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1	archy and mehitabel more books like this by Don Marquis add to wishlist The now classic tale of Archy the cockroach and Mehitabel the cat in her ninth life. First published in 1927, this free verse poem has become an esseantial part of American literature. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Crickwing more books like this by Janell Cannon add to wishlist Crickwing is an artistic cockroach who spends his days creating sculptures. But, because of his artistic nature and his cricked wing, Crickwing is a victim to all the bullies in the forest. Then one day Crickwing grows tired of being picked on and decides to pick on someone himself. Crickwing's victims are the leafcutter ants, but little does he ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale more books like this by Carmen Agra Deedy (Retold by), Michael Austin (Illustrator) add to wishlist Martina is a young cockroach who doesnt know coffee beans about love and marriage. Thats where her Cuban family comes in. While some of the Cucarachas offer her gifts to make her more attractive, only her grandmother gives her something really useful: some shocking advice. Full color. see all copies from $8.85! new only from $12.69! \| SVS
4	Maybelle in the Soup more books like this by Katie Speck, Paul Ratz de Tagyos (Illustrator) add to wishlist Maybelle is a lovely, plump cockroach. She lives in her own cozy little home under the refrigerator of Mr. and Mrs. Peabody. Maybelle knows it's best to stay hidden away, but she simply adores food. Just once she would love to taste something yummy before it hits the floor! When the Peabodys invite a Very Important Guest for dinner, Maybelle can ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $12.52! \| SVS
5	Kockroach more books like this by Tyler Knox add to wishlist It's the mid 1950s, and Kockroach lives in a fleabag hotel in New York, perfectly content with his life as an arthropod--until the night he awakens to discover that somehow he's become a human. Will he become an American success story or be squashed from above? see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Insect Dreams: The Half Life of Gregor Samsa more books like this by Marc Estrin add to wishlist Gregor Samsa, from Kafka's unforgettable METAMORPHOSES, is the hero of this debut novel, in which Gregor the cockroach, after a spell in a circus in Vienna, ends up in New York City as an insectoid superhero and inspires a dance, "the Gregor," that's as popular as the Charleston. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Roaches Have No King more books like this by Daniel Evan Weiss add to wishlist When Ira Fishblatt's girlfriend. Ruth Grubstein, moves into his apartment, he has the kitchen renovated to make her feel at home. She is tickled pink, but hundreds of other houseguests aren't - the cockroaches who'd been living high on the hog before they were starved out. Famine slowly drives them into a frenzy until one, named Numbers, comes up ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Smash Trash! more books like this by Laura Driscoll, Mario Cortes (Illustrator), Giorgio Vallorani (Illustrator) add to wishlist It's the 29th century. Earth has been abandoned, but one robot has been left behind to collect and condense trash. This book introduces early readers to Disney 2 Pixar's newest animated film coming to theaters on June 27. Full color. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
9	Martina the Beautiful Cockroach more books like this by Carmen Agra Deedy (Narrator) add to wishlist see all copies from $5.57! new only from $5.57! \| SVS
10	Lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel. more books like this by Don Marquis add to wishlist see all copies from $6.04! new only from $100.00! \| first editions
11	Big Surprise in the Bug Tank more books like this by Ruth Horowitz add to wishlist This Easy-to-Read follow-up to "Breakout at the Bug's Lab" finds brothers Sam and Leo trying to control their ever-multiplying giant roaches in this action-packed tale. Full color. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.15! \| SVS
12 view cover	Breakout at the Bug Lab more books like this by Ruth Horowitz, Joan Holub (Illustrator) add to wishlist Leo and his brother are fascinated by Max, a Madagascar cockroach kept in their mother's lab. But Max escapes on the very day their mother is having a party. Leo and his brother must find Max before he makes people scream--or worse. Full-color illustrations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
13 view cover	Archyology more books like this by Don Marquis, Jeff Adams (Editor), Ed Frascino (Illustrator) add to wishlist A whimsical and sophisticated sage, archy the cockroach entertained readers with icnonclastic observations on pretensions, politics, and our place in the cosmos during Marquis' career as a New York newspaper columnist in the 1920s and '30s. Featuring Ed Frascino's original illustrations, this collection of archy's "lost" tales reintroduces a ... see all copies from $3.10! new only from $9.44! \| first editions
