Best Humor Books

Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middleschool gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV.She has seen both these dreams come true.At last, Tina Fey's story ...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Comedy, Fiction, Humor lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Now a New York Times BestsellerA hilarious, thoughtful, and indepth exploration of the pleasures and perils of modern romance from one of this generation?s sharpest comedic voicesAt some point, every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, date, get into and out of relationships, all with the hope of finding someone with whom ...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Romance, Fiction, Humor, LGBTQ, Adult lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Armageddon only happens once, you know. They dont let you go around again until you get it right.People have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so its only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day. But what if, for once, the predictions are right, and the apocalypse really is due to arrive n...

Do you know your desertisland, alltime, top five most memorable splitupsRob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn't on it even though she's just become his latest ex. He's got his life back, you see. He can just do what he wants when he wants: like listen to whatever music he likes, look up the girls that are on his list, and generall...

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Join Calvin and Hobbes on all their adventures in this fourvolume collection of every comic strip from the comic strips eleven year history (1985 to1996).Calvin and Hobbes is unquestionably one of the most popular comic strips of all time. The imaginative world of a boy and his realonlytohim tiger was first syndicated in 1985 and appeared in mo...

“This is a tough, sharp history of comedy and competitiveness, of rising stars and brilliant upstarts. Of difficult egos, awful behavior, fragile friendships, bursts of inspiration, and blizzards of cocaine told by the survivors and shaped by Chris Nashawaty's welcome insight and perspective.” Mark Harris, New York Times bestselling author of Pict...

FOREWORD BY SHERYL SANDBERGYou_x0092_ve almost certainly laughed at Scovell_x0092_s jokes_x0097_you just didn_x0092_t know it until now.Just the Funny Parts is a juicy and scathingly funny insider look at how pop culture gets made. For more than thirty years, writer, producer and director Nell Scovell worked behind the scenes of iconic TV shows, including The Simpsons, La...

From the writer of Slate?s ?Dear Prudence? column comes a witty and clever collection of essays and cultural observations spanning pop culture?from the endearingly popular to the staggeringly obscure.Sometimes you just have to yell. New York Times bestselling author of Texts from Jane Eyre Daniel M. Lavery publishing as Daniel Mallory Ortberg has m...

"None of this is real and all of it is true." Jim CarreyMeet Jim Carrey. Sure, he's an insanely successful and beloved movie star drowning in wealth and privilegebut he's also lonely. Maybe past his prime. Maybe even . . . getting fat He's tried diets, gurus, and cuddling with his militarygrade Israeli guard dogs, but nothing seems to lift th...

This New York Times bestseller is the hilarious philosophy course everyone wishes they'd had in school.Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar... has been a breakout bestseller ever since authorsand born vaudevilliansThomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPR's Weekend Edition. Lively, original, and powerfully in...

The smudge looked suspiciously penislike. The doctor confirmed: "That's the baby's penis!" which caused not celebration, but panic in soontobe father and Time magazine columnist Joel Stein. Joel pictured having to go camping and fix a car and use a hammer and throw a football and watch professionals throw footballs and figure out whether to be s...

Dr. Peter Brown is an intern at Manhattan's worst hospital; Pietro "Bearclaw" Brwna is a hitman for the mob.And Nicholas LoBrutto, Dr. Brown's new patient who has three months to live, has a very strange idea: that Peter Brown and Pietro Brwna might just might be the same person ...Dr. Peter Brown is an intern at Manhattan's worst hospital, wit...

Comedian, activist, and hugely popular culture blogger at AwesomelyLuvvie.com, Luvvie Ajayi, serves up necessary advice for the common senseless in this hilarious book of essays. "This truthriot of a book gives us everything from hilarious lectures on the bad behavior all around us to the razor sharp essays on media and culture" (Shonda Rhimes, Ne...

Part autobiography, part philosophical inquiry, and part spiritual quest, Comedy Sex God is a hilarious, profound, and enlightening romp around the fertile mind of standup standout, podcast king, and HBO superstar Pete Holmes.Pete Holmes is the host of the hugely successful podcast, You Made It Weird; a soldouteverynight standup comedian with...

