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The Audacity of Hope
by Barack Obama

My Life as a Furry Red Monster
by Kevin Clash and Gary Brozek

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Rachael Ray 2,4,6,8
by Rachael Ray

Christmas Carol Audio
by Charles Dickens and read by Jim Dale

Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
by Bethesda Softworks

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H.R.H.
by Danielle Steel

Flags of our Fathers
by James Bradley with Ron Powers

Christmas in Camelot
by Mary Pope Osborne

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Green Eggs and Ham Cookbook
by Georgeanne Brennan

Fodor's Hawaii 2007
by Fodor's

Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess -- Collector's Edition
by David Hodgson and Stephen Stratton

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Skipping Christmas
by John Grisham

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The Zombie Survival Guide

The Zombie Survival Guide
Written by Max Brooks

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Price: $13.95

The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to... Read more >

Ask a Ninja Presents The Ninja Handbook

Ask a Ninja Presents The Ninja Handbook
Written by Douglas Sarine and Kent Nichols

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Price: $14.95

DEADLY NINJA WISDOM FOR THE NON-NINJA

Carefully consider the joy of your soft-headed ignorance before you begin to run, flip, and jump along the Ninja Path.
  
After much debate and in a spirit of morbid amusement, the International Order of Ninjas has chosen to produce The Ninja Handbook, the first-ever secret ninja training... Read more >

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Jeff Foxworthy's Complete Redneck Dictionary

Jeff Foxworthy's Complete Redneck Dictionary
Written by Jeff Foxworthy

Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Price: $20.00

There’s no such thing as too much redneck. And it’s easy to understand why. A veritable gumbo of indigenous ingenuity, this deliciously distinct dialect rolls off the tongue like drool in the presence of a barbecue sandwich. Now, just in time for no time in particular, Jeff Foxworthy’s three bestsellers are... Read more >

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Disquiet, Please!

Disquiet, Please!
Edited by David Remnick and Henry Finder

Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
Price: $30.00

The New Yorker is, of course, a bastion of superb essays, influential investigative journalism, and insightful arts criticism. But for eighty years, it’s also been a hoot. In fact, when Harold Ross founded the legendary magazine in 1925, he called it “a comic weekly,” and while it has grown into much... Read more >

Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.
The Book of Animal Ignorance

The Book of Animal Ignorance
Written by John Mitchinson and John Lloyd

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Price: $19.95

Fast on the heels of the New York Times bestseller The Book of General Ignorance comes The Book of Animal Ignorance, a fun, fact-filled bestiary that is sure to delight animal lovers everywhere. Arranged alphabetically from aardvark to worm, here are one hundred of the most interesting members of the animal... Read more >

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Too Fat to Fish

Too Fat to Fish
Written by Artie Lange and Anthony Bozza
Foreword by Howard Stern


Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Price: $24.95

Outrageous, raw, and painfully funny true stories straight from the life of the actor, comedian, and much-loved cast member of The Howard Stern Show—with a foreword by Howard Stern.

When Artie Lange joined the permanent cast of The Howard Stern Show in 2001, it was possibly the greatest thing ever to happen...

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The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes

The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes
Written by McSweeney's

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Price: $12.95

As John Hodgman says in this book's introduction, “We all know that books are funny. First, they are made of paste and cloth, which is funny, as is the fact that people still buy and read them.” With that in mind, the McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes collects the best... Read more >

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The Downhill Lie

The Downhill Lie
Written by Carl Hiaasen

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Price: $22.00

Ever wonder how to retrieve a sunken golf cart from a snake-infested lake? Or which club in your bag is best suited for combat against a horde of rats? If these and other sporting questions are gnawing at you, The Downhill Lie, Carl Hiaasen’s hilarious confessional about returning to the fairways... Read more >

Camp Camp

Camp Camp
Written by Roger Bennett and Jules Shell

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Price: $24.95

Dear Former Campers,

Do you recall your glory days at summer camp as some of the best months of your life? Was your camp experience

*OK
*fun
*bunktastic!

When you think about camp, what are your best memories?

*singing "If I Had a Hammer" around the campfire
*winning color war two years in a row
*getting to third base... Read more >

Cringe

Cringe
Written by Sarah Brown

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Price: $22.95

Did you keep a diary during your teen years? Do you have a box of loopy-cursive, never-sent notes to your crush? Or some overwrought poetry about your bleak existence? An unfinished rockopera? Well, you’re not alone, and in Cringe, you’ll find a reason to unearth your adolescent angst and have a... Read more >

Peanuts

Peanuts
Written by Charles M. Schulz

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Price: $29.95

This beautiful album will dazzle fans of Charles M. Schulz and his art, providing an unprecedented look at the work of the most brilliant and beloved cartoonist of the twentieth century. Here is the whole gang–Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Snoopy, Peppermint Patty, Schroeder, Pig-Pen, and all the others from the original... Read more >

Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.
I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It

I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It
Written by Rita Rudner

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Price: $23.00

I bought a new wrinkle cream.
If you use it once a day, you look younger in a month.
Twice a day, you look younger in two weeks.
I ate it.

As the years go by, and the decades begin to pile up, people will do just about anything to reverse the signs... Read more >

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Clothing Optional

Clothing Optional
Written by Alan Zweibel

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Price: $22.00

“Garry, it’s Alan. Look, I’m calling because I just felt the need to tell someone that I’m forty-four years old, and about an hour ago, for the first time in my life, I put suntan lotion on my ass. I’ll explain later. Bye.”

In Clothing Optional, Alan Zweibel offers a collection... Read more >

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Free-Range Chickens

Free-Range Chickens
Written by Simon Rich

Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
Price: $17.00

In his riotous debut collection, Ant Farm, Simon Rich found humor in some of life’s most desperate situations. Now this former editor of The Harvard Lampoon and current writer for Saturday Night Live has returned to mine more comedy from our hopelessly terrifying world.

In the nostalgic opening chapter, Rich recalls his... Read more >

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