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From everyone's favorite TikTok oracle, Devrie Donalson (aka @devriebrynn), comes a hearty dose of her sometimes jaded, always funny, and surprisingly soulful wisdom. For fans of Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson and Everything's Trash, But It's Ok by Phoebe Robinson. Through her TikTok videos, Devrie has chronicled only a small part of her journey as a single woman-leaving her unsatisfying life behind and flying to Scotland in pursuit of a version...

From comedian and writer (Parks and Recreation, Eastbound & Down) Harris Wittels comes a hysterical breakdown of boasts, brags, and self-adulation disguised as humble comments and complaints-based on his popular @humblebrag Twitter feed. Something immediately annoyed Harris Wittels about Twitter. All of a sudden it was acceptable to brag, so long as those brags were ever-so-thinly disguised as transparent humility, such as: "Just filed my taxes....

"Perfect for fans of Samantha Irby and Trick Mirror, a funny, whip-smart collection of personal essays exploring the intersection of queerness, relationships, pop culture, the internet, and identity, introducing one of the most undeniably original new voices today.Jill Gutowitz's life-for better and worse-has always been on a collision course with pop culture. There's the time the FBI showed up at her door because of something she tweeted about Game...

Birthing a microwave. Breaking up with a male meter maid. Confronting a fellow bird with a lazy eye. In Bedtime Stories To Read To Yourself If You Like Dreaming About Stupid Things, Joe Gerlitz explores the ridiculous, peculiar and seemingly unimaginable. What exactly did President Lincoln have living inside his top hat? How bad does it suck to be the tandem bicyclist who has to always ride in the back? Why don't more doctors force patients to wear...

"YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT hilariously, and candidly, explores the journey of the twenty-first century woman. As both a tomboy and a late bloomer, comedian Jessi Klein grew up feeling more like an outsider than a participant in the rites of modern femininity. In YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT, Klein offers-through an incisive collection of real-life stories-a relentlessly funny yet poignant take on a variety of topics she has experienced along her strange journey...

From night-driving over the Sierra Nevada mountains in a torrential rainstorm to water trough repairs that go alarmingly awry, from cowboys hooked on soap operas to livestock miscalculations that wind up on national television, Dave Stamey, singer-songwriter, humorist and curmudgeon-in-training, offers a collection of stories, essays and observations about surviving in today's rural American West.

I don't pretend to be any kind of historian. These stories are just that. In my family back in West Virginia, any story that dickered with the truth was considered to be a yarn. It was intended to be just passed on down to a group of rapt youngsters. These stories do however reflect the life of a young whippersnapper living in a small town in the middle of 20th-century America, and could be a sort of chronicle of same. To witness my yarns all...

Wally Nichols is an advice columnist for a regional upstate paper. It's not exactly advice, though- at least not in the 'Dear Abbey' sense. This is up on a soapbox/ bully pulpit material that is sometimes salty, sometimes very funny, sometimes clever, sometimes humble, sometimes appreciative, sometimes observant. This is a collection of the best 50 over 3-year span. They are all short enough to read in the John, the bedroom, or the beach.

Jesus Christ, time traveling trip to 21st Century New Jersey, walks into a bar, and confesses his "Daddy Issues" to a customer who asks him what he does. Jesus tries to explain, and soon loses his cool. So, too, do the Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi, who also time travel to 21st Century New York, only to discover that, no matter how big your Daddy was, or how serious your Daddy issues are, it is not easy to impress a New Yorker to recognize their seriousness,...

Pandemic Pandemonium is funny, entertaining, and a little bit educational. A humorous memoir about the COVID-19 Pandemic from a retired comedienne's viewpoint. A non-fiction account meant to lift your spirits and give you a laugh. Just when you thought there wasn't anything left to laugh about. A mixture of: Comedy, personal observations, related memories, and a few important facts. Other books by Karen Robertson: The Turnaround, a Christian suspense...