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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Train Tracks
Book Synopsis“A marvelous storyteller.”—The New Yorker“A blazing flamethrower of truth.”—Ted Nugent, Washington TimesA #1 New York Times bestselling author and superstar radio personality, Michael Savage is admired by millions for his tough talk and no-punches-pulled common sense about the state of our union and its leaders. In Train Tracks, a more personal side of Savage shines through in this marvelous collection of “American Stories for the Holidays.” Like Glen Beck’s blockbuster, The Christmas Sweater, Michael Savage’s poignant, personal stories of home, family, and the holidays will resonate with readers everywhere.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Love Illuminated Exploring Lifes Most Mystifying
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A provocative, insightful, and deeply humane meditation on 'life's most mystifying subject'... Jones ... proves an exceptional guide -- droll, compassionate, nonjudgmental -- through all of love's many phases." -- Elle
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HarperCollins Love Illuminated
Book SynopsisFrom the editor of the New York Times' popular "Modern Love" column—the inspiration for the anthology tv series starring Tina Fey, Andy Garcia, Anne Hathaway, Catherine Keener, Dev Patel, and John Slattery—the story of love from beginning to end (or not).Love.Trade Review"A provocative, insightful, and deeply humane meditation on 'life's most mystifying subject'... Jones ... proves an exceptional guide -- droll, compassionate, nonjudgmental -- through all of love's many phases." -- Elle
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc American Cornball
Book SynopsisAmerican Cornball is Christopher Miller''s irresistibly funny illustrated survey of popular humor—the topics that used to make us laugh, from hiccups and henpecked-husbands to outhouses and old maids—and what it tells us about our country yesterday and today.Why has our sense of humor changed over the years? Why did our grandparents think things like safes falling out of high windows or angry housewives waiting with rolling pins for their drunken husbands to come home were so funny? While we snicker at pop culture references, Americans in time past gravitated towards slapstick and jokes that...don''t seem so funny in retrospect.Miller revisits nearly 200 comic staples that have been passed down through our culture for generations, many originating from the vaudeville age. He explores the (often unseemly) contexts from which they arose, why they were funny in their time, and why they eventually lost their appeal. The result is a
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc American Cornball
Book SynopsisAmerican Cornball is Christopher Miller's irresistibly funny illustrated survey of popular humor—the topics that used to make us laugh, from hiccups and henpecked-husbands to outhouses and old maids—and what it tells us about our country yesterday and today.Miller revisits nearly 200 comic staples that have been passed down through our culture for generations, many originating from the vaudeville age. He explores the (often unseemly) contexts from which they arose, why they were funny in their time, and why they eventually lost their appeal. The result is a kind of taxonomy of humor during America's golden age that provides a deeper, more profound look at the prejudices, preoccupations, and peculiarities of a nation polarized between urban and rural, black and white, highborn and lowbrow.As he touches on issues of racism and sexism, cultural stereotypes and violence, Miller reveals how dramatically our moral sensibilities have shifted, most
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Why Unicorn Drinks
Book SynopsisIntroduces us to the true nature of unicorns, proving that they are not the majestic creatures we think they are. In this book, the author bravely delves even further into the emotional state of unicorns, where we learn what horrors lead Unicorn to drink, including: because Unicorn meat is a delicacy; and because weed isn't legal yet.
