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This New York Times bestseller is the hilarious philosophy course everyone wishes they’d had in school Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk int...

A hilarious collection of the funniest family-friendly jokes, quotes, stories, cartoons, and anecdotes from the past 100 years of Reader’s Digest magazine...

No. 1 New York Times Bestseller--cover.Categories: Biographies & MemoirsMemoirs

Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted ...

The Friends, Family, And Co-workers Of The Late-night Talk Show Host On The E! Network Describe How They Have All Been Tricked By Her Into Believing Tales O...

in The World Of Fishing There Are Magic Phrases That Are Guaranteed To Summon The Demon. Among Them Are: 'remote Trout Lake,' 'fish Up To 13 Pounds,' 'the ...

q. Why Are There Almost As Many Jokes About Death As There Are About Sex? a. Because They Both Scare The Pants Off Us. thomas Cathcart And Daniel Klein...

Authoritative As It Is Amusing, This Book Distills Everything Benjamin Dreyer Has Learned From The Hundreds Of Books He Has Copyedited, Including Works By E...

It's an age-old question that has stumped the great minds of history: What is the meaning of life? In his hilarious and uplifting style, best-selling autho...

Amy Schumer, Emmy Award-winning Comedian, Actress, Writer, And Star, Mines Her Past For Stories About Her Teenage Years, Her Family, Relationship, And Sex, ...

Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its ear, mining the exceedi...

A new collection of essays from the #1 New York Times bestselling author who has been called "the preeminent humorist of his generation" (Entertainment Wee...

Wildflower Is A Portrait Of Drew's Life In Stories As She Looks Back On The Adventures, Challenges, And Incredible Experiences Of Her Earlier Years. It Incl...

Chicken Soup For The Soul’s First-ever Humor Collection, And The Timing Is Perfect. This Is Storytelling At Its Funniest. If Laughter Is The Best Medicine...

" . . . a sort of David Sedaris-like take on knitting"”laugh-out-loud funny most of the time and poignantly reflective when it's not cracking you up." "â...

Deliciously funny, fact-filled and adventurous, In a Sunburned Country takes us on a grand tour of Australia. It's a place where interesting things happen ...

Product Description “Genius… It is miraculous to read these pieces… You must read The Best of Me.” —Andrew Sean Greer, New York Times Book Re...

The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime New York Times bestseller about one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tu...

The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and went on to b...

Here they are—some of the funniest tales and ruminations ever put into print, by one of the great comic minds of our time. From THE WHORE OF MENSA, to GOD...

A Collection Of Essays Offers A Humorous Look At The Ups And Downs Of Being A Woman Of A Certain Age, Discussing The Tribulations Of Maintenance And Trying ...

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In his first phenomenal best-seller, EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN, Robert Fulghum reminded readers everywhere of some plain and sti...

Praise for Augusten Burroughs "A wrenching, edifying journey...with the added benefit of being really entertaining." - The New York Times Book Review on D...

IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award GOLD Winner in Humor Crowded in the Middle of Nowhere: Tales of Humor and Healing from Rural America is a collection of humoro...

Ellen DeGeneres's winning, upbeat candor has made her show one of the most popular, resilient, and honored daytime shows on the air, and her life makes for...

Bantam Books proudly presents the first book by one of today's most popular comic performers, featuring hilarious Seinfeld observations on everything from ...

'country Crock' First Published, In Different Form, In Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, And Revolution In Trump's America (macmillan Publishing Group, 201...

From the author of the beloved New York Times bestselling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? and the creator and star of The Mindy Project comes a co...

We All Know The Basics Of Punctuation. Or Do We? A Look At Most Neighborhood Signage Tells A Different Story. Through Sloppy Usage And Low Standards On The ...

from The Screenwriter Who Brought Us When Harry Met Sally Comes A Hilarious, Candid Look At Issues That Concern Women. With Her Disarming, Intimate, Compl...

All About Being Canadian, Language, Culture, Art And Much More. Introduction: How To Find Canada On A Map -- Canada: A Rich Tapestry (who To Hate And Why): ...

"Only two things are infinite-the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not so sure about the universe." — -Albert Einstein Named in honor of Charles Da...

david Sedaris's Ability To Transform The Mortification Of Everyday Life Into Wildly Entertaining Art, (the Christian Science Monitor) Is Elevated To Wilde...

In An Illustrated Memoir, The Creator Of The Bloggess Blog Shares Humorous Stories From Her Life, Including Her Awkward Upbringing In Texas And Her Relation...

"RELENTLESSLY FUNNY . . . BARRY SHINES."—People A self-professed computer geek who actually does Windows 95, bestselling humorist Dave Barry takes us on ...

With Heartfelt Candor And Her Usual Side-splitting Bite, Humorist, Essayist, And Blogger At Bitchesgottaeat.com Samantha Irby Captures Powerful Emotional Tr...

David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He ...

FROM THE PRIZEWINNING BLOGGER OF WAITERRANT.NET, AN INSIDER'S HILARIOUS LOOK AT A WAITER'S LIFE AT AN UPSCALE NEW YORK-AREA RESTAURANT-KITCHEN CONFIDENTIA...

THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"This is your happy hour with Amy Schumer... It's Bossypants meets Trainwreck meets your long weekend." —TheSkimm...

The Highly Anticipated First Book By Karen Kilgariff And Georgia Hardstark, The Voices Behind The #1 Hit Podcast My Favorite Murder! Sharing Never-before-he...

In these nineteen whip-smart essays, Jon Stewart takes on politics, religion, and celebrity with a seethingly irreverent wit, a brilliantsense of timming, ...

Ellen Degeneres.Categories: Literature & Fiction Humor & SatireSatire

David Sedaris Has Kept A Diary For Forty Years, Recording Everything That Has Captured His Attention -- Overheard Comments, Salacious Gossip, Soap Opera Plo...

The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World ProblemsDavid Rakoff...

based On The Award-winning 10-million-plus-hit Blog 1000awesomethings.com, the Book Of Awesome Is A High Five For Humanity And A Big Celebration Of Life's...

In 2002 Lynne Truss presented Cutting a Dash, a well-received BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation, which led to the writing of Eats, Shoots & Leaves. ...

The Characteristic Heart And Punch-packing Observations Are Back, But With A Newfound Coat Of Maturity. A Thin Coat. More Of A Blazer, Really. Fans Of I Was...