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Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About: A Novel

Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About: A Novel

by Mil Millington

Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About concerns a guy named Pel who lives with his German girlfriend, Ursula. Pel leads an uneventful life—quietly bluffing his way through his job and discovering new things to argue about with Ursula. But when his boss mysteriously disappears, Pel steps innocently into his shoes and his life spirals out of control in a chaotic whirl of stolen money, missing colleagues, and... (more)

Turning Thirty

by Mike Gayle

What's the big deal? Unlike a lot of people, Matt Beckford is actually looking forward to turning thirty. His twenties really weren't so great...and now he has his love life, his career, his finances -- even his record collection -- pretty much in order, like any good grown-up should. But when, out of the blue, Elaine announces she "can't do this anymore," Matt is left with the prospect of facing the big... (more)

Dinner for Two

by Mike Gayle

Dave Harding's got a wonderful wife, a beautiful home, and a job he could do in his sleep... So no one is more surprised than Dave when he hears his own biological clock start ticking. Loudly. Unfortunately, his better half, Izzy, has no nine-month plan for fat ankles or a credit line at Baby Gap. With even worse timing, the music magazine Dave writes for folds. Desperate for work, he's forced to become an... (more)

My Legendary Girlfriend

by Mike Gayle

A debut that took Great Britain by storm, My Legendary Girlfriend introduced the world to the loveable, lovestruck Will Kelly. It’s been three years since his heartthrob, Agnes, wrecked his life with a chat that started, “It’s like that song. ‘If you love somebody, set him free.’” But no matter how much time goes by, Will doesn’t feel very free. He still makes lists of each birthday present Aggi ever gave... (more)

Love & Other Near Death Experiences~Mil Millington

Love & Other Near Death Experiences~Mil Millington

by Mil Millington

Hello. My name is Robert, and I haven’t been dead for sixty-three days now. If he hadn’t bought those crummy towels, Rob would be six feet under. But his poor shopping sense accidentally set off a convoluted chain of events that meant he lived when all those others died in the pub explosion. Okay, maybe it wasn’t the ugly towels that saved his life. Perhaps it was some other random action, some other small... (more)

Goodbye Lemon

by Adam Davies

A piercing and hilarious story about love, family, and redemption by the author of The Frog King . Jack Tennant is going home. Against his better judgment, he has succumbed to his mother's guilt-laden pleas that he see his estranged father. Jack's do-gooder girlfriend believes that this trip is a chance for Jack to achieve peace with his family, but there's a lot she doesn't know about the Tennants. So Jack... (more)

Mr. Commitment

by Mike Gayle

Straight from the bestseller lists in the UK comes a novel "full of belly laughs and painfully acute observations" ( The Independent on Sunday ), an excursion into the world of a modern male that "delivers its punch lines directly to the heart" ( Birmingham Evening Mail ). Like Helen Fielding's smash success Bridget Jones and Nick Hornby's classic High Fidelity , Mr. Commitment promises to make a big splash... (more)

I Think She's Trying to Tell Me Something

I Think She's Trying to Tell Me Something

by Dan Graziano

Sportswriter Jack Byrnes is seeing lots of women...no matter how hard he tries not to. See, a funny thing happened to Jack on the way to his thirtieth birthday. Everywhere he goes, he runs into a woman from his past: there's Mary Ann, whose random appearance in an Arizona airport started this mess; Amy, The One that Got Away, who has abandoned Boston for a fiance and the Upper West Side; Connie, The Recent Ex... (more)

Getting in

by Jennifer Finney Boylan

Desperately trying to hide their low SAT scores, underdeveloped vocabularies, and shocking dearth of extracurricular activities, four high school seniors and their three chaperones take to the road in a Winnebago to attend interviews at nine prestigious New England colleges.

The Patron Saint of Unmarried WomenKarl Ackerman

The Patron Saint of Unmarried Women

by Karl Ackerman

A warm, wry, wonderfully on-target take on contemporary romance. Jack and Nina are lovers who have moved on--he to his Washington, D.C., landscaping business, she to painting--and to another man. But Jack cannot forget Nina, and how he tries to win her heart again is the engaging premise of this funny and charming novel. "Blessed with humor and heart."--USA Today.

