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Cardboard Gods is the memoir of Josh Wilker, a brilliant writer who has marked the stages of his life through the baseball cards he collected as a child. It also captures the experience of growing up obsessed with baseball cards and explores what it means to be a fan of the game. Along the way, as we get to know Josh, his family, and his friends, we also get Josh’s classic observations about the central artifacts from his life: the baseball cards themselves. Josh writes about an imagined correspondence with his favorite player, Carl Yastrzemski; he uses the magical bubble-blowing powers of journeyman Kurt Bevacqua to shed light on the weakening of the powerful childhood bond with his older brother; he considers the doomed utopian back-to-the-land dreams of his hippie parents against the backdrop of inimitable 1970s baseball figures such as “Designated Pinch Runner” Herb Washington and Mark “The Bird” Fidrych. Cardboard Gods is more than just the story of a man who can’t let go of his past, it’s proof that — to paraphrase Jim Bouton — as children we grow up holding baseball cards but in the end we realize that it’s really the other way around.

With more than 1200 questions, this new Would You Rather...? collection is antic, audacious, comic, comical, hilarious, humorous, hysterical, riotous, side-splitting, and uproarious and will provide hours of amusing, diverting, jocular, playful, waggish, whimsical, witty, gleeful, merry, and/or mirthful entertainment.

Since the publication of the first Would You Rather...? title in 1997, Justin Heimberg and David Gomberg have gone forth to spawn a franchise that shows no signs of slowing down or growing old. In this hilariously hefty addition to the series, the authors have created more than 1,500 all-new, never-before-published questions that will have regular readers and newcomers alike laughing out loud as they ponder the often outrageous, sometimes sinful, usually unusual, and unfailingly uproarious questions posed.

This giant compendium of Would You Rather...? questions carefully selected from the author''s oeuvre along with selection of new questions created just for this volume stands as the authors'' masterwork. Sure to appeal both to Would You Rather...? scholars as well as the casual fan, Would You Rather...? Anthology is the stocking stuffer that will send holiday shoppers in search of a bigger stocking and recipients in search of weight training classes.What began as the musings of two recent college graduates in search of gainful employment spawned first a book, then a series of books, a publishing house, a political movement, and ultimately a complete lifestyle. Even surviving the backlash of David Gomberg''s now-infamous "Would You Rather...? is more popular than The Beatles now" quote of 2004, the timeless nature and simple joys of Would You Rather...? have transcended the confines of popular culture to become an institution.

This book isn''t simply a guide to living cheaply: it''s more than that. It''s a celebration of the fact that you don''t have to be rich to enjoy your life. You don''t have to have designer clothes and expensive things to prove you''re amazing. What makes life interesting is not the things that you own, but the sh*t that you do. Young, Broke, and Beautiful is a celebration of the fact that readers don''t have to be rich to enjoy life; it''s about using the resources they have around them to enrich their existence of "e;brokeitude."e; Broke-Ass Stuart takes under his wing those readers seeking to live life to the fullest and provides, in his inimitable raw and frank way, how to do it on the cheap. Subjects addressed include dating, eating, travel, housing, shopping, job hunting, entertainment, drinking, health care, and more.

There are hundreds of online companies that will do your homework for you – at a price. But will they write ANY essay you request? Only the WORST of these horrible companies were employed in the composition of Mindsploitation. A GREAT DEAL of money was wasted ACROSS THE GLOBE to commission what may be the dumbest collection of ridiculous assignments in HUMAN HISTORY.What does it say about our society that we can buy a quick custom eulogy for our grandmother, or pay to have a love poem for a mistress prepared by a stranger at the click of a button? How entitled is a culture that keeps these services afloat? Mindsploitation uses such questions as a launching pad for wildly entertaining comedic exchanges. The 50 assignments in this book hilariously explore self-help, spirituality, family, health, diet, pop culture, love, and more.

Filled with the kind of imaginative and edgy (but family-friendly) humor children love, Would You Rather ...? Supremely Strange is an all-new addition to the stomach-churning, laugh-inducing line that began with the American Library Association's Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, Would You Rather ...? Gross Out. Whether read alone or used in a group as a party game, writing exercise, or icebreaker, Would You Rather ...? Supremely Strange will have readers giggling and gagging as they have too much fun to notice they're building their reading, comprehension, and cognition skills. Would you rather...have fish hook fingernails or screwdriver toenails? Would you rather...have a unicorn horn on your head or on your chin? Would you rather...only be able to move forward while jumping rope OR only be able to eat while wearing a baby's bib?