Gifts for Book Lovers

The Women's Daily Irony Supplement by Judy Gruen

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Ever fall for the lure of expensive, exotic moisturizers promising impossible anti-aging miracles? Ever receive one of those happy, sappy New Year's letters from someone you barely remember from fourth grade? Can't decide whether to stay friends with a size two woman who won't eat a carrot because of its high-carb content? If so, you're in good company. Award-winning humorist and Bikram yoga dropout Judy Gruen copes with all this and more in The Women's Daily Irony Supplement. Her riffs on femal...1 point

Humor for the Holidays: Stories, Quips, and Quotes for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years by Shari MacDonald

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Celebrate the holidayswith the marvelous gift ofhumor!Holidays can be both fun and frustrating, can't they? All the chaos that goes with the holidays can make you grin or groan. What you need for happy holidays is to have your stocking stuffed with tasty bits of humor. Imagine reaching into your stocking and finding a hilarious story by Patsy Clairmont, pulling out funny-bone ticklers by Martha Bolton, Jack Hayford, and Tim Wildmon, and discovering goodies to make you giggle by many other gifted...1 point

God Does Have a Sense of Humor by Rob Ballister

Author Rob Ballister delivers a touching and enter more...1 point

Author Rob Ballister delivers a touching and entertaining portrait of his journey through dating, growing up in New Jersey, and surviving cancer. Along the way, he learns that God Does Have a Sense of Humor. Follow him: Through surgery-My understanding was that the doctor, while hopping up and down on one foot and singing the national anthem, was going to remove my lymph nodes using a butter knife, a hacksaw, and some 10W-30 motor oil. Into the confessional-There sat Father Riener, who...1 point

The Healing Power of Humor by Allen Klein

The ability to laugh at annoyances, crises, and ev more...0 points

The ability to laugh at annoyances, crises, and even outright disasters can literally save your life. The author presents a series of proven techniques for overcoming the negative effects of loss, setbacks, upsets, disappointments, trials, and tribulations.0 points

The National Lampoon Encyclopedia of Humor

The fifth title in the National Lampoon classic li more...0 points

The fifth title in the National Lampoon classic library, The National Lampoon Encyclopedia of Humor returns with the madness that only Michael O'Donoghue, P.J. O'Rourke, Terry Southern, Anne Beatts, Doug Kenney and Brian McConnachie could have possibly created. Includes a pullout, 4-color, National Lampoon World Map and artwork from Edward Gorey, Bruce McCall and Rick Meyerwitz0 points

Humor in Uniform by Editors of Reader's Digest

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Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas

This new Readers Circle edition includes a reading more...0 points

This new Readers Circle edition includes a reading group guide and a conversation between Firoozeh Dumas and Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner." In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father's glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and the clan has been here ever since. Funny in Farsi chronicles the American journey...0 points

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Applause Musical Library)

Book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart Introduct more...0 points

Book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart Introduction by Larry Gelbart "This brazenly retro Broadway musical, inspired by Plautus, is as timeless as comedy itself." -Vincent Canby, The New York Times "The most urbane and literate musical comedy text ever conceived." -John Simon, New York magazine0 points

How to Write Funny

How to Write Funny teaches writers how to sharpen more...0 points

How to Write Funny teaches writers how to sharpen their sense of humor and incorporate humor into their work. They won't learn how to write comedy, such as sitcoms or stand-up, but rather how to add humor to any kind of writing from short stories and novels to columns and memoirs, John combines a mix of classic and original articles with ten full-length interviews with famous (and very funny!) authors, including Dave Berry, P.J. O'Roark, Jennifer Cruise, Tom Bodet, Bill Bryson, Joe R. Landsdale,...0 points

The Art of Comedy: Getting Serious About Being Funny by Paul Ryan

Want to know a secret? Sssshhhh. Great comedy acto more...0 points

Want to know a secret? Sssshhhh. Great comedy actors aren't born...they're made. Who makes them? Paul Ryan, that's who. Now Ryan, the top comedy acting coach in Hollywood, shares his secrets in The Art of Comedy, a step-by-step guide for turning actors into comedy actors. Packed with exercises, The Art of Comedy explains exactly how to build a character, how to incorporate improvisation into a written scene, where to turn for comic inspiration, and how to increase your comedic ima...0 points