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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls
Steve Hockensmith.
Publisher: Quirk.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781594744549.  Daedalus Item Code: 14235
 
Journey back to Regency England—Land of the Undead—in this thrilling prequel set four years before the horrific events of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. As our story opens, the Bennet ... (Read More)
 
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The Rejection Collection Vol.2: The Cream of the Crap
Matthew Diffee, ed.
Publisher: Simon Spotlight.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781416934011.  Daedalus Item Code: 30966
 
He's at it again. Unable to let sleeping dogs lie, New Yorker cartoon editor Matthew Diffee gives us more of the best of the not-quite-good-enough, otherwise known as "the cream of the crap," ... (Read More)
 
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The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker
Matthew Diffee, ed. Robert Mankoff, foreword.
Publisher: Simon Spotlight.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781416933397.  Daedalus Item Code: 30967
 
Every week about 50 New Yorker cartoonists each submit ten ideas, yielding 500 cartoons for only 20 spots in the magazine. Arguably, then, the most brilliant single-panel-gag cartoonists in ... (Read More)
 
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Sexually, I'm More of a Switzerland: More Personal Ads from the London Review of Books
David Rose.
Publisher: Scribner.   Format: laminated cover.
ISBN: 9781439125649.  Daedalus Item Code: 23428
 
"Man, 42. WLTM woman to 50 to help harness the disappointment I routinely create in all my relationships. Own tap shoes an advantage. Box no. 3868." London Review of Books editor David Rose ... (Read More)
 
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Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People
Amy Sedaris.
Publisher: Grand Central.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780446557030.  Daedalus Item Code: 21309
 
America's most delightfully unconventional hostess and the author of I Like You, Amy Sedaris here gives us a book that may forever change the world of crafting. Demonstrating that handicrafts ... (Read More)
 
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Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak: By Writers Famous and Obscure
Rachel Fershleiser & Larry Smith, eds.
Publisher: Harper.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780061714627.  Daedalus Item Code: 23408
 
When the editors of online storytelling magazine SMITH asked readers to submit six-word memoirs, à la Ernest Hemingway's famously short story "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn," they proved ... (Read More)
 
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Skewered!: The Rudest Food Reviews
Michelle Lovric, ed.
Publisher: Chicago Review.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781556526510.  Daedalus Item Code: 31193
 
Even before Goldilocks made saucy remarks about her purloined porridge, people have been offering unflattering commentary on the victuals proffered, from Mark Twain ("The food would create an ... (Read More)
 
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Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
David Sedaris. Ian Falconer, illus.
Publisher: Little, Brown.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780316038393.  Daedalus Item Code: 21307
 
In these outrageously funny fables, featuring animals with unmistakably human failings, New Yorker and public radio humorist David Sedaris holds up a bestial mirror to our own neuroses, ... (Read More)
 
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Talk Dirty: Yiddish: Beyond Drek: The Curses, Slang, and Street Lingo You Need to Know When You Speak Yiddish
Ilene Schneider.
Publisher: Adams Media/QPB.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781598698565.  Daedalus Item Code: 31691
 
This is the Yiddish they don't teach at Temple. Ilene Schneider—incidentally, one of the first six women ordained as rabbis in the United States—gives us the lowdown on how to really spit the Hebrew ... (Read More)
 
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Toward Commitment: A Dialogue About Marriage
Diane Rehm & John B. Rehm.
Publisher: Knopf.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780375414305.  Daedalus Item Code: 00579
 
"Inspired by a series she hosted that was broadcast on public radio, Diane Rehm and her husband present a two-person narrative account of what it takes to keep a relationship intact. The format ... (Read More)
 
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Unlucky Stiffs: New Tales of the Weirdly Departed
Cynthia Ceilan.
Publisher: Lyons Press.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781599219103.  Daedalus Item Code: 22940
 
Nothing makes it quite so satisfying to embrace the loveliness of life's ordinary moments than the prospect of a spectacularly dumb death, says Cynthia Ceilán. In her follow-up to Thinning the ... (Read More)
 
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We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Valeria Manferto De Fabianis, ed.
Publisher: White Star Publishers.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9788854404021.  Daedalus Item Code: 12238
 
This spunky, chunky little book is packed with Christmas images and sentiments for all ages, including film stills from the movies, pictures of Christmas cookies and ornaments, and vintage Christmas ... (Read More)
 
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