A parody of the beloved worldwide television phenomenon Downton Abbey—with cats.Welcome to Downton Tabby Here, the aristocrats of the animal kingdom dwell in stately splendor, sleeping, grooming, sleeping some more, and being fed by their downstairs cats, unaware that their way of life—providing work for others—is about to be swept away by the tide...

The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing yearsexcept Biff, the Messiah's best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in the divinely hilarious yet heartfelt work "reminiscent of V...

In this exuberantly praised book a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and ...

A People Top 10 Book of 2018The New York Times essayist and author of We Learn Nothing, Tim Kreider trains his singular power of observation on his (often befuddling) relationships with women.Psychologists have told him he’s a psychologist. Philosophers have told him he’s a philosopher. Religious groups have invited him to speak. He had a cult fo...

Shrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can't be funny. Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possiblelike a porcelain dove that will also have sex with youwriter and humorist Lindy West quickly d...

All skools make some sort at teaching the pupils things and the headmaster pin up a huge timetable of lessons ect. which make the heart sink when you look at it.Nigel Molesworth is back, this time taking the tinies in hand and showing that they can survive the first term as long as you avoid the prefects and show all due respect to Molesworth 1. ...

What would you do if a time machine hurled you thousands of years into the past. . . and then broke How would you survive Could you improve on humanity's original timeline And how hard would it be to domesticate a giant wombat With this book as your guide, you'll surviveand thrivein any period in Earth's history. Bestselling author and time...

This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields, a feminist leader ahead of her time. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almostfamous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes, even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with lunacy and sorrow, yet the dark, violent events of the story do not unde...

A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely dif...

God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath_x0097_The Appalachian Trail.The 2,000plusmile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wilde...

Connie Willis' Hugo and Nebula Awardwinning Doomsday Book uses time travel for a serious look at how people connect with each other. In this Hugowinning companion to that novel, she offers a completely different kind of time travel adventure: a delightful romantic comedy that pays hilarious homage to Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat.When to...

The Horse's Mouth, famously filmed with Alec Guinness in the central role, is a searing portrait of the artistic temperament. Gulley Jimson is the charming, impoverished painter who cares little about the conventional values of his day. His unfailing belief that he must live and paint according to his intuition without regard for the cost to himsel...

The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to outfit your home for a ...

Nick Naylor likes his job. In the neopuritanical nineties, it's a challenge to defend the rights of smokers and a privilege to promote their liberty. Sure, it hurts a little when you're compared to Nazi war criminals, but Nick says he's just doing what it takes to pay the mortgage and put his son through Washington's elite private school St. Eutha...

An honest, irreverent, laughoutloud guide to coping with death and dying from Emmynominated writer and New York Times bestselling coauthor of Shtty Mom Laurie Kilmartin.Death is not for the faint of heart, and sometimes the best way to cope is through humor. No one knows this better than comedian Laurie Kilmartin. She made headlines by livetw...

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, Scoop is a "thoroughly enjoyable, uproariously funny" satire of the journalism business (New York Times). Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he ha...

With Cruel Shoes, Steve Martin proves that his humor more than translates to the written page; it excels there. Since he has always written his own material, books are a natural medium for Steve's comic genius. And his extravagant wit shines brightly indeed in this rollicking collection of short fabulous pieces....

I_x0092_m awkward_x0097_and black. Someone once told me those were the two worst things anyone could be. That someone was right. Where do I startBeing an introvert (as well as _x0093_funny,_x0094_ according to the Los Angeles Times) in a world that glorifies cool isn_x0092_t easy. But when Issa Rae, the creator of the Shorty Awardwinning hit series The Misadventures of Awkwar...

A"hilarious and heartbreaking" (Jo Piazza) and unflinchingly honest memoir about one young woman's terrible and lifechanging decisions while hopingand sometimes failingto find herself, in the style of Never Have I Ever and Adult,ing. Join Dana Schwartz on a journey revisiting all of the awful choices she made in her early twenties through the i...

