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The Uncommon Reader
by Alan Bennett  Publisher Comments From the author of "The History Boys" and "The Clothes They Stood Up In" comes a deliciously funny novella that celebrates the pleasure of reading....
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Book of the Subgenius
by Ivan Stang Publisher Comments Sometimes a book goes too far. Sometimes is... now. <P>First, there was "The Gilgamesh". <P>Then... the "Bhagavad-Gita" <P>Then... the "Torah", the "New Testament", the "Koran" <P>Then... the "Book of Mormon", "Dianetics", "I'm OK...
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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
by Christopher Moore 
Powells.com Staff Pick Christopher Moore's Lamb is an utterly hilarious take on the story of Jesus. Told from the perspective of Jesus' smart-ass best friend, Biff, it is irreverent without being disrespectful. Lamb, or any of Moore's books, would be perfect for someone who...
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Wake Up, Sir!: A Novel
by Jonathan Ames
Powells.com Staff Pick Wake Up, Sir! is a brilliant work of fiction that just happens to be laugh-out-loud funny, to boot (though it also has a stirring underlying sadness). Jonathan Ames is a daring and deeply honest writer whose work abounds with tender and heartbreaking...
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Holidays on Ice
by David Sedaris
Publisher Comments A new holiday classic from the author of the bestselling Naked and Barrel Fever! Holidays On Ice collects six of David Sedaris's most profound Christmas stories into one slender volume perfect for use as a last-minute coaster or ice scraper. This...
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Urban Dictonary: Fularious Street Slang Defined
by Aaron Peckham Publisher Comments Urbandictionary.com is a wildly successful site that encourages users to define the world with their own unique terms. In Urban Dictionary, site founder Aaron Peckham culls his more than 170,000 definitions for the funniest, wittiest, and most...
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Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why It Often Sucks in The City, or Who Are These Idiots and Why Do
by Jen Lancaster Publisher Comments Jen Lancaster hates to burst your happy little bubble, but life in the big city isn't all it's cracked up to be. Contrary to what you see on TV and in the movies, most urbanites aren't party-hopping in slinky dresses and strappy stilettos. But lucky for...
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The Egg and I
by Betty MacDonald Publisher Comments The author relates the joys and frustrations of life on a poultry farm in the mountains of Washington....
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Practical Demonkeeping
by Christopher Moore Publisher Comments In this outrageous debut novel that introduced Moore to an unsuspecting literary community, readers meet Travis, a 100-year-old ex-seminarian and scholar, and Catch, a demon with a nasty habit of eating most of the people he meets....
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Mission Accomplished! or How We Won the War in Iraq: The Experts Speak
by Christopher Cerf Publisher Comments Mission Accomplished! Or How We Won the War in Iraq is the definitive collection -- systematically categorized, indexed, and footnoted for your convenience -- of authoritative misinformation, disinformation, misunderstanding, miscalculation, egregious...
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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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101 Things to Do Before You're Old and Boring
by Richard Horne Publisher Comments There is nothing worse than being boring, except for being old and boring! This exciting new book will help teens discover 101 ways to live life to its fullest before it’s too late. The interactive format contains fill-in pages, checklists...
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The Three-Martini Playdate: A Practical Guide to Happy Parenting
by Christie Mellor Publisher Comments Dozens of short, wickedly funny chapters skewer today's parental absurdities and remind us how to make child-rearing a kick. Mellor's hilarious, refreshing and useful advice rights the balance between parent and child....
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Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
by Christopher Moore Publisher Comments Just why do humpback whales sing? That's the question that has marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn and his crew poking, charting, recording, and photographing very big, wet, gray marine mammals. Until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts its tail...
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The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
by Christopher Moore Publisher Comments A sea monster named Steve--who has developed a "thing" for explosive oil tanker trucks--terrorizes newly libidinous Pine Cove, California, in the latest outrageous novel by the author of "Practical Demonkeeping"and "Island of the Sequined Nun."...
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century—1951—in the middle of the...
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The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)
by Bill Watterson Publisher Comments The week it hit the stores, Watterson's Weirdos from Another Planet! touched down at No.l on Walden's and B. Dalton's bestselling lists and No. 2 on the New York Times bestseller list. How to top such success? With The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes, a...
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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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Dirty Job (06 Edition)
by Christopher Moore Publisher Comments < p> Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay& #8212; until people start...
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Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest to Discover If Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pie Is Not the Answer
by Jen Lancaster Publisher Comments Personal Training, Session One: I'm standing at the front desk, waiting for the mythical "Barbie" to appear. While I was sucking down water and aspirin earlier today, trying to shed my hangover, I started thinking about how judgmental I can be. I mean...
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