Men and Other Mammals

by Jim Keeble

cott Barron seems to have it all-a beautiful girlfriend, a dazzling career as a published poet, and a great future. In contrast, his younger brother Jes is a married, overweight, unpublished writer with a fondness for penguins. Then why is it that, to Scott, Jes' life always seems so much better? He finds out, but only after his girlfriend decides to split (just as he was about to say the 'L' word-and almost mean... (more)

The Dead Father's Guide to Sex & Marriage

The Dead Father's Guide to Sex & Marriage

by John Scott Shepherd

Joe Way loved his father. He admired, respected, and emulated him. And if the adulterous bastard hadn't dropped dead on the first tee, Joe just might have murdered him. The son of Cleveland's mayor and an all-American coverboy, Joseph Way Jr. is following his father's footsteps into public service. A hotshot assistant D.A., he's blessed with his father's knee-buckling charm and the love of a whiplash blonde... (more)

The Average American Male: A Novel

by Chad Kultgen

Are you ready to meet the average American male?

Lucky Dog

by Mark Barrowcliffe

Dave Bartok is not having the best of years. His mother has just died, he is an addicted poker player, and (hugely in debt), his real estate business is sinking, and he doesn’t really like his longtime girlfriend. When he gets saddled with an abandoned dog, he doesn’t think things can get worse. And then Reg the dog starts talking --and only Dave can hear him. At first Dave thinks he’s gone crazy, but he soon... (more)

The Catsitters: A Novel

by James Wolcott

Suppose Bridget Jones had a twin brother? Meet Johnny Downs -- Half man, half mess. Bartender by day, actor by night, Johnny Downs cheerfully floats through life, living alone with his jukebox and his cat. But he is about to discover that while he's been floating, he's been drifting downstream -- heading for disaster. Blindsided when his dazzler of a girlfriend dumps him like yesterday's news, Johnny is wounded,... (more)

I Just Want My Pants Back: A Novel

by David J. Rosen

Jason Strider is a twentysomething young man in the city, with an English degree from an Ivy League university, a very small apartment in the West Village, a vapid job as a receptionist at a casting agency—and no particular idea what to do with his life. On most evenings, Jason gets stoned and goes out, sometimes with his party-hearty school chum Tina and sometimes alone in the immemorial male quest to get laid... (more)

The Ultimatum

by Dan Graziano

Henry's got it good. He's a semi-successful, if not yet famous novelist. He's got a good job and good buds. Best of all, he's got Layla, his long-time, live-in lover, a fast-track associate at a New Jersey law firm. Henry loves Layla and she loves him. Life is a banquet, until . . . The Ultimatum ! In a week, Henry and Layla are off to Maine for a friend's wedding. And if Henry hasn't proposed marriage by the... (more)

Selfish and Perverse

by Bob Smith

Nelson Kunker is trapped in his job as the script supervisor on Aftertaste, the low-rated late-night sketch television show. His life in Los Angeles has come to a halt because he's unable to finish the novel he's writing, doesn't have a boyfriend, and, at the pivotal age of thirty-four, has reached the juncture where he has to decide whether he's really talented or just gay. One day he meets Roy Briggs, a... (more)

Man of the House: A Novel

by Ad Hudler

For more than a decade, Linc Menner has raised the status of househusband to an art form. . . . While his wife, Jo, brings home the bacon, Linc Menner holds down the fort–his gourmet cooking is sublime, his cleaning unrivaled, and his devotion to his daughter, Violet, unparalleled. But when the Menners relocate from upstate New York to the steamy beaches of Naples, Florida, life takes an unexpected turn. As the... (more)

Huge: A Novel

by James Fuerst

Life hasn’t been easy for Eugene “Huge” Smalls. Sure, his IQ is off the charts, but that doesn’t help much when you’re growing up in the 1980s in a dreary New Jersey town where your bad reputation precedes you, the public school system’s written you off as a lost cause, and even your own family seems out to get you. But it’s not all bad. Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett have taught Huge everything he... (more)

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