From School Library JournalGr 5-8–Building on the success of Guys Write for Guys Read (Viking, 2005), Scieszka continues his mission to take the “reluctant” out of readers with thi...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: A crime caper in the tradition of Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen, this fast and funny debut is the story of "Shake" Bouchon, fresh out of prison and ready for li...
Review“[Vonnegut] at his wildest best.”—_The New York Times Book Review_ “A brilliantly funny satire on almost everything.”—Conrad Aiken “[Vonnegut was] our finest black humo...
From Publishers WeeklyA juicy, sprawling beach read with a suspenseful twist, Richards's sunny sequel to Happiness Key reveals the next life step for Tracy Deloche and her tenant ....
Introducing a deeply funny, charismatic new voice: an entertaining memoir of a family haunted by its own myths and its obsessive idolization of the literary life.Jeanne Darst was b...
Amazon.com ReviewIn the States, Nick Hornby is best know as the author of and , two wickedly funny novels about being thirtysomething and going nowhere fast. In Britain h...
Review"This is one of those special novels--a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and san--that you just want to ride off into the sunset with."–Thomas Pynchon "The best fiction, ...
A sizzling, darkly funny, propulsive new novel--his most daring yet--by the author of Snow Falling on Cedars: a sweeping, dazzling story of destiny, desire, and destruction.In Seat...
Product DescriptionFirst published in 1942 at the height of her popularity, Dust Tracks on a Road is Zora Neale Hurston's candid, funny, bold, and poignant autobiography, an imagi....
Review“Beautiful . . . funny, heart-hammering, wise . . . Superb entertainment.”_–The New York Times _“A book that should join those few that every literate person will have t...