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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
x, 276 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction. A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes--only to discover how claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins--turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new...
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Worst. Person. Ever. is a deeply unworthy book about a dreadful human being with absolutely no redeeming social value. Raymond Gunt, in the words of the author, is a living, walking, talking, hot steaming pile of pure id.
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 8
Publisher
Maverick Books
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
136 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hank the cowdog goes to the rescue as a wild, one-eyed horse creates havoc on the ranch but some of his outrageous stunts get him into more trouble than he bargained for.
Author
Publisher
Oliver Arts & Open Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
167 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
George Haskel, a retired professor of German literature, decides to found an institute to promote dullness, as a counterpoint to the hustling celebrity culture of contemporary America. The venture soon attracts a number of brilliant misfits, who transform the project into a political movement, the Authentic Party, that ultimately swells to 8 million members. Events begin to overtake George and his merry band, as luminaries such as Bill Maher, Woody...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Physical Desc
277 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A tale set in a near-future coastal Ireland finds the long-time rule of dapper godfather Logan Hartnett threatened by the return of an old nemesis, the ambitions of once-trusted henchmen, and his wife's request for him to abandon his life of crime.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
North Archer, Andie Miller's ex-husband, asks her to become the guardian of two orphans who have driven out three nannies already--and live in a haunted house! What follows is a hilarious adventure in exorcism, including a self-doubting parapsychologist, an annoyed medium, her Tarot-card reading mother, an avenging ex-mother-in-law, and, of course, her jealous fianc.̌ And just when Andie thinks things couldn't get more complicated, North shows up...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xv, 200 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Scalping Columbus is a collection of short stories that are in part autobiographical and in part fictional. Narrated in a style reminiscent of Indian oral tradition, Fortunate Eagle employs humor and satire to entertain and challenge society. The stories range from author's experiences as an activist in the Bay Area to his encounter with the Pope in Rome and back to his childhood. Most of the stories are short and easy to read--
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Authentic Cajun touches (and recipes) spice up Wheaton's delightful debut yarn about faith and the yearnings of the flesh. Fr. Steve Sibille, the reflective protagonist, is re-evaluating his vow of celibacy after being tempted by Vicky Carrier, the sinfully conceived but beloved daughter of St. Peter's church's former padre. Father Steve considers the repeated advice of his family friend Miss Rita, a scene-stealing African-American centenarian who...
13) Losing it
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A poignant, hilarious novel about a woman who still has her virginity at the age of twenty-six, and the summer she's determined to lose it and find herself. Julia Greenfield has a problem: she's twenty-six years old and she's still a virgin. Sex ought to be easy. People have it all the time! But, without meaning to, she made it through college and into adulthood with her virginity intact. Something's got to change. To re-route herself from her stalled...
15) Las imperfectas
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol, una division de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
191 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Author
Publisher
Opus
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
viii, 232 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Jean Shepherd, the great American humorist, radio raconteur, master storyteller, and bestselling author, has left his indelible imprint on American culture. This collection of Jean Shepherd army stories was selected and transcribed from radio programs by Shepherd biographer Eugene Bergmann and is in print for the first time.--Publisher.
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
157 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a humorous spoof on the novel The Hunger Games, which follows the efforts of a young girl who is roped into a survival contest in order to save her community in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic world.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
231 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Approaching what she believes will be the most interesting period of her life, nearly sixty-year-old curmudgeon Marie Sharp eschews the trend-oriented activities of her peers in order to enjoy her relationship with a new grandchild and a new gentleman friend.
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
416 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After being together for ten years, Sylvie and Dan have all the trimmings of a happy life and marriage; they have a comfortable home, fulfilling jobs, beautiful twin girls, and communicate so seamlessly, they finish each other's sentences. However, a trip to the doctor projects they will live another 68 years together and panic sets in. They never expected until death do us part to mean seven decades. In the name of marriage survival, they quickly...
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
279 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Entrepreneur and mom Julia Bailey tries to get her fledgling company making organic toddler meals off the ground while taking care of her family and balancing the needs of her two sons, in a text that includes recipes.
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