An introvert spends a year trying to live like an extrovert with hilarious results and advice for readers along the way.What would happen if a shy introvert lived like a gregarious extrovert for one year If she knowingly and willingly put herself in perilous social situations that she?d normally avoid at all costs Writer Jessica Pan intends to fi...

Congratulations! Your monster is growing up and up, and UP! Now it's time to potty train him! Potty training is not always the easiest task to navigateespecially for growing monsters. Thankfully, with the help of this easytouse guide, young ones can be sure not to forget any steps in the process. With hilarious text and playful, energetic illust...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Dinosaur, Fiction, Humor, Children's lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Want to aspire to greatness Check out this new edition of Timmy Failure?s first adventure?featuring the bonus section ?How to Draw Timmy and Total.? He may be clueless, but the comically selfconfident Timmy Failure is CEO of the best detective agency in town, perhaps even the nation. Now Timmy?s legion of fans are invited to set off on their ow...

At Last! A Beginner's Guide to Newborn Baby Technology,You've mastered your DVR, you've networked your home, you can even check your email and Facebook on your smartphone. But none of this experience will prepare you for the world's biggest technological marvel: a newborn baby.Through stepbystep instructions and helpful schematic diagrams, The Ba...

The moment they saw each other, Bean and Ivy knew they wouldn't be friends. But when Bean plays a joke on her sister, Nancy, and has to hide quickly, Ivy comes to the rescue, proving that sometimes the best of friends are people never meant to like each other. Vibrant characters and lots of humor make this a charming and addictive introduction to I...

Rediscover Professor Branestawm this Christmas ? soon to become a brand new drama on BBC ONE written by Charlie Higson and starring Harry Hill?Once you started anything in Professor Branestawm?s house you never knew when it might finish or even if it ever would?Poor Mrs Flittersnoop! It?s not easy being Professor Branestawm?s housekeeper. People ma...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Comics.Children's, Fiction, Humor, To, Read lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia ...In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia's past, from megafauna to Macquarie the cockups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have made us who we are. Girt introduces forgotten heroes like Mary McLoghlin, transported for the cr...

There is an alternate cover edition here.Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up under an alley dumpster with a badly burned arm, an aching neck, superhuman strength, and a distinctly Nosferatuan thirst, she realizes the decision has been made for her.Making the transition from the ninetofive grind to an eternity of nocturnal ...

If you don_x0092_t have anything nice to say about motherhood, then_x0085_ read this book. Robin O_x0092_Bryant offers a no holds barred look at the day to day life of being a mother to three, running a household and the everyday monotony of parenting.It_x0092_s not always pretty but it_x0092_s real. Whether she's stuffing cabbage in her bra_x0085_ dealing with defiant yet determined...

This remarkable collection of maps, photographs, engravings and paintings from the early ages to modern day provides a stunning new look at the world as defined by our struggles and alliances with the monsters and supernatural creatures that have defined our existence. Learn how a mechanical man helped write America_x0092_s Declaration of Independence. T...

Sloane Crosley returns to the form that made her a household name in really quite a lot of households: Essays!From the New York Timesbestselling author Sloane Crosley comes Look Alive Out Therea brandnew collection of essays filled with her trademark hilarity, wit, and charm. The characteristic heart and punchpacking observations are back, but...

Motherhood is the toughest _x0096_ and funniest _x0096_ job you'll ever love. Raising kids is hard work. The pay sucks, your boss is a tyrant, and the working conditions are pitiful _x0096_ you can't even take a bathroom break without being interrupted with another outrageous demand. Hasn't every mother said it before _x0093_I just want to pee alone!_x0094_ I Just Want to Pee ...

For use in schools and libraries only. When Big Bad Wolf, who now lives in the Villain Villa Retirement Residence, is invited to the library for a storybook tea, he is careful to follow the advice of his crocodile friend and impresses everyone with how polite he can be....

