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book Swish
Written by Joel Derfner

Humor - Essays; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs | Broadway | Trade Paperback
June 2009 | $14.00 | 978-0-7679-2431-3 (0-7679-2431-2)

Joel Derfner is gayer than you.

Don’t feel too bad about it, though, because he has made being gayer than you his life’s work. At summer day camp, when he was six, Derfner tried to sign up for needlepoint and flower arranging, but the camp counselors wouldn’t let him, because, they said...

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book Bad Mother
Written by Ayelet Waldman

Family & Relationships - Motherhood; Humor | Broadway | Hardcover
May 2009 | $24.95 | 978-0-385-52793-4 (0-385-52793-4)

book Don't Let My Mama Read This
Written by Hadjii

Humor | Harlem Moon | Trade Paperback
April 2008 | $12.95 | 978-0-7679-2647-8 (0-7679-2647-1)

Meet Hadjii.

He’s got a loving family, a taste for making trouble, and a wicked sense of humor. His first book, Don’t Let My Mama Read This, is a rarity—an upbeat memoir about a blessedly normal childhood written by a natural-born storyteller. In it, he offers a warm, witty look at...

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book Asshole
Written by Martin Kihn

Humor - Parodies | Broadway | Hardcover
April 2008 | $22.95 | 978-0-7679-2726-0 (0-7679-2726-5)

Nice guys, pushovers, soft-touches and suckers:

Tired of being walked all over?
When the waiter brings you something you didn’t order, do you assume he knows best?
Are you ready to demand the respect you deserve?

Martin Kihn doesn’t care what your answers are, because of course you need this book. Watch and...

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book The Ultimate Cheapskate's Road Map to True Riches
Written by Jeff Yeager

Business & Economics - Personal Finance - Budgeting; Business & Economics - Personal Finance - Money Management; Humor - Topic - Business & Professional | Broadway | Trade Paperback
December 2007 | $12.95 | 978-0-7679-2695-9 (0-7679-2695-1)

It used to be that “stuff” made you cool. That is so twentieth century. Jeff Yeager, the man dubbed The Ultimate Cheapskate by Matt Lauer on Today, offers a completely fresh take on personal finance, teaching us how to enjoy life more by spending less. He will show you how to...

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book 101 Ways to Flip the Bird
Written by Jason Joseph and Rick Joseph

Humor | Broadway | Trade Paperback
October 2007 | $9.95 | 978-0-7679-2681-2 (0-7679-2681-1)

So ticked off you’re at a loss for words?

101 Ways to Flip the Bird provides 101 creative ways to express exactly how you feel. Arm yourself with the perfect bird for every occasion:


Some jerk cut you off in traffic?

Opt for the Classic Flip, also appropriate when protesting a bad call...

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book 5 People Who Died During Sex
Written by Karl Shaw

Humor | Broadway | Trade Paperback
February 2007 | $9.95 | 978-0-7679-2059-9 (0-7679-2059-7)

All in perfectly bad taste

Prepare to be amazed, appalled, disgusted, and hugely entertained by this compendium of indelicate oddities. Nothing is too inane, too insane, too bizarre, or too distasteful for this incredible, seemingly impossible, but absolutely true collection of facts from across the ages and around the world.

Did you know…

…that...

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book Look at My Striped Shirt!
Written by The Phat Phree

Humor | Broadway | Trade Paperback
December 2006 | $12.95 | 978-0-7679-2418-4 (0-7679-2418-5)

Target. Observe. Ridicule.

You run into them every day—the striped-shirt guy, the karaoke master, the dude with a pencil-thin beard, the guy who won’t shut up about his fantasy football team—characters who annoy, irritate, and incense us all. Based on the wildly popular essay on ThePhatPhree.com by Mike Polk, this book is...

