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That's How They Get You: An Unruly Anthology of Black American Humor
Damon Young
Pantheon
Hardcover
9780593317112
2025
$28.00
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Humor and Comedy
Bert and I: The Book
Marshall Dodge and Robert Bryan
$16.95
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Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines
Bill Hicks and John Lahr
$16.95
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Get Your War On
David Rees and Colson Whitehead
$11.00
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A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works (Dover Thrift Editions)
Jonathan Swift
$4.00
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The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
Max Brooks
$14.99
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The Snark Handbook: Insult Edition: Comebacks, Taunts, and Effronteries
Lawrence Dorfman
$12.95
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The Snark Handbook: Sex Edition: Innuendo, Irony, and Ill-Advised Insults on Intimacy (Snark Series)
Lawrence Dorfman
$12.95
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Poets Ranked by Beard Weight: The Commemorative Edition
Upton Uxbridge Underwood, Mahendra Singh, Jack Passion, and Gilbert Alter-Gilbert
$12.95
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Snark! The Herald Angels Sing: Sarcasm, Bitterness and the Holiday Season (Snark Series)
Lawrence Dorfman
$12.95
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Black Is the New White
Paul Mooney and Dave Chappelle
$17.99
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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
$12.95
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America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't
Stephen Colbert
$28.99
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The Snark Handbook: Cliches Edition: Overused Buzzwords, Hackneyed Phrases, and Other Misuses of the English Language
Lawrence Dorfman
$12.95
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Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World that Made Him
David Henry and Joe Henry
$25.95
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Things I Want to Punch in the Face
Jennifer Worick (Author)
$11.95
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Why Not Me?
Mindy Kaling
$25.00
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Dear White People
Justin Simien
$19.99
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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
$28.00
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If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too?
Cynthia Heimel
$20.00
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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
$17.00
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Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist
Franchesca Ramsey
$16.99
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