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The Adventures of Captain Underpantsby Dav PilkeyISBN 0590846280 (0-590-84628-0)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Captain Underpants'Book summary:The first book in Dav Pilkey's mega-bestselling Captain Underpants series!
George and Harold have created the greatest superhero in the history of their elementary school and now they're going to bring him to life! Meet Captain Underpants! His true identity is so secret, even HE doesn't know who he is!
Acclaimed author and Caldecott Honor illustrator Dav Pilkey provides young readers with the adventure of a lifetime in this outrageously funny, action-packed, easy-to-read chapter book. With hilarious pictures on every page, The Adventures of Captain Underpants is great for both beginning and chapter-book readers. And like Dav's other best-selling books of humour, it is sure to provide even the most reluctant readers with hours of fun. [via]
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Asterix and the Banquetby René Goscinny, Albert UderzoISBN 0752866095 (0-7528-6609-5)
Softcover, Orion Books Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Asterix and the Banquet'Book summary:When the Romans say no, Asterix says yes. So when the soldiers construct a barricade around Asterixs village to pen everyone in, he and Obelix embark on a trip around the entire country, collecting local specialties along the way. Its a delicious feast for them, and readers, too.[via] -
Asterix and the Gothsby René Goscinny, Albert UderzoISBN 075286615X (0-7528-6615-X)
Softcover, Orion Books Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Asterix and the Goths'Book summary:Whoops, its happened again: Getaflix has been kidnapped, this time by a raiding band of Goths. So its onward and into Germania for Asterix and Getaflix. But in the process of saving their druid, the two Gauls set off a whole series of tribal wars.[via] -
The Best of Annals of Improbable Researchby Marc AbrahamsISBN 0716730944 (0-7167-3094-4)
Softcover, Freeman & Company, W. H.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best of Annals of Improbable Research'Book summary:"Science is too human, too much fun, and too important not to laugh at it." The Annals of Improbable Research (and its predecessor, the Journal of Irreproducible Results) has been making fun of science and scientists for decades. This latest compendium includes a listing of the Ig Nobel prizes, annually awarded "for scientific achievements which cannot or should not be reproduced," and some of the prizewinning papers, such as "Failure of Electric Shock Treatment for Rattlesnake Envenomation" and "Of Mites and Man." There are also plenty of groundbreaking original studies from AIR: "How Dead Is a Doornail?" "Furniture Airbags," and "The Medical Effects of Kissing Boo-Boos." As the book's warning label states, the result is a highly reactive mix: "Contents are unexpectedly educational and informative, especially in patients who suffer allergic reactions to science, technology, literature, or art. Can be highly addictive." Let the buyer beware. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Bill the Galactic Heroby Harry HarrisonISBN 0743487079 (0-7434-8707-9)
Softcover, ibooks, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bill the Galactic Hero'Book summary:It was the highest honor to defend the Empire against the dreaded Chingers, an enemy race of seven-foot-tall lizards.
But Bill, a Technical Fertilizer Operator from a planet of farmers, wasn't interested in honor-he was only interested in two things: his chosen career, and the shapely curves of Inga-Maria Calyphigia. Then a recruiting robot shanghaied him with knockout drops, and he came to in deep space, aboard the Empire warship Christine Keeler. And from there, things got even worse...
