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The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-up Comedian
W. Kamau Bell
Penguin Books
Hardcover
9781101985878
2017
$28.00
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Do the Work!: An Antiracist Activity Book
W. Kamau Bell and Kate Schatz
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Fighting the Lamb's War: Skirmishes With the American Empire : The Autobiography of Philip Berrigan
Philip Berrigan, Fred A. Wilcox, and Fred Wilcox
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Odd Man Out: A Memoir of the Hollywood Ten
Edward Dmytryk
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The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
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Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary (Documents of Twentieth Century Art)
Hugo Ball, John Elderfield, and Ann Raimes
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The Pain Journal (Native Agents)
Bob Flanagan
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Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger
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My Bondage and My Freedom (Black Rediscovery)
Frederick Douglass
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Memoirs of a Dada Drummer (The Documents of Twentieth Century Art)
Richard Huelsenbeck and Hans J. Kleinschmidt
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Back on the Road: A Journey Through Latin America
Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Alberto Granado, Richard Gott, and Patrick Camiller
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Memoirs
Tennessee Williams and John Waters
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The Motion of Light in Water
Samuel R. Delany
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The Autobiography of Leroi Jones
Imamu Amiri Baraka
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The Last Time I Wore A Dress
Daphne Scholinski
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West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Political Memoir
William Blum
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The Complete Persepolis: Now a Major Motion Picture
Marjane Satrapi
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Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Ekwueme Michael Thelwell, and John Edgar Wideman
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Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps (New York Review Books Classics)
Emmett Grogan and Peter Coyote
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Gringo: A Coming of Age in Latin America
Chesa Boudin
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The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Memoirs of a Revolutionist (Dover Books on History, Political and Social Science)
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin and Nicolas Walter
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Necropolis (Slovenian Literature Series)
Boris Pahor and Michael Biggins
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1
Mark Twain, Harriet E. Smith, Benjamin Griffin, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Sharon K. Goetz, and Leslie Diane Myrick
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Jim Thompson
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Just Kids
Patti Smith
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Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon
Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa and Mim Eichler Rivas
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Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir
Cornel West
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Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
Stacy Pershall
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Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond
David Gilbert and Boots Riley
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Siberian Education: Growing Up in a Criminal Underworld
Nicolai Lilin and Jonathan Hunt
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Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
Alison Bechdel
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Unbowed: A Memoir
Wangari Maathai (Author)
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Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition
Mark Twain
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Yokohama Threeway: And Other Small Shames
Beth Lisick
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Love's Work
Gillian Rose
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Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Jeanette Winterson
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Words Without Music: A Memoir
Philip Glass (Author)
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Yes Please
Amy Poehler
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Ray Bradbury: the Last Interview: And Other Conversations
Ray Bradbury
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My Chinese Dream: From Red Guard to CEO
Ping Liu
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The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
Issa Rae
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Clothes Music Boys
Viv Albertine
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Starve the Vulture: A Memoir
Jason Carney
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One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir
Binyavanga Wainaina
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Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, & Me: a Graphic Memoir
Ellen Forney
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Berlin Childhood Circa 1900
Walter Benjamin and Carl Skoggard (Translator)
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The Autobiography of Mark Twain: Deluxe Modern Classic
Charles Neider and Mark Twain
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A Simple Revolution: The Making of an Activist Poet
Judy Grahn
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Choctalking on Other Realities
LeAnne Howe
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Kissing the Sword: A Prison Memoir
Shahrnush Parsipur
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The Tin Ring
Zdenka Fantlová
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And Then I Danced: Traveling the Road to Lgbt Equality
Mark Segal
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Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
Carmen Aguirre
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My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement
Alix Dobkin
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Big Freedia: God Save the Queen Diva!
Big Freedia and Nicole Balin
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Life After Death
Damien Echols
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Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes: A Memoir of Dublin in the 1950s
Martha Long
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Ma, Jackser's Dyin Alone
Martha Long
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My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past
Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair
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Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival
Sean Strub
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Negroland: A Memoir
Margo Jefferson
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Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
Damon Tweedy, M.D.
