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Pigs Make Me Sneeze! by Mo Willems
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsGerald and Piggie are best friends.Gerald is careful. Piggie is not.Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can.Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to... -
![Magic Required by Obert Skye]()
Magic Required by Obert Skye
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe final answer to the existence of magic.Ozzy and his friend Sigi are in more danger than ever before. After being injected with the mindcontrolling serum, Ozzy is learning to control the minds of people, but he is still being hunted by Ray, the power-mad villain who will stop at nothing to find and possess the formula...Categorized as:
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![Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe by Carlos Hernandez]()
Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe by Carlos Hernandez
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSal and Gabi have to try to make everything right with our world when there is a rogue Gabi from another universe running loose.Sal Vidon creates wormholes. But Sal's father, a calamity physicist, is trying to shut down all the wormholes Sal creates, because Papi thinks they are eroding the very fabric of our world...Categorized as:
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![Who's a Good Boy? by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor]()
Who's a Good Boy? by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFrom the authors of the New York Times bestselling novels It Devours! and Welcome to Night Vale and the creators of the #1 international podcast of the same name, comes a collection of episodes from Season Four of their hit podcast, featuring an introduction by the authors, a foreword by Jonny Sun, behind-the-scenes commentary, and original illustrations... -
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![The Church Mice at Christmas by Graham Oakley]()
The Church Mice at Christmas by Graham Oakley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Arthur and Humphrey decide to rally the church mice into having a Christmas party, the result is a series of disasters... -
![Wordsmith by Nick Spalding]()
Wordsmith by Nick Spalding
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe fast-paced fantasy sequel to Max Bloom In... The Cornerstone, by the best-selling author of the smash hit romantic comedy Love... From Both Sides and its sequels Love... And Sleepless Nights & Love... Under Different Skies.From the pages of the past, a new threat to Max Bloom rises in The Chapter Lands.. -
![New Teeth by Simon Rich]()
New Teeth by Simon Rich
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLaugh till you cry in this new collection of stories from the award-winning “Serena Williams of humor writing” (New York Times Book Review) about raising babies and trying not to be one. Called a “comedic Godsend” by Conan O’Brien and “the Stephen King of comedy writing” by John Mulaney, Simon Rich is back with New Teeth, his funniest and most personal collection yet... -
![The Buying of Lot 37 by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor]()
The Buying of Lot 37 by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the authors of the New York Times bestselling novels It Devours! and Welcome to Night Vale and the creators of the #1 international podcast of the same name, comes a collection of episodes from Season Three of their hit podcast, featuring an introduction by the authors, a foreword by Dessa, behind-the-scenes commentary, and original illustrations... -
![Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom by Louis Sachar]()
Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom by Louis Sachar
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFor the first time in twenty-five years, Wayside School is back in session in this brand-new, fourth installment in the perennially beloved and bestselling series by Newbery Medal-winning author Louis Sachar.Welcome back to Wayside School!Your favorite students and teachers are all here...Categorized as:
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![Baby of the Family by Tina McElroy Ansa]()
Baby of the Family by Tina McElroy Ansa
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn evocative, delicately comic story of a girl’s coming of age. From the moment of her birth in a rural black hospital in Georgia, Lena McPherson is recognized as a special child, with the power to see ghosts and predict the future. Named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times... -
![Mr. Gum and the Power Crystals by Andy Stanton]()
Mr. Gum and the Power Crystals by Andy Stanton
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom award-winning author Andy Stanton comes book four in the "You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum!" series: "Mr Gum and the Power Crystals".Shabba me whiskers! Can it really be true that there's an ancient curse on the town of Lamonic Bibber? And you guessed it, that old roo-de-lally Mr Gum and his trusty sidekick Billy William the Third have something to do with it. But..Categorized as:
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![There's a Fly Guy in My Soup by Tedd Arnold]()
There's a Fly Guy in My Soup by Tedd Arnold
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAt a fancy hotel dinner, Fly Guy gets into some trouble--and the restaurant's soup!When Buzz and his family have dinner in a fancy hotel's restaurant, Fly Guy isn't allowed in. After searching through the hotel's trash, Fly Guy smells a wonderful aroma coming from the restaurant's kitchen... -
![Sophie Dreams Big by Keke Palmer, Jasmine Guillory]()
Sophie Dreams Big by Keke Palmer, Jasmine Guillory
