From Sue Margolis, the beloved author of Forget Me Knot and Gucci, Gucci Coo, comes a clever, capricious novel about lust, longing, and sizing up the competition. After enduring her share of commitment-phobic boyfriends, Amy Brown tr...
Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel
Maria SempleBernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old B...
Sunshine State trivia buff Serge A. Storms loves eliminating jerks and pests. His drug-addled partner Coleman loves cartoons. Hot stripper Sharon Rhodes loves cocaine, especially when purchased with rich dead men's money. On the ot...
Farm Fatale: A Comedy of Country Mano...
Wendy HoldenRosie and her live-in boyfriend Mark move from their London flat to a cottage in the country so that Rosie can indulge her romantic dreams of rural life. But things, needless to say, are not quite what she expected: bad plumbing, nois...
Dave Barry's History of the Millenniu...
Dave BarryThucydides, Gibbon, Tuchman, McCullough-to the names of the world's great historians must now be added the name of Dave Barry, who has taken a long, hard look at our new millennium (so far) and, when he stopped hyperventilating, has w...
Grief-stricken over the death of her beloved husband, Imogene Lavender dedicates herself to nurturing the tomatoes in her vegetable garden, her daughter Jeanette, and her niece Loutishie, and finds love and hope in her garden. Reader'...
DIVBA dark comic masterpiece—the first solo adult novel in more than a decade from the Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times–bestselling author./BBRbr Seth Weinstein knew Tina was way out of his league in pretty much any way yo...
Southern Living (Ballantine Reader's ...
Ad HudlerMargaret moves to Georgia after her mother's death, where she writes a column for the local newspaper. Suzanne is an aristocratic alcoholic who's trying to rein in a straying husband. Donna is the produce manager at the supermarket wh...
Unusual Uses for Olive Oil: A Profess...
Alexander McCall SmithProfessor Dr. Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, author of the highly regarded Portuguese Irregular Verbs (200 LTD copies sold!) and a pillar of the Institute of Romance Philology in the proud Bavarian city of Regensburg, finds that life ...
Jeeves in the Offing: A Jeeves and Wo...
P. G. WodehouseBertie Wooster is puzzled. He has no recollection of Roberta Wickham accepting his marriage proposal. He knows it will take everydrop of daredevil Wooster spirit to survive a weekend at Aunt Dahlia's without Jeeves.
Him Her Him Again the End of Him
Patricia MarxPatricia Marx is one of the finest comic writers of her time, as readers of The New Yorker and fans of Saturday Night Live already know. Her fiction debut is an endlessly entertaining comic novel about one woman's romantic fixation on...
Shopaholic to the Stars: A Novel
Sophie Kinsella#1 New York Times bestselling author Sophie Kinsella returns to her beloved Shopaholic series with Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) newly arrived in Hollywood and starry-eyed. She and her two-year-old daughter, Minnie, have relocated to ...
Fed up with being brilliant and perceptively self-aware in today's society, Antoine, a twenty-five-year-old Aramaic scholar is determined to renounce his intelligence and will do anything in order to become "stupid" enough t...
A witty tale of marriage and midlife longing, as a taken-for-granted wife pursues a fantasy love via e-mail.
Now back in print: two surprisingly naughty and hilarious adult books by the beloved children's author/bGreat wit, melancholy, and lust pervade this collection of four adult short stories by Roald Dahl. Included here are "The Vis...
An Affair to Dismember: The Matchmake...
Elise SaxCertain to appeal to fans of Janet Evanovich, Jennifer Crusie, and Katie MacAlister, Elise Sax's hilarious series debut introduces matchmaker-in-training Gladie Burger, who stumbles into a dangerous quagmire of murder and red-hot roma...
Shopaholic to the Rescue: A Novel
Sophie Kinsella#1 New York Times bestselling author Sophie Kinsella returns with another laugh-out-loud Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) adventure: a hilarious road trip through the American West to Las Vegas. Becky is on a major rescue mission! Her ...
Murder Most Fowl: A Meg Langslow Myst...
Donna AndrewsA Shakespearean twist on the long-running Meg Langslow mystery series in Murder Most Fowl, the next installment from Donna Andrews, award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Falcon Always Wings Twice. Meg Langslow...
Seth Weinstein always knew Tina was way, way, way out of his league. Which is why he's still astonished that he's on a plane heading for their wedding in Florida. The Groom Posse has already pulled an airport prank on him-and he's s...
When her husband Kenny dumps her (by cell phone) mere months before their ten-year wedding anniversary, Gracie Pollock finds herself reeling. Though her role as the wife of a semifamous Hollywood studio executive often left her cold, ...
The story of Mr. Chipping, the classics master at Brookfield School since 1870, takes readers on a beguiling journey through the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Sometimes Chips, as he is affectionately known, is an old man who dre...
Washed-up Hollywood producer Charlie Berns has mailed in his updated obit and is about to suck his Mercedes tailpipe and fade to black when a miracle materializes: his nephew, a wannabe screenwriter from New Jersey, has scripted the l...
Secondhand Souls Low Price CD: A Nove...
Christopher MooreIn San Francisco, the souls of the dead are mysteriously disappearing and you know that can t be good in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore s delightfully funny sequel to A Dirty Job.Something really strange is happen...
The peaceful slumber of the Worcester village of Rudge-in-the-Vale is about to be rudely disrupted. First there s a bitter feud between peppery Colonel Wyvern and the Squire of Rudge Hall, rich but miserly Lester Carmody. Second, that...
Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade
Patrick DennisWildly successful when it was first published in 1955, Patrick Dennis' Auntie Mame sold over two million copies and stayed put on the New York Times bestseller list for 112 weeks. It was made into a play, a Broadway as well as a Holl...
An Irish Country Village (Irish Count...
Patrick TaylorPatrick Taylor first charmed readers with An Irish Country Doctor, a warm and enchanting novel in the tradition of James Herriot and Jan Karon. Now Taylor returns to the colorful Northern Ireland community of Ballybucklebo, where ther...
Much to Bertie Wooster’s astonishment, The Times has announced his engagement to the gorgeous redhead Bobbie Wickham. But that’s not all. Bertie’s stay at Aunt Dahlia’s and Uncle Tom's reveals a cow-creamer thi...
Terns of Endearment: A Meg Langslow M...
Donna AndrewsTerns of Endearment is a new side-splitting Meg Langslow mystery from award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews. All aboard...for murder? Meg Langslow is only too pleased to join her grandfather on a cruise ship...
The Getaway Girls: A hilarious feel g...
Dee MacDonald"One morning, Connie McColl wakes up and decides to swap her ordinary life, for an extraordinary adventure…Connie McColl is finally free to make her own decisions for the first time in decades. And when she meets glamorous Gill...
The Magic Christian (Southern, Terry)...
Terry SouthernOne of the funniest, cruelest, and most savagely revealing books about American life ever written, The Magic Christian has been called Terry Southern's masterpiece.Guy Grand is an eccentric billionaire--the last of the big spenders--d...