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The Wall Street Journal's popular columnist Jason Gay delivers a hilarious and heartfelt guide to modern living. “The book you hold in your hand is a rule book. There have been rule books before—stacks upon stacks of them—but this book is unlike any other rule book you have ever read. It will not make you rich in twenty-four hours, or even seventy-two hours. It will not cause you to lose eighty pounds in a week. This book has no abdominal exercises. I have been doing abdominal exercises for most of my adult life, and my abdomen looks like it’s always looked. It looks like flan. Syrupy flan. So we can just limit those expectations. This book does not offer a crash diet or a plan for maximizing your best self. I don’t know a thing about your best self. It may be embarrassing. Your best self might be sprinkling peanut M&M’s onto rest-stop pizza as we speak. I cannot promise that this book is a road map to success. And we should probably set aside the goal of total happiness. There’s no such thing. I would, however, like for it to make you laugh. Maybe think. I believe it is possible to find, at any age, a new appreciation for what you have—and what you don’t have—as well as for the people closest to you. There’s a way to experience life that does not involve a phone, a tablet, a television screen. There’s also a way to experience life that does not involve eating seafood at the airport, because you should really never eat seafood at the airport. Like the title says, I want us all to achieve little victories. I believe that happiness is derived less from a significant single accomplishment than it is from a series of successful daily maneuvers. Maybe it’s the way you feel when you walk out the door after drinking six cups of coffee, or surviving a family vacation, or playing the rowdy family Thanksgiving touch football game, or just learning to embrace that music at the gym. Accomplishments do not have to be large to be meaningful. I think little victories are the most important ones in life.” — From the Introduction 

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9780385539463 | Doubleday, November 3, 2015, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Wall Street Journal's popular columnist Jason Gay delivers a hilarious and heartfelt guide to modern living.

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9780804173322, titled "Little Victories: A Sportswriter's Notes on Winning at Life" | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, May 31, 2016), cover price $14.95 | also contains Little Victories: Perfect Rules for Imperfect Living, Little Victories: Perfect Rules for Imperfect Living

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9781455554959 | Twelve, July 14, 2015, cover price $22.00

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9781455554966 | Twelve, July 12, 2016, cover price $14.99

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Product Description: Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri shares her stories of awkwardness in this insightful and supremely funny debut.Most twentysomethings avoid awkwardness. Not Alexandra Petri.She auditioned for America’s Next Top Model. She lost Jeopardy! by answering “Who is that dude?” One time, she let some cult members baptize her, just to be polite...read more

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9780451469601 | New Amer Library, June 2, 2015, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri turns her satirical eye on her own life in this hilarious new memoir.

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9780451469618 | New Amer Library, June 7, 2016, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri shares her stories of awkwardness in this insightful and supremely funny debut.

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Paperback:

9781455544677 | Grand Central Pub, January 14, 2014, cover price $14.00

CD/Spoken Word:

9781478911104 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, March 1, 2016), cover price $35.00

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Product Description: That's right; Fangoria Magazine’s Ken Hanley has devoted his life of uplifting the spirits and changing the lives of monsters across this great nation of ours. Vampires, Mummies, Wolfmen, Gillmen and Monsters (Frankenstein's or Otherwise) will finally be able to step out of the shadows after reading The I in Evil and be the social, conscientious citizens without the psycho-and-sociological issues that plague mankind every day...read more

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9781634503105 | Skyhorse Pub Co Inc, October 27, 2015, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: That's right; Fangoria Magazine’s Ken Hanley has devoted his life of uplifting the spirits and changing the lives of monsters across this great nation of ours.

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By Neil Gaiman (foreword by)

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9780804169226 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, September 1, 2015), cover price $15.95

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Product Description: “Damn, this book is good.”—Jon StewartEmmy Award–winning writer Adam Resnick began his career at Late Night with David Letterman before honing his chops in movies and cable television, including HBO’s The Larry Sanders Show...read more

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9780399160387 | Blue Rider Pr, May 1, 2014, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Adam Resnick, an Emmy Award-winning writer for NBC’s Late Night with David Letterman, has spent his entire life trying to avoid interaction with people.

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9780147516213 | Reprint edition (Plume, July 28, 2015), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: “Damn, this book is good.

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Product Description: AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINAL  Virginia Woolf called Max Beerbohm “the prince” of essayists, F. W. Dupee praised his “whim of iron” and “cleverness amounting to genius,” while Beerbohm himself noted that “only the insane take themselves quite seriously...read more
By Phillip Lopate (introduced by)

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9781590178287 | New York Review of Books, June 2, 2015, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINAL  Virginia Woolf called Max Beerbohm “the prince” of essayists, F.

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9780385537056 | Doubleday, May 6, 2014, cover price $24.95
9780312756062, titled "State and Society in Dar Fur" | Palgrave Macmillan, September 1, 1980, cover price $35.00 | also contains State and Society in Dar Fur

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9780345804334, titled "The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death" | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, March 3, 2015), cover price $15.00
9780380299768, titled "Oprah Book Club Selection #28" | Avon Books, November 1, 1999, cover price $13.00 | also contains Oprah Book Club Selection #28

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Product Description: “Annabelle Gurwitch is the child prodigy of the literature on aging. The only downside of this book is that it is bound to deepen your laugh lines.”—Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed Actor and humorist Annabelle Gurwitch returns with a wickedly funny book of essays about the indignities faced by femmes d’un certain âge...read more

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9780399166181 | Blue Rider Pr, March 6, 2014, cover price $25.95

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9780142181874 | Reprint edition (Plume, February 24, 2015), cover price $16.00 | also contains I See You Made An Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50, I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50, I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50, I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50 | About this edition: “Annabelle Gurwitch is the child prodigy of the literature on aging.

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9781501226557 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, February 24, 2015), cover price $19.99 | also contains I See You Made An Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50, I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50, I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50, I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50
9781491543931 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, September 16, 2014), cover price $14.99 | also contains I See You Made An Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50, I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50, I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50, I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50

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Hardcover:

9781455576098 | Large print edition (Grand Central Pub, March 11, 2014), cover price $31.99
9781455599738 | Grand Central Pub, March 4, 2014, cover price $27.00

Paperback:

9781455599714 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, February 17, 2015), cover price $16.00

CD/Spoken Word:

9781478978176 | Unabridged edition (Hachette Audio, February 17, 2015), cover price $30.00

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Product Description: The writing in this book is so bad, it deserves its own taxonomy of suckitude.Gillian Flynn, Mary Roach, Dave Eggers, Rick Moody, Chuck Palahniuk, Amy Tan, A.J. Jacobs, Daniel Clowes, Jeff Greenwald, Po Bronson…the list goes on...read more
By Julia Scott (editor)

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9780399168888 | J P Tarcher, September 2, 2014, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The writing in this book is so bad, it deserves its own taxonomy of suckitude.

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Product Description: Breaking from the tradition of buttoned-up guides for girls, Girl Talk is an illustrated collection of hysterically funny and necessary reflections on life, love, and making it in the modern world.Combining etiquette tips with true stories from her own not always quite together life, Christie Young proves herself to be adept around managing life’s vicissitudes...read more

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9780385345545 | Clarkson Potter, August 26, 2014, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Breaking from the tradition of buttoned-up guides for girls, Girl Talk is an illustrated collection of hysterically funny and necessary reflections on life, love, and making it in the modern world.

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Paperback:

9781593765255 | Reprint edition (Soft Skull Pr, October 29, 2013), cover price $15.95

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