Humor
Discover the best humour books at our online bookstore, featuring top comedy books, fiction humor, and dark humour literature for adults. Find must-read and best-selling titles that guarantee a good laugh, perfect for every humor enthusiast.
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This Is Your First Rock Garden, Isn't It?It's different "over there." Everybody east of Washington, Oregon, and California knows it. But defining the West Coast as "not like the East Coast" leaves way too much of the story untold. No, far better to turn to Adrian Raeside's This Is Your First...
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Dog-Eared: Mutts 9volume 12Patrick McDonnell possesses an elegance of line and narrative that both transcends and defines his medium. His artistry is in his Zen-like clarity, his simple direct address, and his unique understanding of the essential animal-human continuum. When one experiences MUTTS, one experiences genius. -Alice...
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Your Grandma Rocks, Mine Rolls: A Grand Avenue CollectionTake one power-waling grandma and mix her with two high-energy fraternal twins, and before long it's hard to tell who's chasing whom. This magical mixture rolls off the pages of cartoonist Steve Breen's first collection of Grand Avenue strips. Twins Michael, who wants to...
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Card ManipulationsTo the magician and to most audiences, card manipulations are the most fascinating type of card trick. Since the manipulator's skill is the only determining factor, once a degree of card dexterity is acquired the performer can go on to learn tricks sure to...
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Comedy: A Very Short IntroductionTo consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abused)? When do we laugh, and why? What is it that writers and speakers enjoy - and risk...
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Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a FamilyTo fifty thousand readers, Catherine Newman is the beloved author of "Bringing Up Ben & Birdy," a weekly column on babycenter.com. Now in the delightfully candid, outlandishly funny Waiting for Birdy, Newman charts the year she anticipated the birth of her second child while...
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Dogged Victims of Inexorable FateThis beloved sports classic from Sports Illustrated writer Dan Jenkins is a hilarious love-hate celebration of golfers and their game.Author: Dan JenkinsPublisher: Touchstone BooksPublished: 06/15/1990Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80dISBN: 9780671667504This title is not returnable
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XXXX Rated Odes To DegeneratesThe world is full of degenerates and Joe has never been afraid to point his finger at them. This collection of comedic odes, songs and pictures covers such topics as Bill and Monica, bodily functions and parts, sex, aging and relationships, and foreigners and...
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Lead On, SnoopyPriceless panels culled from Peanuts--the comic strip loved by millions of readers worldwide. With syndication in 2,200 newspapers and sales of more than 85 million Peanuts books, Peanuts is the most successful cartoon series of all time. Previous publisher: Pharos Books.Author: Charles M. SchulzPublisher:...
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Pictures from ItalyIn 1844, Charles Dickens embarked on a year-long visit to Italy, where he turned his perceptive views of the human condition toward a thoughtful appraisal of the country's soul and character. Combining travelogue with social commentary, he formed a kaleidoscopic portrait of nineteenth-century Italian...
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If You Ask Me: The Collected Columns of America's Most Beloved and Irresponsible CriticHi. I'm Libby Gelman-Waxner, and I'm an assistant buyer in juniors' activewear. While I find my work both rewarding and creative, especially with the new knits coming in, I want more. And so I decided to become a film critic.... Move over, Siskel &...
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Heart and Brain: An Awkward Yeti CollectionFrom paying taxes and getting up for work to dancing with kittens and starting a band, readers everywhere will relate to the ongoing struggle between Heart and Brain. "Heart and Brain: An Awkward Yeti Collection" illustrates the relationship between the sensible Brain and its...
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The New Yorker Book of All-New Cat CartoonsCats again? You can never have too many . . . Drawn from the hundreds of cartoons published in The New Yorker in the seven years since The New Yorker Book of Cat Cartoons--as well as from fabulous older cats--this new collection is as...
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Big Nate Out LoudBig Nate, a.k.a. middle schooler Nate Wright, is eleven years old, four-and-a-half feet tall, and the wunderkind creation of cartoonist Lincoln Peirce. Nate is also the star of six novelized books to be published by HarperCollins, the first of which debuted on the "New...
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Slightly Foxed/Still Desirable: Ronald Searle's Wicked World of Book CollectingAs any, even vaguely addicted book collector will have swiftly learned, most booksellers' catalogues are written in a parallel language that can fool anyone but the 'cognoscenti' and which makes the mysteries of the Rosetta stone, or Linear B, look like something out of...
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When in French: Love in a Second LanguageA language barrier is no match for love. Lauren Collins discovered this firsthand when, in her early thirties, she moved to London and fell for a Frenchman named Olivier--a surprising turn of events for someone who didn't have a passport until she was in...
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OstrichesThis third installment in the hilarious and highly illustrated full-color Superpower Field Guide series features the silly-looking, surprisingly fierce ostrich. This two-toed torpedo may have the largest eyes of any animal on dry land, but it can outrun most horses! Meet Eno, an ordinary...
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Communist Daze: The Many Misadventures of a Soviet DoctorWelcome to Gradieshti, a Soviet village awash in gray buildings and ramshackle fences, home to a large, collective farm and to the most oddball and endearing cast of characters possible. For three years in the 1960s, Vladimir Tsesis--inestimable Soviet doctor and irrepressible jester--was stationed...
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I Don't Know What You Know Me from: My Life as a Co-StarThis is Judy Greer's story, from her self-described childhood as "Ugly Judy" in suburban Detroit-ish, Michigan, to trying out for drama school to get even with her frenemy, and then breaking into movies as the ultimate best friend. Judy is a refreshingly honest, self-deprecating,...
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Creepy California: Strange and Gothic Tales from the Golden StateBeneath California's scenic landscape lies a strange and dark side, full of spine-tingling tales and frightful imagery. Creepy California: Strange and Gothic Tales from the Golden State explores the disturbing and macabre stories of unexplained deaths, intentional live burials, true crimes, and ghosts who...
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