This collection focuses on physical experience and contemplates the beauty of everyday life – the objects, the stories, and the people that drift in and out. It finds the extraordinary in the ordinary.

From the author of the wildly controversial books Liar and Paul's Case comes one of the most anticipated — and perhaps, in some quarters, feared — books of the year. This is author Lynn Crosbie at her most honest, most cutting, most hilarious, and most heartbreaking. The stories told here are at once a cache, a repository, of a seven-year period in the author's life; and, too, a gymnasium, a place where she can flex her prodigious wit and her dazzling stash of literary tricks Deft with mat...

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. ...

Survival Songs is a collection of poetry by author Meggie C. Royer. The poems and prose in Survival Songs are clear and concise. Grounded through experiences, Royer's evocative poems cast a knowing eye on the wider world, telling us what it’s like to be displaced and replaced, used and abused. Her poems are suffused with a graceful, mysterious pathos and longing. Survival Songs is a remarkable debut.

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

Everyone loves cats! What's not to love? In this book you will find 101 Hilarious jokes about the cats, and everything we enjoy laughing about our feline friends. Fill your days with laughter, give this book as a gift, or use it to entertain your loved ones. These punny jokes make great icebreakers and will lighten any mood. Great to use in a classroom, near events, or times when you just need a laugh.This collection of jokes is clean fun and family friendly, with no violence or of...

Racing Hummingbirds examines critiques and at times delights in one woman's navigation through the many worlds of manic depression and her struggle to maintain humanity in the process. Jeanann Verlee's award-winning debut collection is a series of narratives prayers and conjurings which address gender sex race poverty heartbreak and survival with such stark intimacy you will find yourself living inside. These poems cannot possibly be about you yet they are. They cross boundaries and reclai...

202 Good Clean Jokes for Kids is a collection of jokes for kids of all ages. Children will enjoy reading them again and again.

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.

Smart, irreverent humor for the upper-elementary set, compiled and illustrated by an actual fourth grader! Check out a sample, and let us know by reviewing here, commenting on Facebook, and visiting us at www.snotnosedkid.com, if you like what you read. We want to hear from other kids (and parents)!

“Poetry,” writes best-selling author Ellen Bass, “is the way I pay attention, appreciate, give praise, struggle, grieve, rage, and pray. It’s the way I embody my love for the world.”The Human Line, Bass’ seventh book of poems, startles with its precise detail, intimate images, and wild metaphors. Bass brings attention to life’s endearing absurdities, and many of the poems flash with a keen sense of humor. She also faces many of the crucial moral dilemmas of our time—geneti...

Originally published in a 1990 collection of the same name, and later in the anthology Red Plaid Shirt, “The Man of My Dreams” pulls us into a place where we too wonder what is real and what is dreamed, and how our dreams reflect love, loss, and everyday life.Red Plaid Shirt shines with Diane Schoemperlen’s fresh and often deadpan comedic voice, offering a compulsively readable mix of deeply felt emotion and finely wrought intellect. The collection was shortlisted...