Well hello to you, dear browser. Now I have your attention it would be rude if I didn't tell you a little about my literary feast. So, here is the thing: is it just me or does anyone else find that Adult,hood offers no refuge from the unexpected horrors, peculiar lack of physical coordination and sometimes unexplained nudity, that accompanied childh...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around For, Year, Olds, Fiction, Humor lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

"The Secret Life of Pets meets The Walking Dead" in this bighearted, boundlessly beautiful romp through the Apocalypse, where a foulmouthed crow is humanity's only chance to survive Seattle's zombie problem (Karen Joy Fowler, PEN/Faulkner Awardwinning author).S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Bi...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, For, Year, Olds, Humor lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

A position a day keeps the love doctor awayFrom the perpetrators of Nerve.com's wildly popular Position of the Day: After all these years of thinking 69 was our lucky number, here comes 366 handpicked erotic scenarios from Nerve.com's treasure trove into one gloriously chunky, deeply inspiring, and hilarious compendium. Yes, that's 366 one for e...

"Good SciFi comedy is as rare as hen's teeth. This was a fun read." Kelly Frank is EarthCent's top diplomat on Union Station, but her job description has always been a bit vague. The pay is horrible and she's in hock up to her ears for her furniture, which is likely to end up in a corridor because she's behind on rent for her room. Sometimes she ha...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, Humor lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

A heartwarming tale of terror in the middle of the zombie apocalypse.Meet Sarah and David.Once upon a time they met and fell in love. But now they're on the verge of divorce and going to couples' counseling. On a routine trip to their counselor, they notice a few odd things the lack of cars on the highway, the missing security guard, and the fac...

The practical, comforting, honest, and hilarious bestseller for momstobe, with more than one and a half million copies in print!Your doctor gives you medical advice. Your mother buys you baby clothes. But who can give you the real skinny when you?re pregnant Your girlfriends, of course?at least, the ones who?ve been through the exhilaration and ...

BABIES. Maybe you're thinking of having one. There might even be one inside you right now, draining nutrients from your system via a tube growing from its midsection. Or maybe you've already got one around the house, somewhere, and you're responsible for its continued survival. You're saddled with a helpless being whom you've agreed to house and fe...

A book with no pictures What could be fun about thatAfter all, if a book has no pictures, there's nothing to look at but the words on the page. Words that might make you say silly sounds... In ridiculous voices...Hey, what kind of book is this, anywayAt once disarmingly simple and ingeniously imaginative, The Book With No Pictures inspires laugh...

The companion to the #1 blockbuster bestseller, The Day the Crayons Quit! I'm not sure what it is about this kid Duncan, but his crayons sure are a colorful bunch of characters! Having soothed the hurt feelings of one group who threatened to quit, Duncan now faces a whole new group of crayons asking to be rescued. From Maroon Crayon, who was lost b...

The young narrator has discovered a disturbing trend: There's fuzz in his belly button his toes are peeling and something just fell out of his nose. The last straw is a loose tooth, which convinces him of the awful truth his parts are coming unglued!Parts deals with a subject of deepest interest to every young child: the stuff our bodies shed....

Roddy Doyle's winning trio of comic novels depicting the daily life and times of the Rabbitte family in workingclass Dublin.The CommitmentsStill one of the freshest and funniest rock 'n' roll novels ever written, Doyle's first book portrays a group of aspiring musicians on a mission: to bring soul to Dublin.The SnapperDoyle's sparkling second nove...

This is where the dragons went. They lie ... not dead, not asleep, but ... dormant. And although the space they occupy isn't like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. They could put you in mind of a can of sardines, if you thought sardines were huge and scaly. And presumably, somewhere, there's a key...GUARDS! GUARDS! is the eight...

Narwhal is a happygolucky narwhal. Jelly is a nononsense jellyfish. The two might not have a lot in common, but they do they love waffles, parties and adventures. Join Narwhal and Jelly as they discover the whole wide ocean together....

When Bingo Little falls in love at a Camberwell subscription dance and Bertie Wooster drops into the mulligatawny, there is work for a wetnurse. Who better than Jeeves...

Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed.And on Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like underwater how much time does a codfish need) to places like cities, where there's never enough time.But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock sta...

