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Goodnight Moon has been hilariously updated for the modern parent."-BuzzfeedWhen the text of Goodnight Nanny-Cam appeared online in the New Yorker's "Shouts & Murmurs" column, it garnered 100, 000 hits and more than 15, 000 Facebook likes in a matter of days. Filled with sly references to BPA-free bottles, Baby Einstein DVDs, and toddler tutors, Jen Nessel and Lizzy Ratner's send-up of the beloved children's classic wittily skewers our modern ...

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Hugh Murphy's T-Rex Trying is a charming collection of 100 drawings from his wildly popular Tumblr feed of the same name. Though the T-Rex may struggle, you'll never struggle with finding dinosaur gifts again! This hilarious and perfectly giftable book is perfect for anyone who has ever wondered how a T-Rex could get anything done with such tiny arms. T-Rex Trying depicts the stubby-armed tyrant in a range of hilarious-yet pathos-inducing-ac...

The Keeper of Lost Causes" features a deeply flawed chief detective who's been selected to run Department Q, a new special investigations division that turns out to be a department of one.

How extraordinary creativity develops in the human brain is the subject of this new work by a renowned psychiatrist. "The Creating Brain" presents an inspiring vision for a future where everyone can fulfill their creative capacity.

A Hudson Booksellers Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year, with foreword by Wilco's Jeff TweedyHigh Fidelity meets Killing Yourself to Live when one man searches for his lost record collection.As he finds himself within spitting distance of middle-age, journalist Eric Spitznagel feels acutely the loss of… something. Freedom? Maybe. Coolness? Could be. The records he sold in a financial pinch? Definitely. To find out for sure, he sets out on a que...

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Cullen's debut novel follows three women whose lives converge and intertwine at a Southern evangelical megachurch. Ruthie follows her Wall Street husband from New York to Magnolia, a fictional suburb of Atlanta, when he hears a calling to serve at a megachurch called Greenleaf. Reeling from the death of her mother, Ruthie suffers a crisis of faith.

A chameleon so tiny it can fit on your thumbnail? A spider named after David Bowie? A fungus that turns ants into zombies? What on Earth? What on Earth? is a compendium of the 100 coolest, weirdest, and most intriguing new species of this century as determined by the International Institute for Species Exploration. From animals to plants, fossils to bacteria, What on Earth? is an accessible, informative, and offbeat look at the creatures that ...

In 12 interconnected stories as naked and primal as passion itself, "Quiver" explores the full spectrum of human sexuality in all of its variety and complexity. Spare yet evocative, this explicit collection depicts the pleasures of new and rediscovered love, lust, and obsession.

Sparks fly when widower Lincoln Ellis and recently divorced painter Tassy Morgan meet in the quaint town of San Andreas, California, where the quirky residents have high hopes for their hometown's future as a toururist destination.

A witty, accessible, and entertaining narrative history of a quirky subject, What Are You Looking At? is for all the millions of people around the world who have looked at an unmade bed or a pickled shark and wondered: Is this art?

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Chiaverini has once again written an intense and beautiful book-so much so that readers will almost hear the hollow echo of the fife and drum as they immerse themselves in every compelling page . . . Truly unforgettable." -BookPage In 1862, the men of Water's Ford, Pennsylvania, rally to President Lincoln's call while Dorothea Granger marshals her friends to "wield their needles for the Union." Meanwhile, Anneke Bergstrom hides the shame she ...

A sharp-edged and hilarious parody of the bestseller "Heaven Is for Real", written by someone who has been to hell and returned to tell--and sell--the tale. This is Skip Shmuley's story. Skip is a middle-aged husband who faced death during a vasectomy gone terribly wrong. At first, he rose skyward . . . 144 pp. 75, 000 print.

A fountain of youth between two covers."-Boston Herald Gray hair, wrinkles, papery skin, forgetfulness, extra weight around the belly. We all think we know what causes these signs of aging. But what if we've been wrong?In Stress Less (for Women), health and science journalist Thea Singer synthesizes groundbreaking scientific findings from around the world to reveal the true culprit: chronic stress. From the symptoms we see and feel down to the...

It's the spring of 1938 and no longer safe to be a Jew in Vienna. Nineteen-year-old Elise Landau realizes her only means of escape is to advertise her services as a domestic servant in England. Fate brings her ad to the attention of Christopher Rivers, handsome scion of the aristocratic Rivers family and master of Tyneford.

No matter what they say, sixty will never be the new forty. But sixty-five-year-old author Virginia Ironside is determined to convince people that getting old is really not so bad -- even for a Baby Boomer who interviewed the Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix early in her career. Here, Virginia Ironside explores the many unsung benefits of aging. There are ailments, but there are also fabulous meds. There are grandchildren -- your reward for not...

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A scientist by training and an explorer by passion, Dr. Oldale has logged half a million miles visiting more than 90 nations. Now he celebrates our weird and wonderful world in a cornucopia of facts brought vividly to life through the unexpected stories behind them.