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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

A tale set in a world where everyone knows the day on which they will die finds Denton preparing for his imminent demise and wondering about a mysterious purple rash before a stranger's warning raises suspicions about shady government characters. A first novel. Simultaneous eBook.

Denton Little's Deathdate

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

You suck

See pic: Back of dust jacket torn where price sticker was removed. #fiction #blizzard #michigan #tender #darkhumor

Wisconsin

A Novel

With the heart, daring, and evocative atmosphere of Winter’s Bone and True Grit, and driven by the raw, whip-smart voice of Percy James, a blistering debut about a fearless sixteen-year old girl whose search for her missing mother leads to an unexpected discovery, and a life or death struggle in the harsh frozen landscape of the Upper Midwest. As a blizzard bears down, Percy James sets off to find her troubled mother, Carletta. For years, Percy has had to take care of herself and Mama—a woman who’s been unraveling for as long as her daughter can remember. Fearing Carletta is strung out on meth and that she won’t survive the storm, Percy heads for Shelton Potter’s cabin, deep in the woods of Northern Michigan. A two-bit criminal, as incompetent as he his violent, Shelton has been smoking his own cook and grieving the death of his beloved Labrador, Old Bo. But when Percy arrives, there is no sign of Carletta. Searching the house, she finds Shelton and his girlfriend drugged into oblivion—and a crying baby girl left alone in a freezing room upstairs. From the moment the baby wraps a tiny hand around her finger, Percy knows she must save her—a split-second decision that is the beginning of a dangerous odyssey in which she must battle the elements and evade Shelton and a small band of desperate criminals, hell-bent on getting that baby back. Knowing she and the child cannot make it alone, Percy seeks help from Carletta’s ex, Portis Dale, who is the closest thing she’s ever had to a father. As the storm breaks and violence erupts, Percy will be forced to confront the haunting nature of her mother’s affliction and finds her own fate tied more and more inextricably to the baby she is determined to save. Filled with the sweeping sense of cultural and geographic isolation of its setting—the hills of fictional Cutler County in northern Michigan—and told in Percy’s unflinching style, Sweetgirl is an affecting exploration of courage, sacrifice, and the ties that bind—a taut and darkly humorous tour-de-force that is horrifying, tender, and hopeful.

Sweetgirl

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#hardcover #comedy #humor #fiction #darkhumor 

Rhode Island

Should You Be Laughing at This?

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This is an ARC! #contemporaryfiction #fiction #lgbtq #queer #romance #humor #darkhumor #adultfiction

North Carolina

An exuberant dark comedy about love, grief, sex, guilt, and one woman's harebrained scheme to tranquilize her voraciously amorous girlfriend for a few days so that she might pay off her drug dealer, make soup, and finally get some peace and quiet.
 
"A brilliantly quirky, surreally funny story.... An intriguingly headstrong yet vulnerable character with an astonishing talent for making the worst possible life-decisions." --Sarah Haywood, best-selling author of The Cactus

Frances was not looking for a relationship when she met Elaine in a bar. She was, in fact, looking to drown her sorrows in a pint or twelve and nurse a broken heart, shattered by the gorgeous, electric Adrienne. But somehow (it involved a steady stream of beer and weed, as things often did with Frances) Elaine ended up in Frances's bed and never left. Now, faced with mounting pressure from her drug dealer, Dom (and his goon, Betty), Frances comes up with a terrible idea: She asks Elaine to move in with her for real. Unfortunately, this seemingly romantic overture makes Elaine even more sex-crazed and maniacal with love. Frances fears she may never escape the relationship, so, given no choice, she makes the obvious decision: She will sedate Elaine.
 
A story as enthusiastically madcap and funny as it is smart and emotionally surprising, Sedating Elaine introduces a roster of unforgettable characters and an indelible, wildly exciting new voice in fiction.  

Sedating Elaine

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Illinois

"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book.
Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside to a hilariously uncomfortable memory of buying drugs in a mobile home in rural North Carolina. In essay after essay, Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life-having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger on a plane or armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds-to the most deeply resonant human truths. Culminating in a brilliant account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection is a new masterpiece of comic writing from "a writer worth treasuring" (Seattle Times).

Praise for When You Are Engulfed in Flames:

"Older, wiser, smarter and meaner, Sedaris...defies the odds once again by delivering an intelligent take on the banalities of an absurd life." --Kirkus Reviews

This latest collection proves that not only does Sedaris still have it, but he's also getting better....Sedaris's best stuff will still--after all this time--move, surprise, and entertain." --Booklist

Table of Contents:

It's Catching
Keeping Up
The Understudy
This Old House
Buddy, Can You Spare a Tie?
Road Trips
What I Learned
That's Amore
The Monster Mash
In the Waiting Room
Solutions to Saturday's Puzzle
Adult Figures Charging Toward a Concrete Toadstool
Memento Mori
All the Beauty You Will Ever Need
Town and Country
Aerial
The Man in the Hut
Of Mice and Men
April in Paris
Crybaby
Old Faithful
The Smoking Section

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

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#hardcover #humor #comedy #darkhumor #irreverent 

Pennsylvania

Traveling to the wedding of his estranged daughter and left stranded in O'Hare Airport when his flight is cancelled, Bennie Ford begins writing a letter of complaint to the airline that evolves into a painful lament for a life that has gone badly awry.

