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by Scott McCloud Publisher Comments Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, this innovative comic book provides a detailed look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Laurie Notaro Publisher Comments The first novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club is a rollicking tale of small-town peculiarity, dark secrets, and one extraordinary beauty pageant. When her husband is offered a post at a small... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Laurie Notaro Publisher Comments Introducing Laurie Notaro, the leader of the Idiot Girls' Action Adventure Club. Every day she fearlessly rises from bed to defeat the evil machinations of dolts, dimwits, and boobs--and that's before she even puts on a bra.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by New Scientist Publisher Comments Following the immensely popular "Does Anything Eat Wasps?," this compendium from popular science magazine "New Scientist" has even more of the baffling questions, outlandish explanations, and scientific strangeness that makes this book compulsively... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Amy Sedaris Publisher Comments An unconventional hostess offers a warm and witty guide to the art of entertaining, furnishing a treasury of recipes, helpful advice, and offbeat tips on how to pull off a party with extraordinary flair regardless of the occasion, covering such topics as... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price $19.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Darby Conley Publisher Comments On the comics scene of late, Get Fuzzy has made the fur fly. Now syndicated in more than 175 newspapers, this freshly amusing strip has rapidly become the new darling among readers who enjoy pets with an attitude.... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Frank Warren Powells.com Staff Pick In the movie, In the Mood for Love, Tony Leung whispers his most secret thoughts into a hole in the ruined temple of Angkor Wat. In Bethlehem, pilgrims write out their prayers and wishes and stuff them into tiny cracks between the bricks at the Western... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 $12.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Michael A Stusser Publisher Comments Journalist Michael Stusser has created 45 interviews with some of the most famous personalities of all time, asking them probing questions about their lives, accomplishments, and whats on their iPods.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jon Stewart From Powells.com Why do we love America so much? For the much-celebrated naked pictures of Supreme Court justices? The flashbacks to those stultifyingly dull high school textbooks? Or can it be that seeing the polished irreverence of the Daily Show writers in book form... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Steve Martin Powells.com Staff Pick At times uproarious, often sentimental, and always laced with the wit and charm we've come to expect from Steve Martin, this is a warm and enjoyable portrait of his life in stand-up from childhood to his last show in 1981. Recommended by Ann, Powells.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Karl Pilkington Publisher Comments When The Ricky Gervais Show free podcasts were first launched this past winter, they racked up a record-setting 4 million downloads. And when the creators started charging for the podcasts, they went straight to number 1 on bestseller lists in the US and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht and Dozens of Experts Powells.com Staff Pick Are you one of those take-charge guys or gals? Do you seek vital knowledge that'll make you a hero? How to fend off a shark? How to break down a door? How to deliver a baby in a taxicab? Then you need The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 $12.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Noel Botham Publisher Comments Thousands of things you didn't think you needed to know-and probably don't. All you never needed to know, and couldn't be bothered to ask. One person's useless information could prove invaluable to someone else. Then again, maybe not. But to The Useless... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Matt Groening Publisher Comments Welcome to the remarkable first four issues of Simpsons Comics, brought to you by the Bongo Comics Group, a small but overachieving band of merry artists, designers, lawyers and publicists. Their work looks effortless, but the Bongo gang has shed several... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Laurie Notaro Powells.com Staff Pick Laurie Notaro is so funny it is scary. So funny, in fact, you'll wet your pants while reading the biting, hilarious essays in We Thought You Would Be Prettier. Or maybe that's just me. Move over David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs, and even George Carlin ... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Bill Watterson Publisher Comments They're back: Calvin, the six-year-old dirty trickmeister and master of indignation, and his warm, cuddly philosopher sidekick, Hobbes. In six short years this unlikely duo has captured the hearts and minds--and funnybones--of America. This treasury... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Darby Conley Publisher Comments When he was a child, Darby Conley used to wonder what his beloved pooch was thinking. That curiosity led to his creation of the hilarious strip Get Fuzzy in 1999, which has rapidly become one of the most popular cartoons in newspaper syndication... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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