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Happy-go-lucky

The best-selling author offers a new collection of satirical and humorous essays that chronicle his own life and ordinary moments that turn beautifully absurd, including how he coped with the pandemic, his thoughts on becoming an orphan in his seventh decade, and the battle-scarred America he discovered when he resumed touring.

Garfield fat cat 3-pack

2020
Collects three previously published collections of "Garfield" comics, including "Garfield feeds his face," "Garfield eats and runs," and "Garfield: Nutty as a fruitcake," which follow the antics of the Garfield the cat, his hapless owner Jon, and Odie the dog.

Garfield's Sunday finest

35 years of my best Sunday funnies
2013
A collection of Sunday "Garfield" comic strips from throughout the thirty-five year run of the strip, handpicked and annotated by creator Jim Davis, along with an assortmentof original sketches and never-before-seen rejected strips.

Please don't sit on my bed in your outside clothes

essays
2021
"Robinson's latest collection, laced with spot-on pop culture references, takes on a wide range of topics. From the values she learned from her parents (including, but not limited to, advice on not bringing outside germs onto your clean bed) to her and her boyfriend, lovingly known as British Baekoff, deciding to have a child-free union, to the way the Black Lives Matter movement took center stage in America, and, finally, the continual struggle to love her 4C hair"--Provided by publisher.

#TIL: today I learned

hilarious, entertaining, and educational trivia
2020
"From history and science to sports and literature, [the author] offers . . . trivia in 500 facts inspired by the viral social media acronym TIL used on Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, and Facebook. [This book] is sure to intrigue even the most jaded know-it-alls and walking encyclopedias, including little-known anecdotes and stories involving some of history's most famous people, places, and things"--Provided by publisher.

The sarcasm handbook

the only book you'll ever need

The illustrated dictionary of snark

a snide, sarcastic guide to verbal sparring, comebacks, irony, insults, and much more
What do Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, H. L. Mencken, Oscar Wilde, Robert Benchley, George Bernard Shaw, Jules Feiffer, Bill Hicks, Bill Maher, Phyllis Diller, Edith Piaf, W. C. Fields, Mark Twain, Voltaire, Charles Bukowski, and countless others have in common? Not a thing, other than each was a brilliantly snarky wit and all are included in this compendium of the original snark handbooks. Hear wit, sarcasm, and offhanded comments from: The Snark Handbook: A Reference Guide to Verbal Sparring The Snark Handbook: Insult Edition The Snark Handbook: Sex Edition Snark! The Herald Angels Sing The Snark Handbook: Politics and Government Edition The Snark Handbook: Clich??s Edition The Snark Handbook: Parenting Edition Isn't that enough!?!? A minor literary success (beloved by both minors and miners), the snark handbooks have cemented their position in the literary world, high atop toilet seats everywhere. Now in one great big edition, this lofty tome promises to fulfill the need to chuckle, guffaw, titter, groan, and belly laugh as readers dip in and out of the great minds in literature, comedy, movies, music, and more. Proceed with caution.

The emotionary

n. a dictionary of words that don't exist for feelings that do
All her life, Eden Sher has suffered from dyscommunicatia (n. the inability to articulate a feeling through words.). Then, one day, she decided that, whenever she had an emotion for which she had no word, she would make one up. The result of this is The Emotionary, which lives at the intersection of incredibly funny and very useful. Chock full of words you always wanted/never knew you needed, often accompanied by illustrations of hilarious and all-too-familiar situations, The Emotionary will be a cherished tool for you or the world-class feelings-haver in your life. At long last, all your complicated feelings can be put into words, so you can recognize them for what they are, speak their names aloud, and move on. Finally!.

Everything's trash, but it's okay

Contains a collection of essays written by the author. Topics range from feminism and social beauty standards to dating and being a workaholic.

The many lives of Pusheen the cat

"A . . . collection . . . of Pusheen in all of her . . . forms--from the classic gray tabby you know . . . , to her unicorn, dragon, alien, mermaid, dinosaur, and even dog alter egos--Pusheen always lives life to the fullest! Learn what makes [Pusheen] purr and find out why so many have already fallen in love with her"--Provided by publisher.

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