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A Modern Man: The Best of George Carlin
$19.99 Add to cartA new collection of greatest hits from one of the greatest comedians of our time, George Carlin, now the subject of the HBO documentary George Carlin’s American Dream, directed by Judd Apatow and Mich
- Author: Carlin, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0306827093
- Language: English
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I’m Wearing Tunics Now: On Growing Older, Better, and a Hell of a Lot Louder
$26.99 Add to cartAn honest and hilarious memoir about second acts, self-acceptance, and celebrating what happens when a woman gets older, wiser, and a lot more excited by sales at Eileen Fisher.
A late bloomer who cam- Author: Aarons, Wendi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 152487373X
- Language: English
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Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral
$18.99 Add to cartFolks in the Delta have a strong sense of community, and being dead is no impediment to belonging to it. Down South, they don’t forget you when you’ve up and died–in fact, they visit you more often. … [more below]
- Author: Metcalfe, Gayden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 1401312837
- Language: English
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Positively Altered: Finding Happiness at the Bottom of a Chemo Bag
$17.95 Add to cartThirty-four stories, three postscripts, and one big message: Positively Altered is a call to action for every one of us to unapologetically live and love our own way no matter what challenges life br
- Author: Howard, Cindy M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Everybody’s Favorite: Tales from the World’s Worst Perfectionist
$27.99 Add to cart“Many have tried, and many will try, to capture the sweet, innocent insanity of life as a young girl during the ’90s and 2000s. None have come close to the comedic perfection Lillian Stone nails again
- Author: Stone, Lillian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 006324103X
- Language: English
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Dave Barry’s Book of Bad Songs
$9.99 Add to cartWhen funnyman Dave Barry asked readers about their least favorite tunes, he thought he was penning just another installment of his weekly syndicated humor column. But the witty writer was flabbergaste
- Author: Barry, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 1, 2000
- ISBN10: 0740706004
- Language: English
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The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtful, inspiring, and charming collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Keah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1982100540
- Language: English
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I’m Too Young to Be Seventy: And Other Delusions
$18.00 Add to cartThe beloved author of Forever Fifty and Suddenly Sixty tackles the ins and outs of becoming a septuagenarian with wry good humor. Fans of Viorst’s funny, touching, and wise decades poems will love the… [more below]
- Series: Judith Viorst’s Decades
- Author: Viorst, Judith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 1, 2005
- ISBN10: 0743267745
- Language: English
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The Big Bento Box of Unuseless Japanese Inventions: The Art of Chindogu
$14.95 Add to cartIn Japan, Kenji Kawakami is famous for his tireless promotion of Chindogu: the art of the unuseless idea. Kawakami has developed an entire philosophy around these bizarre and logic-defying gadgets and
- Author: Kawakami, Kenji
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 303
- Publish Date: April 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393326764
- Language: English
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In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash
$17.00 Add to cartA collection of humorous and nostalgic Americana stories–the beloved, bestselling classics that inspired the movie A Christmas Story
Before Garrison Keillor and Spalding Gray there was Jean Shepherd:- Author: Shepherd, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: 28-Apr-91
- ISBN10: 0385021747
- Language: English
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How Not to Become a Little Old Lady
$9.99 Add to cartYou can be little, and you can be old, but that doesn’t mean you have to be a little old lady.
We’ve all seen her. She’s hunched forward, her blue hair is tucked neatly under a plastic rain bonnet, sh- Author: McHugh, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0740722131
- Language: English
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We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.: Essays
$17.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – This essay collection from the “bitches gotta eat” blogger, writer on Hulu’s Shrill and HBO’s And Just Like That, and “one of our country’s most fierce and foulmouthed auth
- Author: Irby, Samantha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 30, 2017
- ISBN10: 1101912197
- Language: English
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Naked in the Rideshare: Stories of Gross Miscalculations
$25.00 Add to cartFrom Rebecca Shaw and Ben Kronengold, the youngest comedy writers ever for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and masterminds behind the viral 2018 Yale graduation speech, comes a hilarious collec
- Author: Shaw, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063215780
- Language: English
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Happy-Go-Lucky
$29.00 Add to cartDavid Sedaris, the “champion storyteller,” (Los Angeles Times) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso
Back when restaurant menus were still printed on p
- Author: Sedaris, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 31, 2022
- ISBN10: 0316392456
- Language: English
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Hello, Friends!: Stories of Dating, Destiny, and Day Jobs
$27.99 Read moreWELCOME TO A COMEDIC TRIP THROUGH THE LIFE OF ONE OF THE COUNTRY’S MOST EXCITING COMEDIANS. MEET DULC? SLOAN, WHOSE LIFE HAS BEEN AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY FILLED WITH LESSONS AND LAUGHTER. IN ADDITION TO… [more below]
- Author: Sloan, Dulc?
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 136809550X
- Language: English
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Wow, No Thank You.: Essays (Lambda Literary Award)
$17.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction Award Winner – A rip-roaring, edgy and unabashedly raunchy new collection of hilarious essays from the New York Times bests
- Author: Irby, Samantha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 31, 2020
- ISBN10: 0525563482
- Language: English
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Based on a True Story: Not a Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “Driving, wild and hilarious” (The Washington Post), here is the incredible “memoir” of the legendary actor, gambler, raconteur, and Saturday Night Live veteran.
When Norm- Author: MacDonald, Norm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0812983866
- Language: English
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Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome
$28.00 Read moreThe New Yorker Best Books of 2023
NPR’s Books We Love 2023 “A deeply honest and funny look at how exhausting it can be to live a human life, Unreliable Narrator is a book for anyone who wants to laugh- Author: Nancherla, Aparna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1984879804
- Language: English
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Cheerfulness
$21.95 Add to cartIn Cheerfulness, veteran radio host and author Garrison Keillor reflects on a simple virtue that can help us in this stressful and sometimes gloomy era. Drawing on personal anecdotes from his young ad
- Author: Keillor, Garrison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: May 13, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988281801
- Language: English
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Black Friend: Essays
$26.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER
From the writer crowned one of the smartest, funniest voices in modern America, this hotly anticipated debut collection of essays offers “a precious glimpse into how Ziwe’s unique- Author: Ziwe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1419756346
- Language: English
