Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School

Written by Adam Ruben

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2010
Price: $12.00

This is a book for dedicated academics who consider spending years masochistically overworked and underappreciated as a laudable goal. They lead the lives of the impoverished, grade the exams of whiny undergrads, and spend lonely nights in the library or laboratory pursuing a transcendent truth that only six or seven people... Read more >

F U, Penguin
Telling Cute Animals What's What
Written by Matthew Gasteier

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $15.00

Attention, all you clumsy pandas, lovable puffins, huggable bunnies, and penguins that elicit ooohs and aaahs: The jig is up! We have lived under your furry fists for too long.

There is a cute and present danger lurking out there–in the wild, in the zoos, and sometimes even in our... Read more >

Book of Ages 30

Written by Lockhart Steele, Joshua Albertson and Jonathan Van Gieson

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2003
Price: $13.95

This year about four million people in the United States will turn 30. If you’re one of them, the bad news is that you’re older than 42 percent of Americans. You’ve already lost 10 percent of your muscle mass. And, on average, you’re almost $20,000 in debt. But don’t despair. At... Read more >

The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love

Written by Jill Conner Browne

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 19, 1999
Price: $14.00

To know the Sweet Potato Queens is to love them, and if you haven't heard about them yet, you will. Since the early 1980s, this group of belles gone bad has been the toast of Jackson, Mississippi, with their glorious annual appearance in the St. Patrick's Day parade. In The Sweet... Read more >

Stuff Every Woman Should Know

Written by Alanna Kalb

Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2010
Price: $9.95

This pocket-sized companion features everything a woman should know including:
 
     •  How to Ask for a Raise
     •  Ten Stylish Pieces Every Woman Should Own
     •  How to Throw a Football
     •  Good Responses to Bad Pick-Up Lines
     •  How to Host a Cocktail Party
... Read more >

Garfield Brings Home the Bacon
His 53rd Book
Written by Jim Davis

Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: January 31, 2012
Price: $14.00

Oink! Oink!
 
Grab a fork and nab some pork! Garfield loves “the other white meat” in all its palate-pleasing permutations: breaded, barbecued, shredded, fried—even frozen (porksicles, anyone?). If you’re hungry for humor, satisfy your craving with this latest—and greatest—collection of comics. Read more >

Jokes Every Man Should Know

Edited by Don Steinberg

Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2008
Price: $9.95

The Only Joke Book You’ll Ever Need
 
Featuring:
     •  Nine Jokes about Heaven and Hell
     •  Eight Jokes Just for Kids
     •  Nineteen Jokes Definitely Not for Kids
     •  Six Jokes about Lightbulbs
     •  Seven Jokes about Bars
     •  The World’s Only Funny Knock-Knock... Read more >

Garfield Lard of the Jungle
His 52nd Book
Written by Jim Davis

Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: August 30, 2011
Price: $14.00

Wild Fun!
 
It’s a safari of fun when Garfield, the fat cat with the elephantine appetite, gets wild and crazy in this all-new collection of comics. Let the adventures begin! Read more >

Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

Written by Dave Barry

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2010
Price: $7.99

WHEN DAVE BARRY IS ON THE LOOSE, NO ONE IS SAFE!

What Dave Barry did for the men's movement in his Complete Guide to Guys and for foreign relations when he did Japan he now does for . . . everything in America. The rapacious observer of Tupperware ladies and leisure concept... Read more >

How to Sharpen Pencils
A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants
Written by David Rees
Introduction by John Hodgman

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $19.95

A hilarious guide to the lost art of artisanal pencil sharpening

"...I am so thrilled David Rees is picking up the reins of the forgotten art of manual graphite-encased-in-wood point-crafting. I love my pencil!"
—AMY SEDARIS

"You may think that sharpening a pencil is easy, but David Rees makes it look hard, and that... Read more >