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  10,000 Jokes, Toasts, Stories
  

  by Lewis Copeland, Fayette Copeland

  ISBN 0385001630 (0-385-00163-0)
  Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing

  
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  The ultimate compendium of wit and humor for all occasions from business meetings to sales presentations to professional conventions to political rallies to rehearsal dinners--all organized by topic and fully indexed by subject. [via]

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  Annotated Alice
  

  by Martin Gardner, Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel

  ISBN 0393048470 (0-393-04847-0)
  Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

  
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  "What is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations!"

  Readers who share Alice's taste in books will be more than satisfied with The Annotated Alice, a volume that includes not only pictures and conversations, but a thorough gloss on the text as well. There may be some, like G.K. Chesterton, who abhor the notion of putting Lewis Carroll's masterpiece under a microscope and analyzing it within an inch of its whimsical life. But as Martin Gardner points out in his introduction, so much of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass is composed of private jokes and details of Victorian manners and mores that modern audiences are not likely to catch. Yes, Alice can be enjoyed on its own merits, but The Annotated Alice appeals to the nosy parker in all of us. Thus we learn, for example, that the source of the mouse's tale may have been Alfred Lord Tennyson who "once told Carroll that he had dreamed a lengthy poem about fairies, which began with very long lines, then the lines got shorter and shorter until the poem ended with fifty or sixty lines of two syllables each." And that, contrary to popular belief, the Mad Hatter character was not a parody of then Prime Minister Gladstone, but rather was based on an Oxford furniture dealer named Theophilus Carter.

  Gardner's annotations run the gamut from the factual and historical to the speculative and are, in their own way, quite as fascinating as the text they refer to. Occasionally, he even comments on himself, as when he quotes a fellow annotator of Alice, James Kincaid: "The historical context does not call for a gloss but the passage provides an opportunity to point out the ambivalence that may attend the central figure and her desire to grow up." And then follows with a charming riposte: "I thank Mr. Kincaid for supporting my own rambling." There's a lot of information in the margins (indeed, the page is pretty evenly divided between Carroll's text and Gardner's), but the ramblings turn out to be well worth the time. So hand over your old copy of Lewis Carroll's classic to the kids--this Alice in Wonderland is intended entirely for adults. --Alix Wilber [via]

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  • Annotated Alice: ISBN 0393048470 (0-393-04847-0)
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  Asterix & Caesar's Gift
  

  by R. Goscinny, Albert Uderzo

  ISBN 0340215887 (0-340-21588-7)
  Hardcover, French & European Pubns

  
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  Azazel
  

  by Isaac Asimov

  ISBN 038524410X (0-385-24410-X)
  Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

  
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  Bone 3: Eyes of the Storm
  

  by Jeff Smith, Steve Hamaker

  ISBN 0439706254 (0-439-70625-4)
  Hardcover, Graphix

  
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  Book of Nonsense
  

  by Edward Lear

  ISBN 041528600X (0-415-28600-X)
  Softcover, Routledge

  
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  Can't Wait to Get to Heaven
  

  by Fannie Flagg

  ISBN 0375432140 (0-375-43214-0)
  Hardcover, Random House Large Print

  
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  Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here?
  
  Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs. Elner Shimfissle is up in her tree, picking figs, and the next thing she knows, she is off on an adventure she never dreamed of, running into people she never in a million years expected to meet. Meanwhile, back home, Elners nervous, high-strung niece Norma faints and winds up in bed with a cold rag on her head; Elners neighbor Verbena rushes immediately to the Bible; her truck driver friend, Luther Griggs, runs his eighteen-wheeler into a ditchand the entire town is thrown for a loop and left wondering, What is life all about, anyway? Except for Tot Whooten, who owns Tots Tell It Like It Is Beauty Shop. Her main concern is that the end of the world might come before she can collect her social security.
  
