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Before Liz Lemon, before Weekend Update, before Sarah Palin, Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle school gym teacher She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV She has seen
In Amy Poehler s highly anticipated first book, Yes Please, she offers up a big juicy stew of personal stories, funny bits on sex and love and friendship and parenthood and real life advice some useful, some not so much , like when to be funny and when to be serious Powered by Amy s charming and
Harry Potter s life is miserable His parents are dead and he s stuck with his heartless relatives, who force him to live in a tiny closet under the stairs But his fortune changes when he receives a letter that tells him the truth about himself he s a wizard A mysterious visitor rescues him from
In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era As First Lady of the United States of America the first African American to serve in that role she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens She s even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses Jess and
The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime New York Times bestseller about one man s coming of age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed Trevor Noah s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal
The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry But just as he s packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter returns to
Harry Potter s third year at Hogwarts is full of new dangers A convicted murderer, Sirius Black, has broken out of Azkaban prison, and it seems he s after Harry Now Hogwarts is being patrolled by the dementors, the Azkaban guards who are hunting Sirius But Harry can t imagine that Sirius or, for
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
Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home canned peaches and sleeping with her head for the hills bag In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and
Harry Potter is midway through his training as a wizard and his coming of age Harry wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup He wants to find out about the mysterious event that s supposed to take place at Hogwarts this year, an event involving two
Sussex, England A middle aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother He
There is a door at the end of a silent corridor And it s haunting Harry Pottter s dreams Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming in terror Harry has a lot on his mind for this, his fifth year at Hogwarts a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars Now, he s sure he ll be the first person to die there After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even