Wednesday, January 9, 2019

iTunes Store: Top 25 Books in Humor 2019-01-09

Blythe Roberson - How to Date Men When You Hate Men artwork How to Date Men When You Hate Men
Blythe Roberson
Genre: Humour
Price: $10.99
Publish Date: January 08, 2019
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Seller: Macmillan

From New Yorker and Onion writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is a comedy philosophy book aimed at interrogating what it means to date men within the trappings of modern society. Blythe Roberson’s sharp observational humor is met by her open-hearted willingness to revel in the ugliest warts and shimmering highs of choosing to live our lives amongst other humans. She collects her crushes like ill cared-for pets, skewers her own suspect decisions, and assures readers that any date you can mess up, she can top tenfold. And really, was that date even a date in the first place? With sections like Real Interviews With Men About Whether Or Not It Was A Date; Good Flirts That Work; Bad Flirts That Do Not Work; and Definitive Proof That Tom Hanks Is The Villain Of You’ve Got Mail, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is a one stop shop for dating advice when you love men but don't like them. "With biting wit, Roberson explores the dynamics of heterosexual dating in the age of #MeToo" — The New York Times



Boucar Diouf - Apprendre sur le tas artwork Apprendre sur le tas
La biologie des bouses et autres résidus de digestion
Boucar Diouf
Genre: Humour
Price: $16.99
Publish Date: September 13, 2018
Publisher: Les Éditions La Presse
Seller: Les editions La Presse Ltee

« Le rapport que l’humanité entretient avec les excréments est bien singulier. Mélangez la honte, le dédain et la fascination et vous obtenez les états d’âme qui habitent un individu moyen devant ces reliquats de notre digestion. Il existe même une forme d’humour dit « pipi-caca » qui les glorifie. Ce sont des performances où chaque évocation scatologique trouve un public pour se dilater la rate et, incidemment, accélérer son transit, car le rire est aussi très bon pour la motilité intestinale. Je voulais prendre le taureau par les cornes et aborder le sujet plus en profondeur dans ce petit bouquin qui mélange humour et connaissances. Lorsqu’on s’intéresse aux excréments avec un oeil de biologiste, on découvre un univers fascinant. Ils sont utilisés dans le monde animal pour marquer un territoire, tromper les prédateurs, piéger des proies, se rafraîchir, signer des alliances, imposer sa suprématie, signaler sa disponibilité sexuelle, etc. Entre l’humour et l’information, ce livre vous dilatera la rate et vous stimulera l’esprit. C’est le bouquin idéal pour les jeunes et les moins jeunes qui veulent apprendre sur le bol et être collés sur un sujet qui est loin d’être banal. » — Boucar Diouf



Rick Mercer - Rick Mercer Final Report artwork Rick Mercer Final Report
Rick Mercer
Genre: Humour
Price: $15.99
Publish Date: November 06, 2018
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

Canada's pre-eminent satirical commentator brings down the curtain on his hugely successful show in this instant #1 national bestseller. Rick Mercer can always be relied on to provoke a strong reaction--but what he said one fall day in 2017 truly shocked the nation. In a rant posted on social media, the great Canadian satirist announced loud and clear that the current, 15th season of the Rick Mercer Report --the nation's best-watched and best-loved comedy show--would be the last. After more than 250 episodes, 250 rants and countless miles spent travelling the length and breadth of Canada to do everything from bungee jumping with Rick Hansen to whale watching with Measha Brueggergosman, it was time to move on. What he will do next is still unknown, and Canada eagerly awaits future developments. But meanwhile, we have this book to keep us going. This volume brings together never-before-published rants from the last five seasons of the show, plus a selection of the very best rants from earlier years. And throughout the book, in a series of brilliant new essays, Rick shares his hilarious, moving and at times hair-raising memories from the past fifteen years. Remember when he and Jann Arden travelled by helicopter to a terrifying bat cave in a mountain? No--because that trip went so horribly wrong it never made it to the screen. Pierre Berton--what was really in that joint he rolled? (It wasn't oregano.) What catastrophe took place in Norman Jewison's bathroom? And can the show still go on when your director in charge is delirious from an allergic reaction? (Yes.) All this and more is revealed by Rick in some of his sharpest and funniest writing yet.



