Avoiding Prison and Other Noble Vacation Goals: Adventures in Love and Danger
10 best books like Avoiding Prison and Other Noble Vacation Goals: Adventures in Love and Danger (Wendy Dale): 50 Boyfriends Worse Than Yours, Naples Declared, More Sand in My Bra: Funny Women Write from the Road, Again!, The Risks of Sunbathing Topless: And Other Funny Stories from the Road, Braving Home: Dispatches from the Underwater Town, the Lava-Side Inn, and Other Extreme Locales, Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers, Edmund and Rosemary Go to Hell: A Story We All Really Need Now More Than Ever, The Subway Chronicles: Scenes from Life in New York, Fired!: Tales of the Canned, Canceled, Downsized, and Dismissed, I'm Not Julia Roberts
| Author | Justin Racz |
| ISBN | 1596910569 |
Tired of watching your man play X-Box all day? Does he cruise match.com when you're not home? When he takes you back to his place, does his mother answer the door? 50 Boyfriends Worse Than Yours is a hilarious collection of these painfully familiar boyfriends, men we've all had the misfortune to meet.
There's...
| Author | Benjamin Taylor |
| ISBN | 0399159177 |
It is a city of seemingly irreconcilable opposites, simultaneously glorious and ghastly. And it is Ben Taylor’s remarkable ability to meld these contradictions into a whole that makes this the exciting and original book it is. He takes his stroll around the bay with the acute sensitivity of a lover,...
| Author | Julia Weiler |
| ISBN | 1932361502 |
Following on the heels of the best-selling Sand in My Bra, this sequel is a collection of hilarious women's travel stories. From Australia to Zambia and everywhere in between, these true stories are full of bust-a-gut laughter. Nothing helps a travel story more than something going wrong — the frustration,...
| Author | Kate Chynoweth |
| ISBN | 1580051413 |
If they could it do it all over again, they might not... so it's a good thing they can't, because then we wouldn t hear about Marrit Ingman s disastrous honeymoon in Maui; Sunset editor Allison Aves s eco-escapades in Costa Rica, where she meddled in the love unions of nesting turtles, catching eggs as they...
| Author | Jake Halpern |
| ISBN | 0618446621 |
“Part travelogue . . . part meditation on the meaning of home” (Wall Street Journal), Braving Home introduces readers to some of modern America’s most unusual, unforgettable pioneers. The cub reporter Jake Halpern — dubbed the Bad Homes Correspondent by his colleagues — sets out on a journey...
| Author | Katy Lederer |
| ISBN | 1400052769 |
“The intricacies of family and the complexities of the games they play mingle wonderfully here in a memoir quite unlike any other.”—George Plimpton, author of Truman Capote
Katy Lederer grew up on the bucolic campus of an exclusive East Coast boarding school where her father taught...
| Author | Bruce Eric Kaplan |
| ISBN | 1416545492 |
One Sunday afternoon, an ordinary couple named Edmund and Rosemary decide to go for a walk in their Brooklyn neighborhood. Within moments, they are plunged into a wonderful, nerve-racking, hilarious, unique adventure that begins with a cell phone and ends in a jungle halfway around the world.In Edmund...
| Author | Jacquelin Cangro |
| ISBN | 0452287790 |
Some seven million people board the New York City subway every day, each one with a story to tell. The Subway Chronicles collects twenty-seven of the tales, dramas and comedies that unfold during the daily commute. From the “mole people” living in the subway tunnels, to the transit employees working...
Fired!: Tales of the Canned, Canceled, Downsized, and Dismissed
| Author | Annabelle Gurwitch |
| ISBN | 0743289854 |
If you've ever been fired, you're in good company. That's what actress and writer Annabelle Gurwitch discovered when she was fired by her idol Woody Allen ("You look retarded"). She confided her tale of woe to her friend Felicity Huffman, who made Annabelle laugh with her own stories. Annabelle realized...
| Author | Laura Ruby |
| ISBN | 0446578746 |
Does every second wife look like Julia Roberts? Lu Klein certainly doesn't, and her life is anything but glamorous. When she married a man with children, Lu had no idea that she was also marrying his shrewish ex-wife, Beatrix. And Beatrix had no idea that making a new home with her second husband would...
Pixie Kitchy was once Miss New Jersey. Now she's married to a dentist, an ex-quarterback in turtled golf pants. Her ten-year-old daughter, Mitzie, wears Bo-peep pincurls and twirls baton. Her sixteen-year-old son, Ezra, the person who knows her best, is caught up in his fling with the podiatrist's...
| Author | Brad Newsham |
| ISBN | 0553814486 |
'Someday, when I am rich, I am going to invite someone from my travels to visit me in America.'