  In this comedy-mystery, those near and dear to Elner discover something wonderful: Heaven is actually right here, right now, with people you love, neighbors you help, friendships you keep. Cant Wait to Get to Heaven is proof once more that Fannie Flagg was put on this earth to write (Southern Living), spinning tales as sweet and refreshing as iced tea on a summer day, with a little extra kick thrown in. [via]

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  Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
  

  by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

  ISBN 0375815252 (0-375-81525-2)
  Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books

  
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  Picking right up where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory left off, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator continues the adventures of Charlie Bucket, his family, and Willy Wonka, the eccentric candy maker. As the book begins, our heroes are shooting into the sky in a glass elevator, headed for destinations unknown. What follows is exactly the kind of high-spirited magical madness and mayhem we've all come to expect from Willy Wonka and his creator Roald Dahl. The American space race gets a send-up, as does the President, and Charlie's family gets a second chance at childhood. Throw in the Vermicious Knids, Gnoolies, and Minusland and we once again witness pure genius. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]

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  • Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator: ISBN 0375915257 (0-375-91525-7)
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  • Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator: ISBN 0394824725 (0-394-82472-5)
    Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
  • Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator: ISBN 039492472X (0-394-92472-X)
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  • Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator: ISBN 0375815252 (0-375-81525-2)
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  Company: A Novel
  

  by Max Barry

  ISBN 0385514395 (0-385-51439-5)
  Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing

  
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  The Cowboy Wally Show
  

  by Kyle Baker

  ISBN 0385241224 (0-385-24122-4)
  Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

  
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  Crackers
  

  by Blount, Roy, Jr.

  ISBN 0345298055 (0-345-29805-5)
  Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

  
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  Crackers: This Whole Many-Angled Thing of Jimmy, More Carters, Ominous Little Animals, Sad Singing Women, My Daddy, and Me
  

  by Roy Blount

  ISBN 0394513010 (0-394-51301-0)
  Hardcover, Knopf

  
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  Have you ever asked yourself, Am I southern? If not geographically, then deep down, at heart? Or, if I am not southern myself, do I know people who are southern, whom I misunderstand? Is there some authority I should consult?

  Crackers. Without this book, you will just flail around in the shallows of Southernity, with nothing solid to hold onto. Roy Blount Jr. puts you in touch with possums, heterosexist dancing, people named Junior, a two-headed four-armed three-legged gospel-singing man, your feelings about the Carter administration. These specifics take you out into the depths.

  As a character in Crackers puts it, "I don't read books about the South, but I read southern books. Hoooo, people stealing one another's wooden legs, setting fires, making tarbabies out of one another. . . ."

  Crackers is a southern book.

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  Crocodile on the Sandbank
  

  by Elizabeth Peters

  ISBN 0396070809 (0-396-07080-9)
  Hardcover, Dodd Mead

  
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  Elizabeth Peters's unforgettable heroine Amelia Peabody makes her first appearance in this clever mystery. Amelia receives a rather large inheritance and decides to use it for travel. On her way through Rome to Egypt, she meets Evelyn Barton-Forbes, a young woman abandoned by her lover and left with no means of support. Amelia promptly takes Evelyn under her wing, insisting that the young lady accompany her to Egypt, where Amelia plans to indulge her passion for Egyptology. When Evelyn becomes the target of an aborted kidnapping and the focus of a series of suspicious accidents and mysterious visitations, Amelia becomes convinced of a plot to harm her young friend. Like any self-respecting sleuth, Amelia sets out to discover who is behind it all. [via]

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  Decameron
  

  by Giovanni Boccaccio

  ISBN 0393091325 (0-393-09132-5)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