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsStarry-eyed Janet is enchanted by her new wig, but Lady Miss knows her dear friend will soon be caught in a tangle of doubts in this whimsical short story about courage, self-worth, and confidence.For former pushover Janet, her Sophie curls appear to be a balanced and beautiful new addition to her magical, life-changing wig collection... -
![Smart Ovens for Lonely People by Elizabeth Tan]()
Smart Ovens for Lonely People by Elizabeth Tan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsConspiracies, memes, and therapies of various efficacy underpin this beguiling short-story collection from Elizabeth Tan.In the titular story, a cat-shaped oven tells a depressed woman she doesn’t have to be sorry anymore. A Yourtopia Bespoke Terraria employee becomes paranoid about the mounting coincidences in her life...Categorized as:
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![The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket by John Boyne]()
The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket by John Boyne
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThere's nothing unusual about the Brockets. Normal, respectable, and proud of it, they turn up their noses at anyone strange or different. But from the moment Barnaby Brocket comes into the world, it's clear he's anything but ordinary. To his parents’ horror, Barnaby defies the laws of gravity - and floats...Categorized as:
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![Keri on the Loose by Keke Palmer, Jasmine Guillory]()
Keri on the Loose by Keke Palmer, Jasmine Guillory
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThere’s a bold new Janet in town. Let Lady Miss Jacqueline spell it out for you: F-I-E-R-C-E. But there’s a lesson to be learned in this fabulously off-the-wall short story about life on the edge.After her latest life-altering wig switch, Janet slips into leather leggings, quits her job, goes full advance on her barista crush, and makes a career commitment to her bestie, Candace... -
![The Golem of Brooklyn by Adam Mansbach]()
The Golem of Brooklyn by Adam Mansbach
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, a golem is a humanoid being created out of mud or clay and animated through secret prayers. Its sole purpose is to defend the Jewish people against the immediate threat of violence. It is always a rabbi who makes a golem, and always in a time of crisis... -
![The Mortification of Fovea Munson by Mary Winn Heider]()
The Mortification of Fovea Munson by Mary Winn Heider
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFovea Munson is nobody's Igor. True, her parents own a cadaver lab where they perform surgeries on dead bodies. And yes, that makes her gross by association, at least according to everyone in seventh grade. And sure, Fovea's stuck working at the lab now that her summer camp plans have fallen through. But she is by no means Dr... -
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![From the Desk of Lady Miss by Keke Palmer, Jasmine Guillory]()
From the Desk of Lady Miss by Keke Palmer, Jasmine Guillory
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHopelessly sad and lightly drab Janet takes a spin with Lady Miss Jacqueline in this hysterically funny short story of a magical wig that turns a wallflower into the flashiest bulb in the room. Does Lady Miss go too far? Always!Lady Miss Jacqueline swears that hair makes a difference...Categorized as:
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![Meet Me in the Moon Room by Ray Vukcevich]()
Meet Me in the Moon Room by Ray Vukcevich
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings* Philip K. Dick Award finalist* Locus Recommended Reading Here are 33 weird, wonderful stories concerning men, women, teleportation, wind-up cats, and brown paper bags. By turns whimsical and unsettling—frequently managing to be both—these short fictions describe family relationships, bad breakups, and travel to outer space... -
![Born Weird by Andrew Kaufman]()
Born Weird by Andrew Kaufman
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe Weirds have always been a little off, but not one of them ever suspected that they'd been cursed by their grandmother. At the moment of the births of her five grandchildren Annie Weird gave each one a special power. Richard, the oldest, always keeps safe; Abba always has hope; Lucy is never lost and Kent can beat anyone in a fight. As for Angie, she always forgives, instantly... -
![May Contain Traces of Magic by Tom Holt]()
May Contain Traces of Magic by Tom Holt
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThere are all kinds of products. The good ones. The bad ones. The ones that stay in the garage moldering for years until your garden gnome makes a home out of it. Most are harmless if handled properly, even if they do contain traces of peanuts. But some are not-not the ones that contain traces of magic. Chris Popham wasn't paying enough attention when he talked to his SatNav... -
![The Bear Went Over the Mountain by William Kotzwinkle]()
The Bear Went Over the Mountain by William Kotzwinkle
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWilliam Kotzwinkle, the esteemed author of The Fan Man and E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, is in top comic form in this outrageous and uproarious parable featring Hal Jam--a big black bear who finds a manuscript under a tree in the Maine woods, dons a suit and a tie, and heads off to the big city to seek his fame and fortune...Categorized as:
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![Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear by Matthew Salesses]()
Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear by Matthew Salesses
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFinalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.From the bestselling author of The Hundred-Year Flood comes an incredibly entertaining and profoundly affecting tour de force about a Korean American man’s strange and ordinary attempts to exist.Matt Kim is always tired. He keeps passing out. His cat is dead. His wife and daughter have left him. He’s estranged from his adoptive family...Categorized as:
