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Alice in Wonderland Classic Libraryby Lewis CarrollISBN 0307171116 (0-307-17111-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 014036675X (0-14-036675-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland'Book summary:Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 0156044269 (0-15-604426-9)
Softcover, Harcourt - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 0060291508 (0-06-029150-8)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 0060294981 (0-06-029498-1)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 006075768X (0-06-075768-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 0192553410 (0-19-255341-0)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland: ISBN 0312018215 (0-312-01821-5)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland: ISBN 014036675X (0-14-036675-X)
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- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 0156044269 (0-15-604426-9)
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0140383514 (0-14-038351-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 0140301690 (0-14-030169-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 0140433171 (0-14-043317-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 0192816209 (0-19-281620-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 015202199X (0-15-202199-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 019281186X (0-19-281186-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 0140383514 (0-14-038351-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 0140301690 (0-14-030169-0)
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland : And, Through the Looking Glassby Lewis Carroll, Jenny ThorneISBN 0361028008 (0-361-02800-8)
Hardcover, Purnell, Alice Kelly
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland : And, Through the Looking Glass'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass, and the Hunting of the Snarkby Lewis CarrollISBN 0370109279 (0-370-10927-9)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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Amphigorey Againby Edward GoreyISBN 0156030217 (0-15-603021-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amphigorey Again'Book summary:This latest collection displays in glorious abundance the offbeat characters and droll humor of Edward Gorey. Figbash is acrobatic, topiaries are tragic, hippopotami are admonitory, and galoshes are remorseful in this celebra- tion of a unique talent that never fails to delight, amuse, and confound.Amphigorey Again contains previously uncollected work and two unpublished stories"The Izzard Book," a quirky riff on the letter Z , and "La Malle Saignante," a bilingual homage to early French silent serial movies. Rough sketches and unfin- ished panels show an ironic and singular mind at work.[via]More editions of Amphigorey Again:
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Amphigorey Alsoby Edward GoreyISBN 0156056720 (0-15-605672-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amphigorey Also'Book summary:Drawings (including thirty-two pages in color), captions, and verse showcasing Goreys unique talents and humor. The Glorious Nosebleed, The Utter Zoo, The Epiplectic Bicycle, and fourteen other selections.[via]More editions of Amphigorey Also:
And That's My Final Offer!by G. B. TrudeauISBN 0030491916 (0-03-049191-6)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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As the Kid Goes for Brokeby G. B. TrudeauISBN 0030226813 (0-03-022681-3)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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Asterix and the Big Fightby Rene De GoscinnyISBN 0340042389 (0-340-04238-9)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Asterix and the Big Fight'Book summary:A graphic novel......"The year is 50 B.C. Gaul is entirely occupied by the Romans. Well, not entirely.....One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders. And life is not easy for the Roman legionairies who garrison the fortified camps of Totorum, Aquarium, Laudanun and Compendium...." [via]
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Asterix and the Chieftain's Shieldby Rene De GoscinnyISBN 0340227109 (0-340-22710-9)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Asterix the Legionaryby Rene De GoscinnyISBN 0340103922 (0-340-10392-2)
Hardcover, Intl Learning Systems
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Baby, It's Cold Insideby PerelmanISBN 0140080422 (0-14-008042-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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But the Pension Fund Was Just Sitting Thereby G. B. TrudeauISBN 0030491762 (0-03-049176-2)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Cause Celeb: Library Editionby Helen FieldingISBN 0142000221 (0-14-200022-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cause Celeb: Library Edition'Book summary:Disillusioned with life as a literary publicist in London and sick of her hotshot TV presenter boyfriend, twenty-something Rosie Richardson decides to give up glitz for good deeds and escape to Africa to run a refugee camp. When famine strikes and a massive refugee influx threatens to overwhelm the camp, officials drag their heels. The only way to get food fast is to bring the celebrities first, so Rosie returns to London to organize a star-studded and risky emergency appeal. Deftly skewering the world of celebrity fundraising, Fielding's debut novel is both comic and thought-provoking.
