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The national bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author-one of the warmest and most delightful Christmas stories ever. With fond nostalgia, Dave Barry takes readers back to a simpler time: The year is 1960, and young Doug Ba...

divChildren and adults alike adore the dark humor that pervades such Roald Dahl classics as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Fantastic Mr. Fox. Yet the celebrated author sometimes followed his imagination down a much more risque...

Serge A. Storms is back with a bullet, torn between homicide and souvenirs, cranking up the fevered action as the pot boils over on a street called Lobster Lane. IIt's reunion time in the Sunshine State, and we're not just talking th...

Move over, Bridget Jones's diary:  She's back, and this time she's texting and tweeting. . .   Fourteen years after landing Mark Darcy, Bridget's life has taken her places she never expected. But despite the new challenges of single...

A licensed psychologist who stars on the cable breakout show I Need a Push, Reagan Bishop helps participants become their best selves by urging them to overcome obstacles and change behaviors. An overachiever, Reagan is used to delive...

For two thousand years, the brief ministry of a young Nazarene preacher has remained the largest single determinant of Western civilization's triumphs and disasters. Now, Norman Mailer has written a novel about Jesus's life. Is God sp...

In the hilarious new novel in the best-selling Detective Varg series, an eminent art historian is framed and the ace investigators of the department of sensitive crimes are on the case.   Detective Ulf Varg is a man of refine...

bA delightfully funny novel packing a clever punch, from the author of the iNew York Times/i bestselling iJulie and Romeo/i/bbr br   A mom in her early fifties, Clover knows she no longer turns heads the way she used to, and she's...

Lovably troublesome Gladie Burger runs into sizzling danger and a fiery love triangle in the second installment of Elise Sax's hilarious and sexy Matchmaker romance series. "Elise Sax will make you laugh. Her larger-than-life ch...

Now a classic! The hilarious novel of the healing arts that reveals everything your doctor never wanted you to know. Six eager interns -- they saw themselves as modern saviors-to-be. They came from the top of their medical school ...

In the Swedish criminal justice system, certain cases are considered especially strange and difficult, in Malmö, the dedicated detectives who investigate these crimes are members of an elite squad known as the Sensitive Crimes Divisi...

[Thorne Smith] created the modern American ghost.   A ghost with style and wit. A ghost that haunts us still.' --The New York TimesThorne Smith is a master of urbane wit and sophisticated repartee. Topper, his best-known work, is th...

Amy Gallup is an aging novelist and writing instructor living in Escondido, California, with her dog, Alphonse. Since recent unsettling events, she has made some progress. While she still has writer's block, she doesn't suffer from it...

"To dive into a Wodehouse novel is to swim in some of the most elegantly turned phrases in the English language."—Ben Schott Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning ...

Readers who fell in love with Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, now have new cause for celebration in the protagonist of these three light-footed comic novels by Alexander McCall Smith. Welcome...

Dear Reader, Some people run toward love with arms outstretched. Hoping of course, that love doesn't gasp in fear and make a hasty retreat in the opposite direction. Others go to great lengths to hide from the very possibility of roma...

Sara Swerdlow and Adam Langer are in many ways the ideal Manhattan pair. Their relationship is unvexed by the strains of sexual attraction, since both prefer men, and has even survived Adam's huge early success as 'the gay Neil Simon...

Refusing to play by the rules, four divorces--Jess, whose affair with a grad student ended her marriage; Nell, whose husband left her for another man; Laura, whose ex-husband refused to have children; and Grace, who still supports her...

P"The undisputed king of the comic crime novel."BR—EMProvidence Journal/PPNobody does Florida weirdness quite like Tim Dorsey! Case in point: EMWhen Elves Attack, the EMNew York Times bestselling author's twisted Christmas...

When Pel is promoted to head his IT department, he finds that his new job involves some very shady elements, and Pel realizes too late that he's going to take the rap for his predecessor, who has mysteriously disappeared. Meanwhile, P...

A television Domestic Diva who is happy as a perfect size 12, Delilah White suddenly finds herself in competition with her arch-rival, the statuesque Margo Hart, for a much coveted promotion, a situation that is complicated by cutthro...

Low-level entertainment lawyer Nick Carter thinks it's a prank, not an alien encounter, when a redheaded mullah and a curvaceous nun show up at his office. But Frampton and Carly are highly advanced (if bumbling) extraterrestrials. Th...

Despite her globe-trotting lifestyle and her determination to avoid any kind of messy emotional entanglements, a reluctant Laura finds herself falling for Sebastien, a charming, sophisticated Parisian waiter and graphic artist who cha...

#1 International BestsellerThe Best Exotic Marigold Hotel meets The Italian Job in internationally-bestselling author Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg's witty and insightful comedy of errors about a group of delinquent seniors whose desire...

Known for her "hilarious and spot-on"* memoirs I've Still Got It…I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It and If It Was Easy, They'd Call the Whole Damn Thing a Honeymoon, Jenna McCarthy turns her comedic talents to fiction wi...

Who better to parody science fiction than science fiction authors themselves? *** In this classic collection of stories, compiled by Mike Resnick (winner of five Hugos, plus a plethora of other awards in multiple categories), such ...

Philip Horkman is a happy man, the owner of a pet store called The Wine Shop, and on Sundays a referee for a local kids' soccer league. Jeffrey Peckerman is the proud and loving father of a star athlete in the girls' ten-and-under soc...

"The kind of book you just devour. Hannah Sugarman is Bridget Jones with a killer cinnamon bun recipe."—Stacey Ballis, author of Good Enough to Eat and Off the Menu"[A] delicious debut."—Sarah Pekkanen, author ...

Bestselling author William Peter Blatty warms our hearts with a funny yet deeply moving nostalgic tale of memory, mystery . . . and miracles.New York, 1941: Joey El Bueno is just a smart-aleck kid, confounding the nuns and bullies at ...