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'...

Margaret 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...

Professor 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 ...

Patricia 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...

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...

Certain 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...

A 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...

Wildly 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...

Patrick 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...

Terns 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...

"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...

One 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...

It's all in a day's work for Tara Holloway, the U.S. Treasury's latest, greatest, soon-to-be-skinniest weapon against the biggest, richest tax cheats in the nation…When she joined the Criminal Investigations Division, Tara knew she'...

Death, Taxes, and Peach SangriaDiane KellyWhen it comes to exposing tax fraud, Tara and her partner Eddie are really cleaning up. From their brilliant takedown of the disappearing "Tax Wizard" to their perfectly planned down...

In 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 ha...

Becky Bloomwood, British heroine of CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC, returns. Once again, Becky's credibility as a financial expert is severely compromised when her clients discover that she's a compulsive spender. This time around, she's...

DON’T MESS WITH HEXESKatie Chandler had always heard that New York is a weird and wonderful place, but this small-town Texas gal had no idea how weird until she moved there. Everywhere she goes, she sees something worth gawking ...

Sophie Kinsella has conquered the hearts of millions with her New York Times bestselling Shopaholic novels, which feature the irresistible one-woman shopping phenomenon Becky Bloomwood. Now Becky’s back in a hilarious, heartwar...

What they have here are the makings of a nonfiction tell-all book, but the material has been winningly transformed into fiction....The book is saved from self-righteousness not only by the authors' cleverness but also by their compass...

This goofy apocalyptic fantasy is a collaboration from the author of AMERICAN GODS and the author of the comic Discworld series. The Antichrist has been born, and the End of Days approaches on Earth. Crowley, a demon, and his angel fr...

Lucy Savage is not having a good week.Her cheating husband, Bradley, lobbed the final insult when he stood her up in divorce court. A dye job gone wrong has left her hair green. And someone is trying to kill her. To top it off, sexy c...

The Nanny Diaries is an absolutely addictive peek into the utterly weird world of child rearing in the upper reaches of Manhattan's social strata. Cowritten by two former nannies, Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, the novel follows th...

A heartwarming novel by the best-selling author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe captures the humorous and complex realities of ordinary people living in Elmwood Springs, Missouri, including Neighbor Dorothy, a radio h...

A wickedly funny fairy tale for modern women from Sarah Strohmeyer,the "laugh- out-loud funny" (Washington Post Book World) author of The Cinderella Pact and The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives. "Opening a book by Sara...

Two years after the opening of Liquor, New Orleans chefs Rickey and G-man are immersed in the life of their restaurant, enjoying a loyal cast of diners, and cooking great booze-laced food. All’s well until a bad review in a loca...

Pardon our French, but in Miss Julia's newest nonstop adventure, "steel magnolias kick butt" (Kirkus Reviews). Miss Julia has promised her adoring husband, Sam, to mind her own business. What a relief! Instead of trying to...

A Bertie and Jeeves classic, featuring a cow-creamer, the redheaded Miss Wickham, and the formidable schoolmaster Aubrey Upjohn.Jeeves is infallible. Jeeves is indispensable. Unfortunately, in How Right You Are, Jeeves, he is also in ...