Cause Celeb crackles with insights into the nature of fame, passion, and altruism in our time, all the while following an unlikely-but hugely likeable-heroine. [via]More editions of Cause Celeb: Library Edition:
Chili Dawgs Always Bark at Nightby Lewis GrizzardISBN 0345367081 (0-345-36708-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Complete Storiesby Dorothy Parker, Colleen Breese, Regina BarrecaISBN 0142437212 (0-14-243721-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Stories'Book summary:Dorothy Parker's quips and light verse have become part of the American literary landscape, but, as this new collection of her complete short stories demonstrates, Parker's talents extended far beyond brash one-liners and clever rhymes. Many of the stories, originally written for magazines, have never been collected before. [via]
Complete Works of Lewis Carrollby John TennielISBN 0370005074 (0-370-00507-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Complete Works of Lewis Carrollby Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Alexander WoollcottISBN 0140105425 (0-14-010542-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll'Book summary:Everything that Lewis Carroll ever published in book form appears in this volume. In addition, at least ten of the shorter pieces have never appeared in print except in their original editions. Included are: "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" "Through the Looking-Glass" "Sylvie and Bruno" "Sylvie and Bruno Concluded" "The Hunting of the Snark" & all of the poetry, essays, phantasmagoria along with a substantial collection of the miscellaneous writings. [via]
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The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Ministerby Jonathan Lynn, Antony JayISBN 0060971657 (0-06-097165-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Consider the Lobster: and Other Essaysby David Foster WallaceISBN 0316013323 (0-316-01332-3)
Softcover, Back Bay Books
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Cyberiadby Stanislaw LemISBN 0156027593 (0-15-602759-3)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cyberiad'Book summary:Trurl and Klaupacius are constructor robots who try to out-invent each other. They travel to the far corners of the cosmos to take on freelance problem-solving jobs, with dire consequences for their employers. The most completely successful of his books... here Lem comes closest to inventing a real universe (Boston Globe). Illustrations by Daniel Mrz. Translated by Michael Kandel.[via] 
The Dark Side of the Sunby Terry PratchettISBN 0312182708 (0-312-18270-8)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood: A Novelby Rebecca WellsISBN 0060502258 (0-06-050225-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood'Book summary:Wells is a Louisiana-born Seattle actress and playwright; her loopy saga of a 40-year-old player in Seattle's hot theater scene who must come to terms with her mama's past in steamy Thornton City, Louisiana, reads like a lengthy episode of Designing Women written under the influence of mint juleps and Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!. The Ya-Yas are the wild circle of girls who swirl around the narrator Siddalee's mama, Vivi, whose vivid voice is "part Scarlett, part Katharine Hepburn, part Tallulah." The Ya-Yas broke the no-booze rule at the cotillion, skinny-dipped their way to jail in the town water tower, disrupted the Shirley Temple look-alike contest, and bonded for life because, as one says, "It's so much fun being a bad girl!"
Siddalee must repair her busted relationship with Vivi by reading a half-century's worth of letters and clippings contained in the Ya-Ya Sisterhood's packet of "Divine Secrets." It's a contrived premise, but the secrets are really fun to learn. [via]
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Softcover, Perennial - Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood: A Novel: ISBN 0061015075 (0-06-101507-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood: A Novel: ISBN 0060173289 (0-06-017328-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: ISBN 006019345X (0-06-019345-X)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood: A Novel: ISBN 0060928336 (0-06-092833-6)
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Epiplectic Bicycleby Edward GoreyISBN 0151003149 (0-15-100314-9)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Epiplectic Bicycle'Book summary:A charming burlesque concerning an intrepid voyage of epic proportions by the incredibly sophisticated . . . stylish and inventive Edward Gorey (New York Observer). Now available in a special gift edition.[via]More editions of Epiplectic Bicycle:
Everything Here Is Mineby Nicole HollanderISBN 0380769492 (0-380-76949-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Extra Nutty!: Even More Letters from a Nutby Ted L. NancyISBN 0312261551 (0-312-26155-1)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Extra Nutty!: Even More Letters from a Nut'Book summary:Welcome to the world of Ted L. Nancy. Some have called him inspired, some have called him a goofball, and many have wondered who Ted really is. All we know is that Ted loves to write and it shows-Extra Nutty! is chock full of nut, a record of real live correspondence from America's favorite pen pal to a cross-section of this great nation. Extra Nutty! is bursting with all new letters showing Ted at his looniest.[via]
Take, for example, this:
Dear Business Permits Dept.: I want to apply for a business permit in your fine city...I operate the Soup & Sleep Restaurants. You can either order soup or sleep. A hostess will greet you and you would say, "I'd like to sleep." She will lead you to a table where you can catch a few winks.
