Bathroom Readers' Institute

** NEW **

° Book 28 of 35
° Paperback
° By The Bathroom Readers' Institute 
° Reference/Humor 
° 514 Pages
° MSRP $22.95

Uncle John gets a Factastic facelift for the twenty-eighth all-new edition of this beloved book series. All of Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader favorites are packed into these 512 glorious pages—from little-known history to the origins of everyday things—plus odd news, weird fads, quirky quotes, mind-bending science, head-scratching blunders, and all sorts of random oddities. Oh yeah, and thousands of incredible facts! Feel smarter (and a bit more dignified) as you settle into:

• Weird Body Parts of the Rich and Famous

• The Wild Man of Borneo

• Cryptic Movie Titles Explained

• “Pathological Generosity” and Other Real Medical Conditions

• How to Perform CPR on Your Dog

• When Postal Workers Go Rogue

• Start Your Own Country!

• Animals Under the Influence

• Welcome to No Mans Land

• The Mad Potter of Biloxi

• Saved From the Trash: The “Lost Leonardo”

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

South Carolina

Bestselling book, fantastic new look! Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader got a FACTASTIC facelift for the 28th all-new edition of this beloved book series. Now with a fancy flexi-cover and slightly larger trim size on the outside, and a sleeker style on this inside! All of our fans’ Bathroom Reader favorites are packed into these glorious pages—from little-known history to the origins of everyday things—plus odd news, weird fads, quirky quotes, mind-bending science, head-scratching blunders, and all sorts of random oddities. Oh yeah, and thousands of incredible FACTS! Feel smarter (and a bit more dignified) as you settle into… • Weird Body Parts of the Rich and Famous • The Wild Man of Borneo • Cryptic Movie Titles Explained • "Pathological Generosity" and Other Real Medical Conditions • How to Perform CPR on Your Dog • When Postal Workers Go Rogue • Start Your Own Country! • Animals Under the Influence • Welcome to No Mans Land • The Mad Potter of Biloxi • Saved From the Trash: The “Lost Leonardo” • The Ten Longest Wars in History • Stomach-churning Food-Safety Mistakes • You Swallowed What? • Incredible Stories of Survival • The Case of the Stolen Bridge and Other Weird Crime Reports And much, much more!

Uncle John's FACTASTIC Bathroom Reader

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James Rallison

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Florida

An instant New York Times bestseller! The sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Odd 1s Out, with all new and never-before-seen content featuring opinions, stories, and signature characters from YouTube phenomenon James Rallison James Rallison has always felt like he was on the outside looking in. His YouTube videos are all about his "odd" behavior, and with over 13 million subscribers and millions more followers on social media, these animations have found their way into the hearts of fans who also feel like a bit of an odd one. In this second installment in the Odd 1s Out series, James is back with characters, stories, and opinions, including: • The upside of the robot uprising • Questionable pizza toppings • Strange yet completely reasonable fears • Inventions that don't exist, but should Offering advice on accepting your quirks and growing up in the Internet age, The Odd 1s Out: The First Sequel is sure to be a must-have for old and new fans alike.

The Odd 1s Out: the First Sequel

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Nathan W. Pyle

Signed first edition, thus.
Full color comics. Rare signed edition!
From the library of my Book Aunt.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Minnesota

I feel more attractive. Honestly, you are. It's the star damage. I CRAVE STAR DAMAGE. Straight from the mind of New York Times bestselling author Nathan W. Pyle comes an adorable and profound universe in pink, blue, green, and purple. Based on the phenomenally popular Instagram of the same name, Strange Planet covers a full life cycle of the planet's inhabitants, including milestones such as: The Emergence Day Being Gains a Sibling The Being Family Attains a Beast The Formal Education of a Being Celebration of Special Days Being Begins a Vocation The Beings at Home Health Status of a Being The Hobbies of a Being The Extended Family of the Being The Being Reflects on Life While Watching the Planet Rotate With dozens of never-before-seen illustrations in addition to old favorites, this book offers a sweet and hilarious look at a distant world not all that unlike our own.

Strange Planet SIGNED

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#paperback #nonfiction #comedy #fashion #nicolebyer #humor #photos 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

The Fat Girl's Guide to Being #Brave and Not a Dejected, Melancholy, down-In-the-Dumps Weeping Fat Girl in a Bikini

The actress, comedian, and podcaster extraordinaire's guide to being a #brave, bikini-wearing badass. If you've ever seen a fat person post a bikini shot on social media, you already know that they are #verybrave, because apparently existing in a fat body in public is #brave. I, Nicole Byer, wrote this book to 1. share my impressive bikini collection and my hot body with the world and 2. help other people feel #brave by embracing their body as it is. In this book, I share my journey to becoming #brave, give you my hot tips and tricks--on how to find the perfect bikini, how to find your own #bravery, and how to handle haters--and serve you over 100 bikini looks.

