Mac BarnettMac B. is back on another madcap adventure -- this time a stolen raven threatens to topple the Queen and it's up to Mac to smackdown his KGB rival...

Author: William Sutcliffe Can three mothers save their shiftless sons from themselves—in just one week?Gillian, Helen, and Carol are three suburban mothers who have known each other since their respective...

Niamh Greene When Susie's maiden aunt gives her a housekeeping journal, she expects Susie to use it for jotting down nutritious recipes and planning household budgets. But Susie has more...

Mary Louis N Colgin and Thea Simons van der VenIt's Your Story--Pass It On is a personal-history workbook full of questions, suggestions, and quotes, as well as attractive engravings that...

Author: Isaac Bashevis SingerA collection of short stories by a miraculous writer who can chill the spine, gorge the senses, and enlighten the heart as he describes a people and...

John Kennedy TooleIgnatius J Reilly of New Orleans is a noble crusader against a world of dunces. In magnificent revolt against the twentieth century, Ignatius propels his monstrous bulk amongst...

Glen DuncanThe Prince of Darkness has been given one last shot at redemption, provided he can live out a reasonably blameless life on earth. Highly sceptical, naturally, the Old Dealmaker...

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Tina Fey   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...

Nathan Englander When his father dies, it falls to Larry--the secular son in a family of Orthodox Brooklyn Jews--to recite the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, every day...

James ThurberJames Thurber has been called "one of our great American institutions' (Stanley Walker), "a magnificent satirist (Boston Transcript), and "a Joyce in false-face" (New York Times). The New York...

Dan Ariely   Dan Ariely, behavioral economist and the New York Times bestselling author of The Upside of Irrationality and Predictably Irrational, examines the contradictory forces that drive us to...