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The Cook

by Wayne Macauley

At Cook School, Zac dreams about becoming the greatest chef the world has seen. Zac thinks he's on his way when he gets a job as house cook for a wealthy family-the Mistress and Master and their daughters, Melody...

Babycakes

Tales of the City #4

by Armistead Maupin

"An extended love letter to a magical San Francisco."

--New York Times Book Review

When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there's more to making a baby then...

Smart Women

by Judy Blume

Margo and B.B. are each divorced, and each is trying to reinvent her life in Colorado-while their respective teenage daughters look on with a mixture of humor and horror. But even smart women sometimes have...

House of Holes

by Nicholson Baker

Shandee finds a friendly arm at a granite quarry. Ned drops down a hole in a golf course. So begins Nicholson Baker’s fuse-blowing sexual escapade—a modern-day Hieronymus Boschian bacchanal set in a pleasure...

Dearest Dacha

by Norman MacLean

Perhaps the first Gaelic black comedy' - John Murray, RTE Radio 1 'Norman is a 24-carat comedy jewel that just keeps sparkling' - Bruce Morton, BBC Radio Scotland 'Norman MacLean is the Billy Connolly of the...

Tooth Imprints On a Corn Dog: Author of Et Tu, Babe and My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist Extra-Special Bonus:

by Mark Leyner

A fiendishly innovative young writer ups the ante on his cult classics Et Tu, Babe and My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist with a book so funny that it ought to be a controlled substance. "With his pumped-up prose...

Anarchy and Old Dogs

Dr. Siri Paiboun #4

by Colin Cotterill

A blind retired dentist has been run down by a logging truck on the street in Vientiane just opposite the post office. His body is duly delivered to the morgue of Dr. Siri Paiboun, the official and only coroner...

Hotel No Tell: A Novel

by Daphne Uviller

The smart and sassy detective Zephyr Zuckerman is now armed and undercover in a Greenwich Village hotel where mysteries—from garbage-grabbing guests to the reservation system—lurk around every corner.

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The Social Climber's Handbook: A Novel

by Molly Jong-Fast

HIGH SOCIETY CAN BE A KILLER.

Upper East Side socialite Daisy Greenbaum is accustomed to the finer things—designer clothes, summers in the Hamptons, elite private school educations for her daughters, and...

Missing Links

by Rick Reilly

Missing Links is the story of four middle-class 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...

Kai Lung Raises His Voice

by Ernest Bramah & William Charlton

A new collection of "Kai Lung" stories by Ernest Bramah, including four previously unpublished stories. Related by Kai Lung, an itinerant story-teller, these stories, set in an Ancient China that never was,...

Red Meat Cures Cancer

by Starbuck O'Dwyer

What would you do if you were a few months from collecting early retirement—a pension for which you’d sucked up and sycophanted almost twenty years—when your obscenely overweight and extremely crass boss...

Grab On to Me Tightly as if I Knew the Way: A Novel

by Bryan Charles

A wise, bighearted, and hilarious look at one teenager's life by a remarkable new voice in contemporary fiction

It's 1992, and as Vim Sweeney deals with the recent end of his high school career and the uncertainty...

Eleven: A Novel

by Mark Watson

Xavier Ireland is the assumed name of a radio-show host with a devoted following of listeners riveted by the sleepless loners who call in throughout the night to seek his advice. Off the air, he leads a low-key...

Encounters

by Mike Resnick

Join Lucifer Jones as he makes his way through Europe in a parody of every bad pulp story and B movie ever set there. Before it's over he'll encounter a home-made man meet the Clubfoot of Notre Dame become king...

The Unbearable Lightness of Scones: The New 44 Scotland Street Novel

44 Scotland Street #5

by Alexander Mccall Smith

44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 5

The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial novels, featuring six-year-old...

If You Were Here: A Novel

by Jen Lancaster

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA

Raising Jake

by Charlie Carillo

The best kind of journey, one you don't want to end...funny, moving.—Mike Lupica, New York Times bestselling author of Heat

In Charlie Carillo's funny, insightful novel, a divorced man gets to know his seventeen-year-old...

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Ahab: A novel

by Gideon Defoe

They’re back!!! The Pirate Captain and his irascible crew of scoundrels return in their soggiest saga yet.Fresh from their mishaps with Charles Darwin and the evil Bishop of Oxford, the Pirates set sail in...

Elvis and The Dearly Departed

by Peggy Webb

They say you can't get to Heaven without passing through the Eternal Rest Funeral Home. And no one gets into Eternal Rest without passing muster with Elvis—the basset hound who's convinced he's the reincarnation...