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A tongue-in-cheek guide to operating a mom that offers advice on how to handle a mother with care, watch for signs of an impending blow-up, understand and meet a mom's basic needs, and take care of a mom in the best way possible.

"Little Dinosaur gets ready for Christmas"-- Provided by publisher.

"Chronicles the adventures and misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third as he tries to pass the important initiation test of his Viking clan, the Tribe of the Hairy Hooligans, by catching and training a dragon"--Verso page.

Though Genie Michaels would like a husband, at age thirty-six and jaded from years of dating, she's just too tired to make the effort. Lucky for Genie, Prince Charming comes to her in the form of Hugh Spencer, a bestselling author and ideal boyfriend. But when Hugh proposes to the "love of his life" on national television-and it's not Genie- she's so humiliated that she continues the pretnese that she is his fiancee.

South London twenty-something best friends Melanie and Fran set out to trash the wedding of their mean and prissy old school "friend" Amanda.

"In twenty-one trips down 'the blue tunnel to the pearly gates' strapped to a gurney, Vonnegut interviews Sir Isaac Newton, Clarence Darrow, James Earl Ray, Eugene Debs, John Brown, Adolf Hitler, William Shakespeare, and Kilgore Trout, among others. What began as a series of ninety-second interludes for WNYC public radio evolved into this provocative collection of questions and answers about who and what we live fore, and how much it all matters in...

At first it seems that Peter Hatcher's summer vacation is going to be a scene from his worst nightmare. Peter's parents have decided to spend three weeks in Maine sharing a house with Cootie Queen Sheila Tubman and the rest of her family. To make matters worse, Peter's younger brother, Fudge, the five-year-old human dynamo, has decided to marry Sheila! But things begin to look up once Peter discovers that Maine is full of surprises, and his best friend...

An independent young frog goes on a wild adventure when he accidentally gets carried away by a dragonfly.

Everyone has to run for an office in Mrs. Green's class election.

"Make Something Up is a compilation of 21 stories and one novella (some previously published, some not) that will disturb and delight. The absurdity of both life and death are on full display: In "Zombies," the best and brightest of a high school prep school become tragically addicted to the latest drug craze: electric shocks from cardiac defibrillators. In "Knock, Knock," a son hopes to tell one last off-color joke to a father in his final moments,...