Mindy Kaling - Why Not Me? artwork Why Not Me?
Mindy Kaling
Genre: Humour
Price: $13.99
Publish Date: September 15, 2015
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

From the author of the beloved New York Times bestselling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? and the creator and star of The Mindy Project comes a collection of essays that are as hilarious and insightful as they are deeply personal.   In Why Not Me?, Kaling shares her ongoing journey to find contentment and excitement in her adult life, whether it’s falling in love at work, seeking new friendships in lonely places, attempting to be the first person in history to lose weight without any behavior modification whatsoever, or most important, believing that you have a place in Hollywood when you’re constantly reminded that no one looks like you.   In “How to Look Spectacular: A Starlet’s Confessions,” Kaling gives her tongue-in-cheek secrets for surefire on-camera beauty, (“Your natural hair color may be appropriate for your skin tone, but this isn’t the land of appropriate– this is Hollywood, baby . Out here, a dark-skinned woman’s traditional hair color is honey blonde.”) “Player” tells the story of Kaling being seduced and dumped by a female friend in L.A. (“I had been replaced by a younger model. And now they had matching bangs.”) In “Unlikely Leading Lady,” she muses on America’s fixation with the weight of actresses, (“Most women we see onscreen are either so thin that they’re walking clavicles or so huge that their only scenes involve them breaking furniture.”) And in “Soup Snakes,” Kaling spills some secrets on her relationship with her ex-boyfriend and close friend, B.J. Novak (“I will freely admit: my relationship with B.J. Novak is weird as hell.”)   Mindy turns the anxieties, the glamour, and the celebrations of her second coming-of-age into a laugh-out-loud funny collection of essays that anyone who’s ever been at a turning point in their life or career can relate to. And those who’ve never been at a turning point can skip to the parts where she talks about meeting Bradley Cooper.



Barney Stinson - The Playbook artwork The Playbook
Barney Stinson
Genre: Humour
Price: $11.99
Publish Date: October 05, 2010
Publisher: Touchstone
Seller: Simon & Schuster Canada

Bestselling author of The Bro Code , Barney Stinson of How I Met Your Mother fame, presents The Playbook —like Neil Strauss’s The Game for Bros , The Playbook offers advice on the many creative and resourceful ways Barney’s developed to wine, dine, and score with “The Ladies.” Since the dawn of history man has searched for the answer to the most fundamental of questions: “Why am I here…not banging chicks?” The search is over. Now, with the help of The Playbook, you’ll be able to approach any beautiful woman, discover her innermost passion, and use that to trick her into sleeping with you. You’ll master more than seventy-five seduction techniques, developed by pickup guru and all-around good guy Barney Stinson, guaranteed to turn you into a bona fide ladies’ man. Featuring the famous plays including: · The Lorenzo Von Matterhorn · Mrs. Stinsfire · The Ted Mosby · The Time Traveler · The “SNASA” · The Scuba Diver · The “He’s Not Coming” …and other greatest hits from Barney Stinson’s secret Playbook of legendary moves. So suit up and get ready to be schooled in awesomeness.



David McRaney - You Are Not So Smart artwork You Are Not So Smart
Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, an d 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself
David McRaney
Genre: Humour
Price: $13.99
Publish Date: October 27, 2011
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

An entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise. You believe you are a rational, logical being who sees the world as it really is, but journalist David McRaney is here to tell you that you're as deluded as the rest of us. But that's OK- delusions keep us sane. You Are Not So Smart is a celebration of self-delusion. It's like a psychology class, with all the boring parts taken out, and with no homework. Based on the popular blog of the same name, You Are Not So Smart collects more than 46 of the lies we tell ourselves everyday, including: Dunbar's Number - Humans evolved to live in bands of roughly 150 individuals, the brain cannot handle more than that number. If you have more than 150 Facebook friends, they are surely not all real friends. Hindsight bias - When we learn something new, we reassure ourselves that we knew it all along. Confirmation bias - Our brains resist new ideas, instead paying attention only to findings that reinforce our preconceived notions. Brand loyalty - We reach for the same brand not because we trust its quality but because we want to reassure ourselves that we made a smart choice the last time we bought it. Packed with interesting sidebars and quick guides on cognition and common fallacies, You Are Not So Smart is a fascinating synthesis of cutting-edge psychology research to turn our minds inside out.



