Admissions rates of 6%? Kids applying to 32 colleges? Sixteen-year-olds with more impressive resumes than Fortune 500 CEOs? Has the nation lost its mind? Why yes, it has! The college admissions process now sucks approximately 1250% more time, money and psychic energy than it did when today's parents were going through the same process. Thank God author J.D. Rothman is here to shine a light on the insanity with laugh-out-loud wit and incisive anthropological observations. The Neurotic Parent Reveals It All! * Frightening Statistics, Shocking Pie Charts, Depressing Bar Graphs * Kumon Tips for Preschoolers * College Confidential: The Scariest Place on the Internet * Facebook Facelift * Why Your Teen Needs to Be a Transgendered Albanian from North Dakota * Most Obnoxious Question Asked by a Parent at an Information Session * What to Expect When They're Rejecting * Haikus for the Neurotic Parent * Bed Bath &amp; Bye-Bye * How to Cash in That Ivy League Degree for a Sweet Barista Job Woven in between these and many more hilarious bits of advice and cultural insights are the best of the Neurotic Parent's blog posts, which detail the anxiety-ridden quest for college homes for his/her children. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll pack up and move your family to Australia, where getting into college is reputedly just like it was in the United States in 1972.

The Neurotic Parent's Guide to College Admissions: Strategies for Helicoptering, Hot-housing & Micromanaging

Humor & Entertainment

Rothman, J.D.

Humor

Prospect Park Books LLC - Prospect Park Books

It’s a fact: immersing yourself in creative craft projects will help you survive the misery, anger, and heartbreak that accompany the end of a relationship. And the more these crafts involve long needles, sharp knives, and your ex’s treasured keepsakes, the better you’ll feel.
Lynn Chang teaches you how to craft your way through the three stages of breaking up: Despair, Anger, and Rejoining the Living. She’ll guide you through such projects as:
<ul>
<li>Supportive Peanut Gallery </li>
<li>Weepy Wipes </li>
<li>Sustaining Snacks </li>
<li>Drive-by Bingo Spy Game </li>
<li>Cut &amp; Paste Revenge </li>
<li>Voodoo Sock Puppet </li>
<li>Baseball House of Cards </li>
<li>Empowerment Haikus</li>
</ul>
Before you know it, you’ll be doing the Pre-flight Dating Checklist and the Happily Ever After Cut &amp; Paste, and you’ll be strong enough to survive the next breakup.
Lynn Chang may be happily married now, but she’s had her heart broken enough to have made a drawer full of voodoo sock puppets. A crafter, artist, designer, toy developer, and former actress and standup comedian, Chang is creative in every imaginable way. She’s also the author or illustrator of many successful books, including the Look at Me! children’s titles (Chronicle Books), Yoga for Cats (Chronicle Books), and Dysfunctional Family Paper Dolls (Imagineering).

The Break-Up Activity Book: Crafting Your Way Through a Broken Heart

"Vorhaus keeps things moving briskly, and Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen fans should be pleased."—Publishers Weekly
After pulling world-class cons in California and New Mexico, Radar Hoverlander and his crew, including girlfriend and grift artist Allie Quinn and their hapless buddy Vic Mirplo, are back in action, this time in Austin. So many rich fools to bamboozle—but is Radar having a crisis of conscience? A smart, fast-paced, funny work—crime caper fiction at its best.

The Texas Twist (A Radar Hoverlander Novel, 3)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Vorhaus, John

Mystery

Impossible to put down. Sparkling dialog, references both musical and literary, and an offbeat cast of believable characters make the pages fly by.” Library Journal STARRED REVIEW 
Maggie Fiori uses her powers as a journalist to dig into the world of San Francisco's elite after a limo driver is convicted of murdering a socialite. Between managing her sons' soccer practices, saving her damaged marriage, and handling her maddening staff, Maggie fights to prove that the "Limousine Lothario" was guilty of no more than loving his mother.

The Devil's Interval (A Maggie Fiori Mystery, 2)

Peterson, Linda Lee

"Anger is like an essential vitamin, and Jen has given me even more reasons to be angry. I couldn't be happier or healthier."—Lewis Black, stand-up comedian, actor, author, and regular on The Daily Show 
The second edition of Things I Want to Punch in the Face brings humor writer Jennifer Worick's newest and most popular diatribes about the most annoying things in everyday life and modern American society, including:
 Cold-Pressed Coffee TED Talks Evites Cosplay Polar Bear Clubs Family Car Stickers Mixologists Scrabble Yoga Pants #blessed
And there's more, so much more. From nail art to Hobbits, passwords to auto-tune, Worick takes aim at the copious bounty of annoyances that irk her shit. And ours.

Things I Want to Punch in the Face

Praise for Linda Lee Peterson's The Devil's Interval:
"Impossible to put down. Sparkling dialogue, references both musical and literary, and an offbeat cast of believable characters make the pages fly by."—Library Journal, starred review
"A fast-paced, intelligent tale of intrigue that will keep readers guessing until the refreshing end."—Publishers Weekly, starred review
Maggie Fiori, San Francisco magazine editor and amateur sleuth, gets a package that leads her to investigate a family scandal going back to the Civil War. Why was her great-great-great grandmother imprisoned for bigamy and espionage? Was she a criminal or a hero? Did she support the Confederates or the Union? Maggie's husband, Michael, joins her on the trip to Oxford, Mississippi, to dig deep and solve the mystery.
Combining an engaging contemporary mystery with a carefully researched Civil War setting and nineteenth-century characters, The Spy on the Tennessee Walker will appeal to Civil War and American history buffs as well as fans of modern mysteries and historical fiction.

The Spy on the Tennessee Walker (A Maggie Fiori Mystery, 3)

Literature & Fiction

United States

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