Susan Konig explores the funny side of motherhood while raising a toddler, two teenagers and one more somewhere in between. From the terrible twos to puberty pangs, the kids will be fine -- but can the parents survive? The third hilarious book in Konig's motherhood trilogy Teenagers and Toddlers Are Trying to Kill Me! is now available from Willow Street Press.

Teenagers & Toddlers Are Trying to Kill Me!: Based on a true story

Humor & Entertainment

Konig, Susan

Humor

Willow Street Press LLC

Susan Konig's first book offers a uniquely frank look at the modern family by "an exceptional humorist on the order of Erma Bombeck and Jean Kerr" (Library Journal). The Konigs can barely turn around in a city apartment that seems to be shrinking. With Baby #3 on the way, they take drastic measures: They buy a house and move to The 'Burbs. Countless sticky adventures ensue. In her hilariously unflinching account of motherhood and domestic pursuits, Konig shares a supermom's little secrets, from the importance of Cheerios to the truth about Bambi's mother ("she was running an errand").

Why Animals Sleep So Close to the Road (and other lies I tell my children)

I Wear the Maternity Pants in This Family

It was September, and humorist Susan Konig had just put her youngest child on the school bus with his brother and sister and thought, "Wow, my life is really going to change now. All three kids in school full-time. For the first time in a decade I'll have my days to myself! I'll write another book, get to the gym four times a week, run for political office, save the baby seals . . ." Almost immediately, she started throwing up. Around the clock. She knew the drill. She was definitely pregnant . . . with her fourth child . . . and about to turn forty-three. Time to break out the big pants again. While Susan thought that the next chapter of her and her husband's lives involved making plans for their impending child-free, swinging middle-aged-dom, instead she's back to two A.M. feedings. Meanwhile her tween daughter is receiving her first phone calls from . . . boys! And in between this twelve-year-old and the newborn are two rambunctious sons, eight and five. So it's training wheels and training bras; first dance, last diaper; Miss Clairol and Ben &amp; Jerry. Will Susan ever get back into shape? And what shape was that, exactly? Will she be the oldest mom at preschool in a few years? Will she survive that long? And will she and her husband cope with a national radio show that brings their disorganized household to the whole country? Acclaimed humorist Susan Konig follows her successful debut, Why Animals Sleep So Close to the Road (and Other Lies I Tell My Children), with this charming, hilarious, and realistic account of being a mom. After all, it's a big job---and it requires big pants.

A dark, biting comic novel. I was dazzled, surprised, excited! - Rick Moody, best-selling author, The Ice Storm I love this book! - Ron McLarty, best-selling author, The Memory of Running Good Luck, Mr. Gorsky, the first novel by 3-time Emmy Award winning comedian Dave Konig, is The Bowery Boys on speed in the wild, wild West Side of New York City of the early 1980s; cheap single-room occupancy hotels, crime, and Times Square sleaze. A more innocent time. Three teenage runaways - naive Danny Fisher, street savvy Bobby Boyd, and Bobby's delusional artist brother James Boyd - form a wildly dysfunctional familial bond. They dream, plot, and scheme to escape their misfit world through crime (a poorly planned robbery of valuable comic books), art (James is convinced his unsuccessful career as a graffiti artist will propel him to Hollywood fame), and a little help from a clown's car full of deposed Ping-Pong champions, fat junkies, washed-up boxers, midgets, aging Nazis, and enigmatic movie stars. Sort of like an urban Lord of the Flies - but with better jokes. Good Luck, Mr. Gorsky is, quite possibly, the Great American Novel.

Good Luck, Mr. Gorsky

Literature & Fiction

Konig, Dave

Humor & Satire

Hilariously awful fatherhood advice from America's Got Talent finalist comedian Tom Cotter. This guide to pitiful parenting is chock full of Bad Dad jokes and one liners that will have you laughing out loud!

Bad Dad: A Guide to Pitiful Parenting

Cotter, Tom

Kerri Louise is Mean Mommy! With her fearless and hilarious attitude toward modern motherhood, comic Kerri Louise tells all and never holds back. Truthful and funny, Mean Mommy attempts to balance her career in the comedy trenches and stay grounded while raising three boys. Kerri knows you don’t need another bossy book about motherhood like you didn’t need the baby wipe-warmer you bought for $29.95. Mean Mommy costs less and offers inspiration, encouragement and non-stop laughter that will last way longer than the warm feeling on your baby’s butt. What we really want is Mean Mommy’s frank, reassuring and uproarious approach to parenting. After all, Mean Mommies raise the best kids!

Mean Mommy: Tales of Motherhood Survival from the Comedy Trenches

Louise, Kerri

Jason DeSena Trennert is known as one of Wall Street’s top thought leaders on the subject of markets and economic policy. His research pieces are read by leading institutional investors and corporate executives across the globe. The investment essays in What's It All About, Alpha? document a decade of research by Trennert as Strategas Research Partners' chief investment strategist.

What's It All About, Alpha?: & Other Investment Essays from an Incredible Decade

Business & Money

Trennert, Jason DeSena

Investing

In Confessions of a Working Girl or How to Get Laid (Off), hilarious standup comedian and unorthodox mom Doreen Collins keeps her sense of humor while job-hopping and reinventing herself. She's deejayed at the disco, served doughnuts at Dunkin', sold vacuum cleaners door to door, and worked the drag queen revue circuit. Doreen's been hired, fired, promoted, demoted, dissed, dismissed — and she's also quit! Never afraid to work hard or tell it like it is, Doreen kept her family fed and sheltered, paid for three weddings (all hers), and learned a lot about how to deal with all kinds of people. She was almost crowned Mrs. Rhode Island — and somehow still walked away with the tiara!

Confessions of a Working Girl: or How to Get Laid (Off)

Collins, Doreen

In this breakthrough care guide for older and ailing dogs, authors Ellen Bassuk, M.D., Julie Santoes and Kate Pittman, D.V.M. provide the latest critical information to help loving pet owners support and comfort their dogs at the end of their lives. From nutrition and hygiene to palliative and hospice care, the variety of approaches in Stand by Me, often not offered by veterinarians, may restore or extend quality of life for a beloved dog, minimizing suffering and maximizing happy moments.

Stand by Me: Caring for Your Aging or Ailing Dog

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pittman D.V.M., Kate

Bassuk M.D., Ellen L.

Santoes, Julie

Pets & Animal Care

His first Trump story broke in 1990. He spent decades reporting on the media for Media Matters and Editor &amp; Publisher magazine. He’s chased Sean Hannity down hallways. Now, veteran journalist Joe Strupp has compiled thirty years of experience into a must-read overview of the past, present, and future of the news media.

Killing Journalism: How Greed, Laziness (and Donald Trump) Are Destroying News and How We Can Save It

Politics & Social Sciences

Strupp, Joe

Social Sciences

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