Jen Lancaster

New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster is here to help you chill the hell out. When did USA become shorthand for the United States of Anxiety? From the moment Americans wake up, we're bombarded with all-new terrifying news about crime, the environment, politics, and stroke-inducing foods we've been enjoying for years. We're judged by social media's faceless masses, pressured into maintaining a Pinterest-perfect home, and expected to base our self-worth on retweets, faves, likes, and followers. Our collective FOMO, and the disparity between the ideal and reality, is leading us to spend more and feel worse. No wonder we're getting twitchy. Save for an Independence Day-style alien invasion, how do we begin to escape from the stressors that make up our days? Jen Lancaster is here to take a hard look at our elevating anxieties, and with self-deprecating wit and levelheaded wisdom, she charts a path out of the quagmire that keeps us frightened of the future and ashamed of our imperfectly perfect human lives. Take a deep breath, and her advice, and you just might get through a holiday dinner without wanting to disown your uncle.

Observations from a Reforming Neurotic

Welcome to the United States of Anxiety

A memoir chronicles the adventures and misadventures of a woman whose perfect life and perfect job vanishes when she goes from a six-figure career to unemployment, and, forced to do some soul searching, becomes an author.

confessions of a condescending, egomaniacal, self-centered, smart-ass, or, why you should never carry a Prada bag to the unemployment office : a memoir

Bitter is the new black

one narcissist's quest to discover if her life makes her ass look big, or why pie is not the answer

Such a pretty fat

A hilarious new memoir by the best-selling author of Bitter Is the New Black chronicles the not-so-wonderful moments of her life in the big city, from reporting rude neighbors to Homeland Security or harboring a crush on her grocery store clerk, to fighting and losing the Battle of the Stairmaster. Original.

A Self-indulgent, Surly Ex-sorority Girl's Guide to why it Often Sucks in the City, Or, Who are These Idiots and why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?

Bright Lights, Big Ass

Longing for the high-school days when she was popular and feared, thirty-seven-year-old Lyssy Ryder moves back into her parents' home after being dumped by her husband, a situation that compels her to try to change the mean person she was as a teenager.

Here I Go Again

Recounts the author's search for domestic bliss as she embraces the word of Martha Stewart and attempts to follow her in all things, from closet organization to stain removal, with laughably disastrous results.

My Year of LIVING, Or why I'm Never Getting All that Glitter Off of the Dog

The Tao of Martha

Lancaster attempts to achieve cultural enlightenment, and bears witness to the hilarious missteps and genuine moments of inspiration she encounters along the way.

One Reality Television Addict's Attempt to Discover If Not Being a Dumb Ass is the New Black, Or a Culture-up Manifesto

My Fair Lazy

Three completely different students are shocked when a popular student takes his life, trigging a wave of suicides within their school. With so many students facing their own demons, can they find a way to save each other - as well as themselves?

The Gatekeepers

Describes the author's haphazard attempts to make and fulfill a bucket list involving humiliating experiments with tattoo removal, eating pasta in Rome, and navigating a menagerie of rescued pets.

A Memoir

I Regret Nothing

The newest memoir from the New York Times best-selling author of Such a Pretty Fat offers an humorous, inside look at the scribe's childhood. Original.

A Life, a Witch, and a Wardrobe, Or the Wonder Years Before the Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-centered Smart-ass Phase

Pretty in Plaid

The author attempts to act her age by trying her hand at investment-making, getting a mortgage, and obtaining life insurance, and describes the humorous results.

One Reluctant Adult's Attempt to Unarrest Her Arrested Development, Or Why It's Never Too Late for Her Dumb Ass to Learn Why Froot Loops Are Not for Dinner

Jeneration X

The author of the best-selling Pretty in Plaid and My Fair Lazy describes the humorous struggles of an author of Amish-zombie-teen romance novels and her husband as they navigate the process of buying their first home in the Chicago suburbs.

If You Were Here

Unfiltered, Unsupervised. Unapologetic. Older -- arguably not wiser -- Lancaster gets back to basics in this hilarious essay collection, sharing the stories she'd tell in bars, if she weren't too lazy to put on pants and go to bars. From advice on how to stay married to a man who refuses to blow his damn nose to creating an incident at the cheese counter during a stab at Whole30, she's just like you ... only louder.

Stories I'd Tell in Bars

Struggling in her younger sister's shadow in spite of her professional achievements as a television psychologist, Reagan Bishop accepts unconventional advice from a New Age healer only to have her successes backfire when she uses her newfound abilities for revenge. By the best-selling author of Here I Go Again. 100,000 first printing.

Twisted Sisters

By the Numbers

'"Bridesmaids' meets 'The In-Laws' in a novel told from the alternating perspectives of two women who define the term frenemies ... yet [who] drop everything and rush to [their third friend's] side when they get the call that her fabulously wealthy husband has perished in a suspicious boating accident. To solve the mystery surrounding his death, Jack and Kitty must bury the hatchet and hit the road for a trip that just may bring them together--if it doesn't kill them first"--

The Best of Enemies

Three grown women find escape and camaraderie on sorority row in a delightfully exhilarating novel about fresh starts, whether you want them or not, by New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster. How fast can charity fundraiser CeCe Barclay's unimpeachable society life come tumbling down? One minute she's speaking before Chicago's glitterati. The next, her financier husband is wanted for embezzlement. Her assets seized and her fall mortifyingly public, CeCe grasps for refuge--and employment--as a sorority housemom at Eli Whitney University, her daughter Hayden's alma mater. Tasked with preparing a stately but--in CeCe's estimation--shabby house for rush, CeCe isn't the only one navigating a new life. Janelle Smith's last experience as a housemother was at a Jersey strip club, where she witnessed a mob hit. Until trial, WITSEC finds her a housemom position on Eli Whitney's sorority row, where Janelle's conflict mediation and tolerance for high estrogen levels make her a star employee. For Hayden, a barista at a hopelessly hip off-campus café, the goal is to flee everything Barclay: the money, the scandals, and the exasperating family nonsense. What next? Though CeCe's not ready to sell her Chanel bag, she's open to reinvention. Hayden might even admit she needs help in her new independent life. And Janelle's due for a personal triumph. But big challenges loom between the alabaster columns of Eli Whitney, unexpected and dicey enough to bring them all together. If only to keep them from falling completely apart.

A Novel

Housemoms

One would think that with her impressive list of bestselling self-improvement memoirs Jen Lancaster would have it all together by now. One would be wrong. After all, she’s no Martha Stewart. And that’s why Jen is going to Martha up and live her life according to the advice of America’s overachieving older sister—the woman who turns lemons into lavender-infused lemonade. By immersing herself in Martha’s media empire, Jen embarks on a yearlong quest to take herself, her house, her husband (and maybe even her pets) to the next level—from closet organization to party planning. Maybe Jen can avoid food poisoning if she follows Martha’s dictates on proper storage. Maybe she can rid her workout clothes of meatball stains by using Martha’s laundry tips. Maybe she can create a more meaningful anniversary celebration than getting drunk in the pool with her husband. Again. And maybe she’ll discover that the key to happiness does, in fact, lie in Martha’s perfectly arranged cupboards and charcuterie platters.

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