 | Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
Buy used from: $5.29 A hillarious look at the complicated world of grammar that you appreciate only if you're a strange grammar freak like I am. I really hope there are no grammar mistakes in this comment!
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 | When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better And/Or Worse by Ben Yagoda
Buy new: $17.12 / Used from: $0.23 Another funny look at the complicated processes live in the world or words. Again...do not seek out unless you think grammar would be an interesting topic to read about.
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 | The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $0.01 A look by author Bill Bryson at his childhood in Iowa, this book hillariously peers into the inner psyche of 1950's middle America, with all its charm and eccentric details.
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 | In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.48 Author Bill Bryson's best travelogue tells of his journeys through the strange world of Australia.
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 | The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $0.01 In this book, Bill Bryson tackles a country he has never dared venture deep into before: small town America. He finds, not suprisingly, that it is full of odd characters and roadside attractions that have to be seen to be believed.
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 | Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $0.41 Bill Bryson becomes nostalgiac for his youthful venture through the country of Great Brittain and returns to explore more of the fascinating country he has called home for much of his life before moving back to the United States.
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 | I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away by Bill Bryson
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 After returning to the U.S., Bill Bryson takes an outsider's perspective in looking at the oddities alive and well at work in American culture today.
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 | The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $2.49 Yes...another book about grammar, but Bill Bryson's hillarious account of why our language is the way that it is must be experienced if you are at all interested in that kind of thing.
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 | Candy Freak (Large Print) by Steve Almond
Buy used from: $1.17 Steve Almond looks back with nostalgia at his childhood through exploring and remembering all the types of candy he enjoyed as a young kid.
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 | The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.67 Sarah Vowell's odd and random look at the world and the working of our country is simultaneously hillarious and insightful.
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 | Take the Cannoli : Stories From the New World by Sarah Vowell
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $2.70 Sarah Vowell once again looks at our country and offers up her views on what it is that makes it as odd and fascinating as it is.
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 | Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $2.24 Sarah Vowell travels to sights important to the assassinations of three presidents, all with varyign degrees of absurdity and influence, as she tells the sometimes bizarre history behind these history changing events.
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