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101 Wacky Kid Jokesby Jovial Bob StineISBN 0590413996 (0-590-41399-6)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Abraham Lincoln Joke Bookby B.S. De RegniersISBN 0590309684 (0-590-30968-4)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Are We Having Fun Yet?: Zippy the Pinhead's 29 Day Guide to Random Activities and Arbitrary Donutsby Bill GriffithISBN 0525481842 (0-525-48184-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Armadillos & Old Laceby Kinky FriedmanISBN 0553574477 (0-553-57447-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Autocrat of the Breakfast Tableby Holmes OwISBN 0460000667 (0-460-00066-7)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The Bad Child's Book of Beastsby Hilarie BellocISBN 0486207498 (0-486-20749-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Boat Who Wouldn't Floatby Farley MowatISBN 055327788X (0-553-27788-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Boat Who Wouldn't Float'Book summary:It seemed like a good idea. Tired of everyday life ashore, Farley Mowat would find a sturdy boat in Newfoundland and roam the salt sea over, free as a bird. What he found was the worst boat in the world, and she nearly drove him mad. The Happy Adventure, despite all that Farley and his Newfoundland helpers could do, leaked like a sieve. Her engine only worked when she felt like it. Typically, on her maiden voyage, with the engine stuck in reverse, she backed out of the harbour under full sail. And she sank, regularly.
How Farley and a varied crew, including the intrepid lady who married him, coaxed the boat from Newfoundland to Lake Ontario is a marvellous story. The encounters with sharks, rum-runners, rum and a host of unforgettable characters on land and sea make this a very funny book for readers of all ages. [via]More editions of The Boat Who Wouldn't Float:
Boy Meets Girlby Meg CabotISBN 0606310444 (0-606-31044-4)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Boy Next Doorby Meg CabotISBN 0613925416 (0-613-92541-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boy Next Door'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Mel is bored with her life, until the elderly woman next door is nearly murdered, and she sets out to find who is responsible by investigating her neighbors, including the handsome, but mysterious, man who has come to dogsit for his comatose aunt. [via]
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Brentford Triangleby Robert RankinISBN 0552138428 (0-552-13842-8)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brentford Triangle'Book summary:[via]A sequel to The Antipope, this is the second novel in "The Brentford Trilogy." All over Brentford electrical appliances were beginning to failcould it be that it had been chosen as the first base in an alien onslaught on planet Earth?More editions of Brentford Triangle:
Bubbles Ablazeby Sarah StrohmeyerISBN 0525947388 (0-525-94738-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Bubbles Unboundby Sarah StrohmeyerISBN 0525945806 (0-525-94580-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrianby Lawrence BlockISBN 067149581X (0-671-49581-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian'Book summary:If the only side of Lawrence Block you know is the dark and gloomy Matt Scudder books, such as the noir classic When the Sacred Ginmill Closes, then you might be surprised to hear that he's also one of the most delightfully droll writers in the mystery business.
"I hurried uptown and changed into chinos and a short-sleeved shirt that would have been an Alligator except that the embroidered device on the breast was not that reptile but a bird in flight. I guess it was supposed to be a swallow, either winging its way back to Capistrano or not quite making a summer, because the brand name was Swallowtail. It had never quite caught on and I can understand why." That's Bernie Rhodenbarr, used book dealer and gentleman burglar, making a literary fashion statement in this latest return to print of one of Block's best books about him.
