Form - Essays
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The Good Samaritan Strikes Again
$18.99 Add to cartWith “a style that brings to mind Mark Twain, Art Buchwald, and Garrison Keillor” (People), Patrick F. McManus delivers another stellar collection of witty cautionary tales of the great outdoors in Th
- Author: McManus, Patrick F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: August 15 1993
- ISBN10: 0805029222
- Language: English
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Kinky Friedman’s Guide to Texas Etiquette: Or How to Get to Heaven or Hell Without Going Through Dallas-Fort Worth
$16.99 Add to cartWell, butter my butt and call me a biscuit! Delivering belly laughs, hee-haws, and downright slackjaw amazement, this hilarious guide to the homeland of George W. and Willie Nelson is the essential ho
- Author: Friedman, Kinky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0060935359
- Language: English
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Idiot: Life Stories from the Creator of Help Helen Smash
$16.99 Add to cartFrom nationally bestselling author, YouTube star, and Facebook Video sensation Laura Clery comes a collection of comedic essays that paint “an honest, complicated portrait of how your life can change”… [more below]
- Author: Clery, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1982101954
- Language: English
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One Hairy Knee
$23.00 Add to cartOne Hairy Knee is the hilarious debut memoir from Amy Arndt, the kind of woman who keeps a razor in the console of her car because, inevitably, she’ll be driving to a meeting realizing she forgot to s
- Author: Arndt, Amy U.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1734129999
- Language: English
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Does That Mean I Fail? a Humorous Look at Pilot Checkrides
$14.00 Add to cartDoes That Mean I Fail?: A Humorous Look at Pilot Checkrides by Brooks Black As collection of humorous first-hand accounts of pilot check-rides, Does That Mean I Fail? is geared towards both pilots and… [more below]
- Author: Black, Brooks
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: May 01 2014
- ISBN10: 143493005X
- Language: English
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We’re Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle
$21.99 Add to cartWhy couldn’t the Sopranos survive living down South? Simple. You can’t shoot a guy full of holes after eating chicken and pastry, spoon bread, okra, and tomatoes.
What does a Southern woman consider g- Author: Rivenbark, Celia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2005
- ISBN10: 031231244X
- Language: English
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The Sh!t No One Tells You about Pregnancy: A Guide to Surviving Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Beyond
$15.99 Add to cartThe fourth book in Dawn Dais’s popular Sh!t No One Tells You series offers honest and “laugh out loud” (Parents) advice for expectant parents
Pregnancy is about more than scanning Pinterest for baby s- Series: Sh!t No One Tells You #4
- Author: Dais, Dawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1580056334
- Language: English
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Look Alive Out There: Essays
$19.00 Add to cartNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2018 by Entertainment Weekly, Glamour, Buzzfeed, Elle, Cosmopolitan, The Millions, InStyle, Bustle, BookRiot, and Southern Living
Sloane Crosley returns to the form tha- Author: Crosley, Sloane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1250310415
- Language: English
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Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living
$18.99 Add to cartWelcome to the unique world of Bailey White. Her aunt Belle may take you to see her bellowing pet alligator. Her uncle Jimbuddy may appall you with his knack for losing pieces of himself. Most of all,… [more below]
- Author: White, Bailey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0306818027
- Language: English
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The Thurber Carnival
$18.99 Add to cart“An authentic American genius. . . . Mr. Thurber belongs in the great lines of American humorists that includes Mark Twain and Ring Lardner.” –Philadelphia Inquirer
James Thurber’s unique ability to c
- Author: Thurber, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 19 2013
- ISBN10: 60932872
- Language: English
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Escape Into Meaning: Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions
$27.00 Add to cartProducer, editor, and writer behind the highly addictive, informative, and popular YouTube channel The Nerdwriter, Evan Puschak presents “a brilliant, wide-ranging essay collection that explores meani… [more below]
- Author: Puschak, Evan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 198216395X
- Language: English
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How to Weep in Public: Feeble Offerings on Depression from One Who Knows
$20.00 Add to cartThis darkly funny memoir from “one of the next great stars in comedy” (Mike Birbiglia) doesn’t offer help overcoming depression–just much-needed comfort, company, and tips for life inside the fog.
“No… [more below]- Author: Novak, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0804139709
- Language: English
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Into the Twilight, Endlessly Grousing
$18.99 Add to cartPatrick McManus offers wry observations about small-town life and curmudgeonly insists on bigger and bigger fish stories in this hilarious collection from one of the greatest contemporary humorists.
P- Author: McManus, Patrick F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 04 1998
- ISBN10: 068484799X
- Language: English
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If You Didn’t Bring Jerky, What Did I Just Eat: Misadventures in Hunting, Fishing, and the Wilds of Suburbia
$18.00 Add to cartWhether he is accidentally cooking his brain with hand warmers or yanking his lure away from a trophy fish just before it takes the bait, Bill Heavey can do no right. For almost a decade, he has chron… [more below]
- Author: Heavey, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0802143954
- Language: English
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Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America’s Gutsiest Troublemakers
$19.00 Add to cartThe star of Parks and Recreation, co-host of Making It, and author of the New York Times bestseller Paddle Your Own Canoe returns with a second book that humorously highlights twenty-one figures from … [more below]
- Author: Offerman, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0451473019
- Language: English
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Coyote V. Acme
$17.00 Read moreTwenty-two side-splitting glimpses into some oddball corners of the American mind from bestselling author Ian Frazier.
The title essay of Coyote v. Acme, Frazier’s second collection of humorous essay- Author: Frazier, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0312420587
- Language: English
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Playing Catch with Strangers: A Family Guy (Reluctantly) Comes of Age
$17.00 Add to cartNew York City essayist Bob Brody only recently reached a milestone long overdue — he’s shown signs of finally resembling a full-fledged adult. In vignettes by turns heartbreaking, harrowing and hilar
- Author: Brody, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: June 20 2017
- ISBN10: 1942762399
- Language: English
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East Side Story: Growing Up at the Pne
$18.95 Read moreA sly, sentimental, and wickedly funny memoir about growing up at the local fair.
The PNE (Pacific National Exhibition) is a Vancouver tradition, an annual fair started in 1910 that is famous for its f
- Author: Marino, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1551529335
- Language: English
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Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing
$17.00 Add to cart“Generous and entertaining.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay * Nominated for “Best Memoir & Autobiography” by Goodreads- Author: Weiner, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 1476723427
- Language: English
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The Braindead Megaphone
$16.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
T- Author: Saunders, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 04 2007
- ISBN10: 159448256X
- Language: English
