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Christopher Buckley
The award-winning and bestselling author delivers a hilarious fake memoir by Herb Nutterman-Donald Trump’s seventh chief of staff-who has written the ultimate tell-all about Trump and Russia.
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This book provides a select history of these great aircraft, and recounts what many of them have been up to around the world ? from London City Airport to forest…
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William F. Buckley,, Jr.
Racing Through Paradise is the third entry in Bill Buckley's now classic sailing trilogy. It chronicles the author's four thousand-mile sailing voyage across the Pacific with four close friends, his…
Ray Bradbury
This collection includes 100 of Ray Bradbury’s remarkable stories which have, together with his classic novels, earned him an immense international audience.
Philip Levine is one of the foremost poets of the last fifty years, but moreover he is a master and unparalleled practitioner of the long poem in our time. No…
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Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. 41 American poets respond to the poetry and life of the great Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo. This anthology includes poetic homage, variations on a theme and imitations…
Bestselling author Buckley’s most personal and transcendent work–the tragicomic true story of the year in which he lost both of his parents. The author offers consolation, wit, and warmth to…
Buckley manages to have one foot In the physical muck and tenderness of the world and the other foot planted among the stars and galaxies of the universe…. -Peter Everwine
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Appalled by the punishment of her rebellious friend, Florence Farfarletti decides to draw a line in the sand, and invents a plan for female emancipation in this biting satire of…
A poem is a moral and mythic construct. Each decision the writer makes concerning the subject matter, form, diction, and tone reveals something about his or her vision of the…
An uproarious comedy about a presidential administration totally off the rails. This fictional political memoir by the Personal Assistant to President Tucker, Herbert Wadlough, offers a unique, utterly self-serving inside…
Supreme Courtship is another classic Buckley comedy about the Washington institutions most deserving of ridicule.
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The latest comic novel from Christopher Buckley, in which a hapless Englishman embarks on a dangerous mission to the New World in pursuit of two judges who helped murder a…
Herb Nutterman, a long-time Trump Organization employee, unexpectedly becomes President Trump’s White House chief of staff and finds himself entangled in Russian intrigue and leading the president’s reelection campaign.
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From the bestselling author of Thank You for Smoking and Make Russia Great Again comes a comic tour de force, the story of one man's "lively and funny" (New York…
Steaming to Bamboola is a story of the author’s time at sea. He tells first-hand about typhoons, cargoes, smuggling, mid-ocean burials, rescues, stowaways, hard places, hard drinking, and hard romance.
A savage and hilarious satire of US political life.
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This much-acclaimed, wickedly funny bestseller by the author of The White House Mess pits Nick Taylor, chief spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies, against an increasingly self-righteous, anti-smoking society…
The bestselling author of the comic classics The White House Mess and Thank You for Smoking returns to the funniest place in America–Washington, D.C.–as the First Lady is charged with…
Witness/participant, "blase as a boulevardier/ in the spring Paris air," Buckley couples a lyric poet's urgency with a storyteller's feral patience: "claptrap until my heart started doing double-takes-/ the bus…
Wry Martinis is a witty, hilarious, brilliant collection of Christopher Buckley’s most memorable pieces for The New Yorker , the New York Times , the Washington Post, Vogue, Esquire and…
Cassandra Devine, a blogger and member of Generation Whatever, is outraged over the excesses of the Baby Boomer generation and their negligent handling of the Social Security debt. When she…
Chris Buckley
Exploring many significant British aircraft types that were active between World Wars One and Two, with the focus on modern-day survivors and replicas, this volume tells the story of how…
Christopher Buckley (University of California Riverside)
The latest book from Christopher Buckley continues his exploration of how, despite the intellectual tools of science and philosophy, we are still somehow left with questions about identity, memory, love…
Christopher Buckley’s hilarious, bawdy, and irreverent frolic of a tale about a sixteenth-century relic hunter and the artist Albrecht Durer who conspire to fabricate Christ’s burial shroud reads like Indiana…
In an attempt to gain congressional approval for a top-secret weapons system, Washington lobbyist Bird McIntyre teams up with sexy, outspoken neocon Angel Templeton to pit the American public against…
A charismatic 29-year-old blogger incites massive political turmoil when she politely suggests that Baby Boomers be given government incentives to kill themselves by age 75. Her modest proposal catches fire…
A remarkable anthology of poems about Weldon Kees or inspired by Weldon Kees - each accompanied by a statement by the poet regarding Kees’s influence, magic, and power over the…
Joseph Heller
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In the latest comic novel from Christopher Buckley, a hapless Englishman embarks on a dangerous mission to the New World in pursuit of two judges who helped murder a king.
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From the bestselling author of Thank You for Smoking and Make Russia Great Again comes a comic tour de force, the story of one man’s spiraling journey through lockdown during…
Michael Hill,Christopher Buckley
A delightful and entertaining book about one of America’s greatest humorists. -Seth Meyers
This absorbing, illuminating (Jon Meacham)biography of the legendary political humorist reveals the life behind his must-read Washington…
Flying Backbone collects Christopher Buckley’s poems from 1979 through 2007 responding to the life and paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe. Taken from one full-length book and two chapbooks-all long out of…
Christopher Buckley,Random House Inc
After being abducted by aliens–not once, but twice–a stuffy Washington D.C. talk-show host demands that Congress and the White House seriously investigate UFOs, while friends and family urge him to…
William A. Bullough
This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach…
Airborne is how William F. Buckley, Jr. describes his sail across the wide Atlantic with his son and five friends.
In 1980, Buckley gathered together his friends and set out to sail across the Atlantic. This is what he correctly describes as a "celebration" of that thirty-day event.
Herman Melville
Melville’s tale of the whaling industry, and one captain’s obsession with revenge against the Great White Whale that took his leg. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic…
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The growth of interest and research activity in X -ray microscopy is reflected in the increasing size and scope of a related series of international conferences, the latest of which…
Richard E. Buckley,Christopher G. Moran,Theerachai Apivatthakakul
The two-volume second edition covers the fundamental AO principles and state-of-the-art surgical techniques for fracture management. Expanded in this edition is the collection of high-quality illustrations–with more than 2,000 in…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Active Inference, IWAI 2020, co-located with ECML/PKDD 2020, held in Ghent, Belgium, in September 2020. active inference and…
An all-star team of eighteen conservative writers offers a hilarious, insightful, sanctimony-free remix of William Bennett's The Book of Virtues-without parental controls. The Seven Deadly Virtues sits down next to…
Christopher Lloyd,Fergus Garrett
A reissue of Christopher Lloyd’s classic book, with an extensive introduction by Fergus Garrett and stunning new photography
