Sally Franson

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

A Novel

"If you devoured Pippi Longstocking as a kid, you will not be able to turn away from Big in Sweden. Reading this hilarious, heartfelt book was even more fun than watching reality television. I absolutely loved it!" -- Jessica Anya Blau, author of Mary Jane A charming, wise, and laugh-out-loud funny novel following an American woman competing on a Swedish reality show in an attempt to discover her roots. Paulie Johansson has never put much stock in the idea of family: she has her long-term boyfriend Declan and beloved best friend Jemma, and that's more than enough for her. Yet one night on a lark, she lets Jemma convince her to audition for Sverige och Mig, a show on Swedish television where Swedish-Americans compete to win the ultimate prize: a reunion with their Swedish relatives. Much to her shock, her drunken submission video wins her a spot on the show, and against Declan's advice Paulie decides to go for it. Armed with her Polaroid camera, a beat-up copy of Pippi Longstocking, and an unquenchable sense of possibility, Paulie hops on a plane to Sweden and launches into the contest with seven other Americans, all under the watchful eye of a camera crew. At first, Paulie is certain that she and her competitors have nothing in common besides their passports and views their bloodthirsty ambitions with suspicion. Yet amid the increasingly absurd challenges--rowing from Denmark to Sweden in the freezing rain, battling through obstacle courses, competing in a pickled herring eating contest--Paulie finds herself rethinking her snap judgments about her fellow countrymen, while her growing attachment to her Swedish roots increases her resolve to win the competition herself. Grappling with long-held notions of family, friendship, and love--not to mention her feelings for the distractingly handsome Swedish cameraman who's been assigned to follow her around--Paulie starts to reconsider her past and rethink what she wants for the future. A fish-out-of-water tale filled with warmth, optimism, and wit, Big in Sweden is at its heart a love story: love for family, friends, country, and--most importantly--oneself.

Big in Sweden

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Things You Need to Know to Win at Real Life

Your future is...limited!

Wait, we mean...limiting...

No, hold on...limitless.

Sometimes your first steps into the "real world" send you falling flat on your face. It's natural to be optimistic about new experiences, but most of us set ourselves up only to be let down every time. And disappointment hurts like a $%&*#.

News flash: You don't have to be an Einstein to survive adult life. You don't even have to abandon your standards to get what you want. All you have to do is keep your expectations realistic.

Don't worry--if you're not feeling 100 percent confident about your abilities to live like a grown-up, Robert Boesel and Matt Moore (a.k.a. your new best friends/big brothers) will guide you over the impending hurdles of adulthood, including:

 * Your First Apartment--you can't have nice things
 * Business Trips--if they were meant to be fun, they'd be called vacations
 * Pets--you are in no position to keep a creature alive! Plants are iffy too...

And much more! From constructing your first IKEA-filled apartment to trying to land your dream job (and landing at the bottom of the corporate ladder instead), Adult Stuffgives every aspiring grown-up a much-needed reality check on how to conquer life's challenges like a champ.

Adult Stuff

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James Patterson

Chris Grabenstein

Hardback book cover. Preowned but good condition. By James Patterson. New York Times, best seller.( Bin L)

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

After winning a national funny-kid competition and starring in his own TV show, kid comic Jamie Grimm is out to conquer the world -- with laughter, of course!


Comedian Jamie Grimm can't help feeling like he's reached the top. But now he's taking his fame and fortune to international levels by competing in the upcoming world kid comic contest! Will Jamie prove that he's the funniest kid on earth -- or does he stand (or sit!) to lose his crown?


Hilarious, moving, and thoughtful, this richly illustrated #1 bestseller is perfect for kids who love to laugh.

The Nerdiest, Wimpiest, Dorkiest I Funny Ever

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Jeff Kinney

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

An instant #1 USA Today, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal bestseller!



When snow shuts down Greg Heffley's middle school, his neighborhood transforms into a wintry battlefield. Rival groups fight over territory, build massive snow forts, and stage epic snowball fights. And in the crosshairs are Greg and his trusty best friend, Rowley Jefferson.

 

It's a fight for survival as Greg and Rowley navigate alliances, betrayals, and warring gangs in a neighborhood meltdown. When the snow clears, will Greg and Rowley emerge as heroes? Or will they even survive to see another day?



