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Dizzy - Cathy Cassidy
EDITORIAL REVIEW: What would it be like to walk into your living room one day and meet a complete stranger who says she’s your mother? It happens to Dizzy on her twelfth birthday. ... -
Death by black hole_ and other - Neil deGrasse Tyson
EDITORIAL REVIEW: A vibrant collection of essays on the cosmos from the nation's best-known astrophysicist. “One of today’s best popularizers of science.”—Kirkus Reviews. Loyal rea... -
Cool, Calm & Contentious - Merrill Markoe
In this hilarious collection of personal essays, New York Times bestselling author Merrill Markoe reveals, among other things, the secret formula for comedy: Start out with a diffi... -
Chuck Klosterman on Rock - Chuck Klosterman
Essays Include: The Jack Factor Appetite for Replication That '70s Cruise In the Beginning, There Was Zoso Not a Whole Lotta Love Band on the Couch Unbuttoning the Hardest Button t... -
Boon Island - Kenneth Roberts
This classic tale of shipwreck and survival is reprinted in a new edition, with essays that provide a historical perspective and trace the sources from which Kenneth Roberts (18... -
Bermuda Shorts - James Patterson
In clothing, Bermuda Shorts are a kind of casual formal wear - and in this collection of essays, Bermuda Shorts is the perfect metaphor for James J. Patterson's fundamentally serio... -
Barrel Fever - David Sedaris
SUMMARY: In David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz and the National Enquirer, Sedaris's collection of stories ... -
Are You There, Vodka_ It's Me, - Chelsea Handler
SUMMARY: THE EAGERLY AWAITED COLLECTION OF PERSONAL ESSAYS FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MY HORIZONTAL LIFEWhen Chelsea Handler needs to get a few things off her chest, she appeal... -
Apathy for the Devil - Nick Kent
From Publishers WeeklyThe subtitle of Kent's first memoir, and first book since 2002's The Dark Stuff collected his writings on rock music, says it all: this is a staggering and vi... -
A Hedonist in the Cellar_ Adven - Jay McInerney
Amazon.com ReviewThose who find most wine writing hopelessly recondite will eagerly quaff novelist Jay McInerney's A Hedonist in the Cellar, a collection of his essays originally ....