A thrilling read from beginning to end: World War Z meets The Children of MenSometime right around now, doctors, nurses and—most of all—parents begin to notice an epidemic spreading among newborn children, children who are physically normal in every way except that they do not speak and do not respond to speech. They don’t learn to read, don’t learn to write. Theories abound—maybe a popular antidepressant is the cause. Maybe these children, lackin...

A thrilling read from beginning to end: World War Z meets The Children of MenSometime right around now, doctors, nurses and—most of all—parents begin to notice an epidemic spreading among newborn children, children who are physically normal in every way except that they do not speak and do not respond to speech. They don’t learn to read, don’t learn to write. Theories abound—maybe a popular antidepressant is the cause. Maybe these children, lackin...

Maya is a 20-year-old with a graveyard shift at the post office, a ma whose temper rises even faster than the rent, and all of the million daily headaches of life as a young woman of color in New York in 2011. Her one saving grace is her local arcade, home of New York's feisty, burgeoning fighting game tournament scene. But that respite is taken away from her after she gets banned for standing up to a trash-talker who goes too far. To get back into the arcade and fight for her independence...

A collection of stories for wise young people and immature old people!A collection of stories for wise young people and immature old people, written by today’s best authors spinning new tales. Each story features fullcolor illustrations by artists including Barry Blitt, Lane Smith, David Heatley, and Marcel Dzama.The collection includes previously unpublished children’s stories from Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated), Nick Hornby (High Fi...

One billion Chinese pong fans can’t be wrong.With an all-star team of contributing writers—including Nick Hornby, Will Shortz, Davy Rothbart, Harold Evans, and Jonathan Safran Foer—and quirky, fascinating images of table tennis from around the world, editors Eli Horowitz (McSweeny’s) and Roger Bennet (creator of Bar Mitzvah Disco and Camp Camp) deliver a humorous but heartfelt paean to ping pong, the world's most popular, yet least apprec...

" The Pickle Index is full of life and everything else—it's rowdy and sweaty and heartbreaking, and by heartbreaking I mean funny, and by funny I mean laugh-until-you're-exhausted-and-leaking-and-hungry."—Miranda JulyZloty Kornblatt is the hapless ringmaster of an even more hapless circus troupe. But one fateful night, Zloty makes a mistake: he accidentally makes his audience laugh. Here on the outskirts of Burford—where both the cuisine and the economy, such as they...

The New World presents an innovative story of love, decapitation, cryogenics, and memory by two of our most creative literary minds.Jorie has just received some terrible news. A phone full of missed calls and sympathetic text messages seem to indicate that her husband, Jim, a chaplain at the hospital where she works as a surgeon, is dead. Only, not quite—rather, his head has been removed from his body and cryogenically frozen. Jim awakes ...

Jorie has just received some terrible news. A phone full of missed calls and sympathetic text messages seems to indicate that her husband, Jim, a chaplain at the hospital where she works as a surgeon, is dead. Only, not quite—rather, his head has been removed from his body and cryogenically frozen. Jim awakes to find himself in an altogether unique situation, to say the least: his body gone but his consciousness alive, his only companion a mysterious disembodied voice. In this surreal and ...

Q: Why did the shark spit out the clown? A: Because he tasted funny! The first in a series of silly joke books written and compiled by Scott Allen, 101 Short & Hilarious Jokes For Kids contains page after page of crazy punchlines that will keep kids giggling for hours.  Categories include Animals; Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner; Everyday People; Monsters, Witches, and Ghosts; and Games and Sports.  The book contains whimsical illustrations by Michelle Dimuzio. ...

This second joke book in the series has hilarious chapters that range from Knock Knock Jokes to Chicken Jokes to Dinosaur Jokes to Monster Jokes. Laugh out loud at this gut- busting collection.

202 More! Jokes for Kids contains 202 silly jokes and punch lines that kids of all ages will enjoy.

Jokes galore for kids of all ages. Chapter topics include Monsters jokes, Animal jokes, Food jokes and Critter jokes, this hilarious joke book is a rib tickling delight.