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Product Description: "America's irrepressible doyenne of domestic satire."THE BOSTON GLOBEMadcap, bittersweet humor in classic Erma Bombeck-style. You'll laugh until it hurts and love it! "Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet, he's treading water...read more
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Hardcover:

9780385083331, titled "At Wit's End" | Doubleday, June 1, 1967, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A popular columnist discusses suburbia and the predictable hazards of family life

Paperback:

9780449211847, titled "At Wit's End" | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, November 1, 1988), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: "America's irrepressible doyenne of domestic satire.

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Product Description: "She goes a long way with her book to prove that humor is the best -- possibly the only -- way to keep the world on an even keel."CHICAGO SUN-TIMESRemember the things Mother used to say? Erma Bombeck remembers them all and now she's using them on her own kids! With clever illustrations by Bob Keane, these really funny, too-true observations on family and kids and why it shouldn't work but does, is a wonderful antitdote to the daily problems and crises that every family faces...read more
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Hardcover:

9780896215528 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, August 1, 1984), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Whimsical cartoons and dialogues from two of America's foremost humorists depict aspects of life with adolescents
9780385024631, titled ""Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!"" | Doubleday, September 1, 1971, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Cartoons and dialogues depict the humorous aspects of life with teen-agers

Paperback:

9780449208342 | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, May 1, 1999), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: "She goes a long way with her book to prove that humor is the best -- possibly the only -- way to keep the world on an even keel.

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Product Description: Erma Bombeck has learned a few things about children and family over the years--and in a way that is uniquely and wonderfully her own, she shares everything she knows with her readers. Whether it's cleaning up after the kids and him, or expendable mothers-in-law, Erma Bombeck gets to the heart of the matter and makes us laugh through our tears...read more
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Hardcover:

9780385029049 | Doubleday, July 1, 1973, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: The nationally syndicated columnist humorously views marriage and motherhood in this collection of anecdotes

Paperback:

9780345467591 | Fawcett Books, March 1, 1995, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Erma Bombeck has learned a few things about children and family over the years--and in a way that is uniquely and wonderfully her own, she shares everything she knows with her readers.
9780449211182 | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, December 1, 1993), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: "A truly wise and funny woman; a laugh-till-you cry book.

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Product Description: "She is marvelously funny, direct as a hypodermic, a virtuoso in the field of suburban living....Lovely stuff."VOGUEIt's the expose to end all exposes--the truth about the suburbs: where they planted trees and crabgrass came up, where they planted the schools and taxes came up, where they died of old age trying to merge onto the freeway and where they finally got sex out of the schools and back into the gutters...read more
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Hardcover:

9780816165025 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, June 1, 1977), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Erma Bombeck lays bare the truth about the people of suburbia and their extraordinary way of life
9780070064508 | McGraw-Hill, September 1, 1976, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Erma Bombeck lays bare the truth about the people of suburbia and their extraordinary way of life

Paperback:

9780345471727 | Fawcett Books, January 1, 1995, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: "She is marvelously funny, direct as a hypodermic, a virtuoso in the field of suburban living.
9780449207598 | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, March 1, 1988), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Erma Bombeck lays bare the truth about the people of suburbia and their extraordinary ways of life

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Product Description: "See if you can read a paragraph without laughing out loud."Art BuchwaldThe enchanting lady of laughter has done it again--this time taking a hilarious swipe at husbands, honeymoons, tennis elbow, marriage, lettuce, the national anthem, and a host of other domestic dilemmas...read more
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9780070064515, titled "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?" | McGraw-Hill, March 1, 1978, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Erma Bombeck assesses the individual's chances for survival in the seventies, dealing with such issues as the difficulty of replacing a toilet-tissue spindle and the recent discovery that lettuce is fattening

Paperback:

9780449208397 | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, May 1, 1990), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Explores domestic dilemmas ranging from husbands and honeymoons to tennis elbow and the national anthem

CD/Spoken Word:

9780788747625, titled "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries: What Am I Doing in the Pits" | Unabridged edition (Recorded Books, November 1, 2000), cover price $39.00 | About this edition: "See if you can read a paragraph without laughing out loud.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781559949521, titled "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?" | Harperaudio, June 1, 1994, cover price $16.00
9780070064690 | McGraw-Hill/Tdm Audio, October 1, 1990, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: "See if you can read a paragraph without laughing out loud.

