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  Sh*t My Dad Says

  Justin Halpern

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  After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his seventy-three-year-old dad. Sam Halpern, who is ""like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair,"" has never minced words, and when Justin moved back home, he began to record all the ridiculous things his dad said to him: 
  ""That woman was sexy. . . . Out of your league? Son, let women figure out why they won't screw you. Don't do it for them."" 
  ""Do people your age know how to comb their hair? It looks like two squirrels crawled on their heads and started fucking."" 
  ""The worst thing you can be is a liar. . . . Okay, fine, yes, the worst thing you can be is a Nazi, but then number two is liar. Nazi one, liar two."" 
  Almost two million people now follow Mr. Halpern's philosophical musings on Twitter, and in this book, his son weaves a brilliantly funny, touching coming-of-age memoir around the best of his quotes. An all-American story that unfolds on the Little League field, in Denny's, during excruciating family road trips, and, most frequently, in the Halperns' kitchen over bowls of Grape-Nuts, Sh*t My Dad Says is a chaotic, hilarious, true portrait of a father-son relationship from a major new comic voice.

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  Abbott and Costello: Costello...

  Bud Abbott, Lou Costello

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  Abbott is putting on a new play, called, They Just Got Wind Of Costello In Alaska or Smellbound. Who's going to be the leading lady?

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  The Lonely Heart Attack Club

  James Collier

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  Jack Tate is hopeless....Everything he touches turns into a disaster, but he means well. His business is even less successful than his love life. His once-thriving coffee shop was on the brink of bankruptcy, but salvation could be right under his nose.At the insistence of his loyal and underappreciated assistant, Emma, he sees that the last hope of saving his business could be the only customers who’ve not deserted him for the faceless coffee chains — the old folk.To attract new customers, Jack and Emma set up the Isle of Man’s first dating and social club for the elderly — The Lonely Heart Attack Club. Eager to give his elderly congregation a sense of purpose, he sets them a challenge that may be one step too far: to become World Record holders.They may be old but there is plenty of life left in them, and Jack soon realises that they're not just customers; they’ve become friends.Could his unintended compassion to his wrinkly client base also be the catalyst for romance?

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  Please Don't Stop the Music

  Jane Lovering

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  A heartwarming and funny romance about losing our pasts to win our futures…  Jemima Hutton’s jewellery business looks set to fail - until Ben offers to stock her handmade belt buckles in his guitar shop. But Ben has secrets - when Jemima finds out he used to be the front man of a hugely successful rock band, she wants to know more. And the curiosity is mutual - which means that her own secret is no longer safe...

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  Jim Morin's World - 40 Years of...

  Jim Morin

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  The best editorial cartoons from the Miami Herald’s Jim Morin, “one of the great under-appreciated cartoonists of the last quarter century” (The Comics Reporter).   Political cartoonists distill opinions about power and culture into art and commentary with the sharp points of their pens Most recently, during and after Election 2016, the remarkable artist’s pen of Jim Morin has produced a steady stream of Donald Trump cartoons that have both delighted and infuriated followers, depending upon their side of the Donald Trump divide. This book of best cartoons by Jim Morin is both funny and poignant. It is a nostalgic journey through the last forty years of the comedy and reality of our world.   Upon awarding the prestigious Herblock Prize to Jim Morin in 2007, Harry Katz, the Herb Block Foundation curator, praised this two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for his “impressive, unrelenting barrage of cartoons and caricatures displaying artistry, courage and conviction.” Morin should also be praised for his wit and timely wry sense of humor, which has been a staple of the Miami Herald since 1978. Jim Morin’s World: 40 Years of Social Commentary From A Two-Time Pulitzer Prize–Winning Cartoonist is a collection of some of the best cartoons by this gifted artist and commentator on our times.   “We’re lucky to have one of the very best, waiting with pen in hand to carve up the phonies, blowhards, crooks and hypocrites who make headlines. They might not want to end up in a Jim Morin cartoon, but they will.” —Carl Hiaasen, from the foreword

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  The Company - A Novel of the CIA

  Robert Littell

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  This realistic New York Times–bestselling epic spy novel captures the thrilling story of CIA agents in the latter half of the Twentieth Century. 
   
  The New York Times bestselling spy novel The Company lays bare the history and inner workings of the CIA. This critically acclaimed blockbuster from internationally renowned novelist Robert Littell seamlessly weaves together history and fiction to create a multigenerational, wickedly nostalgic saga of the CIA—known as “the Company” to insiders. Racing across a landscape spanning the legendary Berlin Base of the ’50s, the Soviet invasion of Hungary, the Bay of Pigs, Afghanistan, and the Gorbachev putsch, The Company tells the thrilling story of agents imprisoned in double lives, fighting an amoral, elusive, formidable enemy—and each other—in an internecine battle within the Company itself.  
   
  “Compulsive reading from start to finish.” —The Boston Globe 
   
  “Hugely entertaining . . . A serious look at how our nation exercises power. . . . Popular fiction at its finest.” —The Washington Post Book World 
   
  “As it happens, this longest spy novel ever written turns out to be one of the best.” —Chicago Tribune 
   
  “Reads like a breeze . . . guaranteed to suck you right back into the Alice-in-Wonderland world of spy vs. spy.” —Newsweek 
   
  “If Robert Littell didn’t invent the American spy novel, he should have.” —Tom Clancy 
   
  “It's gung-ho, hard-drinking, table-turning fun.” —Publishers Weekly

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