David Rakoff - Fraud artwork Fraud
David Rakoff
Genre: Humour
Price: $13.99
Publish Date: April 30, 2001
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

A frequent contributor to the New York Times magazine, Outside , Salon , and GQ , and a regular on Public Radio International's "This American Life,"David Rakoff's debut collection of essays is simultaneously laugh-out-loud funny and take-your-breath-away poignant. David Rakoff is a fish out of water. Whether he finds himself on assignment climbing Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire — donning a pair of Timberlands for his trek, only to realize with horror that "the shoes I wouldn't be caught dead in might actually turn out to be the shoes I am caught dead in." — sitting quietly impersonating Sigmund Freud in a department store window...for a month, or musing on the unique predicament of being undetectably Canadian in New York City ("...what's more spicy than being Canadian, I ask you?"), Rakoff has a gift for exposing life's humour and pathos. Fraud takes us places even we didn't know we wanted to go: expeditions as varied as a search for elves in Iceland, a foray into soap opera acting, or contemplating the gin-soaked olive at the bottom of a martini glass. With the sharpest of eyes, David Rakoff explores the odd and ordinary events of life, spotting what is unique, funny and absurd in the world around him. But for all its razor-sharp wit and snarky humor, Fraud is also, ultimately, an object lesson in not taking life, or oneself, too seriously. From the Hardcover edition.



Sloane Crosley - Look Alive Out There artwork Look Alive Out There
Sloane Crosley
Genre: Humour
Price: $3.99
Publish Date: April 03, 2018
Publisher: HarperAvenue
Seller: Harper Collins Canada Limited

"Sloane Crosley does the impossible. She stays consistently funny and delivers a book that is alive and jumping." ― Steve Martin One of Esquire's best books of 2018 so far From New York Times–bestselling author Sloane Crosley comes Look Alive Out There—a brand-new collection of essays filled with her trademark hilarity, wit, and charm. The characteristic heart and punch-packing observations are back, but with a newfound coat of maturity. A thin coat. More of a blazer, really. Fans of I Was Told There’d Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number know Sloane Crosley’s life as a series of relatable but wry misadventures. In Look Alive Out There, whether it’s scaling active volcanoes, crashing shivas, playing herself on Gossip Girl, befriending swingers, or staring down the barrel of the fertility gun, Crosley continues to rise to the occasion with unmatchable nerve and electric one-liners. And as her subjects become more serious, her essays deliver not just laughs but lasting emotional heft and insight. Crosley has taken up the gauntlets thrown by her predecessors—Dorothy Parker, Nora Ephron, David Sedaris—and crafted something rare, affecting, and true.



Kate Chastain - Lucky Charming artwork Lucky Charming
Kate Chastain
Genre: Humour
Price: $7.99
Publish Date: December 05, 2016
Publisher: Kate Chastain
Seller: Draft2Digital, LLC

Blissfully shallow and carefree, Kate Chastain was your typical twenty something college co-ed. Well, until reality gave her a wake-up call in the form of a diploma, that is. At a crossroads after graduation, a serendipitous coincidence convinced Kate to abandon life as she knew it and jump feet first into the world of working on mega yachts. At first, she stumbled her way through life as a stewardess, just trying to adjust to her new surroundings and clumsily ‘learning the ropes’ via trial and error.  Like s**t-tons of error.  But now, nearly ten years and a hit reality show later, Kate is finally ready to share the good, the bad, and the downright shocking details about her life at sea with the world’s most rich and famous. It was the summer of 2008 and we were anchored off of St.Tropez. I had only been a yachtie for two seasons when I turned to the Captain’s wife, and said, “You know, I could write a book about all of the insane things we see working on these boats…..the sex, the money, the celebrities….”  My older, more experienced coworker rolled her eyes and laughed. She was quick to dismiss my idea, “Kate, of course we could all write a book about what happens on yachts.  Everyone has said the same thing for years…..but, if you actually did that. If you wrote about what really goes on, you would never get hired on another yacht again. ”  She went back to polishing the crystal wine glass in her hand and I was confused for a second. “But Stacie, if so many people found out about tmy book that I couldn’t get a yacht job, I wouldn't really need one."