Brad Newsham was a twenty-two-year-old travelling through Afghanistan when he wrote this in his journal. Fourteen years later, he's a Yellow Taxi driver working in San Francisco. He's not rich, but...
In this Bracingly Honest, Page-Turning Memoir, what begins as a manic money chase-desperate to hang on to his home after his marriage breaks up. David Denby realizes he can buy out his wife's share only if he can first make a killing in the stock market-ultimately becomes an unforgettable encounter...
The Naked Tourist: In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall
| Author | Lawrence Osborne |
| ISBN | 0865477094 |
From the theme resorts of Dubai to the jungles of Papua New Guinea, a disturbing but hilarious tour of the exotic east--and of the tour itself Sick of producing the bromides of the professional travel writer, Lawrence Osborne decided to explore the psychological underpinnings of tourism itself. He...
Confessions of a Recovering Slut: And Other Love Stories
| Author | Hollis Gillespie |
| ISBN | 0060834382 |
The next "screamingly hilarious"(Miami Herald) installment in the wild ride that is the life of Hollis Gillespie.
Confessions of a Recovering Slut is the hilarious and often heartrending sequel to Bleachy–Haired Honky Bitch, which concludes with Hollis Gillespie, the daughter of a...
Spygirl: True Adventures from My Life as a Private Eye
| Author | Amy Gray |
| ISBN | 0812971523 |
While her friends are making mad cash and getting massages at their dot-com jobs, Amy Gray quits her low-status publishing position to realize her girlhood dream of being a private investigator. Joining a small Manhattan agency, she finds herself plunged into an intriguing world of “con men, lunatics,...
Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It
| Author | Geoff Dyer |
| ISBN | 1400031672 |
This isn’t a self-help book; it’s a book about how Geoff Dyer could do with a little help. In mordantly funny and thought-provoking prose, the author of Out of Sheer Rage describes a life most of us would love to live—and how that life frustrates and aggravates him.
As he travels from Amsterdam...
Once you start reading George Singleton's eagerly awaited first book of stories, a strange thing happens: You discover that the characters sound like people you know--people who are trying hard to make sense of modern absurdities.
With a style all his own, Singleton fashions a world that wins...
What Would MacGyver Do?: True Stories of Improvised Genius in Everyday Life
| Author | Brendan Vaughan |
| ISBN | 1594630240 |
In the spirit of the bestselling Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook comes a clever collection of true stories celebrating real-life "MacGyverisms"
You're driving on a deserted road when your car dies. Your cell phone isn't getting service. All you have on hand are a gum wrapper and a wire...
Mister Posterior and the Genius Child
A Barnes & Noble's Winter Discover New Writers pick!
Woodstock was over. The Beatles had just broken up. Sesame Street was new. And people in Cambridge, Massachusetts were getting in touch with their feelings. It was 1970, the year Vanessa Brick was picked as a Super Duper Speller...
Microthrills: True Stories from a Life of Small Highs
| Author | Wendy Spero |
| ISBN | 1594630194 |
Raised in Manhattan by her tiny sex-therapist mother and her two eccentric grandparents, Wendy Spero has always sought excitement in "microthrills," the small, strange highs that give her life meaning.
Her story begins in the one-bedroom, Upper East Side apartment she shared with her overly...
The Most Scenic Drives in America, Newly Revised and Updated: 120 Spectacular Road Trips
| Author | Reader's Digest Association |
| ISBN | 1606523589 |
The all-in-one trip planner and travel guide-now totally revised and updated-will steer you down the most scenic road every time.
The all-in-one trip planner and travel guide-now totally revised and updated-will steer you down the most scenic road every time. From Florida's Road to Flamingo...
Breakup: The End of a Love Story
| Author | Catherine Texier |
| ISBN | 0385495234 |
I will never forgive you.
I will never make love with you again.
I do not love you anymore.
Breakup is the erotically charged chronicle of the tempestuous final months of an eighteen-year romantic and literary partnership, self-destructing in the aftermath of the ultimate betrayal....
| Author | Sandra Tsing Loh |
| ISBN | 1573226114 |
I love the writing of Sandra Tsing Loh because she is incredibly witty and acerbic, and doesn't take herself or anything too seriously. And, she can write about the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles in language that makes it sound downright pleasant.
Loh is the Queen of the San Fernando Valley,...
World's Best Travel Experiences: 400 Extraordinary Places
| Author | National Geographic Society |
| ISBN | 1426209592 |
In the spirit of top-selling Journeys of a Lifetime series and National Geographic Traveler's acclaimed "Places of a Lifetime," this lavish, evocative travel gift book spans the globe to offer entrées to the world's most transformative places, from Thailand's Chiang Mai to Australia's Uluru monolith...