As with the other entries in this admirable series--The Burglar in the Closet, The Burglar in the Library, The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling, The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza, The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart, The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams, Burglars Can't Be Choosers--Block manages to be very amusing, moderately suspenseful, and impressively erudite all at the same time. The plot is a complicated tangle of double-cross and deceit surrounding the theft of a valuable painting and two murders. Mondrian isn't the only artist being framed here: Bernie has to use all of his skills--as burglar, lover, and art expert--to prove his (relative) innocence. --Dick Adler [via]
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Burglars Can't Be Choosersby Lawrence BlockISBN 0671439375 (0-671-43937-5)
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Cats With Attitude: Two Volumes in One Collection Everything Here Is Mine My Cat's Not Fat, He's Just Big-Bonedby Nicole Hollander, Slyvia HollanderISBN 0517219557 (0-517-21955-7)
Hardcover, Gramercy
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A Civil Campaignby Lois McMaster BujoldISBN 0671578855 (0-671-57885-5)
Softcover, Baen Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Civil Campaign'Book summary:If you relish costume adventure in an intergalactic society starring strong, convincing male and female characters, you'll adore the Vorkosigan Series. If you haven't met Miles Vorkosigan, whose brilliance, manic energy, and unstoppable determination make him a larger-than-life hero despite his dwarfish stature, pick up Komarr and A Civil Campaign. Read them, and then go back and catch the previous nine books (10 if you count Ethan of Athos, which features not Miles but his partner, Ellie Quinn); or read the series in order, starting with the romance of Miles's parents in Shards of Honor.
A Civil Campaign opens where Komarr ends, with Miles determined to court Ekaterin. Unfortunately, his approach is described as "General Romeo Vorkosigan, the one-man strike force." By his father. The potential for comic disaster increases when Miles's clone brother Mark arrives. He's brought a brilliant but scatterbrained scientist who's created a bug producing a perfect food: bug butter. They set up a lab in the basement of Vorkosigan House. Mark has also found a nice Barrayaran girl--she even likes the bugs--with whom he got together on the sexually liberated world of Beta. But now Kareen's living at home. Naturally, disaster strikes, repeatedly and on all fronts.
Bujold unfolds her comedy of manners while continuing to explore familiar themes: the difficulties in becoming a strong adult woman in a patriarchy, the need for trust and honesty in relationships between the sexes, the difference between appearance and identity, and the impact of advanced biotechnologies on society. A Civil Campaign is a sure-fire Hugo and Nebula nominee, likely to add another statue to Bujold's already full shelf. It's charming, touching, and quite funny too. --Nona Vero [via]
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The Complete Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 0517120739 (0-517-12073-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Oscar Wilde'Book summary:An all-encompassing collection of the author's plays, stories, poems, and children's works offers The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Lady Windomere's Fan, and Salome. [via]
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Crazy Salad Plus Nineby Nora EphronISBN 067150715X (0-671-50715-X)
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Dead Soulsby Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 0486426823 (0-486-42682-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Souls'Book summary:A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their "dead souls," the serfs who have died in their service. Gogol's comic masterpiece offers a vast and satirical painting of 19th-century Russia. A work of great symbolism, it continues to inspire 21st-century authors and readers.[via]More editions of Dead Souls:
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Death's Domainby Terry PratchettISBN 0552146722 (0-552-14672-2)
Softcover, Corgi
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Deep Secretby Not AvailableISBN 0606196536 (0-606-19653-6)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Discworld Mapby Terry PratchettISBN 0552143243 (0-552-14324-3)
Softcover, Corgi
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Drag Queenby Robert RodiISBN 0452273447 (0-452-27344-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Elvis, Jesus & Coca-Colaby Kinky FriedmanISBN 0553568914 (0-553-56891-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The End of the Road: The Story of a Place Where the Land Ends and the Sea Beginsby Tom BodettISBN 0553287575 (0-553-28757-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Fat! So?by Marilyn WannISBN 0613237145 (0-613-23714-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fat! So?'Book summary:Fat? Chunky? Less than svelte? So what! In this hilarious and eye-opening book, fat and proud activist/zinester Marilyn Wann takes on Americas' biggest fearworse than the fear of public speaking or nuclear weaponsour fear of fat.Statistics tell us that about a third of Americans are fat, and common sense adds that just about everyone, fat or thin, male or female, has worried about their appearance. FAT!SO? weighs in with a more attractive alternative: feeling good about yourself at any weightand having the style and attitude to back it up. Internationally recognized as a fat-positive spokesperson, Wann has learned that you can be absolutely happy, healthy, and successful...and fat. With its hilarious and insightful blend of essays, quizzes, facts, and reporting, FAT!SO? proves that you can be out-and-out fabulous at any size. [via]
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Free Drinks for Ladies with Nuts : Delightfully Mangled English from Around the Worldby Jane O'BoyleISBN 0452281148 (0-452-28114-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Free Drinks for Ladies with Nuts : Delightfully Mangled English from Around the World'Book summary:This hilarious book takes the reader on a grand tour of mangled English, Freudian slips, and other malapropisms in a compendium of authentic signs, phrases, headlines, labels, menus, and ads from around the world and here at home.