Rory O'Connor - The Rory's Stories Guide to Being Irish artwork The Rory's Stories Guide to Being Irish
Rory O'Connor
Genre: Humour
Price: $10.99
Publish Date: October 19, 2018
Publisher: Gill Books
Seller: Perseus Books, LLC

From weddings and wakes to hangovers, pre-marriage courses, working as an apprentice on a building site, Irish summers, the Irish abroad, smart-a**e barmen, more hangovers, aspiring TDs, the GAA lotto man, going on the hop from school and Irish mammies. Based on the hugely successful Rory’s Stories Facebook page, The Rory’s Stories Guide to Being Irish is a laugh-out-loud guide to the most important things about being Irish. ‘Hilarious! A wonderful compilation of all that makes up being Irish and being proud of it. Bravo!’ Brendan O’Carroll, Mrs. Brown’s Boys



Jeremy Clarkson - The World According to Clarkson artwork The World According to Clarkson
The World According to Clarkson Volume 1
Jeremy Clarkson
Genre: Humour
Price: $10.99
Publish Date: May 26, 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Seller: Penguin Books Limited

Jeremy Clarkson, shares his opinions on just about everything in The World According to Clarkson. Jeremy Clarkson has seen rather more of the world than most. He has, as they say, been around a bit. And as a result, he's got one or two things to tell us about how it all works - and being Jeremy Clarkson he's not about to voice them quietly, humbly and without great dollops of humour. In The World According to Clarkson , he reveals why it is that: • Too much science is bad for our health • '70s rock music is nothing to be ashamed of • Hunting foxes while drunk and wearing night-sights is neither big nor clever • We must work harder to get rid of cricket • He liked the Germans (well, sometimes) With a strong dose of common sense that is rarely, if ever, found inside the M25, Clarkson hilariously attacks the pompous, the ridiculous, the absurd and the downright idiotic, whilst also celebrating the eccentric, the clever and the sheer bloody brilliant. Less a manifesto for living and more a road map to modern life, The World According to Clarkson is the funniest book you'll read this year. Don't leave home without it. The World According to Clarkson is a hilarious collection of Jeremy's Sunday Times columns and the first in his The World According to Clarkson series which also includes And Another Thing . . . , For Crying Out Loud! and How Hard Can It Be? Praise for Jeremy Clarkson: 'Brilliant . . . laugh-out-loud' Daily Telegraph 'Outrageously funny . . . will have you in stitches' Time Out Number-one bestseller and presenter of the hugely popular Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson writes on cars, current affairs and anything else that annoys him in his sharp and funny collections. Born To Be Riled , Clarkson On Cars , Don't Stop Me Now , Driven To Distraction , Round the Bend , Motorworld , and I Know You Got Soul are also available as Penguin paperbacks; the Penguin App iClarkson: The Book of Cars can be downloaded on the App Store.



Bill Watterson - Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons artwork Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons
A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
Bill Watterson
Genre: Humour
Price: $9.99
Publish Date: January 07, 1992
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Seller: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Now available for the first time as an e-book! In Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons, Calvin suffers a host of hardships. He gets attacked by his new two-wheeler bike. Hobbes gets kidnapped by Susie, a slimy girl. His father cancels Calvin's personal TV network. Self-multiplying deranged mutant killer monster snow goons threaten to take over the yard. And if that wasn't enough, the ethicated duplicate of Calvin's good side wreaks havoc with his reputation by doing good deeds. Yet Calvin conquers all with his irrepressible spirit and a little help from alter-egos Spaceman Spiff, Stupendous Man, and Tracer Bullet, private eye. Readers are delighted by Calvin's resourceful wit, which applies to everything from philosophical speculations to attempts to outsmart his parents.



Nora Ephron - I Remember Nothing artwork I Remember Nothing
Nora Ephron
Genre: Humour
Price: $10.99
Publish Date: November 09, 2010
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

Nora Ephron returns with her first book since the astounding success of I Feel Bad About My Neck, taking a cool, hard, hilarious look at the past, the present, and the future, bemoaning the vicissitudes of modern life, and recalling with her signature clarity and wisdom everything she hasn’t (yet) forgotten. Ephron writes about falling hard for a way of life (“Journalism: A Love Story”) and about breaking up even harder with the men in her life (“The D Word”); lists “Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again” (“There is no explaining the stock market but people try”; “You can never know the truth of anyone’s marriage, including your own”; “Cary Grant was Jewish”; “Men cheat”); reveals the alarming evolution, a decade after she wrote and directed You’ve Got Mail, of her relationship with her in-box (“The Six Stages of E-Mail”); and asks the age-old question, which came first, the chicken soup or the cold? All the while, she gives candid, edgy voice to everything women who have reached a certain age have been thinking . . . but rarely acknowledging. Filled with insights and observations that instantly ring true—and could have come only from Nora Ephron— I Remember Nothing is pure joy.



