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I Am America (and So Can You!)
by Stephen Colbert  
Powells.com Staff Pick Stephen Colbert is America — and since we live in America, we must also live in him. Think long and hard about that as you devour this book which should be required reading for all Americans, and by "Americans" I mean "Stephen Colbert's body parts."...
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Skinny Bitch in the Kitch: Kick-Ass Solutions for Hungry Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap (and Start Looking Hot!)
by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin Publisher Comments Skinny Bitches can bake their cake — and eat it too! Quit your bitching — they've heard you already! You read Skinny Bitch and it totally rocked your world. Now you want to know, "What can I cook that's good for me, but doesn't taste like...
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What It Is
by Lynda Barry Publisher Comments “Deliciously drawn (with fragments of collage worked into each page), insightful and bubbling with delight in the process of artistic creation. A+” —Salon How do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? For decades,...
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The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
by David Hajdu Publisher Comments In the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a mass medium, American popular culture as we know it was first created — in the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books. No sooner had this new culture emerged than it was...
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I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomething
by Rita Rudner Publisher Comments I bought a new wrinkle cream. If you use it once a day, you look younger in a month. Twice a day, you look younger in two weeks. I ate it. As the years go by, and the decades begin to pile up, people will do just about anything to reverse the signs of...
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The Dangerous Book for Dogs: A Parody by Rex and Sparky
by Joe Garden and Janet Ginsburg and Chris Pauls and Anita Serwacki and Scott Sherman
Publisher Comments A laugh-out-loud funny, illustrated guide for — and by — dogs, this book teaches canines how to do the very activities that human society says are wrong. The Dangerous Book for Dogs asks a simple question: isn't there more to being a dog...
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Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition
by The Onion
Powells.com Staff Pick The folks at the Onion are up to their usual shenanigans, this time bringing us an informative and wildly inaccurate atlas that fans will love. Recommended by Chandler, Powells.com...
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Lamentations of the Father: Essays
by Ian Frazier Publisher Comments When The Atlantic Monthly celebrated its 150th anniversary by publishing excerpts from the best writing ever to appear in the magazine, in the category of the humorous essay it chose only four pieces—one by Mark Twain, one by James Thurber, one by...
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Simpsons Comics Dollars to Donuts
by Matt Groening Synopsis Follow the plight and the flight of a lone five-dollar bill through the handsof several Springfield residents in Groening's latest collection....
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The Man Book
by Otto Defay Publisher Comments This book contains everything you need to know to be a man. Everything. It will prepare you for every situation you can imagine, from the office to the bedroom. It will improve your life no matter what you’re doing…whether you’re in a...
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This Is the Part Where You Pretend to Add Value: A Dilbert Book (Dilbert Book Collections Graphi)
by Scott Adams Publisher Comments "Ninety percent of ethics is picking the right ethicist." --Dilbert Scott Adams offers up his this Dilbert collection exploring themes of sloth and corporate indifference. The arbitrary, unspoken rules of interoffice emailing, the random policy generator,...
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Sex and Sensibility: Ten Women Examine the Lunacy of Modern Love... in 200 Cartoons
by Liza Donnelly Publisher Comments Sex and Sensibility is a book of 150 cartoons, all by female cartoonists, that captures the zeitgeist of sex and love today. Many of these selections would never have been published ten years ago due to their being too risque or tackling subject matter...
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I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman (Vintage)
by Nora Ephron Publisher Comments With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of...
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How to Raise a Jewish Dog
by Ellis Weiner Synopsis Everything a dog owner needs to know to nurture a canine companion with both an exaggerated sense of his own wonderfulness and paralyzing self doubt, this text bursts with sage practical advice distilled from decades of experience training dogs of all...
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A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body: Tales from a Life of Cringe
by Lauren Weedman
Powells.com Staff Pick The funniest book I've read in years, Lauren Weedman's A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body made my face hurt with laughter. I compulsively read it out loud to whomever happened to be around, and recommended it to everyone I met. A Woman Trapped in a Woman...
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(Not That You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions
by Steve Almond
Powells.com Staff Pick Funny. Really, really funny. I have been a fan of Steve Almond's books for what seems like forever, but Not That You Asked is the show-stopper of them all. A hilarious tome, with lots of laugh-out-loud details. Recommended by Danielle, Powells.com...
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Things I've Learned from Women Who've Dumped Me
by Ben Karlin Publisher Comments The Emmy award-winning former executive producer of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report has assembled a stellar lineup of men who have one thing in common: all have been dumped...and are willing to share their pain and the lessons learned...
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Asshole: How I Got Rich & Happy by Not Giving a Damn about Anyone & How You Can, Too
by Martin Kihn Publisher Comments Nice guys, pushovers, soft-touches and suckers: Tired of being walked all over? When the waiter brings you something you didn’t order, do you assume he knows best? Are you ready to demand the respect you deserve? Martin Kihn doesn’t care what...
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The Rejection Collection Vol. 2: The Cream of the Crap
by Matthew Diffee Publisher Comments Each week The New Yorker receives more than five hundred submissions from its regular cartoonists, who are all vying for one of the twenty coveted spots in the magazine. So what happens to the 75 percent of cartoons that don't make the cut? Some go back...
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The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes (Vintage)
by Mcsweeney's Publisher Comments As John Hodgman says in this book's introduction, “We all know that books are funny. First, they are made of paste and cloth, which is funny, as is the fact that people still buy and read them.” With that in mind, the McSweeney's Joke Book of...
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