"The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid".
(at a Serbian hotel)
"Fur coats made for ladies from their own skins".
(at a Swedish furrier)
"The manager has personally passed all water served here".
(at an Acapulco hotel)
"Teeth extracted by the latest Methodists".
(an ad for a dentist in Hong Kong)
Organized by the type of faux pas -- Signs and Ads, Menu Items, Helpful Instructions, Brand Names to Remember, and Free Advice -- Free Drinks for Ladies with Nuts is the perfect gift for world travelers and language lovers everywhere. [via]
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The Geek Handbook : User Guide and Documentation for the Geek in Your Lifeby Mikki HalpinISBN 0671036866 (0-671-03686-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Gilded Age : A Tale of Todayby Mark Twain, S. Elvon Warner, Charles Dudley Warner, Marvin FelheimISBN 0452009995 (0-452-00999-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Girls In Pants: The Third Summer Of The Sisterhoodby Ann BrasharesISBN 0553375938 (0-553-37593-8)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girls In Pants: The Third Summer Of The Sisterhood'Book summary:Ages 12 and up. Best buds Tibby, Carmen, Lena and Bridget are back with their magical pair of shared jeans in Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood. Each summer brings new and difficult challenges, as the perennially separated friends discover afresh this last season before college. Tibby struggles with the idea of close friend Brian becoming her boyfriend, and their fragile relationship is soon tested by a tragedy in her immediate family. Carmen doesnt know how to react when she finds out that her middle-aged mom is pregnant, and Bridget is unpleasantly surprised to be reunited with the boy who broke her heart two summers ago. Finally, Lena, still coming to terms with the loss of her first love, tries to convince her strict father that art school is a better career path than Greek restaurant management. But through every crisis, each girl is assured of the love and support of the created sisterhood when she pulls on the denim armor of the cherished, and by now, a bit fragrant ("Rule # 1. You must never wash the Pants.") Traveling Pants.
Full of homey platitudes about life, love and the pursuit of perfect jeans, Girls in Pants occasionally reads like a lengthy Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul entry. But often thats precisely the kind of friendly reassurance female readers are looking for, and fans of the wildly popular series whove journeyed every summer with the "Septembers" will find much to laugh and cry about in this concluding volume. --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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Gnomesby Rien Poortvliet, Will HuygenISBN 0553345001 (0-553-34500-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gnomes'Book summary:Les gnomes sont nombreux à peupler les sous-bois de toute l'Europe. Il fallait donc bien un livre qui apprenne aux humains à mieux les connaître. Celui-ci, largement commenté et illustré, est devenu l'ouvrage de référence en la matière. Il détaille la vie et les légendes des gnomes. Ses auteurs ont mené une véritable enquête scientifique et font part de toutes leurs observations. Comment les gnomes construisent-ils leurs maisons ? Comment mangent-ils ? Comment se soignent-ils ? Comment se reproduisent-ils ? Rien n'est oublié. Les Gnomes régaleront ceux qui s'intéressent aux personnages fantastiques. Ils trouveront des mêmes auteurs et chez le même éditeur Le Livre secret des gnomes. --Ségolène Dujardin [via]
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Gnomesby Wil HuygenISBN 0517270730 (0-517-27073-0)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gnomes'Book summary:Les gnomes sont nombreux à peupler les sous-bois de toute l'Europe. Il fallait donc bien un livre qui apprenne aux humains à mieux les connaître. Celui-ci, largement commenté et illustré, est devenu l'ouvrage de référence en la matière. Il détaille la vie et les légendes des gnomes. Ses auteurs ont mené une véritable enquête scientifique et font part de toutes leurs observations. Comment les gnomes construisent-ils leurs maisons ? Comment mangent-ils ? Comment se soignent-ils ? Comment se reproduisent-ils ? Rien n'est oublié. Les Gnomes régaleront ceux qui s'intéressent aux personnages fantastiques. Ils trouveront des mêmes auteurs et chez le même éditeur Le Livre secret des gnomes. --Ségolène Dujardin [via]
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Groovy Greeksby Terry DearyISBN 059003152X (0-590-03152-X)
Softcover, Scholastic Canada, Limited
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Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Sometimes Zeppo: A History of the Marx Brothers and a Satire on the Rest of the Worldby Joe AdamsonISBN 0671470728 (0-671-47072-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Guys and Dollsby Damon RunyonISBN 0670848689 (0-670-84868-9)
Hardcover, Viking
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The Happy Hocky Familyby Lane SmithISBN 0670852066 (0-670-85206-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stoneby J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandPréISBN 0590353403 (0-590-35340-3)
