Bossypants

by Tina Fey

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.
*Firsthand copy. Read once.   
*Flaw on bottom part of spine as shown in pics. Bought it that way. But no damages inside or elsewhere.  

Product Description (via amazon.com)

Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV.

She has seen both these dreams come true.

At last, Tina Fey's story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty onSaturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon -- from the beginning of this paragraph to this final sentence.

Tina Fey reveals all, and proves what we've all suspected: you're no one until someone calls you bossy.

(Includes Special, Never-Before-Solicited Opinions on Breastfeeding, Princesses, Photoshop, the Electoral Process, and Italian Rum Cake!)

Book Quote:

“Some people say, 'Never let them see you cry'. I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.”  ― Tina Fey, Bossypants

RM 8

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When You Are Engulfed in Flames

by David Sedaris 

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.
*Firsthand copy. Read once.   
*Flaw on top left corner of book as shown in pics but no torn pages inside. 

Product Description (via amazon.com)

"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. 

Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside to a hilariously uncomfortable memory of buying drugs in a mobile home in rural North Carolina. In essay after essay, Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life-having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger on a plane or armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds-to the most deeply resonant human truths.  Culminating in a brilliant account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection is a new masterpiece of comic writing from "a writer worth treasuring" (Seattle Times). 

Book Quote:

“This left me alone to solve the coffee problem - a sort of catch-22, as in order to think straight I need caffeine, and in order to make that happen I need to think straight.” 

“High school taught me a valuable lesson about glasses: Don't wear them. Contacts have always seemed like too much work, so instead I just squint, figuring that if something is more than ten feet away, I'll just deal with it when I get there.”  ― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames 

RM 8

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Seinlanguage

by Jerry Seinfeld

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.
*Secondhand copy.   
*Some discoloration on pages.
*Sticker marks on front and back cover. 

Product Description (via an Amazon reviewer)

Seinlanguage could easily be subtitled The World According to Jerry. First published in 1993, when Seinfeld the sitcom was establishing itself as the funniest half-hour on television, this is a collection of Jerry's musings on everything from relationships to shushing in movie theatres. Observational comedy may have reached epidemic proportions recently, but Jerry Seinfeld was, and is, the master of his domain.

"I will never understand why they cook on TV. I can't smell it. Can't eat it. Can't taste it. The end of the show they hold it up to the camera, 'Well, here it is. You can't have any. Thanks for watching. Goodbye.'"

Eons hence, scholars may ponder the mysteries of this book in the same way that they now ponder the fragments of Heraclitus. Until then, Seinlanguage will continue to provide guaranteed chuckles in a neat and tidy package. Kind of like Jerry himself. --Simon Leake

RM 5

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The Innocent Man

by John Grisham 

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.
*Firsthand copy. Read once. 
*Age spots. 

Product Description (via goodreads.com)

In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the big leagues, Ron stumbled, his dream broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron's home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was savagely murdered. The investigation led nowhere. Until, on the flimsiest evidence, it led to Ron Williamson. The washed-up small-town hero was charged, tried, and sentenced to death--in a trial littered with lying witnesses and tainted evidence that would shatter a man's already broken life...and let a true killer go free.  

RM8  now RM5

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The Discomfort Zone

by Jonathan Franzen

   

*Condition of the book is as you see in the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.

*Firsthand copy. Read once. 

*Minor scrapes on the top back cover and on the lower corner (refer to the pictures).  

Product Description (via amazon.com)

Jonathan Franzen arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri. The Discomfort Zone is his intimate memoir of his growth from a "small and fundamentally ridiculous person," through an adolescence both excruciating and strangely happy, into an adult with embarrassing and unexpected passions. It's also a portrait of a middle-class family weathering the turbulence of the 1970s, and a vivid personal history of the decades in which America turned away from its midcentury idealism and became a more polarized society. 

The explosive dynamics of a Christian youth fellowship in the 1970s...the effects of Kafka's fiction on his protracted quest to lose his virginity...the web of connections between bird watching, a collapsing marriage and the problem of global warming; in his comic memoir of self-consciousness, the author of The Corrections tells the story of his life and of the strange country in which he lived in. 

RM 8  NOW RM 5

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Idiot Nation

by Michael Moore

*Condition of book is as seen in the picture. Click for clearer details. 

*Firsthand copy, read once.
*A number of yellow spots on a few pages.

Product Description (from book)

Multimillion-selling author, award-winning filmmaker, performer, activist and a scourge of political hypocrites everywhere, Michael Moore is nothing less than a global phenomenon. Stupid White Men - the book they tried to ban in the US - was published by Penguin in the UK in 2002 and has since sold well over 1.5 million copies. These hilarious and scorching extracts show exactly why Moore is the man that everyone has an opinion on. 

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