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by Jack Kortum (Author), Ana Carolina Nicolau (Illustrator), Juan Nicolas Santillian (Illustrator)High Thoughts is a captivating compilation of original high thoughts that I have captured throughout the years. This unique book will challenge you to think about the world differently and the illustrations will give you insight into the high mind (and maybe your own mind too!). High Thoughts brings you into a world of introspective contemplation and confusion. This book will notmake sense if tak...

One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting in - Paperback

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by Kate Kennedy (Author)INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millennial zeitgeistOne in a Millennial is an exploration of pop culture, nostalgia, the millennial zeitgeist, and the life lessons learned (for better and for worse) from coming of age as a member of a much-maligned generation. Kate is a pop culture commentator and host of the popular millennial-focused podcast Be There in Five...

Out of Your Mind: The Biggest Mysteries of the Human Brain - Hardcover

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by Jorge Cham (Author), Dwayne Godwin (Author)From the creator of WE HAVE NO IDEA, an introductory journey into your own mind--if your inner voice had a Ph.D. in brain science, cracked jokes, and drew cartoons. Why do you love? Why do you lie? What makes you happy? Every single thought you have comes from one place: your brain. But what makes it tick? How much of it have we decoded, and how much of it remains an impenetrable mystery? Join best-selling author and online cartoonist Jorge Cham a...

The Big Book of Barf: A Spewnami of Sick Science, Hurled History, and Body Oddities - Hardcover

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by Vicky Lorencen (Author), Remy Simard (Illustrator)Did you know that there are glasses to prevent motion sickness...Or that astronauts can get "space sick"...This hilarious and wacky illustrated book is jam-packed with silly facts, crazy activities, and even recipes (Barf-day cake, anyone?) that will have you learning all about the fascinating world of barf, our bodies, and beyond. Yes, barf is gross. But...it also kind of tells us a lot about how our bodies work? Whether it's that saliva p...

Punishment-Free Parenting: The Brain-Based Way to Raise Kids Without Raising Your Voice - Hardcover

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by Jon Fogel (Author), Tina Payne Bryson (Foreword by)A no-judgment, simple-to-follow step-by-step parenting guide to help you manage your emotions, meet your child's needs with empathy, and create a calmer home--without ever resorting to threats or punishment Every parent has had that painful moment they realize there must be a better way to raise kids than the old-school yelling, threats, bribes, and punishment way. For Jon Fogel, that realization set him on a path toward wholeness: underst...

Sorry I Pooped in Your Shoe (and Other Heartwarming Letters from Doggie) - Paperback

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by Jeremy Greenberg (Author)Sorry I Pooped in Your Shoe is a hilarious collection of full-color photos and letters of apologies and suggestions from dogs to the people who love them--no matter what bad thing they've done Inside Sorry I Pooped in Your Shoe, writer and comedian Jeremy Greenberg presents a collection of 50 laugh-out-loud letters and accompanying full-color photographs that explain Fido's love of funky smells, why a ball needs to be thrown again, and practically every other lova...

Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers - Paperback

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by Nick Offerman (Author)The star of Parks and Recreation, co-host of Making It, and author of the New York Times bestseller Paddle Your Own Canoe returns with a second book that humorously highlights twenty-one figures from our nation's history, from her inception to present day--Nick's personal pantheon of "great Americans." To millions of people, Nick Offerman is America. Both Nick and his character, Ron Swanson, are known for their humor and patriotism in equal measure. After the great ...

Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar . . .: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes - Paperback

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by Thomas Cathcart (Author), Daniel Klein (Author)This New York Times bestseller is the hilarious philosophy course everyone wishes they'd had in school.Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar... has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors--and born vaudevillians--Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPR's Weekend Edition. Lively, original, and powerfully informative, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar... is a not-so-reverent crash course through the ...

Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood - Paperback

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by Drew Magary (Author)A sharp, funny, and heartfelt memoir from the author of The Night the Lights Went Out, The Hike, and The Postmortal about fatherhood and the ups and downs of raising a family in modern America No one writes about family quite like Drew Magary. In Someone Could Get Hurt, he reflects on his own parenting experiences to explore the anxiety, rationalizations, compromises, and overpowering love that come with raising children. In brutally honest and funny stories, Magary re...

X-Treme Latin: All the Latin You Need to Know for Survival in the 21st Century - Paperback

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by Henry Beard (Author)In staff meetings and singles bars, on freeways and fairways, there are aggravating people lurking everywhere these days. But bestselling humorist Henry Beard has the perfect comeback for all prickly situations, offering a slew of quips your nemesis won't soon forget . . . or even understand.Beard's gift is his ability to make fun of popular culture and the current zeitgeist. In X-Treme Latin he provides Latin with an attitude, an indispensable phrasebook that taps the ...

Dear Daughter: The Best of the Dear Leta Letters - Paperback

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by Heather Armstrong (Author)From the author of It Sucked and Then I Cried, creator of Dooce.com, and "Queen of the Mommy Bloggers" (The New York Times)--a collection of disarmingly honest, irreverent, and heartwarming letters that Heather wrote to her daughter, Leta, every month for the first seven years of her life. A mother's love is unconditional: There are quiet snuggles, off-key sing-alongs, un-controllable belly laughs, and daily miracles that only a parent can understand. Heather Arms...

Eat What You Want and Die Like a Man: The World's Unhealthiest Cookbook - Paperback

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by Steve Graham (Author)Eat healthy and live to be 100? Screw that. Why choke down bland, mushy, steamed veggies and brown rice when there's so much fat-laden, calorie-rich, heart-bursting cuisine out there to be savored? Because you want to live? So you can spend your golden years wandering aimlessly around a Florida shopping mall and eating dinner at 2 in the afternoon? So your rotten kids can plop you into some hellhole of a nursing home the minute you forget what day it is? Go ahead, t...

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by Simon Rich (Author)After a riotous debut collection, Ant Farm, Simon Rich returns to mine more comedy from our hopelessly terrifying world. In the nostalgic opening chapter, Rich recalls his fear of the Tooth Fairy ("Is there a face fairy?") and his initial reaction to the "Got-your-nose" game ("Please just kill me. Better to die than to live the rest of my life as a monster"). He gets inside the heads of two firehouse Dalmatians who can't understand their masters' compulsion to drive off ...

The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit: An A to Z Lexicon of Empty, Enraging, and Just Plain Stupid Office Talk - Paperback

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by Lois Beckwith (Author)This caustically funny Webster's of the workplace cuts to the true meaning of the inane argot spouted in cubicles and conference rooms across the land. It's time to face the facts: We live in the Golden Age of Bullshit. And as anyone who has ever worked in an office knows, the corporate world is a veritable sea of B.S.--and we are all drowning in it. Thank God for Lois Beckwith, an actual human being with the courage and moral fiber to cut through the crap (so to spe...

The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation (Revised Edition) - Paperback

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by Christopher Cerf (Author), Victor Navasky (Joint Author)The new and updated version of a classic reference work brings the history of distortions, errors, half-truths, and outright lies into the information age.Who said the following?-- "The one thing I won't let happen to me is I won't let a ball go through my legs".(1)-- "640K ought to be enough for anybody".(2)-- "Bill Clinton will lose to any Republican nominee who doesn't drool on stage".(3)When first published in 1984, The Experts Sp...

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by Spalding Gray (Author)In middle age Spalding Gray has entered "the Bermuda Triangle of Health," that place where the body begins to break down in alarming and humiliating ways. His immediate problem is an eye complaint that could be corrected with minor surgery. But for the high priest of high anxiety, nothing is ever minor. And so Gray embarks on a crazed crusade for wellness that takes him from a Native American sweat lodge to a dictatorial nutritionist and, finally, to a gory session wi...

