Best Comedy Writers Of All Time - April 2024

The Hideaway

In this USA TODAY and Amazon Charts Bestseller, Sara is wrenched back to Sweet Bay, Alabama, by her grandmother’s will, where she learns more about Margaret Van Buren in the wake of her death than she ever knew in her life. After her last remaining family member dies, Sara Jenkins goes home to The Hideaway, her grandmother Mags’s ramshackle B&B in Sweet Bay. She intends to quickly tie up loose ends then return to her busy life and thriving antique shop in New Orleans. Instead, she learns Mags has willed The Hideaway to her and charged her with renovating it—no small task considering her... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0718084225
• ASIN: 0718084225
• ISBN: 0718084225
• Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
• Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

The Life We Bury

A USA Today bestseller and book club favorite! College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran--and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home, after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00JTA9Z7G
• ASIN: B00JTA9Z7G
• Manufacturer: Seventh Street Books

Happy All the Time (Vintage Contemporaries)

"A luminous telling of two modern romances, a book that lingers sweetly and hilariously in the memory." —Dallas Morning NewsGuido and Vincent are childhood best friends—third cousins, really—living in Cambridge and dreaming about their futures. Guido plans to write poetry while Vincent feels confident he will win a Nobel prize for physics. When Guido spots Holly while exiting a museum, he can immediately sense that she will difficult, quirky, and hard to live with. He loves her on sight. Vincent, open-minded and cheerful, meets Misty at work. Though she is a  bored and misanthropic bru... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307474402
• ASIN: 0307474402
• ISBN: 0307474402
• Brand: Vintage Contemporaries
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Robin

• ASIN: 1627794247
• ASIN: 1627794247
• ISBN: 1627794247
• Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co.

The Tuscan Child

From New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Rhys Bowen comes a haunting novel about a woman who braves her father’s hidden past to discover his secrets… “Pass the bread, the olives, and the wine. Oh, and a copy of The Tuscan Child to savor with them.” —NPRIn 1944, British bomber pilot Hugo Langley parachuted from his stricken plane into the verdant fields of German-occupied Tuscany. Badly wounded, he found refuge in a ruined monastery and in the arms of Sofia Bartoli. But the love that kindled between them was shaken by an irreversible betrayal.Nearly thirty years ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1503951812
• ASIN: 1503951812
• ISBN: 1503951812
• Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

The #1 New York Times bestselling (mostly true) memoir from the hilarious author of Furiously Happy.“Gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate.”—O, The Oprah MagazineWhen Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it.In the irreverent Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter he... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0425261018
• ASIN: 0425261018
• ISBN: 0425261018
• Brand: Jenny Lawson
• Manufacturer: Berkley

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

• ASIN: B00V37BC4C
• ASIN: B00V37BC4C
• Manufacturer: Flatiron Books

A Man Called Ove: A Novel

Read the New York Times bestseller that has taken the world by storm! In this “charming debut” (People) from one of Sweden’s most successful authors, a grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door.Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him “the bitter neighbor from hell.” But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn’t walk around with a ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1476738025
• ASIN: 1476738025
• ISBN: 9781476738024
• Brand: Washington Square Press
• Manufacturer: Washington Square Press

Laughs, Luck...and Lucy: How I Came to Create the Most Popular Sitcom of All Time (with "I LOVE LUCY's Lost Scenes" Audio CD)

The man Lucille Ball called the brains of I Love Lucy gives us an inside view of television history as it was being made. Jess Oppenheimer's famous sitcom was the most popular and influential television phenomenon in the history of the medium. Forty-five years after its debut, it remains a favourite the world over.

• ASIN: 0815605846
• ASIN: 0815605846
• ISBN: 0815605846
• Brand: Brand: Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd)
• Manufacturer: Syracuse University Press

Send Down the Rain: New from the author of The Mountains Between Us and the New York Times bestseller Where the River Ends

New York Times bestselling author Martin brings us “grace, mercy, and forgiveness in this sweeping love story.”*Allie is still recovering from the loss of her family’s beloved waterfront restaurant on Florida’s Gulf Coast when she loses her second husband to a terrifying highway accident. Devastated and losing hope, she shudders to contemplate the future—until a cherished person from her past returns.Joseph has been adrift for many years, wounded in both body and spirit and unable to come to terms with the trauma of his Vietnam War experiences. Just as he resolves to abandon his sea... [Read More]

• ASIN: B072TN1NF2
• ASIN: B072TN1NF2
• Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Novel