From the sweltering fuse room aboard the Keeler, where he loses an arm while blasting a Chinger spaceship, to the Department of Sanitation far below the world-city of Helior, where he finds peace, job security, and unlimited trash...here is Bill, a pure-hearted fool fighting a deluxe cast of robots, androids, and aliens in a never-ending losing battle to preserve his humanity while upholding the glory of the Empire. [via]
Blandings Castleby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0880292741 (0-88029-274-1)
Softcover, Marboro Books
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The Brand New Monty Python PaperbookISBN 0749311703 (0-7493-1170-3)
Softcover, Reed Consumer Book
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Bring Me the Head of Prince Charmingby Roger Zelazny, Robert SheckleyISBN 0553354485 (0-553-35448-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Come Closer, Roger, There's a Mosquito on Your Noseby Bill AmendISBN 0836236564 (0-8362-3656-4)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfishby Neil GaimanISBN 0613789369 (0-613-78936-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Deepest Thoughtsby Jack HandyISBN 0786880449 (0-7868-8044-9)
Softcover, Disney Pr
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The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomedby Karen Elizabeth GordonISBN 0679418601 (0-679-41860-1)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed'Book summary:Karen Elizabeth Gordon is no ordinary grammarian, and her works (including The New Well-Tempered Sentence, Torn Wings and Faux Pas, and The Disheveled Dictionary)--are no ordinary books of grammar. A special edition of the 1984 classic, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire is populated by a wickedly decadent cast of gargoyles, mastodons, murderous debutantes, and, yes, vampires (both transitive and otherwise), who cavort and consort in order to illustrate basic principles of grammar. The sentences are intoxicating--"How he loved to dangle his participles, brush his forelock off his forehead with his foreleg, and gaze into the aqueous depths"--but the rules and their explanations are as sound as any you might find in Strunk and White. Outlining the building blocks of the English language, from parts of speech to phrases and clauses, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire goes on to exorcise such grammatical demons as passive voice, fragments, comma splices, and run-on sentences. At last, a handbook of grammar you will actually want to read. In the words of Gordon's preface, "Howling, exploding, crackling, flickering with new life-forms, and drunk on fresh blood (some of mine is certainly missing), this deluxe edition reminds us on every page that words, too, have hoofs and wings to transport us far and deep." [via]
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The Diary of a Nobodyby George Grossmith, Weedon GrossmithISBN 0862999278 (0-86299-927-8)
Softcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexiconby Karen Elizabeth GordonISBN 0618381961 (0-618-38196-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon'Book summary:Pretty little novelty vocabulary books often provide unimaginative, unpoetic definitions for strange and beautiful words that one could never imagine actually using in a sentence. Karen Elizabeth Gordon's Disheveled Dictionary is quite the opposite. Gordon offers up usable if somewhat underused words (such as "amplitude," "crepuscular," "maudlin," and "recidivistic"), many of which we're not quite sure we know the exact meaning, illustrating them in the wildly creative fashion that she has perfected in her grammar texts (The Deluxe Transitive Vampire, The New Well-Tempered Sentence, and Torn Wings and Faux Pas). "The more ample one's lexicon," writes Gordon (as her alter ego "Yolanta") in the book's preface, "the more supple one's thought, the more daring, charged, engaged." "Jonquil Mapp," another of Gordon's stable of crafty characters, adds that "What's most exciting ... is not where a word has been but where it's going, what you will make of it."
This book is best described by example, so here is Gordon's illustrative use of that excessive pride or self-confidence we call "hubris": " Adipose Rex, a modern drama with ancient Greek overtones, is about a king whose hubris vis-a-vis his heart and his tragic proclivity for tiropitas, pastitsio, and baklava bring on his comeuppance coronary." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Don't Stand Where the Comet Is Assumed to Strike Oilby Scott AdamsISBN 0740745395 (0-7407-4539-5)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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Ella Enchantedby Gail Carson LevineISBN 0613076915 (0-613-07691-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ella Enchanted'Book summary:Every child longs for the day when he or she will be free from meddling parents and bossy grownups. For young Ella, the heroine of Gail Carson Levine's Newbury Honor-winning debut novel, this is more than a fanciful wish; it could be a matter of life or death. Placed under the spell of a blundering fairy, she has no choice but to go through life obeying each and every order--no matter what the consequences may be. "If you commanded me to cut off my own head, I'd have to do it."
Eden Riegel (As the World Turns, Les Miserables) uses her youthful, energetic voice to lead the listener into a familiar world of fairy godmothers, wicked stepsisters, and handsome princes. But this imaginative retelling of the Cinderella story comes with a welcome twist. Instead of a demure heroine patiently awaiting a prince who will carry her off, this Ella is a feisty ball of fire with the courage and ambition to take matters into her own hands.