 

The Meltdown (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 13)

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"Abbi Waxman is both irreverent and thoughtful."--#1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Giffin

A young woman arrives in Los Angeles determined to start over and discovers she doesn't need to leave everything behind after all, from Abbi Waxman, USA Today bestselling author of The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

When Laura Costello moves to Los Angeles, trying to escape an overprotective family and the haunting memories of a terrible accident, she doesn't expect to be homeless after a week. (She's pretty sure she didn't start that fire -- right?) She also doesn't expect to find herself adopted by a rogue bookseller, installed in a lovely but completely illegal boardinghouse, or challenged to save a losing trivia team from ignominy...but that's what happens. Add a regretful landlady, a gorgeous housemate and an ex-boyfriend determined to put himself back in the running and you'll see why Laura isn't really sure she's cut out for this adulting thing. Luckily for her, her new friends Nina, Polly and Impossibly Handsome Bob aren't sure either, but maybe if they put their heads (and hearts) together they'll be able to make it work.

Adult Assembly Required

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Chelsea Handler

Wherever Chelsea Handler travels, one thing is certain: she always ends up in the land of the ridiculous. Now, in this uproarious collection, she sneaks her sharp wit through airport security and delivers her most absurd and hilarious stories ever. On safari in Africa, it's anyone's guess as to what's more dangerous: the wildlife or Chelsea. But whether she's fumbling the seduction of a guide by not knowing where tigers live (Asia, duh) or wearing a bathrobe into the bush because her clothes stopped fitting seven margaritas ago, she's always game for the next misadventure. The situation gets down and dirty as she defiles a kayak in the Bahamas, and outright sweaty as she escapes from a German hospital on crutches. When things get truly scary, like finding herself stuck next to a passenger with bad breath, she knows she can rely on her family to make matters even worse. Thank goodness she has the devoted Chunk by her side-except for the time she loses him in Telluride. Complete with answers to the most frequently asked traveler's questions, hot travel trips, and travel etiquette, none of which should be believed, UGANDA BE KIDDING ME has Chelsea taking on the world, one laugh-out-loud incident at a time.

Uganda Be Kidding Me

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Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Stories

Written with all the scathing dark humor that is a hallmark of BoJack Horseman, Raphael Bob-Waksberg delivers a fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love--the best and worst thing in the universe.

Featuring:
 
* A young engaged couple forced to deal with interfering relatives dictating the appropriate number of ritual goat sacrifices for their wedding.
 
* A pair of lonely commuters who ride the subway in silence, forever, eternally failing to make that longed-for contact.
 
* A struggling employee at a theme park of U.S. presidents who discovers that love can't be genetically modified.
 
And fifteen more tales of humor, romance, whimsy, cultural commentary, and crushing emotional vulnerability.

Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

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Christian Blauvelt

A humorous guide on how to survive the Star Wars galaxy's many dangers The Star Wars galaxy is a dangerous place. From ruthless bounty hunters, ferocious beasts, and extreme weather, to hostile landscapes, social minefields, and backstabbing allies-perils and hazards are never far away! How do you flee an exploding Death Star? What's the best way to source a starship at a spaceport? How would you escape kidnap by Tusken Raiders on Tatooine? Survival means keeping your wits about you. This fun, practical Star Wars book will teach you how to recognise threats and learn what to do to stay alive in a galaxy far, far away. Explore the methods used by your favorite Star Wars movie characters to escape sticky situations, with this handy manual. DK's How Not to Get Eaten by Ewoks will help you to navigate galactic pitfalls, whether you're learning how to avoid offending aliens of other species, or trying to find food and shelter in emergency situations. From survival kits and disguises, to tips on diplomacy and etiquette, this book's step-by-step instructions, illuminating graphics, and beautiful illustrations will ensure your survival in a galaxy where anything can happen! © & TM 2019 LUCASFILM LTD.

Star Wars How Not to Get Eaten by Ewoks and Other Galactic Survival Skills

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#hardcover #fiction #horror #humor #hardback #welcometonightvale #sciencefiction 

From the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant look at the ways in which we all struggle to find ourselves...no matter where we live. "Hypnotic and darkly funny. . . . Belongs to a particular strain of American gothic that encompasses The Twilight Zone, Stephen King and Twin Peaks, with a bit of Tremors thrown in."--The Guardian Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life. It is here that the lives of two women, with two mysteries, will converge. Nineteen-year-old Night Vale pawn shop owner Jackie Fierro is given a paper marked "KING CITY" by a mysterious man in a tan jacket holding a deer skin suitcase. Everything about him and his paper unsettles her, especially the fact that she can't seem to get the paper to leave her hand, and that no one who meets this man can remember anything about him. Jackie is determined to uncover the mystery of King City and the man in the tan jacket before she herself unravels. Night Vale PTA treasurer Diane Crayton's son, Josh, is moody and also a shape shifter. And lately Diane's started to see her son's father everywhere she goes, looking the same as the day he left years earlier, when they were both teenagers. Josh, looking different every time Diane sees him, shows a stronger and stronger interest in his estranged father, leading to a disaster Diane can see coming, even as she is helpless to prevent it. Diane's search to reconnect with her son and Jackie's search for her former routine life collide as they find themselves coming back to two words: "KING CITY". It is King City that holds the key to both of their mysteries, and their futures...if they can ever find it.

