Janet Evanovich

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Louisiana

A latest entry in the best-selling series finds intrepid sleuth Stephanie Plum, her grandmother and her other companions struggling to outmaneuver a killer who is targeting Vinnie, a case that is further complicated by Lula's involvement in a fraudulent investment scheme.

Sizzling Sixteen

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Marc Maron

Marc Maron and Brendan McDonald

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Maryland

Words to Live by from the WTF Podcast

"I’m British, so I’m medically dead inside, but even I can’t help but open up whenever I talk to Marc. He uses his honestly like a scalpel, cutting himself open in front of anyone he’s talking to, and in doing so, invites you to do the same. " —John Oliver Each week over a million and a half listeners tune into WTF with Marc Maron to hear Marc and a guest do something remarkable: talk. Waiting for the Punch is not simply a collection of these interviews, but instead something more wondrous: a running narrative of the world’s most recognizable names working through the problems, doubts, joys, triumphs and failures we all experience. With each chapter covering a different topic: parenting, childhood, relationships, sexuality, success, failures and others, Punch becomes a sort of everyman’s guide to life. Barack Obama candidly discusses the challenges of the presidency, and the bittersweet moments of seeing your children grow up and away from you. Bruce Springsteen speaks on the dual nature of desperation to both motivate and devastate. Amy Schumer recounts the pain of a parents’ divorce. At once laugh-out-loud funny, heartbreakingly honest, joyous, tragic and powerful, Waiting for the Punch is a book to be read from cover to cover, but it is also one to return to again and again.

Waiting for the Punch

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California

The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Eats, Shoots and Leaves

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B. J. Novak

Reading this book is like participating in a Bluey episode, one where the girls have written their own story and are making Bandit read it to them.  (It’s not a Bluey book, but that’s the vibe it gives!  It’s actually written by one of the guys from The Office.)

Alaska

"In this book with no pictures, the reader has to say every silly word, no matter what"--

The Book with No Pictures

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Tom Angleberger

An Origami Yoda Book

Harvey, upset when his Darth Paper finger puppet brings humiliation, gets Dwight suspended, but Origami Yoda asks Tommy and Kellan, now in seventh grade, to make a new casefile to persuade the School Board to reinstate Dwight.

Darth Paper Strikes Back

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Ann Droyd

Oklahoma

A Parody for the Next Generation

A parody of the children's classic and a hilarious gift for anyone that finds modern life funny and absurd. In a bright buzzing room, in the glow of the moon-and iPhones and Androids and Blackberries too-it is time to say goodnight... Modern life is abuzz. There are huge LCD WiFi HD TVs and Facebook requests and thumbs tapping texts and new viral clips of cats doing flips. Wouldn't it be nice to say goodnight to all that? Like the rest of us who cannot resist just a few more scrolls and clicks, you may find yourself ready for bed while still clinging to your electronics long after dark. This book, which is made of paper, is a reminder for the child in all of us to power down at the end of the day. This hilarious parody not only pokes loving fun at the bygone quiet of the original classic, but also at our modern plugged-in lives. It will make you laugh, and it will also help you put yourself and your machines to sleep. Don't worry, though. Your gadgets will be waiting for you, fully charged, in the morning.

Goodnight IPad

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Bill Maher

Missouri

A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head up Their Ass

No one has a gift for telling it like it is like Bill Maher. And nowhere does he do it more hilariously than in the hugely popular 'New Rules' segment of HBO's Real Time. Media, celebrity, Democrats, Republicans, religion, children, marine life, electronics, that couple making out in the next booth--when it comes to lighting up his targets, Maher is an equal-opportunity destroyer. Now, from the New York Times-bestselling author and comedian, comes The New New Rules, a collection of Maher's both new and best-loved observations about the world around us, along with some modest tips for its improvement. Because wouldn't life be a little better if the inside of the office microwave didn't look like a Jackson Pollock painting, or if fathers stopped signing up their nine-year-olds to win free hunting trips? Scathingly funny and relentlessly unafraid of sensitive topics, Maher offers hundreds of New Rules and essays with his patented take-no prisoners irreverence--'New Rule: If one of your news organization's headlines is about who got kicked off Dancing with the Stars last night, you're no longer a star.' With the 2012 elections looming and a political climate increasingly influenced by weird and wacky real-life characters--it was to Maher that Christine O'Donnell confessed she 'dabbled into witchcraft'--Bill Maher's hilarious brand of realism is more welcome and necessary than ever. So sit back, read on, and enjoy. You may not agree with all his views, but one thing's for certain: if you're listening, you're laughing.

