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Based On Three 'zines That Have Collectively Sold 35,000 Copies, A Parody Guidebook For People To Use To Teach Their Cats About Gun Safety, Abstinence, Evol...

The Penguin Classics debut that inspired a classic film and a current Broadway revival Reginald Rose's landmark American drama was a critically acclaimed ...

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

Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo – a stunning feat of historical sleuthing that brings to life the forgotten hero who ...

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest g...

Best Book of June 2015 (The Christian Science Monitor) Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature C. S. Lewis is the 20th century's ...

Product Description NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Considering a trip to a quaint English village? You’ll think twice after learning about the countless mur...

A haunting, magnificently written memoir by Ivan Doig about growing up in the American WestIvan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of western Montana amo...

The hilarious and controversial host of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, most opinionated, and most necessary book ever--a brillian...

The "hilarious and super-relatable" (Cosmopolitan) New York Times bestselling guide to living your best life, with a new foreword and updated material If y...

Read a poem to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read it while you're alone in an otherwise dark room or while someone sleeps ...

From The Creator Of The Good Place And The Cocreator Of Parks And Recreation, A Hilarious, Thought-provoking Guide To Living An Ethical Life, Drawing On 2,5...

'I always wanted to be historical,' Gertrude Stein once quipped. In 1932, Stein began writing the 'autobiography' of her longtime friend and companion, Alic...

A critical examination of Grass's work offers overwhelming evidence that Cat and Mouse and Dog Years are part of a unified structure begun by The Tin Drum a...

Simon Winchester. Maps On End Pages. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 251-253) And Index.Categories: ReferenceLanguage Study & Reference

Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth...

A Treat For All Lovers Of The Traditional Ghost Story: Here Are Thirty-five Well-wrought Tales Of Haunted Houses, Vengeful Spirits, And Spectral Warnings Fr...

The bestselling author of Sexual Personae and Sex, Art, and American Culture is back with a fiery new collection of essays on everything from art and celeb...

Thomas Hardy once said that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. The most famous poet of the Jazz A...

First published in 1967, Stop-Time was immediately recognized as a masterpiece of modern American autobiography, a brilliant portrayal of one boy's passage ...

How Does One Live? How Does One Do The Good Or Honorable Thing, While Flourishing And Feeling Happy? This Question Obsessed Renaissance Writers, None More T...

new York Times Bestselling Author Diana Gabaldon Has Captured The Hearts Of Millions With Her Critically Acclaimed Novels, outlander. dragonfly In Amber, ...

One of Vogue's Best Books of the Year One of Esquire's Best Books of the Year One of the Wall Street Journal's Favorite Books of the Year One of the Most A...

From An Elementary School Principal And Popular Youtube Personality, Inspiration And Humor For Educators To Tackle The Challenges They Face Day-in And Day-o...

In this new biography, based on a reexamination of Thoreau's manuscripts and on retracing of his trips, Robert Richardson offers a view of Thoreau's life a...

Gathered By Alistair Cooke. Reprint. Originally Published: New York : Knopf, 1955. Includes Bibliographical References.Categories: Humor & Entertainment...

A Monumental Volume Of Egyptian Culture, History, And Arcania, To Help Readers Immerse Themselves In Amelia Peabody's World More Completely Than Ever Before...

From a master biographer, the life story of the daring French aviator who became one of the twentieth century's most beloved authors Antoine de Saint-Exup...

Throughout his life (1905-2006) Stanley Kunitz created poetry and tended gardens. This book is the distillation of conversations, none previously published,...

After enduring years of cruelty and abuse at the hands of several families who successively owned her in Bermuda and the West Indies, Mary Prince traveled ...

Finally, the unwritten rules of Dadhood have been written in Dad Law. Since the dawn of time, all dads have understood that there are a set of rules for f...

"Alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny."—New York Times “Deliciously readable . . . Donald Hall, if abandoned by the muse of poetry, has wrought...

The renowned animal lover shares the heartwarming stories of the various animals that inhabit the Black Beauty Ranch, animals that have been saved from deat...

Edited & Translated By Sam Hamill & J.p. Seaton. Originally Published: 2004. Translated From More Than One Language.Categories: Religion & Spiri...

The definitive guide for all fans of Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, and the glittering Regency period Publishers Weekly Meticulously researched yet splend...

Too personal for an almanac, too sophisticated for a domestic history, and too funny and self-doubting for a literary journal, One Man's Meat can best be de...

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest g...

Written Sometime Between 1330 And 1332, The Essays In Idleness Hardly Mirror The Turbulent Times In Which They Were Born. Despite The Struggle Between The E...

Most people think Jane Austen wrote only six novels. Fortunately for us, she wrote several others, though very short ones, while still a young girl. Austen ...

Compelling work traces the formidable journey of an Igbo prince from captivity to freedom and literacy and recounts his enslavement in the New World, servic...

In 1994, Richard Paul Evans self-published The Christmas Box. It became an international bestseller. Here is Evans's story of his own spiritual journey and...

First published in 1987, The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories was hailed as "a world-class anthology" in The Washington Post Book World and as "a b...

Presents Eight Twentieth-century Plays From Seven African Countries, Along With Explanatory Notes And Over Thirty Background Writings And Works Of Criticism...

Pride and Prejudice is a novel of manners by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with...

Product Description “Feminism, history, literature, politics—this tale has all of that, and a heroine worthy of her own turn in the spotlight.” â...

The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carré was alive. Secrecy came naturally to John le Carré...

Before the notion of "political correctness" encroached on the ways people spoke, wrote, and conducted themselves in public and private, some of America's ...

Now in paperback, the New York Times bestseller that takes readers on a riotous journey through the mind of one of America's premier comics George Carlin'...