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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
by David Sedaris  
Powells.com Staff Pick One of these days I'll find the time to construct an actual review of Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, but until I do let these words stand as my pledge: You will not regret purchasing this book. Further: You're unlikely to find more pure...
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris
Powells.com Staff Pick Completely autobiographical and, as always, hilarious, Me Talk Pretty One Day is my favorite of all the David Sedaris collections. The first half of the book focuses on his childhood in North Carolina and his very unusual family; the second half details...
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Naked
by David Sedaris From Powells.com Whether he is best known as a playwright, a radio personality, an essayist, or satirist, David Sedaris in Naked is screamingly funny. In the autobiographical essays that comprise Naked, Sedaris reveals his childhood compulsions (nervous...
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I Was Told There'd Be Cake
by Sloane Crosley Publisher Comments Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory. From despoiling an exhibit at the Natural History Museum to provoking the ire of her first boss to...
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Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar...: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein Publisher Comments Here's a lively, hilarious, not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts, and thinkers; it's Philosophy 101 for everyone who knows not to take all this heavy stuff too seriously. Some included Big Ideas are...
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What I'd Say to the Martians: And Other Veiled Threats
by Jack Handey Publisher Comments Jack 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 with his incredible wit and wacky musings....
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Holidays on Ice
by David Sedaris
Publisher Comments A new holiday classic from the author of the bestselling Naked and Barrel Fever! Holidays On Ice collects six of David Sedaris's most profound Christmas stories into one slender volume perfect for use as a last-minute coaster or ice scraper. This...
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The Braindead Megaphone
by George Saunders
Powells.com Staff Pick Yes, some of these essays will make you laugh; George Saunders is freakin' hilarious. (If you doubt this, please see his Strange Letter Regarding Uranus.) But he is also a brilliant writer whose characters, even the non-fictional ones, will break your...
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Just a Guy: Notes from a Blue Collar Life
by Bill Engvall Publisher Comments "His folksy humor...has made him a hit in the heartland...Don't bet a little plain ol' charm won't work just as well on the rest of the country."--Philadelphia Inquirer For the record, here’s the official definition of a guy: A person who doesn...
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
by David Sedaris
Powells.com Staff Pick One of these days I'll find the time to construct an actual review of Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, but until I do let these words stand as my pledge: You will not regret purchasing this book. Further: You're unlikely to find more pure...
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The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
by Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht and Dozens of Experts
Powells.com Staff Pick Are you one of those take-charge guys or gals? Do you seek vital knowledge that'll make you a hero? How to fend off a shark? How to break down a door? How to deliver a baby in a taxicab? Then you need The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook...
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The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
by Bobby Henderson
Powells.com Staff Pick Bobby Henderson's devotion to the Flying Spaghetti Monster should qualify him for sainthood. I became a Pastafarian after reading this glorious book, as will others who delight in all its starchy wonder. Hallelujah! Recommended by Gary, Powells.com...
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I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
by Nora Ephron Publisher Comments With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of...
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Indexed
by Jessica Hagy Publisher Comments A unique, hilarious take on the modern world. Jessica Hagy is a different kind of thinker. She has an astonishing talent for visualizing relationships, capturing in pictures what is difficult for most of us to express in words. At indexed.blogspot.com...
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Lamentations of the Father: Essays
by Ian Frazier Publisher Comments When The Atlantic Monthly celebrated its 150th anniversary by publishing excerpts from the best writing ever to appear in the magazine, in the category of the humorous essay it chose only four pieces—one by Mark Twain, one by James Thurber, one by...
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Diary of a Provincial Lady
by E. M. Delafield Synopsis These highly acclaimed, delightful novels are written in diary form by the Provincial Lady, who lives in a country house with her husband, two children, the children's French governess, Cook and a few assorted helpers. The era of the 1930s is wittily and...
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Naked Pictures of Famous People
by Jon Stewart Publisher Comments He's the MTV generation's master of modern humor, a star of film, TV, and the comedy stage. This sultan of savvy serves up a whip-smart, utterly original collection of comic essays in Naked Pictures of Famous People. In his first book, he translates...
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I'm Not Crazy, But I Might Be a Carrier: Infectious Inspiration from Comedian Charles Marshall
by Charles Marshall Synopsis Charles Marshall is a comic expert on daily living, because life is crazy and so is he. More than a decade of experience in comedy has given Marshall a quick wit and sharp edge, and his love of God and people has cultured a warm heart. He's already...
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Into the Twilight, Endlessly Grousing
by Patrick F Mcmanus Publisher Comments Patrick McManus believes that life's eternal truths exist solely for the purpose of being overturned and proved incorrect. In McManus's world, nothing is what it should be. All steaks should be chicken-fried, strong coffee is drunk by the light of a...
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The Idiot Girls' Action Adventure Club
by Laurie Notaro
Synopsis The Idiot Girls' Action Adventure Club is a bitingly funny memoir of a 20-something woman and her band of friends as they stumble through sticky hangovers, evil boyfriends, the temptation of carbohydrates, and supermodel neighbors. Hangovers. Bad...
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