Welcome to Night Vale

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Florida

Wiener Dog Art

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- Hardcover
- First Edition (see last pic for Copyright) 
- The Beast in Me and Other Animals: A New Collection of Pieces and Drawings About Human Beings and Less Alarming Creatures by James Thurber
- In Good Condition: book itself shows shelf and reading wear, and has yellowing of pages. The dust jacket itself shows significant wear including tears. 
- From a smoke free home
- Genre: Humor 

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A New Collection of Pieces and Drawings About Human Beings and Less Alarming Creatures

The Beast in Me and Other Animals 

Pete Holmes

New Hampshire

Part autobiography, part philosophical inquiry, and part spiritual quest, Comedy Sex God is a hilarious, profound, and enlightening romp around the fertile mind of stand-up stand-out, podcast king, and HBO superstar Pete Holmes.

Pete Holmes is a sold-out-every-night stand-up comedian with two HBO specials and the host of the hugely successful podcast You Made It Weird, and he was the creator-star of the hit HBO show Crashing. But it wasn't always roses for Pete. Growing up, Pete was raised an evangelical Christian, but his religion taught him that being "bad"--smoking, drinking, having doubts or premarital sex--would get him sent to an eternity in hell. So, terrified of the God he loved, Pete devoted his life to being "good," even marrying his first girlfriend at the age of twenty-two only to discover a few years later he was being cheated on. Thanks for nothing, God.

Pete's failed attempt at a picture-perfect life forced him to reexamine his beliefs, but neither atheism, nor Christianity, nor copious bottles of Yellow Tail led him to enlightenment. Pete longed for a model of faith that served him and his newfound uncertainties about the universe, so he embarked on a soul-seeking journey that continues to this day. Through encounters with mind-altering substances, honing his craft in front of thousands of his comedy fans, and spending time with savants like Ram Dass, Pete forged a new life--both spiritually and personally.

Beautifully written and often completely hilarious--imagine Dass's Be Here Now if penned by one of the funniest people alive--Comedy Sex God reveals a man at the top of his game and a seeker in search of the deeper meanings of life, love, and comedy.

Comedy Sex God

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New in sealed packages boxsets. Books 5-8 & 9-12 

Michigan

*NEW!!! Junie B. Jones Boxsets Books 5-8 & Books 9-12

☆ Roald Dahl's Autobiography book 1
☆ Ex-library 

Pennsylvania

Presents humorous anecdotes from the author's childhood which includes summer vacations in Norway and an English boarding school.

Boy : Tales of Childhood (1st American Edition, 1984)

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A Collection of Essays

It Gets Worse (Signed copy)

#fiction #humor #comedy #hardcover #wodehouse 1971 book club ed.

Iowa

The Girl in Blue

Richard Brautigan

Texas

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. A book "that has very little to do with trout fishing and a lot to do with the lamenting of a passing pastoral America . . . an instant cult classic" (Financial Times).



Richard Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960s and '70s who came of age during the heyday of Haight-Ashbury and whose comic genius and iconoclastic vision of American life caught the imaginations of young people everywhere.



Called "the last of the Beats," his early books became required reading for the hip generation, and on its publication Trout Fishing in America became an international bestseller. An indescribable romp, the novel is best summed up in one word: mayonnaise.



This edition features an introduction by poet Billy Collins, who first encountered Brautigan's work as a student in California.

Trout Fishing in America

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*German Language Edition* with dust jacket, printed in 1961. 

A Look Back at the Satirical Magazine

Simplicissimus (*German Edition*)

#hardcover #humor #limericks #jokes #bawdy #offcolor #rare #poetry #comedy

3024 Dirty Limericks is a clever collection of erotic limericks, full of the most bawdy and rambunctious verse ever to be collected in one volume. The limericks are original, packing a salacious message in their classic five-line form.