Riegel narrates in a youthful, energetic tone that is perfectly suited to Ella's character. Her voice adds charm and immediacy to a wonderful story already rich with excitement, adventure, romance, and mystery. (Running time: 5.5 hours, 4 cassettes) --George Laney [via]
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The Enemies Listby P. J. O'RourkeISBN 0871136325 (0-87113-632-5)
Softcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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Faun and Gamesby Piers AnthonyISBN 0812555112 (0-8125-5511-2)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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Foxtrot: Assembled With Careby Bill AmendISBN 0740726641 (0-7407-2664-1)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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George W. Bushisms: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of Our 43rd Presidentby George W. Bush, Jacob WeisbergISBN 0743222229 (0-7432-2222-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small In Mooreland, Indianaby Haven KimmelISBN 0767915054 (0-7679-1505-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small In Mooreland, Indiana'Book summary:When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed "Zippy" for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. In this witty and lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back to a time when small-town America was caught in the amber of the innocent postwar periodpeople helped their neighbors, went to church on Sunday, and kept barnyard animals in their backyards.
Laced with fine storytelling, sharp wit, dead-on observations, and moments of sheer joy, Haven Kimmel's straight-shooting portrait of her childhood gives us a heroine who is wonderfully sweet and sly as she navigates the quirky adult world that surrounds Zippy. [via]More editions of A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small In Mooreland, Indiana:
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Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small In Mooreland, Indiana: ISBN 0606298789 (0-606-29878-9)
Hardcover, Demco Media - A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small In Mooreland, Indiana: ISBN 0767915054 (0-7679-1505-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Growing Pains of Adrian Moleby Sue TownsendISBN 0613684273 (0-613-68427-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Gulliver's Storiesby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0590418424 (0-590-41842-4)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0582426626 (0-582-42662-6)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:Gulliver sets sail for adventure and finds a country beyond his wildest dreams. He's certainly never met anyone like the people of Lilliput. But then the people of Lilliput have never met anyone quite like Gulliver. Usborne Young Reading books combine exciting stories with easy reading text. [via]
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- Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0794503292 (0-7945-0329-2)
Softcover, Edc Pub - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0804900159 (0-8049-0015-9)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0679405453 (0-679-40545-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0820112747 (0-8201-1274-7)
Hardcover, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0861129857 (0-86112-985-7)
Hardcover, Brimax Books, Limited - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0890093040 (0-89009-304-0)
Hardcover, Book Sales - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0582522854 (0-582-52285-4)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0671001744 (0-671-00174-4)
Softcover, Pocket Books - Guilliver's Travels: ISBN 0672609681 (0-672-60968-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0812567064 (0-8125-6706-4)
Softcover, Tor Books - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0816718660 (0-8167-1866-0)
Softcover, Troll Communications L.L.C. - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0877207275 (0-87720-727-5)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0883011425 (0-88301-142-5)
Softcover, Ags Pub - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0894715399 (0-89471-539-9)
Softcover, Running Press - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0679601880 (0-679-60188-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0708981437 (0-7089-8143-7)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 076070063X (0-7607-0063-X)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0582426626 (0-582-42662-6)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
- Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0794503292 (0-7945-0329-2)
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Gulliver's Travelsby Angela WilkesISBN 0860206122 (0-86020-612-2)
Softcover, Edc Pub
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Gulliver's Travelsby Howard Erskine-HillISBN 0521329345 (0-521-32934-5)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:This new critical introduction to Gulliver's Travels provides a fresh and impartial account of this world-famous satire. It presents Swift's work in its historical and literary context, and explores its allusions, its four-part structure, its narrative strategy and its prose style. A final chapter sketches the fictional aftermath of the Travels from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, and there is a guide to further reading. [via]
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Gulliver's Travelsby James RiordanISBN 0613216563 (0-613-21656-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Gulliver's Travelsby Leslie Kimmelman, Jonathan Swift, Nick HarrisISBN 0721456146 (0-7214-5614-6)
Hardcover, Ladybird Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:An Englishman's two voyages carry him to Lilliput, a land of people six inches high, and Brobdingnag, a land of giants. [via]
