Being Polite to Hitler

6 best books like Being Polite to Hitler (Robb Forman Dew): The Paying Guests, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Naked, Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons, The Painted Girls, Holidays on Ice

The Paying Guests

Author	Sarah Waters
ISBN	1594633118

It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned; the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa—a large, silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and even servants—life is about to be transformed, as impoverished...

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Author	David Sedaris
ISBN	0965904830

David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother’s wedding. He mops his sister’s floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn’t...

Naked

Author	David Sedaris
ISBN	0316777730

Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its proverbial ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview—a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable....

Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

Author	Lorna Landvik
ISBN	0345475690

The women of Freesia Court are convinced that there is nothing good coffee, delectable desserts, and a strong shoulder can’t fix. Laughter is the glue that holds them together—the foundation of a book group they call AHEB (Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons), an unofficial “club” that becomes...

The Painted Girls

Author	Cathy Marie Buchanan
ISBN	1594486247

1878 Paris. Following their father's sudden death, the van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without his wages, and with the small amount their laundress mother earns disappearing into the absinthe bottle, eviction from their lodgings seems imminent. With few options for work, Marie is...

Holidays on Ice

Author	David Sedaris
ISBN	0316191299

David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favorites as the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters (Us and Them); the difficulties...