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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
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David Sedaris
Another collection by bestselling satiric essayist David Sedaris, author of NAKED and ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY and frequent contributor to the public radio show THIS AMERICAN LIFE. Some of the essays are in the laugh-out-loud vein to which Sedaris fans are accustomed, including an over-the-top look at Dutch Christmas traditions, and Sedaris's ...
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Holidays on Ice
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David Sedaris
This wonderfully subversive holiday gift package reprints Sedaris' deliciously acerbic short story "The Santaland Diaries" and combines it with two equally sardonic Sedaris Christmas classics plus an all-new holiday tale. For everyone who's had enough of the forced good cheer, family madness, and commercial overkill of Christmas, "Holiday on Ice" ...
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Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: A Collection of Modern Tales for Our Life and Times
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James Finn Garner
This is an original and humorous adaptation of classic bedtime stories to reflect more enlightened times. Garner removes any and all types of bias from these traditionally offensive tales and attempts to develop meaningful literature free from the influences of a flawed cultural past.
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Thurber Carnival
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James Thurber
A series of small plays, several of which are adaptations from previously published work. As a performance, "A Thurber Carnival" won a Tony in 1960. Thurber himself appeared in the 1960 production, playing himself, for a total of 88 performances.
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Once Upon a More Enlightened Time More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
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James Finn Garner
Another enlightened collection from the bestselling author of Politically Correct Bedtime Stories. Garner continues his mission to liberate our classic fairy tales from archaic, sexist, ageist, classist, lookist, and environmentally unsound prejudices with a new collection of humorous tales for readers of evolved consciousness. 13 line drawings.
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There's a hair in my dirt : a worm's story
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Gary Larson
Gary Larson, of The Far Side fame, offers the tale of an earthworm who is sick and tired of being a worm. The final straw is a hair in his dirt dinner! The ecological tale that ensues, incorporating environmental lessons and a less-than-intelligent maiden, shows that nature is something to be preserved, enjoyed, understood, and respected. To be ...
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Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
This comprehensive volume of all of Twain's shorter works is representative of his vast humor and wit. "The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain" includes the following tales: The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The Story of the Bad Little Boy, Cannibalism in the Cars, A Day at Niagara, Legend of the Capitoline Venus, Journalism in ...
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Politically Correct Holiday Stories: For an Enlightened Yuletide Season
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James Finn Garner, James F Gardner
James Finn Garner rewrites holiday tales such as "A Christmas Carol," "The Story of Hanukkah," and "Twas the Night Before Christmas."
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Diaries of Adam and Eve
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Mark Twain
A facsimile edition of the complete works of Mark Twain. Each volume contains the original illustrations found in the first American edition, together with an essay by a prominent Twain scholar and a forward composed by a well-known writer such as Gore Vidal or George Plimpton.
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Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories: And Other Disasters
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Jean Shepherd
A witty and affectionate look at teenage survival in the Midwest from popular humorist Jean Shepherd.
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Happy to Be Here
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Garrison Keillor
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A Hatful of Seuss: Five Favorite Dr. Seuss Stories
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Dr Seuss, Seuss
This elegantly antic anthology, a companion to "Six By Seuss", consists of complete versions of "Bartholomew and the Oobleck, If I Ran the Zoo, Horton Hears a Who!, The Sneetches and Other Stories", and "Dr. Full color.
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Leaving Home
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Garrison Keillor
Thirty-six monologues from Keillor's radio show A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION, plus "A Letter from Copenhagen," in which Keillor discusses his disaffection with celebrity and the big city encroaching on his hometown.
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Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life & Times
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James Finn Garner
A hilarious send-up of Political Correctness--in fractured fairy tale form--for our time. "Happily ever after" will never be the same.
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The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories
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Mark Twain
Includes 4 memorable selections spanning the career of famed American humorist: "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," "The 1,000,000 Bank Note," "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," and "The Mysterious Stranger."
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The Politically Correct Ultimate Storybook: Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, Politically Correct Holiday Stories, Once Upon a More Enlightened Tim
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James Finn Gardner, James Finn Garner
James Finn Garner wowed the world when he wrote Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, which sold nearly 2 million copies, and then followed it up with two books with the same theme, Politically Correct Holiday Stories and Once Upon An Enlightened Time; the three books together sold nearly 3.5 million copies in the U.S. and were translated into 20 ...
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5 Novels: Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars; Slaves of Spiegel; The Last Guru; Young Adult Novel; The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Jules Feiffer (Foreword by)
The complete text of five novels by the popular author together in one volume. Selections include ALAN MENDELSOHN: THE BOY FROM MARS, SLAVES OF SPIEGEL, THE LAST GURU, YOUNG ADULT NOVEL, and THE SNARKOUT BOYS AND THE AVOCADO OF DEATH.
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Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories
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Garrison Keillor
Thirty-six monologues from Keillor's radio show A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION, plus "A Letter from Copenhagen," in which Keillor discusses his disaffection with celebrity and the big city encroaching on his hometown.
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My World & Welcome to It
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James Thurber
The world of Thurber is splendidly sampled in these thirty stories, sketches, and articles that range from the wildest comedy to the serious business of murder. Animal courtship, maids, Macbeth, baseball, sailing, marriage-all fall within Thurber's scope. Drawings by the Author.
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The Ferrari in the Bedroom
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Jean Shepherd
Twenty-one satirical stories and essays concerning the foibles, disasters, and triumphs of twentieth-century American life.
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Complete Humorous Sketches and Tales of Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
"This is the first and most complete collection of all 136 humorous sketches and tales that Samuel Clemens (1835-1910), a.k.a. Mark Twain, started writing as a young reporter for various newspapers and"
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Tales from Sawyerton Springs
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Andy Andrews (Introduction by)
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
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Anita Loos
Edith Wharton called this "the great American novel." It's the story in diary form of the shameless gold-digger Lorelei Lee of Little Rock, who carouses through Europe, charming every man she meets from the Prince of Wales to "Doctor Froyd." Then she returns home to marry an American millionaire. This delightfully nutty novel was made into a ...
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Sketches: New & Old
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Mark Twain
A facsimile edition of the complete works of Mark Twain. Each volume contains the original illustrations found in the first American edition, together with an essay by a prominent Twain scholar and a forward composed by a well-known writer such as Gore Vidal or George Plimpton.
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Fractured Fairy Tales
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A J Jacobs
Long before there were "Politically Correct Bedtime Stories", Americans were getting their giggles from "Fractured Fairy Tales", a regular feature on "Rocky and Bullwinkle" in the 1960s. Now, for the first time, these delightfully warped parables are available in read-aloud book form, illustrated with classic art from the show.
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