Jim Meskimen
27) Benedict XVI: A Life, Volume One: Youth in Nazi Germany to the Second Vatican Council, 1927–1965
The untold story behind a revolution in American comedy
Labor Day, 1969. Two recent college graduates move to New York to edit a new magazine called the National Lampoon. Over the next decade, Henry Beard and Doug Kenney, along with a loose amalgamation of fellow satirists such as Michael O'Donoghue and P. J. O'Rourke, popularized a smart, caustic, ironic brand of humor that has become the dominant voice of American comedy.
Ranging from sophisticated
...From the author of the New York Times bestseller Once a Runner—"the best novel ever written about running" (Runner's World)—comes that novel's prequel, the story of a world-class athlete coming of age in the 1950s and '60s on Florida's Gold Coast.
Quenton Cassidy's first foot races are with nature itself: the summer storms that sweep through his subtropical neighborhood. Shirtless, barefoot, and brown as a
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