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55 stories. 55 words each. No more. No less. Enjoy this collection of flash fiction with a sinister twist. Size does matter in these delightfully tiny tales populated with narcoleptic drivers, bickering backers, suspicious spouses, and other memorable characters. Full of dark humor, intrigue, and absurdity, this collection of slightly sinister (and occasionally sweet) stories delivers a bite-size reading experience to satisfy any literary craving....
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A laugh-out-loud look at the most underrated supporting role in today's maxed-out wedding world, featuring "bad bridesmaids" who've had enough taffeta to last a lifetime.
I just can't have any negative energy around my wedding." This is what Siri Agrell's best friend told her just before kicking her out of the wedding that Agrell had spent many months-and dollars-preparing for. Her offense? It's not that she slept with the groom, or even the best...
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HarperCollins
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[2019]
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English
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The #1 bestselling Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids series reaches hilarious new heights with this collection of adventure-themed jokes, puns, and gut-busting gags. A great activity book for kids 5 to 10, including anyone looking for a boredom buster when home from school. Rob Elliott's bestselling Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids series has sold more than 5 million copies! Jump into page after page of adrenaline-pumping puns and sweat-inducing zingers...
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Chronicle Books
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2019.
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English
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Sophie Corrigan evokes everyone's inner zoologist in this charmingly illustrated and wittily worded menagerie. Each critter featured in this fun book is tagged with totally fictitious yet comically accurate anatomical labels, from a tree frog's "clingy jazz hands" and a raccoon's "sneaky bandito mask" to a velociraptor's "disembowly prowlies" and many more. Rife with animal puns, eye-catching bonus art, interesting animal facts, and laugh-out-loud...
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HarperCollins
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[2009]
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English
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In these two forgotten gems of English literature, Jane Austen and Charles Dickens offer delightful, irreverent histories of their native land. When she was only sixteen years old, Jane Austen composed her bitingly satirical History of England for performance in her family's drawingroom. A startling and precocious example of her celebrated wit -- not to mention a brilliant social commentary -- this lively piece sweeps rapidly across almost four centuries...
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Andrews McMeel Publishing
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[2019]
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English
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Tess wants you to know that she intends to continue throwing up freely as long as the new baby gets to-fair is fair. Ovid would like to inform you that he's giving up one of his nine lives in order to avoid a visit to the vet-he'll miss you and knows you understand. And Quinn assures you that she'll protect you from whatever it is that's rolled under the table with all the righteous fury in her little body-even if only turns out to be a dropped olive.
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68) Barrel fever
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Little, Brown
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c1994
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English
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A collection of essays and stories in which a do-it-yourself surburban dad saves money by performing home surgery, a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world, a bitter Santa abuses the elves, a teenage suicide tries to incite a lynch mob at her funeral and so on.
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Erma Bombeck takes on the unforgiving frontier of American suburbia For years, the Bombecks have heard rumors of a magical land called Suburbia where the air is clean, the grass is trimmed, and children don't risk getting mugged on their walk to school. After watching their friends flee the city for subdivided utopias like Bonaparte's Retreat and Mortgage Mañana, Erma and her family load up their belongings and cry, "Station wagons . . . ho!" But...
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Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors-and born vaudevillians-Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPR's Weekend Edition. Lively, original, and powerfully informative, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar..... is a not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical thinkers and traditions, from Existentialism (What do Hegel and Bette Midler have in...
73) Can I Sit on Your Lap While You're Pooping?: Actual Quotes from an Actual Toddler to Her Actual Dad
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Abrams / Vearsa Limited
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[2016]
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English
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"As a single dad, Matthew Carroll didn't always have someone to share in his frequent laughter and incredulity at the various things his daughter, Morgan, said. Hoping to document some of her best commentary, Carroll took to recording her choicest quotes on his iPhone when she was between the ages of three and five. He then compiled them chronologically in a small homemade volume for friends and family who, compelled by the hilarious and touching...
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Woodhall Press
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[2018]
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English
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"From Dinty W. Moore, founding editor of the popular journal Brevity and prolific and pioneering author of several books of creative nonfiction, including Between Panic and Desire, Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy, and Crafting the Personal Essay, and Tom Hazuka, editor of the anthology Flash Fiction Funny, comes a new book that will make you laugh out loud in 750 words or less! Flash Nonfiction Funny explores the exploding form of very short creative...
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A man walks into a bar. It's a low one, so he gets a promotion within his first six months on the job.
Four comedy writers transform classic joke setups into sharp commentary about the everyday and structural sexism that pervades all facets of life. Jokes to Offend Men arms readers with humorous quips to shut down workplace underminers, condescending uncles, and dismissive doctors, or to share with their exhausted friends at the end of a long...
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Akashic Books
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2011.
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English
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A laugh-out-loud, adults-only bedtime story for parents familiar with the age-old struggle of putting their kids to bed "Hell no, you can't go to the bathroom. You know where you can go? The f**k to sleep." Go the Fuck to Sleep is a book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, it captures the...
78) Goodnight '70s
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Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Illustrated and packaged à la Margaret Wise Brown's Goodnight Moon , Goodnight '70s turns the classic children's book into a baby boomer's ode to the far out 1970s. It's the perfect gift for anyone nostalgic for the good old days of bell-bottoms, disco balls, and 8-track tapes.
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2018]
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English
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A devastatingly hilarious satire that cuts closer to the truth of than any nonfiction account: The creator and star of Comedy Central's acclaimed The President Show opens the vault and imagines Donald J. Trump's presidential archives, exposing documents from his childhood in Queens to his toddlerhood in the Oval Office.
The Presidential Archives. Every other president has made a mess of it. Barack Obama is currently spending millions of dollars...
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