14 view cover	Shoebag more books like this by Mary James add to wishlist Shoebag is a cockroach who awakens one morning to find that he has been transformed into a little boy. He fakes amnesia and is quickly accepted into the home of the Biddle family. Although human, Shoebag is still able to communicate with his cockroach family who also live in the Biddle house. The former insect reflects on being human and even ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $81.79! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Leo Cockroach: Toy Tester more books like this by Kevin O'Malley (Illustrator) add to wishlist Leo has a knack for knowing which toys will be hits with children. But Leo is a cockroach. And Ms. Splatt, CEO of Waddatoy Toys, despises cockroaches. Leo loves his work, but a close encounter with Ms. Splatt's shoe convinces him to seek employment elsewhere. So he flies across the street, only to be caught, caged and forced to work for Notsogouda ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Archyology II (the Final Dig): The Long Lost Tales of Archy and Mehitabel more books like this by Don Marquis, Jeff Adams (Editor), Ed Frascino (Illustrator) add to wishlist In this second and final volume "composed" by Archy, the literary cockroach, the wonderfully whimsical insect and his fractious feline friend, Mehitabel, engage in misadventures large and small and comment with quirky accuracy on the common state of humanity. 36 illustrations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $34.20! \| first editions
17 view cover	Wilky, the White House Cockroach more books like this by Howie Schneider add to wishlist When he stows away in a pizza box and winds up at the most famous address in the country, Wilky's first big adventure may turn out to be his last. Full color. see all copies from $6.29! new only from $7.67!
18 view cover	How the B-52 Cockroach Learned to Fly more books like this by Lisa Matsumoto, Michael Furuya (Illustrator) add to wishlist see all copies from $4.90! new only from $37.74! \| first editions
19 view cover	The Cockroaches of Stay More more books like this by Donald Harington add to wishlist Like most of Harington's fiction, this novel takes place in the imaginary town of Stay More, Arkansas. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Martina Una Cucarachita Muy Linda: Un Cuento Cubano more books like this by Carmen Agra Deedy, Michael Austin (Illustrator), Cristina De La Torre (Translator) add to wishlist Martina the beautiful cockroach doesnt know coffee beans about love and marriage. Thats where her Cuban family comes in. While some of the Cucarachas offer her gifts to make her more attractive, only Abuela, her grandmother, gives her something really useful: un consejo increible, some shocking advice. You want me to do what? Martina gasps. At ... see all copies from $12.69! new only from $12.69! \| SVS
21 view cover	La Metamorfosis more books like this by Franz Kafka add to wishlist In this, his most famous story, Kafka explores the notions of alienation and human loneliness. It is a work of extraordinary narrative technique and imagination. This unique edition also presents six of Kafka's lesser-known stories. Gregor Samsa awakens one morning to find himself transformed into a repulsive bug. Trapped inside this hideous form, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
22 view cover	Impetuous R., Secret Agent more books like this by Jane Leslie Conly, Bonnie Leick (Illustrator) add to wishlist Impetuous (Impy) Roach and his pals Shiny and Demo are pests. Or so the humans would have you think. They're young roaches, after all. The adult roaches don't seem to care much about their contributions either--at least not in important matters that concern the fate of their colony. But Pop's Diner, the roaches' only home for generations, is in ... see all copies from $3.65! new only from $3.75! \| SVS
23 view cover	The Way of the Cockroach: How Not to Be There When the Lights Come on and Nine Other Lessons on How to Survive in Business more books like this by Craig Hovey, PH.D. add to wishlist This is a sharp business parable, perfectly suited for today's corporate struggles. Business is an accelerated playground for Darwin's rules of evolutionary survival. Readers who employ the "rules of the roach" will fast-track to top dog in no time flat. A frustrated middle manager who has been ill-treated both at work, and in love, comes in early ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.29! \| first editions
24 view cover	Cockroaches more books like this by Jonathan Kravetz add to wishlist see all copies from $10.57!
25 view cover	American Cockroach more books like this by Catherine Chalmers (Photographer), Lyall Watson, Steve Baker add to wishlist Catherine Chalmers's second Aperture monograph invites us to meditate on the pleasures and terrors of the common domestic pest, "Periplaneta americana," also known as the American cockroach. In three different series of photographs, "Infestations," "Imposters" and "Executions," Chalmers challenges us to reconsider how we distinguish between creepy ... see all copies from $7.60! new only from $14.61! \| signed copies \| first editions

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