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  • The Best of S. J. Perelman

    by S. J. Perelman ...
    First published in the US in 1947. In this collection, Perelman puzzles over the nature of the secret chocolate blend in Hostess Cupcakes, captures the excesses of Russian prose style in a story about cigarettes, and ponders the question of our time: poisonous mushrooms--yes or no? This collection of humorous essays takes readers on a whirlwind tour of the author's quirky observations and ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • Cloudland Revisited

    A Misspent Youth in Books and Film

    by S. J. Perelman ...
    Gathered for the first time: one of America's great humorists revisits the books and movies from his youth—often with some embarrassment—in this complete, 22-piece collectionFrom October 1948 to October 1953, The New Yorker published humorist S. J. Perelman’s “Cloudland Revisited” series: 22 reviews of once-popular books and silent films whose expiration dates had passed. All but forgotten even at ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Crazy Like a Fox

    The Classic Comedy Collection

    by S. J. Perelman ...
    **A beloved classic returns: S. J. Perelman's own selection of the very best of his hilarious stories and sketchesPulitzer Prize–winning author Joshua Cohen (The Netanyahus) reintroduces America's zaniest humorist to a new generation of readers**When asked about himself the writer Sidney Joseph Perelman once quipped, "before they made him, they broke the mold." Nowhere is S. J. Perelman's one-of-a ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • S. J. Perelman: Writings (LOA #346)

    by S. J. Perelman ...
    Adam Gopnik presents the very best of S. J. Perelman, America's zaniest humorist.S. J. Perelman (1904-1979) wrote for the Marx Brothers films Horse Feathers and Monkey Business and won an Oscar for his screenwriting on Around the World in Eighty Days, but he remains best known for his many sketches and essays penned for The New Yorker during its golden age of humor. In these short comic pieces- ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • Death at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles

    by Dale Richard Perelman ...
    Series series True Crime
    Built during Los Angeles's rapid growth in the Roaring Twenties, the Beaux Arts-style Cecil Hotel was briefly a glimmering downtown landmark until it became one of the most infamous sites of violence and murder in the country. Nicknamed "The Suicide," the Cecil was the eerie location of more than a dozen people taking their own lives going back to the 1940s and '50s. Rumors still swirl that ... Read more

    $17.96 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Steel

    The Story of Pittsburgh's Iron & Steel Industry, 1852–1902

    by Dale Richard Perelman ...
    A lively portrait of the "Steel City" and its millionaires and workers during the late nineteenth century.Steel portrays the growth of iron and steel in smoke-filled Pittsburgh during America's industrial age, and what it meant for the people who lived there.This history shares the fast-paced saga of millionaire barons Andrew Carnegie, Ben Franklin Jones, Henry Clay Frick, Henry Phipps, and ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Christmas at The New Yorker

    Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art

    by E. B. White, Sally Benson, S.J. Perelman ...
    From the pages of America’s most influential magazine come eight decades of holiday cheer—plus the occasional comical coal in the stocking—in one incomparable collection. Sublime and ridiculous, sentimental and searing, Christmas at The New Yorker is a gift of great writing and drawing by literary legends and laugh-out-loud cartoonists.Here are seasonal stories, poems, memoirs, and more, including ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Smitten Kitchen Every Day

    Triumphant & Unfussy New Favorites: A Cookbook

    by Deb Perelman ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the best-selling author of The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook—this everyday cookbook is “filled with fun and easy ... recipes that will have you actually looking forward to hitting the kitchen at the end of a long work day” (Bustle).A happy discovery in the kitchen has the ability to completely change the course of your day. Whether we’re cooking for ourselves, for a ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Road to Rust

    The Disintegration of the Steel Industry in Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio

    by Dale Richard Perelman ...
    The author of Steel tells the story of strikes and violent unrest amid the mines and mills of twentieth-century Pennsylvania and Ohio—includes photos.As the twentieth century dawned on western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, the region's steel industry faced a struggle for unionism. The industry was plagued by disasters that killed and maimed countless workers, many of them impoverished immigrants ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Smitten Kitchen Keepers

    New Classics for Your Forever Files: A Cookbook

    by Deb Perelman ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A BON APPETIT and EPICURIOUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The long-awaited new book from the best-selling and beloved author of The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook and Smitten Kitchen Every Day—a collection of essential recipes for meals you'll want to prepare again and again, from Cozy Chicken and Dumplings to Fettuccine with White Ragú, and from Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The New Rhetoric

    A Treatise on Argumentation

    by Chaïm Perelman, L. Olbrechts-Tyteca ...
    The New Rhetoric is founded on the idea that since “argumentation aims at securing the adherence of those to whom it is addressed, it is, in its entirety, relative to the audience to be influenced,” says Chaïm Perelman and L. Olbrechts-Tyteca, and they rely, in particular, for their theory of argumentation on the twin concepts of universal and particular audiences: while every argument is directed ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Marshmallow Mystery

    by Helen Perelman ...
    Illustrated by Erica-Jane Waters ...
    Series series Candy Fairies
    The Candy Fairies can’t sugarcoat their dilemma—they need to find the Fairy Code Book, and fast!There’s a mystery to be solved in Sugar Valley: the Fairy Code Book is missing! Raina, the Gummy Fairy, is frantic. She keeps the book with her at all times and can’t believe she has misplaced it. If this important book, which holds all the secrets, history, and recipes of Sugar Valley, gets into the ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD