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The Action Hero's Handbook: How to Catch a Great White Shark, Perform the Jedi Mind Trick, Track a Fugitive, and Dozens of Other TV and Movie Skillsby David Borgenicht, Joe BorgenichtISBN 193168605X (1-931686-05-X)
Softcover, Quirk Books
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Adrian Mole, the Lost Yearsby Sue TownsendISBN 1569470553 (1-56947-055-3)
Softcover, Soho Pr Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adrian Mole, the Lost Years'Book summary:The popular European author of the Queen and I presents the latest diaries of the hilarious young Master Mole, whose private musings represent the reflections of a misunderstood and muddled soul. [via]
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- Adrian Mole, the Lost Years: ISBN 1569472475 (1-56947-247-5)
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Hardcover, Soho Pr Inc - Adrian Mole, the Lost Years: ISBN 1569472041 (1-56947-204-1)
Hardcover, Soho Pr Inc - Adrian Mole, the Lost Years: ISBN 1569470553 (1-56947-055-3)
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- Adrian Mole, the Lost Years: ISBN 1569472475 (1-56947-247-5)
Adrian Mole, the Wilderness Yearsby Sue TownsendISBN 0413650103 (0-413-65010-3)
Hardcover, Methuen
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Advanced French for Exceptional Catsby Henri De La Barbe, Henry BeardISBN 0679417648 (0-679-41764-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Advanced French for Exceptional Cats'Book summary:Funnier, cleverer, with even more marvelous color illustrations than its predecessor. [via]
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All Things Bright And Beautifulby James HerriotISBN 0553269704 (0-553-26970-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Things Bright and Beautiful'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Second volume in James Herriot's classic autobiographical renditions of life as a country veterinarian. [via]
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Anansi Boys: Library Editionby Neil GaimanISBN 0060515198 (0-06-051519-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anansi Boys: Library Edition'Book summary:One of fiction's most audaciously original talents, Neil Gaiman now gives us a mythology for a modern age -- complete with dark prophecy, family dysfunction, mystical deceptions, and killer birds. Not to mention a lime.
Anansi Boys
God is dead. Meet the kids.When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie "Fat Charlie." Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can't shake that name, one of the many embarrassing "gifts" his father bestowed -- before he dropped dead on a karaoke stage and ruined Fat Charlie's life.
Mr. Nancy left Fat Charlie things. Things like the tall, good-looking stranger who appears on Charlie's doorstep, who appears to be the brother he never knew. A brother as different from Charlie as night is from day, a brother who's going to show Charlie how to lighten up and have a little fun ... just like Dear Old Dad. And all of a sudden, life starts getting very interesting for Fat Charlie.
Because, you see, Charlie's dad wasn't just any dad. He was Anansi, a trickster god, the spider-god. Anansi is the spirit of rebellion, able to overturn the social order, create wealth out of thin air, and baffle the devil. Some said he could cheat even Death himself.
Returning to the territory he so brilliantly explored in his masterful New York Times bestseller, American Gods, the incomparable Neil Gaiman offers up a work of dazzling ingenuity, a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth that is at once startling, terrifying, exhilarating, and fiercely funny -- a true wonder of a novel that confirms Stephen King's glowing assessment of the author as "a treasure-house of story, and we are lucky to have him."
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Assorted Foxtrotby Bill AmendISBN 0740705326 (0-7407-0532-6)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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At Least This Place Sells T-Shirts: A Fox-Trot Collectionby Bill AmendISBN 0836221206 (0-8362-2120-6)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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The Bad Girls' Guide to Open Roadby Cameron Tuttle, Susannah BettagISBN 0811821706 (0-8118-2170-6)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bad Girls' Guide to Open Road'Book summary:Who hasn't fantasized about ditching work and pulling a Thelma and Louise? Well, don't even think about taking a road trip without a copy of Cameron Tuttle's Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road. Tuttle, who's crisscrossed the country several times, has written a hilarious, in-your-face, travelogue/self-help book (glove-compartment-size with a nifty hot-pink cover) that's sure to get adventure-seeking gals everywhere in their cars. The Bad Girl's Guide is jam-packed with practical and not-so-practical information on where to go (the Elvis Is Alive Museum, Lizzie Borden's House), which Road Sisters to bring along (preferably ones with trust funds), essential tunes (Donna Summer's "Bad Girls," natch), as well as indispensable tips, such as 14 ways to open a beer bottle on your car and 11 uses for a condom (pony-tail holder, snakebite tourniquet). The format, with various sidebars and boxes, is a bit cluttered and the nuts and bolts info a bit sketchy, but Tuttle covers a lot of ground in 192 pages--and she answers that all-important question: what car did Thelma and Louise drive? A '66 Thunderbird convertible. --Jill Fergus [via]
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Balsamic Dreams: A Short but Self-Important History of the Baby Boomer Generationby Joe QueenanISBN 031242082X (0-312-42082-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Best Christmas Pageant Ever: Library Editionby Barbara Robinson, Judith Gwyn BrownISBN 0064402754 (0-06-440275-4)
Softcover, Trophy Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Best Christmas Pageant Ever: Library Edition'Book summary:Called one of America's favorite Christmas stories, and now a classic television movie, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever has been a favorite of young readers the world over since 1972. Funny, memorable, and outrageous, it is the story of a family of incorrigible children who discover the Christmas story for the first time and help everyone else rediscover its true meaning.
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The Best of Mylesby Flann O'BrienISBN 0140063668 (0-14-006366-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Callahan's Keyby Spider RobinsonISBN 0553111639 (0-553-11163-9)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Callahan's Key'Book summary:What's Jake Stonebender's standard fee for saving the universe? That's easy: "A bar, and enough money and clout to run it." It's time for Jake to save the day yet again, with a lot of help from the rest of his pun-happy, cosmically strange crew. And no more kiddie stakes like in the previous Callahan books, when mere humanity was on the line. Nope, Jake needs to save the totality of the universe. From, of all things, the quest for knowledge. What does that mean? Well, it's got something to do with a classified satellite called the Deathstar, a hurricane named Erin, a superenergetic cosmic ray in the wrong place at the wrong time, the Soviet space station Mir, and a shamelessly enormous volume of Irish coffee. But as any Callahan fan will duly attest, all of this is really beside the point.
Books in this series (this one included) showcase the Münchhausen-style storytelling skills of Nebula- and Hugo-winner Spider Robinson. Putting one of cinema's most robust tropes into service--calling the team back together, à la Oceans 11--and doing a bang-up job at it as usual, Robinson should please old fans and win new ones. If nothing else, you'll surely come to love the eclectic cast of dozens, including everybody from a talking baby (Jake's teleporting, superhacker daughter) to a talking German shepherd (Ralph Von Wau Wau) to--why not?--the forgotten father of the 20th century, Nikola Tesla. --Paul Hughes [via]
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Can You Keep a Secret?by Sophie KinsellaISBN 1587247089 (1-58724-708-9)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Can You Keep a Secret?'Book summary:No marks or damage on pages or cover [via]
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Softcover, Dell Pub Co - Can You Keep a Secret?: ISBN 0385336810 (0-385-33681-0)
Hardcover, Dial Pr - Can You Keep a Secret?: ISBN 1587247089 (1-58724-708-9)
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The Ceo of the Sofaby P. J. O'RourkeISBN 080213940X (0-8021-3940-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Complete Fawlty Towersby John Cleese, Connie BoothISBN 0679721274 (0-679-72127-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Fawlty Towers'Book summary:The complete scripts, with photographs, of the fantastically popular and outrageously funny comedy series called Fawlty Towers, by the founder of "Monty Python's Flying Circus", and the author and star of A Fish Called Wanda. [via]
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Deeper Thoughtsby Jack HandeyISBN 1562828401 (1-56282-840-1)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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Doonesburyby G. B. TrudeauISBN 0070652945 (0-07-065294-5)
Hardcover, American Heritage Press
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Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climatesby Tom RobbinsISBN 0553107755 (0-553-10775-5)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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Flying Dutchby Tom HoltISBN 044124193X (0-441-24193-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Giraffes? Giraffes!by Doris Haggis-On-Whey, Benny Haggis-On-WheyISBN 1932416048 (1-932416-04-8)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Giraffes? Giraffes!'Book summary:For many years the scientific and educational community has wondered and worried about the possibility that semi-sane scholar pretenders would find the means to put out a series of reference books aimed at children but filled with ludicrous misinformation. These books would be distributed through respectable channels and would inevitably find their way into the hands and households of well-meaning families, who would go to them for facts but instead find bizarre untruths. The books would look normal enough, but would read as if written by people who have eaten too many lead-based paint chips.
