false 826 0 0 177692 0897459970 9780897459976 1 <![CDATA[Primitive Wilderness Living and Survival Skills]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172451281m/177692.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172451281s/177692.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/177692.Primitive_Wilderness_Living_and_Survival_Skills 4.42 12 826 4.22 65 16 1993 295352 0967877776 9780967877778 1 <![CDATA[Primitive Wilderness Living & Survival Skills: Naked into the Wilderness]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173477594m/295352.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173477594s/295352.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/295352.Primitive_Wilderness_Living_Survival_Skills_Naked_into_the_Wilderness 4.44 9 826 4.22 65 16 103479 4.33 15 1 1993 1052193 0897459849 9780897459846 0 <![CDATA[Primitive Wilderness Skills, Applied & Advanced]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180540009m/1052193.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180540009s/1052193.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1052193.Primitive_Wilderness_Skills_Applied_Advanced 4.50 6 826 4.22 65 16 1996 2232291 1569756503 9781569756508 0 <![CDATA[Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Living: Surviving with Nothing But Your Bare Hands and What You Find in the Woods]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2232291.Ultimate_Guide_to_Wilderness_Living_Surviving_with_Nothing_But_Your_Bare_Hands_and_What_You_Find_in_the_Woods 4.17 6 826 4.22 65 16 103479 4.33 15 1 2008 1378393 0836217284 9780836217285 2 <![CDATA[Close To Home: High School Isn't Pretty]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183099651m/1378393.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183099651s/1378393.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1378393.Close_To_Home_High_School_Isn_t_Pretty 3.67 3 High School Isn't Pretty, he explores the netherworld of adolescence and young adulthood, that time in everyone's life when the quest for coolness prevails over all other impulses. And McPherson looks at this world differently than the rest of us do: He notices the oddities, the idiosyncrasies, the inconsistencies that make us human and make us laugh. His oddball characters and unusual situations strike a universal chord because they present a distorted mirror of ourselves. High school was never this much fun!]]> 826 4.22 65 16 1993 1245 0740761986 9780740761980 0 <![CDATA[A Million Little Pieces of Close to Home: A Close to Home Collection]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1157865755m/1245.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1157865755s/1245.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1245.A_Million_Little_Pieces_of_Close_to_Home_A_Close_to_Home_Collection 3.67 3 Close to Home cartoon to contort their facial muscles into an unstoppable grin each day. Not even Botox can stop you from smiling at this latest collection of Close to Home.

How do you measure a cartoon's popularity? The true measure of a comic panel's popularity is how often it is posted on a refrigerator, cubicle, break room bulletin board, or office door. By that standard, Close to Home wins the comic panel popularity contest hands down.

Close to Home captures the humor in all facets of life. From home to hospitals, from classrooms to courtrooms, from boardrooms to backyards-there's a Close to Home panel that hits us where we live and work and play.

A Million Little Pieces of Close to Home features hilarious panels first published in newspapers in the year 2000, the year of the Y2K scare that never materialized. Of course, that's just the kind of thing you'd expect from a Close to Home world.

]]> 826 4.22 65 16 2006 102234 0740753657 9780740753657 0 <![CDATA[When Bad Things Happen to Stupid People: A Close to Home Collection]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171484693m/102234.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171484693s/102234.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/102234.When_Bad_Things_Happen_to_Stupid_People_A_Close_to_Home_Collection 3.50 2 Carried in 700 papers worldwide, including the Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the Miami Herald, and the Tokyo Times, Close to Home has devout fans that range from elementary students to octogenarians. As one fan put it, "I feel like you have been looking in my window and are drawing my life!" Though by no means a Peeping Tom, John McPherson does have the unique skill of being able to take those idiosyncrasies of daily life that drive us all nuts and infuse them with razor-sharp wit. With an award-winning line of greeting cards, a top-selling block calendar, and a line of clothing, Close to Home continues to gain momentum among readers.

In this latest collection John features angry letters from readers, cartoons that were killed by the editor, a glimpse inside his creative process, and never-before-seen photos of his erasers, quill pens, and his lucky drawing slippers. Who could resist it?

]]> 826 4.22 65 16 2005 2735910 0836236580 9780836236583 0 <![CDATA[Close To Home Unplugged: The Second Close to Home Anthology]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2735910.Close_To_Home_Unplugged_The_Second_Close_to_Home_Anthology 5.00 1 826 4.22 65 16 1997 736385 0740768468 9780740768460 1 <![CDATA[Everything I Need to Know I Learned on Jerry Springer: A Close to Home Collection]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/736385.Everything_I_Need_to_Know_I_Learned_on_Jerry_Springer_A_Close_to_Home_Collection 5.00 1 Close to Home Collection is the 14th Close to Home collection. Creator John McPherson's sardonic wit creates an innocent hullabaloo with the Center for Nursing Advocacy and earns the accolades of Leavenworth Federal Detention Center's inmate #19108045.McPherson's mastery is elevating the mundane to the magnificent. Scenes of societal sloth, coworker conundrums, dysfunctional discord, and medical malpractice become achingly funny when sketched by his pen.

]]> 826 4.22 65 16 2007 1197181 0967877784 9780967877785 0 <![CDATA[Primitive Wilderness Skills, Applied & Advanced]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181802671m/1197181.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181802671s/1197181.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1197181.Primitive_Wilderness_Skills_Applied_Advanced 4.00 1 826 4.22 65 16 2001