If You Ask Me - Trade Paperbac - Paperback

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by Libby Gelman-Waxner (Author)Hi. I'm Libby Gelman-Waxner, and I'm an assistant buyer in juniors' activewear. While I find my work both rewarding and creative, especially with the new knits coming in, I want more. And so I decided to become a film critic.... Move over, Siskel & Ebert. Watch out, Leonard Maltin. And just forget saving that aisle seat, Mr. Medved. Libby Gelman-Waxner has arrived -- in the critic's circle, that is -- and the silver screen may never be the same again. Witty,...

Little League Confidential: One Coach's Completely Unauthorized Tale of Survival - Paperback

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by Bill Geist (Author)Author BiographyBill Geist is the bestselling author of eight books, including the New York Times bestsellers Little League Confidential, Way Off the Road, and Good Talk Dad: The Birds and the Bees, and Other Conversations We Forgot to Have. Geist has contributed stories to the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker and other publications. Number of Pages: 224 Dimensions: 0.56 x 8.02 x 6.18 IN Publication Date: February 09, 1999

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by Lea Delaria (Author), Maggie Cassella (With)Rule #10: Learn all the rules...then break them. Lea DeLaria has been breaking rules all her life. Now she offers some of her own.... Cross Howard Stern with Sandra Bernhardt, add a one-two punch, and you have stand-up comic Lea DeLaria, who plays to rave reviews on and off the Broadway stage. Now, in this uproarious collection of essays, DeLaria shares her Modern Day Ten Commandments and X-Rated Rules for the World with anyone bold enough to rea...

The Unofficial Gay Manual: Living the Lifestyle (or at Least Appearing To) - Paperback

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by Kevin DiLallo (Author), Jack Krumholtz (Contribution by)Profusely illustrated with drawings, The Unofficial Gay Manual is hip enough to titillate the most jaded urbanite, and wholesome enough to take home to Mom -- an absolute must-have for gay men, their families and friends, and a hilarious eye-opener for just about everyone else. With essays, multiple-choice and true-false tests, lists, sidebars, and charts, the manual explains it all for you with items like: - Gaydar - How to Avoid Kil...

The Jewish Mothers' Hall of Fame - Paperback

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by Fred A. Bernstein (Author)Twenty-five fascinating, revealing interviews with the mothers of twenty-five high-achieving Jewish people, including the mothers of Stephen Spielberg, ex-convict Abbie Hoffman, Nobel Medalist Rosalyn Yalow, and more.Like other mothers in the book, Clara, who died recently, exemplified a life of hard work and sacrifice, as well as worry about her child when a teacher told her Rosalyn was a genius. ("I never met the man Einstein but I heard he was a little peculiar...

The Ultimate: The Great American Arguments Settled Once and for All - Paperback

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by William Poundstone (Author)A humorous trivia book that has the official and final word on what qualifies as the coolest, the best, the toughest, the most, and of course the ultimate. Readers will enjoy learning which rollercoaster is the best, and what was the most ingenious college prank. Those are only a sample of this trivia book that will entertain all readers.Author BiographyWilliam Poundstone studied physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of The Recurs...

The Collected Plays of Neil Simon - Paperback

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by Neil Simon (Author)The eight plays in the second volume of The Collected Plays of Neil Simon bear eloquent witness to the unique genius of a master playwright who so magnificently blended the joy of laughter and the love of life. This volume includes: - Little Me- The Gingerbread Lady- The Prisoner of Second Avenue- The Sunshine Boys- The Good Doctor- God's Favorite- California Suite- Chapter Two- And an Introduction by the author: "As Time Flies By" Nothing can take away the pleasure that...

The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection - Paperback

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by Wendy Northcutt (Author)The hilarious New York Times bestselling phenomenon and the perfect funny gift The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection brings together a fresh collection of the hapless, the heedless, and the just plain foolhardy among us. Salute the owner of an equipment training school who demonstrates the dangers of driving a forklift by failing to survive the filming of his own safety video. Gawk at the couple who go to sleep on a sloping roof. Witness the shepherd who leaves...

