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1	Family: The Ties That Bind-- And Gag! more books like this by Erma Bombeck add to wishlist Bombeck discusses raising a family, a subject she brings up with more fun and feeling than anyone else around. Spouses, offspring, domestic guests and pets--Erma Bombeck sends up family life with typical Bombeck bravura! see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home more books like this by Erma Bombeck add to wishlist Erma Bombeck takes her show on the road in this book about family travel. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits?: Bestselling Author of Family--The Ties That Bind...and Gag! more books like this by Erma Bombeck add to wishlist "See if you can read a paragraph without laughing out loud."Art BuchwaldThe enchanting lady of laughter has done it again--this time taking a hilarious swipe at husbands, honeymoons, tennis elbow, marriage, lettuce, the national anthem, and a host of other domestic dilemmas."It's fun from cover to cover."THE HARTFORD COURANT see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.24! \| SVS
4	All I Know about Animal Behavior I Learned in Loehmann's Dressing Room more books like this by Erma Bombeck add to wishlist Erma Bombeck studied human nature the way Jane Goodall studies chimps, until "...the breakthrough hit me like a bolt. Jane and I were studying the same species." Each chapter of this book is headed by an observation on animal behavior, foregrounding Bombeck's comments on older women having babies, men who can't ask for directions, alternative ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession more books like this by Erma Bombeck add to wishlist Erma Bombeck views motherhood with warmth, humor, insight, and compassion. She rescues motherhood from the unreal realm of cliche, myth, and make-believe. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.69! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing from America's Favorite Humorist more books like this by Erma Bombeck, Alan McDermott (Foreword by), Donna Martin (Foreword by) add to wishlist Readers around the world loved Erma Bombeck and cherished every one of her columns. "Forever, Erma", a collection of columns dating from her first in January 1965 to her last in April 1996, also includes a tribute chapter with remembrances from some of Erma's family, friends and colleagues, and will give fans a classic way to hold on to this most ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Best of Bombeck more books like this by Erma Bombeck add to wishlist Here in one volume are three of Bombeck's hilarious books on family humor. Includes At Wit's End, "Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!" and I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression.544 pp. 6 x 9. Orig. 3 vols. $26.85. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Aunt Erma's Cope Book more books like this by Erma Bombeck add to wishlist "Her audience is everyone who has ever married, had children, gotten to middle age, owned a dog or a duck." DALLAS TIMES HERALD In this book Erma comes out--out of the kitchen--with these gems:No longer will she be the only woman on the block to wear a slip under a see-through sweater, or feel guilty if the sun sets on an empty crockpot, nor will ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.83! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank more books like this by Erma Bombeck add to wishlist "She is marvelously funny, direct as a hypodermic, a virtuoso in the field of suburban living....Lovely stuff."VOGUEIt's the expose to end all exposes--the truth about the suburbs: where they planted trees and crabgrass came up, where they planted the schools and taxes came up, where they died of old age trying to merge onto the freeway and where ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.37! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Four of a Kind: A Treasury of Favorite Works by America's Best-Loved Humorist more books like this by Erma Bombeck add to wishlist Here is a feast of the wit and wisdom of Erma Bombeck. Includes The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank, If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries--What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Aunt Erma's Cope Book and Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.50! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Forever Erma: Best-Loved Writing from America's Favorite Philosopher more books like this by Erma Bombeck add to wishlist A collection of more than 120 essays spanning 25 years, from the woman who specialized in finding the humor in everyday life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression more books like this by Erma Bombeck add to wishlist "A truly wise and funny woman; a laugh-till-you cry book." LIBRARY JOURNAL Erma Bombeck has learned a few things about children and family over the years--and in a way that is uniquely and wonderfully her own, she shares everything she knows with her readers. Whether it's cleaning up after the kids and him, or expendable mothers-in-law, Erma ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13	If Life is a Bowl of Cherries-What Am I Doing in the Pits? more books like this by Erma Bombeck add to wishlist America's best-loved humorist chronicles all aspects of raising a family--andhow to survive it. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.31! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own! more books like this by Erma Bombeck add to wishlist " She goes a long way with her book to prove that humor is the best -- possibly the only -- way to keep the world on an even keel." 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 Bob Keane, these really funny, too-true ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.77! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Eat Less Cottage Cheese and More Ice Cream: Thoughts on Life from Erma Bombeck more books like this by Erma Bombeck add to wishlist In 1979, someone asked humorist Erma Bombeck, "If you had your life to live over, would you change anything'" Her immediate answer was no, but once she thought about it, she changed her mind. The result was a classic column full of Bombeck"s signature wit and warmth. Now the beloved column that has hung on hundreds of refrigerator doors has been ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.60! \| SVS
16	I Want to Grow Hair, I Want to Grow Up, I Want to Go to Boise: Children Surviving Cancer more books like this by Erma Bombeck add to wishlist America's favorite family writer presents a warm, important book about children surviving cancer. Using the children's own observations and illustrations, Bombeck will move you with tales of the hope, love and innocence of childhood. Harper & Row. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17	A Marriage Made in Heaven-- more books like this by Erma Bombeck add to wishlist Irresistible Force met Immovable Object in 1949 when Erma and Bill Bombeck married. From their canned chili days of "Living on Love" to "Creative Arguing" to "For Better or for Work", Erma serves up timeless tales of laughter and love that have defined couples since Adam and Eve. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	A Marriage Made in Heaven or Too Tired for an Affair more books like this by Erma Bombeck add to wishlist Bursting with all the humor and heart that made her classic Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession a 52-week bestselling phenomenon, this memoir of marriage is Erma Bombeck at her finest. Since 1949, her life with husband Bill has unfolded in a universal tale of love and laughter. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
19	Aunt Ermas Cope-2 by Erma Bombeck add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	When God Created Mothers more books like this by Erma Bombeck add to wishlist When it first appeared in Erma Bombeck's Mother's Day column in 1974, When God Created Mothers was an instant success, clipped from newspapers, tucked into purses, and tacked onto refrigerators all over America. Now in this beautiful keepsake edition, Bombeck's moving words are paired with original art that bring to life the warm portrait of ... see all copies from $3.91! new only from $7.94! \| SVS
21 view cover	At Wits End more books like this by Erma Bombeck add to wishlist "America's irrepressible doyenne of domestic satire."THE BOSTON GLOBEMadcap, bittersweet humor in classic Erma Bombeck-style. You'll laugh until it hurts and love it! "Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet, he's treading water. What do you mean you're a participle in the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.24! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Four of a Kind: A Suburban Field Guide more books like this by Erma Bombeck add to wishlist Together for the first time--the late Erma Bombeck's observations on the hilarious aspects of family life. This four-in-one collection includes The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries--What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Aunt Erma's cope book and Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.22! \| first editions
23 view cover	Forever, Erma more books like this by Erma Bombeck add to wishlist A collection of more than 120 essays spanning 25 years, from the woman who specialized in finding the humor in everyday life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.95!
24	I Want to Grow Hair, I Want to Grow Up, I Want to Go to Boise more books like this by Erma Bombeck add to wishlist Imbued with Bombeck's trademark humor, this heartwarming look at children with cancer features the children's own observations. A poignant and touching recording. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.41! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Unplanned Parenthood:: The Confessions of a Seventy-Something Surrogate Mother more books like this by Liz Carpenter, Erma Bombeck (Introduction by) add to wishlist As a journalist and press secretary and staff director to Ladybird Johnson, Liz Carpenter witnessed firsthand many momentous events of history. Well into her seventies, Carpenter took on the task of bringing up three teenagers. Here is the story of how she and the kids survived it all and reaped the rewards that one generation can bestow on ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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