William & Christophe Cazenove - Les Sisters artwork Les Sisters
C'est dans sa nature
William & Christophe Cazenove
Genre: Humour
Price: $8.99
Publish Date: November 02, 2016
Publisher: Bamboo
Seller: Izneo

Elles s’adorent autant qu’elles se chamaillent, pour notreplus grand plaisir ! Lorsque Wendy avait deux ans, elle a planté avec son papa un jeune arbuste dans leur jardin, un prunus éventail. Devenu grand, cet arbre est le témoin privilégié du quotidien dynamique et bondissant, parfois bruyant mais toujours rempli de tendresse, de nos Sisters ! Pour ce onzième tome, retrouvez Wendy et Marine comme à la maison !



Alexandra Tweten - Bye Felipe artwork Bye Felipe
Disses, Dick Pics, and Other Delights of Modern Dating
Alexandra Tweten
Genre: Humour
Price: $12.99
Publish Date: August 21, 2018
Publisher: Running Press
Seller: Hachette Digital, Inc.

From the creator of the viral Instagram account comes an empowering guide to navigating the hazards and horrors of online dating. After one too many hostile dating app encounters, Alexandra Tweten set up the Instagram account @ByeFelipe, a place for women to protest the horrors of online dating, and to share stories and screenshots of their own experiences. Three years later, the account has become a forum where women can fight back against the men who have made them uncomfortable, scared, and embarrassed--and to laugh at the appalling men they encounter. The name of Bye Felipe is a nod to the "Bye Felicia" meme, which Urban Dictionary defines as a cool dismissal of a noxious person. In that spirit, the book helps women navigate the perils that come with swiping right and provides practical steps to overcome the harassment rampant in the dating app ether. Blending humor, feminist theory, and solidarity, this "field guide" provides profiles of the worst types of guys (also known as "Felipes")--from the classic fat shamer to the mansplainer to the surprise sociopath--answers questions like "How do I react when a guy sends me a dic pic?," and gives women the tools they need to take control of their dating life. With stories, screenshots, and Riot Grrrl-esque graphic art throughout, Bye Felipe empowers women to stand up for themselves and uphold the confidence and self-worth Felipes try so desperately to steal.



Sarah Cooper - How to Be Successful without Hurting Men's Feelings artwork How to Be Successful without Hurting Men's Feelings
Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women
Sarah Cooper
Genre: Humour
Price: $11.99
Publish Date: October 30, 2018
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Seller: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Chapters include, among others, “9 Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women,” "How to Ace Your Job Interview Without Over-acing It," and “Choose Your Own Adventure: Do You Want to Be Likable or Successful?” It even includes several pages to doodle on while men finish what they're saying. Each chapter also features an exercise with a set of "inaction items" designed to challenge women to be less challenging. And, when all else fails, a set of wearable mustaches is included to allow women to seem more man-like. This will cancel out any need to change their leadership style. In fact, it may even lead to a quick promotion!



Bill Watterson - The Days Are Just Packed artwork The Days Are Just Packed
Bill Watterson
Genre: Humour
Price: $9.99
Publish Date: September 07, 1993
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Seller: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Now available for the first time as an e-book! Calvin, the self-proclaimed "Boy of Destiny," continues to save the universe with his alter egos, Spaceman Spiff and Stupendous Man, at least until Miss Wormwood or his mother bring him back to reality. Susie, Calvin's nemesis and love interest, remains Calvin's favorite target. And when he's not recovering from a ferocious tiger attack, Calvin creates hideous snowmen, plays a moral cat-and-mouse game with Santa, conducts his infamous Dad polls, and combats the monsters under his bed.



Erma Bombeck - The Erma Bombeck Collection artwork The Erma Bombeck Collection
If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
Erma Bombeck
Genre: Humour
Price: $17.99
Publish Date: May 21, 2013
Publisher: Open Road Media
Seller: OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC

Three hilarious books in one from the #1 New York Times –bestselling author on marriage, motherhood, and the absurdities of suburban life.   If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? is Erma Bombeck’s timelessly witty look at the hidden side of married life. Motherhood captures one of the toughest jobs on earth with humor and heart. The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank is Bombeck’s take on the unforgiving frontier of American suburbia.



