The Three-Martini Playdate: A Practical Guide to Happy Parenting
10 best books like The Three-Martini Playdate: A Practical Guide to Happy Parenting (Christie Mellor): The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World, Too Much Happiness, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son, We Thought You Would Be Prettier: True Tales of the Dorkiest Girl Alive, I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies), The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death: Reflections on Revenge, Germophobia, and Laser Hair Removal, The Night of the Gun, Zeitoun, Barefoot Contessa Family Style: Easy Ideas and Recipes That Make Everyone Feel Like Family
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
| Author | A.J. Jacobs |
| ISBN | 0743250621 |
Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z.
33,000 Pages
44 Million Words
10 Billion Years Of History
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| Author | Alice Munro |
| ISBN | 0307269760 |
In these ten stories, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories that shed light on the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives.
Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired...
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
| Author | A.J. Jacobs |
| ISBN | 0743291476 |
From the bestselling author of "The Know-It-All" comes a fascinating and timely exploration of religion and the Bible.Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs decides to dive in headfirst and attempt to obey the Bible as literally...
The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son
| Author | David Gilmour |
| ISBN | 0887622852 |
At the start of this brilliantly unconventional family memoir, David Gilmour is an unemployed movie critic trying to convince his fifteen-year-old son Jesse to do his homework. When he realizes Jesse is beginning to view learning as a loathsome chore, he offers his son an unconventional deal: Jesse...
We Thought You Would Be Prettier: True Tales of the Dorkiest Girl Alive
| Author | Laurie Notaro |
| ISBN | 0812969014 |
She thought she’d have more time. Laurie Notaro figured she had at least a few good years left. But no–it’s happened. She has officially lost her marbles. From the kid at the pet-food store checkout line whose coif is so bizarre it makes her seethe “I’m going to kick his hair’s ass!” to the...
I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies)
| Author | Laurie Notaro |
| ISBN | 0812969006 |
Here are more scathingly funny tales from the wild side! Laurie Notaro survived the debauched ride of her twenties and the bumpy road to matrimony. Now she’s ready to take on the thirtysomething years . . . and almost middle age has never been more hilarious.
Laurie is married, mortgaged,...
The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death: Reflections on Revenge, Germophobia, and Laser Hair Removal
| Author | Laurie Notaro |
| ISBN | 1400065038 |
Laurie Notaro has an uncanny ability to attract insanity–and leave readers doubled over with laughter. In The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death, she experiences the popular phenomenon of laser hair removal (because at least one of her chins should be stubble-free); bemoans the scourge...
| Author | David Carr |
| ISBN | 1416541527 |
Do we remember only the stories we can live with?The ones that make us look good in the rearview mirror? In "The Night of the Gun," David Carr redefines memoir with the revelatory story of his years as an addict and chronicles his journey from crack-house regular to regular columnist for "The New York Times."...
| Author | Dave Eggers |
| ISBN | 1934781630 |
The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.
Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy evacuates...
Barefoot Contessa Family Style: Easy Ideas and Recipes That Make Everyone Feel Like Family
Ina Garten, who shared her gift for casual entertaining in the bestselling Barefoot Contessa Cookbook and Barefoot Contessa Parties!, is back with her most enticing recipes yet—a collection of her favorite dishes for everyday cooking. In Barefoot Contessa Family Style, Ina explains that sharing...
| Author | Tom Rachman |
| ISBN | 0385343663 |
Set against the gorgeous backdrop of Rome, Tom Rachman’s wry, vibrant debut follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters, editors, and executives of an international English language newspaper as they struggle to keep it—and themselves—afloat.
Fifty years and many changes...
| Author | Alice McDermott |
| ISBN | 0374281092 |
An ordinary life - its sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts of clarity and moments of confusion - lived by an ordinary woman: This is a novel that speaks of life as it is daily lived, a crowning achievement by one of the finest American writers at work today.
An ordinary life - its sharp pains...
| Author | Patricia Wood |
| ISBN | 0399154493 |
Perry's IQ is only 76, but he's not stupid. His grandmother taught him everything he needs to know to survive: She taught him to write things down so he won't forget them. She taught him to play the lottery every week. And, most important, she taught him whom to trust. When Gram dies, Perry is left orphaned...
| Author | Allison Winn Scotch |
| ISBN | 0307408574 |
Jillian Westfield has the perfect suburban life straight out of the upscale women's magazines that she obsessively reads. She’s got the modern-print rugs of Metropolitan Home, the elegant meals from Gourmet, the clutter-free closets out of Real Simple, and the elaborate Easter egg hunts seen...
A Book of American Martyrs
| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
| ISBN | 0062643061 |
A powerfully resonant and provocative novel from American master and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates. In this striking, enormously affecting novel, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of two very different and yet intimately linked American families.
