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Other People's Rejection Letters: Relationship Enders, Career Killers, and 150 Other Letters You'll Be Glad You Didn't Receive

10 best books like Other People's Rejection Letters: Relationship Enders, Career Killers, and 150 Other Letters You'll Be Glad You Didn't Receive (Bill Shapiro): Working IX to V: Orgy Planners, Funeral Clowns, and Other Prized Professions of the Ancient World, Fuck This Book, American Knees, YELL-Oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American, The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance, When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, Candy, P.S. I Hate it Here: Kids' Letters from Camp, Epileptic 1 [L'Ascension du Haut Mal, 1-3], Get a Life

Working IX to V: Orgy Planners, Funeral Clowns, and Other Prized Professions of the Ancient World
AuthorVicki León
ISBN0802715567
Vicki Le?n, the popular author of the Uppity Women series (more than 335,000 in print), has turned her impressive writing and research skills to the entertaining and unusual array of the peculiar jobs, prized careers and passionate pursuits of ancient Greece and Rome.

From Architect to Vicarius...
Fuck This Book
AuthorBodhi Oser
ISBN0811850722
Juvenile, profane, and timeless, Fuck This Book collects images of real public signs that have been mischieveously altered by stickers bearing the most expressive of all four-letter words. Addictively hilarious, the results show a world persuasively transformed. Please Don't Fuck the Pigeons,...
American Knees
AuthorShawn Wong
Raymond Ding is 40, divorced, and, as a boyfriend, sort of lecture-y and condescending. He works as the Assistant Director of Minority Affairs at Jack London College in Oakland and, in his relationship with Aurora Crane, a younger Eurasian woman, he can't seem to forget that he's the guy she's sleeping...
YELL-Oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American
AuthorVickie Nam
ISBN0060959444
In this groundbreaking collection of personal writings, young Asian American girls come together for the first time and engage in a dynamic converstions about the unique challenges they face in their lives. Promoted by a variety of pressing questions from editor Vickie Nam and culled from hundreds...
The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance
AuthorLarry Gonick
ISBN0393324036
An irreverent survey in comics spanning world history from the birth of Islam to the Byzantine Empire to the Italian Renaissance.

Larry Gonick's celebrated series The Cartoon History of the Universe is a unique fusion of world history and the comics medium, a work of serious scholarship and...
When the Rainbow Goddess Wept
AuthorCecilia Manguerra Brainard
ISBN0472086375
Set against the backdrop of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1941, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's brilliant novel weaves myth and legend together with the suffering and tragedies of the Filipino people. When nine-year-old Yvonne flees with her family into the jungle to join the resistance...
Candy
AuthorMian Mian
ISBN0316563560
I quit trusting anything that anyone told me.
My life was skidding into darkness at high speed, and I couldn't stop it.
I didn't think that there was a man anywhere in the world who could love me.
I was 22 years old and dead on the vine.
I want to see a thousand lonely strangers dancing happily...
P.S. I Hate it Here: Kids' Letters from Camp
AuthorDiane Falanga
ISBN0810982951
For every parent who’s ever received a letter from a homesick child or anybody who’s ever written their parents with crazy requests from their bunk, P.S. I Hate It Here: Kids’ Letters From Camp will delight with hilarious and heartwarming real-life letters.

In the bestselling tradition...
Epileptic 1 [L'Ascension du Haut Mal, 1-3]
AuthorDavid B.
ISBN2844140858
David B.'s tribulations with his brother's epilepsy, the way in which the illness determined the author's artistic vocation, with, as a backdrop, a sharply delienated parade of the chimera of the 70s, from the promise of communal living to the infatuation with macrobiotics, all combine to make of...
Get a Life
AuthorPhilippe Dupuy
ISBN1896597793
A celebration of the sophistication, wit and charm found only in the singular collaboration of French cartooning team

For twenty years, French cartoonists Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian have collaborated on every aspect—sharing both the writing and drawing—of their highly...
Hapa Girl: A Memoir
AuthorMay-lee Chai
In the mid-1960s, Winberg Chai, a young academic and the son of Chinese immigrants, married an Irish-American artist. In "Hapa Girl" (hapa is Hawaiian for mixed) their daughter tells the story of this loving family as they moved from Southern California to New York to a South Dakota farm by the 1980s....
Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen
AuthorMarilyn Chin
ISBN0393331458
An uproarious debut that lays bare the complicated generational relationships of Chinese American women.