Dear American Airlines

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Missouri

As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.

Holes

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Florida

(Funny Books, Children's Book for Adults, Interesting Finds)

From the authors of the breakout best sellerAll my friends are dead (more than 100,000 copies sold) comes a brand-new illustrated compendium of the humorous existential ruminations of people, animals, legendary monsters, and inanimate objects.

All My Friends Are Still Dead

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#hardcover #suspensethrillers #fiction #suspense #bestseller #shocking #luckiestgirlalive #darkhumor 

Grooming herself for an ideal life involving a successful career and a happy marriage, a rising young journalist confronts a violent episode from her past that threatens to unravel everything she has worked to achieve. A first novel.

Luckiest Girl Alive

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#nonfiction #humor #comedy #hardcover #pets #darkhumor #existential #life #harshtruths

And Other Gentle Reminders of Existential Dread in Your Everyday Life

I Don't Really Love You

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#hardcover #fiction #suspensethrillers #bestseller #suspense #luckiestgirlalive #darkhumor #shocking 

Connecticut

Luckiest Girl Alive ⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟✨(3.8)

See pics: withdrawn library copy. #memoir #biography #family #darkhumor

A Family Portrait

This darkly humorous account of growing up in a prosperous, eccentric family with an older brother whose erratic and increasingly dangerous behavior threatens them all was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

The Splendid Things We Planned

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#paperback #fiction #relationships #familydrama #darkhumor

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

By the author of the New York Times bestseller, Love Poems for Married People, and the Thurber Prize-winner Truth in Advertising comes a wry yet tenderhearted look at how one man's public fall from grace leads him back to his family, and back to the man he used to be. It's a story that Ted Grayson has reported time and time again in his job as a network TV anchor: the public downfall of those at the top. He just never imagined that it would happen to him. After his profanity-laced tirade is caught on camera, his reputation and career are destroyed, leaving him without a script for the first time in years. While American viewers may have loved and trusted Ted for decades, his family certainly didn't: His years of constant travel and his big-screen persona have frayed all of his important relationships. At the time of his meltdown, Ted is estranged from his wife, Claire, and his adult daughter, Franny, a writer for a popular website. Franny views her father's disgrace with curiosity and perhaps a bit of smug satisfaction, but when her boss suggests that she confront Ted in an interview, she has to decide whether to use his loss as her career gain. And for Ted, this may be a chance to take a hard look at what got him to this place, and to try to find his way back before it's too late. Talk to Me is a sharply observed, darkly funny, and ultimately warm story about a man who wakes up too late to the mess he's made of his life... and about our capacity for forgiveness and empathy.

Talk to Me

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Texas

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

20 episodes 

Robot chicken season 1

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Ohio

#hardcover #christmas #adultshortstory #cartoons #creepy #edwardgorey #fiction #gorey #humor #darkhumor

A Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas

Gorey has never been funnier or more "impossible to resist" (Boston Herald) than in this peculiar retelling of Charles Dickens'sA Christmas Carol.


The Haunted Tea-Cosy

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Michigan

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#paperback #fictionsatire #darkhumor #arc #advancereadercopy #juniorbender

Lance Rubin

Denton Little's Deathdate

Christopher moore

You suck

Travis Mulhauser

Sweetgirl

Hugleikur Dagsson

Should You Be Laughing at This?

Dawn Winter

Sedating Elaine

David Sedaris

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Jonathan Miles

Dear American Airlines

Louis Sachar

Holes

Jory John; Avery Monsen

All My Friends Are Still Dead

Jessica Knoll

Luckiest Girl Alive

Jessica Knoll

Luckiest Girl Alive

Alex Beyer

I Don't Really Love You

Jessica Knoll

Luckiest Girl Alive ⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟✨(3.8)

Blake Bailey

The Splendid Things We Planned

John Kenney

Talk to Me

Jonathan Miles

Dear American Airlines

Adult swim

Robot chicken season 1

Jessica Knoll

Luckiest Girl Alive

Jessica Knoll

Luckiest Girl Alive

Jessica Knoll

Luckiest Girl Alive

Edward Gorey

The Haunted Tea-Cosy

Jessica Knoll

Luckiest Girl Alive

Jessica Knoll

Luckiest Girl Alive

Timothy Hallinan

Rock Of Ages