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"From the author of PARENTING: ILLUSTRATED WITH CRAPPY PICTURES comes a book on a topic that will never cease to prove that human behavior is utterly perplexing: MARRIAGE. From minor pet peeves (leftover toothpaste globs in the sink: why?) to an inability to put dirty clothes into the laundry basket, and instead drop them on the floor RIGHT NEXT TO THE LAUNDRY BASKET, to figuring out how to use any 3-minute window available for romance once kids are...
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This handy primer on all things Jewish is filled with funny, surprising and informative facts about Jewish life, culture, and religious practice-all presented in an entertaining and witty voice and accompanied by bold illustrations that pack a graphic punch. Jews, lapsed Jews, and their spouses and friends will surely learn a thing or ten, while devouring this addictively readable mix of practical information, fun facts and figures, and amusing trivia....
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George Washington was said to be "First in War, First in Peace." In The Making of the President 1789, humorist Marvin Kitman argues that our first president was also the first American leader to ride his personal foibles to political greatness. Kitman lampoons the modern "campaign insider" books, asking: "How is it possible that a man with no military experience becomes a general? He loses more battles than he wins and becomes a war hero? He has absolutely...
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Canadians are peaceable, friendly, unassuming, and adorable. They're also secretly in control of nearly every aspect of life in the Southernmost Canadian territory known as the United States. This hilarious illustrated compendium of real facts and wild assertions traces a vast, maple-leaf conspiracy that plays up Canada's self-effacing second fiddle image to the U.S. while it creates and clandestinely controls nearly everything Americans hold dear,...
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Life is more comfortable today than ever in history, thanks to a dizzying array of modern conveniences we never imagined we could live without. But if King Henry VIII, Mahatma Gandhi, or Alexander the Great had access to the modern conveniences we currently enjoy, from motivating nutrition apps to sweeping social media and life-saving antibiotics, history would've taken a dramatically different turn. In this entertaining exploration of history merged...
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Service workers share their funniest and most cringeworthy stories of difficult, demanding, and just plain mind-boggling encounters with the public . . .
"Ma'am, the rules clearly state that you cannot have any liquids over 3.4 ounces in your carry-on. If you'd like to, you could-"
"But that's not a liquid!"
"Excuse me, ma'am?"
"It's not a liquid! It's water!"
Retailers, restaurants, and tech support providers believe service is king,...
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The United States of America is the greatest country on earth. That's not good enough. Frank J. Fleming, author of the satire Obama: The Greatest President in the History of Everything and a leading authority on America's awesomeness, strikes back against the doom and gloom about America's future with a plan to ensure the United States's greatness for years to come. Fleming's solution aren't the usual small-minded ideas you hear from politicians and...
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Boys will be boys. Unfortunately, they will also be arsonists, wrecking balls, flooders, and eight-limbed ninjas of destruction. It is their nature. With photos pulled from the 1950s on, this book celebrates the wacky, illogical, dangerous, and ridiculous things boys do. Parents everywhere will laugh in recognition at each bit of mischief and misadventure-all proof that boys really do need parents.
11) On the Fly
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Brian MacDonald has twin passions - fishing and sex, although not necessarily in that order.A professional game angling instructor, he begins each new season with a clean slate, a fresh supply of condoms and a charming smile.Being a red blooded male and a bit of a rogue, he is rather fond of women and even fonder of sex and will avail himself of any opportunity presenting itself.Before long his phallic philanderings get him into trouble and his plans...
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Through exhaustive reporting and interviews, Roberts details A-Rod as a plunge-in-progress, a once-in-a-generation baseball talent tortured by an internal struggle between the polished family man he wants to be and the unabashed hedonist he has become. Documents the life and controversial career of the baseball star, including his childhood in New York and the Dominican Republic, his rise to stardom with the Seattle Mariners, his record-breaking contract,...
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In this fourth installment of his acclaimed Rants series, bestselling author, Emmy Award-winning talk-show host, and wisecracking analyst for ABC's Monday Night Football Dennis Miller makes hamburger meat out of society's most sacred cows as only he can, with the kinds of allusions that require high SAT scores -- or at least a smart crib sheet.
This time around, Miller takes on child stars with rap sheets, women with bigger muscles than his own,...
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"A lovely reminiscence about [Murcer's] baseball and broadcasting career and his fight with cancer. . . a gentlemanly memoir." - New York Times
As he stepped to the plate at Yankee Stadium on opening day in 1966, Bobby Murcer carried with him the hopes and expectations of Yankees fans looking for the next Mickey Mantle. Bobby wasn't the next Mick, of course, but he became one of the most beloved Yankees of all time.
Yankee for Life is Murcer's...
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The hilarious book that the South's very own Dolly Parton described as "fun, informative, and oh-so Southern," Talk Southern To Me is a love letter to the South, y'all. Essays 'bout charm, beauty and style, chewin' the fat, love, parenting, and more-full of yes ma'ams and no sirs, casseroles and cheese balls, taffeta and pom-poms... plus more Southern phrases than you can shake a stick at.
If you're not from the South, bless your heart, pay attention...
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A collection of short pieces about everything from genius and God to socks and lentils, from one of America's most beloved humor writers One Fell Soup brings together the reviews, diatribes, investigations, meditations, and poetry of Roy Blount Jr., a writer as insightful as he is funny. Culled from his many columns and magazine writings, this volume offers an unparalleled look at the varied interests of a writer the New York Times has compared...
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The Household Tips of Great Writers covers all your household needs, indoors and outdoors, from pruning a rose bush with Pablo Neruda to mending a dripping tap with Jean-Paul Sartre. Throwing a tea party? Irvine Welsh has the recipe for the perfect chocolate cake, though that's not all he's cooking. Brilliant, hilarious, and always pitch-perfect, this omnibus edition of Mark Crick's wonderful books of literary pastiche will inform and entertain the...
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Learn all the sign language slang you've always wanted to know with this fun English-ASL phrasebook for the modern era.
Next time you're signing with your friends, drop the ASL textbook formality and start flashing the signs they don't teach in any classroom, including:
• cool slang
• funny insults
• explicit terms
• raw swear words
“Dirty Sign Language” is the perfect guide to all the ASL terms you want to take with you and learn...
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This hilarious graduation keepsake exposes the not-always-awesome realities of becoming an adult in bitingly satirical verse.
Congrats! Congrats!
You've made it so far.
You're an adult now,
you're even allowed
in a bar.
But long before you're
going to succeed,
You'll eff shit up,
100% guaranteed.
This off-beat (and off-color) volume of illustrated comic verse offers an honest assessment of what's in store for those with the misfortune of...
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Mommy Memoirs is a delightful journey from pregnancies and births to marriages and a hysterectomy! There are few stones left unturned as author Ann Van De Water describes her hectic life as a mother of three boys in short read-it-and-run stories that will have her audience laughing out loud one minute and grabbing tissues the next. These true-to-life experiences filled with humor, tenderness, practicality, and joy, written by a been there, done that...
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