Out of work for months, Lussi Meyer is desperate to work anywhere in publishing. Prestigious Blackwood-Patterson isn’t the perfect fit, but a bizarre set of circumstances leads to her hire and a firm mandate: Lussi must find the next horror superstar to compete with Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Peter Straub. It’s the ’80s, after all, and horror is the hottest genre.But as soon as she arrives, Lussi finds herself the target of her co-workers' mean-spirited pranks. The hazing reaches...

Vice President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama team up in this high-stakes thriller that combines a mystery worthy of Watson and Holmes with the laugh-out-loud bromantic chemistry of *Lethal Weapon’*s Murtaugh and Riggs.Vice President Joe Biden is fresh out of the Obama White House and feeling adrift when his favorite railroad conductor dies in a suspicious accident, leaving behind an ailing wife and a trail of clues. To unravel the mystery, “Amtrak Joe” re-teams with the only...

Who knew fighting for a living wage could be so deadly? Bernie Sanders and his Gen Z intern are drawn into a murder investigation in a small Vermont town in this hilarious spin on cozy mysteries from the New York Times bestselling author of Hope Never Dies: An Obama Biden Mystery.Fall is bursting out all over Vermont, and while the rest of the Congress enjoys its recess, Senator Bernie Sanders has returned to his beloved home state for a weekend o...

For fans of SNL'S DEEP THOUGHTS BY JACK HANDEY and BILLY COLLINS, a new book of humor from New York Times bestseller Andrew Shaffer.In his first full-length poetry collection featuring over five dozen new and selected poems, humorist Andrew Shaffer explores our modern world from Fortnite ("I don't care") to pretentious Instagram poets ("Lord Byron would have drunk wine from your hipster skull")."Look Mom I'm a Poet (and So Is My Cat)" is playful, hilarious, and accessible t...

“Amazing stories! Incredible quotes! Sordid details! This book shows that a genius in the realm of thought can be a dummy in the land of love.” — Tom Morris, author of If Aristotle Ran General MotorsWhat do René Descartes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Jean-Paul Sartre have in common? That’s right: they were all hopeless failures when it came to romance. Author Andrew Shaffer explores the paradox at the core of Western philosophical thought—that history’s greatest thinkers...

The Office meets Stephen King, dressed up in holiday tinsel, in this fun, festive, and frightening horror-comedy set during the horror publishing boom of the ’80s, by New York Times bestselling satirist Andrew Shaffer.Out of work for months, Lussi Meyer is desperate to work anywhere in publishing. Prestigious Blackwood-Patterson isn’t the perfect fit, but a bizarre set of circumstances leads to her hire and a firm mandate: Lussi must find the next...

Bromance never dies – die Ex-Präsidenten Barack Obama und Joe Biden lösen ihren 2. Fall!Herrlich absurde Unterhaltung für Fans satirischer Noir-Krimis mit einem ordentlichen SchussGesellschaftskritikWas ist bloß los mit Ex-Präsident Barack Obama? Ex-Vize Joe Biden macht sich ernsthaft Sorgen um seinen Super-Freund, der in einem untypisch scheußlichen Anzug zu einer Konferenz in Chicago auftaucht. Als dann auch noch Obamas Blackberry aus dem Tagungsraum verschwindet, üb...

Action-Heroes aufgepasst, hier kommen Obama und Biden!Halb Noir-Krimi, halb "Bromance" macht dieser »New York Times«-Bestseller vor allem eines: jede Menge Spaß!Ex-Vize-Präsident Joe Biden kann sich so gar nicht damit abfinden, ein Ex-Vize-Präsidenten-Leben zu führen. Er langweilt sich auf seinem Anwesen mit Hund und Frau beinahe zu Tode, außerdem vermisst er sein Idol und besten Freund, Ex-Präsident Barack Obama. Der scheint sich derweil prächtig zu amüsieren, ob beim Bungee...

A shadowy multinational tech firm sends two agents, neither very willing, to find a long-gone renegade scientist, who now runs a deprogramming center in the countryside.The scientist makes off with one of the agents and the other lassos two of her friends to help her find him, if only to save herself from being sent back to home base and meeting an unattractive end.

Jay Z. Catsby throws the sickest parties on the Jersey Shore. His neighbor Dick has heard all the rumors: Catsby killed a man. He's richer than Blue Ivy. He's Hugh Jackman's butt double in the X-Men movies.As Dick soon learns, the truth is far stranger. Catsby is a "furry" who spends his days and nights in a cat costume, pining away for Dick's cousin Dandelion, a manic-pixie Brooklynite with a brutish husband. Will Catsby's romantic obsession cost him all nine of his lives?...

Étienne has a secret pet no one else can see . . . Étienne has a secret pet he feeds and feeds and feeds . . .A young French boy harbors a dark secret in this delightfully illustrated picture book from New York Times bestseller Andrew Shaffer ("Mothman's Merry Cryptid Christmas").Funny and more than a tad disturbing, "The Secret Pet" is perfect for older children and adults who enjoy Edward Gorey, Lemony Snicket, and all things strange and unusual.

A heartwarming picture book for children and adults featuring everyone's favorite flying cryptid from the New York Times bestselling author of HOW TO SURVIVE A SHARKNADO.Few have seen the West Virginia creature known as Mothman, but everyone agrees nothing good happens when he's around—there always seems to be an accident or some other mishap. Is he really an unlucky charm? Even he's unsure.When Rudolph takes an unexpected vacation one foggy Christmas Eve, Santa Claus comes...