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A whimsical look inside everyday American life offers a hilarious assortment of more than 150 found grocery lists that contain items that range from the mundane to the weird and lists for parties, many enhanced with personal, often odd annotations and an occasional recipe that can be made with items from a list.

In the aftermath of the bizarre murder of a local bully, twelve-year-old Oskar theorizes that the killing was an act of revenge and wonders about the nighttime activities of a new next-door neighbor.

Leaving the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school, Junior struggles to find his place in his new surroundings in order to escape his destiny back on the reservation.

A terminally ill teenaged girl makes and carries out a list of things to do before she dies.

When Doctor Impossible, an evil genius, mad scientist, time-traveler, and ambitious wannabe world dominator, escapes from prison and launches a new plot to seize control of the world, Fatale, a woman built by the NSA to be the next generation of weaponry, joins a group of misfit superheroes in their quest to destroy Doctor Impossible.

Struggling to come to grips with her assistant’s resignation, detective Precious Ramotswe has her hands full with a trio of cases involving unexplained deaths at a nearby hospital, an allegedly cheating husband, and thievery at a local printing company.

Dealing with a newborn son and his doting father, James, Isabel Dalhousie stumbles upon a new puzzle when she attends an art auction and finds a painting attributed to a now-deceased artist that features a person whom the artist could only have encountered after his supposed death, meaning that either the artwork is a forgery or the artist could still be alive.

Describes how an American family of five moved from South Carolina suburbia to a town in the middle of France and the dramatic changes in their lives as the entire family embraced a whole new culture and language.

Determined to keep the library open during a fierce blizzard, librarian and amateur sleuth Miss Wilhelmina Zukas becomes an eyewitness to the explosive death of billionaire Franklin Harrington and, fearing that the local philanthropist’s plans to fund a new town library are in jeopardy, sets out to investigate his murder.

When a baby arrives on her doorstep during Sawrey’s annual summer fête, Beatrix Potter sets out to discover the truth about the abandoned baby, following her only clue, a scarab ring, to Hawthorn House, a legendary manor reputed to be haunted.

In 1951, the brutal murder of nineteen-year-old Marvin Cully transforms the town of Mayflower, Florida, into a battleground as violence erupts across the state and the NAACP joins in the efforts to uncover the killers.

Anticipating a relaxing retirement, Father Tim returns to his hometown for the first time in decades when he receives an anonymous summons, an event that leads to his discovery of long-buried secrets and new people.

Captain Crozier must find a way for his crew to survive the deadly attacks of a mysterious and insatiable sea monster that is stalking the men trapped in the Arctic ice, in a novel loosely based on the mid-nineteenth-century Arctic expedition originally led by Sir John Franklin.

Teaching human sexuality from a perspective that information and pleasure are top priorities, divorced mom Ruth Ramsey butts heads with the local soccer coach, a divorced former addict who became an evangelical Christian after hitting rock bottom.

A WWE heavyweight champion traces his rise from a small-town dreamer to a wrestling star, describing his rigorous training in a Canadian wrestling school, his big break in Ted Turner’s WCW, and his relationships with such figures as Steve Austin and The Rock.

Paralleling the events of Gone with the Wind, an authorized novel chronicles the life and times of dashing hero Rhett Butler and the people who shaped his world — his unyielding father Langston Butler, sister Rosemary, best friend and onetime slave Tunis Bonneau, former love Belle Watling, and the headstrong, passionate Scarlett O’Hara.

In this first book of a new series, 16-year-old Zoey Redbird enters the House of Night, a school where she will train to become an adult vampyre. Zoey finds she is no average fledgling. She has been “marked” by the vampyre Goddess, Nyx. But she is not the only fledgling at the House of Night with special powers.

An in-depth look at the medical care legislated and received by women giving birth in the United States explores the use of drugs to induce or prevent labor, the increasing trend toward cesarean sections, and women’s right to choose the place and manner of birth.

Seventeen years after the discovery of an unidentified female murder victim, whose brutalized body is found outside Small Plains, Kansas, the young girl’s grave has become the source of a series of strange miracles and legends, until the return of prodigal son Mitch Newquist, along with a devastating tornado, threatens to bring old secrets to light.

Starting her life over after the death of her husband, a New England psychologist takes a job as an animal control warden and slowly heals from her grief through friendships with a young anorexic, an archery instructor, and an injured oversized dog.

In the Kingdom of Aran, in the Caucasus Mountains, in 950 A.D., two adventurers wander the region, plying their trade as swords for hire, until they become embroiled in a bloody coup in the medieval Jewish empire of the Khazars as bodyguards for a fugitive prince with a mysterious secret.

A hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: only food runs! Allison presents the guides-eye view of living in the bush, confronting the worlds fiercest terrain of wild animals, and managing herds of gaping tourists.

A journalist remembers his childhood struggles to gain acceptance from the jeans-wearing set, his envy of his admired older brother, his parent’s atypical personalities, and the Fourth of July accident that ended his brother’s life.

A hilarious memoir of life among the super rich — and super spoiled — describes how the author’s job as director of publicity at a prestigious prep school became translated into an effort to keep some of the wealthy, pretty, and mean mothers of the elite students happy.

Provides a mental and spiritual approach on how to become rich.

Abraham, channeled through Esther Hicks, explains the “law of attraction” and how to make it work to one’s advantage, showing how to work toward doing, being, or having what is desired.

A thoughtful study of architecture that examines how we both shape and are shaped by our surroundings considers how our private homes and public edifices — from Classical to Gothic to minimalist Modern — reflect how we feel and explains how our stylistic choices can be used to increase our chances of happiness.

A gripping portrait of the ultimate double agent draws on recently declassified documents to recount the remarkable exploits of the enigmatic Eddie Chapman, Agent Zigzag, a criminal, con man, and philanderer trained by the Nazis as a spy who became a British agent at the heart of the German Secret Service.

New York juvenile probation officer Joe Trumbull matches wits with a deadly unknown adversary responsible for the deaths of his fiancée, killed at home during Joe’s bachelor party celebration, and other women with whom he has been involved, as he takes on an enemy who will do anything it takes to destroy him.

The 1950 discovery of four bodies inside a sunken steam locomotive in a Montana lake gives way to the story of a murderous 1906 bank robber whose ruthlessness challenged Isaac Bell, a talented detective whose struggle to identify and capture the killer had been complicated by the great San Francisco earthquake.