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The Odd 1s Out: The First Sequel
Now a new Netflix series, Oddballs! An instant New York Times bestseller! The sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Odd 1s Out, with all new and never-before-seen content featuring opinions, stories, and signature characters from YouTube phenomenon James Rallison James Rallison has always felt like he was on the outside looking in. His YouTube videos are all about his "odd" behavior, and with over 13 million subscribers and millions more followers on social media, these animations have found their way into the hearts of fans who also feel like a bit of an odd one. In this second installment in the Odd 1s Out series, James is back with characters, stories, and opinions, including: - The upside of the robot uprising
- Questionable pizza toppings
- Strange yet completely reasonable fears
- Inventions that don't exist, but should Offering advice on accepting your quirks and growing up in the Internet age, The Odd 1s Out: The First Sequel is sure to be a must-have for old and new fans alike. -
K Is for Kindergarten
Here comes kindergarten! Whether your little reader is gearing up for the first day or making her way through the school year, K is for Kindergarten will help guide them with silly rhymes and fun activities from A to Z. -
The Little Book of Pumpkin Spice: Celebrate the Cozy Comfort of Autumn Days
Pumpkin spice is more than a flavor, it's a feeling. Like hygge, it is nostalgically evocative of family, comfort food, home and hearth.
Relax into the harvest season with this celebratory book full of sugar and pumpkin spice and all things nice. With the smell and taste of autumn itself, it is no wonder that pumpkin spice has become the must- have treat when the leaves start to fall. The spice blend may have had a traditional culinary origin as an ingredient in pumpkin pie and then popularized in latte, but it's more than a flavor, it's a feeling. Like an old familiar friend, it is evocatively nostalgic, warm and inviting, and here you will find ways to celebrate pumpkin spice in life, from fun facts and food and drink recipes to home fragrance and lifestyle hacks.
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Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar . . .: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
This New York Times bestseller is the hilarious philosophy course everyone wishes they'd had in school.
Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar... has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors--and born vaudevillians--Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPR's Weekend Edition. Lively, original, and powerfully informative, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar... is a not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical thinkers and traditions, from Existentialism (What do Hegel and Bette Midler have in common?) to Logic (Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything). Philosophy 101 for those who like to take the heavy stuff lightly, this is a joy to read--and finally, it all makes sense! And now, you can read Daniel Klein's further musings on life and philosophy in Travels with Epicurus and Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change it.Sold out -
All-Star Mad Libs: World's Greatest Word Game
Mad Libs is the world's greatest word game and the perfect gift or activity for anyone who likes to laugh! Write in the missing words on each page to create your own hilariously funny stories all about the sports that don't get enough love! She swims so ADJECTIVE, it's like she's a/an ANIMAL! With 21 "fill-in-the-blank" stories about racing aliens, epic Ping-Pong matches, and ridiculous volleyball spikes, All Star Mad Libs is the perfect activity for any young athlete! Play alone, in a group, or at a track meet! Mad Libs are a fun family activity recommended for ages 8 to NUMBER. All Star Mad Libs includes: - Silly stories 21 "fill-in-the-blank" stories about sports!
- Language arts practice Mad Libs are a great way to build reading comprehension and grammar skills.
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Books on Strike: A Funny, Rhyming, Read Aloud Kid's Book About Respect and Responsibility
Teaches responsibility and respect for people and things. A hilarious, rhyming, read loud book that's perfect for the first or any day of school.
The classroom books have had enough!
Books can be super magical,
Each page, full of wonder and joy.
Books can be great for children,
But we are certainly NOT toys.
Buy this book for a good laugh, nighttime snuggle, or your favorite teacher.
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
From one of the world's most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.
Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century--1951--in the middle of the United States--Des Moines, Iowa--in the middle of the largest generation in American history--the baby boomers. As one of the best and funniest writers alive, he is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for 24-carat memoir gold. Like millions of his generational peers, Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy life as a superhero. In his case, he ran around his house and neighborhood with an old football jersey with a thunderbolt on it and a towel about his neck that served as his cape, leaping tall buildings in a single bound and vanquishing awful evildoers (and morons)--in his head--as "The Thunderbolt Kid." Using this persona as a springboard, Bill Bryson re-creates the life of his family and his native city in the 1950s in all its transcendent normality--a life at once completely familiar to us all and as far away and unreachable as another galaxy. It was, he reminds us, a happy time, when automobiles and televisions and appliances (not to mention nuclear weapons) grew larger and more numerous with each passing year, and DDT, cigarettes, and the fallout from atmospheric testing were considered harmless or even good for you. He brings us into the life of his loving but eccentric family, including affectionate portraits of his father, a gifted sportswriter for the local paper and dedicated practitioner of isometric exercises, and of his mother, whose job as the home furnishing editor for the same paper left her little time for practicing the domestic arts at home. The many readers of Bill Bryson's earlier classic, A Walk in the Woods, will greet the reappearance in these pages of the immortal Stephen Katz, seen hijacking literally boxcar loads of beer. He is joined in the Bryson gallery of immortal characters by the demonically clever Willoughby brothers, who apply their scientific skills and can-do attitude to gleefully destructive ends. Warm and laugh-out-loud funny, and full of his inimitable, pitch-perfect observations, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid is as wondrous a book as Bill Bryson has ever written. It will enchant anyone who has ever been young. -
Beyond the Far Side(r)
The second The Far Side(R) collection. Copyright (c) 1983 FarWorks, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Waggin' Tales: A Red and Rover Collection
""It's a sweetly funny strip, reminiscent of the relationship of Charlie Brown and Snoopy or Calvin and Hobbes. . . . Just the book to pick up when you need a booster shot of the warm fuzzies.""-Syracuse Post-Standard
Why are readers so dedicated to this simple comic about a boy and his dog? That simplicity itself is one of the best-loved characteristics of the strip. Ten-year-old Red and his lab-mix mutt, Rover, are a metaphor for friendship, and their shared adventures hearken back to a simpler time that holds a strong nostalgic appeal for modern readers.
The other feature of Red and Rover that draws fans to the strip is the realness of its character. Rover is not a talking dog; he and Red communicate through thought bubbles. Moreover, Rover's facial expressions and body language are drawn with an authenticity, recognized and lauded by dog lovers, that communicates volumes about what he's thinking and feeling.
As proclaimed on the popular family-oriented Web site infodad.com, ""Well focused, well thought out, and well drawn in something of a 'retro' style, Red and Rover is the most heartwarmingly funny new comic strip in years. Cynics, go elsewhere. Red and Rover is for the rest of us.""
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Oops, I Burped Mad Libs: World's Greatest Word Game
Mad Libs is the world's greatest word game and the perfect gift or activity for anyone who likes to laugh! Write in the missing words on each page to create your own hilariously funny stories packed full of body humor! EXCLAMATION! That burp smells just like a/an ANIMAL! With 21 "fill-in-the-blank" stories about passing gas, notorious burps throughout history, and the worst smells you can imagine, Oops! I Burped! Mad Libs is the perfect activity for any gross kid! Play alone, in a group, or in a dumpster! Mad Libs are a fun family activity recommended for ages 8 to NUMBER. Oops! I Burped! Mad Libs includes: - Silly stories 21 "fill-in-the-blank" stories about gross things!
- Language arts practice Mad Libs are a great way to build reading comprehension and grammar skills.
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You Deserve Good Gelato
In her inimitably funny and feel-good way, social media star Kacie Rose offers a refreshingly honest take on navigating a new life abroad in You Deserve Good Gelato, covering everything from travel fails and homesickness to the joy of culture shocks and the power of doing the s*** that scares you. Because life is too short not to. Kacie decided to leave her life as a pro dancer in New York City and move to Italy in 2021 - and she never looked back. Okay, that isn't strictly true... In You Deserve Good Gelato, Kacie reflects on the pure terror of driving on Italian roads, the trials of speaking a new language (and getting it horribly, horribly wrong), and the genuine beauty of a slower pace of life, all with humour and heart. And by sharing her personal stories of life under the Tuscan sun, Kacie explains how travel is a privilege, why cultural differences are the coolest things in the world, and how there's a positive you can take away from literally any situation. You Deserve Good Gelato will have you buying that ticket and embracing this big, beautiful world that we all call home. -
Kay's Anatomy: A Complete (and Completely Disgusting) Guide to the Human Body
This complete (and completely gross) guide to the human body is the hilarious debut nonfiction children's book from world-wide multi-million bestselling author and former doctor Adam Kay! Do you ever think about your body and how it works? Like really, really think about it? The human body is extraordinary and fascinating and, well...pretty weird. Yours is weird, mine is weird, your math teacher's is even weirder. This book is going to tell you what's actually going on in there, and answer the really important questions, like:- Are boogers safe to eat? Look, if your nose is going to all that effort of creating a snack, the least we can do is check out its nutritional value. (Yes, they're safe. Chew away!)
