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A Goomba's Guide to Life
A Goomba's Guide to Life
by Steven R Schirripa
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Can't distinguish "gabagool" from "pasta fozool"? Not sure how to properly accessorize a track suit with gold chains? Does the phrase "go to the mattresses" make you sleepy? No problem, because Steve Schirripa exposes the inner mysteries of a unique... (read more)

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Blighty: The Quest for Britishness, Britain, Britons, Britishness and the British
Blighty: The Quest for Britishness, Britain, Britons, Britishness and the British
by Steve Lowe
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Having skewered modern British life in the bestselling Is It Just Me or is Everything Shit?, Steve Lowe and Alan MacArthur set out to uncover the deep dark truth about Britain—its history, its myths, and its people. Over the course of a year they... (read more)

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Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank: A Slightly Tarnished Southern Belle's Words of Wisdom
Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank: A Slightly Tarnished Southern Belle's Words of Wisdom
by Celia Rivenbark
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Bestselling, award-winning humorist Rivenbark sums up American life--and especially the South--in all its glorious excesses and contradictions, in this collection of screamingly funny essays.... (read more)

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You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning
You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning
by Celia Rivenbark
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From the author of the bestselling classics Were Just Like You, Only Prettier, and Bless Your Heart, Tramp, comes a collection of essays so funny, youll shoot cocola out of your nose. Topics include such gems as: • Why Miss North Carolina is too... (read more)

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A Field Guide to Southern Speech
A Field Guide to Southern Speech
by Charles Nicholson
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Build your outdoor Southern vocabulary the right way. Charles Nicholson, an outdoor writer and life-long Southerner, decodes the speech of the Southern outdoorsman, complete with examples, illustrations, and definitions.... (read more)

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The Redneck Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree
The Redneck Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree
by Jeff Foxworthy
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Foxworthy celebrates the loving bond between fathers and their children. Bonds such as: You might be a redneck if your dad walks you to school because you are in the same grade. Your dad encourages you to quit school because Larry has an opening at the... (read more)

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How to Talk Minnesotan: A Visitor's Guide
How to Talk Minnesotan: A Visitor's Guide
by Howard Mohr
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Based in part on material written for "A Prairie Home Companion", How to Talk Minnesotan will help visitors to Minnesota keep from sticking out like sore thumbs when they don't know the difference between "not too bad a deal" and "a heckuva deal... (read more)

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Whiter Shades of Pale: The Stuff White People Like, Coast to Coast, from Seattle's Sweaters to Maine's Microbrews
Whiter Shades of Pale: The Stuff White People Like, Coast to Coast, from Seattle's Sweaters to Maine's Microbrews
by Christian Lander
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If you thought you had white people pegged as Oscar-party-throwing, Prius-driving, Sunday New York Times–reading, self-satisfied latte lovers — you were right. But if you thought diversity was just for other races, then hang on to your eco... (read more)

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Scuse Me While I Whip This Out: Reflections on Country Singers, Presidents, and Other Troublemakers
Scuse Me While I Whip This Out: Reflections on Country Singers, Presidents, and Other Troublemakers
by Kinky Friedman
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Kinky Friedman is back, and with 'Scuse Me While I Whip This Out he gets it on with all manner of egos. In this collection of twisted takes on life, the Kinkster gives us funny, irreverent, and insightful looks at outsized personalities from people he's... (read more)

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El Super
El Super
by Kurt Hollander
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If you are what you eat, then it would follow that grocery shopping is the way you construct your identity, and that markets and grocery stores are the laboratories in which whole cultures build theirs--as well as an early place to spot changes. This... (read more)

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Laughter in Appalachia: A Festival of Southern Mountain Humor
Laughter in Appalachia: A Festival of Southern Mountain Humor
by Loyal Jones
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A sampling of the highlights of Appalachian humor, collected from the Festival of Appalachian Humor, with illustrations by Jacqueline Froelich.... (read more)

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Sex, Drugs & Gefilte Fish: The Heeb Storytelling Collection
Sex, Drugs & Gefilte Fish: The Heeb Storytelling Collection
by Shana Liebman
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Scoring weed for your uncle...Hanging out with porn stars on Christmas Eve...Eating nachos with the Mossad...Observing the Dyke Days of Awe...Getting held up at a Weight Watcher's meeting...Spying on your naked Hebrew School teacher. From Heeb magazine... (read more)

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Here Speeching American
Here Speeching American
by Kathryn Petras
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THE STRANGEST (AND FUNNIEST) TRAVEL GUIDE YOULL EVER READ The celebrated authors of the perennial bestseller The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said set the typical travel guide squarely on its head-taking you from the airport to the hotel, from sightseeing... (read more)

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Belle Weather: Mostly Sunny with a Chance of Scattered Hissy Fits
Belle Weather: Mostly Sunny with a Chance of Scattered Hissy Fits
by Celia Rivenbark
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Hang on to your hats We're in for some fiercely funny weather and crackling-sharp observations from Celia Rivenbark, of whom USA Today has said, Think Dave Barry with a female point of view. With her incomparable style and sassy southern wit, you'll hear... (read more)

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Grits Friends Are Forevah: A Southern-Style Celebration of Women
Grits Friends Are Forevah: A Southern-Style Celebration of Women
by Deborah Ford
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From the bestselling author of The GRITS Guide to Life and Puttin’ on the Grits, a welcome serving of friendship—Southern-style Whether they’re called Sweet Potato Queens, Steel Magnolias, Ya-Ya Sisters, or Belles, everybody knows that Southern girls... (read more)

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Shingling the Fog and Other Plains Lies
Shingling the Fog and Other Plains Lies
by Roger Welsch
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"Roger Welsch has an uncanny facility for producing books in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Like his earlier Sod Walls: The Story of the Nebraska Sod House, this volume is a collection of many bits and pieces that, taken as a... (read more)

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The Outhouse Papers: Country Humor and Trivia
The Outhouse Papers: Country Humor and Trivia
by Wayne Erbsen
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A hilarious book of country humor and trivia that gathers together jokes, slang, stories, folklore, and facts on a broad range of topics.... (read more)

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Diplomatic Incidents: The Memoirs of an (Un)Diplomatic Wife
Diplomatic Incidents: The Memoirs of an (Un)Diplomatic Wife
by Cherry Denman
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The hilariously and candid memoirs of an (un)diplomatic wife Cherry Denman offers her witty take on 25 years trailing husband Charlie, a UK diplomat, around some of the most farflung outposts of the world. Describing... (read more)

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A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism: Fables from a Mouse, a Parrot, a Bear, a Cat, a Mole, a Pig, a Dog, and a Raven
A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism: Fables from a Mouse, a Parrot, a Bear, a Cat, a Mole, a Pig, a Dog, and a Raven
by Slavenka Drakulic
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A wry, cutting deconstruction of the Communist empire by one of Eastern Europe's exceptional authors. Called "a perceptive and amusing social critic, with a wonderful eye for detail" by The Washington Post, Slavenka Drakulic-a native of Croatia-has... (read more)

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Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady
Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady
by Florence King
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Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady is Florence King's classic memoir of her upbringing in an eccentric Southern family, told with all the uproarious wit and gusto that has made her one of the most admired writers in the country. Florence may have been... (read more)

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