Well, sadly, that day is upon us. We offer to you the first in a proposed series of 377 reference books, all written by a couple, Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-on-Whey, married 50 years and now getting their chance to twist and tickle the brains of the impressionable.
Giraffes? Giraffes! is the first in the series, and puts forth the following novel theories: that giraffes were not part of any evolutionary chain, but came here from Neptune, by way of very long (but convenient and fast) escalators; that giraffes are expert dancers, but they become angry if you ask them about their dancing; that giraffes control over 90% of what we see in mirrors; that the Giraffe Navy is as strong as ever, contrary to recent claims in the popular press.
This is a book to be feared. If you have young people in your life, keep it far away from them.
Giraffes? Giraffes! is a 9" x 12" hardcover reference book, with 64 lavishly-illustrated pages, and includes a set of giraffe trading cards carefully attached to the inside back cover. Cover is blue faux-leather, de-bossed with gold foil detail and a special 4-color illustration.
Doctor-approved for all age groups. [via]
The Grasshopper Trapby Patrick F. McManusISBN 0805001115 (0-8050-0111-5)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Growing Up Catholic: An Infinitely Funny Guide for the Faithful, the Fallen, and Everyone In-Betweenby Mary Jane Frances Cavolina, Maureen Anne Teresa Kelly, Richard Glen Michael Davis, Jeffrey Allen Joseph Stone, Bob Jones, Bob KileyISBN 0767905970 (0-7679-0597-0)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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How to Eat Like a Childby Delia EphronISBN 0451821815 (0-451-82181-5)
Softcover, Select Penguin
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How to Eat Like a Child, and Other Lessons in Not Being a Grown-Upby Delia EphronISBN 0670383317 (0-670-38331-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Eat Like a Child, and Other Lessons in Not Being a Grown-Up'Book summary:Universal and timeless, Delia Ephron's How to Eat Like a Child is a delightful revisiting of the joys -- and tricky ploys -- of childhood. Made into a children's television special and a musical theater revue performed across the country each year, How to Eat Like a Child offers advice beyond the artful etiquette of food consumption. Ephron also teaches us "How to Laugh Hysterically," "How to Have a Birthday Party," "How to Torture Your Sister," and much, much more. As the Washington Post Book World noted, `After the giggles of recognition have subsided, one thing will be very clear: all adults are kids in grown-ups' clothing."
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How to Talk Dirty and Influence People: An Autobiographyby Lenny BruceISBN 0671751085 (0-671-75108-5)
Softcover, Fireside
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Talk Dirty and Influence People: An Autobiography'Book summary:In 1963, before the law and his drug habit brought the curtain down on the comedian, Hugh Hefner asked then-superstar Lenny Bruce to write his autobiography. Lenny hired writer Paul Krassner to help him edit the book, which appeared in Playboy over the next two years. Though it's uneven, and somewhat dated, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People deserves a look, if only to balance the movie Lenny, which many of the comedian's friends say missed the man entirely. The book is, simply, Lenny Bruce riffing on his life--from a drab childhood in Brooklyn, to stints in the navy and merchant marine, and finally to the nightclub circuit and eventual stardom. Of course, the veracity of any single anecdote is highly questionable, but How to Talk Dirty and Influence People rises above that, revealed as a fascinating expression of how this comedy icon wanted to be seen. Namely, as a rough-and-tumble kid from the streets, as a hustler and ladies' man, and, finally, as a fearless detonator of society's hypocrisy. (Notice that addict and dissolute don't make the list.)
In the movies ... Everett Sloane was a tycoon. He would get his gun off disillusioning Joel McCrea, who wanted to publish a newspaper that would make a statement, and telling him: "M'boy, you'll see when you get old that it's all a game." And I used to think, "No, it's not that way, this cynical old bastard is bullshitting, there are the Good Guys and the Bad Guys, the liars and the truth-tellers."