- And how much of your life will you spend on the toilet? About a year--so bring a good book. (I recommend this one.)
Sit back, relax, put on some rubber gloves, and let a doctor take you on (slightly repulsive) tour of your insides. Welcome to Kay's Anatomy*. *A fancy word for your body. See, you're learning already.Sold out -
Counting in Dog Years and Other Sassy Math Poems
Twenty-nine playful poems from the maven of math poetry + ingenious high-concept art = countless hours of mind-blowing, mathematical fun.
Award-winning author Betsy Franco is back with another pitch-perfect performance that explores a range of math topics--from fractions and time measurements to geometry and graphs--in a way that relates math to the daily lives of children. Even the most mathematically disinclined will warm to these innovative poems, illustrated with game-changing wit and whimsy by Priscilla Tey, whose clever mechanical "Numbots" guide readers through a surreal playground of calculated delights. From multiplying mice to missing socks, from stinky scales to bug races, this collection of imaginative verse subtracts the mystery, fear, and loathing from mathematics, making it engrossing and fun for all.Sold out -
Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge the Lost Crown of Genghis Khan: The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library Vol. 16
Worried about an earthquake that might swallow his money bin, Uncle Scrooge digs deep to secure his fortune -- and discovers an underground civilization! Introducing the Terries and Fermies -- the subterranean critters who can make earthquakes! Of special note, our presentation of this story restores two pages that were cut from its original publication. Then, Scrooge shanghais Donald, Huey, Dewey, and Louie to the Himalayas to help him recover "The Lost Crown of Genghis Kahn." And when Scrooge is hypnotized to go back in time and learn the location of a pirate's buried treasure, he thinks he's got a clear shot -- until he learns that Donald is also on the trail. And the race is on!Sold out -
Robin
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"A generous, appreciative biography of Robin Williams by a New York Times culture reporter. The author, who had access to Williams and members of the comedian's family, is an unabashed fan but doesn't shy away from the abundant messiness in his subject's personal life."--The New York Times Book Review From New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff, the definitive biography of Robin Williams - a compelling portrait of one of America's most beloved and misunderstood entertainers. From his rapid-fire stand-up comedy riffs to his breakout role in Mork & Mindy and his Academy Award-winning performance in Good Will Hunting, Robin Williams was a singularly innovative and beloved entertainer. He often came across as a man possessed, holding forth on culture and politics while mixing in personal revelations - all with mercurial, tongue-twisting intensity as he inhabited and shed one character after another with lightning speed. But as Dave Itzkoff shows in this revelatory biography, Williams's comic brilliance masked a deep well of conflicting emotions and self-doubt, which he drew upon in his comedy and in celebrated films like Dead Poets Society; Good Morning, Vietnam; The Fisher King; Aladdin; and Mrs. Doubtfire, where he showcased his limitless gift for improvisation to bring to life a wide range of characters. And in Good Will Hunting he gave an intense and controlled performance that revealed the true range of his talent. Itzkoff also shows how Williams struggled mightily with addiction and depression - topics he discussed openly while performing and during interviews - and with a debilitating condition at the end of his life that affected him in ways his fans never knew. Drawing on more than a hundred original interviews with family, friends, and colleagues, as well as extensive archival research, Robin is a fresh and original look at a man whose work touched so many lives.
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE
A SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
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The Little World of Liz Climo
Artist Liz Climo has charmed her fans with her comic world of whimsical animal characters, where everyone from grizzly bears, dinosaurs, rabbits, and anteaters grapple with everyday life with wit and humor. Through her comics, we discover that an armadillo can dress for Halloween, a dinosaur can be a loving parent . . . and a rhino can squeeze orange juice! This collection features more than 100 comics, starring her beloved characters in all kinds of funny situations, from celebrating holidays to helping friends.