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The Book of Awesome: Snow Days, Bakery Air, Finding Money in Your Pocket, and Other Simple, Brilliant Things
$22.00 Add to cartBased on the award-winning 10-million-plus-hit blog 1000 Awesome Things, The Book of Awesome is an international bestselling high five for humanity and a big celebration of life’s little moments.
Some- Series: Book of Awesome
- Author: Pasricha, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0425238903
- Language: English
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
$19.99 Add to cartA recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of Naked, presents a collection of his strongest work yet, including the title story about his hilarious attempt to learn Frenc
- Author: Sedaris, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 05, 2001
- ISBN10: 0316776963
- Language: English
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Kerplunk!: Stories
$19.00 Add to cartPatrick F. McManus’s gently comic stories about outdoor life have earned him millions of fans worldwide. With Kerplunk!, McManus delivers a collection of folksy, wonderfully wise depictions of country… [more below]
- Author: McManus, Patrick F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0743280504
- Language: English
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From Woodstock to Wisdom: A Boomer’s Journey to 80
$27.95 Add to cartFrom Woodstock to Wisdom: A Boomer’s Journey to 80 is a smart, funny, and refreshing field guide to aging with purpose, humor, and visibility.
Written by one of the first Baby Boomers to reach 80, Vick
- Author: Thomas, Vicki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: January 18 2026
- ISBN10: 1977286178
- Language: English
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Real Life, Real Funny: The Way Maine Humor Should Be
$24.95 Add to cartTwenty-five famous Mainers share humorous stories of everyday life in and about the state of Maine. It’s homegrown humor laced with folksy wisdom in the tradition of John Gould and Marshall Dodge. Mai
- Author: Potholm, Chris P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1684752833
- Language: English
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I’m a Lot: Surviving Myself and All the People I’ve Been
$29.00 Read moreIn this witty, absurd, and surprisingly moving memoir-in-essays, comedian Alison Leiby unpacks the multitudes women are told to be–and the joy of refusing to pick just one.
Have you ever frozen when- Author: Leiby, Alison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 07 2026
- ISBN10: 059373162X
- Language: English
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Never Tell a Black Girl How to Black Girl: Essays
$30.00 Read moreAn irresistible delight, this hilarious and heartwarming essay collection gathers essential tales about growing up in the South, the pitfalls of date night, and why no one should ever tell a Black gir… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Amena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217044689
- Language: English
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Advice No One Asked for: Essays
$29.00 Read moreFrom the Emmy-nominated comedian who created “the best segment in late night” (Vulture) comes this hilarious and practical collection of advice for how to live your best life in love, at work, and in … [more below]
- Author: Hagel, Jenny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1668079615
- Language: English
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The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank
$21.00 Add to cart“[Erma Bombeck] is marvelously funny, direct as a hypodermic, a virtuoso in the field of suburban living.”–Vogue
It’s the expos? to end all expos?s–the truth about the suburbs: where they planted t- Author: Bombeck, Erma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0345471725
- Language: English
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Colored People Time: A Case for (Casual) Rebellion
$28.00 Add to cartA celebration of tardiness through funny, revealing, and deeply thoughtful essays on the nature of time and collective memory
In Colored People Time, Manny Fidel explores how race, culture, and histor- Author: Fidel, Manny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0593730666
- Language: English
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No Dumb Questions: And All of Our Dumbest Answers
$30.00 Read moreJason and Travis Kelce–brothers, Super Bowl champions, and New Heights podcast hosts–tackle their first book, No Dumb Questions, where the 92%ers get in on the fun to ask questions about sports, sci
- Author: Kelce, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0063489570
- Language: English
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Adulting for Amateurs: Misadventures of a Geriatric Millennial
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the author of A Product of Genetics (and Day Drinking) comes a rowdy and hilarious new collection of essays on life as an elder millennial, filled with life lessons on everything from marriage to… [more below]
- Author: Gutierrez, Jess H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0593854896
- Language: English
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Inspiration Porn: Essays
$28.00 Read moreHilarious and bawdy musings on disability, sex, family, and Hollywood, from Emmy-winning writer and creator of the Netflix series Special.
For years, Ryan O’Connell wished he was different. Raised in a- Author: O’Connell, Ryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 1250376246
- Language: English
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The Land and Its People: Essays
$32.00 Read more“Sedaris is the standard against which all other humor essayists are judged, the overwhelming heavyweight of the genre.” —Vulture
In his long-awaited new essay collection, David Sedaris reflects on- Author: Sedaris, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 0316607339
- Language: English
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The Land and Its People: Essays
$30.00 Read more“Sedaris is the standard against which all other humor essayists are judged, the overwhelming heavyweight of the genre.” —Vulture
In his long-awaited new essay collection, David Sedaris reflects on- Author: Sedaris, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 0316264830
- Language: English
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Read This to Look Cool: Essays and Overthinkings
$18.99 Add to cartThis book won’t fix you, but imagine how cool you’ll look carrying it around…
Maeve Dunigan has poured a lifetime of effort into seeming effortlessly chill. The results have been … mixed. Nonethele
- Author: Dunigan, Maeve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1464220441
- Language: English
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In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks: . . . And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy
$20.00 Add to cartA couple years back, I was at the Phoenix airport bar. It was empty except for one heavy-set, gray bearded, grizzled guy who looked like he just rode his donkey into town after a long day of panning f
- Author: Carolla, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 17 2011
- ISBN10: 0307717380
- Language: English
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The End of My Life Is Killing Me: The Unexpected Joys of a Cancer Slacker
$27.99 Add to cartA book of small rescues against despair.
In this deftly comedic and deeply contemplative memoir, the New York Times bestselling author faces life’s biggest curveball only to find resilience in the mos- Author: Gurwitch, Annabelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1968506063
- Language: English
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Thinky Thoughts: All Grown Up and Still Just as Confused
$30.00 Add to cartInstant New York Times bestselling author Gwenna Laithland, aka Momma Cusses, is back with a collection of Thinky Thoughts (essays, memories, poems and more!) perfect for readers of Jenny Lawson, Sam
- Author: Laithland, Gwenna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1250390028
- Language: English
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Where Are the Horses?: A Canter Through COVID-19
$15.95 Add to cartAmidst the pandemic’s devastation and political unrest, these short essays and lyrics offer a raw exploration of daily fears and emotions. As the narrative unfolds, the reader is transported to the wa
- Author: Scagliola, James Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: November 08 2025
- ISBN10: 9798896175971
- Language: English
