Here, Karen Joy Fowler delivers top-notch storytelling—creating characters both oddball and endearing in a voice that is utterly and memorably her own—in this clever, playful novel about finally allowing oneself to grow up-with a dash ...
Visiting her mystery writer godmother in California after losing her father to cancer, Rima Lanisell endeavors to learn the nature of her godmother's and father's relationship, while her godmother struggles to keep secrets from both Rima ...
Unlike Guido, Immanuel Rath is an older man inexperienced with women, but suffers from the same male malady: he doesn't know how to relate to them as adults, and he is easily smitten, as Guido was with the fairy princess, ...
In “this inventive and playful book” (Tom Beer, Newsday), James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns are the highest form of wit.
Wit's End: Days and Nights of the Algonquin Round Table
... that they stuck me into Observation Placement (OP) for the next seventeen hours. OP can best be described as an isolation box, which the kids renamed “ISO boxes,” set up outside with no windows, no heat, and no air conditioning.
Wit's End: Days and Nights of the Algonquin Round Table
In this whimsical book, James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns are the highest form of wit.
The biggest obstacle that stands in their way could be their own expectations. This story is sure to inspire your wanderlust, as much as your search for the heart of the human experience.
Wit's End: Poems