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Humor & Satire
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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional humorous or satirical books
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The True and Outstanding Adventures of The Hunt Sisters
by Elisabeth Robinson
Hardcover: Jan 2004
Paperback: 3 Jan 2005
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| This debut novel is heartbreaking and hilarious, somber and delightful, and imbued with all the love one sister can feel for another, and all the frustration too. |
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Red Zone
by Mike Lupica
Hardcover: Oct 2003
Paperback: 1 Oct 2004
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| A deliciously wicked tale of contemporary professional sports. |
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Present Value
by Sabin Willett
Hardcover: Sep 2003
Paperback: 14 Sep 2004
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| A provocative, wonderfully entertaining ride—an irreverent, clear-eyed view of the way we live now. |
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
Hardcover: May 2003
Paperback: 14 Sep 2004
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| The ultimate journey to discover how we went from there being nothing at all to there being something, and then how a little of that something turned into us, and also what happened in between and since. |
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The Grim Grotto
by Lemony Snicket
Hardcover: 1 Sep 2004
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| In their desperate search for something lost, the Baudelaire children encounter new and terrible horrors, including mushrooms, a mechanical monster, a distressing message from a lost friend, and tap dancing. Ages 9+. |
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Terrible Times: Eddie Dickens Trilogy, #3
by Philip Ardagh
Hardcover: Sep 2003
Paperback: 1 Sep 2004
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| A mysterious stowaway and some familiar faces from Eddie's past complicate matters, as does being tied up and set adrift in a leaky rowboat. Will Eddie ever reach America? Ages 9+. |
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The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel
by Jasper Fforde
Hardcover: Feb 2004
Paperback: 1 Jul 2004
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| In this delicious sequel to The Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book, Fforde's redoubtable heroine Thursday Next once again does battle with philistine bibliophobes. |
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Murder in the Hearse Degree
by Tim Cockey
Hardcover: Feb 2003
Paperback: 1 Jul 2004
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| Another pitch-perfect mystery in a series that never disappoints, always surprises, and keeps the laughs -- and corpses -- rolling right along. |
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