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Sneakier Uses for Everyday Things
by Cy Tymony  Publisher Comments How to Turn a Calculator into a Metal Detector, Carry a Survival Kit in a Shoestring, Make a Gas Mask with a Balloon, Turn Dishwashng Liquid into a Copy Machine, Convert a Styrofoam Cup into a Speaker, and Make a James Bond Spy Jacket with Everyday...
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I Hate This Place: The Pessimist's Guide to Life
by Jimmy Fallon and Gloria Fallon Publisher Comments From the Grammy-nominated star of Saturday Night Live and his equally talented sister comes a delightfully cynical look at life through a half-full glass. Are you tired of looking for the sunny side of the street? the pot of gold at the end of the...
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The Book of General Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong
by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson 
Powells.com Staff Pick This book should be titled "It's Not What You Think." Because practically every answer in the book could begin with that phrase. What a great collection of facts about our world! Find out the truth about all kinds of things, from the first animal in...
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The Mystery of Sausage: And Other Ridiculous Blueprints
by Paul Osborne Publisher Comments Finally, detailed answers to all (well, almost all) of life's most puzzling complexities. A magician sketches authentic blueprints to decipher and decode life's unexplainable hexes, hoaxes, and human curiosities. If your ancestors invented the Ferris...
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Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing Up
by Bob Harris Publisher Comments The daily news gives you events but rarely context. So what do al-Qaeda, North Korea, and Iran really want? Which faction is which in Iraq and who’s arming whom? What’s the deal with Somalia, Darfur, and Kashmir? Fatah, Hamas, and Hezbollah...
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Too Old for Myspace, Too Young for Medicare
by Alan Corcoran Publisher Comments If you've bought Dark Side of the Moon on vinyl, eight track, cassette, CD, DVD, and MP3, then this book is for you. With generational icons like Jon Stewart, Molly Ringwald, and miscellaneous members of the Brat Pack now advancing into their 40s...
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The Best of Stuntology: 304 Pranks, Tricks & Challenges to Amuse & Annoy Your Friends
by Sam Bartlett Publisher Comments Forget YouTube. Now you can amuse and embarrass yourself live, by performing the silliest, stupidest, funniest pranks and parlor tricks right in the comfort of your own living room. Or better yet, at any fancy restaurant, cocktail party, classroom, or...
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Mother Tells You How: Over 100 Essential Life Skills for Modern Young Women
by Girl Magazine Publisher Comments "Women's work" has never been so much fun! Girl magazine, launched in the UK in 1951, and its popular strip "Mother Tells You How" provided inspiration and guidance for millions of teenage girls during the '50s. Each week, Mother would teach her...
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Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Book of Love (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader)
by Bathroom Readers Publisher Comments Who wrote the book of love? Uncle John, of course! The perfect gift for a spouse or any loved one, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Book of Love is loaded with trivia and information about that always-mysterious emotion and its many manifestations. Read...
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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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The Underachiever's Manifesto: The Guide to Accomplishing Little and Feeling Great
by Ray Bennett Publisher Comments Lower the bar. Turn it down a notch. Get off the Stairmaster. The Underachiever's Manifesto is the playfully persuasive pocket guide to living life to the least and loving it. With sharp humor and genuine wisdom, this welcome little book extols the...
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Imponderables
by David Feldman Publisher Comments What is the difference between "partly cloudy" and "partly sunny" in a weather report? The expression partly sunny was brought to you by the same folks who brought you comfort station and sanitary engineer. As a technical meteorological term, partly...
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Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die
by Michael Largo Publisher Comments To die, kick the bucket, to meet your Maker, dead as a doornail, get whacked, smoked, bite the dust, sleep with the fishes, go six feet under—whatever death is called, it's going to happen. In 1789 Ben Franklin wrote, "In this world nothing is...
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The Pop-Up Book of Phobias
by Gary Greenberg and Balvis Rubess and Matthew Reinhart
Publisher Comments Fear of heights, fear of spiders, fear of flying, fear of death — everyone is afraid of something. And these pop-ups place you in the hot seat — whether it's the dentist's chair as the drill comes spinning toward you; looking over the edge of a...
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101 Things Not to Do Before You Die
by Robert W Harris Publisher Comments Arguing that true happpiness and satisfaction lie in what one does not do, rather than what one should do, a subversive guide to personal fulfillment explains why our lives will be bettter by not watching the colorized version of It's a Wonderful Life...
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The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Holidays (Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbooks)
by Joshua Piven Publisher Comments Turkey on fire? No plans for New Year's Eve? Obnoxious relatives headed your way? The authors of the best-selling The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook are here to help you survive the dangers of the holiday season, from Thanksgiving to New Year's...
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The Book of Horrible Questions
by Smith Publisher Comments Smith and Doe, the anonymous authors of What Men Don't Want Women to Know, are at it again! This time they explore the vulgar, absurd, and uncivilized facets of temptation and ask: just how sick and twisted are your personal ethics? For one million...
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Passing Time in the Loo Volume 1
by Scarab Publisher Comments New edition....
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Uncle John's Slightly Irregular Bathroom Reader
by Bathroom Readers Ins Publisher Comments Where else can people find out about celebrity museums, where Hitler's nephew lived in New York, or how to do an authentic rain dance? In Uncle John's Slightly Irregular Bathroom Reader, of course! Aimed at the legions of literate bathroom lingerers...
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Uncle John's Curiously Compelling Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader)
by Bathroom Readers Ins Publisher Comments An eighteenth entry in a best-selling series is divided into short, medium, and long-length sections and includes a wealth of trivia about such topics as celebrities, television, and the existence of dragons. Original....
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