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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Paperback) By Trevor Noah $18.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Truth in Comedy (Paperback) By Charna Halpern, Del Close, Kim Howard Johnson $18.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Planet Funny: How Comedy Ruined Everything (Paperback) By Ken Jennings $17.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
I Fart in Your General Direction!: Flatulence in Popular Culture (Paperback) By Don H. Corrigan $29.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	The History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey through the Art and Craft of Humor (Hardcover) By Keegan-Michael Key, Elle Key $29.95 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days	Funny Feelings (Paperback) By Tarah DeWitt $14.99 Contact us to check availability or search our used and rare book site at www.findbooks.com
How to be the Greatest Improviser on Earth (Paperback) By Will Hines, Malin Von Euler-Hogan (Editor), Nick Jaramillo (Designed by) $15.00 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days	Comedy Bang! Bang! The Podcast: The Book (Hardcover) By Scott Aukerman, Patton Oswalt (Foreword by), Bob Odenkirk (Foreword by), Jack Quaid (Preface by), Tatiana Maslany (Preface by), Lin-Manuel Miranda (Introduction by), “Weird Al” Yankovic (Introduction by) $29.99 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Backordered	Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture–and the Magic That Makes It Work (Hardcover) By Jesse David Fox $29.00 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days
Improvise. 2nd Edition (Paperback) By Mick Napier, Stephen Colbert (Foreword by) $22.95 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days	Tremendous: The Life of a Comedy Savage (Hardcover) By Joey Diaz, Erica Florentine (With) $26.95 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days	I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood (Paperback) By Jessi Klein $18.99 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days

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Science Friday Book Club

Listeners to NPR's Science Friday may know that the program also has a monthly book club, with recommendations each month.

If you'd like to join the discussion of the books, you can visit their website here, and all books featured can also be directly ordered from the Book House!

November: The Alchemy of Us by Ainissa Ramirez

December: The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023 edited by Carl Zimmer and Jaime Green

January: An Immense World by Ed Yong