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In Amy Poehler's highly anticipated first book, Yes Please, she offers up a big juicy stew of personal stories, funny bits on sex and love and friendship and parenthood and real life advice (some useful, some not so much). Powered by Amy's charming and hilarious, biting yet wise voice, and including a star-studded guest list of vocal appearances.

If you love Unicorns, you'll love this audiobook. Jokes are an important part of growing up. A day without laughing and learning is a day wasted. You do not have to understand every joke. You will get it as you grow older. If you don’t get a joke, you can do several things: Ask someone else to explain the joke, think about the joke and try to figure it out yourself, forget about the joke until you are older, or pretend like you get the joke and laugh. To remember any joke, you tell 10 or more different people the same joke and then it’s yours and you will remember it!

In 1957, when Amy Turner was four-years-old, her father had to be talked down from a hotel ledge by a priest. The story of his attempted suicide received nationwide press coverage, and he spent months in a psychiatric facility before returning home. From then on, Amy constantly worried about him for reasons she didn't yet fully understand, triggering a pattern of hypervigilance that would plague her into adulthood.