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New York Times Notable Book: "The sorrows of Job [visit] a St. Louis nut salesman, with hilarious results . . . [A] wry updating of the biblical tragedy" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). In this "astute, entertainin...
A New York Times Notable Book: "A comic chronicle of marital misunderstandings . . . Eccentric, hilarious, wildly inventive" (Los Angeles Times). Linguist Jeremy Cook knows how language works, but he doesn't know how...
As the years of Mark Twain's birth and death coincided with the two successive appearances of Halley's Comet, this book records Twain's fictive reincarnation, provoked by the comet's approach toward Earth in November, 1985...
Dedicated to the study of toddlers and their development of verbal skills, the Wabash Institute should be staffed by kinder, gentler scholars, but instead is home to a nest of supremely cranky academics. When one of them is bludgeoned to death, Jerem...