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BOSSYPANTS BY TINA FEY

From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on ; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon, comedian Tina Fey reveals all, and proves that you're no one until someone calls you bossy.

Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Re- by Chelsea Handler demption, and Pee by Sarah Silverman When Handler needs to get a few things off Comedian Silverman's memoir that mixes her chest, she appeals to a higher powe: showbiz moments with the more serious sub- vodka. Welcome to Chelsea's world — a ject of her teenage bout with depression as place where absurdity reigns supreme & a well as stories of her childhood and adoles- quick wit is the best line of defense. cence.

My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, Official Book Club Selection by Kathy and Stand-Up by Russell Brand Griffin The English television personality reveals his Writing with her trademark wit, the feisty struggles to become a successful comedian, comic settles a few old scores, celebrates the discussing his troubled childhood, his addic- friends and mentors who helped her claw her tion to drugs, sex, and alcohol, his mental way to the top, and shares insider gossip illness, and his recovery aided by the support about celebrity behavior--the good, the bad, of his family and friends. and the very ugly.

I Feel Bad About My Neck… by Nora “Live From New York”: An Uncensored Ephron History of Saturday Night Live by Thom With her completely accessible voice & dry Shales and James Andrew Miller sense of humor, screenwriter Ephron discusses In their own words, dozens of personalities everything from how much she hates her purse recall the backstage stories about SNL, be- to how much time she spends attempting to hind-the-scenes gossip, feuds, foibles, drugs, stop the clock: the hair dye, the treadmill, the sex, struggles, and calamities, including per- lotions & creams that promise miracles... sonal details never before revealed.

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson Sarah Vowell provides an examination of Ha- Using his fantasy-life persona as a spring- waii's emblematic and exceptional history, board, Bryson re-creates the life of his family retracing the impact of New England mission- in the 1950s in all its transcendent normality-- aries who began arriving in the early 1800s to a life at once familiar to us all and as far away remake the island paradise into a version of and unreachable as another galaxy. New England.

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