#veryfat #verybrave

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Summer Land

North Dakota

Do As I Say, Not As I Did

A hilarious and not-so-serious memoir about how funny girl, Summer Land, raised her ovaries in middle class America before falling in love and moving to Australia with her coal-mining husband. Summerlandish is all the hard-won, scar-leaving, tattoo-regretting, butthole-tearing lessons Summer has learned over the years - "summer-ised" here in all their glamorously gory detail, so you don't have to bother with learning them yourselves. And, surprisingly, she seems to know quite a bit about love, life and awkward moments involving too much caffeine and/or lack of restraint.

Summerlandish

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#hardcover #fiction #educational #starwars #williamshakespeare #humor #poetry

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Indiana

Verily, a New Hope

A retelling of Star wars in the style of Shakespeare, in which a wise Jedi knight, an evil Sith lord, a beautiful captive princess, and a young hero coming of age reflect the valor and villainy of the Bard's greatest plays.

William Shakespeare's Star Wars Part the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth

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This paperback set includes the first three books in the winning and wacky My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish illustrated chapter book series, from New York Times–bestselling author Mo O'Hara.

Zapping Frankie the goldfish back to life with a battery was the best thing Tom's ever done. A BIG FAT ZOMBIE GOLDFISH with incredible hypnotic powers is a great pet to have on your side when your big brother is an evil scientist whose plans regularly need to be thwarted. Join Tom and Frankie as they go on incredible adventures involving revenge plots, evil scientist older brothers, a Super Electric Zombie Eel and other paranormal pets!

The set includes My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish, The SeaQuel, and Fins of Fury


ISBN-13:	9781250157829
Publisher:	Square Fish
Publication date:	10/10/2017
Series:	My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish Series
Sales rank:	80,097
Product dimensions:	
5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.90(d)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

Nevada

My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish Series

Nimona Signed Special Edition by illumicrate.

Only ever been on a bookshelf, so it doesn’t have any imperfections or dents.

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Nemeses! Dragons! Science! Symbolism! All these and more await in this brilliantly subversive, sharply irreverent epic from ND Stevenson. Featuring an exclusive epilogue not seen in the web comic, along with bonus conceptual sketches and revised pages throughout, this gorgeous full-color graphic novel has been hailed by critics and fans alike as the arrival of a “superstar” talent (NPR.org).

Nimona is an impulsive young shapeshifter with a knack for villainy. Lord Ballister Blackheart is a villain with a vendetta. As sidekick and supervillain, Nimona and Lord Blackheart are about to wreak some serious havoc. Their mission: prove to the kingdom that Sir Ambrosius Goldenloin and his buddies at the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics aren't the heroes everyone thinks they are.

But as small acts of mischief escalate into a vicious battle, Lord Blackheart realizes that Nimona's powers are as murky and mysterious as her past. And her unpredictable wild side might be more dangerous than he is willing to admit.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Texas

Nimona

Dick Syatt

Some examples of our colorful, humorous and imaginative American language.  Written gift dedication on front page, but otherwise clean, no folds or tears. 

Wisconsin

A collection of homespun regional expressions that revitalize the American language includes compliments, insults, and descriptions

Like We Say Back Home

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Trevor Noah

Stories from a South African Childhood

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, New York Times * USA Today * San Francisco Chronicle * NPR * Esquire * Newsday * Booklist Trevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents' indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa's tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle. Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man's relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother--his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. The stories collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother's unconventional, unconditional love. Praise for Born a Crime "[A] compelling new memoir . . . By turns alarming, sad and funny, [Trevor Noah's] book provides a harrowing look, through the prism of Mr. Noah's family, at life in South Africa under apartheid. . . . Born a Crime is not just an unnerving account of growing up in South Africa under apartheid, but a love letter to the author's remarkable mother."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "[An] unforgettable memoir."--Parade "What makes Born a Crime such a soul-nourishing pleasure, even with all its darker edges and perilous turns, is reading Noah recount in brisk, warmly conversational prose how he learned to negotiate his way through the bullying and ostracism. . . . What also helped was having a mother like Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah. . . . Consider Born a Crime another such gift to her--and an enormous gift to the rest of us."--USA Today "[Noah] thrives with the help of his astonishingly fearless mother. . . . Their fierce bond makes this story soar."--People

Born a Crime

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Dixie Cash

Hair stylists and private detectives Debbie Sue Overstreet and Edwina team up with the rich and spoiled Paige McBride in a caper involving horse thieves and a cheating husband who are spreading mayhem in the small town of Saltlick, Texas.

