Erma Bombeck

Explores domestic dilemmas ranging from husbands and honeymoons to tennis elbow and the national anthem

If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, what Am I Doing in the Pits?

The Second Oldest Profession

Motherhood

The well-known humorist takes a witty, compassionate, poignant, and nostalgic look at the small and large triumphs of American family life in the 80s

The Ties that Bind-- and Gag!

Family

Madcap, bittersweet humor in classic Erma Bombeck-style. You'll laugh until it hurts and love it! "Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet, he's treading water. What do you mean you're a participle in the school play and you need a costume? Those rotten kids. If only they'd let me wake up in my own way. Why do they have to line up along my bed and stare at me like Moby Dick just washed up onto a beach somewhere?"

At wit's end

"[Erma Bombeck] is marvelously funny, direct as a hypodermic, a virtuoso in the field of suburban living."--Vogue It's the exposé to end all exposés--the truth about the suburbs: where they planted trees and crabgrass came up, where they planted the schools and taxes came up, where they died of old age trying to merge onto the freeway and where they finally got sex out of the schools and back into the gutters.

The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

Three hilarious books in one from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author on marriage, motherhood, and the absurdities of suburban life. If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? is Erma Bombeck’s timelessly witty look at the hidden side of married life. Motherhood captures one of the toughest jobs on earth with humor and heart. The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank is Bombeck’s take on the unforgiving frontier of American suburbia.

If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

The Erma Bombeck Collection

"Just wait till you have children of your own!"

Aunt Erma's Cope Book

The #1 New York Times bestseller about one woman’s doomed quest for self-improvement by a writer “blessed with the comic equivalent of perfect pitch” (The Boston Globe). As far as Erma can tell, her life is going well. Her children speak to her, her husband smiles at her, and she’s capable of looking in a mirror without screaming. But her friends know better. No matter how happy Erma thinks she is, she’s in need of help, and the only way to fulfillment is a ten-foot stack of self-improvement books. From Sensual Needlepoint to Fear of Buying, Erma will try them all. One book recommends bringing roleplay into the bedroom, so she dresses up in her son’s football pads. She tries to meditate but gets stuck in the lotus position. She spends more time in the kitchen but only succeeds in melting her son’s retainer. No matter how hard she tries to improve her family life, her schemes keep backfiring. As she soon learns, you may not always be able to fix what’s not broken—but with enough self-help books, you can break anything you want. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erma Bombeck including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

How To Get From Monday To Friday . . . In 12 Days

When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home

Identifying the likenesses between animals in the wild and human beings, another humorous reflection of the ridiculous side of life pokes fun at nutrition, talk shows, childbirth, and more. 500,000 first printing. $300,000 ad/promo.

All I Know about Animal Behavior I Learned in Loehmann's Dressing Room

A collection of humorous sketches that focus on contemporary suburban life.

The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

"The author tells of her travel experiences around the world, addressing the questions of travelers everywhere." --

Bil Keane

"She goes a long way with her book to prove that humor is the best -- possibly the only -- way to keep the world on an even keel." CHICAGO SUN-TIMES Remember the things Mother used to say? Erma Bombeck remembers them all and now she's using them on her own kids! With clever illustrations by Bil Keane, these really funny, too-true observations on family and kids and why it shouldn't work but does, is a wonderful antitdote to the daily problems and crises that every family faces. With Erma Bombeck in your corner, laughter is the best coach you can have....

Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!

New York Times Bestseller: This anthology of Erma Bombeck’s most memorable and humorous essays is a tribute to one of America’s sharpest wits. When she began writing her regular newspaper column in 1965, Erma Bombeck’s goal was to make housewives laugh. Thirty years later, she had published more than four thousand columns, and earned countless laughs—from housewives, presidents, and everyone in between. With grace, good humor, and razor-sharp prose, she gently skewered every aspect of the American family. This collection holds the best of her columns—not just her famous quips, but also the heartbreaking observations that gave her writing such weight. In 1969, Erma wrote: “screaming kids, unpaid bills, green leftovers, husbands behind newspapers, basketballs in the bathroom. They’re real . . . they’re warm . . . they’re the only bit of normalcy left in this cockeyed world, and I’m going to cling to it like life itself.” With what Publishers Weekly calls her “infectious sense of human absurdity,” Erma Bombeck’s writing remains a timeless examination of the still-cockeyed world. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erma Bombeck including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist

Forever, Erma

A collection of mordantly hilarious and sharply-observed stories on motherhood from the bestselling author of Family—The Ties That Bind . . . And Gag! Erma Bombeck has learned a few things about children and family over the years—and in a way that is uniquely and wonderfully her own, she shares everything she knows with her readers. Whether it's cleaning up after the kids and him, or expendable mothers-in-law, Erma Bombeck gets to the heart of the matter and makes us laugh through our tears. Praise for I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression “A truly wise and funny woman; a laugh-till-you-cry book.”—Library Journal “The smiles never stop until the last chapter ends with a poignant insight into growing up and being a parent.”—The Abilene Reporter-News

I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression

A whimsical collection of wit and wisdom on the peculiarities of modern family life comes together in a keepsake album based on one of the late humorist's favorite columns.

Thoughts on Life from Erma Bombeck

Eat Less Cottage Cheese and More Ice Cream

A collection of newspaper columns by the late humorist, including her first and last, deal with children, marriage, food, and holiday entertaining, and are accompanied by a chapter of tributes from her friends

Auch dieses Buch ist wieder ein witziger Volltreffer der "berühmtesten Hausfrau Amerikas"! »Nach der Lektüre von 62 Büchern und Artikeln über den Umgang mit mir selbst ist mir klargeworden, daß allen Selbsthilfebüchern leider etwas fehlt, nämlich Humor«, stellte Erma Bombeck fest. Und so hat sie selbst eines geschrieben – ein Buch zum Glätten der Seele, zur Stärkung des Gemüts, zum Lachen und Schmunzeln.

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