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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional humorous or satirical books
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I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother
by Allison Pearson
Hardcover: Oct 2002
Paperback: 1 Aug 2003
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| In a novel that is at once uproariously funny and achingly sad, Allison Pearson captures the guilty secret lives of working women--the self-recrimination, the comic deceptions, the giddy exhaustion, the despair--as no other writer has. |
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Running with Scissors: A Memoir
by Augusten Burroughs
Hardcover: Jul 2002
Paperback: 1 Jun 2003
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| The true story of an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, the Christmas tree stayed up all year round, Valium was consumed like candy, and if things got dull an electroshock-therapy machine could provide entertainment. |
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The Russian Debutante's Handbook: A Novel
by Gary Shteyngart
Hardcover: Jun 2002
Paperback: 1 May 2003
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| The hilarious adventures of Vladimir, a young Russian-American immigrant, takes a serious look at what it means to be an outsider in America, and what it means to be an American. |
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Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas: Further, Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
by Louise Rennison
Hardcover: May 2002
Paperback: 1 Mar 2003
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| In this third installment of Georgia's hilarious confessions, Georgia's 'red bottomosity' is out of control! Whatever will happen next? |
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The Nanny Diaries: A Novel
by Nicola Kraus, Emma McLaughlin
Hardcover: Feb 2002
Paperback: 1 Mar 2003
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| Deftly skewers the manner in which America's over-privileged raise les petites over-privileged--as if grooming them for a Best in Show competition. Written by two former nannies, this alternately comic and poignant satire punctures the glamour of Manhattan's upper class. |
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The Good, The Bad and The Difference: How to Tell Right from Wrong in Everyday Life
by Randy Cohen
Hardcover: Mar 2002
Paperback: 1 Mar 2003
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| The man behind the New York Times Magazine's immensely popular column "The Ethicist"--syndicated in newspapers across the USA and Canada as "Everyday Ethics"-- presents a provocative, thematic collection of advice on how to be good in the real world. |
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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
by Christopher Moore
Hardcover: Feb 2002
Paperback: 1 Feb 2003
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| The early life of the Son of God, including the missing years as told by his childhood friend Biff. "An instant classic...terrific, funny and poignant". |
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The Eyre Affair
by Jasper Fforde
Hardcover: Jan 2002
Paperback: 1 Feb 2003
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| Suspenseful and outlandish, absorbing and fun - a novel unlike any other and an introduction to the imagination of a most distinctive writer and his singular fictional universe. |
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