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There's Probably No God: the Atheists' Guide to Christmas
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Include books by the same authorWatch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Thomas Merton, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Meister Eckhart, John Donne, T.S. Eliot, J.B. Phillips, Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt, Sylvia Plath, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster, Henri Nouwen, Bernard of Clairvaux, Kathleen Norris, Karl Rahner, Isaac Penington, Madeleine L'Engle, Alfred Del · 345 pages
Holidays on Ice
David Sedaris · 144 pages
A collection of Christmas stories. The story Dinah, the Christmas Whore, describes the reaction of a family when a daughter brings home a prostitute, while SantaLand Diaries is on a department store elf.
Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women in Extreme Religions
Naomi J. Williams, Huda Al-Marashi · 268 pages
"With stories by women from a wide range of religious communities--including Evangelical Christian, Catholic, Jewish, Mormon, Muslim, Calvinist, Moonie, the Unification Church, and Jehovah's Witnesses--the writers in Beyond Belief pull back a heavy curtain to reveal what they love about their lives within these communities, along with the pain that comes from the rigid expectations and diminishmen
A Simple Christmas: Twelve Stories that Celebrate the True Holiday Spirit
Mike Huckabee · 208 pages
The former presidential candidate and current talk-show host shares twelve true and heartwarming stories from his past that help recall the real meaning of Christmas.
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
Christopher Hitchens · 499 pages
Presents excerpts on the subject of religion from the writings of such notable non-believers as John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, Albert Einstein, Richard Dawkins, and Salman Rushdie.
You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
Augusten Burroughs · 206 pages
**7 Stories:** *You better not cry — And two eyes made out of coal — Claus and effect — Ask again later — Why do you reward me thus — The best and only everything — Silent night.* **Publisher Summary:** You've eaten too much candy at Christmas ... but have you ever eaten the face off a six-footstuffed Santa? You've seen gingerbread houses ... but have you ever made your own gingerbread tene
Spending the Holidays with People I Want to Punch in the Throat
Jen Mann · 196 pages
"For fans of Laurie Notaro and Jenny Lawson comes an uproarious and oddly endearing essay collection for anyone trying to survive the holidays in one piece. When it comes to time-honored holiday traditions, Jen Mann pulls no punches In this hilariously irreverent collection of essays, Jen Mann, nationally bestselling author of People I Want to Punch in the Throat, turns her mordant wit on the holi
An Idiot Girl's Christmas: True Tales from the Top of the Naughty List
Laurie Notaro · 142 pages
IT'S LAURIE NOTARO'S HOLIDAY HANDBOOK. PREPARE TO LAUGH YOUR TINSEL OFF.It's the most wonderful--and most dreadful--season of the year, when boxes of truffles attack your thighs, drunken holiday revelers stay long past their welcome, and your grandmother has conniptions at the department store over the price of hand lotion. Welcome to Laurie Notaro's Christmastime. In ten brand-new stories and thr
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Anne Lamott · 281 pages
"Anne Lamott takes us on a journey through her often troubled past to illuminate her devout but quirky walk of faith. In a narrative spiced with stories and scripture, with diatribes, laughter, and tears, Lamott tells how, against all odds, she came to believe in God and then, even more miraculously, in herself. She shows us the myriad ways in which this sustains and guides her, shining the light
Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
Nadia Bolz-Weber
What if that person you've been trying to avoid is your best shot at grace today? And what if that's the point? In Accidental Saints, New York Times best-selling author Nadia Bolz-Weber invites readers into a surprising encounter with what she calls “a religious but not-so-spiritual life.” Tattooed, angry and profane, this former standup comic turned pastor stubbornly, sometimes hilariously
For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards
Jen Hatmaker · 224 pages
The popular writer, blogger, and television personality reveals with humor and style how Jesus' extravagant grace is the key to dealing with life's biggest challenge: people. The majority of our joys, struggles, thrills, and heartbreaks relate to people, beginning first with ourselves and then the people we came from, married, birthed, live by, live for, go to church with, don't like, don't und
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson · 592 pages
An anthology of top-selected "Rolling Stone" articles offers insight into both the late Thompson's early career and the magazine's fledgling years, in a volume that includes the stories of his infamous Freak Party sheriff campaign and his observations about the Bush-versus-Kerry presidential rivalry.
Chicken Soup for the Soul
Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen · 480 pages
There's No Toilet Paper . . . on the Road Less Traveled: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure
Doug Lansky · 190 pages
A collection of stories in which various well-known writers share their humorous and sometimes bizarre travel experiences.
Drinking, Smoking and Screwing: Great Writers on Good Times
Sara Nickles · 224 pages
The Most of Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron · 576 pages
A whopping big celebration of the work of the late, great Nora Efren, America's funniest-- and most acute-- writer, famous for her brilliant takes on life as we've been living it these last forty years.-
Every Day is an Atheist Holiday
Penn Jillette · 304 pages
A Treasury of Christmas Miracles: True Stories of God's Presence Today
Karen Kingsbury · 143 pages
Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure
Tim Cahill · 228 pages
No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood
Henriette Mantel · 228 pages
In a collection of essays, women writers and personalities, including Margaret Cho, Laurie Graff, and Wendy Liebman, reveal why they opted out of motherhood.
Yule: A Celebration of Light & Warmth
Dorothy Morrison · 216 pages
There's just something magical about the Yuletide season, no matter where you live or who you are. As bright candlelight mingles with the smells of pine and warm cookies and we perform our yearly rituals of song and family gatherings, the spirit of peace and goodwill seems to reach the heart of even the most cynical Scrooge. In the pages of Yule, Dorothy Morrison presents a wonderful potpourri of
The Moth
Catherine Burns · 407 pages
In the tradition of book anthologies created from public radio programs such as StoryCorps and This I Believe, THE MOTH collects the best storytelling moments--most in print here for the very first time--straight from their archive of more than 3000 shows since the first Moth Evening in 1997.