Or this:
Dear Helena Ocean & Dog Licensing Dept: I will stage the play "Mark Twain with Tourette's Syndrome.". . . Let me know what arrangements I need to make to store my anchovie tank at your seaport. Thank you. I await large crowds.
Or even this:
Dear Kmart: I have invented a male underpants liner...This liner fits right in your shorts and can be thrown away after 15 weeks. I have been wearing the same pair of underwear for 105 days now and although they feel a little stretchy they are perfectly clean.
Ted's unique way of looking at the world-and how the world responds to Ted's schemes--is captured here in this extra nutty, hugely hilarious collection.More editions of Extra Nutty!: Even More Letters from a Nut:
The First 200 Years of Monty Pythonby Kim Howard JohnsonISBN 0312033095 (0-312-03309-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Fish Whistleby Daniel Manus PinkwaterISBN 0201570009 (0-201-57000-9)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Freddy and Frederickaby Mark HelprinISBN 0143037250 (0-14-303725-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Galahad at Blandingsby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0140284648 (0-14-028464-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Garfield Pulls His Weightby Jim DavisISBN 0345386663 (0-345-38666-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Great Big Book of Tomorrow: A Treasury of Cartoonsby Tom TomorrowISBN 0312301774 (0-312-30177-4)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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The Headless Bust : A Melancholy Meditation for the False Millenniumby Edward GoreyISBN 0151005141 (0-15-100514-1)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Headless Bust : A Melancholy Meditation for the False Millennium'Book summary:With The Headless Bust, Edmund Gravel and the Bahum Bug from Gorey's "Dispirited and Distasteful" Christmas tale, The Haunted Tea-Cosy, have returned to usher in the New Year. The story, told in verse, takes up just after Edmund's riotous party. He and the Bug are whisked off to a faraway village for another round of strange and vaguely eerie encounters. Fans of Gorey's distinctive ink drawings, tending toward the well-dressed and slightly mad, will not be disappointed--they make for an engrossing book with or without the accompanying deliciously odd text. ("Reversing at a tango tea/ In Snogg's Casino-not-on-Sea/ L-- tripped and cried, 'I am afraid/ They tampered with the marmalade.'") There is also plenty to be had for aficionados of the mysterious little rituals, mentioned nonchalantly, that seem so logical to the inhabitants of Gorey's bizarre world--the Bandage Folder's Ball being a head-cocking highlight. The Headless Bust is perfect for a winter's read by the fireplace, just before drifting off into fruitcake-induced dreams. --Ali Davis [via]
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Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of Americaby Garrison KeillorISBN 0143037684 (0-14-303768-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America'Book summary:In this thoughtful, deeply personal work, one of the nation's best-loved voices takes the plunge into politics and comes up with a book that has had all of America talking. Here, with great heart, supple wit, and a dash of anger, Garrison Keillor describes the simple democratic values-the Golden Rule, the obligation to defend the weak against the powerful, and others- that define his hard-working Midwestern neighbors and that today's Republicans seem determined to subvert. A reminiscence, a political tract, and a humorous meditation, Homegrown Democrat is an entertaining, refreshing addition to today's rancorous political debate.[via]
* A New York Times bestseller
* Updated and revised with a new introduction for the 2006 midterm elections
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Hot Waterby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0140020497 (0-14-002049-7)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Howl's Moving Castleby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 006441034X (0-06-441034-X)
Softcover, Greenwillow
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Howl's Moving Castle'Book summary:In the land of Ingary, such things as spells, invisible cloaks, and seven-league boots were everyday things. The Witch of the Waste was another matter.
