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A candid, hilarious, and heartbreaking memoir of resilience and redemption by comedic genius Molly Shannon. At age four, Molly Shannon's world was shattered when she lost her mother, baby sister, and cousin in a car accident with her father at the wheel. Held together by her tender and complicated relationship with her grieving father, Molly was raised in a permissive household where her gift for improvising and role-playing blossomed alongside the...
2) Yes please
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English
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The actress best known for her work on "Parks and Recreation" and "Saturday Night Live" reveals personal stories and offers her humorous take on such topics as love, friendship, parenthood, and her relationship with Tina Fey.
4) Bossypants
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English
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From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon, comedian Tina Fey reveals all, and proves that you're no one until someone calls you bossy.
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English
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"Comedian Moshe Kasher is lucky to be alive. He started using drugs when he was just 12. At that point, he had already been in psychoanalysis for 8 years. By the time he was 15, he had been in and out of several mental institutions, drifting from therapy to rehab to arrest to...you get the picture. But Kasher in the Rye is not an 'eye opener' to the horrors of addiction. It's a hilarious memoir about the absurdity of it all. When he was a young boy,...
11) Last words
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Language
English
Description
An autobiography that the late comedian nearly completed before he died chronicles his storied career, during which he pushed the boundaries of comedy and language and influenced several generations of performers.
13) Still talking
Author
Publisher
Turtle Bay Books/Random House
Pub. Date
©1991
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
293 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white photographs ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The popular entertainer and talk-show host offers a candid account of her life in the aftermath of a series of professional and personal tragedies--the suicide of her husband and firing by Fox--and recovery.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This essay collection from the “bitches gotta eat” blogger, writer on Hulu’s Shrill and HBO's And Just Like That, and “one of our country’s most fierce and foulmouthed authors” (Amber Tamblyn, Vulture) is sure to make you alternately cackle with glee and cry real tears.
"A sidesplitting polemicist for the most awful situations.”—The...
"A sidesplitting polemicist for the most awful situations.”—The...
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English
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Black History Month
Evening Book Group Past Selections
Falmouth Narrative Nonfiction Book Club
Falmouth YA - Juneteenth Nonfiction
Evening Book Group Past Selections
Falmouth Narrative Nonfiction Book Club
Falmouth YA - Juneteenth Nonfiction
Description
As host of the US hit show The Daily Show, Trevor Noah provides viewers around the globe with their nightly dose of biting satire, but here Noah turns his focus inward, giving readers a deeply personal, heartfelt and humorous look at the world that shaped him. Noah was born a crime, son of a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents' indiscretion, Trevor...
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Publisher
Audio Renaissance/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Abridged.
Physical Desc
3 sound discs (ca. 3.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
What does it mean to be JUST A GUY?
-A guy doesn't think before he speaks.
-Eating and sleeping always come first. Always.
-A guy may get married, but he doesn't have to like it.
-It's tough to admit, but all guys are exactly the same.
Blue Collar Comedy Star Bill Engvall is JUST A GUY. He's been one his whole life. He can't help it. He was born that way. And that makes him an expert on the subject.
For the record, here's the official definition...
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Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
©1990
Physical Desc
x, 302 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The unfinished memoir of the late comedian is interwoven with reminiscences by his daughter in an anecdotal biography of the golden age of television and of the celebrities of the era.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1997
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
231 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fiercely honest and moving story of how Joan Rivers, one of comedy's greatest stars, survived the worst that life could throw at her, how she hit bottom and then made it back to the top.
"There are many self-help books by Ph.D's, but I hold a different degree: an I.B.T.I.A. - I've Been Through It All. This degree comes not on parchment but on gauze, and it entitles me to tell you that there is a way to get through any misfortune." -From Bouncing...
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