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  Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up

  by Dave Barry

  You can't make this stuff up! Dave Barry would never lie--and here are the real life, laugh-out-loud stories from across America to prove it: a U.S. Supreme Court justice shares his remedy for preventing gas ("I had not realized that this was a matter of concern in the highest levels of government"); a newspaper headline in Ohio announces the combustibility of strawberry Pop-Tarts ("A story that can really help... (more)
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  Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

  by Dave Barry

  WHEN DAVE BARRY IS ON THE LOOSE, NO ONE IS SAFE! What Dave Barry did for the men's movement in his Complete Guide to Guys and for foreign relations when he did Japan he now does for . . . everything in America. The rapacious observer of Tupperware ladies and leisure concept salesmen sounds off on: Football--Football is more than just a game. It is a potential opportunity to see a live person lying on the ground... (more)
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  Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down

  by Dave Barry

  Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry is a pretty amiable guy. But lately, he’s been getting a little worked up. What could make a mild-mannered man of words so hot under the collar? Well, a lot of things–like bad public art, Internet millionaires, SUVs, Regis Philbin . . . and even bigger problems, like • The slower-than-deceased-livestock left-lane drivers who apparently believe that the right lane is... (more)
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  Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus

  by Dave Barry

  Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, bestselling author, and Wheel of Fortune contestant Dave Barry exposes the shattering truth. Whether he's splashing with the U.S. sychronized swim team ("Picture a bunch of elegant swans swimming with a flailing sea cow") or reliving the Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving ("We've decided to obliterate your culture, but first may we try the stuffing?"), Dave Barry proves that one man... (more)
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  Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, But Some Actual Journalism from Dave Barry

  by Dave Barry

  The New York Times calls him “the funniest man in America,” and his legions of fans agree, laughing and snorting as they put his books on bestseller lists nationwide. In Boogers Are My Beat , Dave gives us the real scoop on: • The scientific search for the world’s funniest joke (you can bet it includes the word “weasel”) • RV camping in the Wal-Mart parking lot • Outwitting “smart” kitchen appliances and... (more)
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  Dave Barry's Bad Habits

  A 100% Fact-free Book

  by Dave Barry

  A collection of columns by the author of Dave Barry Does Japan offers the humorist's profound observations on the institutions and mores of American society, from smoking to the battle of the sexes. Reissue. 125,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. Tour.
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  The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

  by Erma Bombeck

  "She is marvelously funny, direct as a hypodermic, a virtuoso in the field of suburban living....Lovely stuff." VOGUE It'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 they finally got sex out of the schools and back into the gutters. (more)
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  Dave Barry Talks Back

  by Dave Barry

  Yet another collection of Barry wit and wisdom by the Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist and the author of Dave Barry Turns 40. Reprint. NYT. 100,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo.
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  Buurtgeluiden

  by Martin Bril

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  Kick Ass: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen

  by Carl Hiaasen

  Readers who love Carl Hiaasen's off-the-wall novels won't want to miss this outrageous, eclectic collection of his notorious Miami Herald columns. His unique and passionate essays prove that the facts can indeed be stranger than fiction...
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  How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)

  The World According to Ann Coulter

  by Ann Coulter

  Welcome to the world of Ann Coulter. With her monumental bestsellers Treason , Slander , and High Crimes and Misdemeanors , Coulter has become the most recognized and talked-about conservative intellectual in years—and certainly the most controversial. Now, in How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) , which is sure to ignite impassioned debate, she offers her most comprehensive analysis of the American... (more)
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  Aunt Erma's Cope Book

  by Erma Bombeck

  "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 she care that she flunked her paper towel test. Our Erma is on her... (more)
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  Dingen die fijn zijn

  by Claudia de Breij

  Claudia de Breij schrijft. Over dingen die fijn zijn, en over dingen die dat niet zijn, maar waar - door erover te schrijven - toch nog iets van te maken valt. Over vakanties van vroeger, en dat die jaren duurden. Over neven, zwagers en ooms, en hoe vertederend bezweet die zijn als ze op je bruiloft om half twaalf eindelijk de dansvloer op durven. Over vreemd- en over doodgaan. Over waarom ze houdt van het... (more)
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  Reflections on Motherhood

  by Karen Fowler

  A collections of essays, short fiction, poetry and a novella-- all about the various aspects of Motherhood. This book contains: Introduction Preconceived: a Poem Watermarked Dreams: An Essay Vignette: Morning Chaos (short fiction) The SAHM I AM: An Essay Blessings: a Poem Back to Back Babies: Coping with the Daily Stress: An Article Cultivating a Rose, Instead of a Weed (or Attempting to Raise a Daughter) Why I... (more)
• My Oregon IIBob Welch

  

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  My Oregon II

  by Bob Welch

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  Sachin Genius Unplugged

  by Suresh Menon

  Sachin Tendulkar has made poets of prose writers even if his strokeplay has demontrated the futility of conveying in words the brilliance of his batsmanship. As R C Robertson-Glasgow said in another context, he was "easy to watch, difficult to bowl to and impossible to write about." In this collection of essays by some of the finest writers on cricket, the attempt is not so much to pin Sachin down as to let him... (more)
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  Omdat jij mijn beste vriend bent

  by Youp van 't Hek

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  A thousand and one afternoons in Chicago

  by Ben Hecht

  In 1921, Ben Hecht wrote a column for the Chicago Daily News that his editor called “journalism extraordinary; journalism that invaded the realm of literature.” Hecht’s collection of sixty-four of these pieces, illustrated with striking pen drawings by Herman Rosse, is a timeless caricature of urban American life in the jazz age, updated with a new Introduction for the twenty-first century. From the glittering... (more)
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  Lábujjhegyen, történetek útközben

  by Schaffer Erzsébet

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  And the crowd goes wild : sports writing from the New Yorker

  by David Remnick

  For more than eighty years, The New Yorker has been home to some of the toughest, wisest, funniest, and most moving sportswriting around. Featuring brilliant reportage and analysis, profound profiles of pros, and tributes to the amateur in all of us, The Only Game in Town is a classic collection from a magazine with a deep bench. Including such authors as Roger Angell and John Updike, both of them synonymous... (more)