But Everett Sloane was right. There is only what is. The what-should-be never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is only what is.
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People doesn't catch Bruce's charisma and vaguely sinister electricity--no book could--but it is an interesting, lively read. Bruce was one of the first performers to usher in the new, more honest, more permissive, and more indulgent brand of American art. For anyone who wants to understand our comedy and culture, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People is well worth reading. --Michael Gerber [via]
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How to Travel With a Salmon & Other Essaysby Umberto Eco, William Weaver, Diane SterlingISBN 015600125X (0-15-600125-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Travel With a Salmon & Other Essays'Book summary:Once a columnist for an Italian literary magazine, Eco now shares his acute and highly entertaining sense of the absurd in modern life in these essays about militarism, computerese, cowboy and Indian movies, art criticism, librarians, semiotics, and much more--including himself. [via]
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Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Ownby Erma BombeckISBN 0449208346 (0-449-20834-6)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbellyby Anthony BourdainISBN 0060899220 (0-06-089922-0)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly'Book summary:Most diners believe that their sublime sliver of seared foie gras, topped with an ethereal buckwheat blini and a drizzle of piquant huckleberry sauce, was created by a culinary artist of the highest order, a sensitive, highly refined executive chef. The truth is more brutal. More likely, writes Anthony Bourdain in Kitchen Confidential, that elegant three-star concoction is the collaborative effort of a team of "wacked-out moral degenerates, dope fiends, refugees, a thuggish assortment of drunks, sneak thieves, sluts, and psychopaths," in all likelihood pierced or tattooed and incapable of uttering a sentence without an expletive or a foreign phrase. Such is the muscular view of the culinary trenches from one who's been groveling in them, with obvious sadomasochistic pleasure, for more than 20 years. CIA-trained Bourdain, currently the executive chef of the celebrated Les Halles, wrote two culinary mysteries before his first (and infamous) New Yorker essay launched this frank confessional about the lusty and larcenous real lives of cooks and restaurateurs. He is obscenely eloquent, unapologetically opinionated, and a damn fine storyteller--a Jack Kerouac of the kitchen. Those without the stomach for this kind of joyride should note his opening caveat: "There will be horror stories. Heavy drinking, drugs, screwing in the dry-goods area, unappetizing industry-wide practices. Talking about why you probably shouldn't order fish on a Monday, why those who favor well-done get the scrapings from the bottom of the barrel, and why seafood frittata is not a wise brunch selection.... But I'm simply not going to deceive anybody about the life as I've seen it." --Sumi Hahn [via]
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Laughing Gasby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0140011722 (0-14-001172-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Lenny Bruce: An Autobiography How to Talk Dirty and Influence Peopleby Lenny BruceISBN 0404199275 (0-404-19927-5)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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Little Green Menby Christopher BuckleyISBN 0060955570 (0-06-095557-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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A Man Without a Countryby Kurt VonnegutISBN 158322713X (1-58322-713-X)
Hardcover, Seven Stories Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Man Without a Country'Book summary:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"[This] may be as close as Vonnegut ever comes to a memoir." -Los Angeles Times"Like [that of] his literary ancestor Mark Twain, [Kurt Vonnegut's] crankiness is good-humored and sharp-witted. . . . [Reading A Man Without a Country is] like sitting down on the couch for a long chat with an old friend." -The New York Times Book ReviewIn a volume that is penetrating, introspective, incisive, and laugh-out-loud funny, one of the great men of letters of this age-or any age-holds forth on life, art, sex, politics, and the state of America's soul. From his coming of age in America, to his formative war experiences, to his life as an artist, this is Vonnegut doing what he does best: Being himself. Whimsically illustrated by the author, A Man Without a Country is intimate, tender, and brimming with the scope of Kurt Vonnegut's passions."For all those who have lived with Vonnegut in their imaginations . . . this is what he is like in person." -USA Today"Filled with [Vonnegut's] usual contradictory mix of joy and sorrow, hope and despair, humor and gravity." -Chicago Tribune"Fans will linger on every word . . . as once again [Vonnegut] captures the complexity of the human condition with stunning calligraphic simplicity." -The Australian"Thank God, Kurt Vonnegut has broken his promise that he will never write another book. In this wondrous assemblage of mini-memoirs, we discover his family's legacy and his obstinate, unfashionable humanism." -Studs Terkel [via]
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A Marriage Made in Heaven... or Too Tired for an Affairby Erma BombeckISBN 0061092029 (0-06-109202-9)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Matildaby Roald DahlISBN 1417753064 (1-4177-5306-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Matilda'Book summary:Matilda is a little girl who is far too good to be true. At age five-and-a-half she's knocking off double-digit multiplication problems and blitz-reading Dickens. Even more remarkably, her classmates love her even though she's a super-nerd and the teacher's pet. But everything is not perfect in Matilda's world. For starters she has two of the most idiotic, self-centered parents who ever lived. Then there's the large, busty nightmare of a school principal, Mrs. ("The") Trunchbull, a former hammer-throwing champion who flings children at will and is approximately as sympathetic as a bulldozer. Fortunately for Matilda, she has the inner resources to deal with such annoyances: astonishing intelligence, saintly patience, and an innate predilection for revenge.
