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Who is Ted L. Nancy? He's a concerned hotel guest searching for a lost tooth... He's a superstitious Vegas high-roller who wants to gamble at a casino in his lucky shrimp outfit... He's the genius inventor of "Six Day Underwear"... He's a demanding dramatist seeking an audience for his play about his 26-year-old dog, Cinnamon... He's the proud owner of Charles, a 36-year-old cat who owes his longevity to a... (more)

Toad Rage

by Morris Gleitzman

Limpy’s family reckons humans don’t hate cane toads, but Limpy knows otherwise. He’s spotted the signs: the cross looks, the unkind comments, the way they squash cane toads with their cars. Limpy is desperate to save his species from ending up as pancakes. Somehow he must make humans see how fabulous cane toads really are. Risking everything, he sets off on a wart-tinglingly dangerous and daring journey to . . .... (more)

The Hallo-wiener

by Dav Pilkey

Oscar is short, like all dachshunds, and all the other dogs make fun of him. On Halloween he takes more ridicule than ever in his hot-dog costume, but one brave act makes him a Grade-A hero.

Fudge: Book 4

Fudge-a-Mania

by Judy Blume

Peter Hatcher can't get a break. His little brother, Fudge-the five-year-old human hurricane-has big plans to marry Peter's sworn enemy, Sheila Tubman. That alone would be enough to ruin his whole summer, but now Peter's parents have decided to rent a summer home next door to Sheila the Cootie Queen's house for three whole weeks!

The Sweet Potato Queens' Big-Ass Cookbook and Financial Planner

The Sweet Potato Queens' Big-Ass Cookbook and Financial Planner

by Jill Conner Browne

They’re wild, beloved, and all-around fabulous, but with the Sweet Potato Queens, there’re just never enough good times—or enough good eats. Well, now all fabulous women everywhere can have their own mountains of royal fun and food, because bestselling author and Boss Queen Jill Conner Browne is revealing her big-ass top secret recipes—and the events that inspired them—in The Sweet Potato Queens’ Big-Ass Cookbook... (more)

Pretty Good Joke (Prairie Home Companion)

Pretty Good Joke (Prairie Home Companion)

by Garrison Keillor

The Pretty Good Joke Book includes all of the jokes from the first nine Prairie Home Companio n Joke Shows—hundreds of jokes about every subject from blondes to lawyers to chickens to relationships. From one-liners and puns to jokes about the headlines, this book covers the field. Guys walk into bars, light bulbs get changed, doors are knocked on, and insults fly in this treasury of hilarity from one of... (more)

The Ramona Collection, Volume 1 (Ramona Collections)

The Ramona Collection, Volume 1 (Ramona Collections)

by Beverly Cleary

Beverly Cleary was born in McMinnville, Oregon, and, until she was old enough to attend school, lived on a farm in Yamhill, a town so small it had no library. Her mother arranged with the State Library to have books sent to Yamhill and acted as librarian in a lodge room upstairs over a bank. There young Beverly learned to love books. However, when the family moved to Portland, Beverly soon found herself in the... (more)

How to Be a Villain

Evil Laughs, Secret Lairs, Master Plans, and More!!!

by Neil Zawacki

A delightfully evil gift, How to Be a Villain is a step-by-step guide to joining the forces of darkness. Because, though villains may never win, they sure have more fun, hatching master plans for world domination, smoothing their dastardly tights. Neil Zawacki answers all the most urgent questions: Should I go with a black or red theme? Do I invest in an army of winged monkeys or ninja warriors? And just where... (more)

The Little Giant Encyclopedia of One-Liners

The Little Giant Encyclopedia of One-Liners

by Gene Perret

"There is no such thing as fun for the entire family."--Jerry Seinfeld. That's an example of a one-liner. It packs a wealth of meaning into a few words and produces a chuckle along with its wisdom. Here's another one: "My luck--I was waiting at the airport when my ship came in."--Henny Youngman. There are many more laugh-inducing one-liners like these in this collection! Some are attributed to famous people;... (more)

Where the Sidewalk Ends

by Shel Silverstein

Silly, silly Shel Silverstein. For more than 25 years, he has taken children exactly where they want to go with poetry: into the world of nonsense and wordplay. Take "Instructions," for example: If you should ever choose To bathe an armadillo, Use one bar of soap And a whole lot of hope And seventy-two pads of Brillo. Is there a moral? A higher meaning? A lesson? Most certainly not--except... (more)

