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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Life Lessons

"Kevin Hart, like Ernest Hemingway, JK Rowling, and Chocolate Droppa before him, was able to defy the odds and turn [his disadvantaged childhood] around. In his literary debut, he takes the reader on a journey through what his life was, what it is today, and how he's overcome each challenge to become the man he is today"--Amazon.com.

I Can't Make This Up

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Amy Poehler

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

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.

Yes Please

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Douglas Adams

Like new vintage hardcover copy from 2001 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 25th Anniversary Edition by Douglas Adams.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Illinois

A Novel

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 25th Anniversary Edition

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SIGNED FIRST EDITION

Synopsis: There are no trolls in my life. I am solidly grounded in the here and now. My imagination is pretty much maxed out once I have dealt with the leftovers in my fridge. Still, there is much in my life and that of my friends and family that intrigues and amuses me that I want to capture and share.

The subtle, seemingly insignificant events in life are the ones that interest me. Wry or wistful, it is the small stuff that grabs my attention and inspires my writing. This is as true of the nuances of relationships as it is of the surprises I find in my garden. “Quite Contrary” is a collection of personal essays that meanders through the homely stuff of my life; with luck, its very ordinariness will resonate with you, as well.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Washington

A collection of personal essays

Quite Contrary (Signed)

Herman Parish

For sale is a gently used Amelia Bedelia book set, including books 5-8. The condition is like new, with the exception of a slight wear on the bottom corners of books 5 and 6. The rest of the books are untouched and in excellent condition. This set does not include stickers, but offers a great opportunity to own a complete collection of this beloved series.

Books 5-8

The Amelia Bedelia chapter books have sold more than one million copies. This box set includes books 5–8 in the bestselling Amelia Bedelia chapter book series: Amelia Bedelia Shapes Up, Amelia Bedelia Cleans Up, Amelia Bedelia Sets Sail, and Amelia Bedelia Dances Off. A sticker sheet with more than 50 exclusive Amelia Bedelia stickers is also included. Amelia Bedelia is all boxed up—literally! Short, fast-paced chapters, tons of friends and funny situations, and black-and-white illustrations by Lynne Avril on every page make the Amelia Bedelia chapter books an ideal choice for readers of the Ivy + Bean, Magic Tree House, and Judy Moody books. Each book features a guide to the idioms introduced in the story. A sticker sheet with more than 50 exclusive Amelia Bedelia stickers is also included in the box. The Amelia Bedelia chapter book boxed set makes a great gift and is a wonderful way to introduce newly independent readers to a favorite character!

Amelia Bedelia Chapter Book 4-Book Box Set #2

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#paperback #grammar #rare #sarcasm #humor #rulesofenglish

New York

A handbook of GRAMMAR for the innocent,  the eager,  and the doomed

The Transitive Vampire

David Sedaris

Texas

David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book. If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong. When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun with those he loves most. And life at the Sea Section, as he names the vacation home, is exactly as idyllic as he imagined, except for one tiny, vexing realization: it's impossible to take a vacation from yourself. With Calypso, Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation toward middle age and mortality. Make no mistake: these stories are very, very funny--it's a book that can make you laugh 'til you snort, the way only family can. Sedaris's powers of observation have never been sharper, and his ability to shock readers into laughter unparalleled. But much of the comedy here is born out of that vertiginous moment when your own body betrays you and you realize that the story of your life is made up of more past than future. This is beach reading for people who detest beaches, required reading for those who loathe small talk and love a good tumor joke. Calypso is simultaneously Sedaris's darkest and warmest book yet--and it just might be his very best.

Calypso

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Jill Gutowitz

Essays

Named One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2022 by Vogue, BuzzFeed, Bustle, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Electric Lit, Thrillist, Glamour, CNN, and Shondaland

"Wickedly funny and heartstoppingly vulnerable...every page twinkles with brilliance." --Refinery29

Perfect for fans of Samantha Irby and Trick Mirror, a funny, whip-smart collection of personal essays exploring the intersection of queerness, relationships, pop culture, the internet, and identity, introducing one of the most undeniably original new voices today.

Jill Gutowitz's life--for better and worse--has always been on a collision course with pop culture. There's the time the FBI showed up at her door because of something she tweeted about Game of Thrones. The pop songs that have been the soundtrack to the worst moments of her life. And of course, the pivotal day when Orange Is the New Black hit the airwaves and broke down the door to Jill's own sexuality. In these honest examinations of identity, desire, and self-worth, Jill explores perhaps the most monumental cultural shift of our lifetimes: the mainstreaming of lesbian culture. Dusting off her own personal traumas and artifacts of her not-so-distant youth she examines how pop culture acts as a fun house mirror reflecting and refracting our values--always teaching, distracting, disappointing, and revealing us.

