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For more than 30 years, WonderWord has delighted and challenged puzzle players every day. Each puzzle is built by hand from legendary puzzle creator David Ouellet. Each puzzle is also themed, often bringing in pop culture and trending topics. Monday through Saturday puzzles are a 15x15 grid, and on Sunday the puzzle jumps to a 20x20 version for even more game play. Get lost in the most essential, habitual, and enthralling puzzle! WonderWord is great for all ages.

Millions enjoy WonderWord every day . . . are you one of them? WonderWord Treasury 8 includes 130 puzzles, 31 of which are the larger 20 x 20 grid! Get lost in the most essential, habitual, and enthralling puzzle!

Who doesn''t feel a slight panic when called upon to say grace? Ack! Mealtime Blessings is the answer to your prayers. Collected here are more than 40 graces to say at mealtime or anytime when called upon.From the intro: "Ever since man has gathered to break bread, a mealtime prayer has helped to bring family and friends together.... What a wonderful gift we can give to our families at mealtime. During a moment of prayer, the house is quiet, work stands still, our hands stop moving, and only words of thanksgiving break the silence. It is peaceful, private, and shared with family and others who make our world what it is. In this way, it brings us closer together."

He blusters and grumbles. He rants and raves. He tries to outgun the school kids chasing after the bus on his route.  But in his heart, Ed Crankshaft has a decent streak a mile wide. Patiently explaining death to his grandson Max. Comforting his friend Ralph as Ralph''s wife descends into Alzheimer''s. Thrusting flowers and candy at his son-in-law on a nearly forgotten wedding anniversary. The star of the hit comic strip Crankshaft is a gentle soul stuck in a cantankerous mood.With a supporting cast that includes Ed''s two daughters, Chris and Pam; Pam''s husband, Jeff; and their kids, Max and Mindy, Crankshaft appeals to families everywhere who steadfastly deal with intergenerational cares and conflicts. As one critic said: ""Crankshaft is a witty, thoughtful commentary on the trials and tribulations of today''s senior citizens."" But, of course, Crankshaft is so much more. The strip''s approach to Alzheimer''s generated countless letters and e-mails, as did Crankshaft''s near-death illness. Hilarious and clever, honest and moving, Crankshaft both keeps readers laughing at the curmudgeon''s pranks and pondering life''s real meaning in this collection, Your Favorite...Crab Cakes! It''s a balancing act that''s rarely attempted in the comics-and with Crankshaft, it works admirably.

For more than 30 years, WonderWord has delighted and challenged puzzle players every day. Each puzzle is built by hand from legendary puzzle creator David Ouellet. Each puzzle is also themed, often bringing in pop culture and trending topics. Monday through Saturday puzzles are a 15x15 grid, and on Sunday the puzzle jumps to a 20x20 version for even more game play. Get lost in the most essential, habitual, and enthralling puzzle! WonderWord is great for all ages.

For more than 30 years, WonderWord has delighted and challenged puzzle players every day. Each puzzle is built by hand from legendary puzzle creator David Ouellet. Each puzzle is also themed, often bringing in pop culture and trending topics. Monday through Saturday puzzles are a 15x15 grid, and on Sunday the puzzle jumps to a 20x20 version for even more game play. Get lost in the most essential, habitual, and enthralling puzzle! WonderWord is great for all ages.

For more than 30 years, WonderWord has delighted and challenged puzzle players every day. Each puzzle is built by hand from legendary puzzle creator David Ouellet. Each puzzle is also themed, often bringing in pop culture and trending topics. Monday through Saturday puzzles are a 15x15 grid, and on Sunday the puzzle jumps to a 20x20 version for even more game play. Get lost in the most essential, habitual, and enthralling puzzle! WonderWord is great for all ages.

This is the first collection of The Big Picture, a strip that chronicles the author''s own absurdist take on life.

Features the continuing adventures of the plucky career woman as she struggles with the everyday trials of being young and single in the 1990s.

Cartoons provide a humorous view of the frustrations and rewards of contempor family life as Adam attempts to run his business from home while caring for house and children.

Cartoons offer a humorous look at dating, tax returns, shopping, housework, interior decorating, television, work, and parents.

Cartoons feature life in the Fox family, including Peter's on-and-off romance, Paige's passion for shopping, their little brother Jason's plots to torment Paige, and their parents' efforts to cope with them all.

FoxTrot chronicles the Fox family and their typical suburban life. If by typical life you somehow meant iguanas, math jokes, World of Warcraft references, and one-up-manship in the sibling prank department.

Follows the day-to-day travails of a single, thirtyish career woman who never meets Mr. Right, has run-ins with her boss, overeats, overshops, and balances her checkbook by changing banks.

Cartoons offer a humorous look at the experiences of Adam, a house husband coping with young children and housework.