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book Hipster Haiku
Written by Siobhan Adcock

Humor - Limericks & Verse; Humor - Parodies | Broadway | Trade Paperback
October 2006 | $9.95 | 978-0-7679-2373-6 (0-7679-2373-1)

O, hipster nation:
The dive bars, the vintage duds?
Great material.

book A Southern Belle Primer
Written by Maryln Schwartz

Humor | Broadway | Trade Paperback
September 2006 | $11.95 | 978-0-7679-2527-3 (0-7679-2527-0)

Who knows what lurks in the hearts of the women of Dixie? A Southern Belle Primer tells us all. In this rollicking guide to survival in a society that has not gone with the wind, the mystique of the Southern belle is exposed. Maryln Schwartz’s cult classic and perennial bestseller returns...

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book White Trash Etiquette
Written by Dr. Verne Edstrom, Esq.

Humor; Humor - Parodies | Broadway | Trade Paperback
June 2006 | $9.95 | 978-0-7679-2207-4 (0-7679-2207-7)

White Trash Etiquette contains everything you need to know to live like decent trash, including:
 
• The proper way to fake a back injury
• How to prevent your in-laws from stealing the silverware at wedding receptions
• The Ten Hottest White Trash Career Opportunities
• How to improve your drunk-driving skills... Read More
book The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit
Written by Lois Beckwith

Humor | Broadway | Trade Paperback
February 2006 | $9.95 | 978-0-7679-2074-2 (0-7679-2074-0)

This caustically funny Webster’s of the workplace cuts to the true meaning of the inane argot spouted in cubicles and conference rooms across the land.

At a price even an intern can afford and in a handy paperback format that won’t weigh down your messenger bag or briefcase, The Dictionary of... Read More
book Contrary to Popular Belief
Written by Joey Green

Humor | Broadway | Trade Paperback
October 2005 | $9.95 | 978-0-7679-1992-0 (0-7679-1992-0)

Isn’t it time you knew the honest-to-goodness truth? We’ve all come to believe hundreds of “false facts”—myths that we’ve blindly accepted as truth, misconceptions that we’ve ignorantly retold to others—Contrary to Popular Belief provides an instant remedy for your pounding head full of misinformation, giving you quick relief with enlightening and... Read More
book Gay Haiku
Written by Joel Derfner

Humor; Fiction - Gay | Broadway | Hardcover
May 2005 | $13.95 | 978-0-7679-1984-5 (0-7679-1984-X)

Impossible to resist, this hilariously sassy and sweet collection of haiku turns the perilous sport of gay dating into pure poetry.

For hundreds of years, the Japanese haiku has been equated with peaceful contemplation and spiritual enlightenment. A delicate balance of rhythm and line, the haiku has provided countless readers with an...

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book The Placebo Chronicles
Written by Douglas Farrago, M.D.
Illustrated by Gordon W. Marshall


Humor | Broadway | Trade Paperback
April 2005 | $12.95 | 978-0-7679-1949-4 (0-7679-1949-1)


True Tales of the ridiculous, the silly, and the just plain weird cases doctors face—lampooning the medical bureaucracy that makes practicing medicine and getting medical care such a headache.

Doctors have a sick sense of humor. This is the deep, dark, and hilarious secret of the medical profession revealed by the irreverent... Read More
book You Know You're 40 When...
Written by Ann Hodgman and Patricia Marx

Humor | Broadway | Trade Paperback
March 2005 | $9.95 | 978-0-7679-1739-1 (0-7679-1739-1)

Are you almost over the hill? Know someone who is?

Getting older is no fun, but it sure can be funny. How do you know when you’re approaching the big 4-0?

Here are a few clues:

* Comb-overs are starting to make a certain kind of sense.
* A kid you once babysat for... Read More
book The Ferrari in the Bedroom
Written by Jean Shepherd

Humor | Broadway | Trade Paperback
October 2004 | $14.00 | 978-0-385-23792-5 (0-385-23792-8)

Jean Shepherd was one of America’s favorite humorists, his most notable achievement being the creation of the indefatigable Ralphie Parker and his quest for a BB gun in the holiday classic A Christmas Story. But he was so much more, a comic Garrison Keillor–like figure whose unique voice transcended the airwaves...