Girls Can Kiss Now is a fresh and intoxicating blend of personal stories, sharp observations, and laugh-out-loud humor. This timely collection of essays helps us make sense of our collective pop-culture past even as it points the way toward a joyous, uproarious, near--and very queer--future.

Girls Can Kiss Now

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Rachel Renée Russell

Selling for $13.99, if any negotiations please notify me.

Tales from a Not-So-Perfect Pet Sitter

Nikki has to hide seven dogs from her parents and all her middle school.

Dork Diaries 10

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Gaku Kuze

How did the cynical Uramichi end up hosting a TV show for small children? And how long is the studio going to let him keep teaching the kids the sorrow and exhaustion of life instead of, say, the ABCs? This dark comedy manga started as a webcomic and became a bestseller across Japan -- with an anime coming soon!

Uramichi is a 31-year-old host on a kids' show who leads exercise routines and teaches life lessons colored by one main theme: Adulthood sucks. Alongside mascots played by a couple of bushy-tailed twentysomethings and a singing duo whose music embodies the notion of being kicked while you're down, Uramichi wades through the misery of working life, one sardonic comment at a time...

Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan 1

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I bought a DVD player today. I feel like I'm regressing technologically, but that's not exactly true. I still stream movies and read ebooks and electronic audiobooks, but the tech revolution has made things more expensive and harder than they should be.

It's hard to get e copies of books from libraries, but easy to get hard copies. Lots of shows and movies I'd like to watch are not available on streaming or are at a price which makes them ridiculous,  and you don't really own a movie you buy online.

Big tech was supposed to make things cheaper and more available, but everything is getting locked behind paywalls, and instead of opening things up it just added a whole other level of money to pay.  

So I get hard copies of books because they're easier to get and often cheaper, too, and now I'll get hard copies of movies that I'll just own and keep. And Apple or Google or Amazon can't come into my rec room and take the books back, and none of the rich tech bros get any richer off me.

The Secret Spiral of Swamp Kid

George Carlin

Extremely rare signed first edition in fine condition. 

A hilarious new collection of razor-sharp observations from the New York Times bestselling author of Brain Droppings.. Few comics make the transition from stage to page as smoothly or successfully as George Carlin. Brain Droppings spent a total of 40 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and this new one is certain to tickle even more ribs (and rattle a few more cages) with its characteristically ironic take on life's annoying universal truths. In Napalm & Silly Putty, Carlin doesn't steer clear of the tough issues, preferring instead to look life boldly in the eye to pose the questions few dare to ask: --How can it be a spy satellite if they announce on TV that it's a spy satellite --Why do they bother saying "raw sewage" Do some people cook that stuff --In the expression "topsy-turvy," what exactly is meant by "turvy" And he makes some startling observations, including: --Most people with low self-esteem have earned it. --Guys don't seem to be called "Lefty" anymore. --Most people don't know what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it. Carlin also waxes wickedly philosophical on all sorts of subjects, including: --KIDS -- They're not all cute. In fact, if you look at them closely, some of them are rather unpleasant looking. And a lot of them don't smell too good either. --DEATH ROW -- If you're condemned to die they have to give you one last meal of your own request. What is that all about A group of people plan to kill you, so they want you to eat something you like Add to the mix "The Ten Most Embarrassing Songs of All Time," "The 20th Century Hostility Scoreboard," and "People I Can Do Without," and you have an irresistibly insouciant assortment of musings, questions, assertions, and assumptions guaranteed to please the millions of fans waiting for the next Carlin collection -- and the millions more waiting to discover this comic genius.

Napalm and Silly Putty—Signed

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All books have minor wear and tear on covers and spines.
Book 1: Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea (paperback)
Book 2: Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang (paperback)
Book 3: My Horizontal Life (paperback
Book 4: Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me (hardcover) #nonfiction #biography #autobiography #bodymindspirit #comedy #humor #chelseahandler #bundle #celebrity

North Dakota

The comedienne star of the Chelsea Handler Show describes her experiences with misbegotten boyfriends, her eccentric mixed-religion parents and the working world, a lifetime marked by numerous inebriated misadventures. Reprint. A #1 best-seller.