After fifty years of quiet, it was rumored that the Witch was about to terrorize the country again. So when a moving black castle, blowing dark smoke from its four thin turrets, appeared on the horizon, everyone thought it was the Witch. The castle, however, belonged to Wizard Howl, who, it was said, liked to suck the souls of young girls.
The Hatter sisters--Sophie, Lettie, and Martha--and all the other girls were warned not to venture into the streets alone. But that was only the beginning.
In this giant jigsaw puzzle of a fantasy, people and things are never quite what they seem. Destinies are intertwined, identities exchanged, lovers confused. The Witch has placed a spell on Howl. Does the clue to breaking it lie in a famous poem? And what will happen to Sophie Hatter when she enters Howl's castle?
Diana Wynne Jones's entrancing fantasy is filled with surprises at every turn, but when the final stormy duel between the Witch and the Wizard is finished, all the pieces fall magically into place.
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The Huge Book of Hellby Matt GroeningISBN 0140263101 (0-14-026310-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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I Hate to Cook Bookby P. BrackenISBN 0151392633 (0-15-139263-3)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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I Think, Therefore I Laugh: An Alternative Approach to Philosophyby John Allen PaulosISBN 0231060319 (0-231-06031-9)
Softcover, Columbia University Press
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I Think, Therefore I Laugh: The Flip Side of Philosophyby John Allen PaulosISBN 0231119151 (0-231-11915-1)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Lake Wobegon Summer, 1956by Garrison KeillorISBN 0142000930 (0-14-200093-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lake Wobegon Summer, 1956'Book summary:The Doo Dads are singing "My Girl" on the radio and fourteen-year-old Gary is studying pictures of naked women, aware that Grandpa is looking down from heaven wondering how the boy turned out so badly. He has never so much as kissed a girl, except his rebellious cousin Kate, a sophisticate of seventeen who knows about The New Yorker and also how to swear and exhale smoke rings. But this is a summer of change for Gary: he fights back against his bullying born-again sister and his tyrannical teacher, and most significantly, he receives an Underwood typewriter-a typewriter that will help Gary believe he can become a writer. With his trademark gift for treading "a line delicate as a cobweb between satire and sentiment" (The Cleveland Plain Dealer), Keillor's touching and funny novel brilliantly captures a newly minted America and delivers an unforgettable comedy about the universal aspects of adolescence-from first loves to fear and fascination with bodily functions.[via]More editions of Lake Wobegon Summer, 1956:
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, Barry MoserISBN 0151042306 (0-15-104230-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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The Life of Pythonby George PerryISBN 0316700150 (0-316-70015-0)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Liveby Tom Shales, James Andrew MillerISBN 0316735655 (0-316-73565-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live'Book summary:WHEN A YOUNG WRITER named Lorne Michaels talked NBC executives into taking a chance on a new weekend late-night comedy series, nobody really knew what to expect-not even Michaels. But Saturday Night Live, launched in 1975 and still thriving today, would change the face of television. It introduced brash new stars with names like Belushi, Radner, Chase, and Murray; trashed taboos that had inhibited TV for decades; and had such an impact on American life, laughter, and politics that even presidents of the United States had to take notice. Now, Pulitzer Prize-winner Tom Shales and bestselling author James Andrew Miller bring together stars, writers, guest hosts, contributors, and craftsmen for the first-ever oral history of Saturday Night Live, from 1974, when it was just an idea, through 2002, when it has long since become an institution. In their own words, dozens of personalities recall the backstage stories, behind-the-scenes gossip, feuds, foibles, drugs, sex, struggles, and calamities, including personal details never before revealed. Shales and Miller have interviewed a galaxy of stars, including Mike Myers, Chris Rock, Bill Murray, Tom Hanks, Adam Sandler, Chevy Chase, Will Ferrell, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Martin, Jon Lovitz, Jane Curtin, Billy Crystal, Martin Short, Dana Carvey, Tina Fey, Jimmy Fallon, Chris Kattan, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Garrett Morris, Molly Shannon, Damon Wayans, Chris Elliott, Julia Sweeney, Norm Macdonald, and Paul Simon-plus writers like Al Franken, Conan O'Brien, Larry David, Rosie Shuster, Jack Handey, Robert Smigel, Don Novello, and others who got their big breaks as part of the SNL team. The Coneheads, the Blues Brothers, Buck-wheat, Wayne and Garth, Hans and Franz, the Cheerleaders, Todd DiLaMuca and Lisa Loopner, "Cheeseburger cheeseburger," Mango, the Church Lady, Ed Grimley-they're all here. And for every fabulous character on-screen there was an outrageous maverick, misfit, or rebel behind the scenes. Live from New York does what no other book about the show has ever done: It lets the people who were there tell the story in their own words, blunt and loving and uncensored. [via]