  
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  This volume contains twenty-one of the hundred novelle that comprise Boccaccio's masterpiece. The stories have been chosen to represent the most notable of the author's themes and the most characteristic and influential examples of his narrative technique. All are in new translations by Mark Musa and Peter Bondanella which successfully capture Boccaccio's variations in diction and sentence structure. "Contemporary Reactions" includes Petrarch's letters to Boccaccio after completion of The Decameron and the responses of such Italian Renaissance figures as Leonardo Bruni, Filippo Villani, Giannozzo Manetti, and Ludovico Dolce, all of which have been translated for this edition. "Modern Criticism" includes interpretations by Ugo Foscolo, Francesco De Sanctis, Erich Auerbach, Aldo D. Scaglione, Wayne Booth, Tzvetan Todorov, Robert J. Clements, and Marga Cottino-Jones. Thomas G. Bergin's important historical overview is published here for the first time, while Ben Lawton's study of Pier Paolo Pasolini's filming of The Decameron and a general essay by the editors were written specially for this volume. [via]

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  Decameron
  

  by Mark Musa, Peter E. Bondanella, Giovanni Boccaccio

  ISBN 0393044580 (0-393-04458-0)
  Hardcover, Norton

  
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  Eddie Dickens Trilogy
  

  by Philip Ardagh, David Roberts

  ISBN 0439537592 (0-439-53759-2)
  Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks

  
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  Emma
  

  by Jane Austen

  ISBN 0375757422 (0-375-75742-2)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  Of all Jane Austen's heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing. Pride and Prejudice's Lizzie Bennet has more wit and sparkle; Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey more imagination; and Sense and Sensibility's Elinor Dashwood certainly more sense--but Emma is lovable precisely because she is so imperfect. Austen only completed six novels in her lifetime, of which five feature young women whose chances for making a good marriage depend greatly on financial issues, and whose prospects if they fail are rather grim. Emma is the exception: "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." One may be tempted to wonder what Austen could possibly find to say about so fortunate a character. The answer is, quite a lot.

  For Emma, raised to think well of herself, has such a high opinion of her own worth that it blinds her to the opinions of others. The story revolves around a comedy of errors: Emma befriends Harriet Smith, a young woman of unknown parentage, and attempts to remake her in her own image. Ignoring the gaping difference in their respective fortunes and stations in life, Emma convinces herself and her friend that Harriet should look as high as Emma herself might for a husband--and she zeroes in on an ambitious vicar as the perfect match. At the same time, she reads too much into a flirtation with Frank Churchill, the newly arrived son of family friends, and thoughtlessly starts a rumor about poor but beautiful Jane Fairfax, the beloved niece of two genteelly impoverished elderly ladies in the village. As Emma's fantastically misguided schemes threaten to surge out of control, the voice of reason is provided by Mr. Knightly, the Woodhouse's longtime friend and neighbor. Though Austen herself described Emma as "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like," she endowed her creation with enough charm to see her through her most egregious behavior, and the saving grace of being able to learn from her mistakes. By the end of the novel Harriet, Frank, and Jane are all properly accounted for, Emma is wiser (though certainly not sadder), and the reader has had the satisfaction of enjoying Jane Austen at the height of her powers. --Alix Wilber [via]

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  • Emma: ISBN 0393972844 (0-393-97284-4)
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  • Emma: ISBN 0395051150 (0-395-05115-0)
    Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
  • Emma: ISBN 0393042812 (0-393-04281-2)
    Softcover, Norton
  • Emma: ISBN 039309667X (0-393-09667-X)
    Softcover, Norton
  • Emma: ISBN 0393960145 (0-393-96014-5)
    Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
  • Emma: ISBN 0375757422 (0-375-75742-2)
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  Every Living Thing
  

  by James Herriot

  ISBN 0330443453 (0-330-44345-3)
  Softcover, Pan Macmillan

  
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  James Herriot has captivated millions of readers and television viewers with tales of the triumphs, disasters, pride and sometimes heartache that filled his life as a vet in the Yorkshire Dales. "Every Living Thing" shines with the captivating storytelling that has made James Herriot a favourite the world over. Here is a book for all those who find laughter and joy in animals, and who know and understand the magic of wild places and beautiful countryside. 'He can tell a good story against himself, and his pleasure in the beauty of the countryside in which he works is infectious' - "Daily Telegraph". 'Full of warmth, wisdom and wit' - "The Field". 'It is a pleasure to be in James Herriot's company' - "Observer". [via]

