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Birding is My Favorite Video Game is a collection of fun, quasi-educational comics combining weird science, cute visuals, sweet wit, and a strong environmental message. Based on the popular webcomic Bird and Moon, this collection brings facts about birds, bees, and insects to life in the quirkiest, most wonderful way.
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No matter where people live on the BC coast, says Howard White, they have certain shared experiences: frustration with rain and ferries, familiarity with gumboots, bumbershoots, seagull droppings and barnacles in the wrong places. But, each little community clings to its own sense of uniqueness and considers itself the true West Coast. As a case in point, White offers fifty funny sketches of life as he has come to know it in sixty-odd years of living...
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Don't Look at the Camera tells the extraordinary inside story of what it's like to spend a lifetime making television. Ian Fisher is an international award winning producer/director, who started his television career, as a news reporter and presenter. This first volume of his memoirs is an often hilarious, sometimes emotional journey through a series of adventures, regular occurrences in his working day.
As a reporter, he impersonated a cabinet minister...
1964) Try to Solve 100 Riddles
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How many Riddles can you solve? Can you solve 100? Try to figure them out before viewing their answers in the back!
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After her curiosity is piqued by a safari gone awry, a journalist delves into the curious world of taxidermy and shares her findings.
It's easy to dismiss taxidermy as a kitschy or morbid sideline, the realm of trophy fish and jackalopes or an anachronistic throwback to the dusty diorama. Yet theirs is a world of intrepid hunter-explorers, eccentric naturalists, and gifted museum artisans, all devoted to the paradoxical pursuit of creating the illusion...
1966) Notes from Small Planets
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Journey from fantasy mountains to super-cities, through piratical seas and up into space without missing any must-see sights - or putting a foot wrong with the locals! Whether you're Lord of the Shoe (st)Ring-budget or Luxe Skywalker - Notes from Small Planets is your pastiche passport through the best worlds of Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Your ultimate travel guide to all the must-see locations in the worlds of Science Fiction and Fantasy.
The perfect...
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The author took a trip of one month with no plan in the countryside of Cuba, traveling with Cuban friends and seeing the 'must see' sights and the reality of everyday life in difficult times. Full of wit and wry observations, the book uses pithy quotes to illustrate its points, and a selection is printed here in this perfect little gift book. The book The Cuban Approach is dedicated, to all those who risk losing their dreams, and if punctuated with...
1968) The Atheist's Prayer
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After a solar eclipse, nineteen people were found dead in a remote area of the California National Forest. They were lying in a circle, holding hands and wearing plastic fairy wings. Years later, on the other side of the country, no one in the southern city of Jefferson is concerned about fairies or fairy-worshiping suicide cults. Except for Candy. She might not have proof, but she's damn sure it's going to happen again. The problem is, Candy is a...
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Patient: "I always feel that I'm covered in gold paint, doctor."
Psychiatrist: "Oh, that's just your gilt complex."They say laughter is one of the most effective forms of therapy. If so, who better to provide counsel than the comedic duo behind A Joke a Day Keeps the Doctor Away and Laughter Never Gets Old?
Bestselling author Bob Phillips reteams with cartoonist Jonny Hawkins for Laughter Therapy-a collection of hilarious jokes, clever cartoons,...
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For the first time, this deluxe visual history treats Peanuts fans to an in-depth look at the art and making of the beloved animated Peanuts specials. From 1965's original classic A Charlie Brown Christmas through the 2011 release of Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, animation historian Charles Solomon goes behind the scenes of all forty-five films, exploring the process of bringing a much-loved comic strip to life. The book showcases the creative development...
1971) Not to be Rude
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Not to be Rude is a painfully assembled collection of writing by Sarina Rowell from cult humour websites The Scrivener's Fancy and Imagined Slights. Here, all in one place, for the first and last time, she goes into bat for the unfairly maligned – thirtysomething, Nicole Kidman, fashion models and being 'childless by choice'; and goes into bat against the unfairly non-maligned – tapas restaurants, second-hand booksellers, live performances and...
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Page Six in the New York Post is a must-read for any New Yorker interested in the latest celebrity gossip, political scandal, or general dirt about the rich and famous. For almost a quarter of a century, the middle of Page Six was filled with the cartoons of Sean Delonas, and now, for the first time ever, Sean Delonas: The Ones They Didn't Print and Some of the Ones They Did collects Sean's favorite cartoons from his days at the Post, as well as some...
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A fantastic collection of W. Heath Robinson's drawing depicting humorous wartime scenes from World War I. These 24 full page drawings originally appeared in 'The Sketch' and in 'The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News'.
W. Heath Robinson was an English cartoonist and illustrator, best known for drawings of ridiculously complicated machines – for achieving deceptively simple objectives. Such was (and is) his fame, that the term 'Heath Robinson'...
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The story of one chronically anxious woman's quest to become braver by seeking out the kinds of experiences she's spent her life avoiding.
For most of her life (and even during her years as the host of a popular radio show), Courtenay Hameister lived in a state of near-constant dread and anxiety. She fretted about everything. Her age. Her size. Her romantic prospects. How likely it was that she would get hit by a bus on the way home.
Until a couple...
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Lesbian sex has been confounding people since the dawn of time. What is it that two women do together exactly? The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (with Cats!) is a humorous guide to lesbian sex, dating rituals, and relationships, and aims to dispel all myths. Haiku paired with hilarious watercolor illustrations of cats in various stages of sexual awkwardness will enlighten, demystify, remystify, and most importantly entertain as you learn about all the aspects...
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Anyone who spends even a little time in Japan will have a few good stories to tell when they get back home. But rubbing elbows with the Japanese, on their own turf, is good for more than just a laugh. The experience can give you a lot of insight into yourself. And that's not the kind of thing you can pick up in any old souvenir shop. This illustrated Japan travel culture guie is for anyone who can read English (and even if you can't, you can always...
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Few classic works of literature have excited such enduring popular interest among the general public as Frankenstein. But suppose the characters-Victor Frankenstein, Captain Robert Walton, and, yes, even the monster-had shared their tale in tweets? #Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus in Tweets hilariously reimagines Mary Shelley's classic gothic novel in about 200 tweets, each 140 characters or less.
@FrankenDrVictor: A rainy Nov night under...
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Giving you a glimpse into World War 1 and the endeavors that followed, this autobiography and collection of memoirs are written through the eyes of an infantry soldier as he navigates war, abandonment, betrayal, loss, and love.
Beginning in England, Robert shares his inspirational story demonstrating what life was like during The Great War.
From early childhood memories to Navy adventures, joining the Australian Imperial Forces, everyman to France,...
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Jenny Lawson meets Nora Ephron in this joyful memoir-in-vignettes on living—and thriving—with anxiety from a multiple Emmy Award-winning comedy writer whose credits include Succession and Veep.
When Georgia Pritchett found herself lost for words—a bit of a predicament for a comedy writer—she turned to a therapist, who suggested she try writing down some of the things that worried her. But instead of a grocery list of concerns, Georgia wrote...
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