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Category: Audio

Brilliant and Funny, Dreyer Makes his Editorial Marks

by fangswandsfairy • Audio, Book Review Non-Fiction or Reference • Tags: essays, Grammar & Punctuation, humor, Language Arts & Disciplines, reference, style manual, Writing Skills

An expert copy editor offers a funny manual of style.

BELONGING: Finding Herself in the Past

by fangswandsfairy • Audio, Book Review Non-Fiction or Reference, Memoir • Tags: Germany, Holocaust, Nationalism, WWII

A German Ex-Pat looks at her family and national past in an attempt to understand it.

Cold Water for the New Graduates Soul: ASSUME THE WORST

by fangswandsfairy • Audio, Book Review, Book Review Non-Fiction or Reference, Personal Growth/Art • Tags: advice for graduates, graduation, graduation speeches, humor, parodies

Is someone you know graduating this year, or ever? Hiassen’s ASSUME THE WORST is a funny gift.

Retracing an Explorer’s Quest is Neither Romance Nor Picnic

by fangswandsfairy • Audio, Book Review Non-Fiction or Reference • Tags: Canada, Fur Trading, History, Northwest Passage, Pacific Northwest

A writer, guide and military veteran looks at an 18th-century search for the Northwest Passage.

Mamrie Hart’s Stardust Memories become her Memoirs

by fangswandsfairy • Audio, Book Review Non-Fiction or Reference, Memoir • Tags: alcohol, COming of Age, essay, humor, relationships, travel

Comedian, actress, dancer, and internet personality Mamrie Hart details her hilarious antics.

Self-Help for Convo: THE ART OF CIVILIZED CONVERSATION

by fangswandsfairy • Audio, Book Review Non-Fiction or Reference, Personal Growth/Art • Tags: coversation, Etiquette, self-development, self-help

Will this book help me fulfill a resolution or make me tongue-tied?

TASTE OF EMPIRE: Brilliant Thesis with A Lot of Information

by fangswandsfairy • Audio, Book Review Non-Fiction or Reference • Tags: economy, food, History, The British Empire

One small island-nation becomes an empire and affects the world’s diet, economy, and more.

Brilliant Man! THE RIVER OF CONSCIOUSNESS

by fangswandsfairy • Audio, Book Review Non-Fiction or Reference • Tags: essays, General Science, Life Sciences, Neuroscience, Psychology

Sometimes popular non-fiction with science may be a great book, with excellent narration, but science can be hard to follow in an audio format.

When Facts Don’t Matter are Ethics Important? WIN BIGLY by Scott Adams

by fangswandsfairy • Audio, Book Review Non-Fiction or Reference • Tags: COmmunication, persuasion, Politics, Presidential politics

Dilbert creator Scott Adams lauds President Trump as a master persuader and tells you how to use President Trump’s methods to “Win Bigly.”

MIDNIGHT CONFESSIONS Deserves Five Hail Marys

by fangswandsfairy • Audio, Book Review Non-Fiction or Reference • Tags: comedy, Stephen Colbert, TV Comedy, TV Personality

Stephen Colbert performs the Midnight Confessions portion of his TV show.

The Queen is a Footnote in BECOMING QUEEN VICTORIA

by fangswandsfairy • Audio, Book Review Non-Fiction or Reference • Tags: Biography, Georgian England, History, Kimg George IV, King WIlliam, Prince Albert, Princess Charlotte, Queen Victoria, Victorian era

How did Queen Victoria get to be the Queen of England and Empress of the United Kingdom?

Please Pass the Salt: TABLE MANNERS

by fangswandsfairy • Audio, Book Review Non-Fiction or Reference • Tags: dining, entertaining, Etiquette, how to, instructions, self help guide, table manners

With his years in the dining and hospitality industry, Tower offers an instructive guide to dining and entertainment etiquette.

A MILLION YEARS IN A DAY: Like Having a Funny Brother Explain History

by fangswandsfairy • Audio, Book Review Non-Fiction or Reference • Tags: daily activity, funny, History, time

Having your younger brother relate the history of the world throughout the day!

Stephanie Coontz’s Marriage, A History: What Tradition?

by fangswandsfairy • Audio, Book Review Non-Fiction or Reference • Tags: custom, History, jane austen, Marriage, Romance, Women's Issues

Love and Marriage: Do they go together like a horse and carriage? Stephanie Coontz examines the history of marriage from paleolithic times to now.

WHY NOT ME: Rambling Tale

by fangswandsfairy • Audio, Book Review Non-Fiction or Reference • Tags: comedy, friendship, Memoir, Mindy Kaling, The Mindy Project, The Office, The resident

Mindy Kaling reveals more of her personality and the people she meets in the course of her life and career.

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