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A self-described 'Sub-Total Woman,' Bombeck gently satirizes America's raging how-to/self-help mania, focusing on such national pastimes as Sensual Needlepoint and Inner Bowling
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9780070064522 | McGraw-Hill, September 1, 1979, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A self-described 'Sub-Total Woman,' Bombeck gently satirizes America's raging how-to/self-help mania, focusing on such national pastimes as Sensual Needlepoint and Inner Bowling

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9780449240519 | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, October 1, 1982), cover price $8.65

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Product Description: At Wit's End, Aunt Erma's Cope Book, The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank and If Life is a Bowl of Cherries What am I Doing in the Pits?
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Paperback:

9780449620366 | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, October 1, 1982), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: At Wit's End, Aunt Erma's Cope Book, The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank and If Life is a Bowl of Cherries What am I Doing in the Pits?

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Gathers the author's humorous essays about family life, teenagers, housework, pregnancy, and marriage
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Hardcover:

9780385183949 | Doubleday, March 1, 1983, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Gathers the author's humorous essays about family life, teenagers, housework, pregnancy, and marriage

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An incisive, witty study of the many diverse roles of a mother takes a compassionate, original, and hilarious look at the frustrations and fulfillments, trials and tribulations of modern motherhood
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9780816136025 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, March 1, 1984), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: An incisive, witty study of the many diverse roles of a mother takes a compassionate, original, and hilarious look at the frustrations and fulfillments, trials and tribulations of modern motherhood
9780070064546 | McGraw-Hill, October 1, 1983, cover price $12.95

Paperback:

9780440159018 | Reissue edition (Dell Pub Co, May 1, 1991), cover price $5.99

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780070064683 | McGraw-Hill/Tdm Audio, May 1, 1989, cover price $9.95

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9780896215283 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, June 1, 1984), cover price $13.95

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9780961416904 | Dayton Philharmonic, June 1, 1985, cover price $10.00

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Product Description: "Her audience is everyone who has ever married, had children, gotten to middle age, owned a dog or a duck."DALLAS TIMES HERALDIn this book Erma comes out--out of the kitchen--with these gems:No longer will she be the only woman on the block to wear a slip under a see-through sweater, or feel guilty if the sun sets on an empty crockpot, nor will she care that she flunked her paper towel test...read more
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9780449209370 | Reprint edition (Fawcett Books, August 1, 1985), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: "Her audience is everyone who has ever married, had children, gotten to middle age, owned a dog or a duck.

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9780449209400 | Fawcett Books, November 1, 1985, cover price $17.75

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9780449212585 | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, October 1, 1986), cover price $24.96

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The well-known humorist takes a witty, compassionate, poignant, and nostalgic look at the small and large triumphs of American family life in the 80s (view table of contents)
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Hardcover:

9780070064607 | McGraw-Hill, October 1, 1987, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A cherished family reunion sets the stage of Erma Bombeck's predictably hilarious recollections of raising a family.

Paperback:

9780449215296, titled "Family: The Ties That Bind and Gag" | Reprint edition (Fawcett Books, June 1, 1991), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: The well-known humorist takes a witty, compassionate, poignant, and nostalgic look at the small and large triumphs of American family life in the 80s

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Product Description: A cherished family reunion sets the stage of Erma Bombeck's predictably hilarious recollections of raising a family. Her conclusion: you can't live with them, you can't live without them...or can you...?
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Hardcover:

9780816144334, titled "Family: The Ties That Bind...and Gag!" | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, April 1, 1988), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Essays offer a humorous look at children, the past, family pictures, fruitcakes, laxatives, pets, electricity bills, dinner time, technology, vacation trips, Halloween, and cars

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780070064676 | McGraw-Hill/Tdm Audio, November 1, 1988, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A cherished family reunion sets the stage of Erma Bombeck's predictably hilarious recollections of raising a family.