In this hilarious new illustrated chapter book series, bad guys are doing good deeds . . . whether you want them to or not!They sound like bad guys, they look like bad guys . . . and they even smell like bad guys. But Mr. Wolf, Mr. Piranha, Mr. Snake, and Mr. Shark are about to change all of that . . .Mr. Wolf has a daring plan for the Bad Guys' fi...

Meet the inimitable gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves... From the moment Jeeves glides into Bertie Wooster's life and provides him with a magical hangover cure, Bertie begins to wonder how he's ever managed without him. Jeeves makes himself totally indispensable in every way, disentangling the hapless Bertie from scrapes with formidable aunts, madcap g...

Shea Serrano is back, and his new book, Movies (And Other Things), combines the fury of a John Wick shootout, the sly brilliance of Regina George holding court at a cafeteria table, and the sheer power of a Denzel monologue, all into one.Movies (And Other Things) is a book about, quite frankly, movies (and other things). One of the chapters, for ex...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, Humor, Children's lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Une petite fille s'ennuie. Elle fait la rencontre d'une patate peu enthousiaste, qui ne se passionne que pour les flamants roses. La petite fille va déborder d'imagination pour dérider cette pomme de terre maussade......

“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Basketball, Fiction, Humor, Sports lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Fiction, Humor, Diy, Carpentry lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

The Onion has quickly become the world's most popular humor publication, misinforming half a million readers a week with oneofakind social satire both in print (on newsstands nationwide) and online from its remote office in Madison, Wisconsin.Witness the march of history as EditorinChief Scott Dikkers and The Onion's awardwinning writing staf...

Drew Evans is a winner. Handsome and arrogant, he makes multimillion dollar business deals and seduces New York_x0092_s most beautiful women with just a smile. He has loyal friends and an indulgent family. So why has he been shuttered in his apartment for seven days, miserable and depressed He_x0092_ll tell you he has the flu.But we all know that_x0092_s not really...

Everyone loves Mrs. PiggleWiggleMrs. PiggleWiggle lives in an upsidedown house and smells like cookies. She was even married to a pirate once. Most of all, she knows everything about children. She can cure them of any ailment. Patsy hates baths. Hubert never puts anything away. Allen eats very slowly. Mrs PiggleWiggle has a treatment for all...

In a fit of enlightenment democracy and ebullient goodwill, King Verence invites Uberwald's undead, the Magpyrs, into Lancre to celebrate the birth of his daughter. But once ensconced within the castle, these winedrinking, garliceating, sunloving modern vampires have no intention of leaving. Ever.Only an uneasy alliance between a nervous young p...

The Bold family seems fairly normal, but they're keeping one hilarious secret: they're hyenas. That's rightthey're covered in fur, have tails tucked into their clothes, and really, really like to laugh. Will their neighbors ever find out...

It?s the best thing since buttered toast ? Mercy Watson in paperback! To Mr. and Mrs. Watson, Mercy is not just a pig ? she?s a porcine wonder. And to the goodnatured Mercy, the Watsons are an excellent source of buttered toast, not to mention that butterytoasty feeling she gets when she snuggles into bed with them. This is not, however, so good ...

What if William Shakespeare were asked to generate the Fibonacci series or Jane Austen had to write a factorial program In If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript, author Angus Croll imagines short JavaScript programs as written by famous wordsmiths. The result is a peculiar and charming combination of prose, poetry, and Programming,.The best authors are tho...

Missing Links is the story of four middleclass buddies who live outside Boston and for years have been 1) utterly obsessed with golf and 2) a regular foursome at Ponkaquoque Municipal Course and Deli, not so fondly known as Ponky, the single worst golf course in America. Just adjacent to the municipal course lies the Mayflower Country Club, the mo...

Amber Jones is in a pickle. And when I say pickle, I mean a world of trouble. She knew she shouldn_x0092_t have gone to her ex_x0092_s New Year_x0092_s Eve party. And she reeeaally didn_x0092_t mean to almost burn down his house. Now she needs a good lawyer, stat. But where to find oneEthan Vaughn is a very busy man. He really shouldn_x0092_t have agreed to spring Amber Jones ...