The New New Rules

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Gigi Levangie

Michigan

A Novel

✖️ Been There, Married That

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Rachel Renée Russell

Massachusetts

Tales from a Not-So-Happy Heartbreaker

Middle-school drama queen Nikki Maxwell worries about asking a boy to her school's "sweetheart dance."

Dork Diaries 6

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#hardcover #nonfiction #thewitchesarecoming #essays #feminism #humor #readers #adult #protectivecover #formerlibrarybook

The firebrand New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Shrill--soon to be a Hulu series starring Aidy Bryant--provides a brilliant and incisive look at how patriarchy, intolerance, and misogyny have conquered not just politics but American culture itself. What do Adam Sandler, Donald Trump, and South Park have in common? Why are myths like "reverse sexism" and "political correctness" so seductive? And why do movie classics of yore, from Sixteen Candles to Revenge of the Nerds, make rape look like so much silly fun? With Lindy West's signature wit and in her uniquely incendiary voice, THE WITCHES ARE COMING lays out a grand theory of America that explains why Trump's election was, in many ways, a foregone conclusion. As West reveals through fascinating journeys across the landscapes of pop culture, the lies that fostered the catastrophic resentment that boiled over in the 2016 presidential race did not spring from a vacuum. They have in fact been woven into America's DNA, cultivated by generations of mediocre white men and fed to the masses with such fury that we have become unable to recognize them as lies at all. Whether it be the notion overheard since the earliest moments of the #MeToo movement that feminism has gone too far or the insistence that holding someone accountable for his actions amounts to a "witch hunt," THE WITCHES ARE COMING exposes the lies that many have chosen to believe and the often unexpected figures who have furthered them. Along the way, it unravels the tightening link between culture and politics, identifying in the memes, music, and movies we've loved the seeds of the neoreactionary movement now surging through the nation. Sprawling, funny, scorching, and illuminating, THE WITCHES ARE COMING shows West at the top of her intellectual and comic powers. As much a celebration of America's potential as a condemnation of our failures, some will call it a witch hunt. To which West would reply, so be it: "I'm a witch and I'm hunting you."

The Witches Are Coming

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Robert Ripley

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New Jersey

Ripley's Believe It or Not!

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Fannie Flagg

The bestselling author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café presents a hilarious new mystery that, spanning decades, generations and America in the 1940s and today, centers around five women who worked in a Phillips 66 gas station during the WWII years.

The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

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Garrison Keillor

Oregon

In this collection of stories about small-town life, Dale takes a step toward manhood and Darlene sets off for Minneapolis to begin a new life

Leaving Home

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Amy Poehler

Idaho

In a perfect world . . . We'd get to hang out with Amy Poehler, watching dumb movies, listening to music, and swapping tales about our coworkers and difficult childhoods. Because in a perfect world, we'd all be friends with Amy—someone who seems so fun, is full of interesting stories, tells great jokes, and offers plenty of advice and wisdom (the useful kind, not the annoying kind you didn't ask for, anyway). Unfortunately, between her Golden Globe-winning role on Parks and Recreation, work as a producer and director, place as one of the most beloved SNL alumni and cofounder of the Upright Citizens' Brigade, involvement with the website Smart Girls at the Party, frequent turns as acting double for Meryl Streep, and her other gig as the mom of two young sons, she's not available for movie night. Luckily we have the next best thing: Yes Please, Amy's hilarious and candid book. A collection of stories, thoughts, ideas, lists, and haikus from the mind of one of our most beloved entertainers, Yes Please offers Amy's thoughts on everything from her "too safe" childhood outside of Boston to her early days in New York City, her ideas about Hollywood and "the biz," the demon that looks back at all of us in the mirror, and her joy at being told she has a "face for wigs." Yes Please is chock-full of words and wisdom to live by.

Yes Please

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Diksha Basu

New York

"For the past thirty years, Mr. and Mrs. Jha's lives have been defined by cramped spaces, cut corners, gossipy neighbors, and the small dramas of stolen yoga pants and stale marriages. They thought they'd settled comfortably into their golden years, pleased with their son's acceptance into an American business school. But then Mr. Jha comes into an enormous and unexpected sum of money, and moves his wife from their housing complex in East Delhi to the super-rich side of town, where he becomes eager to fit in as a man of status"--]cProvided by publisher.