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book A Fistful of Fig Newtons
Written by Jean Shepherd

Humor | Broadway | Trade Paperback
October 2004 | $14.95 | 978-0-385-18843-2 (0-385-18843-9)

From the wild and wacky world of a favorite funnyman, a dozen truer-than-life tales of tailgating on the Jersey Tumpike, infuriating infants, and other everyday catastrophes, defeats, and humiliations that are the familiar fate of Americans everywhere.
book Funny Letters from Famous People
Written by Charles Osgood

Humor | Broadway | Trade Paperback
October 2004 | $15.00 | 978-0-7679-1176-4 (0-7679-1176-8)

In this humorous collection of celebrity wit, acclaimed broadcaster and humorist Charles Osgood offers witticisms penned by luminaries ranging from Abraham Lincoln to Andy Rooney.

Known for his clever commentary and witty radio-show rhymes, Charles Osgood here selects and introduces a collection of hilarious correspondence from some of our best-loved politicians...

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book 60 People to Avoid at the Water Cooler
Written by Josh Aiello

Humor | Broadway | Trade Paperback
August 2004 | $15.00 | 978-0-7679-1842-8 (0-7679-1842-8)

You're smarter than they are.
You're more efficient than they are.
You’re funnier than they are.
 
But they have you outnumbered.

Meet:

The Alpha Chimp
The Brown Noser
The Cheapskate
The Chitchat Artist
The Condescending IT Guy
The Dinosaur
The Floozy
The Gossip
The Hall Monitor
The Micromanager
The Nodder
The Office Girls
The Politico
The...

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book The Sex Lives of Cannibals
Written by J. Maarten Troost

Travel - Australia & Oceania; Humor | Broadway | Trade Paperback
June 2004 | $12.95 | 978-0-7679-1530-4 (0-7679-1530-5)

At the age of twenty-six, Maarten Troost—who had been pushing the snooze button on the alarm clock of life by racking up useless graduate degrees and muddling through a series of temp jobs—decided to pack up his flip-flops and move to Tarawa, a remote South Pacific island in the Republic of... Read More
book The Fabulous Girl's Guide to Grace Under Pressure
Written by Kim Izzo and Ceri Marsh

Reference - Etiquette; Humor | Broadway | Trade Paperback
June 2004 | $14.95 | 978-0-7679-1548-9 (0-7679-1548-8)

Every Fabulous Girl knows that elegant manners, proper thank-you notes, the perfect pair of shoes, and basic social savoir faire will get you through many, if not most, of life’s occasions. But what about those special situations that every girl encounters—the wince-inducing, hair-curling dilemmas and debacles that can rattle even the... Read More
book The George W. Bush Quiz Book
Written by Paul Slansky

Humor - Political | Broadway | Trade Paperback
May 2004 | $9.95 | 978-0-7679-1784-1 (0-7679-1784-7)

A Hilarious “Quizography” on the Dumbfounding Life of George W. Bush

Pop Quiz

George W. Bush is:

(A) the greatest American statesman since Abraham Lincoln.

(B) a champion of the underdog and a thorn in the side of the wealthy.

(C) articulate, thoughtful, and judicious—a very, very wise man.

(D) linguistically challenged (“I know how hard it... Read More
book Princess
Written by Francesca Castagnoli

Humor | Broadway | Trade Paperback
January 2004 | $13.95 | 978-0-7679-1052-1 (0-7679-1052-4)

Welcome, Your Highness.

If you’ve picked up this book, you know who you are. You have a taste for life’s finer things: champagne with breakfast, custom lingerie, and kitten heels—even in the snow. At the office, you’re a corporate merger of style and substance, flawlessly handling the most difficult clients or performing...

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book The Catholic Girl's Guide to Sex
Written by Melinda Anderson and Kathleen Murray
Illustrated by Alli Arnold


Humor | Broadway | Trade Paperback
September 2003 | $11.95 | 978-0-7679-1303-4 (0-7679-1303-5)

The essential handbook for managing your morals the modern way

You don’t have to be Catholic to feel a twinge of concern when your love life gets too lively—but it helps. Melinda Anderson and Kathleen Murray to the rescue! They provide guidance from your first impure thoughts to the day you cash...

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