The Fox family's offbeat vacation into the desert descends into chaos as the members of the family cope with an order (through the drive-in window) for two million cheeseburgers, a broken Nintendo, bikini shopping, and other perils of modern life.

Cartoons follow the ups and downs of the Patterson family and celebrate the life of their beloved 14-year-old sheep dog, Farley.

Cartoons poke fun at Cathy's struggle to overcome guilt feelings, find happiness in her personal relationships, and achieve success at her job.

John Rosemond''s latest work covers every conceivable aspect of parenting from Allowances to Sibling rivalry with the same characteristic wit and practical wisdom that millions of parents have cherished in his six previous books, including Making the "Terrible" Twos Terrific, John Rosemond''s Six-Point Plan for Raising Happy, Healthy Children and A Family of Value.This day-to-day collection contains 366 tips or "reflections" for battle-worn parents, one per dated page. True to form, the reflections are often humorous, always common-sensical, and always thought provoking. Taken together, they illuminate the complex web that exists between child rearing, marriage, and the family.Rosemond''s philosophy harkens back to a simpler time when "because I said so," was the only reason a parent ever needed to give a child. Nothing has changed, says Rosemond. Successful parenting still calls for the same basic ingredients that worked for thousands of previous generations. By following his old-fashioned, common sense advice, parents can avoid raising children who are spoiled and sassy and deal effectively with daily problems as diverse as bedwetting and boredom, territoriality and television.

A new selection of comic strips from the award-winning, nationally syndicated series features Cathy's latest relationship with fitness freak Alex, ten years younger than her, and other pitfalls of being a single white female. Original. 100,000 first print

"Crankshaft has touched on a raft of senior concerns with humor and often poignancy, including illness, mortality, making out a will, literacy, physical deterioration, vulnerability, security, and, recently, muggings and Alzheimer''s disease." -The Telegraph, Alton, IllinoisCranky Ed Crankshaft is at it again, gunning his school bus so he can outdistance the little Johnson girl, backing over the Keestermans'' mailbox, and holding up a record-breaking line of cars. It''s just another day for the sixty-something curmudgeon who''s earned a soft spot in the hearts of millions of readers.Originally spun off from the popular Funky Winkerbean strip, Crankshaft is an enormously popular character in his own right. Writer Tom Batiuk and artist Chuck Ayers combine their talent and insights into a strip that deals with aging in a heartfelt and funny way. "After sixty, it''s just patch, patch, patch," says Crankshaft as he waits at the doctor''s office.In this Crankshaft book, I''ve Still Got It!, readers can follow their beloved grandfather figure as he struggles with new challenges, from a friend with Alzheimer''s disease to another friend who''s been mugged. Along the way, Crankshaft continues his quest to finally read all the Popular Mechanics magazines daughter Pam has given him over the years.Although readers love Crankshaft because the strip makes them laugh, they also cherish the panel''s honesty about issues faced by people of all ages, from literacy to illness to crime. They also appreciate the real feelings that linger just below the surface between Crankshaft and his housemates-daughter Pam, son-in-law Jeff, and their kids Max and Mindy, his stray cat, Pickles, and his girlfriend, Grace.

This strip is the culmination of a life''s worth of dreams. I''m using the opportunity to entertain, enlighten, and be the trembly voice of the socially awkward everywhere." -Cory Thomas An edgy and nuanced strip-chronicling the demanding but reflective lives of six urban teens at Oliver Otis University.More Watch Your HeadCory Thomas''s Watch Your Head is presented through the eyes of Cory, an academically brilliant but socially inept college student. His friends at Otis U. include Omar, a recluse who seems umbilically tied to his computer; Quincy, Omar''s friend (and therefore Cory''s friend by default); and Kevin, who, as both a Canadian and one of the few whites on a predominantly black campus, feels like a foreigner times two. Robin, the object of Cory''s crush, and Jason, Cory''s roommate and polar opposite, round out the cast. Through this diverse group, Thomas provides a raw critique on current social issues while perfectly relating the amusements, angst, and growth that come with the college experience. Watch Your Head currently appears in papers stretching from New York, Washington, D.C., and Boston to Chicago, Dallas, and St. Petersburg. This inaugural book offering collects more than 40 weeks of strips.

Is your face suffering from a lack of exercise? Readers rely on John McPherson's 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.

This zany strip enters the comic-collection scene with circus-like zeal. All that''s missing is a parade of elephants and a clown-car escort.Gary and Glenn McCoy''s delightfully absurd comic panel blends superheroes, office humor, huggable animals, and twisted relationships in a bizarre marriage of Gary Larson, the New Yorker, Conan O''Brien, and Mad Magazine. Put succinctly, the brothers McCoy present "comics for a bold new world." Creating a world where greeting cards heal hospital patients, police officers pull over children driving bumper cars, babies use the patch to quell the pacifier habit, and nudists find out what constitutes a streaker in their colony, the St. Louis area natives alternate writing and drawing duties for the daily panel.The brothers each have been nominated for multiple National Cartoonists Society awards, and Glenn has won in three categories. Gary McCoy''s past as a comedian (he won HBO''s Stand-Up Stand-Off contest for the St. Louis area in 1995) also shines through in the strip''s offbeat humor.Their impressive freelance client list reads like a who''s who in cartooning: Disney, DreamWorks, and Hyperion, to name just a few.