Luther Dunphy is...
From the acclaimed author of Girlchild, this gritty, irreverent novel sees a young misfit grow into hope
Rosary, California, is not an easy place to grow up, particularly without a mom. So cut off from the rest of the world that even the Internet is blocked, Rosary is a town named by Catholics...
American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood
| Author | Marie Arana |
| ISBN | 0385319630 |
In her father’s Peruvian family, Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet in her mother’s American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a horse, and snap a chicken’s neck for dinner. Arana shuttled easily between these deeply separate cultures for years. But only when she immigrated...
| Author | Alison McGhee |
| ISBN | 0763626171 |
"Children will come away thinking they have heard something quite profound about love, fear, and hope for the future."
- Booklist (starred review)
Eddie Beckey makes lists for just about everything and everyone in her life. And for matters of real importance, she wears (and snaps) an...
Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace
| Author | Ayelet Waldman |
| ISBN | 0385527934 |
In the tradition of recent hits like The Bitch in the House and Perfect Madness comes a hilarious and controversial book that every woman will have an opinion about, written by America’s most outrageous writer.
In our mothers’ day there were good mothers, neglectful mothers, and occasionally...
The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline—think Buddenbrooks set in the Florida Everglades—and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator-wrestling theme park, is swiftly being encroached upon by a sophisticated competitor known as the "World of Darkness."
Ava, a resourceful...
The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World with Kids 2017
| Author | Bob Sehlinger |
| ISBN | 1628090561 |
The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World with Kids is JAM-PACKED with useful tips, great advice, excellent discussion, and practical travel knowledge gleaned from years of Walt Disney World travel experience. In this guidebook the authors Bob Sehlinger and Liliane Opsomer specifically address...
The All New Ultimate Southern Living Cookbook: Over 1,250 of Our Best Recipes
| Author | Southern Living Inc. |
A former coworker recommended Southern Living to me as a source of reliable, popular recipes, and this book seemed like a good place to start investigating. The recipes are certainly reliable classics, and true to the southern aesthetic, free of pretentiousness or fuss. I appreciated the nutritional...
Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip-Confessions of a Cynical Waiter
According to The Waiter, eighty percent of customers are nice people just looking for something to eat. The remaining twenty percent, however, are socially maladjusted psychopaths. WAITER RANT offers the server's unique point of view, replete with tales of customer stupidity, arrogant misbehavior,...
The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life
Introducing Laurie Notaro, the leader of the Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club. Every day she fearlessly rises from bed to defeat the evil machinations of dolts, dimwits, and creepy boyfriends—and that’s before she even puts on a bra.
For the past ten years, Notaro has been entertaining...
| Author | Nina de Gramont |
| ISBN | 1565125657 |
When Catherine Morrow is admitted to the Esther Percy School for Girls, it's on the condition that she reform her ways. But that's before the beautiful and charismatic Skye Butterfield, daughter of the famous Senator Butterfield, chooses Catherine for her best friend. Skye is in love with danger and...
An Idiot Girl's Christmas: True Tales from the Top of the Naughty List
| Author | Laurie Notaro |
| ISBN | 1400064368 |
For me, the short essays in An Idiot Girl’s Christmas were hit-or-miss. Many of the stories were previously published, giving the book an uneven, cobbled tone. There wasn’t a central theme (aside from the generic ‘Christmas’) to tie all the essays together into a cohesive whole. And one essay...
| Author | Alison McGhee |
| ISBN | 1400051541 |
“Alison McGhee’s is a novel of simple explanations, simple movement, and Faulkner’s favorite, most ferocious question: Can we ever really know one another?”—Los Angeles Times
“McGhee has written a lovely and successful third novel. She brilliantly captures the close but...
| Author | Anisha Lakhani |
| ISBN | 1401322875 |
"You're making how much an hour"
"Two hundred dollars."
"Do you ride in on a pony"
All she wants to do is teach. For Anna Taggert, an earnest Ivy League graduate, pursuing her passion as a teacher means engaging young hearts and minds. She longs to be in a place where she can be her best self, and...
| Author | Alison McGhee |
| ISBN | 0312275293 |
Eleven-year-old Clara is struggling to find the truth about her missing father and grandfather and her dead twin sister, but her mother refuses to talk. When Clara begins interviewing Georg Kominsky--her elderly neighbor--she finds that he is equally reticent about his own concealed history. Precocious...
| Author | Lily Tuck |
| ISBN | 0802127118 |
Lily Tuck's critically-lauded, bestselling I Married You for Happiness was hailed by the Boston Globe as -an artfully crafted still life of one couple's marriage.- In her singular new novel Sisters, Tuck gives a very different portrait of marital life, exposing the intricacies and scandals of a new...
