Learn to navigate the perils of everyday awkwardness with this smart, funny and charmingly illustrated guide.Homo sapiens have been speaking for thousands of years—and yet basic communication still stymies us. We freeze up in elevators, on dates, at parties, and just about everywhere else. We stagger through our exchanges merely hoping not to crash, never considering that we might soar. But no more.With What to Talk About you'll learn to speak—fluently, intel...

New York Times bestselling humorist Jill Conner Browne, offers a hilarious life maintenance program to help women navigate our hyper-visual society’s obsessions with body image, clothing, and personal appearance.Here are stories of growing up and learning about life—usually the hard way! From disastrous haircuts and color jobs to fashion or verbal faux pas committed, from the kiss wished for but never gotten to the one that should have been skipped, these ...

Make her smile with a line worth the while!Here is a quick way to pick girls with best lines!Do you wish that you can come up with the golden words that women would love to hear?"This book is amazing! It made me feel confident in approaching more women-Riku N."We all know that women can be complicating sometimes. Attracting them can be a mystery though sometimes they just want to hear the words that they really do want.This book gives you the best lin...

Here's best-selling humor writer Leland Gregory's sixth collection about everyday idiots-and this time they're in love! Readers are guaranteed to feel better about their own romantic misadventures after reading these jaw-dropping, hilarious tales.Many people do crazy things in the name of love, but some people take things way too far. From failed seductions to botched proposals, from disturbing displays of affection to misguided marriages, Idiots in Love chronicles the stu...

In 2011 my son was born and I instantly found myself on a whole new planet. Walk with me while I traverse this strange land with Hal as our guide...Lessons From Hal is the daily diary written over the course of his son's first year by a nervous, slightly paranoid, newb father as he attempts to adapt from a geeky existence to a parental (yet still geeky) existence.*5% of all profits made on my end will be donated to the World Wildlife Fund

I started to read Snapshots on a plane ride from Amsterdam to Barcelona and couldn’t put it down. When I got to my hotel, I had to finish it. Socrates once said, “An unexamined life is not worth living.” Well, R.G. Ryan would make Socrates smile. This little book will make you think about every part of your life: your childhood, important adults (like parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, relationships) your career, your future—you name it, it comes to life under R.G.’s observant eye. A...

Is it okay to text bad news? What do you do if you and your intended already have hyphenated last names? Is it gauche to take home leftovers from a four-star restaurant? Should you admit you are getting your MBA online? Is it okay to ask a lesbian how she got pregnant? Who gets the dog in the divorce? Is an anti-wrinkle cream that is made of pig collagen kosher?You will always have a clue with expert advice from:Badgley Mischka, designers Mark Badgley and James Mischka

Love! Heartbreak! Homeroom! This collection of real junior high school love notes from an incorrigible recess Romeo captures the high drama, low gossip, and emotional rollercoaster ride of dozens of youthful romances. Intricately folded and secretively passed under desks in the 1970s—to and from his best friend and his many, many girlfriends—these notes lay bare the triumphs and tragedies of young love, from the thrilling promise of TLA (True Love Always) to the devastating letdown of "let...

If you've just graduated, or if you haven't--if you're going to advanced school, or if you aren't--if you're setting things in motion to strike out on your own--or if you blew the first or second go at liberty and having your own living space--you're in the right place. If you are serious about rules and guidelines and closets and all the details, go see Martha. If you'd prefer some easy-going, mildly cynical guidance, I'm Free, I'm Free, I'm Free: Now What? is for you. Align the Law of 'w...

A practical, laugh-out-loud guide to adopting your man's family—from your first date to your firstbornGirlfriends, fiancées, and wives rejoice! Here, at last, is a book you can turn to in times of stress, panic, and family vacations to the smallest cottage ever built on the island of Nantucket. Mirroring the natural progression of a relationship and incorporating interviews from women just like you, this hilarious, savvy guide will help you survive your first meetin...

Horst & Marmon meet on a bench in front of the park.Marmon is whiney; over wrought and chews his nails until they bleed. Horst is a professional louse prone to rough language: miserable but gentle.Being such close friends words are unnecessary and irrelevant, until they start spitting and hissing at each other over some perceived slight.Both see the end of their rope and are quietly desperate for a lighting strike of good fortune.

A hilarious story with a bizarre cast of characters that appear and disappear like Extraterrestrials, and their ingenious methods of stealing in a large supermarket chain, and the personal conflicts and challenges for those who work to keep the shelves stocked.You'll laugh at one moment then empathize the next when you meet Mrs. Johnson, the little old lady who wants to be "soft and smooth"—and will stop at nothing to do so. Or Mrs. Euphima Clarke who is tall as she is wide with a ...