...THE ROOT OF ALL PROBLEMS...Problems. Every person has them. And most of those problems are based around money. Whether or not the love of money is the root of all evil is debatable, but money is at the root of most of the world's problems today.Money Problems is an entertaining collection of stories that document the lives of young adults from all walks of life. Each story is a real depiction of someone seeking to acquire the American Dream, with the themes of friendship...

Most people look at Autism as a disability because they only see someone who isn’t acting “normal” and they haven’t learned about Autism. I think of Autism as just another type of person who does things a little differently. You might be wondering why I think of Autism differently than most people. This is because my little brother Carter has Autism. Carter is 6 years old and he is the best little brother. One out of 88 children in the United States has Autism, so ...

Why do innocent people suffer? This is the universal question posed in the story of Job. Blessed with great wealth and a loving family, Job was considered the richest man in the East-until the day that everything he had was taken away. But Job continued to praise God, even as he sought to understand the mystery of suffering and of God's divine grace.

Marie finds herself unexpectedly pregnant at 39. Meanwhile, her best friend, Elizabeth, has never been able to conceive, despite years of fertility treatments. In a genetic test routinely offered to older mothers, Marie discovers that the child she is carrying has Down syndrome. Intertwined throughout the novel is the story of Margaret, a woman who gave birth to a daughter with Down syndrome in 1947, when such infants were considered to be “unfinished” children. As the novel shifts through...

A hilarious collection of essays from the #1 bestselling author of Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea about the ridiculous side of childhood, adulthood, and daughterhood.Life doesn't get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show? Family moments are fair game, whether it's writing a report on Reaganomics to earn a Cabbage Patch doll, or tea...

Comedian Mike Birbiglia’s hilarious New York Times bestseller is now a major motion picture co-written and produced by Ira Glass (This American Life) starring Birbiglia and Emmy-nominated actress Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under).Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American HumorSleepwalk with Me is a comedic memoir, but I’m only thirty-two years old, so I’d hate for you to ...

"Call it potty-humor light: David Sedaris minus the cynicism, but plus an obsession with bodily functions . . . an engaging read." — The New York ObserverHi. My name is Dave, and this is my very first collection of essays. As you can probably imagine, it pretty much has everything. In fact, if you like stories about stolen meat, animal attacks, young love, death, naked people, clergymen, rock 'n' roll, irritable Canadians, and prison, you have just hit a st...

An engaging, often hilarious coming-of-age novel of uncertainty and discovery oozing with early 90s nostalgia."Funny and unpredictable...(Charles) proves impressively adept at capturing the inchoate ache of adolescent longing."— Washington PostIt's 1992, and America is caught in the grip of major Angst. In Washington, D.C., George H. W. Bush is rattling the mother of all sabres at Saddam Hussein. In Seattle, Curt Kobain is h...

From Ron White, the man known by fans (and law enforcement officials) as “Tater Salad,” comes a collection of his greatest hits and bits from his onstage shows, as well as some fo the more “interesting” stories from his life before comedy, while on the road, in the spotlight and out of his mind.After years working as a journeyman comic, struggling from one gig to the next, Ron White struck gold the Blue Collar Comedy phenomenon, including three feature-length conce...

**Fans of Thirteen Reasons Why, Running with Scissors, and Girl, Interrupted will be entranced by this remarkable true story of teenage despair and recovery.“[The Burn Journals] describes a particular kind of youthful male desolation better than it has ever been described before, by anyone.” —Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon**In 1991, fourteen-year-old Brent Runyon came home from school, doused his bathrobe in gasoline, put it ...

Yes, it’s true, I am a crazy b*tch. I’m not sure when it began; I just know that I am. I think it began the day I started my period when I was eleven because before that moment my mother told me I was the perfect child.Crazy b*tch is a book that tells different episodes of my life. Some of the stories are serious and some funny.funny, humorous short story

A trade paperback collection of 16 short stories, some new, some published before, all together for the first time, featuring Tess Monaghan, New York Times Bestselling author Laura Lippman’s acclaimed private eyeFor the first time together in one collection is a mix of brand new Tess Monaghan short mysteries as well as previously published, award-winning short stories.Split into three parts—Girls Gone Wild (seven stories about girls behaving badly); Other Cities, Not My Own...