The Windfall

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#hardcover #fiction #dorkdiaries #cute #juvenilefiction #humor #excellentcondition 

Kentucky

Tales from a Not-So-Dorky Drama Queen

Springtime brings crazy adventures to Nikki and her friends Chloe, Zoey, and Brandon.

Dork Diaries 9

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Texas

While riding in the car with Buzz and his father, Fly Guy gets blown out of the window and finds himself riding in a truck, then a boat, a train, an airplane, and maybe even a rocket.

Ride, Fly Guy, Ride!

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#hardcover #myfairlazy  #memoir #jenlancaster #humor 

Kansas

One Reality Television Addict's Attempt to Discover If Not Being a Dumb Ass Is the New Black, Or, a Culture-Up Manifesto

Lancaster attempts to achieve cultural enlightenment, and bears witness to the hilarious missteps and genuine moments of inspiration she encounters along the way.

My Fair Lazy

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Steve Martin

Delaware

Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the NYC art world by storm. Groomed at Sotheby's and hungry to keep climbing the social and career ladders put before her, Lacey charms men and women, old and young, rich and even richer with her magnetic charisma and liveliness. Her ascension to the highest tiers of the city parallel the soaring heights--and, at times, the dark lows--of the art world and the country from the late 1990s through today.

An Object of Beauty

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"Welcome to Silvertown, Washington. Population: 602. (For now.) Officer Mary Whittaker is the lone cop in a small, bizarre mountain town that has yet to fully welcome her. With the chief of police on leave, she is left to uncover the truth behind a sudden spate of abnormal incidents. An exemplary, beloved teenager has died tragically after eating wild mushrooms from his lawn. A hiker was found dead on a trail, smiling serenely after being mauled by a bear. And other residents seem to have lost all sense of self-preservation as they walk out in front of her moving cruiser or sit placidly in the middle of a sharp bend in a mountain road. As she witnesses increasingly odd behavior and more bodies are discovered in baffling-and completely avoidable-circumstances, Officer Whittaker is dismayed to find no two cases are the same, except in their bizarreness. Though every possible explanation and conspiracy theory is considered, from mental breakdowns to aliens, it turns out to be something much more unsettling. The townsfolk are all losing their instincts, one by one. As the town descends into panic, and Mary's own instincts begin to fail, she must figure out what is happening, who is behind it, and how to prevent the quirky mountain village from turning into a ghost town"--

Instinct

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Nora Ephron

And Other Reflections

In a hilarious collection of personal essays, the best-selling author of I Feel Bad About My Neck discusses her career in journalism, divorce, a long-anticipated inheritance with unanticipated results, the evolution of her relationship with her e-mail in-box and more. 500,000 first printing.

I Remember Nothing

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Spirited Dispatches on Aging with Joie de Vivre

The nonagenarian author of the best-selling Papa Hemingway presents a collection of uplifting essays on the experiences and insights of aging that celebrates the lighter side of such topics as commercials that target seniors, the advantages of keeping a pet and the highs and lows of divorce. 50,000 first printing.

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Janet Evanovich

Sizzling Sixteen

Marc Maron; Marc Maron and Brendan McDonald

Waiting for the Punch

Lynne Truss

Eats, Shoots and Leaves

B. J. Novak

The Book with No Pictures

Tom Angleberger

Darth Paper Strikes Back

Ann Droyd

Goodnight IPad

Bill Maher

The New New Rules

Gigi Levangie

✖️ Been There, Married That

Rachel Renée Russell

Dork Diaries 6

Lindy West

The Witches Are Coming

Robert Ripley

Ripley's Believe It or Not!

Fannie Flagg

The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

Garrison Keillor

Leaving Home

Amy Poehler

Yes Please

Diksha Basu

The Windfall

Rachel Renée Russell (Illustrator)

Dork Diaries 9

Tedd Arnold (Illustrator)

Ride, Fly Guy, Ride!

Jen Lancaster

My Fair Lazy

Steve Martin

An Object of Beauty

Jason M. Hough

Instinct

Tom Angleberger

Darth Paper Strikes Back

Amy Poehler

Yes Please

Nora Ephron

I Remember Nothing

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O. J. in the Morning, G and T at Night