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Skyhorse, 2013. 1st Edition . Trade Paperback. As New. In Very Good Condition. May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges. For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. Life Wasn't Easy For Celie. But She Knew How To Survive, Needing Little To Get By. Then Her Husband's Lover, A Flamboyant Blues Singer, Barreled Into Her World And Gave Celie The Courage To Ask For More - To Laugh, To Play, And Finally - To Love. --Back Cover

London, England : JR Books Ltd, 2007. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. In Very Good Condition. May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Dust Jacket. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. ~ Recently Returned From The Dead, Alan Coren Finds That The World Has Changed Little In His Absence: Children Still Turn To Winston Churchill To Save Them From School Dinners; Clark Gable Snuggles-As Ever-Against The Bristly Chest Of His Lover Errol Flynn (Despite Having Been Captured On Video By The Entire British Delegation Of A Hong Kong Sales Conference); And Hysterectomies Continue To Be Performed By Enthusiastic Poulterers. As For Coren Himself, Despite Bearing The Distinguished Rank Of Full Colonel In The Confederate Air Force, He Remains Plagued By Recurring Nightmares That His Membership Of The P.G. Wodehouse Society Has Been Poached By A Polish Imposter In Spats. England'S Best-Loved Humorist Finds Time To Explain Why Cannon & Ball Have Relaunched Themselves As Pride & Prejudice; To… Read More

Gallery Books, 2009. Soft cover. As New. Like New - May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. - When Chelsea Handler Needs To Get A Few Things Off Her Chest, She Appeals To A Higher Power - Vodka. You Would Too If You Found Out That Your Boyfriend Was Having An Affair With A Peekapoo Or If You Had To Pretend To Be Honeymooning With Your Father In Order To Upgrade To First Class. Welcome To Chelsea's World - A Place Where Absurdity Reigns Supreme And A Quick Wit Is The Best Line Of Defense. In This Hilarious, Deliciously Skewed Collection, Chelsea Mines Her Past For Stories About Her Family, Relationships, And Career That Are At Once Singular And Ridiculous. Whether She's Convincing Her Third-Grade Class That She Has Been Tapped To Play Goldie Hawn's Daughter In The Sequel To Private Benjamin, Deciding To Be More Egalitarian By Dating A Redhead, Or Looking Out For A Foulmouthed, Rum-Swilling Little Person Who Looks Just Like Her...… Read More

Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Vintage Canada, 2005. Soft cover. Very Good. In Very Good Used Condition. May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges. For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. From The Author Of Playing House Comes A Sharp And Sophisticated Collection Of Essays That Takes Us On A Hilarious Tour Of Our Twenty-First-Century Obsessions And Distractions. Patricia Pearson Is A Working Woman, Wife And Mother On The Verge. Whether It'S Being Humiliated By The Beauty Bullies At The Lancôme Counter Or Failing To Live Up To The Serene Mother Ideal, Pearson Is Fed Up With Negotiating Our Present-Day Myths And Fads. In Area Woman Blows Gasket, Pearson Plumbs Every Facet Of Modern Life, Marriage And Motherhood: From Choosing The Right Vegan-Bran-Hemp Diet For Your Family To Confronting Your Husband'S Irrational Fear Of Mayonnaise. Adult Education Classes, Psychotherapy, $100 Haircuts, The Latest News On What May Or May Not Cause Cancer, Christmas Shopping - All Come Into… Read More

Threshold Editions, 2009. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/New. New - Unread - 1St Edition - May Have Minor Shelf Wear To The Dust Jacket. - For More Information On Condition. - Please See All Photos. - #1 New York Times Bestselling Author And Radio And Tv Host Glenn Beck's Ultimate Handbook For Tackling And Winning Life'S Most Important Arguments. Funny. Frightening. True. It Happens To All Of Us: You're Minding Your Own Business, When Some Idiot Informs You That Guns Are Evil, The Prius Will Save The Planet, Or The Rich Have To Finally Start Paying Their Fair Share Of Taxes. Just Go Away! You Think To Yourself -- But They Only Become More Obnoxious. Your Heart Rate Quickens. You Start To Sweat. You Can't Get Away. Your Only Hope Is...This Book. Glenn Beck, Author Of The #1 New York Times Bestsellers An Inconvenient Book And Glenn Beck's Common Sense, Has Stumbled Upon The Secret Formula To Winning Arguments Against People With Big Mouths But Small Minds: Knowing The Facts.… Read More

Pagemaster Publication Services, 2020. Soft cover. As New. 20-13-5. In Excellent Used Condition. For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. This Book Is For You And All The Assholes In Your Life. From A Baby To An Adult, Perfect The Art Of Being An Asshole Or Take Those First Few Steps In The Asshole Recovery Program Provided In This Guidebook, To Become The Fine Human Being You Are Meant To Be. The Art Of Being An Asshole Is An Irreverent Tongue In-Cheek Look At How To Be The Best Asshole You Can Be, Or Not, And Is Intended For A Mature Audience. Every Vignette In This Book Is True.

