The story of children fighting and surviving cancer is a tale of innocent courage and remarkable strength of character in the face of a seemingly implacable foe

Provides a satirical view of motherhood, suburbia, and the problems of contemporary family life

Product Description: "America's irrepressible doyenne of domestic satire."THE BOSTON GLOBEMadcap, 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...read more

Product Description: A cherished family reunion sets the stage of Erma Bombeck's predictably hilarious recollections of raising a family. Her conclusion: you can't live with them, you can't live without them...or can you...?

Product Description: "Her audience is everyone who has ever married, had children, gotten to middle age, owned a dog or a duck."DALLAS TIMES HERALDIn this book Erma comes out--out of the kitchen--with these gems:No longer will she be the only woman on the block to wear a slip under a see-through sweater, or feel guilty if the sun sets on an empty crockpot, nor will she care that she flunked her paper towel test...read more

Gathers the author's humorous essays about family life, teenagers, housework, pregnancy, and marriage

Product Description: At Wit's End, Aunt Erma's Cope Book, The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank and If Life is a Bowl of Cherries What am I Doing in the Pits?

A self-described 'Sub-Total Woman,' Bombeck gently satirizes America's raging how-to/self-help mania, focusing on such national pastimes as Sensual Needlepoint and Inner Bowling