Softcover, Scholastic Canada, Limited
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Hardcover, Bt Bound - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: ISBN 0606170979 (0-606-17097-9)
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He's Your Dog, Charlie Brownby Charles M. SchulzISBN 0590087312 (0-590-08731-2)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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High Weirdness by Mail : A Directory of the Fringe - Mad Prophets, Crackpots, Kooks and True Visionariesby Ivan StangISBN 067164260X (0-671-64260-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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I Want to Grow Hair, I Want to Grow Up, I Want to Go to Boiseby Erma BombeckISBN 0517080605 (0-517-08060-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Jaguars Ripped My Fleshby Tim CahillISBN 0553342762 (0-553-34276-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jaguars Ripped My Flesh'Book summary:`The strengths of this text are many. It has breadth and diversity in its content yet is presented in bite-size chapters. For those wishing to know more, it offers signposts to the relevant literature. The contributors have been carefully selected for their specific perspective yet these have been skilfully inter-related by the editors. It is now some 11 years since the first edition of this text was published. In my view, this second edition was worth the wait' - SCOLAG Journal
`This has been a ground-breaking book&and I whole-heartedly welcome a new edition'- Professor Len Barton, School of Education, The University of Sheffield
`It is a really well-structured book which has been very popular and widely used by students&Its great qualities are accessibility and diversity of contributors' -
Jenny Corbett, Institute of Education, University of London
`This book would be a valuable resource to students of disability studies and to health and social care staff and other professionals who work with disabled people'- Disability and Rehabilitation
The Second Edition of this landmark text has been revised to provide an up-to-date accessible introductory text to the field of disability studies. In addition to analysing the barriers that disabled people encounter in education, housing, leisure and employment, the revised edition has new chapters on:
· international issues
· diversity among disabled people
· sexuality
· bioethics.
Written by disabled people who are leading academics in the field, the text comprises 45 short and engaging chapters, to provide a broad-ranging and accessible introduction to disability issues.
Disabling Barriers, Enabling Environments is an invaluable resource for both students and practitioners alike. It is an ideal text for undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in disability studies, as well as disability courses in social work, education, health studies, sociology and social policy. [via]
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Jurgenby James Branch CabellISBN 0486235076 (0-486-23507-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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A Light in the Windowby Jan KaronISBN 0670882267 (0-670-88226-7)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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Ludicrous Laws and Mindless Misdemeanorsby Lance DavidsonISBN 0471138975 (0-471-13897-5)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Lure of the Limerickby Crown Publishing Group StaffISBN 051708323X (0-517-08323-X)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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M. T. V. Beavis and Butthead's Ensucklopediaby Mike Judge, Sam Johnson, Chris MarcilISBN 0671521497 (0-671-52149-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Marx Brothers Scrapbookby Groucho Marx, Richard J. AnobileISBN 0491012926 (0-491-01292-6)
Hardcover, W. H. Allen
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Miss Julia Takes Overby Ann B. RossISBN 0670910260 (0-670-91026-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Museum of Hoaxes: A History of Outrageous Pranks and Deceptionsby Alex BoeseISBN 0452284651 (0-452-28465-1)
Softcover, Plume
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The Museum of Hoaxes: A Collection of Pranks, Stunts, Deceptions, and Other Wonderful Stories Contrived for the Public from the Middle Ages to the New Millenniumby Alex BoeseISBN 0525946780 (0-525-94678-0)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Museum of Hoaxes: A Collection of Pranks, Stunts, Deceptions, and Other Wonderful Stories Contrived for the Public from the Middle Ages to the New Millennium'Book summary:Based on the author's popular website, Alex Boese's The Museum of Hoaxes takes readers on a tour of hundreds of documented hoaxes, many published here for the first time. You'll read about the curiosities and cons of the most notorious hornswogglers and flimflam men of the nineteenth century; you'll be astounded at the impostors, pretenders, carnies, and tricksters of the twentieth.
