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by Patrick Dennis Publisher Comments Wildly successful when it was first published in 1955, Patrick Dennis' Auntie Mame sold over two million copies and stayed put on the "New York Times bestseller list for 112 weeks. It was made into a play, a Broadway as well as a Hollywood musical, and a... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Bill Watterson Publisher Comments Here is the all-inclusive chronicle of events beginning with the day Hobbes sprang into Calvin's tuna-fish trap and their friendship was forged forever. Essential not only for its thoroughness, including full-color Sunday cartoons, but also for the never-... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (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 Susan Jane Gilman Publisher Comments Based on the belief that there's more to women's lives than just getting a date, Gilman's stories tell of struggling to get a life and a clue and engaging in some spectacularly demented behavior along the way. Whether she's an uncool white kid in... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Edward Gorey Publisher Comments Available for the first time since 1970, this quirky tale is vintage Gorey. Poor Donald has a splinter in his foot. His mother distracts him, urging him to think of markets, strings, and battles. But when she treats the wound with alcohol, Donald's... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Frank Warren Powells.com Staff Pick Who doesn't love that feeling of looking through someone else's mail without the risk of getting caught? Here, Warren presents another collection of intimate confessions, shared secrets, and endless pleasure for voyeurs and students of the human... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Matt Groening Publisher Comments It's another sidesplitting series of adventures as America's most popular cartoon family returns to the big colorful comic pages in this latest addition to the bestselling Simpsons anthologies. In Simpsons Comics Strike Back, Groening fans are treated to... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Matt Groening Publisher Comments "The Simpsons" -- the quintessential middle American nuclear family -- have become a cultural icon. Beloved by millions of viewers, the Emmy Award-winning series made television history by bringing animation back to prime time, rapidly becoming one of... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Matt Groening Publisher Comments Is Lisa really drifting helplessly toward bohemianism? Is Homer really a hitman in a Parallel-Universe Springfield? Can Marge manage her own day care center without provoking a bloodbath? Read on...... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 $9.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Oliver Lutz Radtke Synopsis Chinglish offers a humorous and insightful look at misuses of the English language in Chinese street signs, products, and advertising. A ling-standing favorite of English speaking tourists and visitors, Chinglish is now quickly becoming a culture relin:... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by P J Orourke Publisher Comments Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was first published in 1776, and was recognised as the fundamental work of economics. The Wealth of Nations was also recognised as being really long. And as P.J. O'Rourke points out, to understand The Wealth of Nations,... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Mario Digiorgio Publisher Comments A parody that is the antithesis of self help books. The original pile of eloquent filth. Some have suggested that this black cloud of wisdom is, in fact, the Anti-Christ in paperback. But you know better. You know there comes a time when children need... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Cynthia Kaplan Publisher Comments "I wonder if there is any way I can tell this story and have it seem like I did it in the name of those dolphins that get caught in the tuna nets." Meet Cynthia Kaplan, whose debut collection of personal stories is so much fun to read because of her... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (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
by Jerry Scott Publisher Comments Adolescence is a time of painful growth and unpredictable change, when kids come packaged in a jumble of baggy jeans, rolling eyeballs, and grunting communication. Cartoonists Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman have captured the humor of that challenging time... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Joshua Piven Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of "The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook" comes the ultimate guide to making impossible choices.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Cy Tymony Publisher Comments More than a do-it-yourself guide, this quirky collection of over 80 solutions and bonus applications is a valuable resource for transforming ordinary objects such as paper clips and tape into the extraordinary. Whether you use this book as a practical... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Wendy Northcutt Publisher Comments The hilarious pop culture phenomenon that landed on bestseller lists across the country is now available in trade paperback. These tales of trial and awe-inspiring error illustrate the ongoing saga of survival of the fittest in all its selective glory.... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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