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The Princess Diarist
$18.00 Add to cartThis last book from beloved Hollywood icon Carrie Fisher is the crown jewel of ideal Star Wars gifts. The Princess Diarist is an intimate, hilarious, and revealing recollection of what happened behind… [more below]
- Author: Fisher, Carrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 0399185798
- Language: English
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How to American: An Immigrant’s Guide to Disappointing Your Parents
$35.00 Add to cartStandup comic, actor and fan favorite from HBO’s Silicon Valley and the film Crazy Rich Asians shares his memoir of growing up as a Chinese immigrant in California and making it in Hollywood.
“I turn- Author: Yang, Jimmy O.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0306903490
- Language: English
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Against the Written Word: Toward a Universal Illiteracy
$17.95 Add to cart“Wielding the satiric tone of a Gen-X Jonathan Swift or leftist Andy Kaufman . . . Svenonius is an engaging companion . . . and he lands some scathing blows, as when he links internet porn to contempo
- Author: Svenonius, Ian F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1636140807
- Language: English
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He Kept His Day Job: Fanfare for the Common Musician
$14.95 Add to cartDan Bernstein got his first blat out of a trombone when he was in fourth grade. Now in his seventies, the retired newspaper columnist who lives in Riverside, California, is still playing his ax – stil
- Author: Bernstein, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: January 13 2023
- ISBN10: 9798889926573
- Language: English
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Rubber Legs and White Tail-Hairs
$18.99 Add to cartAmerica’s favorite outdoor humorist is back with an outrageously fresh collection of stories. He introduces a variety of friends old and new, and takes readers to many exotic locales outdoors and indo
- Series: Holt Paperback
- Author: McManus, Patrick F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0805009124
- Language: English
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What I’d Say to the Martians: And Other Veiled Threats
$15.99 Add to cartJack Handey is one of America’s favorite humorists, from his New Yorker pieces to his Deep Thoughts books and Saturday Night Live sketches. Now, in What I’d Say to the Martians, Handey regales readers… [more below]
- Author: Handey, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 08 2008
- ISBN10: 1401322662
- Language: English
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She Memes Well: Essays
$25.00 Read moreFrom Emmy Award-winning writer Quinta Brunson (creator and star of Abbott Elementary) comes a deeply personal and funny collection of essays about trying to make it when you’re struggling, the importa
- Author: Brunson, Quinta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1328638987
- Language: English
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
$36.00 Add to cartDavid Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother’s wedding. He mops his sister’s floor. He gives directions t… [more below]
- Author: Sedaris, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0316143464
- Language: English
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They Shoot Canoes, Don’t They?
$18.99 Add to cartWith tongue pressed firmly in cheek and a gentle but penetrating eye for human foibles, Patrick F. McManus celebrates the hidden pleasures, unappreciated lore, and opportunities for disaster to be fou
- Series: Owlet Book
- Author: McManus, Patrick F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 15 1982
- ISBN10: 0805000305
- Language: English
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Why Not Me?
$19.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the author of Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? and creator of The Mindy Project and Never Have I Ever comes a hilarious collection of essays about her ongoing jo… [more below]
- Author: Kaling, Mindy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0804138168
- Language: English
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
$36.00 Add to cartA new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is… [more below]
- Author: Sedaris, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0316777722
- Language: English
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I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are: Essays and Other Stuff
$21.99 Add to cartWITH A NEW CHAPTER
A collection of sidesplitting personal essays, poems, and even amusement park maps on the subjects of insecurity, fame, anxiety, and much more from the charming and wickedly funny c- Author: Bloom, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1538745364
- Language: English
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The Blue Box and Memories that Live in the Bones
$15.99 Add to cartA salad-eating dog, the haunted trunk, a ‘possum who drinks coffee-The Blue Box and Memories that Live in the Bones by Sharon Mabry is a collection of stories about Mabry’s growing up years in the mou
- Author: Mabry, Sharon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: January 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1961609037
- Language: English
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and Other Concerns)
$17.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – In this hilarious instant classic, the creator of The Mindy Project and Never Have I Ever invites readers on a tour of her life and her unscientific observations on romanc… [more below]
- Author: Kaling, Mindy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0307886271
- Language: English
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Stay Hungry
$18.99 Add to cartFrom comedian and actor Sebastian Maniscalco–star of the film About My Father with Robert DeNiro–an inspiring, honest, uproarious collection of essays tracing his career from playing boxing rings an… [more below]
- Author: Maniscalco, Sebastian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1501115987
- Language: English
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The Darwin Awards: Evolution in Action
$17.00 Add to cartThe hilarious New York Times bestselling phenomenon and the perfect funny gift
The Darwin Awards shares the stories of those human beings who improve the gene pool by removing themselves from it in- Series: Darwin Awards
- Author: Northcutt, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 30 2002
- ISBN10: 0452283442
- Language: English
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Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No-Bullshit Guide to World Mythology
$17.00 Read moreFrom the creator of Myths Retold comes a hilarious collection of Greek, Norse, Chinese and even Sumerian myths retold in their purest, bawdiest forms
All our lives, we’ve been fed watered-down, PC ve- Author: O’Brien, Cory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 05 2013
- ISBN10: 039916040X
- Language: English
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Million Billion: Brief Essays on Snow Days, Spitwads, Bad Sandwiches, Dad Socks, Hairballs, Headbanging Bird Love, and Hope.
$14.95 Add to cartIn this fresh collection of “Roughneck Grace” columns, New York Times bestselling author and humorist Michael Perry reinforces his reputation as a writer navigating between the transcendent (“The cong
- Author: Perry, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: May 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1734868309
- Language: English
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I Don’t Want to Die Poor: Essays
$17.99 Add to cartOne of NPR’s Best Books of 2020
From the New York Times bestselling author of I Can’t Date Jesus, which Vogue called “a piece of personal and cultural storyte
One of Time‘s 100 Must-Read Books of 2020- Author: Arceneaux, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1982129301
- Language: English
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The Fiddler in the Subway: The True Story of What Happened When a World-Class Violinist Played for Handouts… and Other Virtuoso Performances by
$19.99 Add to cartGENE WEINGARTEN IS THE O. HENRY OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM
Simply the best storyteller around, Weingarten describes the world as you think it is before revealing how it actually is–in narratives that ar- Author: Weingarten, Gene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 06 2010
- ISBN10: 1439181594
- Language: English