Learn how Edgar Allan Poe got away with an astonishing literary deception. Or how P. T. Barnum turned hoaxing the public into big business. It's all here, from the origin of April Fools' Day to the Taco Liberty Bell, from Bigfoot to the War of the Worlds to recent Internet hoaxes. There's also a Gullibility Test that challenges readers to answer the question: "Would these hoaxes have fooled YOU?"
Written with both humor and historical insight, and complete with photographs and illustrations, The Museum of Hoaxes will be the gift book of choice for anyone who has ever been duped, deceived, tricked, or trumped . . . or just likes watching the pros in action. [via]More editions of The Museum of Hoaxes: A Collection of Pranks, Stunts, Deceptions, and Other Wonderful Stories Contrived for the Public from the Middle Ages to the New Millennium:
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The New Yorker Cartoon Album 1975-1985ISBN 0670806773 (0-670-80677-3)
Hardcover, Viking
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Nikolai Gogol's Dead Soulsby Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 0451525205 (0-451-52520-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks, Comprising the Diary, the Table Talk and a Garland of Miscellanea by Samuel Marchbanksby Robertson DaviesISBN 0670811459 (0-670-81145-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Philosophical Stranglerby Eric FlintISBN 0671319868 (0-671-31986-8)
Hardcover, Baen Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Philosophical Strangler'Book summary:Mighty Greyboar, the world's greatest professional strangler, is dissatisfied with his lot in life. The work is steady and the pay is good, but what, he wonders, is the "point" of it all?
But when he learns that there is a Supreme Philosophy of Life*, Greyboar the Strangler is Born Again! Still, just how can a professional man in good standing pay the bills with all this philosophical exploration getting in the way?
That's what his hard-headed agent and manager Ignace wants to know! And Ignace's skepticism turns quickly into outright horror when Greyboar's philosophical preoccupation leads to one disaster after another ...
simple choke jobs turn into ethical quandaries... a bizarre artist and a deadly arms-master turn up to complicate their lives... as if their new girlfriends haven't complicated them enough!
Before you know it, Greyboar the strangler and his disgruntled manager find themselves embroiled with an abbess at odds with her deity, heretics on the run, dwarves needing to be rescued, and then -- the worst of all!
Greyboar's long-estranged sister Gwendolyn, political activist and revolutionary, comes back to town asking Greyboar's help in an insane mission to the underworld. it's purely a noble cause, one which no self-respecting assassin would touch for a moment. But in the pursuit of Enlightenment, anything can happen....
*What? You want the details? Hint: "Entropy." For more on the secret, buy this book! [via]
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The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynmanby Richard P Feynman, Jeffrey Robbin S, Freeman DysonISBN 0465023959 (0-465-02395-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman'Book summary:Why do we do science? Beyond altruistic and self-aggrandizing motivations, many of our best scientists work long hours seeking the electric thrill that comes only from learning something that nobody knew before. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, a collection of previously unpublished or difficult-to-find short works by maverick physicist Richard Feynman, takes its title from his own answer. From TV interview transcripts to his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, we see his quick, sharp wit, his devotion to his work, and his unwillingness to bow to social pressure or convention. It's no wonder he was only grudgingly admired by the establishment during his lifetime--read his "Minority Report to the Space Shuttle Challenger Inquiry" to see him blowing off political considerations as impediments to finding the truth.