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  The F Word
  

  by Jesse Sheidlower, Random House Staff

  ISBN 0375706348 (0-375-70634-8)
  Softcover, Random House Information Group

  
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  There's something special about a lexicon in which more than half the entries begin with the same letter. The F-Word earned its title the hard way: editor Jesse Sheidlower and the staff of Random House combed vast numbers of books, magazines, films, and other works for references to the most beloved, least printable word in the English language and all its variations. There's some great reading here among the hundreds of citations, from the colorful dialogue of Gore Vidal to the military's creative use of intensifiers to boost morale. Of special interest are the acronyms and abbreviations incorporating the Word; after reading the entry for "BUFF," you might think twice before complimenting your gym-going friends.

  The care and attention each entry receives makes The F-Word a pleasure to use or browse, whether looking up an obscure phrase from an Iceberg Slim book or finding new insults for your next flame war. Ross MacDonald's illustrations are cute and funny (but not pornographic) and help to defuse some of the tension that might result from exposure to undiluted profanity. The F-Word throws much-needed light on one of the most-used English words; if you want to learn to swear correctly, RTFM--Read the [ahem] Manual. --Rob Lightner [via]

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  Fifth Garfield Treasury
  

  by Jim Davis

  ISBN 0345362683 (0-345-36268-3)
  Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

  
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  Fletch's Fortune
  

  by Gregory McDonald

  ISBN 0375713557 (0-375-71355-7)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  Fletchs Fortune
  
  He hadnt been a practicing journalist for years, although people remembered him and he still has a few contacts. And hes pretty sure he hasnt paid his dues to the American Journalism Alliance anytime recently. But somebody has.
  
  Fletchs Fortune
  
  Enjoying himself on the French Riviera, developing a killer tan, and sleeping with the neighbors wife, Fletch is feeling pretty flush. But when agents Eggers and Fabens show up with a little more information about Fletch than is comfortable and an invitation to the A.J.A. convention, how could he refuse?
  
  Fletchs Fortune
  
  So he finds himself enlisted as a spy among his peers. But before he can even set up his surveillance, theres a murder. And almost everybodys a suspect. Because a lot of people were employed by Walter March, and most of them had a reason to hate him. [via]

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  Fox in Socks
  

  by Seuss

  ISBN 0394800389 (0-394-80038-9)
  Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books

  
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  "This Fox is a tricky fox. He'll try to get your tongue in trouble." Dr. Seuss gives fair warning to anyone brave enough to read along with the Fox in Socks, who likes to play tongue-twisting games with his friend Mr. Knox. "Here's an easy game to play. Here's an easy thing to say.... New socks. Two socks. Whose socks? Sue's socks." But Mr. Fox Socks isn't about to let Knox off so easy. Soon Goo-Goose is choosing to chew chewy gluey blue goo, while tweetle beetles battle with paddles in a puddle (in case you were wondering, that's called a "tweetle beetle puddle paddle battle"). Mr. Knox gets exasperated: "I can't blab such blibber blubber! My tongue isn't made of rubber." But he catches on to the game before it's all through. One of Seuss's best, this must-read-aloud classic is guaranteed to get many giggles out of readers young and old. (Ages 4 to 8) --Paul Hughes [via]

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    Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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  Galapagos
  

  by Kurt Vonnegut

  ISBN 0385333870 (0-385-33387-0)
  Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

  
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  Galápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, and totally different human race. In this inimitable novel, Americas master satirist looks at our world and shows us all that is sadly, madly awryand all that is worth saving. [via]

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  Galapagos/300854
  

  by Kurt Vonnegut

  ISBN 0385294166 (0-385-29416-6)
  Hardcover, Smithmark Pub

  
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  The human survivors of the "Nature Crisis of the Century", are quietly evolving into sleek, furry creatures with flippers and small brains. All other forms of humankind have ceased to exist, made redundant by their prized big brains. From the author of "Slaughterhouse 5". [via]

