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You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples

Patricia Marx · Celadon Books
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

The perfect Valentine's Day or anniversary gift: An illustrated collection of love and relationship advice from New Yorker writer Patricia Marx, with illustrations from New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast.
Everyone's heard the old advice for a healthy relationship: Never...

 
 
Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault: Essays from the Grown-up Years

Cathy Guisewite · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From the creator of the iconic "Cathy" comic strip comes her first collection of funny, wise, poignant, and incredibly honest essays about being a woman in what she lovingly calls "the panini generation."

As the creator of "Cathy," Cathy Guisewite found...
 
 
Super Dad Jokes: Saving the World, One Bad Joke at a Time

Jimmy Niro · Sourcebooks
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

The ultimate gift for Father's Day and Christmas!

Q: What super power do you get when you become a parent?
A: Supervision.

In a world of annoyed eye rolls and embarrassed head shakes, super dads rise as the unsung heroes of delightfully cringe-worthy humor. Super Dad Jokes...

 
 
I Ain't Doin' It: Unfiltered Thoughts From a Sarcastic Southern Sweetheart

Heather Land · Howard Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Social media comedian Heather Land uses her trademark sassy, laugh-out-loud humor to remind us of the many ways that real life can be really funny.

Heather Land has something to say about almost everything in life - the unbelievable, inconceivable, and downright frustrating - and why she "ain't...
 
 
Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms

John Hodgman · Viking
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A hilarious and honest new book in which John Hodgman, New York Times bestselling author of Vacationland, leaves vacation behind and gets back to work as a still somewhat famous person . . . and then loses his job

After spending most of his twenties pursuing a career...
 
 
Race Me in a Lobster Suit: Absurd Internet Ads and the Real Conversations that Followed

Kelly Mahon · Quirk Books
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

This collection of prank Craigslist ads and the real email exchanges that followed is the perfect gift for fans of offbeat humor.

When New York City copywriter Kelly Mahon started posting fake gig ads online as a creative outlet, she was surprised to find that there was someone...
 
 
Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results

Josh Gondelman · Harper Perennial
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Emmy-Award winning writer and comedian Josh Gondelman's collection of personal stories of best intentions and mixed results.

Josh Gondelman knows a thing or two about trying - and failing. The Emmy Award-winning stand-up comic - dubbed a "pathological sweetheart" by the New York...

 
 
Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog

Dave Barry · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and bestselling author of Dave Barry Turns 40 now shows how to age gracefully, taking cues from his beloved and highly intelligent dog, Lucy.

Faced with the obstacles and challenges of life after middle age, Dave Barry turns to his best dog,...
 
 
How to Date Men When You Hate Men

Blythe Roberson · Flatiron Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

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. Blythe Roberson's sharp observational humor is met by her open-hearted...

 
 
Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It?: A Mother's Suggestions

Patricia Marx · Celadon Books
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

The perfect Mother's Day gift: A collection of witty one-line advice New Yorker writer Patricia Marx heard from her mother, accompanied by full-color illustrations by New Yorker staff cartoonist Roz Chast.

Every mother knows best, but New Yorker writer Patty...

 
 
Older, but Better, but Older: From the Authors of How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are

Caroline De Maigret · Doubleday
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling authors of How to be Parisian, what smart, savvy, fabulous French women think, feel and advise as they hit forty on life, love, and everything else

Older, but Better, but Older has the playful wit, self deprecation and worldly advice we have come...
 
 
Your Dad Stole My Rake: And Other Family Dilemmas

TOM PAPA · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"I have been a close friend of Tom Papa for 17 years. His lack of ability to perceive even the most basic principles of human functioning have made him an invaluable asset to me as a friend and colleague. Because he sees nothing, knows nothing and understands nothing, I always seek...

 
 
Gross Anatomy: Dispatches from the Front

Mara Altman · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

An honest, funny, neurotic, and totally gross love child of Mindy Kaling and Mary Roach.