Feynman had a fantastic sense of humor, and his memoirs of his Manhattan Project days roil with fun despite his later misgivings about nuclear weapons. Though one or two pieces are a bit hard to follow for the nontechnical reader, for the most part the book is easygoing and engaging on a personal rather than a scientific level. Freeman Dyson's foreword and editor Jeffrey Robbins's introductions to each essay set the stage well and are respectful without being worshipful. Though Feynman has been gone now for many years, his work lives on in quantum physics, computer design, and nanotechnology; like any great scientist, he asked more questions than he answered, to give future generations the pleasure of finding things out. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Pooh's Workout Bookby Ethan MorddenISBN 0525242767 (0-525-24276-7)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Retief of the C. D. T.by Keith LaumerISBN 0671559907 (0-671-55990-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Retief to the Rescueby Keith LaumerISBN 0671653768 (0-671-65376-8)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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The Rotten Romansby Terry DearyISBN 0590738933 (0-590-73893-3)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Sammy Keyes and the Runaway Elfby Wendelin Van DraanenISBN 061328240X (0-613-28240-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Satyricaby Petronius, Daniel Kinney, R. Bracht BranhamISBN 0520211189 (0-520-21118-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Satyrica'Book summary:Encolpius, a soldier of fortune, despiser of pedantry, lecherous and contrary, and the beautiful Giton, who lives off his charms, are invited to a gargantuan banquet hosted by the prodigal, pompous, newly rich Trimalchio. When the feast turns into a riot, the two, joined by the down-on-his-luck poet Eumolpus, leave town quickly to avoid trouble. So begins the Satyrica, a bizarre odyssey through the carnivalesque landscape of Nero's empire.[via]
The author of the Satyrica, Petronius, had been Nero's intimate and advisor on all matters of artistic taste and elegance but a jealous rival turned Nero against him. No longer enduring "the suspense of fear or of hope," Petronius eluded his former patron by ending his own life. His novel has lived on, preserving for centuries tales of a time when virtue and vice, power and money, human comedy and human cruelty, mixed and melded unpredictably.
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The Satyriconby PetroniusISBN 0452010055 (0-452-01005-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Satyricon'Book summary:The Satyricon is a classic of comedy, a superbly funny picture of Nero's Rome as seen through the eyes of Petronius, its most amorous and elegant courtier.[via]William Arrowsmith's translationa lively, modern, unexpurgated textrecaptures all the ribald humor of Petronius's picaresque satire. It tells the hilarious story of the pleasure-seeking adventures of an educated rogue, Encolpius, his handsome serving boy, Giton, and Ascyltus, who lusts after Gitonthree impure pilgrims who live by their wits and other men's purses. The Satyricon unfailingly turns every weakness of the flesh, every foible of the mind, to laughter.
Shakespeare's the Taming of the Shrewby William ShakespeareISBN 0671006541 (0-671-00654-1)
Softcover, Monarch Notes
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Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsby Ann BrasharesISBN 0553494791 (0-553-49479-1)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants'Book summary:They were just a soft, ordinary pair of thrift-shop jeans until the four girls took turns trying them on--four girls, that is, who are close friends, about to be parted for the summer, with very different sizes and builds, not to mention backgrounds and personalities. Yet the pants settle on each girl's hips perfectly, making her look sexy and long-legged and feel confident as a teenager can feel. "These are magical Pants!" they realize, and so they make a pact to share them equally, to mail them back and forth over the summer from wherever they are. Beautiful, distant Lena is going to Greece to be with her grandparents; strong, athletic Bridget is off to soccer camp in Baja, California; hot-tempered Carmen plans to have her divorced father all to herself in South Carolina; and Tibby the rebel will be left at home to slave for minimum wage at Wallman's.
Over the summer the Pants come to represent the support of the sisterhood, but they also lead each girl into bruising and ultimately healing confrontations with love and courage, dying and forgiveness. Lena finds her identity in Greece and the courage not to reject love; Bridget gets in over her head with an older camp coach; Carmen finds her father ensconced with a new fiancée and family; and Tibby unwillingly takes on a filmmaking apprentice who is dying of leukemia. Each girl's story is distinct and engrossing, told in a brightly contemporary style. Like the Pants, the reader bounces back and forth among the four unfolding adventures, and the melange is spiced with letters and witty quotes. Ann Brashares has here created four captivating characters and seamlessly interwoven their stories for a young adult novel that is fresh and absorbing. (Ages 12 and older) --Patty Campbell [via]
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Sloppy Firstsby Megan McCaffertyISBN 0609807900 (0-609-80790-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sloppy Firsts'Book summary:My parents suck ass. Banning me from the phone and restricting my computer privileges are the most tyrannical parental gestures I can think of. Dont they realize that Hopes the only one who keeps me sane? . . . I dont see how things could get any worse.
