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An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good

Helene Tursten · Soho Crime
Pages: 184
Format: Hardcover

Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and... no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing...
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My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel

Oyinkan Braithwaite · Doubleday
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

"My Sister, the Serial Killer is a gem, in the most accurate sense: small, hard, sharp, and polished to perfection."--Edgar Cantero, New York Times bestselling author of Meddling KidsSatire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman...
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Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction

GABRIELLE MOSS · Quirk Books
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

A hilarious and nostalgic trip through the history of paperback pre-teen series of the 80s and 90s.Every twenty- or thirty-something woman knows these books. The pink covers, the flimsy paper, the zillion volumes in the series that kept you reading for your entire adolescence. Spurred by the commercial...
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I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff

ABBI JACOBSON · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From the co-creator and co-star of the hit series Broad City, a hilarious and poignant collection about love, loss, work, comedy, and figuring out who you really are when you thought you already knew.When Abbi Jacobson announced to friends and acquaintances that she planned to drive across...
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Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

Nathan Cherniack · Twelve
Pages: 18
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestseller"Flips the classic born-in-a-shack rise to political office tale on its head. I skipped meals to read this book - also unusual - because every page was funny. It made me deliriously happy." - Louise Erdrich, The New York Times p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px...
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