£11.55
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Montaigne in Barn Boots
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Happily Ali After
Book SynopsisThe actress, comedian, media darling, and New York Times bestselling author picks up where she left off in Ali in Wonderland, dissecting modern life—and this time, on a mission of self-improvement—in a series of laugh-out-loud comic vignettes.Moved by a particularly inspirational tweet one day, Ali Wentworth resolves to live by the pithy maxims she discovers in her feeds. What begins as a sort of self-help project quickly turns into something far grander—and increasingly funnier—as the tweets she once viewed with irony become filled with increasing metaphysical importance. And thus begins her “Unhappiness Project.”It’s not long before Ali expands her self-improvement quest to include parenting, relationship, fitness (or lack thereof), and dieting advice. The results are painfully (at times literally) clear: when it comes to self-help, sometimes you should leave it to the professionals.At once endearing
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Shake
Book SynopsisOffers a collection of sixty-one beguiling dogs caught in the most candid of moments: mid-shake. This volume will stop you dead in your tracks as you are presented with images of man's best friend caught in contortion: hair wild, eyes darting, ears and jowls flopping every which way.Trade ReviewShake, a new book from photographer Carli Davidson, highlights that lightning-fast moment when our four-legged friends dry themselves off, often in a slobber-filled tornado straight out of “Beethoven.” — Huffington Post In her new book Shake, shutterbug Carli Davidson uses … technology to demonstrate that [dogs use] their body parts [to] swing, sway and spin in beautiful, unexpected and hilarious ways. — New York Post ild hair, flopping ears, and jowls, oh my! Photographer Carli Davidson has managed to capture man’s best friend mid-shake, in all his canine glory, in a delightful photo series which has now become a book. — Good Morning America, GMA.com The photographs capture dogs mid-shake, with jowls flailing and eyes rolling , a motion that’s often too quick to catch with the naked eye. — Today.com Carli Davidson compiled the most stunningly adorable portraits of dogs doing the thing they do best: shaking it out. Get ready for a permanent smile…. — BuzzFeed Shake is an intriguing collection of photos of canines of all shapes and sizes in, well, midshake. The energy and expression in each … are captivating and often downright chuckle making. You may never look at Pawly D the same again. — Daily Candy The freeze-frame photos of these pooches—jowels flapping, fur flying—will be lapped up by dog devotees. — O, the Oprah Magazine In her new book Shake, shutterbug Carli Davidson uses … technology to demonstrate that [dogs use] their body parts [to] swing, sway and spin in beautiful, unexpected and hilarious ways. — The Oregonian
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc But You Like Really Dated The Celebropedia of
Book SynopsisA pop-culture compendium, in which an award-winning illustrator and web designer, takes on the strange, incestuous, gossip-fueled world of celebrity hookups.Trade Review"A hilarious visual breakdown of how much sex people who are prettier than me have and a brutal reminder of why I never want to be famous. I read this book and laughed and laughed. Then made some tea. It was a good day." -- Wylie Overstreet, author of The History of the World According to Facebook
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Bad Feminist
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc How to Honey Boo Boo
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc My Drunk Kitchen A Guide to Eating Drinking and
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Adventures of Mrs. Jesus
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Fat Girl Walking
Book SynopsisTold through a series of larger-than-life snapshots, a hilarious memoir in essays about love, sex, marriage, motherhood, bikinis, and loving your body, no matter what size you are from the acclaimed blogger and body image advocate.Brittany Gibbons has been a plus size her whole life. But instead of hiding herself in the shadows of thinner women, Brittany became a wildly popular blogger and national spokesmodel—known for stripping on stage at TedX and standing in Times Square in a bikini on national television, and making skinny people everywhere uncomfortable.Talking honestly about size and body image on her popular blog, brittanyherself.com, she has ignited a national conversation. Now in her first book, she shares hilarious and painfully true stories about her life as a weird overweight girl growing up in rural Ohio, struggling with dating and relationships, giving the middle finger to dieting, finding love with a man smaller than her, accidentally having three
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HarperCollins The Worlds Largest Man
Book SynopsisWinner of the Thurber Prize“How in the hell is this so funny one second and so heartbreaking the next? Harrison Scott Key examines the topic of fatherhood and sonhood with fresh, clear eyes. . . except wait, they’re not clear because they filled with tears, of laughter one second and sadness the next. I dare you to find a better way to spend the seconds and minutes and hours of your day than with this book.” — Tom Franklin, New York Times bestselling author of Crooked Letter, Crooked LetterThe riotous, tender story of a bookish Mississippi boy and his flawed, Bunyanesque father, told with the comic verve of David Sedaris and the deft satire of Mark Twain or Roy Blount, Jr.Harrison Scott Key was born in Memphis, but he grew up in Mississippi, among pious, Bible-reading women and men who either shot things or got women pregnant. At the center of his wor