Prince Liam. Prince Frederic. Prince Duncan. Prince Gustav. You_x0092_ve never heard of them, have you These are the princes who saved Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Snow White, and Rapunzel, respectively, and yet, thanks to those lousy bards who wrote the tales, you likely know them only as Prince Charming. But all of this is about to change.Rejected by ...

Sleeping Beauty gets a feisty, furry twist in this hilarious new comic series from the creator of Dragonbreath Harriet Hamsterbone is not your typical princess. She may be quite stunning in the rodent realm (you'll have to trust her on this one), but she is not so great at trailing around the palace looking ethereal or sighing a lot. She finds the ...

Sharing neverbeforeheard stories ranging from their struggles with depression, eating disorders, and addiction, Karen and Georgia irreverently recount their biggest mistakes and deepest fears, reflecting on the formative life events that shaped them into two of the most followed voices in the nation....

Scaredy Squirrel is not too comfortable with the idea of camping unless it's on his couch! There will be no mosquitoes, skunks or zippers to worry about when he watches a show about the joys of camping on his brandnew TV. But first Scaredy must find an electrical outlet, and that means going into the woods! Will the nutty worrywart's plans prepa...

Many writing books offer sound advice on how to write well. This is not one of those books. On the contrary, this is a collection of terrible, awkward, and laughably unreadable excerpts that will teach you what to avoid?at all costs?if you ever want your novel published.In How Not to Write a Novel, authors Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman distil...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around For, Year, Olds, Fiction, Humor lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

This bestselling first book in the Tapper Twins series is a hilariously authentic showcase of what it's like to be in middle school in our digitallysaturated world, told as a colorful "oral history" with photos, screenshots, text messages, chat logs, and online gaming digital art. Twelveyearold twins, Claudia and Reese, who couldn't be more diff...

The Eight Characters of Comedy is the HowTo guide for actors and writers who want to break into the world of sitcoms. It has become a staple in acting classes, writers rooms, casting offices and production sets around the world. Now, in it s exciting SECOND EDITION, renowned acting coach and bestselling author Scott Sedita gives you even MORE advi...

Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent, bestselling novels have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to the likes of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.The Color of Magic is Terry Pratchett's maiden voyage through the nowlegendary land of Discworld. This is where it all begins with the tourist Two...

It was a deadly mistake. Joseph Malik, editor of a radical magazine, had snooped into rumors about an ancient secret society that was still alive and kicking. Now his offices have been bombed, he's missing, and the case has landed in the lap of a tough, cynical, streetwise New York detective. Saul Goodman knows he's stumbled onto something big?but ...

After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twentyeightyearold Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his seventythreeyearold dad. Sam Halpern, who is "like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair," has never minced words, and when Justin moved back home, he began to record all the ridiculous things his dad said to him:"That w...

From the moment Gooney Bird Greene arrives at Watertower Elementary School, her fellow secondgraders are intrigued by her unique sense of style and her unusual lunches. So when story time arrives, the choice is unanimous: they want to hear about Gooney Bird Greene. And that suits Gooney Bird just fine, because, as it turns out, she has quite a few...

"Fans of Beverly Cleary's Quimbys, Judy Blume's Hatchers, and, more recently, Jeanne Birdsall's Penderwicks will fervently hope that more Fletcher misadventures are yet to come." School Library Journal, Starred The start of the school year is not going as the Fletcher brothers hoped. Each boy finds his plans for success veering off in unexpected ...

Young readers will laugh out loud at this actionpacked, easytoread chapter book by awardwinning author and Caldecott Honor illustrator Dav Pilkey. Introducing FLIPORAMA, a wonderfully silly and funfilled illustration technique that allows readers to animate the action....

What happens when you mix the gladiatorial combat of ancient Rome with a fasttalking creature who is DEFINITELY NOT A STRIPY HORSEFrom a smelly water hole on the African savanna, Julius Zebra is captured, along with Milus the scarred lion and Cornelius the clueless warthog. Transported to the ferocious clamor of the Colosseum, Julius Zebra and hi...