We'd like to share our personal favorites with you. Here are titles that we particularly want to "hand-sell" to you—books that we think are outstanding, and that we don't want you to miss.
On October 27, 1878, thieves stole nearly $3 million in cash and securities (worth $50 million today) from the Manhattan Savings Institution. The greatest bank robbery in American history, it was ... (Read More)
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Lenny Bruce—unedited, uncensored, and unapologetic—is brought to life in this unprecedented collection of recordings. Nearly 40 years after his death, Bruce is still known as a brilliant, outspoken ... (Read More)
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"I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them," former New York mayor Ed Koch famously quipped, and here he pilots a book full of such Big Apple chutzpah, refreshingly blunt observations, and eloquent ... (Read More)
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Will Pearson, Mangesh Hattikudur & John Green, eds.
Publisher: Collins. Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780060882501. Daedalus Item Code: 31107
What does Greece (the country) have to do with Grease, the movie? And what does Grease, the movie, have to do with greasy food? Plenty, if you ask the folks at mental_floss. ... (Read More)
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(Winner of the 2001 Thurber Prize for American Humor) Originally published in 2000, this wildly popular collection of 27 comedic stories from David Sedaris was written largely in France and ... (Read More)
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This is no rulebook about salad forks and calling cards; it is a witty, sophisticated guide to the new principles of modern social behavior by a psychologist turned alternative-etiquette-and-ethics ... (Read More)
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Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. Eric Idle, ed.
Publisher: Hyperion. Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781401323677. Daedalus Item Code: 30058
Let's say, for the sake of argument, that you've already availed yourself of all the Monty Python television recordings, books, feature films, memoirs, concert performances, side projects, and ... (Read More)
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A companion to the previous collection of readings from Napalm & Silly Putty, this audiobook picks up where the original left off. Here are more dog moments ("Life is a series of dogs"), ... (Read More)
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Having already conquered the cartoon world with Cat in 1975, B. (Bernard) Kliban revealed just how bizarre his perspective on life truly was with this follow-up collection of cartoons, on ... (Read More)
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"Never let 'em see you sweat"; "Never change diapers in mid-stream"; "Never let a crisis go to waste"; "Never ruin an apology with an excuse"; and "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have ... (Read More)
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During the 1950s, under the Humorama banner, Abe Goodman churned out scores of cheap digest-sized magazines that featured cheesecake photos and single panel pin-up cartoons, including the work ... (Read More)
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Just how great a poet was Walt Whitman, a man of slight beard, compared to Samuel Morse, a poet as well as an inventor, whose massive Garibaldi Elongated–style beard embodied nearly three times the ... (Read More)
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