She warms up with some practical jokes aimed at her hapless parents, but the true test comes when she rallies in defense of her teacher, the sweet Miss Honey, against the diabolical Trunchbull. There is never any doubt that Matilda will carry the day. Even so, this wonderful story is far from predictable--the big surprise comes when Matilda discovers a new, mysterious facet of her mental dexterity. Roald Dahl, while keeping the plot moving imaginatively, also has an unerring ear for emotional truth. The reader cares about Matilda because in addition to all her other gifts, she has real feelings. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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- Matilda: ISBN 1557361231 (1-55736-123-1)
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Hardcover, Demco Media - Matilda: ISBN 0613371895 (0-613-37189-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Matilda: ISBN 2070512541 (2-07-051254-1)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc - Matilda: ISBN 9681903269 (968-19-0326-9)
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Matildaby Quentin Blake, Roald DahlISBN 0670824399 (0-670-82439-9)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Matilda'Book summary:Matilda is a little girl who is far too good to be true. At age five-and-a-half she's knocking off double-digit multiplication problems and blitz-reading Dickens. Even more remarkably, her classmates love her even though she's a super-nerd and the teacher's pet. But everything is not perfect in Matilda's world. For starters she has two of the most idiotic, self-centered parents who ever lived. Then there's the large, busty nightmare of a school principal, Mrs. ("The") Trunchbull, a former hammer-throwing champion who flings children at will and is approximately as sympathetic as a bulldozer. Fortunately for Matilda, she has the inner resources to deal with such annoyances: astonishing intelligence, saintly patience, and an innate predilection for revenge.
She warms up with some practical jokes aimed at her hapless parents, but the true test comes when she rallies in defense of her teacher, the sweet Miss Honey, against the diabolical Trunchbull. There is never any doubt that Matilda will carry the day. Even so, this wonderful story is far from predictable--the big surprise comes when Matilda discovers a new, mysterious facet of her mental dexterity. Roald Dahl, while keeping the plot moving imaginatively, also has an unerring ear for emotional truth. The reader cares about Matilda because in addition to all her other gifts, she has real feelings. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Mommy Knows Worst: Highlights From The Golden Age Of Bad Parenting Adviceby James LileksISBN 1400082285 (1-4000-8228-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mommy Knows Worst: Highlights From The Golden Age Of Bad Parenting Advice'Book summary:Dont throw out the baby with the bathwater!
Ahhhh, the 1940s and 50s . . . a time when parents everywhere strove for the American Dreammanicured lawns, a shiny car in the driveway, and perfect children playing in the yard. Raising kids was simpler back then, or was it?
In Mommy Knows Worst, youll be treated to a visual feast of past parenting neurosesas well as insight into why concerned moms and dads were driven to buy delicious baby laxatives, douse their baby in oil and put him in the sun, and strap Junior into a car seat that bore a strange resemblance to scrap metal. If youre a baby boomer who lived through this childhood torture, well, were sorry. But if humor really is the best medicine (rather than bicarbonate of curd and mustard plaster, as was previously recommended for childhood ailments), then Mommy Knows Worst is cheaper than therapy.
