world.Raised in a devoutly Catholic home, Kelly Bandas spent her entire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142180235Author Lauren WeedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 224g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593315699Author Samantha IrbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948626293Author SparrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing Company

"The parenting genre is never going to be the same" (Jancee Dunn, author of How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids) after this candid and hilarious collection of essays on motherhood from the award-winning television comedy writer and producer of 2...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063065062Author Ben PhilippeFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Patrick F. McManus's gently comic stories about outdoor life have earned him millions of fans worldwide. With Kerplunk!, McManus delivers a collection of folksy, wonderfully wise depictions of country life worthy of Mark Twain.In these tall tales,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551528335Author Alex WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345549839Author Jen MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501109850Author Harvard LampoonFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 157mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062268358Author Amy PoehlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Over the last forty years, Cousin Sal has made bets with doctors, lawyers, teachers, agents, bookies, writers, comedians, radio DJs, tv producers, baseball players, front office executives, bandleaders, movie stars, publicists, weed lab owners, hedge...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385116329Author Jean ShepherdFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

I Love My Computer Because My Friends Live in It is tech analyst Jess Kimball Leslie's hilarious, frank homage to the technology that contributed so significantly to the person she is today. From accounts of the lawless chat rooms of early AOL to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250029232Author Celia RivenbarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946193155Author Rachel ToalsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Rachel ToalsonPublisher Rachel ToalsonWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

During the nine years Courtenay Hameister hosted NPR's Live Wire, she lived in a state of near-constant dread and anxiety and she didn't just fret about and fear her next radio show; she fretted about and feared everything. Until about a year ago, when...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385313155Author Claudia ShearFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

“If you only read one book in your life, it probably shouldn’t be this one. However, if you’re not operating an inexplicable one-book policy, these stories are funny, touching, and more than worth your time.” — John Oliver“Josh Gondelman is one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735218437Author Cathy GuisewiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786884087Author Joe QueenanFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 204g

David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his...

Carlton's best-selling series of Wrinklies books continues with this, the second illustrated outing. First there was Wrinklies' Wit & Wisdom, then came the Wrinklies' Joke Book, and now Illustrated Wrinklies' Wit & Wisdom. Page after page of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780349019628Author Fran LebowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Virago Press LtdPublisher Little, Brown Book Group

From the writer crowned one of the smartest, funniest voices in modern America, this hotly anticipated debut collection of essays offers “a precious glimpse into how Ziwe’s uniquely fearless mind functions” (New York) Ziwe made a name for herself staring...

From actor, comedian, co-creator of Marcel the Shell, and New York Times bestselling author of Little Weirds Jenny Slate, a wild, soulful, hilarious collection of genre-bending essays depicting the journey into motherhood as you've never seen it before...

Sarah Cooper is an expert in the business of being embarrassed.Whether it’s in auditions, on dates, at work in the Google offices, or on the set of her very own Netflix special, she knows what it’s like to feel a little bit… foolish.From tech to comedy,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960988065Author Elisa AlbertFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint Clash BooksPublisher Clash Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780349127484Author Jenny SlateFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint FleetPublisher Little, Brown Book Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958506790Author Amy WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Zibby BooksPublisher Zibby Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958506783Author Amy WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Zibby BooksPublisher Zibby Books

Building on the critical acclaim of Tiffany Midge’s Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s, The Dreamcatcher in the Wry is Midge’s bitingly hilarious collection of essays written during the COVID-19 pandemic. A Standing Rock Sioux citizen, Midge offers up...