My Heart May Be Broken, but My Hair Still Looks Great

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Audrey Wood

#hardcover #childrens #humor #storybook #fiction 

Kentucky

In this cumulative tale, a wakeful flea atop a number of sleeping creatures causes a commotion, with just one bite.

The Napping House

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Alice Wong

An impressive little cube-shape book about cats! Cat stories, poems, activities, recipes, advice, tips, & humor.
Over 350 pages of kitty folklore & photos!
Over 175 full color illustrations.
Amazing as a gift for your favorite cat lover or treat yourself.
Near perfect condition. Near perfect dust cover. No rips, tears, stains. Was used as display.
Hardback edition.
Ribbon marker.
First edition -  2005.
6.75” x 6.75” x 1.75”
Cat lovers featured include:
Rudyard Kipling
Emile Zola
Lewis Carroll
Ernest Hemingway
James Herriot
Ogden Nash
Adlai Stevenson
Emily Dickinson
W B Yeats
and more!

Georgia

LBB CATS

Celebrate the wonder of cats in The Little Big Book of Cats, Welcome’s newest addition to the award-winning Little Big Book series. Cats are our best friends, our cleanest roommates, and our constant companions. Who else in our lives could be so loving and then turn so insolent, be so attentive and then so indifferent, and still win our hearts? Through their own shifting personas and emotions, cats continue to teach us more about ourselves than we could ever imagine. Without them we’d be lost. Without us, well, they’d probably be just fine.

The Little Big Book of Cats is a delightful treasury of stories, poems, fun activities, recipes, advice, tips, fun, and humor to indulge all cat-lovers. With the turn of each page, readers learn how to better understand, train (well, sort of), and pamper their feline friends with fun activities and treats, while literary excerpts, writings, and poetry from the brightest of cat-loving minds share the joys, awe, and challenges of befriending a cat (or two, or three, or four…). This purr-fect book includes:

Literary Excerpts and Stories: Renowned writers who love or have been fascinated by the cat seem endless: Lewis Carroll, Colette, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Alice Adams, Emile Zola, and Rainer Maria Rilke, among others. Fiction or non-fiction, each selection is as enchanting as its subject.

Living with Cats: For those just starting out on their new journey with a furry friend, basic information is provided from cat breeds to general cat care (from bathing your cat to giving kitty a massage!).

Poetry: There are so many odes in honor of beloved feline friends. Cat-lovers know why. In these pages are the best from greats such as Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Pablo Neruda, and W. B. Yeats.

Training and Tricks: Is it possible? Clicker training cats has gained much popularity in the past years. Give it a try!

Fun and Games: Kibble Dribble, Macaroni Hockey, Stair Bounce . . . keep Kitty on her toes with fun and games sure to amuse all involved.

Kitty Treats: Sardine Sandies, Catnip Snaps, Cheesy Bites and more are guaranteed to elicit satisfied purrs.

Feline Funnies: The other side of our regal, mysterious, and elegant friend is pure silliness. Enjoy the loveable, funny side of cat with pages of jokes, humor, and feline shenanigans.

The Little Big Book of Cats

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Jennifer Weiner

Twenty-eight-year-old Maggie Feller, who goes from job to job on the fringes of show business, and her older sister Rose, a lawyer, have had no contact with their grandmother, Ella, since their mother's death years ago, but all three need to find each other to reach happiness. Reprint. (A Twentieth Century Fox film, directed by Curtis Hanson, releasing October 2005, starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Shirley MacLaine, & Mark Feuerstein) (General Fiction)

In Her Shoes

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#hardcover #nonfiction #autobiography #kevinhart #comedy #humor #fiction #biography 

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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Douglas Adams

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

Illinois

A Novel

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

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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

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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Former library book with a newer dust jacket. Hardcover underneath is old and worn around the edges. First edition 1948. Inside cover is as shown but the rest just has small marks and is in good shape! #jewish #tradition #folklore #songs #treasury #librarybook #legends #mythology #humor #culture

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Washington

Stories, Traditions, Legends, Humor, Wisdom, and Folk Songs of the Jewish People

A Treasury of Jewish Folklore

Collection of art and memorabilia from Mad magazine. 2 very thick volumes in a cardboard display box. Very colorful. 

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