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For years, the Bombecks have heard rumors of a magical land called Suburbia where the air is clean, the grass is trimmed, and children don’t risk getting mugged on their walk to school. After watching their friends flee the city for subdivided utopias like Bonaparte’s Retreat...
Celebrate Christmas with the Internet’s pink-haired sensation and a collection of comics full of hilarious holiday-themed humor.
It’s not the holiday season without your favorite crazy aunt! Don’t miss Aunty’s letter to Santa, Walt’s gift, or Aunty’s wonderful witticisms like:
“Christmas is a time you get homesick even when you’re home!”
“It's Christmas again.
New York Times Bestseller
"There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today and very soon the world will know it." —Lisa Taddeo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women
"Dolly Alderton has always been a sparkling Roman candle of talent. She is funny, smart, and explosively engaged in the wonders and weirdness of the world. But what makes this memoir more than mere
..."Satire at the highest level.... [A] godsend of a book." —Amy Fusselman, Washington Post
A witty, absurdist satire of the last 500 years, Alexandra Petri's US History is the fake textbook you never knew you needed!
As a columnist for the Washington Post, Alexandra Petri has watched in real time as those who didn't learn from history have been forced to repeat it. And repeat it. And repeat it. If we repeat
...CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
Remember the things Mother used to say? Erma Bombeck remembers them all and now she's using them on her own kids! With clever illustrations by Bil Keane, these really funny, too-true observations on family and kids and why it shouldn't work but does, is a wonderful antitdote to the daily problems...
This side-splitting collection of 101 of the best doctor doctor jokes you have ever heard is dangerously funny! Jack Goldstein caters for children of all ages with this hilarious joke book with over one hundred jokes that will have all the family laughing. Organised into categories so you have a doctor doctor joke for every occasion, this is an ideal addition to any budding comedian's bookshelf.
Instant National Bestseller
Shortlisted for the 2023 Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award
"Witty, literary and very funny." —Minneapolis Star Tribune
Welcome to Sotheran's, one of the oldest bookshops in the world, with its weird and wonderful clientele, suspicious cupboards, unlabeled keys, poisoned books, and some things that aren't even books, presided over by one deeply eccentric apprentice.
Some
...14) This book is gay
The bestselling young adult non-fiction book on sexuality and gender!
Lesbian. Gay. Bisexual. Transgender. Queer. Straight. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of gender or sexual preference. This book is for anyone who's ever dared to wonder. This book is for YOU.
There's a long-running joke that, after "coming out," a lesbian, gay guy, bisexual, or trans person should receive a membership
...Charles M. Schulz believed that the key to cartooning was to take out the extraneous details and leave in only what's necessary. For fifty years, from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, Schulz wrote and illustrated Peanuts, the single most popular and influential comic strip...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MORE THAN 45 PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • NPR
17) Canada
Sixth grade is the worst... and also the best, as Jordan rides the ups and downs of middle-school life in hilarious fashion.
Funny, outrageous things didn't stop for Jordan Sonnenblick after he left fourth grade. No, in many ways the events detailed to hilarious effect in The Boy Who Failed Show and Tell were but a prelude to sixth grade, a time when Jordan would have to deal with...
— A rival named Jiminy
...Laugh out loud with this uproarious collection of the 1,0001 FUNNIEST jokes from the author of the #1 bestselling Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids series. Perfect for car rides, rainy days, or anytime you just want to crack up!
Q: What goes up and down but never moves?
A: A flight of stairs.
With 1,001 of the ALL-TIME BEST, FUNNIEST, and HILARIOUS jokes, puns, and zingers, you're sure to have the perfect joke
...This illustrated gift book of short comics illuminates author Debbie Tung's experience as an introvert in an extrovert's world. Presented in a loose narrative style that can be read front to back or dipped into at one's leisure, the book spans three years of Debbie's life, from the end of college to the present day. In these early years of adulthood, Debbie slowly but finally discovers there is a name for her lifelong need to be alone: she's
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