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Crown Hysterical, New Humor Publications from the Commedy Professionals at Crown Publishing

Superjail meets Robot Chicken meets Family Guy. If you actually get that description, then, (1) you’re wack and (2) you’re going to love these four books that range from absurdly funny to gloriously grotesque. Learn to impress hot sorority chicks with your ability to diagnose like a doctor ("Is that a goiter or are you really a dude?" always makes a great pick-up line), voyeuristically take pity on suckers who try to find love in the personal ads, read about normal people turned raging psychopaths by a mysterious contagion, and spy on an anonymous support group of the Undead. These books will make you laugh out loud or feel seriously disturbed—either way, they're weirdly cool.

—The Crown Publishing Group

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I Saw You
Comics Inspired by Real-Life Missed Connections
Edited by Julia Wertz

This anthology of comics inspired by real-life missed-connection ads posted on Craigslist and in local papers around the country are accompanied by hilarious and disarmingly strange drawings from stars and soon-to-be-stars of the graphic art world, including Peter Bagge, Jesse Reklaw, Tom Hart, Sam Henderson, and many others. These posted stranger sightings and chance encounters lay bare the truths and oddities of real-life loneliness and attractions and bring out the voyeur in all of us.

 
Breathers
A Zombie's Lament
Written by S. G. Browne

In this RomZomCom (Romantic Zombie Comedy), a newly minted zombie attends Undead Anonymous and finds camaraderie in a recent sexy suicide who has a taste for consuming cosmetic products with formaldehyde and a car crash victim with an exposed brain and a penchant for Renaissance pornography. But when the trio meets a rogue zombie who tries to take them back to their former human selves—the result is nothing short of darkly funny, touching, and squirm-worthy reading.

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Contagious
From the author of Infected
By Scott Sigler

An epic, exhilarating story of humanity’s battle against a horrific enemy—a mysterious pathogen that turns ordinary people into cold-blooded killers. As the human race fights back, the disease responds—getting smarter and more sophisticated, driven seemingly by some malevolent intelligence. Catapulting the reader into a world where humanity’s life span is measured in hours and the president’s finger hovers over the nuclear button, Infected author Scott Sigler takes us on a breathtaking, hyper-adrenalized ride filled with terror and jaw-dropping action. A truly grand work of suspense, science, and horror from a new master.

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Let’s Play Doctor
The Instant Guide to Walking, Talking, and Probing Like a Real M.D.
By Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, M.D.

Let’s Play Doctor is your instant guide to becoming a Real Fake Doctor. At the Why Do Men Have Nipples School of Medicine (a not quite fully accredited institution), you’ll get an informative, immersive, and incredibly entertaining course of study that will give you the special skills needed to get your M.D. on! By following the lessons in Let’s Play Doctor, you’ll learn:
• How to impress your peers with big, polysyllabic, esoteric medical lingo (can you say pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis?)
• Easy ways to diagnose your best friend’s plantar wart or your father’s fistula
• Do-it-yourself surgeries, from hemorrhoidectomy to breast enlargement
• And, most important, how to craft a completely believable, official-sounding get-out-of-work-for-medical-reasons note

Tuition? Just $14.95. Enroll today! It’s time to play doctor!

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