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Shake Cats
Book SynopsisTrade Review"You may recognize Davidson's work from her previous portraits of shaking dogs and puppies. This new series proves to be equally humorous-if not more so..." -- This is Colossal "You will not be able to stop looking at these portraits of shaking cats." -- Mashable "...features photos of animals as they shake it off...the result is a hilarious series of expressions." -- Refinery29 "Watch out Shake Puppies. The new Shake Cats show how whipping your fur back and forth is really done." -- Cosmopolitan "Get ready, cat lovers! You fell in love with photographer Carli Davidson's Shake and Shake Puppies, and now you get to do it all over again with her newest book, Shake Cats!" -- Animal Planet's "Bites Blog" "Davidson not only snaps portraits of some of the most handsome felines around, she photographs them shaking their pristine bodies, sometimes feverishly and other times lazily, in what amounts to a laughably captivating photo series fit for Lil Bub. (No, really, she's in the series.)" -- Huffington Post "Davidson shows even cats like to shake it off sometimes." -- People "Cute cate alert! Check out these adorably weird photos of shaking felines." -- Fast Company's Co.Create "...here is a book for the cat lovers." -- San Antonio Express News "...captures cats cleaning or drying themselves off mid-shake, producing some pretty hilarious results." -- Buzzfeed "You have to see these 'Shake Cats' in action" -- Bust Magazine "will make a true cat fan purr." -- New York Post
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Awesome Sht My Drill Sergeant Said Wit and Wisdom
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Red vs. Blue The Ultimate Fan Guide
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe ultimate full-color illustrated companion to the award-winning, longest-running web series, Red vs. Blue-a parody of the military science fiction video game Halo hailed as "Clerks-meets-Star Wars." -- Village Voice
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Vargics Miscellany of Curious Maps
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Its Okay to Laugh
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER“Thank you for the perfect blend of nostalgia-drenched humor, wit, and heartbreak, Nora.” — Mandy Moorecomedy = tragedy + time/roséTwenty-seven-year-old Nora McInerny Purmort bounced from boyfriend to dopey “boyfriend” until she met Aaron—a charismatic art director and comic-book nerd who once made Nora laugh so hard she pulled a muscle. When Aaron was diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer, they refused to let it limit their love. They got engaged on Aaron’s hospital bed and had a baby boy while he was on chemo. In the period that followed, Nora and Aaron packed fifty years of marriage into the three they got, spending their time on what really matters: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, each other, and Beyoncé. A few months later, Aaron died in Nora’s arms. The obituary they wrote during Aaron’s hospice care revealing his true identity as Spider
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Feminist Fight Club
Book SynopsisNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2016 BY:Chicago Tribune, Refinery 29, Forbes, Bust, CEO ReadsPart manual, part manifesto, Feminist Fight Club is a hilarious yet incisive guide to navigating subtle sexism at work, providing real-life career advice and humorous reinforcement for a new generation of professional women.It was a fight club—but without the fighting and without the men. Every month, the women would huddle in a friend’s apartment to share sexist job frustrations and trade tips for how best to tackle them. Once upon a time, you might have called them a consciousness-raising group. But the problems of today’s working world are more subtle, less pronounced, harder to identify—and harder to prove—than those of their foremothers. These women weren’t just there to vent. They needed battle tactics. And so the fight club was born. Hard-hitting and entertaining, Femi
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Weddiculous An Unfiltered Guide to Being a Bride
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Buffering
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWith a New Afterword by the AuthorBy turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Hannah Hart’s new book is a roaring, beautiful, and profoundly human account of an extraordinary life.—John Green Hannah shares her truth with an honesty that is inspiring—one that makes me believe her when she says that it’s going to get better or that laughter is just around the corner or that you aren’t alone.—Jenny Lawson, #1 New York Timesbestselling author of Let''s Pretend This Never Happenedand Furiously Happy The wildly popular YouTube personality, star of Food Network''s I Hart Food, and author of the New York Times bestseller My Drunk Kitchen is back! This time, she’s stirring up memories and tales from her past.By combing through the jou
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Shake
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Everyones a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too A Book
