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Gale
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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Presents a representative catalog of the New Formalism, including a broad spectrum and wide and diverse range of poets and poetries associated with the New Formalism, an eclectic movement with a commitment to meter, fixed rhyme schemes, and poetic forms.
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From everyone's favorite TikTok oracle, Devrie Donalson (aka @devriebrynn), comes a hearty dose of her sometimes jaded, always funny, and surprisingly soulful wisdom. For fans of Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson and Everything's Trash, But It's Ok by Phoebe Robinson.
Through her TikTok videos, Devrie has chronicled only a small part of her journey as a single woman-leaving her unsatisfying life behind and flying to Scotland in pursuit of a version...
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Bestsellers by America's favorite humorist:
A Fine And Pleasant Misery
They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?
Never Sniff A Gift Fish
The Grasshopper Trap
Rubber Legs And White Tail-hairs
The Night The Bear Ate Goombaw
Whatchagot Stew (with Patricia "The Troll" McManus Gass)
Real Ponies Don't Go Oink!
The Good Samaritan Strikes Again
How I Got This Way
These titles are available from Henry Holt and Company.
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From comedian and writer (Parks and Recreation, Eastbound & Down) Harris Wittels comes a hysterical breakdown of boasts, brags, and self-adulation disguised as humble comments and complaints-based on his popular @humblebrag Twitter feed.
Something immediately annoyed Harris Wittels about Twitter. All of a sudden it was acceptable to brag, so long as those brags were ever-so-thinly disguised as transparent humility, such as:
"Just filed my taxes....
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Dunlop Fantasia has a passion for marketing, excellent ideas, hovercrafts and avoiding rehab. A dark, complicated family upbringing sets him on course for early divorce, a blunder with his father's mistress, making TV shows, the heartbreaking death of a manservant, pursuit of celebrity endorsements and winning respect for his growing advertising empire. Follow his satirical exploration of wealth, self-help advice, business success, gritty optimism...
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Pandemic Pandemonium is funny, entertaining, and a little bit educational. A humorous memoir about the COVID-19 Pandemic from a retired comedienne's viewpoint. A non-fiction account meant to lift your spirits and give you a laugh. Just when you thought there wasn't anything left to laugh about.
A mixture of: Comedy, personal observations, related memories, and a few important facts.
Other books by Karen Robertson:
The Turnaround, a Christian suspense...
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"Greetings, Dear Homsaps" is a highly satirical look at the conditions on planet Earth in the years prior to, during, and just after TBC, or The Big Change.
Climate variations bring many disasters but also some fortuitous changes, proving how adaptable the species Homo Sapiens is.
The Galactic Federation of Lightworkers is heavily invested in a beneficent future for Earth. They see clearly how badly the planet's being run by a corrupt ruling elite...
33) Hey Gary
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A collection of dumb things the writer texted to his friend, Gary. Gary did not listen to any of these suggestions. You probably did not even read them. That's Gary for you. It is a dust devil of absurdist ideas and configurations. This could be the kind of book you need to read if you are waiting for the volcano to erupt. Author Jeffrey Campbell read some of this book and gave this blurb that's good enough to be on the cover, "Yeah. I think this...
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It's impossible to go a full day without using snark, so why fight it? Snark is everywhere, from television to movies to everyday life. This lively collection provides hours of entertainment-better than an Etch A Sketch, and more fun than Silly Putty! At the heart of it, being in a state of snark can be one of the most useful tools at one's disposal and hence (yes, I used "hence"), a powerful way to get what you want. With snark, you can catch people...
35) Dating Your Mom
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From the opening essay, "The Bloomsbury Group Live at the Apollo (Liner Notes from the New Best-Selling Album)" to the title piece that discusses ways in which you might begin a romance with your mother ("In today's fast-moving, transient, rootless society, where people meet and make love and part without ever really touching, the relationship every guy already has with his own mother is too valuable to ignore...") to a parody that features Samuel...
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THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE FISHY is a joint effort between two cousins in their tweens that has been in production for almost seven years. The spy spoof story was inspired by a visit to the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC in 2010. The author, Shelby Williams, spent the next three years acting out various scenes from her on-going story of intrepid koi fish who are really secret spies. Her grandmother, Mary Schaller, kept notes of all Shelby's...
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Irresistible collection of outrageous visual puns imaginatively embroiders upon the physical features of familiar animals to produce a mutated menagerie of impossible creatures. Includes the eargull, with the head of the national bird and a body comprised of a huge human ear; a beebra - a zebra with bee's wings - and 58 other rib-tickling whatchamacallits.
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Airports were never built to make travel easier for the public. A psychologist named Brian Brain who was writing a paper on behavioural understanding phoned his mate Bob the Builder and asked him if he had any spare bricks and mortar. When Bob said yes Brian said lets build a place where people can ride on aeroplanes, I can watch how they behave, write a book about it, you can make a few bob from the car parks and well both make a fortune from the...
39) Biker Smarts
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The book is a compilation of humorous short statements, light-hearted "insults", funny tirades, and silly, bi-partisan, outlandish non-offensive political bantering that that captures fun times and memorializes many years of memories while hanging out with my biker friends at biker bars and biker events. It is a light-hearted book intended to be fun reading for a very diverse audience who just want something fun, funny and mindless to read without...
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Join the Carmitchell sisters on an unexpectedly funny and fearlessly frank journey through the 78 cards in the tarot deck.
Annie Carmitchell had long used her tarot decks as a tool for spiritual guidance. During one of many late-night chats with her sister, it occurred to Annie that almost every shared memory reminded her of a particular tarot card. Her father? The Emperor. Her mother? Most certainly the Queen. And though, her sister might take a...