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  Garfield Bigger and Better
  

  by Jim Davis

  ISBN 0345407709 (0-345-40770-9)
  Softcover, Ballantine Books

  
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  Garfield Goes to Waist, No 18
  

  by Jim Davis

  ISBN 0345364309 (0-345-36430-9)
  Softcover, Ballantine Books

  
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  Garfield Hams It Up
  

  by Jim Davis

  ISBN 0345412419 (0-345-41241-9)
  Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

  
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  Garfield Hangs Out
  

  by Jim Davis

  ISBN 0345368355 (0-345-36835-5)
  Softcover, Ballantine Books

  
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  Garfield in the Rough
  

  by Jim Davis

  ISBN 0345322428 (0-345-32242-8)
  Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

  
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  Garfield's Halloween Adventure
  

  by Jim Davis

  ISBN 0345330455 (0-345-33045-5)
  Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

  
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  God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
  

  by Kurt Vonnegut

  ISBN 0385333471 (0-385-33347-1)
  Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

  
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  Vonnegut's satirical voice has been likened to a 20th c. counterpart of Mark Twain. Don't miss the ascerbic wit from the award-winning author of "Slaughterhouse 5" & "Cat's Cradle." BEST PRICE on the market. Will mail out within 12 hrs. of payment confirmation. [via]

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  • God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater: ISBN 0385283342 (0-385-28334-2)
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  God Knows
  

  by Joseph Heller

  ISBN 0394529197 (0-394-52919-7)
  Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group

  
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  Joseph Heller's powerful, wonderfully funny, deeply moving novel is the story of David -- yes, King David -- but as you've never seen him before. You already know David as the legendary warrior king of Israel, husband of Bathsheba, and father of Solomon; now meet David as he really was: the cocky Jewish kid, the plagiarized poet, and the Jewish father. Listen as David tells his own story, a story both relentlessly ancient and surprisingly modern, about growing up and growing old, about men and women, and about man and God. It is quintessential Heller. [via]

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  Great Moments in Architecture
  

  by David Macaulay

  ISBN 0395267110 (0-395-26711-0)
  Softcover, Walter Lorraine

  
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  Hammerhead Ranch Motel
  

  by Tim Dorsey

  ISBN 0380732343 (0-380-73234-3)
  Softcover, Harpercollins

  
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  Penzler Pick, August 2000: Is it Florida, or is it the mystery writers who set their stories there? There seems to be a tradition of Florida noir that is as loony as that name implies. Tim Dorsey is the newest writer from the Sunshine State whose stories are inhabited by a cast of characters who, in any other state, would probably be behind bars. In Dorsey's world, not only are they roaming free, they are also wreaking havoc with impunity up and down the peninsula.

  In his first book, Florida Roadkill, Dorsey introduced us to several characters who are still at large as his second story begins. Serge A. Storms is a spree killer and Florida history buff, still looking for the five million dollars that's stashed in the trunk of a Chrysler--unbeknownst to the driver--somewhere in the state. Johnny Vegas is a playboy who, because catastrophic events always seem to get in the way, has yet to lose his virginity. Also along for the zany ride is 90-year-old Mrs. Edna Ploomfield, who blows away a man delivering her flowers and chocolates; a DJ who changed his name legally to Boris the Hateful Piece of BLEEP so that he would not be BLEEPED on the air every time he used the name; and Safety Officer Chester "Porkchop" Dole who watches the monitors on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Along with a dancing Chihuahua who forecasts the weather, the Diaz Boys, Harvey Fiddlebottom, undercover cops, and a variety of oddballs, they will congregate in or around the seediest place never to have been shut down, the Hammerhead Ranch Motel on the Gulf of Mexico. There, they will play out their lunacy as Hurricane Rolando-berto bears down on them. This is a wonderful summertime read, relentlessly funny and impossible to put down. --Otto Penzler [via]

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  Heartburn
  

  by Nora Ephron

  ISBN 0394531809 (0-394-53180-9)
  Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group