A Prayer for Owen Meany

by John Irving, John Irving, John Irving, John Irving

Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument; he is. This is John Irving's most comic novel, yet Owen Meany is Mr. Irving's most heartbreaking character. "Roomy, intelligent, exhilarating and darkly comic...Dickensian in scope....Quite stunning and very ambitious." LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW "John Irving is an abundantly and even joyfully talented storyteller."... (more)

The World According to Garp

by John Irving

The World According to Garp is a comic and compassionate coming-of-age novel that established John Irving as one of the most imaginative writers of his generation. A worldwide bestseller ...

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

A popular Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy follows the adventures of New Orlean's lower denizens of the French Quarter.

Me Talk Pretty One Day

by David Sedaris

A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as... (more)

Naked

by David Sedaris

The author recounts hitchhiking across the country with an odd cast of quadriplegics and deadbeats, working as a migrant worker in North Carolina, and other adventures.

Bridget Jones: Book 1

Bridget Jones's Diary

by Helen Fielding, Helen Fielding, Helen Fielding

"130 lbs. (how is it possible to put on 4 pounds overnight? Could flesh have somehow solidified becoming denser and heavier (repulsive, horrifying notion)); alcohol units 2 (excellent) cigarettes 21 (poor but will give up totally tomorrow); number of correct lottery numbers 2 (better, but nevertheless useless)" This laugh-out-loud chronicle charts a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a single girl on a... (more)

Bridget Jones: Book 2

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

by Helen Fielding

Lurching from the cappuccino bars of Notting Hill to the blissed-out shores of Thailand, everyone's favorite Singleton Bridget Jones begins her search for The Truth in spite of pathetically unevolved men, insane dating theories, and Smug Married advice. She experiences a zeitgeist-esque Spiritual Epiphany somewhere between the pages of How to Find the Love You Want Without Seeking It (can self-help books really... (more)

Superstud: Or How I Became a 24-Year-Old Virgin

Superstud: Or How I Became a 24-Year-Old Virgin

by Paul Feig

Lost in love and don't know much? Paul Feig knew even less... Like any other red-blooded, straight young man, Paul Feig spent much of his teenage years trying to solve the mystery of women. Unlike most red-blooded, straight teenage boys, however, Paul Feig was sadly at a considerable disadvantage. He was tall and gangly. He had a love for musical theater. And, perhaps the death knell for his burgeoning sex life,... (more)

Quickie Stickies: 100 Pick-Me-Ups for When You're Feeling Unglued

Quickie Stickies: 100 Pick-Me-Ups for When You're Feeling Unglued

by Karen Salmansohn

A collection of affirmations with attitude, QUICKIE STICKIES is Karen Salmansohn at her sharpest and most unexpectedly inspirational. This unique package is a book of 100 sayings printed on "Post-ups" that can be-and are meant to be-stuck anywhere and everywhere, on the fridge, the computer, a boyfriend's briefcase, an office door, a bathroom mirror. Each is an aphorism to live by-not fatuous daily thoughts or... (more)

A Light in the Attic

by Shel Silverstein

Last night while I lay thinking here Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear And pranced and partied all night long And sang their same old Whatif song: Whatif I flunk that test? Whatif green hair grows on my chest? Whatif nobody likes me? Whatif a bolt of lightning strikes me?... Here in the attic of Shel Silverstein you will find Backward Bill, Sour Face Ann, the Meehoo with an Exactlywatt, and the Polar Bear... (more)

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by Ted L. Nancy

by Morris Gleitzman

by Dav Pilkey

by Judy Blume

by Jill Conner Browne

by Garrison Keillor

by Beverly Cleary

Evil Laughs, Secret Lairs, Master Plans, and More!!!

by Neil Zawacki

by Gene Perret

by Shel Silverstein

by John Irving, John Irving, John Irving, John Irving

by John Irving

by John Kennedy Toole

by David Sedaris

by David Sedaris

by Helen Fielding, Helen Fielding, Helen Fielding

by Helen Fielding

by Paul Feig

by Karen Salmansohn

by Shel Silverstein