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If these tables could talk : worthy tales from soup to nuts

Linda Hepworth

Have you heard the one about the waitress who came into the restaurant ... and stayed for 40 years? This is a collection of short stories about a waitress' experiences in the restaurant business, meeting great people, and telling them jokes.
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The Spellman Files: A Novel

Lisa Lutz - Simon & Schuster; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Passenger comes the first novel in the hilarious Spellman Files mystery series featuring Isabel "Izzy" Spellman (part Nancy Drew, part Dirty Harry) and her highly functioning yet supremely dysfunctional family of private investigators.Meet...
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I've Got Your Number: A Novel

Sophie Kinsella - The Dial Press
Format: Hardcover

"Utterly charming . . . Put Sophie Kinsella's Number on speed dial." - USA Today Poppy Wyatt has never felt luckier. She is about to marry her ideal man, Magnus Tavish, but in one afternoon her "happily ever after" begins to fall apart. Not only has she lost...
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Lunatics

Dave Barry - Putnam Adult; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

One of them is a bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist. The other is a winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Together, they form the League of Comic Justice, battling evildoers in the name of . . . Okay, we made that line up. What they do form is a writing team of pure comic...
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One for the Money

Janet Evanovich - Scribner's
Format: Hardcover

Watch out, world. Here comes Stephanie Plum, a bounty hunter with attitude. In Stephanie's opinion, toxic waste, rabid drivers, armed schizophrenics, and August heat, humidity, and hydrocarbons are all part of the great adventure of living in Jersey. She's a product of the "burg,...
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The Eyre Affair

Jasper Fforde
Format: Hardcover

Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice) , and literature is taken very, very seriously. Baconians are trying to convince the world that Francis Bacon really wrote Shakespeare, there are riots between the S
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Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes

Thomas Cathcart - Abrams Image; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Here’s a lively, hilarious, not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts, and thinkers. It’s Philosophy 101 for everyone who knows not to take all this heavy stuff too seriously. Some of the Big Ideas are Existentialism (what do Hegel...
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Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure

Tim Cahill
Format: Paperback

The Soul of Travel What's it like to be there? For ten years, Travelers' Tales has answered this question through collections of the best travel writing by world-famous authors and new voices in the genre. The stories range from delightful and funny to cautionary and inspiring, an
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American Wits: an Anthology of Light Verse

John Hollander
Format: Book

Distinguished poet and critic John Hollander offers, for the first time ever, a buoyant guided tour of American light verse-a tradition he delightfully pursues from Ambrose Bierce's sardonic "The Devil's Dictionary" quatrains to the latter-day comic inventions of Edward
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God Save the Sweet Potato Queens

Jill Conner Browne
Format: Paperback

Hallelujah! The Sweet Potato Queens are back!In 1999, Jill Conner Browne, royal boss of Jackson, Mississippi's own glorious Sweet Potato Queens, introduced them to the world in the hilarious bestseller The Sweet Potato Queen's Book of Love (which contained everythin
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Suddenly Sixty And Other Shocks Of Later Life

Judith Viorst
Format: Book

Judith Viorst is known and loved by readers of all ages, for children's books such as Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day; nonfiction titles, including the bestseller Necessary Losses; and her collections of humorous poetry, which make perfect
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Lonely Planet Unpacked

Tony Wheeler
Format: Paperback

Every traveler has a horror story to tell: lost luggage, bad weather, illness or worse. In this lively collection of travel disaster tales, Lonely Planet writers share their worst moments of life on the road.From Kenya to Sri Lanka, from Brazil to Finland, from the Austral
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Real Ponies Don't Go Oink

Patrick F. McManus - Henry Holt & Co; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

"True-life" tales of man against nature in a collection sure to entertain the most hard-to-please listener. 2 cassettes. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life

Neil Strauss - It Books; 1ST edition
Format: Paperback

With the same sharp eye, quick wit and narrative drive that made "The Game" a bestseller, Neil Strauss takes us on a white-knuckle journey through America's heart of darkness as he scrambles to escape the system. As the economic downturn, continuing climate change and the prevailing...
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I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me

Joan Rivers - Berkley Hardcover; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1850"How do I hate thee? How much time do you have?" - Joan Rivers, 2012 Joan Rivers is a groundbreaking, award-winning, internationally renowned entertainment goddess. She's also opinionated...
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Sh*t My Dad Says

Justin Halpern - It Books; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his seventy-three-year-old dad. Sam Halpern, who is "like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair," has never minced words, and when Justin moved back home,...
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Lizz Free or Die: Essays

Lizz Winstead - Riverhead Hardcover
Format: Hardcover

Lizz Winstead, co-creator of The Daily Show and one of today's most hilarious comedians and insightful social critics, pens a brilliant account of how she discovered her comedic voice.In this collection of autobiographical essays, Winstead vividly recounts how she fought to find her own voice,...
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Lies that Chelsea Handler Told Me

Chelsea Handler - Grand Central Publishing; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

My tendency to make up stories and lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good portion of my day and provides me with a peace of mind not easily attainable in this economic climate.--Chelsea Handler, from Chapter 10 of Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang Its no lie Chelsea Handler...
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I Am A Pole

Stephen Colbert - Grand Central Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"The sad thing is, I like it" - Maurice Sendak"The perfect gift to give a child or grandchild for their high school or college graduation.Also Father's Day.Also, other times." - Stephen Colbert
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Me Talk Pretty One Day

David Sedaris - Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks...
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