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Doctor Hubbard's Sex Facts for Men and Women

by Bob Berkowitz & Susan Yager-Berkowitz

Reprinted in the original for the first time in 75 years

Listen to Dr. Hubbard!

Keep your virtue!

In the battle to retain her purity, a young woman's path is beset with dangers and traps.

If he permits himself...

Imponderables(R): Science

by David Feldman

In gathering the most fascinating questions asked about science into a handy Gem format, pop culture guru David Feldman demystifies these and much more in Imponderables^®: Science. Providing you with information...

The Uncensored Bible

by John Kaltner, Steven Mckenzie & Joel Kilpatrick

Strange but True Bible Facts

Did you know:

• that King David swore like a sailor?
• that the Book of Ecclesiastes encourages drinking, especially beer?
• that mandrakes were the biblical equivalent of Viagra^®?
• that the...

Brocabulary

by Daniel Maurer

Bro-cab-u-lary (n.): A revolutionary new lexicon for bonding with your bros

Put down your BlackBerry, you PDA-hole, and step into the testosterzone with Brocabulary. Wax fandiloquent about your favorite team...

Little Pink Raincoat

by Gigi Anders

A little Coco Chanel, a lot Carrie Bradshaw, with a dash of Maureen Dowd—a hip, hilarious collection of mini-profiles in shopping and romantic courage.

From one very fabulous and elusive little pink raincoat...

The Official Guide to Christmas in the South

by David C. Barnette

No place celebrates Christmas like Dixie, and with this charming, humorous guide, anyone can learn how to deck the halls, Southern style

It's the one time of the year when both the divine and debutantes take...

Crooked River

by Shelley Pearsall

The year is 1812. A white trapper is murdered. And a young Chippewa Indian stands accused.

Captured and shackled in leg irons and chains, Indian John awaits his trial in a settler’s loft. In a world of crude...

Cube Monkeys

by Editors Of Careerbuilder.com & Second City Communications

You drag yourself to work wearing your office uniform, complete with khaki pants and sense of impending doom. After grabbing a cup of the office sludge, you settle in with your fellow cube dwellers and wonder:...

A Traitor Among the Boys

by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

The Hatford boys' New Year's resolution is "the girls can stay . . . but only if they play by our rules." Their mother insists that they "treat those girls as though they were your sisters." Okay, but somehow...

Toad Heaven

by Morris Gleitzman

In the hysterically funny sequel to Toad Rage, Limpy is on a quest to find toad heaven. A place where cane toads won’t be blown up with bike pumps or bashed over the head with folding chairs. Limpy’s determined...

mental floss presents Forbidden Knowledge

by Editors of Mental Floss

Think of anything bad, from art heists to Genghis Kahn, and it's likely to be included in this wickedly smart and humorous guide to the seedy underbelly of basically everything. The brainiac team at "mental_floss",...

Imponderables

by David Feldman

Why does an "X" stand for a kiss?

Which fruits are in Juicy Fruit® gum?

Why do people cry at happy endings?

Why do you never see baby pigeons?

Pop-culture guru David Feldman demystifies these topics and so much...

Busted!

by M. Chris Fabricant

Busted! is a funny, smart, subversive worst-case scenario guide for casual drug users and their tolerant friends.It's the Bible on how not to get busted and what to do if you are. Using celebrity busts, outrageous...

The Story of Doctor Dolittle

by Hugh Lofting

In this first book in the series, Doctor Dolittle discovers that he can talk to the animals--Jip the dog, Dab Dab the duck, Polynesia the parrot.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Awful Truths

by Brian M. Thomsen

ho was Mario Puzo's model for the Don Corleone character in The Godfather? Was it Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonanno? The infamous Salvatore Maranzano? No . . . it was Puzo's mother! Senator Joseph McCarthy was responsible...

The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived

by Allan Lazar, Dan Karlan & Jeremy Salter

From Santa Claus to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, from Uncle Sam to Uncle Tom, here is a compelling, eye-opening, and endlessly entertaining compendium of fictional trendsetters and world-shakers who have helped...

In the Event of My Untimely Demise

by Brian Sack

When Brian Sack's mother passed away, he was left with a letter and a pink cardigan. The cardigan was promptly placed in a drawer, but the letter was pure gold. In just a few pages of fancy cursive, her posthumous...

Demon in My View

by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Jessica isn't your average teenager. Though nobody at her high school knows it, she's a published author. Her vampire novel Tiger, Tiger has just come out under the pen name Ash Night. Jessica often wishes she...

The Boys Return

by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

It’s spring break and the only assignment Wally Hatford and Caroline Malloy have is to do something that they have never done before. Wally’s sure that will be a cinch once he hears the great news about...

Why I'm Like This

by Cynthia Kaplan

Cynthia Kaplan takes us on a hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking journey through her unique, uncensored world—her bungled romantic encounters and unsung theatrical experiences; her gadget-obsessed father,...