Erma Bombeck - Aunt Erma's Cope Book artwork Aunt Erma's Cope Book
How To Get From Monday To Friday . . . In 12 Days
Erma Bombeck
Genre: Humour
Price: $10.99
Publish Date: January 15, 2013
Publisher: Open Road Media
Seller: OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC

The #1 New York Times bestseller about one woman’s doomed quest for self-improvement by a writer “blessed with the comic equivalent of perfect pitch” ( The Boston Globe ). As far as Erma can tell, her life is going well. Her children speak to her, her husband smiles at her, and she’s capable of looking in a mirror without screaming. But her friends know better. No matter how happy Erma thinks she is, she’s in need of help, and the only way to fulfillment is a ten-foot stack of self-improvement books. From Sensual Needlepoint to Fear of Buying , Erma will try them all. One book recommends bringing roleplay into the bedroom, so she dresses up in her son’s football pads. She tries to meditate but gets stuck in the lotus position. She spends more time in the kitchen but only succeeds in melting her son’s retainer. No matter how hard she tries to improve her family life, her schemes keep backfiring. As she soon learns, you may not always be able to fix what’s not broken—but with enough self-help books, you can break anything you want. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erma Bombeck including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.



Neil Gaiman - Don't Panic artwork Don't Panic
Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Neil Gaiman
Genre: Humour
Price: $13.99
Publish Date: October 30, 2018
Publisher: Open Road Media
Seller: OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC

The #1 New York Times –bestselling author’s “hilarious . . . idiosyncratic . . . delightful” and definitive companion to a global phenomenon ( Publishers Weekly ).   Douglas Adams’s “six-part trilogy,” The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy grew from a blip of a notion into an ever-expanding multimedia universe that amassed an unprecedented cult of followers and became an international sensation. As a young journalist, Neil Gaiman was given complete access to Adams’s life, times, gossip, unpublished outtakes, and files (and became privy to his writing process, insecurities, disillusionments, challenges, and triumphs). The resulting volume illuminates the unique, funny, dramatic, and improbable chronicle of an idea, an incredibly tall man, and a mind-boggling success story.   In Don’t Panic , Gaiman celebrates everything Hitchhiker : the original radio play, the books, comics, video and computer games, films, television series, record albums, stage musicals, one-man shows, the Great One himself, and towels. And as Douglas Adams himself attested: “It’s all absolutely devastatingly true—except the bits that are lies.”   Updated several times in the thirty years since its original publication, Don’t Panic is available for the first time in digital form. Part biography, part tell-all parody, part pop-culture history, part guide to a guide, Don’t Panic “deserves as much cult success as the Hitchhiker’s books themselves” ( Time Out ).  



Phoebe Robinson - Everything's Trash, But It's Okay artwork Everything's Trash, But It's Okay
Phoebe Robinson
Genre: Humour
Price: $16.99
Publish Date: October 16, 2018
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

Entertainment Weekly 's Fall 2018's 25 Must-Reads Essence 's Fall 2018 Guide to All Things Funny Bustle 's 18 New Nonfiction Books to Know in October "Robinson offers deft cultural criticism and hilarious personal anecdotes that will make readers laugh, cringe, and cry. Everything may indeed be trash but writing like this reminds us that we're gonna make it through all the terrible things with honesty, laughter, and faith." --Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author New York Times bestselling author and star of 2 Dope Queens Phoebe Robinson is back with a new, hilarious, and timely essay collection on gender, race, dating, and the dumpster fire that is our world. Written in her trademark unfiltered and witty style, Robinson's latest collection is a call to arms. Outfitted with on-point pop culture references, these essays tackle a wide range of topics: giving feminism a tough-love talk on intersectionality, telling society's beauty standards to kick rocks, and calling foul on our culture's obsession with work. Robinson also gets personal, exploring money problems she's hidden from her parents, how dating is mainly a warmed-over bowl of hot mess, and definitely most important, meeting Bono not once, but twice. She's struggled with being a woman with a political mind and a woman with an ever-changing jeans size. She knows about trash because she sees it every day--and because she's seen roughly one hundred thousand hours of reality TV and zero hours of Schindler's List . With the intimate voice of a new best friend, Everything's Trash, But It's Okay is a candid perspective for a generation that has had the rug pulled out from under it too many times to count.