When her best friend, Hope Weaver, moves away from Pineville, New Jersey, hyperobservant sixteen-year-old Jessica Darling is devastated. A fish out of water at school and a stranger at home, Jessica feels more lost than ever now that the only person with whom she could really communicate has gone. How is she supposed to deal with the boy- and shopping-crazy girls at school, her dads obsession with her track meets, her mother salivating over big sister Bethanys lavish wedding, and her nonexistent love life?
A fresh, funny, utterly compelling fiction debut by first-time novelist Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts is an insightful, true-to-life look at Jessicas predicament as she embarks on another year of teenage torment--from the dark days of Hopes departure through her months as a type-A personality turned insomniac to her completely mixed-up feelings about Marcus Flutie, the intelligent and mysterious Dreg who works his way into her heart. Like a John Hughes for the twenty-first century, Megan McCafferty taps into the inherent humor and drama of the teen experience. This poignant, hilarious novel is sure to appeal to readers who are still going through it, as well as those who are grateful that they dont have to go back and grow up all over again. [via] 
Smittenby Janet EvanovichISBN 0553440241 (0-553-44024-1)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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So This Is Depravityby Russell BakerISBN 0671551779 (0-671-55177-9)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verseby Dominic Bevan Wyndham LewisISBN 0460011863 (0-460-01186-3)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The Taming of the Shrewby William Shakespeare, Robert Bechtold HeilmanISBN 0451526791 (0-451-52679-1)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Taming of the Shrew'Book summary:One of the most controversial and problematic of all of Shakespeare's plays, The Taming of the Shrew is a typical Elizabethan domestic comedy written around 1592. Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, arrives in Padua and announces to his friends that "I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; / If wealthily, then happily in Padua". He soon finds that a group of men keen to marry Bianca, the younger daughter of rich old Baptista, are frustrated by her elder, "shrewish" sister, Katherine. There is much subsequent hilarity as Bianca's suitors make a bet with Petruchio that he cannot "tame" and marry Katherine. Despite Katherine's protestations, Petruchio goes ahead with the match, using deliberately unorthodox behaviour to confuse Katherine (including a scene where he starves her), claiming that "this is the way to kill a wife with kindness". The play culminates with a scene of Katherine's apparently spontaneous subjection to her husband's will, where she places her hand beneath her husband's foot, and tells the other wives present that "thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper". The play's gratuitous scenes of women being abused and vilified in the name of "comedy" has made many directors and critics very uncomfortable with the play, and many feminist critics have condemned contemporary productions of the play as reproducing certain 16th-century stereotypes concerning women who speak out against male authority. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Taming of the Shrewby Ann ThompsonISBN 052129388X (0-521-29388-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Teach Us Amelia Bedeliaby Peggy ParishISBN 0590433458 (0-590-43345-8)
Softcover, Scholastic
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The Tetherballs of Bougainvilleby Mark LeynerISBN 0517701014 (0-517-70101-4)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Therapyby David LodgeISBN 0670863580 (0-670-86358-0)
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Tom Sawyer Abroad: Tom Sawyer Detectiveby Mark Twain, John C. GerberISBN 0520242025 (0-520-24202-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Westing Gameby Ellen RaskinISBN 0525423206 (0-525-42320-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Westing Game'Book summary:For twenty-five years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite and is now being reissued with a brand-new jacket by Kevin Hawkes and an introduction by Ann Durell.[via]
This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people who are invited to the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. They could become millionaires, depending on how they play the tricky and dangerous Westing game, which involves blizzards, burglaries, and bombings. Ellen Raskin has entangled a remarkable cast of characters in a puzzle-knotted, word-twisting plot filled with humor, intrigue, and suspense. -
The Works of Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 0600393720 (0-600-39372-0)
Hardcover, Spring Books
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