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Brunswick, Georgia’s Billy Joe Smith serves up tales from his life with Southern-style humor in this collection of short stories.

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These semi-autobiographical vignettes humorously prove that not only can you go home again; you’ve never really left. Mom’s on the Loose chronicles everyday life events that continue to influence the person we keep reinventing ourselves into.

This collection of delightful essays share events from Shelley’s youth in Arkansas, such as the day the Thanksgiving football game ends in a knockout; her stint as a transplanted southerner; her days as a homeroom mother, including the one when she is stopped by a police officer for speeding the party cupcakes to school; as well as the unfogettable day that the snake shows up at the family room window.

After many years, she is finally free to pursue her own wishes and desires, yet her life experiences are never far from the core of whom she was, and whom she has become.

Only now does she have the time to appreciate the mundane yet sometime quirky events that take place in our everyday lives which leads to answering the question, “Just what exactly does one do when the kids finally grow up, move out and the dog is lying under the grand piano, depressed?”

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Life in the fifties was so rosy and perfect. Mom wore high heels in the sparkling kitchen, Dad was the hardworking breadwinner, romance was always in the air, and birthdays came and went with frosted cupcakes and a roomful of friends. In SUBURBAN CONFESSIONS, that vision of perfection is given a modern and hilarious twist with quips, quotes, and advice for moms, dads, tips on romance, and the wisdom that comes with age. The result is a comical new series that combines modern wit with vintage graphics, debuting with four different topics. They make perfect gifts for Mother ’s Day, Father ’s Day, anniversaries, weddings, showers, birthdays, or just for fun!

Suburban Confessions: The Truth about Dad He ’s a suburban hero on the surface, but underneath it all lies a true enigma -a manly man trapped in a sensitive, chore-sharing superfather ’s world! Discover dear old Dad ’s daydreams, desires, and distractions.

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Teena Spencer knows from personal experience what it is to live through those months of hockey mania and endless weeks of playoff insanity, when your partner is sprawled on the couch, knocking back beer and yelling at the TV. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, she decided and proceeded to learn the ins and outs of this increasingly popular game.

In The Girlfriend’s Guide to Hockey, Teena Spencer illuminates the arcane language of the sport (butt-ending and chippy play), the rules (icing), and the rituals (octopus throwing). It’s all here: the teams, the history, the top players, and the trivia, written with clarity and humor. There are details on women’s hockey, too.

With her colorful ancecdotes and simple, direct style, this is the ultimate guide for any woman new to the game and the traditions that accompany it. The Girlfriend’s Guide to Hockey is Teena Spencer’s answer to hockey-dread.

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Liz Lally didn’t know that Tom was a cartoon character when she agreed to marry him-but their honeymoon, more than forty years ago, was a good first indicator. Liz’s groom had neglected to make reservations and ended up taking her to a run-down hotel with prostitutes prancing at the front door.

That was just the beginning of Tom’s morph from Liz’s Prince Charming into the goofball cartoon character everyone knows him to be today.

Here, Liz delivers laugh-out-loud, true tales about sharing a home and raising a family with a quirky man who lives by a logic all his own. Wives everywhere will commiserate when Liz awaits an intimate anniversary celebration for two as her husband coordinates a golf trip for twenty, yearns for the handyman-husband who walked through their new house decades ago and planned all the remodeling projects he’d accomplish (Tom’s first, the “playroom,? is still under construction; never mind that the “kids? are all grown and out of the house), and tries valiantly to parent three children with a man who can barely care for himself.

These are the sometimes perplexing, usually hilarious, always endearing antics of a true American character-and the wife who loves him anyway.

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1,003 Great Things About Kids hilariously convinces readers that they did the right thing when they decided to let these expensive, chocolate-smeared noisemakers into their homes. With sly one-liners and unspoken thoughts put into words, this trio of inventive writers pays tribute to the advantages of offspring. For example, kids are great because they give you an excuse to leave boring parties!

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Jeff Allen says, “Some days all we want to do is butter our waffle. But life doesn’t always cooperate.” My Life as a Bystander is about these kind of days. Jeff also adds, “It’s also about trying to decode the secret code of women. It’s about grandparents who buy your three-year-old a BB gun. And it’s about arguments over cheese.” Sound familiar?

As one who has been married for over two decades and has raised sons, Jeff feels he has something to say on the subject. As a comedian, it’s usually something funny. And it is always interesting, maybe even a little profound.

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Noses are Red will show you what is necessary at each stage of your child’s development for humor to florish. It also will encourage and help you ive the gift of a sense of humor to your children and yourself. Warning: The behavior encouraged in this book is addictive and may lead to encontrollable smiling and laughing

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“I dare you to find even one page of this wonderful book that doesn’t make you laugh. Linda and Shana are hysterical squared! And I mean that in a good way… their musings made me smile, snort, and shout, ‘Exactly right!’”-Debra Garfinkle, author of Storky: How I Lost My Nickname and Won the Girl (Putnam, 2005)

Sex may take place in The City, but there’s plenty of sass in the suburbs. While Linda Sharp and Shana Moore might cop to being housewives, these gals are far from desperate. Rather than finding their thrills with a pool boy, Sharp and Moore delight in taking the head-splitting struggles all women experience, and making you laugh until your sides have busted their seams.

Linda and Shana tell it like you’ve experienced it…only this time around it’s funny. Their flat out honest portrayals of PMS and unearned sweat; puppies and grown women who piddle; sagging breasts and husbands who often act like boobs, will leave you smiling, and feeling less alone in your leaky rowboat.

“Femail got me laughing out loud! It’s a celebration of friendship that’s at once irreverent, feisty and heartfelt.”-Alison van Diggelen, founder editor of Silicon Mom

“Moore and Sharp unite tongue and cheek for a hilarious, witty, sometimes frumpy, sometimes sexy romp through the daily challenges and universal nuances of motherhood in the twenty-first century.? ? Kymberli Brady, author of The Sleepy Little Star and Give Them Wings and Let Them Fly

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