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[you] Ruined It for Everyone

[you] Ruined It for Everyone Matthew Vincent Energy sources are massively depleted. The government is wasteful and incompetent. The economy is imploding, the environment is toxic, and international...

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What Would Bill Hicks Say?

What Would Bill Hicks Say? Edited by Ben Mack and Kristin Pulkkinen If Bill Hicks were alive today, what would Bill Hicks say? In 250 words or less, and in a picture or less, writers, comedians,...

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Too Much Crazy

Too Much Crazy By Tom Tomorrow Tom Tomorrow’s This Modern World has been hailed as “one of the most clever and incisive political cartoons in the country” (Los Angeles Times). For twenty years,...

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The Intelligent Design Coloring Book

The Intelligent Design Coloring Book Pastor Brett Pirkle A child’s life is full of both joys and challenges—the infinite wonder of learning, the literal and figurative scraped knees of everyday life,...

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The Customer is Always Wrong

The Customer is Always Wrong Edited by Jeff Martin Listen to Jeff Martin talk about retail on NPR’s All Things Considered From Mom and Pop general stores to huge chains, it is impossible to think of...

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Rebels Wit Attitude

Rebels Wit Attitude: Subversive Rock Humorists Iain Ellis In Rebels Wit Attitude, music writer and professor Iain Ellis throws a spotlight on the history of humor as a weapon of anti-establishment...

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My Dog Ate My Nobel Prize

My Dog Ate My Nobel Prize: The Fabricated Memoirs of Jeff Martin Jeff Martin Jeff Martin was born in 1980. Jeff Martin made millions on the stock market. Jeff Martin lost millions on the stock market....

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Love All the People

Love All the People: The Essential Bill Hicks Bill Hicks In 1993, not long after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, controversial comedian Bill Hicks found his final, scathing appearance on The...

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Iris Has Free Time

The end of youth: when childhood is behind you, and adulthood remains just out of reach

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How to Be Inappropriate

How to Be Inappropriate Daniel Nester Dry, offbeat, and mostly profane, this debut collection of humorous nonfiction glorifies all things inappropriate and TMI. A compendia of probing essays, lists,...

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Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls Will Be…

Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls Be… Jacinta Bunnell & Irit Reinheimer The antithesis of the “Dick and Jane” coloring book, Girls Will be Boys Will be Girls is a funny and provocative...

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Get Your War On

Get Your War On The Definitive Account of the War on Terror, 2001-2008 David Rees Introduction by Matt Taibbi In the aftermath of 9/11, when experts and citizens rallied behind President George W. Bush...

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Fight Song

When his bicycle is intentionally run off the road by a neighbor's SUV, something snaps in Bob Coffin. Modern suburban life has been getting him down and this is the last straw. To avoid following in...

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Everyone Says that at the End of the World

Earth is the mental asylum of the universe and humans are the incurable inmates. Now the asylum is being shut down! Everyone Says That at the End of the World traces the adventures of a ghost-haunted...

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Daily Negations

Daily Negations John S. Hall Like many self-help books, Daily Negations can be kept by the toilet and read each morning or evening, depending on your personal habits. Or it could be kept by the bed, or...

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51 / 50

51/50 The Magical Adventures of a Single Life Kristen McGuiness That was the social experiment Kristen McGuiness—single, living in LA, and entering her thirties newly sober—embarked upon. McGuiness...

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True Tales of Lust and Love

True Tales of Lust and Love began as a one-time-only reading and storytelling show in January of 2012, a venue for writers and comedians to share and laugh at their dating disaster stories—which soon...

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The Full Ridiculous

The Full Ridiculous by Mark Lamprell Pub date: May 13, […]

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People Park

It's the Silver Jubilee of People Park, an urban experiment conceived by a radical mayor and zealously policed by the testosterone-powered New Fraternal League of Men. To celebrate, the insular island...

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In Violet’s Wake

When Marshall VanDahmm’s wife Violet, married four times previously, informs him that she’s divorcing him, he promptly falls apart. She refuses to offer a reason for the divorce, and Marshall is...

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