Photographs, advertisements, magazine articles, and government-issue parenting guides, which seemed so helpful in their day, are given a whole new slant by the master of the genre, James Lileks. Mommy Knows Worst is a rollicking tribute to old-fashioned parenting that gives us a whole new reason not to forget our pastits hilarious! [via]More editions of Mommy Knows Worst: Highlights From The Golden Age Of Bad Parenting Advice:
The Mouse That Roaredby Leonard Patrick O'Connor WibberleyISBN 0316938726 (0-316-93872-6)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Nanny Ogg's Cookbook: Including Recipes, Items of Antiquarian Lore, Improving Observations of Life, Good Advice for Young People on the Threshold of the Adventure That Isby Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs, Paul Kidby, Tina HannanISBN 0552146730 (0-552-14673-0)
Softcover, Corgi
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Never Sniff a Gift Fishby Patrick F. McManusISBN 0805000313 (0-8050-0031-3)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The New Yorker Book of Cat Cartoonsby New YorkerISBN 0394587952 (0-394-58795-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The New Yorker Book of Cat Cartoons/Miniature EditionISBN 067974276X (0-679-74276-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This BookBook summary:The same 101 hilarious cartoons that appear in the original edition are now in a miniature edition. The works of William Steig, George Price, Sempe, and many others are included. [via]
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The Onion Presents Embedded In America: Complete News Archivesby ONION EDITORS, Amie BarrodaleISBN 1400054567 (1-4000-5456-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The latest book in the New York Times bestselling Onion series includes every news story, opinion piece, news-in-brief, horoscope . . . yes, every last word that appeared in The Onion between mid-October 2003 and mid-November 2004. And this is the biggest book yet in the series. Thats rightEmbedded in America includes eight additional weeks of award-winning coverage from The Onion, including two extra weeks of post-presidential election coverage.
Here they are at last: all the issues of The Onion that you missed because you had a life to live. And each page takes 0.0 seconds to load!
Embedded in America is Volume 16 in the popular and bestselling Onion series. Look for a new volume every year. [via]More editions of The Onion Presents Embedded In America: Complete News Archives:
The Pirates!: In an Adventure With Scientists and in an Adventure With Ahabby Gideon DefoeISBN 1400077508 (1-4000-7750-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Private Partsby Howard SternISBN 0671009443 (0-671-00944-3)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Private Parts'Book summary:It has been said that you either love or loathe Howard Stern, but it's quite possible to love and loathe him after reading this autobiography. Stern sets out to offend as many people as possible (and he succeeds admirably), but two things prevent this book, and Stern, from becoming unbearable. First, he is as candid about himself as he is about the people he attacks. He describes his tortured adolescence, his physical inadequacies, and his sexual proclivities in such breathtaking detail that it's hard not to like the guy. Stern also avoids the bitterness that characterizes many of the "shock-radio" DJs who have attempted to follow in his footsteps. He can be cruel, but he generally reserves cruelty for people whose fame makes them open targets, and the way he dismantles the whole idea of "celebrity" is hilarious. Howard Stern is like the kid at school who could fart the national anthem--you can't help but laugh at what he does, even though you know you shouldn't. [via]
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The Queen and Iby Sue TownsendISBN 1569470154 (1-56947-015-4)
Softcover, Soho Press, Incorporated
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Rebuilding Coventryby Sue TownsendISBN 1569470901 (1-56947-090-1)
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The Return of the Lone Iguana: A Fox Trot Collectionby Bill AmendISBN 0836210271 (0-8362-1027-1)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Publishing
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Skipping Christmasby John GrishamISBN 0440242576 (0-440-24257-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Skipping Christmas'Book summary:John Grisham turns a satirical eye on the overblown ritual of the festive holiday season, and the result is Skipping Christmas, a modest but funny novel about the tyranny of December 25. Grisham's story revolves around a typical middle-aged American couple, Luther and Nora Krank. On the first Sunday after Thanksgiving they wave their daughter Blair off to Peru to work for the Peace Corps, and they suddenly realize that "for the first time in her young and sheltered life Blair would spend Christmas away from home."
Luther Krank sees his daughter's Christmas absence as an opportunity. He estimates that "a year earlier, the Luther Krank family had spent $6,100 on Christmas," and have "precious little to show for it." So he makes an executive decision, telling his wife, friends, and neighbors that "we won't do Christmas." Instead, Luther books a 10-day Caribbean cruise. But things start to turn nasty when horrified neighbors get wind of the Krank's subversive scheme and besiege the couple with questions about their decision.
