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The author of 'Dad is Fat' returns to ask: Have you ever eaten in your car so you wouldn't have to share with your children? Does the presence of green vegetables make you angry? Stand-up comic Gaffigan has made his career rhapsodizing over the most treasured dishes of the North American diet ('choking on bacon is like getting murdered by your lover') and decrying the worst offenders ('kale is the early morning of foods') Now he will give them what...
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Me Talk Pretty One Day, tells a most unconventional life story. It begins with a North Carolina childhood filled with speech-therapy classes ("There was the lisp, of course, but more troubling than that was my voice itself, with its excitable tone and high, girlish pitch") and unwanted guitar lessons taught by a midget. From budding performance artist ("The only crimp in my plan was that I seemed to have no talent whatsoever") to "clearly unqualified"...
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The star of Parks and Recreation and author of the New York Times bestseller Paddle Your Own Canoe returns with a second book that humorously highlights twenty-one figures from our nation’s history, from her inception to present day—Nick’s personal pantheon of “great Americans.”
To millions of people, Nick Offerman is America. Both Nick and his character, Ron Swanson, are known for their...
To millions of people, Nick Offerman is America. Both Nick and his character, Ron Swanson, are known for their...
4) Dad is fat
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In Dad is Fat, stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan, who’s best known for his legendary riffs on Hot Pockets, bacon, manatees, and McDonald's, expresses all the joys and horrors of life with five young children — everything from cousins ("celebrities for little kids") to toddlers’ communication skills (“they always sound like they have traveled by horseback for hours to deliver important news”), to the eating habits of four-year-olds (“there...
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Atria Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2017.
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344 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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The Liberal Rednecks -- a three-man stand-up comedy group doing scathing political satire -- celebrate all that's good about the South while leading the Redneck Revolution and standing proudly blue in a sea of red. Smart, hilarious, and incisive, the Liberal Rednecks confront outdated traditions and intolerant attitudes, tackling everything people think they know about the South -- the good, the bad, the glorious, and the shameful -- in a laugh-out-loud...
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"I have the best words, beautiful words, as everybody has been talking and talking about for a long time. Also? The best sentences and, what do you call them, paragraphs. My previous books were great and sold extremely, unbelievably well -- even the ones by dishonest, disgusting so-called journalists. But those writers didn't understand Trump, because quite frankly they were major losers. People say if you want it done right you have to do it yourself,...
8) Calypso
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Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality. This is beach reading for people who detest beaches, required reading for those who loathe small talk, and also Sedaris' darkest and warmest book yet.
9) Why not me?
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"Kaling shares her ongoing journey to find contentment and excitement in her adult life, whether it's falling in love at work, seeking new friendships in lonely places, attempting to be the first person in history to lose weight without any behavior modification whatsoever, or most important, believing that you have a place in Hollywood when you're constantly reminded that no one looks like you"--Amazon.com.
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In the ten years since her Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, bestselling author Amy Krouse Rosenthal has been quietly at work on this modest but mighty magnum opus, creating a distinct blend of nonlinear memoir, observational humor, wistful reflections, and interactive connections with readers. A collection of insights, memories, and moments that are at once intimate and universal. Why the title Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal? Because each piece of...
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Humorist Andy Borowitz argues that over the past fifty years, American politicians have grown increasingly allergic to knowledge, and mass media have encouraged the election of ignoramuses by elevating candidates who are better at performing than thinking. Borowitz shows how, during the age of 24-hour news and social media, the US has elected politicians to positions of great power whose lack of the most basic information is terrifying.
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Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn’t seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyone is doing it now. Disarmed of falsehood, he was left only with the awful truth: John Hodgman is an older white male monster with bad facial hair, wandering like a privileged Sasquatch through three wildernesses: the hills of Western Massachusetts...
13) Happy-go-lucky
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The bestselling author offers a collection of satirical and humorous essays that chronicle his own life and ordinary moments that turn beautifully absurd, including how he coped with the pandemic, his thoughts on becoming an orphan in his seventh decade, and the battle-scared America he discovered when he resumed touring.
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Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
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111 pages : color illustrations ; 16 cm
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English
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Endearing cat photography complements a sequence of short advice columns written in the wry voices of kitties who would counsel humans on how to cope with romance, survive a social gathering or claw to the top of the corporate ladder, cat-style. --Publisher's description.
16) How to be successful without hurting men's feelings: non-threatening leadership strategies for women
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Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
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209 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm
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English
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Ambitious women are so scary. In this fast-paced business world, female leaders need to make sure they're not perceived as pushy, aggressive, or competent. This book teaches the non-threatening leadership strategies women need to succeed without harming the fragile male ego. Chapters include, among others, “9 Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women,” "How to Ace Your Job Interview Without Over-acing It," and “Choose Your Own Adventure:...
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Dream Garden Press
Pub. Date
1996
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91 pages : ill. ; 23 cm.
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English
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To the sober observer there seems to be a remarkable amount of strangeness packed into this relatively small state. Mad polygamists, lingerie cults, fishmobiles, and even UFOs buzz around a landscape many say resembles Mars. Mondo Utah is a collection of some of this state's finer examples of weirdness presented in a professional and respectable manner.
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Hachette Audio
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English
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Book store nation, in the history of mankind there has never been a greater country than America. You could say we're the #1 nation at being the best at greatness.
But as perfect as America is in every single way, America is broken! And we can't exchange it because we're 236 years past the 30-day return window. Look around—we don't make anything anymore, we've mortgaged our future to China, and the Apologist-in-Chief goes on world tours...
But as perfect as America is in every single way, America is broken! And we can't exchange it because we're 236 years past the 30-day return window. Look around—we don't make anything anymore, we've mortgaged our future to China, and the Apologist-in-Chief goes on world tours...
19) Naked
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English
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A collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the National Public Radio commentator, in which he discusses his nervous tic, hitchhiking trips, odd jobs, and strange relationships.
20) Space jokes
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Child's World
Pub. Date
c2007
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24 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Riddles and jokes, including knock-knock jokes about astronauts, planets, robots, rockets, and features of outer space.
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