Gaby Dunn - Maybe in Another Universe artwork Maybe in Another Universe
Gaby Dunn
Genre: Humour
Price: $4.99
Publish Date: January 24, 2018
Publisher: Thought Catalog Books
Seller: The Thought & Expression Co. LLC

What do shipwrecks, college slums, bisexuals, and Blink 182 have in common? Gaby Dunn. Gaby is a writer, journalist, and comedian in New York City whose work has appeared everywhere from ROOKIE to New York Times Magazine. “Maybe In Another Universe: The Best of Gaby Dunn, Vol. 1” is a collection of her most humorous, poignant, and touching essays to appear on Thought Catalog.



Anne T. Donahue - Nobody Cares artwork Nobody Cares
Essays
Anne T. Donahue
Genre: Humour
Price: $4.99
Publish Date: September 18, 2018
Publisher: ECW Press
Seller: ECW Press Ltd.

“The internet’s best friend.” — Flare From the author of the popular newsletter That’s What She Said ,  Nobody Cares is a frank, funny personal essay collection about work, failure, friendship, and the messy business of being alive in your twenties and thirties. As she shares her hard-won insights from screwing up, growing up, and trying to find her own path, Anne T. Donahue’s debut book offers all the honesty, laughs, and reassurance of a late-night phone call with your best friend. Whether she’s giving a signature pep talk, railing against summer, or describing her own mental health struggles, Anne reminds us that failure is normal, saying no to things is liberating, and that we’re all a bunch of beautiful disasters — and she wouldn’t have it any other way.



Tiffany Haddish - The Last Black Unicorn artwork The Last Black Unicorn
Tiffany Haddish
Genre: Humour
Price: $13.99
Publish Date: December 05, 2017
Publisher: Gallery Books
Seller: Simon & Schuster Canada

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From stand-up comedian, actress, and breakout star of Girls Trip , Tiffany Haddish, comes The Last Black Unicorn , a sidesplitting, hysterical, edgy, and unflinching collection of (extremely) personal essays, as fearless as the author herself. Growing up in one of the poorest neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles, Tiffany learned to survive by making people laugh. If she could do that, then her classmates would let her copy their homework, the other foster kids she lived with wouldn’t beat her up, and she might even get a boyfriend. Or at least she could make enough money—as the paid school mascot and in-demand Bar Mitzvah hype woman—to get her hair and nails done, so then she might get a boyfriend. None of that worked (and she’s still single), but it allowed Tiffany to imagine a place for herself where she could do something she loved for a living: comedy. Tiffany can’t avoid being funny—it’s just who she is, whether she’s plotting shocking, jaw-dropping revenge on an ex-boyfriend or learning how to handle her newfound fame despite still having a broke person’s mind-set. Finally poised to become a household name, she recounts with heart and humor how she came from nothing and nowhere to achieve her dreams by owning, sharing, and using her pain to heal others. By turns hilarious, filthy, and brutally honest, The Last Black Unicorn shows the world who Tiffany Haddish really is—humble, grateful, down-to-earth, and funny as hell. And now, she’s ready to inspire others through the power of laughter.



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Work Hard So You Can Hardly Work
Betches
Genre: Humour
Price: $17.99
Publish Date: October 23, 2018
Publisher: Gallery Books
Seller: Simon & Schuster Canada

The New York Times bestselling authors of I Had a Nice Time and Other Lies and Nice Is Just a Place in France and founders of Betches.com are back with a guide on how to thrive professionally, get ahead in the workforce, and basically become the Beyoncé of whatever you aspire to do. We get it. You run s**t. You can go from being blackout at drunk brunch to being ready to meet your new boyfriend’s parents in two seconds. But how do you go from being the boss of your personal life to taking charge of your career? That’s where the Betches come in. We are dedicated to making you the most successful, betchiest career woman you can be. After all, we only became Betches after we worked like, really hard. And now we’re confident enough to help you become the best. You’re welcome. You can thank us later. As New York Times bestselling author Jessica Knoll says, “I only ever want the cold, hard truth from a betch.” So whether you’re trying to become a CEO, navigate an office hookup, or just save enough money to go to happy hour twice a week, we’re here to help. It’s time to channel your inner Elle Woods, Miranda Priestly, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Per our last email, you better read this.