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Gulliver's Travelsby Malvina G. Vogel, Johnathon Smith, Johathan SwiftISBN 0866119922 (0-86611-992-2)
Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:a wonderful children's book filled with great illustrations [via]
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Gulliver's Travelsby S.D. Schindler, Jonathan Swift, Raymond JamesISBN 0816718652 (0-8167-1865-2)
Hardcover, Troll Communications Llc
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Gulliver's Travels and Other Writingsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 055321232X (0-553-21232-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings'Book summary:Considered one of English literature's first and greatest satirists, Jonathan Swift possessed a timeless genius for pointing out the foibles of human nature that still has the power to provoke, amuse, and, at times, even outrage our modern sensibilities. This representative collection of Swift's major writings includes the complete Gulliver's Travels as well as A Tale of a Tub, "The Battle of the Books," "A Modest Proposal," "An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity," "The Bickerstaff Papers," and many more of his brilliantly satirical works. Here too are selections from Swift's poetry and portions of his Journal to Stella. Swift's savage ridicule, corrosive wit, and sparkling humor are fully displayed in this comprehensive collection. [via]
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He's Just Not That into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guysby Greg Behrendt, Liz TuccilloISBN 068987474X (0-689-87474-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Hotel New Hampshireby John IrvingISBN 0671687948 (0-671-68794-8)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hotel New Hampshire'Book summary:The first of my fathers illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels. So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they dream on in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and Last Night in Twisted River.
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Jonathan Swift's Gulliverby Jonathan Swift, Martin Jenkins, Chris RiddellISBN 0763624098 (0-7636-2409-8)
Hardcover, Candlewick Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jonathan Swift's Gulliver'Book summary:A tour de force of illustration and design, JONATHAN SWIFT'S GULLIVER is a magnificent introduction to one of the most popular stories in the English language.
First published in 1726, Jonathan Swift's classic adventure story has long been a favorite with adults and children alike. This magnificent edition contains all of Gulliver's extraordinary voyages. Travel to Lilliput, land of the small, and Brobdingnag, land of giants; to Laputa, where inhabitants need to be hit on the head with sticks to remind them to talk; to Glubbdubdrib, island of ghosts and magicians; and finally, to the kingdom of the Houyhnhnms, where horses rule over humans.
Award-winning author Martin Jenkins has skillfully abridged the original novel, remaining true to its tone and humor while making it accessible to younger readers. He is brilliantly assisted by Kate Greenaway Medalist Chris Riddell, who brings to life the people, creatures, and kingdoms of Swift's searing imagination in wonderful panoramic detail. [via]More editions of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver:
The Last Laughby PerelmanISBN 0671425153 (0-671-42515-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandyby Wolfgang IserISBN 0521328071 (0-521-32807-1)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Life Among the Savagesby Shirley JacksonISBN 089733342X (0-89733-342-X)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemanby Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New, Joan NewISBN 0813005809 (0-8130-0580-9)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Florida
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'Book summary:Paperback published in 2005 by Barnes & Noble Books. Originally published in1759, this is the first trade paperback printing. Introduction by Judith Hawley Laurence Sterne explores the difficulties of creativity - both sexual and literary. In doing so, he pushes the conventions of the early novel to extreme limits. [via]
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Hardcover, Univ Pr of Florida - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: ISBN 0760763054 (0-7607-6305-4)
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The Limerick : A New Edition of the Largest Collection of Limericks Ever Publishedby Citadel Press Staff, AnonymousISBN 0806507136 (0-8065-0713-6)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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Love Meby Garrison KeillorISBN 0670032468 (0-670-03246-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love Me'Book summary:When Larry Wyler heads east from Minnesota to New York in pursuit of the celebrated life of the writers he admires and the three-martini lunch, he leaves behind Iris, the college sweetheart he married. When he abandons the rural flats of St. Paul for the fabled high-rise housing William Shawn and his famous magazine, Wyler stumbles into meteoric success as a writer and a womanizer. However, he's soon brought low by an even quicker series of failures on both fronts. Iris catches Wyler in flagrante, living the New York high life, and when The New Yorker gives him the boot the jig is up. A chastened man, Wyler returns to Minnesota, where the only writing job he can get is as an advice columnist for the lovelorn. Writing under the pen name "Mr. Blue," Wyler doles out wry, knowing, and practical advice about seduction and mating to the heartbroken and the lonely. And only slowly, painfully, does Wyler figure out for himself how, after losing love, you can eventually get it back.
