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...
I've Got My Mind Set on Brew : A Novel
Jayne, Stephanie
Paper Book
Kat Malone is left cash-strapped after a job loss and a bad breakup (pro tip: never offer to pay living expenses for a freeloading poetry major) when she discovers a surprising new career path: craft beer brewer. When the brewpub is sold, the new owner places his light-on-experience son in charge of...
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...
Hell hath no curry : a Pennsylvania Dutch mystery with recipes
Myers, Tamar.
Paper Book
Three days before he's due to tie the knot with Priscilla Livengood, eligible bachelor Cornelious Weaver suffers a massive heart attack-in another woman's bed. The scandal is about as good as television for the insular citizens of Hernia, Pennsylvania, and it gets even spicier when the coroner's...
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
Harold and Chester could hardly believe it. The Monroe family was going on vacation without them. Bunnicula, the family rabbit, would be boarded with a neighbor. But they, the family's loyal dog and cat, were to be sent away with strangers; they were to spend a week at Chateau Bow-Wow. Chateau...
The importance of being earnest and four other plays
Wilde, Oscar
Paper Book
The Importance of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays, by Oscar Wilde, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully...
The Eyre affair : a novel
Fforde, Jasper.
Paper Book
Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. Baconians are trying to convince the world that Francis Bacon really wrote Shakespeare, there are riots between the Surrealists and...
I see life through rose -colored glasses : true stories and confessions
Scottoline, Lisa
Audiobook
"Are you and your mother as funny as Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella? If not, these authors will keep you laughing as they share their meditations on life with vigor, energy, and pluck." -- AudioFile Magazine In I See Life Through Ros -Colored Glasses<...
Here's looking at Euclid : a surprising excursion through the astonishing world of math
Bellos, Alex
Paper Book
Too often math gets a bad rap, characterized as dry and difficult. But, Alex Bellos says, "math can be inspiring and brilliantly creative. Mathematical thought is one of the great achievements of the human race, and arguably the foundation of all human progress. The world of mathematics is a...
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
THE INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER Spencer Quinn's Heart of Barkness is the latest in the New York Times bestselling series that the Los Angeles Times called "nothing short of masterful"... Chet the dog, "the most lovable narrator in...
The origin of feces : what excrement tells us about evolution, ecology, and a sustainable society
Waltner-Toews, David
Paper Book
The Origin of Feces takes an important subject out of locker-rooms, potty-training manuals and bio-solids management boardrooms, bringing it into the fresh air of everyone's lives. With insight and wit, David Waltner-Toews explores what has been too often ignored as he makes a compelling argument...

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