  
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  Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another woman. The fact that this woman has a 'neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb' is no consolation. Food sometimes is, though, since Rachel is a cookery writer, and between trying to win Mark back and wishing him dead, she offers us some of her favourite recipes. HEARTBURN is a roller coaster of love, betrayal, loss and - most satisfyingly - revenge. This is Nora Ephron's (screenwriter of WHEN HARRY MET SALLY and SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE) roman a clef: 'I always thought during the pain of the marriage that one day it would make a funny book,' she once said - And it is! [via]

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  Hocus Pocus
  

  by Kurt Vonnegut

  ISBN 0425130215 (0-425-13021-5)
  Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

  
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  Hocus Pocus is the fictional autobiography of a West Point graduate who was in charge of the humiliating evacuation of U.S. personnel from the Saigon rooftops at the close of the Vietnam War. Returning home from the war, he unknowingly fathered an illegitimate son. In 2001, the son begins a search for his father and catches up with him just in time to see him arrested for masterminding the prison break of 10,000 convicts.
  
  Using his famous brand of satire and wit, Vonnegut captures twenty-first century America as only he could foresee it. In Hocus Pocus, listeners will find a fresh novel, as fascinating and brilliantly offbeat as anything he's written. [via]

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  I Don't Know How She Does It
  

  by Allison Pearson

  ISBN 0375713751 (0-375-71375-1)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  Allison Pearson's debut novel, I Don't Know How She Does It, is a rare and beautiful hybrid: a devastatingly funny novel that's also a compelling fictional world. You want to climb inside this book and inhabit it. However, you might find it pretty messy once you're in there. Narrator Kate Reddy is the manager of a hedge fund and mother of two small children. The book opens with an emblematic scene as Kate "distresses" a store-bought mince pie to make it appear homemade. Her days are measured in increments of minutes and even seconds; her fund stays organized but her house and family are falling apart. The book is a pearly string of great lines. Here's Kate on lack of sleep: "They're right to call it a broken night.... You crawl back to bed and you lie there trying to do the jigsaw of sleep with half the pieces missing." On baby boys: "A mother of a one-year-old son is a movie star in a world without critics." On subtle office dynamics:

  The women in the offices of EMF [Kate's firm] don't tend to display pictures of their kids. The higher they go up the ladder, the fewer the photographs. If a man has pictures of kids on his desk, it enhances his humanity; if a woman has them it decreases hers. Why? Because he's not supposed to be home with the children; she is.

  There's inherent drama here: Kate is wildly appealing, and we want things to work out for her. In the end, the book isn't a just collection of clever lines on the theme of working motherhood; it's a real, rich novel about a character we come to cherish. --Claire Dederer [via]

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  I Don't Know How She Does It : The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother
  

  by Allison Pearson

  ISBN 0375414053 (0-375-41405-3)
  Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group

  
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  Allison Pearson's debut novel, I Don't Know How She Does It, is a rare and beautiful hybrid: a devastatingly funny novel that's also a compelling fictional world. You want to climb inside this book and inhabit it. However, you might find it pretty messy once you're in there. Narrator Kate Reddy is the manager of a hedge fund and mother of two small children. The book opens with an emblematic scene as Kate "distresses" a store-bought mince pie to make it appear homemade. Her days are measured in increments of minutes and even seconds; her fund stays organized but her house and family are falling apart. The book is a pearly string of great lines. Here's Kate on lack of sleep: "They're right to call it a broken night.... You crawl back to bed and you lie there trying to do the jigsaw of sleep with half the pieces missing." On baby boys: "A mother of a one-year-old son is a movie star in a world without critics." On subtle office dynamics:

  The women in the offices of EMF [Kate's firm] don't tend to display pictures of their kids. The higher they go up the ladder, the fewer the photographs. If a man has pictures of kids on his desk, it enhances his humanity; if a woman has them it decreases hers. Why? Because he's not supposed to be home with the children; she is.

