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Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The History of Sketch Comedy will appeal to all kinds of comedy fans as well as fans of Keegan-Michael Key. With epic personal tangents and hilarious asides, their story takes you on an illuminating look at all facets of comedy from the stock characters of commedia del arte in the 16th century, to the rise of vaudeville and burlesque, the golden age of television comedy, the influence of the most well-known comedy schools, and ascension of comedy...
Author
Publisher
Comedy Central Home Video
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
Kevin James (star of 'King of Queens') goes back to his roots in this first-ever stand-up DVD "Kevin James: Sweat the Small Stuff." Taped exclusively for Comedy Central®, "Sweat the Small Stuff" features Kevin's unique and outrageous revelations concerning the things he loves and a few small things he doesn't about his hometown of New York
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Comedy is king. From multimillion-dollar TV specials to sold-out stand-up shows and TikTok stardom, comedy has never been more popular, democratized, or influential. Comedians have become organizing forces across culture--as trusted as politicians and as fawned-over as celebrities--yet comedy as an art form has gone under-considered throughout its history, even as it has ascended as a cultural force. In Comedy Book, Jesse David Fox--the country's...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
*Short-listed for Best Contemporary Romance at the Romantic Novelists' Association Romance of the Year Awards 2019* Welcome to the little cafe in Copenhagen where the smell of cinnamon fills the air, the hot chocolate is as smooth as silk and romance is just around the corner... 'An irresistible combination of Danish happiness and hygge in one un-put-down-able story'Sunday Times bestseller Katie Fforde Publicist Kate Sinclair's life in London is everything...
Author
Series
Witches of West Harbor volume 1
Language
English
Description
"In her teenage years, lovelorn Jessica Gold cast a spell that went disastrously wrong, and brought her all the wrong kind of attention--as well as a lifetime ban from the World Council of Witches. So no one is more surprised than Jess when, fifteen years later, tall, handsome WCW member Derrick Winters shows up in her quaint little village of West Harbor and claims that Jess is the Chosen One. Not chosen by West Harbor's snobby elite to style them...
Publisher
Abrams Image
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In Comedy Bang! Bang!: The Podcast: The Book, Scott Aukerman transports readers inside the zany world of the Comedy Bang! Bang! podcast. The book features brand-new anecdotes and opinions from the show's wild cast of recurring characters, and matches the show in tone and wackiness, with essays, lists, plays, nods to running bits, and four-color illustrations throughout, helping to bring the zany, satirical, undefinable world of Comedy Bang! Bang!...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
When people-pleasing Chloe learns that her birth mother has unexpectedly had another baby, she doesn't hesitate to become a next-of-kin guardian. But when she fails to pass Child Protective Services' financial evaluation, she is faced with a choice: see her baby sister placed in foster care or participate in CPS' new initiative, TeamUp.
Enter Warren, a surly mechanic's apprentice attempting to get custody of his deaf fifteen-year-old brother after...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Bob Comet is a retired librarian, isolated but not lonely, living out his quiet days in a mint-colored house in Oregon, surrounded by his books and small comforts. One morning, out on his daily walk, he performs an act of kindness that brings him into contact with a nearby senior center, where he soon begins volunteering. Here, as a community of peers and friends gathers around Bob, and following a happenstance brush with a painful complication from...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Esme Cahill thinks she has failed spectacularly: fired from her New York City publishing job, divorced from her husband, and possessing little more than a broken-down car and a pile of unfinished manuscripts, she drives home to Asheville at the request of her late grandmother, Adele, who had begged her, just before she died, to return to the place she grew up. There she discovers the once-charming lakeside retreat run by her family is sliding toward...
Author
Publisher
Zibby Books
Language
English
Description
Kate is a bit of a mess. Two years after losing her young husband Cameron, she's grieving, solo parenting, working like mad at her university fundraising job, always dropping the ball--and yet clinging to her sense of humor. Lurching from one comedic crisis to the next, she also navigates an overbearing mom and a Tinder-obsessed best friend who's determined to matchmake Kate with her hot new neighbor. When an in-flight problem leaves Kate and her...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Esther is nearing thirty, with a great job and a flat she shares with her two best friends, Bibi and Louise. But her life is missing that special someone. Tired of being single and sick of bad date after bad date, she thinks she's found the answer to her romance problem in an old women's magazine. According to the magazine's dating column, there are seven archetypes a woman will date before finding Mr. Right. It all seems silly at first, until Esther...
17) Said no one ever
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A peaceful vacation turns into a roller coaster ride of family drama. Two handsome men with competing agendas cause mix-ups and betrayal. Sometimes you have to put your foot down to get what you really want in life. Ellie Reed's self-esteem can't take any more of her family's constant criticism and attempts to control her life. But when she rents an Airbnb on a gorgeous farm in Montana, she encounters a whole new set of family drama and finds herself...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Two friends (who are totally not in love) work together to renovate a school bus into a home.
Lane is in the middle of an identity crisis. Her friends are all partnered up, her career is leading nowhere, and simply put, she's not happy. So after a night out celebrating (drinking) on her birthday, she makes one hell of an impulsive purchase. A giant yellow forty-eight passenger school bus that she intends to make a home.
With little-to-no renovation...
19) Mixed Signals
Author
Series
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Layla Dupree has given up on love. She's waded through all of the fish in the sea, each one more disappointing than the last. Apparently owning the bakery at Inglewild's most romantic destination does not help one's love life—despite her best efforts. All she wants is a partner who gives her butterflies, not someone who ghosts her at dinner and leaves her with the check. Good thing Caleb Alvarez has the perfect solution. After saving Layla from...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The Sellout meets Interior Chinatown in this satirical debut about a German Indian student whose world is upended when she discovers that her beloved professor who passed for Indian is, in fact, white.
Nivedita (a.k.a. Identitti), a well-known blogger and doctoral student, is in awe of her supervisor—postcolonial and race studies professor Saraswati. But her life and sense of self are turned upside down when it emerges that Saraswati
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