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![Ye Gods! by Tom Holt]()
Ye Gods! by Tom Holt
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBeing a hero bothers Jason. It's easy to get maladjusted when your mum's a suburban housewife and your dad's the Supreme Being. It can be a drag slaying fabulous monsters and retrieving golden fleeces from dragons, and then having to tidy your room before your mum'll let you watch "Star Trek"... -
![Scharnow by Bela B. Felsenheimer]()
Scharnow by Bela B. Felsenheimer
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn Scharnow, einem Dorf nördlich von Berlin, ist der Hund begraben. Scheinbar. Tatsächlich wird hier gerade die Welt Schützen liegen auf der Lauer, um die Agenten einer Universalmacht zu vernichten, mordlustige Bücher richten blutige Verheerung an, und mittendrin hat ein Pakt der Glücklichen plötzlich kein Bier mehr... -
![I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes by Jaclyn Moriarty]()
I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes by Jaclyn Moriarty
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCath Murphy, second-grade teacher, was feeling awkward and foolish, but she also felt this: quirky, cocky, small, funny, wicked and extremely blonde. As her mother liked to say, all meetings with new people, even locksmiths or seven-year-olds, can make you a little afraid. She was about to meet her new class and she had just met the new teacher: Warren Woodford... -
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![Balladyny i romanse by Ignacy Karpowicz]()
Balladyny i romanse by Ignacy Karpowicz
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLaureat Paszportu Polityki 2010Sprawy na Ziemi nie idą najlepiej.Starych, potężnych bogów wyparli trywialni, ale i bezwzględni bożkowie popkultury. Świat globalnej wioski nie daje poczucia stabilności i bezpieczeństwa. Osamotnieni ludzie już dawno stracili nadzieję na odmianę losu, żyją z dnia na dzień, apatyczni i znudzeni… na domiar złego zaczyna brakować kawy... -
![Boating for Beginners by Jeanette Winterson]()
Boating for Beginners by Jeanette Winterson
Rated: 3.55 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA pleasure boat company is transformed when the proprietor, Noah, is chosen by the "One True God" to put "sunny" faith back in the world and women back in the kitchen... -
![The Watermelon King by Daniel Wallace]()
The Watermelon King by Daniel Wallace
Rated: 3.45 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAn endearing, often outrageous blend of fable, tall tale, and page-turner, The Watermelon King brings readers to Ashland, Alabama -- the fictional town immortalized in Daniel Wallace's Big Fish -- whose reputation is based on the long-ago abundance of watermelons. Thomas Rider knows almost nothing about his parents, only that his mother died the day he was born in Ashland... -
![একজন হিমু কয়েকটি ঝিঁ ঝিঁ পোকা by Humayun Ahmed]()
একজন হিমু কয়েকটি ঝিঁ ঝিঁ পোকা by Humayun Ahmed
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsহিমু কখনো জটিল পরিস্থিতিতে পড়ে না। ছোটখাট ঝামেলায় সে পড়ে। সেই সব ঝামেলা তাকে স্পর্শও করেনা। সে অনেকটা হাঁসের মত। ঝাড়া দিল গা থেকে ঝামেলা পানির মত ঝরে পড়ল।আমার খুব দেখার শখ বড় ঝামেলায় পড়লে সে কী করে। কাজেই হিমুর জন্য বড় ধরণের একটা সমস্যা আমি তৈরি করেছি। এবং খুব আগ্রহ নিয়ে তার কান্ড-কারখানা সেখছি।হুমায়ূন আহমেদনুহাশ পল্লী,... -
![My Idea of Fun by Will Self]()
My Idea of Fun by Will Self
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 23 ratings"High-energy, high-caloric prose. . . a wonderfully rich and wicked novel" ( The New York Times Book Review). Will Self's first novel, about a man selling his soul to the devil, is violent, hilarious, outrageous, and, above all, completely original...Categorized as:
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![Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker]()
Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker
Rated: 3.36 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsWhen, on the spur of a moment, Norman Huntley and his friend Henry invent an eighty-three year-old woman called Miss Hargreaves, they are inspired to post a letter to their new fictional friend. It is only meant to be a silly, harmless game - until Miss Hargreaves arrives on their doorstep, complete with her cockatoo, her harp and - last but not least - her bath... -
![And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges by Amber Sparks]()
And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges by Amber Sparks
Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsExciting fans of such writers as Kelly Link, Karen Russell, and Carmen Maria Machado with prose that shimmers and stings, Amber Sparks holds a singular role in the canon of the weird. Now, she reaches new, uncanny heights with And I Do Not Forgive You... -
![Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett]()
Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett
Rated: 3.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'A devastating social parable brimming with humanity and heart...' Marlon James White skin, green eyes, red hair...Furo Wariboko – born and bred in Lagos – wakes up on the morning of his job interview to discover he has turned into a white man. As he hits the city streets running, still reeling from his new-found condition, Furo finds the dead ends of his life open out before him... -
![The Next Queen of Heaven by Gregory Maguire]()
The Next Queen of Heaven by Gregory Maguire
Rated: 3.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWith the new millennium approaching, the eccentric town of Thebes grows even stranger. Mrs. Leontina Scales begins speaking in tongues after being clocked by a Catholic statuette. Her daughter, Tabitha, and her sons scheme to save their mother or surrender her to Jesus—whatever comes first. Meanwhile, choir director Jeremy Carr, caught between lust and ambition, fumbles his way toward Y2K...
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