Fill the year ahead with handcrafted beads that you can make yourself by following tutorials from Bead-Making Lab!Imagine a year in beads. We're talking 52 handmade varieties all handcrafted by you! Bead-Making Lab makes this bounty of bead making possible with instructions for bead designs that run the gamut from sophisticated to playful.Bead-Making Lab is organized by material, and single-spread lab tutorials for each bead desig...

Educators aspire to teach skills that will expand the way their students think and act, not just in the classroom but throughout their lives. Centered on fairy tales, this pedagogical resource contains educational theories and classroom techniques contributed by scholars from around the world. Each teaching technique provided uses the familiarity of fairy tales as a non-threatening base to explore complex concepts and practices while encouraging students to examine the origins and assumpti...

Awfully Hilarious Period Pieces: The Stories We (Probably) Shouldn't Tell���� WARNING: This book may cause uncontrollable laughter, deep sighs of relief, and the realization that you are absolutely not alone. ����From the award-winning, bestselling awfully hilarious series comes Period Pieces-a no-holds-barred, laugh-out-loud poignant collection of true stories about periods, PMS, dating disasters, and all the wi...

These are the untold tales of our times.Awfully Hilarious Stories We Never Tell is an unapologetic, laugh-out-loud, and deeply human anthology that rips the lid off the stories we've been taught to keep quiet. This bold, award-winning collection of true tales reclaims humor, embarrassment, and resilience, proving that the moments we once wanted to hide are often the ones that bring us closest together.From mortifying mishaps to jaw-dropping...

'You'll laugh like a drain' StylistDear Girls is Ali Wong's collection of heartfelt and hilarious letters to her daughters covering everything they need to know in life, like the unpleasant details of dating, how to be a working mum in a male-dominated profession and how she trapped their dad.She shares the wisdom she’s learned from a life in comedy and reveals stories from her life off stage, including the brutal single life in New York (...

Acclaimed actress Jenny McCarthy gives the lowdown on pregnancy in gritty, hilarious detail in this New York Times bestseller.Revealing the naked truth about the tremendous joys, the excruciating pains, and the inevitable disfigurement that go along with pregnancy, Jenny McCarthy tells you what you can really expect when you're expecting!From morning sickness and hormonal rage, to hemorrhoids, granny panties, pregn...

A fresh, hilarious, and relatable collection of essays about everything from motherhood and marriage to sobriety and work-life balance (or imbalance) from the nationally bestselling author of the “honest, complicated” (SheKnows) Idiot.TRIGGER WARNING: TORN EVERYTHING!In her first book, Idiot, bestselling author Laura Clery gave us mind-blowingly personal life stories about addiction, toxic relationships, and recovery—establishing ...

“Annabelle Gurwitch is the child prodigy of the literature on aging. The only downside of this book is that it is bound to deepen your laugh lines.”—Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and DimedActor and humorist Annabelle Gurwitch returns with a wickedly funny book of essays about the indignities faced by femmes d’un certain âge. Whether she is falling in lust at the Genius Bar, coping with her best friend’s assisted suicide, or navigating the extensive—and treacherously...

Everyone has that moment—the realization that adulthood has arrived, like a runaway train, and there's no getting out of its way. From the hit Tumblr blog of the same name, F*ck! I'm in My Twenties perfectly captures the new generation currently testing the waters of post-college reality. Quick-witted and self-deprecating, the author pens irreverent missives, DIY diagrams, illustrations, and tongue-in-cheek checklists that chronicle her experience as a twenty-something living in t...

A School Library Journal Best Book of 2020It’s time to bare it all about bodies!We all experience the world in a body, but we don’t usually take the time to explore what it really means to have and live within one. Just as every person has a unique personality, every person has a unique body, and every body tells its own story.In Body Talk, thirty-seven writers, models, actors, musicians, and artists share essays, lists, comics, an...

From comedian and journalist Faith Salie, of NPR's Wait Wait…Don't Tell Me! and CBS News Sunday Morning, a collection of daring, funny essays chronicling the author's adventures during her lifelong quest for approvalFaith Salie has done it all in the name of validation. Whether she’s trying to impress her parents with a perfect GPA, undergoing an exorcism to save her toxic marriage, or baking a 3D excavator cake for her son’s birthday, Salie is th...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER'Jessi Klein is a brilliant comedic mind and this book is a perfect reflection of that. It's like having a glass of wine with the best friend you wish you had' -Amy SchumerAs both a tomboy and a late bloomer, comedian Jessi Klein grew up feeling more like an outsider than a participant in the rites of modern femininity.In YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT, Klein offers-through an inci...