The 3024 limericks are divided into categories for easy reference and include: Limericks about Limericks, Little Romances, Organs, Strange Intercourse, Oral Irregularities, Buggery, Abuses of the Clergy, Zoophily, Excrement, Gourmands, Virginity, Motherhood, Prostitution, Diseases, Losses, Sex Substitutes, Assorted Eccentricities, Weak Sisters, and Chamber of Horrors, plus notes and an index.

This book is in good pre-owned condition, with no wear to the spine or binding. Pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a little wear around the edges but no tears and only one small crease near the top on the back. Published in 1983, 502 pp. A rare find for this surprisingly in-demand book!

Minnesota

The Largest Compilation of Original Limericks ever Published in One Volume 

3024 Dirty Limericks

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Published 1962, Heritage Press Collector's Edition, illustrated with slipcase & handbook insert

Man and Superman 

Obtained used. Has some writing on last page.

New Mexico

Ultimate revenge techniques from the master trickster 

Make 'em pay!

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Rare. Original poetry, writings, and drawings by the iconic John Lennon. ￼

A Spaniard In The Works. First Edition 1965 Rare

Please note that there is (1) hardcover book in this book bundle. #fiction #humor #children #detectiveagency  Description
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Want to aspire to greatness? Check out this edition of Timmy Failure’s first adventure—featuring the bonus section “How to Draw Timmy and Total.” 

He may be clueless, but the comically self-confident Timmy Failure is CEO of the best detective agency in town, perhaps even the nation. Additional material includes step-by-step instructions on how to draw Timmy and his impressively lazy business partner, the polar bear Total—including a trick to making them both look a  tiny bit nuts (hint: the secret is in the eyes).


Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Mistakes Were Made

Mistakes Were Made, Sanitized for Your Protection, Now Look What You’ve Done & We Meet Again (Stephan Pastis-Timmy Failure Series Book 1-4 Book Bundle

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Amy Poehler

Illinois

In a perfect world . . . We'd get to hang out with Amy Poehler, watching dumb movies, listening to music, and swapping tales about our coworkers and difficult childhoods. Because in a perfect world, we'd all be friends with Amy—someone who seems so fun, is full of interesting stories, tells great jokes, and offers plenty of advice and wisdom (the useful kind, not the annoying kind you didn't ask for, anyway). Unfortunately, between her Golden Globe-winning role on Parks and Recreation, work as a producer and director, place as one of the most beloved SNL alumni and cofounder of the Upright Citizens' Brigade, involvement with the website Smart Girls at the Party, frequent turns as acting double for Meryl Streep, and her other gig as the mom of two young sons, she's not available for movie night. Luckily we have the next best thing: Yes Please, Amy's hilarious and candid book. A collection of stories, thoughts, ideas, lists, and haikus from the mind of one of our most beloved entertainers, Yes Please offers Amy's thoughts on everything from her "too safe" childhood outside of Boston to her early days in New York City, her ideas about Hollywood and "the biz," the demon that looks back at all of us in the mirror, and her joy at being told she has a "face for wigs." Yes Please is chock-full of words and wisdom to live by.

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Sally Franson

Big in Sweden

Robert Boesel; Matt Moore

Adult Stuff

James Patterson; Chris Grabenstein

The Nerdiest, Wimpiest, Dorkiest I Funny Ever

Jeff Kinney

The Meltdown (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 13)

Abbi Waxman

Adult Assembly Required

Chelsea Handler

Uganda Be Kidding Me

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

Christian Blauvelt

Star Wars How Not to Get Eaten by Ewoks and Other Galactic Survival Skills

Joseph Fink; Jeffrey Cranor

Welcome to Night Vale

Gary Larson

Wiener Dog Art

James Thurber

The Beast in Me and Other Animals

Pete Holmes

Comedy Sex God

Barbara Park

*NEW!!! Junie B. Jones Boxsets Books 5-8 & Books 9-12

Roald Dahl

Boy : Tales of Childhood (1st American Edition, 1984)

Shane Dawson

It Gets Worse (Signed copy)

P G Wodehouse

The Girl in Blue

Richard Brautigan

Trout Fishing in America

Eugen Roth

Simplicissimus (*German Edition*)

Outlet Book Company Staff; Random House Value Publishing Staff

3024 Dirty Limericks

George Bernard Shaw

Man and Superman

George Hayduke

Make 'em pay!

John Lennon

A Spaniard In The Works. First Edition 1965 Rare

Stephan Pastis

Mistakes Were Made, Sanitized for Your Protection, Now Look What You’ve Done & We Meet Again (Stephan Pastis-Timmy Failure Series Book 1-4 Book Bundle

Amy Poehler

Yes Please

Simplicissimus (German Edition)