Grisham builds up a funny but increasingly terrifying picture of how this tight-knit community turns on the Kranks, who find themselves under increasing pressure to conform. As the tension mounts, readers may wonder whether they will manage to board their plane on Christmas day. Skipping Christmas is Grisham-lite, with none of the serious action or drama of his legal thrillers, but a funny poke at the craziness of Christmas. --Jerry Brotton, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - Skipping Christmas: ISBN 0385505833 (0-385-50583-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - Skipping Christmas: ISBN 0385506244 (0-385-50624-4)
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Sleeping at the Starlite Motelby Bailey WhiteISBN 0679770151 (0-679-77015-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Son of "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night"by Scott RiceISBN 0140088393 (0-14-008839-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Southern Ladies and Gentlemenby Florence KingISBN 0812817737 (0-8128-1773-7)
Hardcover, Stein & Day Pub
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The Superior Person's Book of Wordsby Peter BowlerISBN 1567921590 (1-56792-159-0)
Hardcover, David R Godine Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Superior Person's Books of Words'Book summary:The avowed purpose of this witty little book is to equip the reader to be the superior person of the title by expanding the vocabulary of the rare and arcane ("Secret, hidden. An excellent example of a Superior Word of the first order, ie, one that is on the margin of recognition for most people, is known to many, but used by few."). You can then indulge in the arts of parisology ("The deliberate pursuit of ambiguity in one's language") or charientism ("An elegantly veiled insult"), using terms such as fungible ("Replaceable by, or acceptable as a replacement for, a similar item ... Your sister's latest boyfriend could be referred to as 'one of Belinda's fungibles."). Or challenge the pretentious who insist on using terms such as matrix, parameter or paradigm ("Model, pattern, or example. A pretentious and unnecessary word, normally found only in psychology theses. Never use this word yourself, but be prepared, when it is used by another, to lean forward intently, narrow your eyes, and say, 'Just a moment--do you really mean "paradigm" in that context?' When, somewhat bemused, he avers that he does, you merely raise your eyebrows and remain silent..."). You will also have a remarkable collection of words for minor but serious-sounding illnesses to get you out of doing chores, and be able to drive Scrabble players wild with words ranging from aeaeae ("magic") to zaftig ("desirably plump").
A nicely produced hardback, just the right size for dipping into in bed, this would make an excellent present for your favourite word-lover or word-game fanatic. --Julia Cresswell [via]
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Take Us to Your Mall: A Foxtrot Collectionby Bill AmendISBN 0836217802 (0-8362-1780-2)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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User Friendlyby J. D. Illiad FrazerISBN 1565926730 (1-56592-673-0)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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To be fair, the comic is pretty basic in layout and execution. No one will confuse this book with a graphic novel, since the visuals basically exist only to further the punch line. (Think of a stripped-down Bloom County and you're getting close.) Lots of the jokes involve goofy, clichéd rants about the beauty of Quake, Linux, and Star Wars--the holy trinity for a white, wired, 18-26 year-old male audience. But when the author, Illiad, nails the bloated bureaucracy that exists in the tech working world, it's a laugh-out-loud payoff. In one comic, a new "suit" walks into the tech den and asks, What's "one thing that makes your job difficult, and we'll see about eliminating that." The chorus erupts: "Meetings." The new boss replies: "Very good. Now let's spend a few hours discussing why meetings make you unproductive." A comic that tilts at windmills and Windows, it's clear why User Friendly has developed such a strong online cult following. --Jennifer Buckendorff [via]
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When You Look Like Your Passportby Erma BombeckISBN 0060183209 (0-06-018320-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Homeby Erma BombeckISBN 0061099813 (0-06-109981-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Who's Afraid of Beowulf?by Tom HoltISBN 0441885918 (0-441-88591-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Matildaby Not AvailableISBN 8420464546 (84-204-6454-6)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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Todas Las Cosas Brillantes Y Hermosas/All Things Bright and Beautifulby James HerriotISBN 8425317010 (84-253-1701-0)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns Inc
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