Crosby, North Dakota, Usa : Charlene Power, 1985. 2nd Printing. Staple Bound. Very Good. Power, Charlene. In Very Good Used Condition. With A Small Tear On The Spine and Minor Wear/Tear To Edges And/Or Turned Corners. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. ~ Charlene Power's Leapin' Lena Here's Uff-da #4 A Collection of Norwegian Jokes

Trafford Publishing, 2008. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Crowe, Jaime . In Very Good Used Condition. May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges. For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. ~ Herewith Are Presented Twenty Highly Personal Tales From The Darkest Depths Of The Crypt Of Academe, Told By An Old Soldier No Longer In The Line Of Fire. The Topics Include Evaluation Of Students And Faculty, How Faculty Claw Their Way Up The Ranks, Who Wins The Awards And Why And How Decisions Get Made, Or More Often Don't. Each Tale Is Recounted In About Three Pages In A Straight Forward Manner Without Gilt Or Favor To Anyone. I Have Tried To Be Frank In My Writing And May Offend A Few But You Can't Please Everyone All The Time And Others At No Time. But I Hope To Bring A Smile To The Lips Of Some And A Pause For Thought About The Real Life And Meaning Of Our Crypts, A.K.A. Universities. If You Don't Like The Writing Of Each Tale You May Enjoy The Accompanying Illustrative… Read More

New York, New York, Usa: Ballantine Books, 1967. 1st Edition . Trade Paperback. Good. In Good Used Condition. Name Inside Front Cover. With Wear/Tear To Edges and/or Corners. For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. ~ Vintage 1967 When Lenny Bruce was arrested on charges of obscenity in New York, over 100 men and women prominent in the arts and other fields, including Theodore Reik, Reinhold Niebuhr, Lionel Trilling, Norman Mailer, William Styron, Richard Burton, and James Baldwin rallied to his defense and signed a statement that described him as a social satirist "in the tradition of Swift, Rabelais, and Twain." Transcribed from hundreds of hours of taped performances, this book brings into print- many of them for the first time- his greatest satirical routines in their original, unexpurgated form. Here is Lenny Bruce on religion, sex, the fuzz, censorship, the Russians, pot, the Lone Ranger- the whole wide gamut of a mind that punctured pretense with uninhibited… Read More

Modern Library, 2002. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Mayle, Judith. In Very Good Condition. May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges. For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. When Harold Ross Founded The New Yorker In 1925, He Called It A "Comic Weekly." And Although It Has Become Much More Than That, It Has Remained True In Its Irreverent Heart To The Founder'S Description, Publishing The Most Illustrious Literary Humorists In The Modern Era-Among Them Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, James Thurber, S. J. Perelman, Mike Nichols, Woody Allen, Calvin Trillin, Garrison Keillor, Ian Frazier, Roy Blount, Jr., Steve Martin, And Christopher Buckley. Fierce Pajamas Is A Treasury Of Laughter From The Magazine W. H. Auden Called The "Best Comic Magazine In Existence."

Knopf Canada, 2004. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 29-22-3. In Very Good Condition. May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges. For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. A Deliciously Entertaining New Series By The Bestselling Author Of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency The Many Fans Of Precious Ramotswe Will Find Further Cause For Celebration In The Protagonist Of Alexander Mccall Smith'S Irresistibly Funny Trilogy, The Eminent (If Shamefully Under-Read) Philologist Professor Dr. Mortiz-Maria Von Igelfeld Of The Institute At Regensburg. Unnaturally Tall, Hypersensitive To Slights, And Oblivious To His Own Frequent Gaucheries, Von Igelfeld Is Engaged In A Never-Ending Quest To Win The Respect He Knows Is Due Him. Portuguese Irregular Verbs Follows The Professor From A Busman'S Holiday Researching Old Irish Obscenities To A Flirtation With A Desirable Lady Dentist. In The Finer Points Of Sausage Dogs, Von Igelfeld Practices Veterinary Medicine Without A License,… Read More

London, Ontario, Canada : Cheshire Cat Press, 1997. Soft cover. Very Good. In Very Good Condition. May Have Wear To Edges and/or Turned Corners. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. ~ Contains excerpts from nineteenth century newspapers published in Canada. The book shows the humorous, bizarre, and fascinating aspects of life in Victorian Canada, such as unusual inventions, crimes, accidents, weather, animals, and people. The book is divided into ten chapters, each focusing on a different province or territory. The book also provides the full references for each excerpt, so the reader can find the original source if they are interested. The book is intended to be a fun and informative read for anyone who wants to learn more about Canadian history and culture.