*BUNDLE* Four Chelsea Handler Books

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Gail Honeyman

Virginia

A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick "Beautifully written and incredibly funny, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is about the importance of friendship and human connection. I fell in love with Eleanor, an eccentric and regimented loner whose life beautifully unfolds after a chance encounter with a stranger; I think you will fall in love, too!" --Reese Witherspoon "This wacky, charming novel. . . draws you in with humor, then turns out to contain both a suspenseful subplot and a sweet romance. . . Hilarious and moving."--People No one's ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond's big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the smart, warm, and uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes. . . The only way to survive is to open your heart.

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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Kurt Vonnegut

Very minor paperback cover imperfections. Perfect “as new” inside all pages with very light exterior wear that was there when bought new for $17! Non-Smoking Home! #fiction #scifi #paperback #satire #humor #classic #Vonnegut #novel #KurtVonnegut

Cat's Cradle

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In Her Shoes 

From New Yorker and Onion writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is a comedy-philosophy book aimed at interrogating what it means to date men within the trappings of modern society...

How to Date Men When You Hate Men

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Samuel Shem

John Updike

An intern becomes disillusioned with the medical establishment when he sees his fellow interns fall for the illusions that destroy a doctor's ability to relate to and really care for his patients.

The House of God

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Oregon

Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle--and people in general--has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic. To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, secret correspondence--creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

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Matt Groening

Includes:

Shake-Up, First Edition
Jam-Packed Jamboree, First Edition
Chaos, First Edition

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

California

The latest in the series of Simpsons Comics Compilations, brought to you by Matt Groening, the creator of "The Simpsons."

Simpsons Comics, 3 Book Bundle

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Robert Ludlum

Georgia

A very funny book... no character is minor: they're all hilarious. --Houston Chronicle,
In The Road To Gandolfo, Robert Ludlum introduced us to the outrageous General MacKenzie Hawkins and his legal wizard, Sam Devereaux, whose plot to kidnap the Pope spun wildly out of control into sheer hilarity. Now Ludlum's two wayward heroes return with a diabolical scheme to right a very old wrong -- and wreak vengeance on the (expletive deleted) who drummed the hawk out of the military. Their outraged opposition will be no less than the White House. Byzantine Treachery. Discovering a long-buried 1878 treaty with an obscure Indian tribe, the hawk -- a.k.a. Chief Thunder Head -- hatches a brilliant plot that will ultimately bring him and his reluctant lawyer Sam before the Supreme Court. Their goal: to reclaim a choice piece of American real estate -- the state of Nebraska. Which just happened to the headquarters of the U.S. Strategic Air Command Will they succeed against the powers that be? Will the Wopotami tribe ever have their day in the Supreme Court? From the Oval Office to the Pentagon, all the president's men are outfitted, until it rests with CIA Director Vincent Vinnie the Bam-Bam Mangecavallo to cut Sam and Hawk off at the pass. And only one thing is certain: Robert Ludlum will keep us in nonstop suspense and side-splitting laughter-through the very last page. From the Paperback edition.

The Road to Omaha

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Stephen Aryan

South Carolina

Book I of the Quest for Heroes

The Coward

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Joseph Heller

Portions of this been appeared in the New York Times and Playboy Magazine in 1976 & 1979

Bruce Gold, a middle-aged, Jewish professor of English literature, finds himself on the brink of a golden career in politics -- and not a moment too soon, as Gold yearns for an opportunity to transform a less-than-picture-perfect life: His children think little of him, his intimidating father endlessly bullies him, and his wife is so oblivious that she doesn't even notice he's left her. As funny as it is sad, Good as Gold is a story of children grown up, parents grown old, and friends and lovers grown apart -- a story that is inimitably Heller.

Good as Gold, First Printing 1976

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Jon Stewart

Signed first edition in like new condition. 

He's the MTV generation's master of modern humor, a star of film, TV, and the comedy stage. This sultan of savvy serves up a whip-smart, utterly original collection of comic essays in Naked Pictures of Famous People. And as of January 11, 1999, you can enjoy the intelligence and self-deprecating charm he brings to contemporary comedy on  "The Daily Show."

In his first book, he translates that unique talent to the page, with humorous forays into a vast array of subjects: fashion, urban life, fast cars, cocktail culture, modern Jewishness, politics, and dating.

A seethingly irreverent wit, Stewart has a genius for language and brilliant timing that makes his up-to-the-minute collection a must-have for humor lovers in search of a Woody Allen for the 90s.

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