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A Semite: A Memoir of Algeria
Denis Guénon
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Wounded in the House of a Friend
Sonia Sanchez
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Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Marya Hornbacher
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I'll Tell You in Person
Chloe Caldwell
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Mean Little Deaf Queer: A Memoir
Terry Galloway
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MDC - Memoir from a Damaged Civilization: Stories of Punk, Fear, and Redemption
Dave Dictor
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Outlaw
Jon Gnarr
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Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout
Laura Jane Grace
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Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man
Marcus Baram
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Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions, and Criticisms
Michelle Tea
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No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
Darnell L Moore
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My Riot: Agnostic Front, Grit, Guts & Glory
Roger Miret
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Duran Duran, Imelda Marcos, and Me
Lorina Mapa
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Sakine Cansiz
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Heart Berries: A Memoir
Terese Marie Mailhot
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Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir
T Kira Madden
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Bound: A Daughter, a Domme, and an End-Of-Life Story
Elizabeth Anne Wood
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How To Be Autistic
Charlotte Amelia Poe
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My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race, and Defiance
Harry Belafonte and Michael Shnayerson
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A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Rebecca Solnit
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What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man's Blues
Clifford Thompson
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Pass with Care
Cooper Lee Bombardier
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Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir
Robin Ha
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Anything for a Hit: An A&R Woman's Story of Surviving the Music Industry
Dorothy Carvello
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Never Silent: ACT Up and My Life in Activism
Peter Staley
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Part of My Soul Went with Him
Winnie Mandela and Mary Benson
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Slugg : A Boy's Life in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Tony Lewis, Jr. and K.L. Reeves
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You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir
Wole Soyinka
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Dungeons 'n' Durags
Ron Dawson
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This Heart Holds Many: My Life As the Nonbinary Millennial Child of a Polyamorous Family
Koe Creation
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Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays
Marcie Alvis Walker
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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir
Rupaul
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The Transvestite Memoirs
Abbie De Choisy
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My Life: A Spoken Autobiography
Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet
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Gender Queer: A Memoir
Maia Kobabe
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The Big Book of the Dead
Marion Winik
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Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home
Sheri Booker
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Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl
Jeannie Vanasco
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Jeannie Vanasco
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Rat Girl
Kristin Hersh
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Living the Asian Century: An Undiplomatic Memoir
Kishore Mahbubani
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Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, new edition: Collected Stories
Cookie Mueller
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Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
Kathleen Hanna
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In the Sierra: Mountain Writings (New Directions Paperbook)
Kenneth Rexroth and Kim Stanley Robinson (Editor)
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Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope
Carmelo Anthony and D. Watkins
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Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness
Baynard Woods
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Grace Jones and Paul Morley
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Dadland
Keggie Carew
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X : As Told to Alex Haley
Attallah Shabazz (introduction), Alex Haley, and Malcolm X
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Crazy Like a Fox: Adventures in Schizophrenia
Christi Furnas
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Ivan E. Coyote
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Black Boy Smile: A Memoir in Moments
D. Watkins
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Breaking the Curse: A Memoir about Trauma, Healing, and Italian Witchcraft
Alex DiFrancesco
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First Comes Love: A Memoir
Marion Winik
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Coming of Age in Mississippi
Anne Moody
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The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir
D. Watkins
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M.K. Asante Jr.
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The Last Holiday: A Memoir
Gil Scott-Heron
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Dover Thrift Editions)
Frederick Douglass
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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
Audre Lorde
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Crazy Brave: A Memoir
Joy Harjo
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A Queer and Pleasant Danger: A Memoir
Kate Bornstein
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The Rice Room: Growing Up Chinese-American from Number Two Son to Rock 'n' Roll, Updated and Expanded Edition
Ben Fong-Torres
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Modern Romance
Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg
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Eddie Huang
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Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner
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Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America
John Waters
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The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust
Noam Chayut
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Commies : A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left and the Leftover Left
Ronald Radosh
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Bert and I: The Book
Marshall Dodge and Robert Bryan
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Get Your War On
David Rees and Colson Whitehead
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The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
Max Brooks
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The Snark Handbook: Insult Edition: Comebacks, Taunts, and Effronteries
Lawrence Dorfman
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The Snark Handbook: Sex Edition: Innuendo, Irony, and Ill-Advised Insults on Intimacy (Snark Series)
Lawrence Dorfman
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Poets Ranked by Beard Weight: The Commemorative Edition
Upton Uxbridge Underwood, Mahendra Singh, Jack Passion, and Gilbert Alter-Gilbert
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Snark! The Herald Angels Sing: Sarcasm, Bitterness and the Holiday Season (Snark Series)
Lawrence Dorfman
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Black Is the New White
Paul Mooney and Dave Chappelle
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The Snark Handbook: Politics and Government Edition: Gridlock, Red Tape, and Other Insults to We the People (Snark Series)
Lawrence Dorfman
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America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't
Stephen Colbert
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Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World that Made Him
David Henry and Joe Henry
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Things I Want to Punch in the Face
Jennifer Worick (Author)
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Why Not Me?
Mindy Kaling
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Dear White People
Justin Simien
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If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too?
Cynthia Heimel
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The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason
Chapo Trap House, Felix Biederman, Matt Christman, Brendan James, Will Menaker, and Virgil Texas
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Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist
Franchesca Ramsey
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The Snark Handbook: Cliches Edition: Overused Buzzwords, Hackneyed Phrases, and Other Misuses of the English Language
Lawrence Dorfman
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Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines
Bill Hicks and John Lahr
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A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works (Dover Thrift Editions)
Jonathan Swift
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