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Manuscript Murdersby Roy Harley LewisISBN 0312513917 (0-312-51391-7)
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Miss Americaby Howard SternISBN 0061095508 (0-06-109550-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Miss America/Shrink Wrapped Bookby Howard SternISBN 0061012343 (0-06-101234-3)
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No Way to Treat a First Lady: A Novelby Christopher BuckleyISBN 0375758755 (0-375-75875-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Old Dog Barks Backwards.by Ogden NashISBN 0316598046 (0-316-59804-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Old Dog Barks Backwards.'Book summary:Paperback edition of Odgen Nash's humorous poetry Frances Nash, executrix of his estate. Many of the poems first appeared in magazines, and some contain now famous quotes by Nash. [via]
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Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality: Reading from the Journal of Polymorphous Perversityby Glenn C. EllenbogenISBN 0345347005 (0-345-34700-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Oxymoronica: Paradoxical Wit and Wisdom from History's Greatest Wordsmithsby Mardy GrotheISBN 0060536993 (0-06-053699-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oxymoronica: Paradoxical Wit and Wisdom from History's Greatest Wordsmiths'Book summary:ox-y-mor-on-i-ca (OK-se-mor-ON-uh-ca) noun, plural: Any variety of tantalizing, self-contradictory statements or observations that on the surface appear false or illogical, but at a deeper level are true, often profoundly true. See also oxymoron, paradox.examples:"Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad."Victor Hugo"To lead the people, walk behind them." Lao-tzu"You'd be surprised how much it coststo look this cheap."Dolly PartonYou won't find the word "oxymoronica" in any dictionary (at least not yet) because Dr. Mardy Grothe introduces it to readers in this delightful collection of 1,400 of the most provocative quotations of all time. From ancient thinkers like Confucius, Aristotle, and Saint Augustine to great writers like Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, and G. B. Shaw to modern social observers like Woody Allen and Lily Tomlin, Oxymoronica celebrates the power and beauty of paradoxical thinking. All areas of human activity are explored, including love, sex and romance, politics, the arts, the literary life, and, of course, marriage and family life. The wise and witty observations in this book are as highly entertaining as they are intellectually nourishing and are sure to grab the attention of language lovers everywhere. [via]
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The Penguin Book of Women's Humorby Regina BarrecaISBN 0140172947 (0-14-017294-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Penguin Book of Women's Humor'Book summary:This anthology looks at the genre of women's humour and illuminates the ways in which women's humour differs from men's. It aims to destroy the assumption that humour is universal and shows it instead as marked by subjectivity and bound by gender. The book contains essays, short stories, dramas, and poems, on a range of subjects, from a variety of women including Anita Loos, Mae West, Moms Mabley, Erma Bombeck, Lily Tomlin, Elayne Boosler, Jane Austen, Emily Dickinson, Louisa May Alcott and Dorothy Parker. [via]
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Princess in Loveby Meg CabotISBN 0064472809 (0-06-447280-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Princess in Love'Book summary:It would seem that 14-year-old Mia Thermopolis ("five foot nine inches tall, with no visible breasts, feet the size of snowshoes") has the kind of life every Manhattan teenager could only dream of: She is, in her spare time, the princess of the European country of Genovia. Alas, the Royal Privilege is more like a Predicament. Not only does she have to endure daily princess lessons from her critical Grandmère ("It isn't as if I'm going to show up at the castle and start hurling olives at the ladies-in-waiting"), but her new stepfather is also her algebra teacher, her mother is pregnant and vomiting, she doesn't like her boyfriend very much, and she's convinced the real love of her life--her best friend's older brother--thinks of her as a kid.
