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Go the F**k to Sleep by Adam Mansbach Staff Pick Riotous and perfectly apt, Go the F**k to Sleep is destined to become the rallying cry for parents across the nation. We nod. We guffaw. We stream tears of glee as we pump fists in the air, whisper-shouting, "Yes — been there!" This book speaks the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Point Your Face at This: Drawings by Demetri Martin Publisher Comments The New York Times bestselling author and comedian is back in a smaller, softer format. In his first book, This Is a Book, Demetri Martin introduced fans and readers to his unique brand of long-form humor writing. Now Demetri returns with an eclectic... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris Staff Pick Completely autobiographical and, as always, hilarious, Me Talk Pretty One Day is my favorite of all the David Sedaris collections. The first half of the book focuses on his childhood in North Carolina and his very unusual family; the second half details... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bossypants by Tina Fey Publisher Comments Before Liz Lemon, before Weekend Update, before Sarah Palin, Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris Staff Pick Always a delight, never a disappointment, David Sedaris has come out with his finest offering yet. He has a deft touch, moving between sarcasm and sadness or, in this collection, between redneck babysitters and quitting smoking.... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Bossypants 1st Edition by Tina Fey Staff Pick Readers sometimes lower the bar when it comes to the quality of celebrity memoirs, but, in this case, we can all breathe a sigh of relief. Tina Fey is a legitimately talented writer, and the stories from her personal life are just as zany and... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Weirdos from Another Planet!: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection (Calvin and Hobbes) by Bill Watterson Publisher Comments "Flashes of innovative genius abound. Exploring the world of Calvin and Hobbes is great therapy. The antics of the precocious boy and his suave stuffed tiger pal can pull anyone out of the doldrums." --Amarillo News Globe In Calvin and Hobbes book... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Scientific Progress Goes "Boink" (Calvin and Hobbes) by Bill Watterson Publisher Comments Calvin and Hobbes touched the hearts (and funny bones) of the millions who read the award-winning strip. One look at this Calvin and Hobbes collection and it is immediately evident that Bill Watterson's imagination, wit, and sense of adventure were... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury by Bill Watterson Publisher Comments The Essential Calvin and Hobbes is an over-size anthology-type book including an original 16-page story and color Sunday cartoons.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book: A Collection of Sunday Calvin and Hobbes Cartoons by Bill Watterson Publisher Comments The magical friendship shared by Calvin and his stuffed tiger Hobbes has endeared them to millions of fans. Now, their friendship endures in a full-color collection of Sunday cartoons and original art done for the book, all fit for a lazy Sunday... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Im Too Young To Be Seventy & Other Decis by Judith Viorst Publisher Comments The beloved bestselling author of Forever Fifty and Suddenly Sixty tackles the ins and outs of becoming a septuagenarian with her usual wry good humor.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Uncle Shelby's Abz Book by Shel Silverstein Publisher Comments The notorious early Silverstein classic you WON'T want your children to read. I is for Ink Ink is black and wet. Ink is fun. What can you do with ink? What rhymes with ink? "D - R - __ - __ - __ ."... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Unstrung Harp by Edward Gorey Publisher Comments On November 18th of alternate years Mr Earbrass begins writing 'his new novel.' Weeks ago he chose its title at random from a list of them he keeps in a little green note-book. It being tea-time of the 17th, he is alarmed not to have thought of a plot to... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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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.... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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I Don't Care about Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Faux Sensitive Hipsters, Felons, and Other Guys I've by Julie Klausner Publisher Comments Read Julie Klausner's posts on the Penguin Blog In the tradition of Cynthia Heimel and Chelsea Handler, and with the boisterous iconoclasm of Amy Sedaris, Julie Klausner's candid and funny debut I Don't Care About Your Band sheds light on the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Pop-Up Book of Nightmares by Gary Greenberg Publisher Comments They're gripping, they're realistic, and they're universal--those primal scream-creating nightmares that every reader has had at one time or another. The Pop-Up Book of Nightmares brings them vividly to life with ten richly illustrated, over-the-top pop... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd Publisher Comments A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana, reissued in a strikingly designed paperback edition. Before Garrison Keillor and Spalding Gray there was Jean Shepherd: a master monologist and writer who spun the materials of his all... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Moranthology by Caitlin Moran Publisher Comments The follow-up to Caitlin Moran's breakout hit, How to Be a Woman—A hilarious collection of award-winning columns, available to American readers for the first time ever. Possibly the only drawback to the bestselling How to Be a Woman was... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Naked by David Sedaris From Powells.com Whether he is best known as a playwright, a radio personality, an essayist, or satirist, David Sedaris in Naked is screamingly funny. In the autobiographical essays that comprise Naked, Sedaris reveals his childhood compulsions (nervous... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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