Fun with Puns

Updated May 6, 2024
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Bear with me now
Shepard, Katie
Paper Book
After being hospitalized for depression following his mother's death, charitable foundation CEO Teagan van Zijl finds himself at a wilderness therapy retreat in Montana. Lost in the woods, Teagan nearly gets eaten by a bear but is saved by an angel in muddy hiking boots - the program's handywoman,...
Flop dead gorgeous
Rosenfelt, David
Paper Book
Lights, camera, action in bestselling author David Rosenfelt's Flop Dead Gorgeous, as Andy Carpenter goes bicoastal to prove an old friend's innocence. Retired lawyer Andy Carpenter remembers every dog that's come through the Tara Foundation's doors, but the most well...
The enemy you gnocchi
Bruns, Catherine
Paper Book
A delicious new holiday mystery from USA Today bestselling author Catherine Bruns! It's Christmas time in Harvest Park, so grab your cocoa and sleuthing snow boots for a Christmas cozy mystery sure to sleigh! It's the deadliest thyme of the year... With snow dusting the...
The plot thickets
Henry, Julia
Paper Book
The ever-quintessential New England town of Goosebush, Massachusetts truly shines in springtime, but when an underhanded undertaker digs herself an early grave, it's up to sixty-something gardening sleuth Lilly Jayne--and her fellow Garden Squad members of course-- to unearth the cryptic...
Hot and sour suspects
Chien, Vivien
Paper Book
Lana Lee returns for another delectable cozy set in a Chinese restaurant in Vivien Chien's Hot and Sour Suspects. "Pair your noodles with this steaming mystery, and you have the perfect chilly night combination!"--PopSugar At the Ho-Lee...
Crouching buzzard, leaping loon
Andrews, Donna.
Paper Book
Poor Meg Langslow. She's blessed in so many ways. Michael, her boyfriend, is a handsome, delightful heartthrob who adores her. She's a successful blacksmith, known for her artistic wrought-iron creations. But somehow Meg's road to contentment is more rutted and filled with potholes than seems fair....
Kilt trip
Kiley, Alexandra
Paper Book
"Deeply romantic and breathtaking...readers will be swooning and flocking to Scotland long after they've turned the last page." --Livy Hart, author of Planes, Trains, and All the Feels Ready or Scot... Globetrotter Addie Macrae always...
Moby-duck : the true story of 28,800 bath toys lost at sea and of the beachcombers, oceanographers, environmentalists, and fools, including the author, who went in search of them
Hohn, Donovan.
Paper Book
Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year A revelatory tale of science, adventure, and modern myth. When the writer Donovan Hohn heard of the mysterious loss of thousands of bath toys at sea, he figured he would interview a few oceanographers...
Howliday Inn
Howe, James
Paper Book
In this comical sequel, Chester the cat and Harold the dog are boarded at Chateau Bow-Wow while the Monroe family goes on vacation. Once they are settled in, Chester and Harold begin to suspect that strange things are going on, as one boarder after another disappears. Text copyright 2004 Lectorum...
The Eyre affair : a novel
Fforde, Jasper.
Ebook
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The first novel in the renowned Thursday Next series, which "combines elements of Monty Python, Harry Potter, Stephen Hawking, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (The Wall Street Journal). "A literary wonderland [that] recalls...
The pun also rises : how the humble pun revolutionized language, changed history, and made wordplay more than some antics
Pollack, John.
Audiobook
The pun is commonly dismissed as the lowest form of wit, and punsters are often unpopular for their obsessive wordplay. But such attitudes are relatively recent developments. In The Pun Also Rises, John Pollack-a former World Pun Champion and presidential speechwriter for Bill Clinton-explains why...

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