Written in diary form like Louise Rennison's award-winning Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging, Meg Cabot's endearing and often hilarious novel Princess in Love--third in the series after The Princess Diaries and Princess in the Spotlight--is sure to appeal to teen readers who will be able to relate to Mia--a young woman who would like people to know that "behind this mutant facade beats the heart of a person who is striving, just like everybody else in this world, to find self-actualization." (Ages 12 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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Princess in the Spotlightby Meg CabotISBN 0064472795 (0-06-447279-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Princess in the Spotlight'Book summary:Fifteen-year-old Mia Thermopolis, the witty, lovable star of Meg Cabot's The Princess Diaries, has had it with princess lessons, also known as torture sessions: "Do they really think anyone in Genovia cares whether I know how to use a fish fork? Or if I can sit down without getting wrinkles in the back of my skirt? Or if I know how to say 'thank you' in Swahili? Shouldn't my future countrymen be more concerned with my views on the environment? And gun control? And overpopulation?" To make matters worse, she's getting these lessons from Grandmère, a rather judgmental woman who dresses her pet in chinchilla bolero jackets and has eyeliner permanently tattooed on her eyelids. Princess in the Spotlight further records Mia's path to princessdom: her artist mother's relationship with her algebra teacher (how awkward), her forced television interview, broadcast to all of America (how humiliating), and her crush on her best friend Lilly's brother Michael (how excruciating). The result is another thoroughly entertaining diary of a very human, very self-deprecating, very unprincesslike princess. (Ages 12 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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Psmithby Pelham Grenville WodehouseISBN 0140032142 (0-14-003214-2)
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Rehearsals Offby George BoothISBN 0380017199 (0-380-01719-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rehearsals Off'Book summary:His "New Yorker" cartoons have been opening a window on the bizarre for more than 30 years. Harried urban dwellers, confused bankers, crazed retirees, and the gnarliest collection of cats and dogs you've ever seen populate his demented, yet oh-so-familiar universe. His cartoons are best described as snaps shots from Kaufman & Hart's zany play, "You Can't Take it With You." Here's your chance to sample Booth's world, and when you enter, you'll never want to leave. Hillarious! [via]
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The Stingray Shuffleby Tim DorseyISBN 0060556935 (0-06-055693-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stingray Shuffle'Book summary:Serge is back!
Yes, that encyclopedic history buff with boundless energy (but suspect impulse control) returns in his latest quest to make everyone appreciate all things Florida and still have time left for his one-man crime wave.
In this brand-new saga, The Stingray Shuffle, Serge takes on all comers: the Russian mob, the Jamaican mob, the cocaine cartels, and spoiled frat boys. But there must also be time for hobbies, and Serge's newest "interest" is trains: how they developed Florida, where the old historic cars are on display, when to book a trip on Amtrak and share his enthusiasm with the other passengers.
And for the faithful Tim Dorsey readers, here are some long-awaited answers. Ever since the publication of his first four delightfully depraved novels, Florida Roadkill, Hammerhead Ranch Motel, Orange Crush, and Triggerfish Twist audiences everywhere have clamored for details: Where's the briefcase with the $5 million? What happened to the loonies who somehow managed to survive the merry bloodbaths? How did Serge end up with amnesia? And can he meet the increasingly difficult challenge of maintaining his spot atop the wacko pile that is Florida?
The Stingray Shuffle answers all these and more as Serge and friends pinball between stops including Tampa, West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Cocoa Beach, and the Keys before setting their sights on New York City.
Which brings up a whole new set of questions: How will Serge survive outside his native state?
Will New York City survive?
Will luck finally shine on Johnny Vegas, the Accidental Virgin?
What about the women's book club, whose members want more excitement in their lives and decide to hook up with a hyper but delightful tour guide from Florida? Does this mean romance is in the air? And will it involve props?
