David Sedaris' new collection of essays - including live recordings! - tells a most unconventional life story. It begins with a North Carolina childhood filled with speech-therapy classes ("There was the lisp, of course, but more troubling than that was my voice itself, with its excitable tone and h ...
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Jodi Picoult's twelfth novel is permeated with themes from Dante's INFERNO. Daniel Stone, a successful graphic novelist, is working on a new book about a man not unlike himself who is able to morph into a bloodthirsty animal named Wildclaw when his anger is roused. Daniel's wife, Laura, is a profess ...
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An account of the decade-long conflict between humankind and hordes of the predatory undead is told from the perspective of dozens of survivors--soldiers, politicians, civilians, and others--who describe in their own words the epic human battle for survival. By the author of The Zombie Survival Guid ...
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A satirical "award" celebrating the worst traits of humanity features the man who used a cigarette lighter to check his gas level, the surfers who celebrated an oncoming hurricane with a beach party, the scatter-brained terrorist who opened his own letter bomb (and scattered his own brains) among ot ...
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An unusual memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father, a historic preservation expert dedicated to restoring the family's Victorian home, funeral home director, high-school English tea ...
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Half of American adults read in the bathroom--and "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader" series has been with them for over a decade with facts, quotes, history, pop culture, and gossip.
In this witty fable, the minstrel prince wins the heart of the evil Duke's ward Selinda, and in order to delay the day of her leaving, the Duke stops all the clocks in his castle. The prince must not only save her, but also get the clocks ticking again.
In an alternately heartwarming and bittersweet tale, a mother notices that her son is slightly different from the other children, and must learn to cope with both the overwhelming discovery of her child's autism and the trials of raising him while keeping her family together. Original.
One of the more traumatic aspects of reaching age 40 is the realization that you no longer have the same body you had when you were 21. I know I don't. Sometimes when I take a shower I look down at my body and I want to scream: "Hey, THIS isn't my body! THIS body belongs to Willard Scott!"
<p>In this hilarious new book, Scott Adams introduces the Weasel Zone -- the giant gray area between good moral behavior and outright criminality. It's where your coworkers, bosses, salespeople, CEOs, human resource executives, hotel clerks, home repair people, and loved ones reside.</p> <p>In twent ...
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From the winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary comes a new collection of Dave Barry's greatest hits. From coed softball to airline flights, no subject is sacred!
This is an extraordinarily bizarre and extremely funny compendium of totally useless and--as the author himself proudly admits--entirely apocryphal facts. Readers will gain new insight into such edifying topics as "On Actuaries and Their Tattoos"; learn about the secret, skull-lined tunnel connectin ...
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mehitabel is a cat on her ninth life archy is her friend the cockroach they type in lower case because they cannot manage the shift key on the typewriter it was 1927 when this book was first published a free verse poem celebrating affection and squalor among urban fauna this all happens while we're ...
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Now more than ever, Americans are troubled by questions. As sweaty modernity thrusts itself upon us, the veil of ignorance that cloaked our nation hangs in tatters, tattered tatters. Our "funny bones" are neither fun nor bony. Glum is the new giddy, and the old giddy wasn't too giddy to be ...
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Childhood, Love, School, and Work are not just the stages of life; they are also the four "Hell" books by Matt Groening that have sold than one-and-a-half million copies. Big Book of Hell is an anthology of new and classic "life in Hell" cartoons with an introduction by the author. Fans of Matt's ea ...
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Long before the mega-selling "Politically Correct Bedtime Stories" invaded bookstores, Americans were getting their giggles from "Fractured Fairy Tales", now available for the first time in a read-aloud paperback.
Featuring the writing and illustration that has made the animated MTV sitcom a hit, the inside story of the high-school misfit reveals her true opinions about her parents, sister, and companions. Original.
Florence King's hilarious memoir of being reared in an eccentric Southern family by a grande dame grandmother who tried to hammer her into the shape of a true Southern lady. Was Granny successful? That is for the readers to decide, but they'll laugh uproariously as they do.
A glimpse into the absurdities and realities of female existence in the early 1970s discusses the media, politics, the first female umpire, and beauty products.
In a fictional memoir, popular girl detective Nancy Drew Nickerson sets the record straight about her life and her investigative exploits, revealing that Carolyn Keene, Nancy's college roommate, shamelessly plagiarized her tales from Nancy's real-life adventures, and offers startling revelations abo ...
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The creators of The Onion present a collection of hilariously subversive news stories from their popular humor website, including such topical and timely events as "Clinton Deploys Vowels to Bosnia," "Jesus Christ Returns to NBA," and "Microsoft Patents Ones, Zeroes." Original.
These are three witty, spooky novellas of satire set in academia -- a world where Derrida rules, love is a "complicated ideological position", and poetic justice is served with a supernatural twist. Combining the wit of David Lodge with Poe's delicious sense of the macabre, Publish and Perish was an ...
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From the author of "Republican Party Reptile" and "Give War a Chance" comes a hilarious look at domestic life--an essential guide to the practical business of living in the modern world--or, as O'Rourke puts it", . . . a book about cooking, cleaning, and housekeeping for people who don't how to do a ...
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