I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression - Paperback

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by Erma Bombeck (Author)A collection of mordantly hilarious and sharply-observed stories on motherhood from the bestselling author of Family--The Ties That Bind . . . And Gag Erma Bombeck has learned a few things about children and family over the years--and in a way that is uniquely and wonderfully her own, she shares everything she knows with her readers. Whether it's cleaning up after the kids and him, or expendable mothers-in-law, Erma Bombeck gets to the heart of the matter and makes us...

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by Kate Clinton (Author)Let's get one thing straight. I'm not. I'm out and proud. When I'm out and it's raining I carry an umbrella. I used to be in but I hate the smell of mothballs. My closet was huge, complete with a foyer, turnstile, a few dead bolts, and a burglar alarm that had to be deactivated before I could even touch the door handle. And then there was the storm door. It wasn't until I had lived and slept with a woman for a year that it occurred to me to ask, "Do you think we're les...

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by The Harvard Lampoon (Author)About three things I was absolutely certain. First, Edwart was most likely my soul mate, maybe. Second, there was a vampire part of him-which I assumed was wildly out of his control-that wanted me dead. And third, I unconditionally, irrevocably, impenetrably, heterogeneously, gynecologically, and disreputably wished he had kissed me. And thus Belle Goose falls in love with the mysterious and sparkly Edwart Mullen in the Harvard Lampoon's hilarious send-up of Twi...

Oldest Mom On The Playground - Paperback

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by Judy Haveson (Author)Judy Haveson always believed she would one day "have it all." Then she turned forty and wondered if she had waited too long. After countless failed first dates and fewer second ones, she finally found love, got married, and became a mother at forty-three.Oldest Mom on the Playground is a collection of relatable, heartwarming, and humorous essays. Written in her signature conversational style and with a touch of sarcasm, Judy takes readers on her journey of getting preg...

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by Simon Hanselmann (Author)Perpetually drunk and high, lovable degenerates Megg and Mogg have drifted through a life full of raucous antics and free of consequences. But their heavy drug use, once a gateway to adventure, has begun to take a grim psychological toll. As her unstable lifestyle finally catches up to her, Megg must turn to her past to uncover the roots of her self-destructive habits that have led her down this dark path. Number of Pages: 176 Dimensions: 0.8 x 11.7 x 8.4 IN Illust...

Mad, Madder, Maddest Mad Libs: World's Greatest Word Game - Paperback

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by Mad Libs (Author)Packed with ten complete Mad Libs books, this giant collection is the maddest Mad Libs yet Mad, Madder, Maddest Mad Libs includes ten Mad Libs books in one collection with oversize pages that make it easy to play and share with friends. The books included in this collection are: Shark Attack Mad Libs; Unidentified Flying Mad Libs; Presidential Mad Libs; Much Ado About Mad Libs; Unicorns, Mermaids, and Mad Libs; History of the World Mad Libs; Dog Ate My Mad Libs; Meow Lib...

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by Gary Larson (Author)Copyright (c) 1982 FarWorks, Inc. All rights reserved.The Far Side(R), FarWorks, Inc.(R), and the Larson(R) signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc. in certain countries.Author BiographyGary Larson was born August 14, 1950, in Tacoma, Washington. Always drawn to nature, he and his older brother spent much of their youth exploring the woods and swamps of the Pacific Northwest, and the tidelands and waters of Puget Sound. Though he loved to draw as a child, L...

Bold, Badass, and Bookish: Women Writers Who Made History - Paperback

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by Duopress Labs (Author)A homage to feminist icons in the literary world.The perfect gift for any book lover, this innovative format features a collection of beautifully illustrated book-puns and literary quotes alongside 25 detachable bookmarks that are the ideal companion for the next great read.Quotes, bios, fun facts, and illustrations of bold, visionary female writers fill each page. An Audre Lorde quote--"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then ...