Find out by taking a ride on The Stingray Shuffle.
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Summer Lightningby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0140009957 (0-14-000995-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Summer Lightning'Book summary:Once a man of the Hon. Galahad Threepwood's calibre and reputation starts taking pen in hand and writing Reminiscences, the nobility and gentry of all England recall past follies committed in his company and tremble.
All rally to prevent their publication, and the consequences prove somewhat unusual: Lord Emsworth's prize-winning sow, Empress of Blandings, is kidnapped; yet another imposter is introduced into the ancestral home; and once again Blandings Castle proves too much for the Efficient Baxter. [via]
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Tepper Isn't Going Outby Calvin TrillinISBN 0375758518 (0-375-75851-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tepper Isn't Going Out'Book summary:New York City and America's car culture smash together in Calvin Trillin's Tepper Isn't Going Out, a humorous tale of the urban quest for an open parking space. When a mailing-list broker, Murray Tepper, decides to spend his days plugging meters so he can sit in his car reading newspapers and waive off suitors hopeful of gaining his spot, little does he know that his odd behavior (even by New York standards) will set off a media buzz, provide him with cult-hero status, and incur reproach from the paranoid, dour Mayor Frank Ducavelli, who focuses on curtailing Tepper's "abuse" of the parking meter system.
Granted, the plot of this novel is quite thin, but, while not leaving you in stitches, Trillin provokes many smirks and smiles with his wit. For instance, he writes of magazines titled Beautiful Spot: A Magazine of Parking and the potential of Spin: The Magazine of Salad Drying. When Tepper suggests that his friend Jack leave his car's flashers on while parked illegally, Jack responds:
And draw attention to myself? Not a chance. I always park in front of hydrants. The secret is to park smack in front of them rather than just too near them. You have to go all the way. If you're smack in front of them, the cop rolling down the street can't see that there's a hydrant there at all. You have to be brazen. That's my motto, in parking and in life: be brazen.
Trillin's book should appeal to commuters and city dwellers everywhere, and anyone else looking for a chuckle. --Michael Ferch [via] 
Three Men On The Bummelby Jerome K. JeromeISBN 0140063927 (0-14-006392-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Triumph of the Straight Dopeby Cecil Adams, Ed ZottiISBN 034542008X (0-345-42008-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Triumph of the Straight Dope'Book summary:Why do parachute jumpers yell "Geronimo"?
Is it aerodynamically impossible for bumblebees to fly?
Will watching too much TV ruin your eyes?
Fresh from the popular newspaper column by CECIL ADAMS!
WHAT IS CECIL ADAMS'S IQ?
"Do you want it in scientific notation? Little Ed, get out the slide rule."
--Cecil Adams
For more than a quarter of a century Cecil Adams has been courageously
attempting to lift the veil of ignorance surrounding the modern world.
Now, in his fifth book, he takes yet another stab, dissecting such classic
conundrums as
--If you swim less than an hour after eating, will you get cramps and die?
--What's the difference between a Looney Tune and a Merrie Melody?
--Can you see a Munchkin committing suicide in The Wizard of Oz?
--Was The Texas Chainsaw Massacre based on actual events?
--Did medieval lords really have "the right of the first night"?
And much more!
THE CRITICS: STILL RAVING AFTER ALL THESE YEARS!
"Trenchant, witty answers to the great imponderables."
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We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belleby Celia RivenbarkISBN 031231244X (0-312-31244-X)
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The Wit & Wisdom Of Mark Twainby Alex AyersISBN 0060157836 (0-06-015783-6)
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Yon Ill Windby Piers AnthonyISBN 031286227X (0-312-86227-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yon Ill Wind'Book summary:On a bet from his fellow Demons, an omnipotent entity must travel incognito through his realm, until he can wring a tear from the cold-hearted Chlorine, but a hurricane blasts into Xanth, bringing a hapless mundane family with it and threatening to destroy the magical world. [via]
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You Give Great Meeting, Sidby G. B. TrudeauISBN 0030617332 (0-03-061733-2)
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