Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral
Folks in the Delta have a strong sense of community, and being dead is no impediment to belonging to it. Down South, they don’t forget you when you’ve up and died–in fact, they visit you more often. But there are quintessential rules and rituals for kicking the bucket tastefully. Having a flawless funeral is one of them.In this …
Yogi Berra (1925-2015), a fifteen-time Major League Baseball All Star, played on a record ten World Series champion teams for the New York Yankees. Off the field, Berra’s wit and humor made him “one of the most universally beloved figures in American life” (Washington Post).In When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!, Berra provides …
From the moment he was born, Andrew Bridge and his mother, Hope, shared a love so deep that it felt like nothing else mattered. Trapped in desperate poverty and confronted with unthinkable tragedies, all Andrew ever wanted was to be with his mom. But as her mental health steadily declined, and with no one else left to care …
Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat
A remarkable cat. A life-changing story.Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat is the story of a doctor who, at first, doesn’t always listen; of the patients he serves; of their caregivers; and, most importantly, of a cat who teaches by example, embracing moments of life that so many of us shy away from.”Oscar …
The Great Michigan Read 2013-14 Michigan Notable Book for 2010 A Washington Post Book World’s “Best Books of 2009,” Memoir Beth Luxenberg was an only child. Or so everyone thought. Six months after Beth’s death, her secret emerged. It had a name: Annie. Steve Luxenberg’s mother always told people she was an only child. It was …
If Someone Says “You Complete Me,” RUN!: Whoopi’s Big Book of Relationships
From the provocative and hilarious EGOT winner, bestselling author, and host of The View, Whoopi Goldberg, comes the perfect antidote to all those outdated relationship advice books in the world, weighing in on why marriage isn’t for everybody, and how the life you want shouldn’t be the life everyone else expects you to have.Whoopi Goldberg has been an …
Some Day You’ll Thank Me for This: The Official Southern Ladies’ Guide to Being a “Perfect” Mother
A hilarious guide to that incomparable creature–the Southern mother. Southern society is arranged along matriarchal lines, since the Southern matriarch is a far more formidable being than the much nicer Southern male. She has to be this way; she was put on earth with a sacred mission: to drum good manners and the proper religion–ancestor worship–into the next …
From the host of Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore comes the first paperback reprint of his funny and provocative musings on race in America and other topics.I’d Rather We Got Casinos And Other Black Thoughts shares Wilmore’s hilarious, eye-opening opinions on controversial topics. Through various literary forms such as op-ed pieces, epistolary entries, and long-lost …
The #1 New York Times bestseller with more than 450,000 copies in print offers up a hilarious and “entertaining” [Chicago Sun-Times] collection of razor-sharp observations–now available in paperback! Spending more than 15 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in hardcover, George Carlin, the thinking person’s comic, has made it very clear how successful he is at …
Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him, as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that …