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Dirk Gently: Book 1
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
by Douglas Adams
There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently's bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.
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Asimov's Limericks
Asimov Laughs Again
More Than 700 Jokes, Limericks, and Anecdotes
by Isaac Asimov
Here are more than 700 of Isaac Asimov's favorite jokes, cleverest limericks and funniest stories.
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Discworld: Book 34
Thud!
by Terry Pratchett
Once, in a gods-forsaken hellhole called Koom Valley, trolls and dwarfs met in bloody combat. Centuries later, each species still views the other with simmering animosity. Lately, the influential dwarf, Grag Hamcrusher, has been fomenting unrest among Ankh-Morpork's more diminutive citizens—a volatile situation made far worse when the pint-size provocateur is discovered bashed to death . . . with a troll club... (more)
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The Stainless Steel Rat: Book 10
The Stainless Steel Rat Joins The Circus
by Harry Harrison
Slippery Jim DiGriz. The galaxy's greatest thief and con artist: the Stainless Steel Rat. For novel upon novel, Jim DiGriz has outfoxed the forces of conventionality, cutting a stylish swathe through dozens of star systems. Now, Slippery Jim and his beautiful wife Angelina find themselves becalmed on a painfully boring backwater planet, with nothing to do but practice their skills at computer crime. Then... (more)
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The Stainless Steel Rat: Book 6
A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born
by Harry Harrison
In the auspicious annals of crime, chicanery, and counterespionage, one name towers above all the rest - Slippery Jim diGriz, the famous outlaw known and feared as the Stainles Steel Rat! Now the uncanny, untold origins of the 25th century's most canny criminal are at last revealed. This thrilling volume in the saga of James diGriz explores his humble beginnings as a petty criminal on the... (more)
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The Stainless Steel Rat: Book 9
The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell
by Harry Harrison
Slippery Jim diGriz , alias the Stainless Steel Rat, the galaxy's greatest thief and con artist, returns in his most devilish caper yet. DiGriz is strenuously fighting boredom on a ritzy pleasure planet when his beloved wife disappears while vising the Temple of Eternal Truth, an enigmatic institution that promises its patrons a sneak peek at Heaven--for a price. Determined to get his wife back, diGriz takes on... (more)
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The Stainless Steel Rat: Book 8
The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues
by Harry Harrison
Cutting a deal with the authorities to escape a death sentence, Slippery Jim deGriz prepares to retrieve a missing alien artifact from the Liokukae, a planet that serves as a dumping ground for the Galactic League's misfits. Reprint. PW. K.
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Discworld: Book 26
Thief of Time
by Terry Pratchett
Everybody wants more time, which is why on Discworld only the experts can manage it -- the venerable Monks of History who store it and pump it from where it's wasted, like underwater (how much time does a codfish really need?), to places like cities, where busy denizens lament, "Oh where does the time go?" While everyone always talks about slowing down, one young horologist is about to do the unthinkable. He's... (more)
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Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber
The Katya Livingston Chronicles
by Adele Lang
Bitingly written with wit and style reminiscent of Candace Bushnell, Adèle Lang’s novel is a cutting, bitchy, hilarious take on the young-single-British-woman genre. When weasel-eyed tax inspectors question her claims, Katya is forced to keep a financial diary. As well as documenting the cruel and parsimonious ways of her ad agency boss, Katya waxes lyrical about putting up with loser friends, mortal enemies, and... (more)
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Towing Jehovah
Towing Jehovah
by James Morrow
The discovery of God's corpse in the mid-Atlantic poses a menace to navigation and to faith. Charged with captaining a supertanker as it tows the two-mile long corpse northward to the Arctic so that it can be preserved, Anthony Van Horne must contend with sabotage (both natural and spiritual) and mutiny along the way. An allegorical tale certain to entertain and provoke.
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Wyndham Werewolf: Book 5
Dead and Loving It
by MaryJanice Davidson
USA Today bestselling author MaryJanice Davidson has enchanted readers everywhere with her delicious blend of wicked humor, sizzling sex and a totally unique vision of vampires and werewolves. Now, in this collection of four sensual novellas, worlds collide when she brings her beloved Wyndham werewolves together with the vampires ruled by Undead Queen Betsy Taylor. In three of her most popular novellas, a... (more)
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Outlands: Book 1
Politically, Fashionably, and Aerodynamically Incorrect
The First Outland Collection
by Berkeley Breathed
the Sunday spinoff of ""Bloom County,"" introduces uninitiated readers to such new Breathed creations as Rosebud the Basselope and Milquetoast the cross-dressing cockroach. 150,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.
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Tales From the White Hart
by Arthur C. Clarke
You come upon the "White Hart" quite unexpectedly in one of these anonymous little lanes leading down from Fleet Street to the Embankment. It's no use telling you where it is: very few people who have set out in a determined effort to get there have actually arrived. For the first dozen visits a guide is essential: after that you'll probably be all right if you close your eyes and rely on instinct. Also--to be... (more)
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In Me Own Words: The Autobiography of Bigfoot
by Graham Roumieu
Roumieu, whose illustrations have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Progressive, reveals the hairy hominids's brave struggles with eating disorders, casual cannibalism, and philosophical quandaries ("Me once believe in good. Now, no. World go shit, like Bigfoot screenwriting career.") In a full-color graphic novel, Roumieu offers a portrait of the artist as a young ape that will... (more)
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Maniac Magee
by Jerry Spinelli
Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might have lived a normal life if a trolley accident hadn't made him an orphan. After living with his unhappy and uptight aunt and uncle for eight years, he decides to run-and not just run away, but run.
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The Men I Didn't Marry: A Novel
by Janice Kaplan
The authors of the national bestsellers Mine Are Spectacular! and The Botox Diaries apply their trademark wit and wisdom to another delicious read. Join Hallie Lawrence Pierpont as she’s whisked away on a journey into her past love life that leads to her future. Hallie’s husband, Bill, doesn’t even wait until they get home from dropping off their youngest daughter at Yale to announce that he’s leaving–for fitness... (more)
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Retief
Retief!
by Keith Laumer
"...into the chaotic Galactic political scene, the CDT emerged to carry forward the ancient diplomatic tradition . . : Corps diplomats displayed an encyclopedic grasp of the nuances of Extra-Terrestrial mores asset against the labyrinthine socio-politico-economic Galactic context..."—Official History of the Corps Diplomatique, AD 2940 NOT! What they really had was Retief! Ignore the official version—in... (more)
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Hard
by Emma Gold
First Emma Gold took on sex. Now she takes on the world of work in this brilliant new novel. Our heroine enjoys her job as a recruitment consultant until her boss starts being suggestive in a way that she's not too keen on. But when she protests, she's sacked. There's only one way to get her revenge - and that's in court. As the case proceeds, it starts to take its toll. How will her romance with the sexy... (more)
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Easy
by Emma Gold
One single girl's piercing look at the truth behind relationships.
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Calvin and Hobbes: Book 8
The Days Are Just Packed
by Bill Watterson
Zounds! Spaceman Spiff, Stupendous Man, the ferocious tiger Hobbes, and the rest of Calvin's riotous imagination are all included in The Days Are Just Packed. Calvin, the irrepressible pint-sized tyrant, is always bursting with energy. And the new volume's oversized 12-by-9 inch format provides Calvin's outrageous fantasies room to explode. Nowhere does the spiky-haired miscreant stretch out more than in the... (more)

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