Book Synopsis“Jomny Sun has created a frightened, hopeful view of Life As We Know It from the perspective of a weirdly relatable alien intelligence. Fantastic.” — Patton OswaltEveryone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too is the illustrated story of a lonely alien sent to observe Earth, only to meet all sorts of creatures with all sorts of perspectives on life, love, and happiness, all while learning to feel a little better about being an alien—based on the enormously popular Twitter account, @jonnysun.Here is the unforgettable story of Jomny, a lonely alien who, for the first time ever, finds a home on our planet after learning that earthlings can feel lonely too. Jomny finds friendship in a bear tired of other creatures running away in fear, an egg struggling to decide what to hatch into, an owl working its way to being wise, a tree feeling stuck in one place, a tadpole coming to terms with turning into a frog, a dying ghost, a puppy unable to express itself, and many more.Through this story of a lost, lonely and confused alien finding friendship, acceptance, and love among the creatures of Earth, we will all learn how to be a little more human. And for all of us earth-bound creatures here on this planet, we can all be reminded that sometimes, it takes an outsider to help us see ourselves for who we truly are.Trade Review“Jomny Sun’s incredible writing knocks you to the floor, breathless, then scoops you up and gives you a kiss where it hurts before it occurs to you to cry. Read this book only if you want to feel more alive.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda “Jomny Sun has created a frightened, hopeful view of Life As We Know It from the perspective of a weirdly relatable alien intelligence. Fantastic.” — Patton Oswalt Impressively sincere, at times insightful, and humorous…. Sun’s fans will welcome his first book with wild enthusiasm… — Library Journal
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Grand Dark
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Feminist Fight Club
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Blame It on Bianca del Rio
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Lose Well
Book SynopsisTrade Review“If anyone can get you to give your dreams an honest shot, it’s Chris Gethard, the king of somehow turning defeats into victories.” — JUDD APATOW, comedian, writer, and director “This is funny, sure, but it’s very much more. Chris speaks inspirational life truths to the outsider in all of us. A pithy road map of the antiestablishment path by which one can succeed in comedy and life. Gethard gets it.” — NICK OFFERMAN, actor, comedian, and author of the New York Times bestselling Paddle Your Own Canoe “I was on the altar of Chris Gethard’s wedding, when he was waiting a really long time for his bride to show up. Like, so long. I figured, based on his past life experiences, that it wasn’t going to end well. Anyway, that’s what this book is like.” — MIKE BIRBIGLIA, comedian, actor, and author of the New York Times bestselling Sleepwalk with Me—and Other Painfully True Stories “…Gethard’s writing style is effortless and enjoyable, and his beliefs are compassionate and encouraging. Fans will be thrilled to dive deeper into his life and work, and anyone else stuck in a rut will find permission to go out and try—and fail—as often and as well as possible.” — Publishers Weekly “Chris Gethard’s Lose Well will change the way you think about failure. It’s funny, heartfelt, and full of advice that every creative person needs to hear.” — Hello Giggles “…the sort of vulnerable, honest, and spoken-from-experience material that’s earned him such a strong online following… and qualifies him to write a book like Lose Well.“ — A/V Club
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc How Not to Get Shot And Other Advice From White
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS FINALISTHilarious yet soul-shaking. —Black EnterpriseThe fearless comedy legend—one of the “Original Kings of Comedy”—hilariously breaks down the wisdom of white people, advice that has been killing black folks in America for four hundred years and counting.200 years ago, white people told black folks, “‘I suggest you pick the cotton if you don’t like getting whipped.” Today, it’s “comply with police orders if you don’t want to get shot.” Now comedian/activist D. L. Hughley-one the Original Kings of Comedy-confronts and remixes white people’s “advice” in this “hilarious examination of the current state of race relations in the United States” (Publishers Weekly).In America, a black man is three t
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc How Not to Get Shot And Other Advice From White
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Great Gasbag
Book SynopsisOne of our most beloved comedians, the brilliantly witty and outspoken star of The View, hits the most unpopular President ever elected where it hurts—and makes us laugh and cheer—in this hilarious alphabetical guide to everything that’s wrong with the Orange One, Donald Trump.Put down the knife, lock away the gun, lay aside the noose, Joy Behar is here to save you from suicide as she hot walks you through the next four years (two if we are lucky, less if liberal dreams come true). Besides despair, the sane response to the insanity in the White House is laughter. On her hit ABC daytime show The View, Joy has been blunt in her condemnation of the comb over-in-chief, and her words have electrified and inspired millions in the resistance for whom #notmypresident has become a rallying cry.The Great Gasbag is Joy’s answer to the hell that is the Trump Orange House. Structured as an A-Z guide (G is for Gold . . . e
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HarperCollins Cartoon History of the United States Cartoon
