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Disorientation
by Elaine Hsieh Chou
While finishing her PhD dissertation on the late canonical poet Xiao-Wen Chou, graduate student Ingrid Yang discovers a curious note in the archives and upends her entire life trying to unravel the note's message, ultimately making an explosive discovery.
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Ten Steps to Nanette: a Memoir Situation
by Hannah Gadsby
A multi-award-winning comedian takes readers through the defining moments in her life that led to the creation of Nanette and her powerful decision to tell the truth no matter the cost.
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Wow, No Thank You: Essays
by Samantha Irby
A new collection of humorous and edgy essays from the author of Meaty and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life that highlight the ups and downs of aging, marriage and living with step-children in small-town Michigan.
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Part of Your World
by Abby Jimenez
ER doctor Alexis Montgomery's world is turned upside down by a ridiculously hot carpenter who is 10 years younger, and as their short-term flings turn into a relationship, she must choose between her ultra-wealthy parents and true love.
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I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife & Motherhood
by Jessi Klein
The best-selling author and Emmy Award-winning writer and producer hilariously destroys the cultural myths and impossible expectations of modern-day motherhood and explores the humiliations, poignancies, and possibilities of midlife.
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Sign Here
by Claudia Lux
To get one last member of the Harrison family to sell their soul so he can finally get a big promotion, Peyote Trip, who literally works in Hell, sets a plan in motion, but soon discovers that things aren't always as they seem – and everyone must face the consequences of their choices.
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Barely Functional Adult: It'll all Make Sense Eventually
by Meichi Ng
From the creator of Barely Functional Adult, a painfully relatable webcomic with over 130k followers on Instagram, comes a never-before-seen collection of incriminating short stories about exes, murder, friendship, therapy, anxiety, Hufflepuff, sucking at things, freaking out about things, calming down momentarily, melodrama, wrinkles, pettiness, and other wonderful delights.
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New Teeth: Stories
by Simon Rich
Two murderous pirates find a child stowaway on board and attempt to balance pillaging with co-parenting. A woman raised by wolves prepares for her parents' annual Thanksgiving visit. An aging mutant superhero is forced to learn humility when the mayor kicks him upstairs to a desk job. And in the hard-boiled caper "The Big Nap," a weary two-year-old detective struggles to make sense of a world gone mad. Equal parts silly and sincere, New Teeth is an ode to growing up, growing older, and what it means to make a family.
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Yearbook
by Seth Rogen
A collection of funny personal essays from one of the writers of Superbad and Pineapple Express and one of the producers of The Disaster Artist.
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I'd Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays
by Tom Segura
The stand-up comedian and podcast hosts shares stories of his crazy life on the road and punishing schedule, including bizarre celebrity encounters and his philosophy that in an increasingly insane world, sometimes you just need to be alone.
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Hello, Molly!
by Molly Shannon
The actress looks back on losing her mother, sister, and cousin in a car accident with her father at the wheel, as well as her days as a beloved Saturday Night Live cast member.
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Here For It: or, How to Save Your Soul in America
by R. Eric Thomas
R. Eric Thomas didn't know he was different until the world told him so. Everywhere he went–whether it was his rich, mostly white, suburban high school, his conservative black church, or his Ivy League college in a big city–he found himself on the outside looking in. In essays by turns hysterical and heartfelt, Eric redefines what it means to be an "other" through the lens of his own life experience. He explores the two worlds of his childhood: the barren urban landscape where his parents' house was an anomalous bright spot, and the verdant school they sent him to in white suburbia. He writes about struggling to reconcile his Christian identity with his sexuality, about the exhaustion of code-switching in college, accidentally getting famous on the internet (for the wrong reason), and the surreal experience of covering the 2016 election as well as the seismic change that came thereafter. Ultimately, Eric seeks the answer to the ever more relevant question: Is the future worth it? Why do we bother when everything seems to be getting worse? As the world continues to shift in unpredictable ways, Eric finds the answers to these questions by re-envisioning what "normal" means, and in the powerful alchemy that occurs when you at last place yourself at the center of your own story.
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The Wreckage of My Presence
by Casey Wilson
In this brilliant collection of essays, the author shares her thoughts on the joys and vagaries of modern-day womanhood and motherhood, introduces the not-quite-typical family that made her who she is, and persuasively argues that lowbrow pop culture is the perfect lens through which to understand human nature.
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