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  In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks: . . . And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy

  by Adam Carolla

  In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks is Adam Carolla's comedic gospel of modern America. In his signature balls-out style, Carolla rips into the absurdity of the culture that made Steve Miller a rock star, demonized the peanut butter and jelly sandwich, turned the nation's bathrooms into a lawless free-for-all of urine and fecal matter, and put its citizens at the mercy of a bunch of minimum wagers with axes to... (more)
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  From Bauhaus to Our House

  by Tom Wolfe

  Walter Groppius, granddaddy of steel and glass, conceived his architectural vision in the rubble of WW I and the decadence of Weimar in the decade after. His doctrine found fertile soil in America, where it was time to adopt a clearly defined and suitable representative architecture. Tom Wolfe, author of THE PAINTED WORD and THE RIGHT STUFF, treats us to a chronicle of the trends that ultimately brought us... (more)
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  The Oral History of Buster Casey

  by Chuck Palahniuk

  “Like most people I didn’t meet Rant Casey until after he was dead. That’s how it works for most celebrities: After they croak, their circle of friends just explodes.…” Rant is the mind-bending new novel from Chuck Palahniuk, the literary provocateur responsible for such books as the generation-defining classic Fight Club and the pedal-to-the-metal horrorfest Haunted . It takes the form of an oral history... (more)
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  Notes From Underground

  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  Notes from Underground (Russian: Записки из подполья, Zapiski iz podpol'ya), also translated in English as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, though Notes from Underground is the most literal translation (1864) is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Although Søren Kierkegaard is considered the father of existentialism, he mostly wrote non-fictional philosophical and theological treatises,... (more)
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  The Great Ship: Book 1

  Marrow

  by Robert Reed

  The Ship has traveled the universe for longer than any of the near-immortal crew can recall, its true purpose and origins unknown. It is larger than many planets, housing thousands of alien races and just as many secrets. Now one of those secrets has been discovered: at the center of the Ship is . . . a planet. Marrow. But when a team of the Ship's best and brightest are sent down to investigate, will they... (more)
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  Dear American Airlines

  by Jonathan Miles

  Sometimes the planes don't fly on time. Bennie Ford, a fifty-three-year-old failed poet turned translator, is traveling to his estranged daughter's wedding when his flight is canceled. Stuck with thousands of fuming passengers in the purgatory of O'Hare airport, he watches the clock tick and realizes that he will miss the ceremony. Frustrated, irate, and helpless, Bennie does the only thing he can: he starts to... (more)
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  Why We Suck

  A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid

  by Denis Leary

  A hilarious blast of scathing irreverence from the award-winning actor and comedian . “A pissed off Leary is the best Leary,” says one critic of the writer and comic. In Why We Suck , Dr. Denis Leary uses his common sense, and his biting and hilarious take on the world, to attack the politically correct, the hypocritical, the obese, the thin--basically everyone who takes themselves too seriously. He does so with... (more)
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  Idiot America

  How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free

  by Charles P. Pierce

  The Culture Wars Are Over and the Idiots Have Won! A veteran journalist's acidically funny, righteously angry lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States. In the midst of a career-long quest to separate the smart from the pap, Charles Pierce had a defining moment at the Creation Museum in Kentucky, where he observed a dinosaur. Wearing a saddle.... But worse than this was when the... (more)
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  From Bauhaus to Our House

  In this book Tom Wolfe traces the roots of the modern architectural movement and suggests ideas for its future. He asks why we have not got the architecture we deserve, and launches an attack on the hideous follies of modern architecture.
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  Relentless

  by Bill Hicks

  BRAND NEW, Factory Sealed items direct from the Studios. 30 Day Satisfaction Guarantee. Quick International Airmail!
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  More Napalm & Silly Putty

  by George Carlin

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  Impostors in the temple

  by Martin Anderson

  A provocative expose+a7 of the decaying moral and intellectual state of American colleges and universities links problems in higher education to university faculties, trustees, and administrations, and explains how to enhance quality education. 15,000 first printing.