Fun with Puns

Updated May 6, 2024
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For butter or worse
La Rosa, Erin
Paper Book
A FEMINIST BOOK CLUB CHOICE AWARD WINNER! "With great tension, simmering heat, and clever banter, FOR BUTTER OR WORSE is a mouthwateringly delicious enemies-to-lovers romance."--Helen Hoang, USA Today bestselling author of The Heart Principle "[A...
Bear with me now
Shepard, Katie
Paper Book
Love makes life a little wilder in this romantic comedy by debut author Katie Shepard. After a panic attack puts him in the hospital, charity executive Teagan Van Zijl is dragged by his sister to a wilderness therapy retreat in Montana. Lost in the woods while absconding from...
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 plot thickets
Henry, Julia
Ebook
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...
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
Ready or Scot... Globe-trotter Addie Macrae always follows her wanderlust. As a travel consultant, she jet sets around the world -- anywhere but Scotland. But when she's sent on assignment to help a struggling family-run tour company in the Highlands -- and save her own job -...
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
The Monroes have gone on vacation, leaving Harold and Chester at Chateau Bow-Wow -- not exactly a four-star hotel. On the animals' very first night there, the silence is pierced by a peculiar wake-up call -- an unearthly howl that makes Chester observe that the place should be called Howliday Inn...
Lady Windermere's fan ; Salome ; A woman of no importance ; An ideal husband ; The importance of being earnest
Wilde, Oscar
Paper Book
Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today....
The Eyre affair : a novel
Fforde, Jasper.
Paper Book
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...
I see life through rosé-colored glasses
Scottoline, Lisa
Paper Book
In I See Life Through Rosé-Colored Glasses, the bestselling mother/daughter pair is back with another hilarious and heartfelt collection of essays about the possibilities and pitfalls of everyday life. The New York Times bestselling mother daughter...
Alex's adventures in numberland
Bellos, Alex
Paper Book
A tenth anniversary edition of the iconic book about the wonderful world of mathsSunday Times bestseller | Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize'Original and highly entertaining' Sunday Times'A page turner about humanity's strange, never...
The pun also rises : how the humble pun revolutionized language, changed history, and made wordplay more than some antics
Pollack, John.
Paper Book
Some people may dismiss puns as the lowest form of humor. But this attitude is a relatively recent development in the sweep of history. In The Pun Also Rises, John Pollack-a former presidential speechwriter for Bill Clinton, and winner of the world pun championship-explains how punning...
Heart of barkness
Quinn, Spencer
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorA Chet and Bernie MysteryChet the dog and P.I. Bernie encounter heartache and much worse in the world of country music. When Lotty Pilgrim, an old country singer, turns up at a local bar, Bernie's surprised to see someone who was once so big performing in such a...

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