From one of America's most beloved writers comes a hilarious and heartfelt novel about ambition, success, and failure as well as the virtues of real love and a steady writing job. [via]More editions of Love Me:
Murphy's Law Book Two: More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong!by Arthur BlochISBN 0843106743 (0-8431-0674-3)
Softcover, Price Stern Sloan
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No Shirt. No Shoes....No Problem!by Jeff FoxworthyISBN 0786889160 (0-7868-8916-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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P.S. Your Cat Is Deadby James KirkwoodISBN 0812815114 (0-8128-1511-4)
Hardcover, Stein and Day
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An instant classic upon its initial publication, P.S. Your Cat is Dead received widespread critical acclaim and near fanatical reader devotion. The stage version of the novel was equally successful and there are still over 200 new productions of it staged every year. Now, for the first time in a decade, James Kirkwood's much-loved black humor comic novel of manners and escalating disaster returns to bewitch and beguile a new generation.More editions of P.S. Your Cat Is Dead:
Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingosby Donna AndrewsISBN 0786239255 (0-7862-3925-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: And Other Misheard Lyricsby Gavin Edwards, Chris KalbISBN 0671501283 (0-671-50128-3)
Softcover, Fireside
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Shopgirlby Steve MartinISBN 0786885688 (0-7868-8568-8)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shopgirl'Book summary:Steve Martin's first foray into fiction is as assured as it is surprising. Set in Los Angeles, its fascination with the surreal body fascism of the upper classes feels like the comedian's familiar territory, but the shopgirl of the book's title may surprise his fans. Mirabelle works in the glove department of Neiman's, "selling things that nobody buys any more." Spending her days waiting for customers to appear, Mirabelle "looks like a puppy standing on its hind legs, and the two brown dots of her eyes, set in the china plate of her face, make her seem very cute and noticeable." Lonely and vulnerable, she passes her evenings taking prescription drugs and drawing "dead things," while pursuing an on-off relationship with the hopeless Jeremy, who possesses "a slouch so extreme that he appears to have left his skeleton at home." Then Mr. Ray Porter steps into Mirabelle's life. He is much older, rich, successful, divorced, and selfish, desiring her "without obligation." Complicating the picture is Mirabelle's voracious rival, her fellow Neiman's employee Lisa, who uses sex "for attracting and discarding men."
The mutual incomprehension, psychological damage, and sheer vacuity practiced by all four of Martin's characters sees Shopgirl veer rather uncomfortably between a comedy of manners and a much darker work. There are some startling passages of description and interior monologue, but the characters are often rather hazy types. Martin tries too hard in his attempt to write a psychologically intense novel about West Coast anomie, but Shopgirl is still an enjoyable, if rather light, read. --Jerry Brotton [via]
Sir Apropos of Nothingby Peter DavidISBN 0743412346 (0-7434-1234-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sir Apropos of Nothing'Book summary:They were dark and stormy knights...and when they had their way with a helpless tavern wench one terrible evening, they had no idea that the result of that twilight brutality was going to come after them years later looking to settle the score...
The "result's" unlikely name is Apropos: A rogue, a rascal, a scoundrel, a cheat...and those are his good points. Lame of leg but fast of wit, the only reason Apropos doesn't consider chivalry dead is because he's not yet through with it. Herewith, Sir Apropos of Nothing -- his story in the words of the knave himself.
