“Wake up, Muffy. We’re back.” From Lisa Birnbach, the author of The Official Preppy Handbook—and designer Chip Kidd—comes a whole new take on the prep world that Birnbach turned into an international best-selling phenomenon thirty years ago. True Prep is a contemporary look at how the old guard of natural-fiber-loving, dog-worshipping, G&amp;T-soaked preppies adapt to the new order of things. Birnbach considers the prep attitude towards money (ambivalent), schools (good investment), wardrobe (now your clothes fit), work (some careers will never be prep), decorating (ask mummy), scandal (including rehab and prison), and food and drink (with some classic recipes for both). She also looks at weekends (and what to do to get asked back), entertaining, sports (including sailing and shopping), weddings, etiquette, the Internet and electronic gadgetry, political correctness, reality TV, and . . . polar fleece. And last but not least: a do-it-yourself eulogy. With more than 200 original illustrations and photographs, True Prep promises to be a whole new, old sensation.

True Prep: It's a Whole New Old World

Humor & Entertainment

KIDD, CHIP

Birnbach, Lisa

Humor

KNOPF

Provides a witty, caustic, and informative evaluation of more than two hundred major schools, covering topics ranging from SAT scores to drug use, politics to religion

Lisa Birnbach's College Book

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

Ballantine Books

Now in paperback from Lisa Birnbach, the author of The Official Preppy Handbook, comes True Prep, which looks at how the old guard of natural-fiber-loving, dog-worshipping, G&amp;T-soaked preppies adapts to the new order of the Internet, cell phones, rehab, political correctness, reality TV, and . . . polar fleece.

A guide to colleges offers information on cost; financial aid; and SAT requirements, as well as the best and worst professors, curriculum highlights, minority and gay life on campus, the best places to study, and more. Original.

Lisa Birnbach's college book

Villard Books

Based on research at corporations across the country, the author takes an acerbic, in-depth look at corporate America--how it works, who works for it, and how to get the most out of it

Going to Work

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Villard

A facetious guide to emulating the look, speech patterns, thinking, and lifestyle of those who attend prep schools and are a part of high society

The Official Preppy Handbook

Workman

A guide to colleges offers information on cost; financial aid; and SAT requirements, as well as the best and worst professors, curriculum highlights, minority and gay life on campus, the best places to study, and more. Original.

Lisa Birnbach's New and Improved College Book (LISA BIRNBACH'S COLLEGE BOOK)

Reference

Simon&Schuster

Friends are great. They won't tell anyone that you color your hair, you always have someone to complain to, and a friendship is less likely to break up than a marriage. So say Lisa Birnbach, Ann Hodgman, and Patricia Marx. The trio has teamed up once again for the newest addition to the highly successful 1,003 series, 1,003 Great Things About Friends. This hilariously funny book includes tidbits such as: Her clothes are your clothes. In a real emergency, she'll lend you her spouse. Someone to stalk your ex for you. Someone to glop on your henna paste/hair color/sunless suntan lotion. Someone who pretends she doesn't notice your "Gucci" bag was manufactured in the Ivory Coast. At your wedding, your friend will talk to your great-uncle about his cataract operation so no one else has to. You can call a friend up on a Saturday night and ask her to the movies that very same night.

1,003 Great Things About Friends

Hodgman, Ann

Marx, Patricia

Andrews McMeel Publishing

Teachers are simply the best. They're the special breed of people who strive to infuse us with an appreciation for the miraculous world in which we live and a sincere passion for learning. What better way to sing their praises than by declaring more than a thousand great things about them? That's what the successful author trio of Birnbach, Hodgman, and Marx does in this fourth book of their highly successful 1,003 Great Things series. This wonderfully humorous book features entries such as:
 o They are as happy about Friday as you are.
o They tend to have highly legible handwriting.
o Who else knows how important it is to be line leader?
o They are excellent spellers.
o Teachers know about Roman numerals.
o They are more afraid of the principal than you are.
o They lend you milk money when you forget yours.
o They're not in it for the money.

1,003 Great Things About Teachers

* When you're sick in bed, she'll let you watch horrible soap operas and infomercials. * She's not offended when you pour ketchup all over the dinner she makes for you. * At the peak of your ugly phase, she still thinks you're cute. In delightfully droll bullet points and wacky boxed lists, this tribute to mothers everywhere provides a thousand--make that a thousand and three--reasons to acknowledge and appreciate that all-important female parent in our lives. How did these three talented authors find so many truisms about motherhood? Everyone who has a mother will understand completely once they get their hands on 1,003 Great Things About Moms. It's a sweet and sassy look at what makes moms so special.

1003 Great Things About Moms

Religion & Spirituality

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Books by Birnbach, Lisa

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True Prep: It's a Whole New Old World

Lisa Birnbach's College Book

True Prep: It's a Whole New Old World

Lisa Birnbach's college book

Going to Work

The Official Preppy Handbook

Lisa Birnbach's New and Improved College Book (LISA BIRNBACH'S COLLEGE BOOK)

1,003 Great Things About Friends

1,003 Great Things About Teachers

1003 Great Things About Moms