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| The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Book
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Robert Mankoff, intro.
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| Publisher: Andrews McMeel. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780740777509. Daedalus Item Code: 24115 |
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| Easily one of The New Yorker's most popular features, the weekly Cartoon Caption Contest invites readers to supply their own gag line to one of the magazine's famously droll cartoons, and ... (Read More)
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| The 2000 Year Old Man: The Complete History
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Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks.
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| Publisher: Shout Audio Books. Format: 3 audio CDs.
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| ISBN: 9781603993142. Daedalus Item Code: 29124 |
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| Inspired by an ad lib comment in a television sketch in 1961, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner's comedy routine about the oldest man in the world became an instant classic, whose wide-ranging influence is ... (Read More)
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| Accidental Inventions: The Chance Discoveries That Changed Our Lives
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Birgit Krols.
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| Publisher: Insight. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781608870738. Daedalus Item Code: 31012 |
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| As difficult as it might be to imagine a world without Coca-Cola, Post-it notes, or Velcro, these inventions have one thing in common: they were invented accidentally, usually while trying to develop ... (Read More)
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| The Art of Aging: A Doctor's Prescription for Well-Being
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Sherwin B. Nuland.
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| Publisher: Random House. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780812975413. Daedalus Item Code: 31262 |
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| In his landmark 1994 National Book Award winner How We Die, surgeon Sherwin Nuland altered our perception of the end of life. Here Nuland steps back to explore the impact of aging on our minds ... (Read More)
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| Barrel Fever and Other Stories: Stories and Essays
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David Sedaris. Read by David Sedaris and Amy Sedaris.
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| Publisher: Grand Central. Format: 3 audio CDs.
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| ISBN: 9781586212216. Daedalus Item Code: 23368 |
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| What better than a David Sedaris book read aloud by Sedaris himself? How about one read by David and his hilariously off-kilter sister Amy? Both Daedalus favorites, the Sedaris siblings here ... (Read More)
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| The Best American Comics 2011
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Alison Bechdel, ed. Jessica Abel & Matt Madden, series eds.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: laminated cover.
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| ISBN: 9780547333625. Daedalus Item Code: 30409 |
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| The author of the Eisner Award– and Lambda Award–winning graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Alison Bechdel presents this collection of the best stories from graphic novels, pamphlet ... (Read More)
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| The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012
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Dave Eggers, ed. Ray Bradbury, intro.
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| Publisher: Mariner. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780547595962. Daedalus Item Code: 31543 |
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| For 2012, the highly popular annual contribution to the Best American series from McSweeney's editor and part-time pirate Dave Eggers features an introduction by the late Ray Bradbury on the ... (Read More)
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| A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents—And Ourselves
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Jane Gross.
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| Publisher: Vintage. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780307472403. Daedalus Item Code: 29433 |
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| When Jane Gross—a longtime New York Times expert on the subject of elder care—suddenly became caretaker for her 85-year-old mother, she was forced to face challenges that even she had never ... (Read More)
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| Bon Mots, Wisecracks, and Gags: The Wit of Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, and the Algonquin Round Table
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Robert E. Drennan, ed. Heywood Hale Broun, intro.
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| Publisher: Skyhorse. Format: flexi-binding.
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| ISBN: 9781616087135. Daedalus Item Code: 31807 |
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| For more than a decade following World War I, the dining room of New York's Algonquin Hotel was a hub of letters and wit. Cocktails were swilled as the writers, humorists, actors, and critics of the ... (Read More)
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| The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning
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Peter Trachtenberg.
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| Publisher: Little, Brown. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780316158794. Daedalus Item Code: 13766 |
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| What does it mean to suffer? What enables some people to emerge from tragedy while others are spiritually crushed by it? And why do so many Americans think of suffering as something that should ... (Read More)
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