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But I Really Wanted to Be an Anthropologist

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Alone Forever: The Singles Collection

Liz Prince · 104 pages

Liz Prince takes an autobiographical look in graphic novel form at dating and relationships.

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Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?

Roz Chast · 228 pages

In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderl

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We Can Fix It: A Time Travel Memoir

Jess Fink · 108 pages

"What would you do if you had a time machine? Bet on sporting events? Assassinate all the evildoers of history? Or maybe try to fix all the mistakes and regrets that have haunted you all these years? Join Jess as she travels back in time to share her wisdom with her naive younger self, stand up to bullies who terrorized her child self, and teach her horny teenage self a thing or two. What begins a

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I Left the House Today!

Cassandra Calin · 144 pages

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Monsters

Ken Dahl · 204 pages

"Focuses both on the physical symptoms and the traumatic emotional damage of a sexually transmitted disease that rarely affects two people the same way,"--NoveList.

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Book Love

Debbie Tung · 144 pages

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Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

Allie Brosh · 384 pages

Every time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices. Touching, absurd, and darkly comic, Allie Brosh’s highly anticipated book Hyperbole and a Half showcases her unique voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations. This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features mor

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Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

Bill Bryson · 272 pages

Bill Bryson's second, achingly funny book, retracing his own steps as a student backpacking through Europe, twenty years later.Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither here Nor there he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journe

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The Santaland Diaries and Season's Greetings

David Sedaris · 54 pages

'Santaland Diaries' contains six of David Sedaris' most profound Christmas stories, from Dinah, the Christmas Whore to Season's Greetings to our Friends and Family.

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The Broke Diaries: The Completely True and Hilarious Misadventures of a Good Girl Gone Broke

Angela Nissel · 212 pages

The author describes her days as a broke college student and the misadventures she had trying to make money and survive.

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A Piano in the Pyrenees

Tony Hawks · 336 pages

Inspired by breathtaking views and romantically dreaming of finding love in the mountains, Tony Hawks impulsively buys an idyllic house in the French Pyrenees. And here, he imagines, he will finally fulfil his childhood fantasy of mastering the piano, all the while overlooking spectacular views as the troubles of the world pass by unnoticed. Tony's hopelessly ill-prepared stumbling into the world

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It's Not Me, It's You

Stefanie Wilder-Taylor · 227 pages

The author combines her trademark sarcasm and straightforwardness to present a hilarious collection of personal essays and stories that venture beyond motherhood and daycare.

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I Totally Meant to Do That

Jane Borden · 230 pages

The author's musings on the intersections of and altercations between Southern hospitality and Gotham cool.

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I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

Tucker Max · 288 pages

The Book That Inspired The MovieMy name is Tucker Max, and I am an asshole. I get excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregard social norms, indulge every whim, ignore the consequences of my actions, mock idiots and posers, sleep with more women than is safe or reasonable, and just generally act like a raging dickhead. But, I do contribute to humanity in one very important way: I share my a

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The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love

Jill Conner Browne · 213 pages

To know the Sweet Potato Queens is to love them, and if you haven't heard about them yet, you will. Since the early 1980s, this group of belles gone bad has been the toast of Jackson, Mississippi, with their glorious annual appearance in the St. Patrick's Day parade. In The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love, their royal ringleader, Jill Conner Browne, introduces the Queens to the world with this s

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Will Not Attend: Lively Stories of Detachment and Isolation

Adam Resnick · 256 pages

"An unabashedly hilarious memoir-in-essays from Adam Resnick, former writer for Late Night with David Letterman"--

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This Is Really Happening

Erin Chack · 256 pages

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The Story of My Tits

Jennifer Hayden · 344 pages

"When Jennifer Hayden was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 43, she realized that her tits told a story. Across a lifetime, they'd held so many meanings: hope and fear, pride and embarrassment, life and death. And then they were gone. Now, their story has become a way of understanding her story: a journey from the innocence of youth to the chaos of adulthood, through her mother's mastecto

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Actually, Nevermind

Taylor Tomlinson

In a collection of essays, the comedian reflects upon her life as she approaches the same age her mother was when she died. Read by the author. 5 hours, 31 minutes unabridged.

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This Little Piggy Went to the Liquor Store

A.K. Turner · 190 pages

"Chronicles what happens when a little girl who scorns the idea of marriage and children (in favor of becoming a stiletto-wearing, attache-carrying Secret Agent), majors in Russian, minors in Vodka, and then one day finds herself with child ... and in-laws"--Page 4 of cover.

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