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The Thurber Carnival
$18.99 Add to cart“An authentic American genius. . . . Mr. Thurber belongs in the great lines of American humorists that includes Mark Twain and Ring Lardner.” –Philadelphia Inquirer
James Thurber’s unique ability to c
- Author: Thurber, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 19 2013
- ISBN10: 60932872
- Language: English
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Escape Into Meaning: Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions
$27.00 Add to cartProducer, editor, and writer behind the highly addictive, informative, and popular YouTube channel The Nerdwriter, Evan Puschak presents “a brilliant, wide-ranging essay collection that explores meani… [more below]
- Author: Puschak, Evan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 198216395X
- Language: English
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How to Weep in Public: Feeble Offerings on Depression from One Who Knows
$16.00 Read moreThis darkly funny memoir from “one of the next great stars in comedy” (Mike Birbiglia) doesn’t offer help overcoming depression–just much-needed comfort, company, and tips for life inside the fog.
“No… [more below]- Author: Novak, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0804139709
- Language: English
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Into the Twilight, Endlessly Grousing
$18.99 Add to cartPatrick McManus offers wry observations about small-town life and curmudgeonly insists on bigger and bigger fish stories in this hilarious collection from one of the greatest contemporary humorists.
P- Author: McManus, Patrick F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 04 1998
- ISBN10: 068484799X
- Language: English
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If You Didn’t Bring Jerky, What Did I Just Eat: Misadventures in Hunting, Fishing, and the Wilds of Suburbia
$18.00 Add to cartWhether he is accidentally cooking his brain with hand warmers or yanking his lure away from a trophy fish just before it takes the bait, Bill Heavey can do no right. For almost a decade, he has chron… [more below]
- Author: Heavey, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0802143954
- Language: English
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Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America’s Gutsiest Troublemakers
$19.00 Read moreThe 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 … [more below]
- Author: Offerman, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0451473019
- Language: English
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Coyote V. Acme
$17.00 Add to cartTwenty-two side-splitting glimpses into some oddball corners of the American mind from bestselling author Ian Frazier.
The title essay of Coyote v. Acme, Frazier’s second collection of humorous essay- Author: Frazier, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0312420587
- Language: English
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Playing Catch with Strangers: A Family Guy (Reluctantly) Comes of Age
$17.00 Add to cartNew York City essayist Bob Brody only recently reached a milestone long overdue — he’s shown signs of finally resembling a full-fledged adult. In vignettes by turns heartbreaking, harrowing and hilar
- Author: Brody, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: June 20 2017
- ISBN10: 1942762399
- Language: English
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East Side Story: Growing Up at the Pne
$18.95 Read moreA sly, sentimental, and wickedly funny memoir about growing up at the local fair.
The PNE (Pacific National Exhibition) is a Vancouver tradition, an annual fair started in 1910 that is famous for its f
- Author: Marino, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1551529335
- Language: English
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Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing
$17.00 Add to cart“Generous and entertaining.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay * Nominated for “Best Memoir & Autobiography” by Goodreads- Author: Weiner, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 1476723427
- Language: English
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The Braindead Megaphone
$16.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
T- Author: Saunders, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 04 2007
- ISBN10: 159448256X
- Language: English
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Zero Gravity
$26.99 Read moreHis first new collection of short humor in fifteen years is classic Woody Allen.
Zero Gravity is the fifth collection of comic pieces by Woody Allen, a hilarious prose stylist whose enduring appeal re- Author: Allen, Woody
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1956763295
- Language: English
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On Nobody Famous: Guesting, Gossiping, Gallivanting
$12.95 Read moreDispatches from the everyday adventures of two regular women in New York. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytell
- Series: Atlantic Editions
- Author: Tiffany, Kaitlyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1638930708
- Language: English
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Confessions of a Third-Rate Goddess: Traipsing Through A World Gone Weird
$21.95 Add to cartAt the end of the 20th century, while mainstream media popularized an expensively dressed version of modern adult life, a rawer, and definitely weirder, reality was playing out off-screen. Columnist
- Author: Biehl, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1736432141
- Language: English
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Dawn in the Dooryard: Reflections from the Jagged Edge of America
$42.67 Add to cartWith generous portions of wry Yankee wit and sage wisdom, this new collection from Tim Cotton will leave you laughing, crying, or maybe both at once.
- Author: Cotton, Timothy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1684750024
- Language: English
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The Advice King Anthology: The Advice King Anthology
$21.95 Add to cartSince the fall of 2014, The Advice King has been one of the most widely read sections of alt-weekly the Nashville Scene. The Advice King Anthology contains the best of those columns, with new In-the-M… [more below]
- Author: Crofton, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: April 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0826504639
- Language: English
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I Wouldn’t Do That If I Were Me: Modern Blunders and Modest Triumphs (But Mostly Blunders)
$17.99 Read moreThe Wall Street Journal columnist and bestselling author of Little Victories takes a humorous and insightful look at life in the face of overwhelming societal change that we never anticipated–from th
- Author: Gay, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 030682857X
- Language: English
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I Can’t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I’ve Put My Faith in Beyoncé
$17.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Featured as One of Summer’s most anticipated reads by the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, ELLE, Buzzfeed, and Bitch Media. From the author of I Don- Author: Arceneaux, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1501178857
- Language: English
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We Learn Nothing: Essays
$17.99 Add to cart“Kreider locates the right simile and the pith of situations as he carefully catalogues humanity’s inventive and manifold ways of failing” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
In We Learn Nothing, sat- Author: Kreider, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 09 2013
- ISBN10: 1439198713
- Language: English
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Detective in the Dooryard: Reflections of a Maine Cop
$24.95 Add to cartTim Cotton has been a police officer for more than thirty years. The writer in him has always been drawn to the stories of the people he has met along the way. Dealing with the standard issue ne’er-do
- Author: Cotton, Timothy A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: July 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1608937429
- Language: English