  There's inherent drama here: Kate is wildly appealing, and we want things to work out for her. In the end, the book isn't a just collection of clever lines on the theme of working motherhood; it's a real, rich novel about a character we come to cherish. --Claire Dederer [via]

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  I Gotta Go: The Commentary of Ian Shoales
  

  by Merle Kessler

  ISBN 0399511776 (0-399-51177-6)
  Softcover, Perigee

  
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  King Dork
  

  by Frank Portman

  ISBN 0385732910 (0-385-73291-0)
  Hardcover, Delacorte Pr

  
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  In Frank Portman's dazzling debut novel, frustrated song-writer and high school student Tom Henderson finds his dead father's copy of The Catcher in the Rye, and his life changes forever. Part social satire, part mystery, with a healthy dose of rock music (and angst), King Dork is one of our must-read favorites of the year.

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  Frank Portman (aka Dr. Frank) is not just an author, he's also a musician. We were lucky enough to get a few tracks and a few words from the man behind King Dork, his band The Mr. T. Experience, and the relationship between his book and his music.
  
  "King Dork"
  This is the "title track" for my new book. No matter how many times I say that (and I've now said it at least twice by my count) it still sounds strange...Anyhow, I wrote this song for my band, the Mr. T Experience, back in the mid-nineties (you can hear the electrified rock and roll version on the MTX album The Mr. T Experience... and the Women Who Love Them). While I was gingerly, sheepishly exploring the idea of trying to write a book, and not really knowing where to begin, Krista Marino (who was to become my editor at Delacorte) suggested that I try to turn a song into a novel as a way of getting started. I can't remember why I settled on "King Dork" as the song to "novelize," but I started thinking about the narrator/character of this song and after quite a bit of staring at a blank Word document and banging my head against the bar I eventually started typing. I didn't tell anyone at the time, but for months the file entitled "King Dork_(novel)_ms" had only the words "there's no way I can write a whole book, absolutely no way, who am I kidding?" on it. The fact that this did turn into a sort of novel in the end continues to mystify me. So this is an acoustic recording of the song that started it all, in effect. "I'm King Dork and I want you to be my Queen..."
  
  
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  "Thinking of Suicide"
  The narrator of King Dork, Tom Henderson, has a band and is trying to figure out how to play his guitar and how to write songs. He writes several songs through the course of the book, and I thought it might be fun actually to come up with the songs rather than just alluding to them in the text. The songs were written by me "as Tom Henderson," know what I mean? "Thinking of Suicide" is one of the first complete songs Tom writes. The title comes from an informational pamphlet for troubled teens handed out by the school. He likes the drawing of the girl on the cover. "This would make a pretty good song," he thinks: "all I had to do was give the girl a name and feel sorry for myself while pretending to be her. And figure out some lyrics and chords and stuff." This song, which incidentally ends up echoing through and complicating his family life, his social life, and his psychological life, is the result.
  
  

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  "I Wanna Ramone You"
  This one is a little hard to "set up," but I'll give it a shot. There are three strands all tangled up in this song. Strand A: Tom is doing research on the life and times of his mysteriously deceased father, and part of that involves poring over ancient texts like the Bible and The Catcher in the Rye. It's a long story, but in the course of this research he inadvertently learns that the French verb ramoner (which literally means "to scrub out a chimney") can be used as a sexual metaphor. As a rock and roller, he of course immediately thinks of the Ramones, and, voilà, a new English euphemism for sex is born - I ramone, you ramone, he, she or it ramones... (This is useful to him, as it gives him a much cooler metaphor for sex than any of the other ones available; and it proved useful to the author, i.e., me, as well, for pretty much the same reason.) Strand B: Tom is taking Advanced French, which he describes as "a form of the French language in which only the present tense is used. Primarily employed for telling time and for describing the activities of this one guy named Jean and this other guy named Claude." So in writing his song about the timeless power of love, he decides to include some sophisticated, romantic French phrases in the lyrics. Strand C: He has this pretty big crush on a girl from a neighboring town, so he writes a song about her. (As one does in those situations.) "I Wanna Ramone You" is the result, one of his first full-on love songs.
  
  

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