humor

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Author: Dav Pilkey
Material Type: Book
Summary:

Dav Pilkey--ahem--we mean, George Beard and Harold Hutchins, the bestselling authors of THE ADVENTURES OF SUPER DIAPER BABY, are back with their second graphic novel! Meet Ook and Gluk, the stars of this sensationally silly graphic novel from the creators of Captain Underpants! It's 500,001 BC, and Ook and Gluk's hometown of Caveland, Ohio, is under attack by an evil corporation from the future. When Ook, Gluk, and their little dinosaur pal Lily are pulled through a time portal to 2222, they discover a future world that's even more devastated than their own.

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Author: Mike Bender
Material Type: Book
Category: animals, humor, non-fiction
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We adore our pets, but let's face it-- sometimes love makes us go a little overboard. Here is a pictorial tribute to the unbreakable bond between people and their pets!

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Author: Mark Obmascik
Material Type: Book
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In one of the wackiest competitions around, every year hundreds of obsessed bird watchers participate in a contest known as the North American Big Year. Hoping to be the one to spot the most species during the course of the year, each birder spends 365 days racing around the continental U.S. and Canada compiling lists of birds, all for the glory of being recognized by the American Birding Association as the Big Year birding champion of North America.

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Author: Mike Birbiglia
Material Type: Book
Category: biography, humor
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The comedian offers a humorous memoir about first love, denial, sleepwalking, and the perils and pitfalls of being himself.

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Author: Mark Salzman
Material Type: Book
Category: humor, memoir
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A charming and frequently uproarious account of an American adolescence in the age of Bruce Lee, Ozzy Osborne, and Kung Fu. As Salzman recalls coming of age with one foot in Connecticut and the other in China (he wanted to become a wandering Zen monk), he tells the story of a teenager trying to attain enlightenment before he's learned to drive.

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Material Type: Book
Category: fantasy, fiction, heroes, humor
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Twelve-year-old Tom Elm, his raccoon friend Roderick, Percival, Abbey, and Barclay Bone, warrior-priest Randolf, and forest-woman Lorimar join in a quest to find the pieces of the Spark that can save Dreaming--and the Waking World--from a Darkness created by the Nacht.

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Author: Jillian Madison
Material Type: Book
Summary:

Sh#@ Your Phone Says

"Damn You, Autocorrect!"

If you own an iPhone, BlackBerry, Droid, or any smartphone, there's a good chance you've screamed that phrase out at least once. In Damn You, Autocorrect! Pop-culture blogger Jillian Madison shows you are not alone.

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Material Type: Book
Category: humor, non-fiction
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Based on the hit website, AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com (“painful, regrettable, horrifyingly awesome snaps of family bonding, you will laugh so hard that people in adjoining offices will ask what’s wrong with you”—Esquire), this full color book features never-before-seen photos and hilarious personal stories covering everything from uncomfortable moments with relatives, teen angst, sibling rivalry, and family vacations from hell.

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Author: John Austin
Material Type: Book
Category: humor, zombies
Summary:

Being undead can be disorienting. Your arms and other appendages tend to rot and fall off. It’s difficult to communicate with a vocabulary limited to moans and gurgles. And that smell! (Yes, it’s you.) But most of all, you must constantly find and ingest human brains. Braaaains!!!
What’s a zombie to do?

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Author: Chelsea Handler
Material Type: Book
Category: autobiography, humor
Summary:

In the hilarious new book from the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea," the comedian mines the wealth of material that is her family, her sex life, and her distinctively outrageous worldview.