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New Arrivals $16.00 Trade Paper add to wishlist Couch: A Novel Benjamin Parzybok $16.80 Hardcover add to wishlist More Information Than You Require John Hodgman $11.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Sonic Select Volume 2 Victor (edt) Gorelick $10.00 Trade Paper add to wishlist I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat Colleckshun Professor Happycat $9.76 Trade Paper add to wishlist Passive Aggressive Notes: Painfully Polite and Hilariously Hostile Writings Kerry Miller $24.95 Hardcover add to wishlist Too Fat to Fish Artie Lange $20.00 Hardcover add to wishlist Rickles' Letters Don Rickles $12.59 Trade Paper add to wishlist Our Dumb World The Onion $19.25 Hardcover add to wishlist Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! Art Spiegelman $14.00 Hardcover add to wishlist Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme Calvin Trillin $11.19 Trade Paper add to wishlist I Like You: Hospitality under the Influence Amy Sedaris $16.00 Trade Paper add to wishlist Mock Stars: Indie Comedy and the Dangerously Funny John Wenzel $24.00 Hardcover add to wishlist Nothing with Strings: NPR's Beloved Holiday Stories Bailey White Parodies More Information Than You Require by John Hodgman Powells.com Staff Pick I prefer PCs to Macs. Maybe that's why I love Hodgman's books; when he scores a winner, PCs score another point. After the hilarity and brilliance of More Information Than You Require, Macs have fallen waaay behind. Recommended by Hank, Powells.com... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your Price $16.80 Sale - Hardcover check for used copies Sale Books The Affected Provincial's Companion, Volume One by Lord Breaulove Swells Whimsy Publisher Comments A far more civilized, beautiful life now lies within the grasp of your trembling fingertips. Gentle reader: do you tire of the meager offerings set forth by our humdrum age? Do you seek to cultivate blooms of refinement and joy in your life's garden?... (read more) Your Price $14.95 (New - Hardcover) Browse more featured Sale titles Used Books McCain Paper Dolls by Dover Publisher Comments McCain Paper Dolls: Collectible Campaign Edition Tom Tierney [Burst] Includes Bonus Election Night Scorecard! [Back] John McCain: An all-American hero with Presidential style! He's a courageous war hero whose sense of honor and... (read more) Your Price $4.00 (Used - Pamphlet) Browse more featured Used titles Sign up to get our most recent used additions in Humor to your inbox Narrative I Like You: Hospitality under the Influence by Amy Sedaris Powells.com Staff Pick A tongue-in-cheek pastiche of recipes and advice for host and guest alike, I Like You will embolden readers to take on any entertaining challenge, be it hosting children, a rich uncle, or a crew of lumberjacks. Recommended by Sheila, Powells.com... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your Price $11.19 Sale - Trade Paper check for used copies Anthologies When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris Powells.com Staff Pick Always a delight, never a disappointment, David Sedaris has come out with his finest offering yet. He has a deft touch, moving between sarcasm and sadness or, in this collection, between redneck babysitters and quitting smoking. Recommended by Beth... (read more) Your Price $25.99 New - Hardcover check for used and sale copies General Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan Publisher Comments The only thing Shane cares about is leaving. Usually on a Greyhound bus, right before his life falls apart again. Just like he planned. But this time it’s complicated: there's a sadistic corporate climber who thinks she's his girlfriend, a rent... (read more) Your Price $5.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Cartoon General What It Is by Lynda Barry Publisher Comments “Deliciously drawn (with fragments of collage worked into each page), insightful and bubbling with delight in the process of artistic creation. A+” —Salon  How do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? For decades,... (read more) Your Price $24.95 New - Hardcover check for used and sale copies Cartoon Comics The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for by Alison Bechdel Publisher Comments From the author of Fun Home — the lives, loves, and politics of cult fav characters Mo, Lois, Sydney, Sparrow, Ginger, Stuart, Clarice, and others For twenty-five years Bechdel's path-breaking "Dykes to Watch Out For" strip has been collected in... (read more) Your Price $25.00 New - Hardcover check for used and sale copies Religious The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A J Jacobs Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of The Know-It-All comes a fascinating and timely exploration of religion and the Bible. Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs decides to dive in... (read more) Your Price $15.00 New - Trade Paper check for used and sale copies Politics and Business The Customer Is Always Wrong: The Retail Chronicles by Jeff Martin Powells.com Staff Pick What a delightful collection of true-life tales! Jeff Martin has gathered together writers and humorists of all stripes to offer a gold mine of cringe-inducing stories about life in the retail world. What writer hasn't spent a few years behind the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your Price $9.06 Sale - Trade Paper check for used copies Animals I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat Colleckshun by Professor Happycat Publisher Comments Fresh from teh Internets, LOLcats are set to take over the world (no, srsly) (LOLcat Speak). The Internet has provided us with many wonders, from skateboarding dogs to Chuck Norris facts. Over the past year, though, one sensation has dominated the Web... (read more) Your Price $10.00 New - Trade Paper check for used and sale copies Gender and Sex My Horizontal Life: a Collection of One-night Stands by Chelsea Handler Publisher Comments In this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and often gratifying beast: the one-night stand. You've either done it or know... (read more) Your Price $9.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies

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