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Provides a satirical view of motherhood, suburbia, and the problems of contemporary family life
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9780070064560 | Book Sales, May 1, 1989, cover price $9.98 | About this edition: Provides a satirical view of motherhood, suburbia, and the problems of contemporary family life

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The story of children fighting and surviving cancer is a tale of innocent courage and remarkable strength of character in the face of a seemingly implacable foe
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9780060161705 | Harpercollins, September 1, 1989, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The story of children fighting and surviving cancer is a tale of innocent courage and remarkable strength of character in the face of a seemingly implacable foe

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The story of children fighting and surviving cancer is a tale of innocent courage and remarkable strength of character in the face of a seemingly implacable foe
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Hardcover:

9780517080603 | Harpercollins, May 1, 1992, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: The story of children fighting and surviving cancer is a tale of innocent courage and remarkable strength of character in the face of a seemingly implacable foe

Paperback:

9780061099052 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, August 1, 1990), cover price $5.50 | About this edition: The story of children fighting and surviving cancer is a tale of innocent courage and remarkable strength of character in the face of a seemingly implacable foe

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781559940313 | Caedmon Audio Cassette, September 1, 1989, cover price $9.95

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The popular humorist offers tips and truisms on travel, discussing oddly named food, Asian bus drivers in Germany, plumbing around the world, and more. Reprint. NYT. K.
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Hardcover:

9780060183110 | Harpercollins, August 1, 1991, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: America's favorite housewife takes a witty look at family vacations, describing her escapades in Istanbul, the Galapagos Islands, and other locales

Paperback:

9780061099816 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, May 1, 1997), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: America's favorite housewife takes a witty look at family vacations, describing her escapades in Istanbul, the Galapagos Islands, and other locales

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780694514786 | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, May 1, 1994), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Join Erma Bombeck as she travels the world with family in tow.

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Takes a witty look at family vacations, describing the author's escapades in Istanbul, the Galapagos Islands, and other locales
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Hardcover:

9780060183202 | Large print edition (Harpercollins, August 1, 1991), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Takes a witty look at family vacations, describing the author's escapades in Istanbul, the Galapagos Islands, and other locales

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Product Description: The author of Family: The Ties That Bind . . . and Gag! turns her eye on the institution of marriage, charting her own wedded bliss from ""Living on Love"" to the stage of ""Get a (Mid) Life."" 500,000 first printing. $350,000 ad/promo.
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Hardcover:

9781568950242 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, December 1, 1993), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: The author turns her attention to the institution of marriage, charting her own wedded bliss from 'Living on Love' to the stage of 'Get a (Mid) Life'
9780060183226, titled "A Marriage Made in Heaven... or Too Tired for an Affair" | Harpercollins, September 1, 1993, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The author looks at the institution of marriage, charting her own wedded bliss from 'Living on Love' to the stage of 'Get a (Mid) Life'

Paperback:

9780061092022, titled "A Marriage Made in Heaven... or Too Tired for an Affair" | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, November 1, 1994), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: The author looks at the institution of marriage, charting her own wedded bliss from 'Living on Love' to the stage of 'Get a (Mid) Life'

CD/Spoken Word:

9780786199228 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 1, 1996), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786119257 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 2001), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The author of Family: The Ties That Bind .
9780786106639 | Blackstone Audio Inc, March 1, 1995, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: [This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.

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The author looks at the institution of marriage, charting her own wedded bliss from 'Living on Love' to the stage of 'Get a (Mid) Life.'
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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781559947411 | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, October 1, 1993), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The author looks at the institution of marriage, charting her own wedded bliss from 'Living on Love' to the stage of 'Get a (Mid) Life.

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Product Description: Here in one volume are three of Bombeck's hilarious books on family humor. Includes At Wit's End, "Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!" and I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression.544 pp. 6 x 9. Orig. 3 vols. $26.85.
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Hardcover:

9780883657218 | Reissue edition (Bbs Pub Corp, September 1, 1994), cover price $11.99 | About this edition: Here in one volume are three of Bombeck's hilarious books on family humor.

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