A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (New York Times Book Review).WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZENational BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2017A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2017A San Francisco Chronicle Top Ten Book of 2017Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Lambda Award and the California Book Award "I could not love LESS more."--Ron Charles, Washington Post"Andrew Sean Greer's Less is excellent company. It's no less than bedazzling, bewitch... [Read More]

• ASIN: 031631613X
• ASIN: 031631613X
• ISBN: 031631613X
• Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

Heartburn

Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes. For in this inspired confection of adultery, revenge, group therapy, and pot roast, the creator of Sleepless in Seattle reminds us that comedy depends on anguish as surely as a proper gravy depends on flour and butter.Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel Samstat discovers that her husband, Mark, is in love with another woman. The fact that the other woman has "a neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb and you should see her legs"... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679767959
• ASIN: 0679767959
• ISBN: 9780679767954
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir

From one of the world's most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century—1951—in the middle of the United States—Des Moines, Iowa—in the middle of the largest generation in American history—the baby boomers. As one of the best and funniest writers alive, he is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for 24-carat memoir gold. Like millions of his generational peers, B... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0767919378
• ASIN: 0767919378
• ISBN: 0739482939
• Brand: Bill Bryson
• Manufacturer: Broadway Books

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: A No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Novel (1) (No 1. Ladies' Detective Agency)

• ASIN: B000FBJF6Y
• ASIN: B000FBJF6Y
• Manufacturer: Anchor

The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules: A Novel (League of Pensioners)

#1 International BestsellerThe Best Exotic Marigold Hotel meets The Italian Job in internationally-bestselling author Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg’s witty and insightful comedy of errors about a group of delinquent seniors whose desire for a better quality of life leads them to rob and ransom priceless artwork.Martha Andersson may be seventy-nine-years-old and live in a retirement home, but that doesn’t mean she’s ready to stop enjoying life. So when the new management of Diamond House starts cutting corners to save money, Martha and her four closest friends—Brains, The Rake, Christina ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062447971
• ASIN: 0062447971
• ISBN: 0062447971
• Brand: Harper Paperbacks
• Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks

Honoré de Balzac: The Complete 'Human Comedy' Cycle (100+ Works) (Book Center) (The Greatest Writers of All Time) - eBook

The Human Comedy (French: La Comédie Humaine) is the title of Honoré de Balzac's multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration (1815-1830) and the July Monarchy

• UPC: 200748465

Honoré de Balzac: The Complete 'Human Comedy' Cycle (100+ Works) (Manor Books) (The Greatest Writers of All Time) - eBook

The Human Comedy (French: La Comédie Humaine) is the title of Honoré de Balzac's multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration (1815-1830) and the July Monarchy

• UPC: 361855481

Barack Obama Books: Barack Obama Adult Coloring Book: One of the Best American Presidents of All Time and Chill Politician, Acclaimed Lawyer and Legendary Writer Inspired Adult Coloring Book (Paperbac

Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the

• UPC: 779864209

Best of Mama's Family: Season 3 (DVD)

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• UPC: 50576933
• Model: WEAD30686D
• Color: NOther

The Best Red vs. Blue DVD Ever. Of All Time. (DVD)

And the award goes to you! For having the good sense to pick up this hilarious DVD! Wait, I know what you are thinking: Sure, RED VS. BLUE is one of the most popular web

• UPC: 21678203
• Color: YOther

The Best Of The Dean Martin Variety Show (2-Disc DVD Set)

Best of Dean Martin Variety Show [DVD] 61058342099

• UPC: 36155700
• Color: YOther

Live Comedy At Its Best

Gene Tracy first worked as a promoter in a traveling

• UPC: 55966788

The Essential Writer's Guide : Spotlight on William Saroyan, an Analysis of His Best Sellers Such as the Time of Your Life, the Human Comedy, Tracy's

The Essential Writer's Guide

• UPC: 274809402

A New History of England : Giving an Authentick Account of All the Various Revolutions, and Other Memorable Transactions, ... from the Invasion of Julius C]sar, to the Present Time. Collected from the Best Writers, &C. the Second Edition.

A New History of England: Giving an Authentick Account of All the Various Revolutions, and Other Memorable Transactions, ... from the Invasion

• UPC: 244156449

A New History of England : Giving an Authentick Account of All the Various Revolutions, and Other Memorable Transactions, ... from the Invasion of It Julius Caesar, to the Present Time. Collected from the Best Writers, &C.

A New History of England: Giving an Authentick Account of All the Various Revolutions, and Other Memorable Transactions, ... from the Invasion

• UPC: 527257072