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  • Great Sex After 50! And Other Outlandish Lies About Getting Older
    Author:

    McPherson, John

    Summary:

    "Where there is stress, or receding hairlines and liver spots, there is humor." —John McPherson More than one third of the world's population is officially over the hill, while the

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  • The Get Well Book A Little Book of Laughs to Make You Feel a Whole Lot Better
    Author:

    McPherson, John

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    Canfield, Jack

    Summary:

    If laughter is the best medicine, The Get Well Book by John McPherson is just what the doctor ordered.

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  • Exposed A Close to Home Collection
    Author:

    McPherson, John

    Summary:

    Start with an everyday occurrence, add several helpings of absurdity, a few cups of silliness and a dash of sickness and you get Close to Home.

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  • Everything I Need to Know I Learned on Jerry Springer A Close to Home Collection
    Author:

    McPherson, John

    Summary:

    Where there is stress, there is humor." —John McPherson Close to Home, syndicated by Universal uClick, lampoons the best of popular culture one controversy at a time.

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  • Close to Home Uncut A Close to Home Collection
    Author:

    McPherson, John

    Summary:

    Only in the world of Close to Home can you find hospitals staffed with hypochondriac-sniffing dogs, Yellowstone employees who secretly spike Old Faithful with gallons of Mr.

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  • Ferociously Close to Home A Close to Home Collection
    Author:

    Zweig, Eric

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    McPherson, John

    Summary:

    Ferociously Close to Home delivers McPherson's trademark take on the absurdities of everyday life.

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  • The Scourge of Vinyl Car Seats A Close to Home Collection
    Author:

    McPherson, John

    Summary:

    No one walks away from a Close to Home cartoon unscathed. John McPherson's lumpy characters and bizarre situations are tailor-made for gut-splitting laughs.

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  • Women Are From Venus, Men Are Idiots
    Author:

    McPherson, John

    Summary:

    Inside Women Are from Venus, Men Are Idiots, Close to Home cartoonist John McPherson illustrates what happens when planets—and planetary beings—just don't seem to align.

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  • When Bad Things Happen to Stupid People A Close to Home Collection
    Author:

    McPherson, John

    Summary:

    Some call it weird. Others, eclectic, creative, hilarious, laugh-out-loud funny and good old-fashioned snort-milk-out-your-nose humor.

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  • McPherson on Sports A Close to Home Collection
    Author:

    McPherson, John

    Summary:

    Sports is one of cartoonist John McPherson's favorite topics for lampooning. The frustration inherent in almost any sport makes for a perfect comic target.

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  • The Voyageur Essays & Criticism 2-Book Bundle Selected Writings, A. J. M. Smith / The Kindred of the Wild
    Author:

    Smith, A. J. M.

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    Gnarowski, Michael

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    Roberts, Charles G. D.

    ,

    Polk, James

    Summary:

    Voyageur Classics is a series of new versions of Canadian classics, with added material and special introductions. In this bundle we find two classic works of the art of the Canadian essay.

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  • The Voyageur Canadian Biographies 5-Book Bundle The Firebrand / Mrs. Simcoe's Diary / The Scalpel, the Sword / The Men of the Last Frontier / Pilgrims of the Wild
    Author:

    Owl, Grey

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    Polk, James

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    Gnarowski, Michael

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    Eayrs, Hugh

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    Allan, Julie

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    Allan, Norman Bethune

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    Ostrovsky, Susan

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    Gordon, Sydney

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    Innis, Mary Quayle

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    Simcoe, Elizabeth Posthuma

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    Kilbourn, William

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    Stagg, Ronald

    Summary:

    Voyageur Classics is a series of special versions of Canadian classics, with added material and new introductory notes.

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  • God's Sparrows
    Author:

    Child, Philip

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    Calhoun, James R.

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    Gnarowski, Michael

    Summary:

    A new edition of Philip Child’s great Canadian novel of the First World War.

    Genre: Canadian fiction, Historical fiction

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  • Flying a Red Kite
    Author:

    Hood, Hugh

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    Gnarowski, Michael

    Summary:

    A beautiful new edition of Hugh Hood’s debut story collection.

    Genre: Canadian fiction, Short stories

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  • The Yellow Briar A Story of the Irish on the Canadian Countryside
    Author:

    Slater, Patrick

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    Gnarowski, Michael

    Summary:

    Folktale, memoir, fiction, literary hoax, The Yellow Briar is all of these.

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