Dogs and comic strips enjoy a long history together. But leave it to the highly creative mind of cartoonist Steve Watkins to come up with a "dawg" like no other. Watkins''s pooch is none other than DJ Dog, a down-on-his-luck, ex-rap star canine forced by circumstances beyond his control to become a permanent houseguest in a suburban family household. Talk about culture shock! Watkins pulls off this unlikely scenario in his hot comic strip, Housebroken, which captures fans everywhere it appears.

Soccer is the hottest trend in years, and Bill Hinds''s comic strip Cleats finds endless humor in the sport''s rowdy but lovable players, coaches, and parents. Cleats follows the trials and tribulations of a thoroughly contemporary team: Abby Harper, a competitive but kind 11-year-old on a select soccer team; Jack Dooley, Abby''s 10-year-old neighbor, who''s determined to move up from his recreational team to a select team; Armando "Mondo" Ruiz, a talented player who continues his family''s tradition in the sport but prefers to remain on a rec team; Coaches "Bull" Tippit, a granite-jawed retired military man, and earnest Chester Nordling. Given soccer''s soaring popularity, Who Tracked Soccer Through the House? A Cleats Collection is sure to score.

Somewhere between here and anywhere, in a trailer park called "The People''s Court," lives a bespectacled, floppy-footed girl named Agnes. Her age falls exactly between the wide-eyed times when fairy tales are embraced as truth and the darker, later years when cynicism starts to take its toll. The other players in this small sideshow are Grandma, a hardworking, underpaid Golden Ager who worries that she may be a little too old for the challenge of raising a granddaughter, and Trout, Agnes''s best friend. Trout was named after one of her father''s biggest passions and, according to her, she was only three numbers from being christened Powerball. Trout tries to temper Agnes''s stigmatism of hope with her own doctrine of realism. Together they weather the major tribulations that only childhood can make so monumental. Trout aspires to pilot a soft-serve ice cream machine so all the kids will laugh and yell "Hey, Ice Cream Lady!" Agnes merely wants to be crowned lord queen of the unknown universe. They will probably end up on different bowling leagues.

Ferociously Close to Home delivers McPherson's trademark take on the absurdities of everyday life. To say that his solutions to these perplexing situations is 'out there' is an understatement. Consider Gina, who decides a branding iron will be the ideal memory aid for her birthday date-challenged husband. And poor Lanny, whose treadmill session is interrupted when he inadvertently triggers the health club's offensive odor alarm. McPherson has long walked the line between grotesque and goofy. But somehow, his figures with big noses and bulging eyes connect with readers with a surefire magnetic precision. Whether it's health care or parenting, dating or car repairs, Close to Home delivers McPherson's warped world without fail.

The little kid with the giant personality is back! Hey, James! is the second collection of acclaimed comic strips from the award-winning pen of cartoonist Mark Tonra. James may or may not be the center of the universe-as he thinks-but there''s no arguing that he is indeed at the heart of one of the most inventive "kid" strips to hit the funny pages in almost a decade.With his equally lovable and quirky conspirators along for the ride, James explores the world and himself-laying bare the fragile and eccentric humanity in all of us. In a neighborhood where shirt gerbils prance and hungry shadows raid refrigerators, James chugs life like a summertime slurpy-without the brain freeze.Using his clean spontaneous pen line, Mark Tonra again marries insight and whimsy to deliver a book that''s both hilarious and enlightening. Hey, James! is a satisfying celebration of every reader''s inner and outer child. Enjoy!

Start with an everyday occurrence, add several helpings of absurdity, a few cups of silliness, and a dash of sickness and you get Close to Home. The goofy people and brilliant humor of this single-panel strip have put smiles on the faces of readers. This kooky collection, Close to Home Exposed, captures the hilarity of some of its best cartoon panels. As the comic's name suggests, Close to Home provides humor that's comfortable and familiar; yet the strip also has a palpable element of danger or nonsense. Topics vary widely, from health care and parenting to car repairs and shopping. But whether it's addressing dating or death--or just as likely, dating and death--Close to Home always delivers the off-center laughs its readers have come to expect."Close to Home is always a scream, and I love the goofy people that you draw. Truth is, I work with a lot of these folks." --Tom D."Where do you come up with these comics'! They are totally stupendous and are a big part of my stupid and nauseating life. You're the best!" --Sleepless in New York"Every day you make me laugh!! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!" --An Online Fan