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Rape. Murder. Brain-eating. Never before has a work of fiction dared to delve so deeply into the realms of perversion, sexual dementia, and bad taste. Who is he? What is he? An inbred homicidal pervert? A supernatural psychopath? Who or whatever he is, he's on a roll now, raging out of the Virginia backwoods and leaving in his wake a trail of blood, guts, and disgust far beyond the limits of your reckoning.

Ivy Edwards is 31 years old, funny, shameless and a bit of a romantic. She's also currently trying not to cry in the office toilet. Partly because she's just run out of money for fags. A bit because her mum continues to annoy her. Definitely not because she's just been dumped by her fiancé. With her London life in shambles and her family miles away in the Welsh valleys, Ivy doesn't actually feel like she belongs anywhere.

"In his remarkable performance of Edward St. Aubyn's newest novel, stage and screen actor Benedict Cumberbatch proves yet again that he is a master of pacing and characterization...When not delivering a silky, warm, and beautifully enunciated narration, Cumberbatch subsumes himself into a...

From syndicated humor columnist Marc Acito comes a wildly inventive and hysterically funny novel that is equal parts Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Fame, Risky Business, Dead Poets Society, and The Catcher in the Rye.

Chad Miller never intended on becoming a serial-killing, counterculture hero.... When the American dream turns into the American nightmare, Chad's forced to quit med school and rethink his life. Banks, bill collectors, and bad credit push him over the edge. Becoming a martyr for the poor and working class, Chad gives the rich pigs a taste of their own medicine. Shot guns and sharks and plane crashes, oh my!

Edward Trencom has bumbled through life, relying on his trusty nose to turn the family cheese shop into the most celebrated fromagerie in England. But his world is turned upside down when he stumbles across a crate of family papers. To his horror, Edward discovers that nine previous generations...

Before making a somewhat notorious name for himself as a salvager of antiquated pottery and other desert artifacts, Hubie Schuze was an eager student at the University of New Mexico - right up until they booted him out. Now, he’s back at UNM as a pottery teacher. It should be a breeze, but campus life has changed dramatically in the past 25 years. From cell phones to trigger warnings to sensitivity workshops, Hubie has to get up to speed fast or risk losing control of his class.

Maksim Max Orlov is not living, he is staying eligible to be billed again. He wakes up with a mouth tasting of metal and a phone bleeding failed payment notifications. Somewhere between towering ambition and crippling laziness, Max has mastered a new survival skill, he can turn his own collapse into a joke before anyone else can name it. A chaos man with a talent for punchlines, and a hollow hunger for validation.

For centuries, the wayfarer has ferried souls to the afterlife across the vast, watery expanse of Marivon. The voyage has always gone as planned, until one day an unexpected passenger arrives: a living girl. The girl’s sudden appearance causes controversy among the crew—some believe she is supposed to be on board, while others strongly disagree, leaving the wayfarer to choose between honoring those most loyal to him or protecting the girl from all the dangers that her presence has awakened.

Will Spencer's life as a newspaper reporter has been an ordinary one. Over the years, he's worked on stories about local newsmakers, both rich and poor. He's happily married, but worried about his finances. And he's a little sad about having given up some of his earlier interests to make more money.

One obnoxious English teacher. Twelve tales of his death. Norton Edwards, English department head, is the reigning despot in Canterbury High. This year, his colleagues have had enough. This year, they're getting rid of Mr. Edwards. In this collection of darkly tongue-in-cheek stories, Mr. Edwards dies, tale after tale.

After a failed petition to change his career, Bill, the local pottery maker and town drunk, is coerced by his neighbors and king to join an expedition to hunt down and slay a mighty dragon that plagues their village.

From the author of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, this is the story of women becoming inexplicably pregnant. And it happens to every type of woman, regardless of race or creed, from nuns to lesbians.

It happened to Beauford Abel's wife. With her, a perfume tester called; one of his more exotic samples made her black out for a split second. At least, she thought it was a split second.... When Beauford eventually figures out what's going on, he plays amateur sleuth. But instead of finding sex maniacs, he finds brainy apes planning to invade the Earth.

There are two kinds of women who work, says Shepherd Mead, author of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying and How to Get Rich in TV without Really Trying. One is the Working Girl, the handmaiden of business: She does what men tell her to do - she types, totes coffee, gripes in her cubicle. The other kind is the Career Girl: She thinks like a man, acts like a woman, and can soon end up in a four-window office making more money than anybody. Marie Frale, new employee at American Household Products, hadn't put many carbons in backward before she got the point.

Bergen has been called to jury duty. Mortimer forgets why he has a string on his finger. Guest Edward Arnold is running a used car lot. Charlie is looking to buy a car for Bergen's "tenth anniversary" (with Chase and Sanborn).

Maverick is a rough and tumble little dog. He’ll try anything, and everyone who meets him loves him. There’s just one problem, and it’s what Maverick loves to do more than anything else! What trouble will Maverick get into next?