Raucous twin sisters Moonie and Mei Ling Wong are known as the “double happiness” Chinese food delivery girls. Each day they load up a “crappy donkey-van” and deliver Americanized...
Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale
AuthorBelle Yang
Celebrated artist and writer Belle Yang makes a stunning debut as a graphic memoirist with this story of crisis and survival.

When Belle Yang was forced to take refuge in her parents’ home after an abusive boyfriend began stalking her, her father entertained her with stories of old China....
Awkward Family Pet Photos
AuthorMike Bender
ISBN0307888126
The authors of the New York Times bestseller Awkward Family Photos are back with a hilarious tribute to the unbreakable and sometimes uncomfortable bond between people and their pets.

There are few things more rewarding than having a pet. They love us unconditionally, shower us with attention,...
Requiem for a Paper Bag: Celebrities and Civilians Tell Stories of the Best Lost, Tossed, and Found Items from Around the World
AuthorDavy Rothbart
ISBN1416560548
This is the most disgustingly white upper-middle-class thing I have ever read.

The charming detritus that appears in each issue of Found is replaced here by unnecessarily long essays about encountering other people's cast-off stuff, nearly all of them capped off by some cloying moral about...
Signspotting: Absurd and Amusing Signs from Around the World
AuthorDoug Lansky
ISBN1741044898
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*

Anyone who has spent time on the road knows that you often have to depend on signs...to navigate the town, locate your hotel, and even obey the law. A scary thought if you've ever come across any of the publicly posted absurdities that...
Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe
AuthorDoreen Baingana
ISBN0767925106
In her fiction debut, Doreen Baingana follows a Ugandan girl as she navigates the uncertain terrain of adolescence. Set mostly in pastoral Entebbe with stops in the cities Kampala and Los Angeles, Tropical Fish depicts the reality of life for Christine Mugisha and her family after Idi Amin's dictatorship.

Three...
We Love You, Snoopy
AuthorCharles M. Schulz
ISBN0340127864
Selected from Snoopy Come Home (where are all these original collections?)

Snoopy has a lot of trouble with his neighbors in this book, including some birds holding meetings. Snoopy considers warning others about their diabolical plans--then concludes that eventually we'll find out anyway.

This...
The Book of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks: A Celebration of Creative Punctuation
AuthorBethany Keeley
ISBN0811876454
From the sarcastic to the suggestive, here are quotation marks as we love them best, doing horrible damage to the English language. Who wouldn't have second thoughts about ordering the "hamburger" on the diner's menu? Would it be best to skip the "blowout" sale at the department store? What hidden price...
Dear Old Love: Anonymous Notes to Former Crushes, Sweethearts, Husbands, Wives, Ones That Got Away
AuthorAndy Selsberg
ISBN0761156054
Call it wisdom of the heart. Or the broken heart.

A knowing, funny gift for everyone who's ever been in love and then out of love: the newly single, the lonely-hearted, and even the happily re-paired. Dear Old Love is a collection of anonymous love notes to the ones who got away—or were left behind....
I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar: A Collection of Egregious Errors, Disconcerting Bloopers, and Other Linguistic Slip-Ups
AuthorSharon Eliza Nichols
ISBN0312533012
Correct grammar and proper spelling can be a challenge, and their absence can be a source of gleeful humor to everyone but the victim of a bad grammar attack. How do you react to sandwich boards, road signs, laminated instructions, and other written missives that are just not exactly what their creator...
Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training
AuthorTom Jokinen
ISBN0306818914
At forty-four, Tom Jokinen decided to quit his job in order to become an apprentice undertaker, setting out to ask the questions: What is the right thing to do when someone dies? With the marketplace offering new options (go green, go anti-corporate, go Disney, be packed into an artificial reef and dropped...
Bad Bridesmaid: Bachelorette Brawls and Taffeta Tantrums--Tales from the Front Lines
AuthorSiri Agrell
ISBN0805082697
A laugh-out-loud look at the most underrated supporting role in today's maxed-out wedding world, featuring "bad bridesmaids" who've had enough taffeta to last a lifetime
I just can't have any negative energy around my wedding." This is what Siri Agrell's best friend told her just before...
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