Apropos, all too aware of his violent and unseemly beginnings, travels to the court of the good King Runcible, with three goals in mind: to find his father, seek retribution, and line his own pockets. However, Apropos carries the most troublesome burden a would-be harbinger of chaos can bear: He may well be a hero foretold, a young man of destiny. It is not a notion that Apropos finds palatable, having very low regard for such notions as honor, selflessness, or risking one's neck. Yet when Apropos finds himself assigned as squire to the most senile knight in the court -- Sir Umbrage of the Flaming Nether Regions, whose squires tend to have a rather short life span -- Apropos is forced to rise to the occasion lest he be dragged under -- permanently.
His difficulties are compounded when a routine mission to escort the King's daughter home after a long absence goes horribly awry. Suddenly Apropos finds himself saddled with trying to survive while dealing with a berserk phoenix, murderous unicorns, mutated harpies, homicidal warrior kings, and -- most problematic of all -- a princess who may or may not be a psychoticarsonist.
Featuring a hero cut from cloth similar to that of such entertaining blackguards as Blackadder and Flashman, Sir Apropos of Nothing is a skewed version of classic, mythic adventure that is by turns hilarious and frightening, slapstick and serious, and filled with drop-dead laughs and drop-dead people. [via]
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The Stainless Steel Rat for Presidentby Harry HarrisonISBN 0553276123 (0-553-27612-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stainless Steel Rat for President'Book summary:The Stainless Steel rat is back! Slippery Jim diGriz, the future's most lovable, laughable, larcenous conman tumed counterspy, retums for yet another high-tension mission.
This time the Special Corps has given the Rat a daring assignment - liberate a backward tourist planet from the clutches of an aging dictator. With his lovely but lethal wife, Angelina, and his two stalwart sons, James and Bolivar, diGriz pits ballots against bullets in the fight for freedom. He's vowed to restore truth, justice, and democracy to the world of Parisio-Aqui, if he has to lie, cheat, and steal to do it. [via]More editions of The Stainless Steel Rat for President:
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The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You!by Harry HarrisonISBN 0553276115 (0-553-27611-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You!'Book summary:After saving the world, diGriz is called on to save the universe. Liberating his two, now teenage, twin' sons from a military boarding school and penitentiary, diGriz sets out to free his wife, who has been arrested by the tax men. But the family is soon fighting an enemy of a different sort, when the humans-only galaxy of the League is invaded by all manner of hideous aliens. The Rat, disguised in the most hideous combination of alien physical features, is sent into the centre of the aliens' stronghold, where he finds himself the object of desire among the aliens. His task is to stop the aliens, who plan to wipe out every human in the universe. [via]
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Ten Ever-Lovin' Blue Eyed Years With Pogoby Walt KellyISBN 0671214284 (0-671-21428-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ten Ever-Lovin' Blue Eyed Years With Pogo'Book summary:The official history and commemoration of Pogo's first decade...all wrapped up with a running commentary by Walt Kelly. [via]
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Think I Fruity: A Foxtrot Collectionby Bill AmendISBN 0740704540 (0-7407-0454-0)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Think I Fruity: A Foxtrot Collection'Book summary:One of today's most popular syndicated strips, FoxTrot now appears in more than 1,000 daily and Sunday newspapers. Whether working through the daily disorders of home, school, or office, the Fox family manages to put its special spin on the rigors of the world. Setting the comic tone are mom Andy, whose heroic efforts to make tofu into the fifth food group are legend, and dad Roger, who is a human hazard on the golf course and a threat to the workings of all technologically driven devices. Filling out the cast are the younger Foxes: the eldest and football star wanna-be Peter, shopping guru Paige, and last-but never least-Jason, the family brain trust and his trusty iguana friend, Quincy. Each sports his or her own eccentricities, from Jason's Internet stock, Jasonzonbayhoo dot com, to Peter's teeth-chattering coffee addiction to Paige's harrowing adventures in baby-sitting.This is the twentieth FoxTrot book. [via]
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Travels With Aliceby Calvin TrillinISBN 0899199100 (0-89919-910-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Tristram Shandyby Laurence SterneISBN 0679405607 (0-679-40560-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tristram Shandy'Book summary:Tristram Shandy provoked a literary sensation when it first appeared in a series of installments between 1759 and 1767. The ribald, high-spirited book prompted Diderot to hail Sterne as 'the English Rabelais.' An ingeniously structured novel (about writing a novel) that fascinates like a verbal game of chess, Tristram Shandy is both a joyful celebration of the infinite possibilities of the art of fiction and a wry demonstration of its limitations. Many view this picaresque masterpiece as the precursor of the modern novel.