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Abridged Classics
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewJohn Atkinson has illustrated and summarized the books you don’t want to read but nevertheless feel you should. — the Paris Review Turns out you can summarize Proust’s In Search of Lost Time with two pictures. — Lithub This book will appeal to people that read the New Yorker for the cartoons, or enjoy Tom Gauld’s reading-themed cartoons. — ComicsDC “Very funny stuff…There is a lot going on in Atkinson’s deceptively simple cartoons…and the magic is in how he achieves the maximum impact with as little as possible. So, it makes total sense for Atkinson to tackle some of the most celebrated books–with hilarious results.” — Comics Grinder He compiles super-succinct summaries of literary classics in the light-hearted, humorous style that his blog readers have grown to love. — Wordpress John Atkinson, is giving all book lovers a chuckle with his condensed literary classic cartoons, which include abbreviations of famous works of literature. — Buzzfeed
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Santas Husband
Book SynopsisTrade Review“A genuinely sweet story that depicts a sound, joyful marriage.” — Vice.com “We all know that Santa is white and heterosexual, right? Oh wait, he’s a magical imaginary fat dude who breaks into your house every year to leave your kids presents, he can be whatever you want him to be!” — Out.com “It’s the perfect gift for your racist/homophobic uncle!” — World of Wonder/WOW Report “[An] enlightened account of the Kris Kringle legend… [with] deftly rendered drawings.” — Edge Media Network
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc No Happy Endings
Book SynopsisThe author of It’s Okay to Laugh and host of the popular podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking—interviews that are “a gift to be able to listen [to]” (New York Times)—returns with more hilarious meditations on her messy, wonderful, bittersweet, and unconventional life.Life has a million different ways to kick you right in the chops. We lose love, lose jobs, lose our sense of self. For Nora McInerny, it was losing her husband, her father, and her unborn second child in one catastrophic year. But in the wake of loss, we get to assemble something new from whatever is left behind. Some circles call finding happiness after loss “Chapter 2”—the continuation of something else. Today, Nora is remarried and mothers four children aged 16 months to 16 years. While her new circumstances bring her extraordinary joy, they are also tinged with sadness over the loved ones she’s lost.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc I Really Didnt Think This Through
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc I Cant Wait to Cancel This
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Open Mic Night in Moscow And Other Stories from
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Trump Leaks The Onion Exposes the Top Secret
Book SynopsisHilarious and timely, a 4-color illustrated book from the Onion satirizing the Trump administration, based on the “Trump Leaks”—hundreds of memos, emails, letters “leaked” from the White House—with 30 pages of additional new material.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The White Mans Guide to White Male Writers of the
Book SynopsisSo instead of politely nodding along next time you make an acquaintance at a housewarming party in Brooklyn, you can roll up your sleeves and get to work schooling them in character arcs and the experimental form of your next great American novel.Trade Review"Schwartz gives her most famous creation, the Twitter parody account @GuyInYourMFA, free reign to speak his opinion in this hilarious book, cathartic for anyone who’s ever taken an English class. With characteristic conceitedness (which, of course, he’d deny he has), @GuyinYourMFA goes over the white male writers who have dominated curricula for all too long." — Refinery 29
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The History of the World According to Facebook
Book SynopsisTrade Review“I think Abraham Lincoln would find this book funny. Right after he decided Facebook was a huge waste of time.” — Justin Halpern, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sh*t My Dad Says
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Simpsons Comics Colossal Compendium Volume 7
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Pour One Out Cocktail Odes to TVs Most Dearly
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc More Than a Woman
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc It Devours Welcome to Night Vale
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens
Book SynopsisNeil Gaiman’s complete original scripts for the highly anticipated six-episode original series, adapted from the classic novel he wrote with Terry Pratchett.First published nearly thirty years ago, the novel Good Omens has sold more than five million copies worldwide and is beloved by Gaiman and Pratchett fans alike. Collected here are Neil Gaiman’s original scripts for the Good Omens television series, offering readers deeper insight into Gaiman’s brilliant new adaptation of a masterwork.A tale of good and evil and the end of the world, Good Omens stars Michael Sheen as the angel Aziraphale; David Tennant as the demon Crowley; and Jon Hamm as the archangel Gabriel, as well as Anna Maxwell Martin, Josie Lawrence, Adria Arjona, Michael McKean, Jack Whitehall, Miranda Richardson, and Nick Offerman.
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