Nerdastic fifth grader Adam Gason has a big problem. He’s just been busted for smuggling a deadly toxin into the country, one he hopes can combat the army of farts Billy the Bully is amassing in the forest outside Mile One Elementary. Can he stop the evil bully and his Jamaican gangster sidekick from destroying mankind or will the Department of Homeland Security throw him in the slammer and detonate his Xbox? WARNING: This book is full of farts!
Billy the Bully is at it again! When he sets his sights on Lenny Lappy and his dork friend Nelson Deadwood, he gets more than he bargains for. Is Billy any match for Nelson’s pet fart or is life at Mile One Elementary really going to stink? WARNING: This book is full of farts!
Lenny Lappy and Nelson Deadwood have a secret… When they drop their drawers and let off a good one, Mile One Elementary is blown away! Their pet farts, Fernando and Aisha, are engaged to be married! As long as no one objects, they’ll do just that one Friday afternoon in the school cafeteria. If only things were that simple… WARNING: This book is full of farts!
Nerdastic fifth grader Adam Gason is at it again, and is barely conscious when he realizes that the fate of mankind hangs in the balance. When he befriends Sara O’Connor, the mother of the future resistance, his destiny becomes clear: that he must save her from an evil fart send back in time to kill her or the future is really going to stink. WARNING: This book is full of farts!
Daniel D. Drek has a problem. His new toy robot won’t stop farting, and even worse, he’s the one getting blamed. Can Danny boy put a cork in his robot’s farting habit once and for all, or will his parents ground him for all eternity? Intended for children 9-12. WARNING: This book is full of farts!
Daniel D. Drek thought he'd seen the last of a certain stinky robot. Then one day, while walking his dog, a familiar passing of gas followed by a tinny voice catches his attention. "Oh no, Milo!" He watches helplessly as his dog collapses and begins to whimper. "What's wrong, boy?" he pets him, fighting back tears. When Daniel notices two glowing eyes illuminating from Milo's stomach, he realizes that one way or another the half-digested robot must come out. But at what cost? Intended for children 9 to 12. WARNING: This book is full of farts! Approximately 4,200 words.
Wally Wilbert knew writing contests were tough, but good grief! All weekend long he's slaved over his latest creation, Max Underpants, until he hit a snag. Now faced with the real possibility that he might not be able to finish his epic masterpiece, Wally digs in and makes one last stand. Will he finish his harebrained adventure? Or will Max Underpants wind up on the proverbial scrapheap where all unfinished novels go? TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Max Underpants is a short story, approximately 4,000 words. Although there isn't any profanity, plenty of crazy ideas are sprinkled throughout. Intended for teens and adults.
From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together
The third novel in the New York Times bestselling Thursday Next series is “great fun—especially for those with a literary turn of mind and a taste for offbeat comedy” (The Washington Post Book World). “Delightful . . . the well of Fforde’s imagination is bottomless.”—People “Fforde creates a literary reality that is somewhere amid a triangulation of Douglas Adams, Monty Python, and Miss Marple.”—The Denver Post With the 923rd Annual Bookworld Awards just around the corner and an unknown villain wreaking havoc in Jurisfiction, what could possibly be next for Detective Thursday Next? Protecting the world’s greatest literature—not to mention keeping up with Miss Havisham—is tiring work for an expectant mother. And Thursday can definitely use a respite. So what better hideaway than inside the unread and unreadable Caversham Heights, a cliché-ridden pulp mystery in the hidden depths of the Well of Lost Plots, where all unpublished books reside? But peace and quiet remain elusive for Thursday, who soon discovers that the Well itself is a veritable linguistic free-for-all, where grammasites run rampant, plot devices are hawked on the black market, and lousy books—like Caversham Heights—are scrapped for salvage. To top it off, a murderer is stalking Jurisfiction personnel and nobody is safe—least of all Thursday. Don’t miss any of Jasper Fforde’s delightfully entertaining Thursday Next novels: THE EYRE AFFAIR • LOST IN A GOOD BOOK • THE WELL OF LOST PLOTS • SOMETHING ROTTEN • FIRST AMONG SEQUELS • ONE OF OUR THURSDAYS IS MISSING • THE WOMAN WHO DIED A LOT
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics. But when World War II began, the athlete became an airman, embarking on a journey that led to a doomed flight on a May afternoon in 1943. When his Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean, against all odds, Zamperini survived, adrift on a foundering life raft. Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will. Appearing in paperback for the first time—with twenty arresting new photos and an extensive Q&A with the author—Unbroken is an unforgettable testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit, brought vividly to life by Seabiscuit author Laura Hillenbrand. Hailed as the top nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography and the Indies Choice Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year award “Extraordinarily moving . . . a powerfully drawn survival epic.”—The Wall Street Journal “[A] one-in-a-billion story . . . designed to wrench from self-respecting critics all the blurby adjectives we normally try to avoid: It is amazing, unforgettable, gripping, harrowing, chilling, and inspiring.”—New York “Staggering . . . mesmerizing . . . Hillenbrand’s writing is so ferociously cinematic, the events she describes so incredible, you don’t dare take your eyes off the page.”—People “A meticulous, soaring and beautifully written account of an extraordinary life.”—The Washington Post “Ambitious and powerful . . . a startling narrative and an inspirational book.”—The New York Times Book Review “Magnificent . . . incredible . . . [Hillenbrand] has crafted another masterful blend of sports, history and overcoming terrific odds; this is biography taken to the nth degree, a chronicle of a remarkable life lived through extraordinary times.”—The Dallas Morning News “An astonishing testament to the superhuman power of tenacity.”—Entertainment Weekly “A tale of triumph and redemption . . . astonishingly detailed.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “[A] masterfully told true story . . . nothing less than a marvel.”—Washingtonian “[Hillenbrand tells this] story with cool elegance but at a thrilling sprinter’s pace.”—Time “Hillenbrand [is] one of our best writers of narrative history. You don’t have to be a sports fan or a war-history buff to devour this book—you just have to love great storytelling.”—Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