A Sentimental Journey, which came out in 1768, begins as a travelogue. Yet it ends as a treasury of portraits, sketches, and philosophical musings, for as Virginia Woolf observed: 'A Sentimental Journey, for all its levity and wit, is based upon something fundamentally philosophic--the philosophy of pleasure.' [via] 
Truckers: Bromeliad Trilogyby Terry Pratchett, Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0552525952 (0-552-52595-2)
Hardcover, Corgi Books
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The Twitsby Roald DahlISBN 0553153439 (0-553-15343-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Twits'Book summary:Mr and Mrs Twit are extremely nasty, so the Muggle-Wump monkeys and the Roly-Poly Bird hatch an ingenious plan to give them the ghastly surprise they deserve! This edition has a great new Quentin Blake cover as well as a new author biography. [via]
Week End Wodehouseby P. G. Wodehouse, KerrISBN 0712650342 (0-7126-5034-2)
Softcover, Random House
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The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
Hardcover, Xs Books
Find This BookBook summary:Odyssey, The: The World's Great Classics, by Homer; tr. by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang [via]
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Your Disgusting Head : The Darkest, Most Offensive and Moist Secrets of Your Ears, Mouth and Noseby Doris Haggis-On-WheyISBN 0743267257 (0-7432-6725-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Your Disgusting Head : The Darkest, Most Offensive and Moist Secrets of Your Ears, Mouth and Nose'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, filled with ludicrous misinformation and aimed at children.
Well, we offer you YOUR DISGUSTING HEAD by Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey. A world-renowned and much feared expert on everything, Dr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey has seventeen degrees from eighteen institutions of higher learning. With her husband, Benny, she has traveled the world many times over, has learned about all aspects of life, including outer space and food, first hand.
The human body is beautiful and mysterious. The mysterious part reeks of cheese. But no part of your body is as scary and horrifying as your head! In YOUR DISGUSTING HEAD: The Darkest, Most Offensive--and Moist--Secrets of Your Mouth, Nose and Ears, Dr. & Mr. Doris Haggis-on-Whey reveal -- through newly discovered discoveries -- all the ways in which your head disappoints you.
With such amazing information as:
" The ear was invented and designed by Feranando de la Mancini Goldfarb, in 1911, which was also a good year for yeast.
" Good Reasons for teeth removal: dentist did it; peer pressure; not sharp enough; found better teeth, like, on the ground; suspected of enjoying flossing; decay and mouth politics.
" The real reason your ears can't hear your pets talking. The answer is simple: your pet is a mumbler."
With the wit and irreverent sense of humor for which Dave Eggers and McSweeney's is known, comes the second volume in the revolutionary Haggis-On-Whey World of Unbelievable Brilliance books. More than just entertaining and informative, YOUR DISGUSTING HEAD will help you appear smarter, more in touch with your sensitive side and whiten your teeth. And much, much more that will likely sicken you. [via]
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Your Momma Thinks Square Roots Are Vegetables: A Foxtrot Collectionby Bill AmendISBN 0740732994 (0-7407-3299-4)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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Zombies of the Gene Poolby Sharyn McCrumbISBN 0671705261 (0-671-70526-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Latin for Even More Occasions (Lingua Latina Multo Pluribus Occasionibus)by Henry BeardISBN 0679406743 (0-679-40674-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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