Harvest House Publishers, 2008. 3rd Printing. Soft cover. New. New - Unread - Sealed. May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges. For More Information On Condition. - Please See All Photos. Karen O'connor--Humorist And Author Of "Getting Old Ain't For Wimps" (More Than 200,000 Copies Sold)--Shares More Comic And Meaningful Scenes From The Senior Side Of Life. Readers Will Enjoy Her Stories, Tales From Others, And Glimpses Of Golden Moments As They Discoverthe Significance Of Life After A Certain Agejoy In New Friendships And Experiences Adventures Still Aheadpurpose And Meaning On Deeper Levelsappreciation For God's Design And Direction By Celebrating The Little Things In Life, Such As The Ability To Recall "Any" Anecdote With Clarity, O'connor Leads Readers To Rest In The Bigger Wonders Of Faith And Purpose.

Avon. Soft cover. As New. As New - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos . - 'Brilliantly Funny, Emotional And Uplifting' Miranda Dickinson A Funny And Heartwarming Debut For Fans Of Celia Imrie And Dawn French. Evie Gallagher Is Regretting Her Hasty Move Into A Care Home. She May Be Seventy-Five And Recently Widowed, But She'S Absolutely Not Dead Yet. And So, One Morning, Evie Walks Out Of Sheldon Lodge And Sets Off On A Great Adventure Across Europe. But Not Everyone Thinks Great Adventures Are Appropriate For Women Of Evie'S Age, Least Of All Her Son Brendan And His Wife Maura, Who Follow A Trail Of Puzzling Text Messages To Bring Her Home. When They Finally Catch Up With Her, There Are Shocks In Store . . . Because While Brendan May Have Given Up On Life And Love, Evie Certainly Has Not. 'Lovely . . . A Book That Assures That Life Is Far From Over At Seventy' Cathy Hopkins, Bestselling Author Of The Kicking The Bucket List

Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Doubleday Canada, 2012. Soft cover. Very Good. In Very Good Used Condition. May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges. For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. ~ Red Green was recycling material long before the green revolution got underway. Look at the automobiles he's driven over the years. Many of those were assembled using the same basic method employed for The Green Red Green by welding together the surviving bits of some old wrecks. In this case, we're talking about the three Red Green books published long ago by other, inferior publishers: Duct Tape Is Not Enough, a collection of newspaper columns by Red Green's alter-ego Steve Smith on surviving middle age; Red Green Talks Cars; and Red's literary debut The Red Green Book, a souvenir of the TV show. The selection for his best-of pretty much made itself. Out went the Steve Smith columns with once-topical references; out went the material from The Red Green Book that was in the voices of… Read More

X Communications, 1996. 1st Edition . Soft cover. New. New Condition. Unread Copy. May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges And/Or Turned Corners. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. You Know The Type: They Encourage Mimes; They Talk During Movies; Too Often, They're Your Relatives.They're Highly Annoying People, And With The Habits Of Seven Highly Annoying People, Bad Dog Press Exposes The Hilarious Underbellly (Yech!) Of The Most Bothersome Folks You'd Never Care To Meet.Your Customers Will Line Up To Buy Copies For Themselves, Their Family, Their Friends, And Anyone Else Who Just Plain Bugs The Heck Out Them!

W. W. Norton & Company, 1984. Soft cover. New. New - May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. - Over A Century After Darwin Published The Origin Of Species, Darwinian Theory Is In A "Vibrantly Healthy State," Writes Stephen Jay Gould, Its Most Engaging And Illuminating Exponent. Exploring The "Peculiar And Mysterious Particulars Of Nature," Gould Introduces The Reader To Some Of The Many And Wonderful Manifestations Of Evolutionary Biology.

West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Graydonald Graphics Ltd, 1969. Soft cover. Very Good. In Very Good Used Condition. Name Inside Front Cover. May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges. For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. Vintage 1969 Himie Koshevoy's Treasure Jest Of Best Puns

Adams Media, 2012. Trade Paperback. Very Good. In Very Good Used Condition. With Minor Shelf Wear To Edges And/Or Turned Corners. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. Maxims: #1: Carry A Scholarly Book (At All Times) #12: Know Your Manet From Your Monet #14: Be Proficient In At Least One Classical Instrument #64: Learn To Recite Romantic-Era Poetry On Cue If You Think You Need A Phd In Greek And Roman Philosophy From An Ivy League School To Call Yourself An Intellectual, Reconsider Your Supposition. While You May Envy The Initials That Follow Distinguished Names Of Professors And The Intellectual Elite, It's Not The Mortar Board And Scholarly Robes You Need-It's The Obscure Esoterica. In This Primer, You'll Learn To Walk The Talk Of The Intelligentsia, Leaving Simpletons And Pseudo-Intellectuals In Your Dust. Inside How To Become An Intellectual, You Will Find The Prodigious Truths Every Self-Respecting Learned Person Lives By. This Code Of Scholarly Behavior… Read More

Austin, Texas, Usa: Texas Monthly Press, 1981. Soft cover. Very Good. In Very Good Used Condition. Signed By Author. May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges. For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. ~ Vintage 1981 Offers Tongue-In-Cheek Descriptions Of Texan Food, Clothing, Sports, And Entertainment And Includes Advice On Adopting Texan Customs.