Mara Altman's volatile and apprehensive relationship with her body has led her to wonder about a lot of stuff over the years. Like, who decided that women shouldn't have body hair? And how sweaty...
 
 
An Almost Perfect Christmas

Nina Stibbe · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Love, Nina, a hilarious account of the highs of lows of Christmas season

"My mother is not a foodie. But for as long as I can remember, once a year, she becomes possessed of a profound and desperate need to serve up a perfect roast turkey. Faced with...
 
 
How to Be Ultra Spiritual: 12 1/2 Steps to Spiritual Superiority

J P Sears · Sounds True
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Welcome to the Glorious Grandeur of Ultra Spirituality

In case you haven't noticed, the New Age has become the Old Age. But don't recycle your crystals just yet! His Enlightenedness JP Sears is ushering in the Newer Age, blinding us with the dawn-like brilliance that is Ultra Spirituality....

 
 
I Need a Lifeguard Everywhere but the Pool

LISA SCOTTOLINE · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"Lisa and Francesca, mother and daughter, bring you the laughter of their lives." -- Delia Ephron, bestselling author

The bestselling and "perennially hilarious" mother-daughter team is back with a new collection of stories from their real lives, guaranteed...

 
 
Adulthood for Beginners: All the Life Secrets Nobody Bothered to Tell You

ANDY BOYLE · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

"A hilarious guide to help young workers not be idiots....a guide to being an adult in the modern age." --Chicago Tribune


Stop saying "adulting" -- and other life advice you didn't know you needed. But you do.

It's no secret that being a grown-up...
 
 
Die Laughing: Killer Jokes for Newly Old Folks

William Novak · Touchstone
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the co-creator of the celebrated Big Book of Jewish Humor comes a laugh-out-loud collection of jokes about growing older that makes fun of memory loss, marriages, medicine, sex, the afterlife, and much more, making this the perfect gift for almost anyone who was born before...
 
 
Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland

Dave Barry · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A brilliantly funny exploration of the Sunshine State from the man who knows it best: Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Dave Barry.

We never know what will happen next in Florida. We know only that, any minute now, something will.
Every few months,...
 
 
Daddy, Stop Talking!: And Other Things My Kids Want But Won't Be Getting

Adam Carolla · Dey Street Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The comedian, actor, television host, podcast king, and New York Times bestselling author of President Me, Not Taco Bell Material, and In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks now lays down the law on the plight of the modern parent.

Parents, do you often think that if your kids had to grow...

 
 
It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History

Jennifer Wright · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A history of heartbreak-replete with beheadings, uprisings, creepy sex dolls, and celebrity gossip-and its disastrously bad consequences throughout time

Spanning eras and cultures from ancient Rome to medieval England to 1950s Hollywood, Jennifer Wright's It Ended Badly...

 
 
People I Want to Punch in the Throat: Competitive Crafters, Drop-Off Despots, and Other Suburban Scourges

Jen Mann
Format: Paperback

 
 
Don't Lick the Minivan: And Other Things I Never Thought I'd Say to My Kids

Leanne Shirtliffe · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 282
Format: Hardcover

"Leanne Shirtliffe writes with hilarity and poignancy as to the trials and pains (literally) of motherhood. She is our new Erma Bombeck!"
--Elizabeth Boyle, New York Times best-selling authorAs a woman used to traveling and living the high life in Bangkok,...
 
 
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

David Sedaris · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 275
Format: Hardcover

A guy walks into a bar car and...

From here the story could take many turns. When this guy is David Sedaris, the possibilities are endless, but the result is always the same: he will both delight you with twists of humor and intelligence and leave you deeply moved.

Sedaris...
 
 
The Last Black Unicorn

TIFFANY HADDISH · Gallery Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From stand-up comedian, actress, and breakout star of Girls Trip, Tiffany Haddish, comes The Last Black Unicorn, a sidesplitting, hysterical, edgy, and unflinching collection of (extremely) personal...