Surely You Jest

This is a laugh-filled story about scheming, stealing, love, and devotion to family. You might wonder how such a plot could be so funny. Well, just read, and you’ll be treated as well to international suspense because stealing is an international pastime these days. Darrell Kleve is a single parent. He’s also the investment chief at a prominent Boston firm and the author of a book on the New York Times best-seller list. That has made him a favorite on the speaking circuit in both America and Europe. As if that weren’t enough, two beautiful women are throwing themselves at him. Melanie Toland and Patty Gray. They are very different, but they have one thing in common: nasty motives. Patty has dirty secrets, but so does Darrell. Melanie is of questionable character and is in a position to bring down Darrell, and Patty too.

Reality TV can be murder in the Jersey Shore mysteries from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of the Mr. Lemoncello’s Library series. What if a reality TV show like Jersey Shore set up production in the fictional seaside resort Sea Haven? What if hitting the gym, tanning, and doing a little laundry aren’t the only things the contestants get into. By-the-book officer John Ceepak and his wisecracking young partner, Danny Boyle, have to babysit the buff and boozy kids partying it up in a Jersey shore rental house for TV’s summertime hit Fun House while simultaneously trying to stop the rowdy kids from breaking the law up and down the beach. But even Ceepak and Danny can’t stop one young cast member from being murdered - and others from being threatened with the same fate.

St. Peter grants Michelangelo a vacation request, allowing him to travel to the twentieth century to view art. Not only does Michelangelo want to see what artists have been creating after his death but he also desires confirmation that his own work is remembered. As Michelangelo roams about New York City he meets a variety of people who attempt to help him make sense of modern sculpture, painting and architecture. Michelangelo compares everything he sees to specific works he created throughout his life. He finally meets Vinnie, a tough city boy, who agrees to help with his journey. Trying to convince contemporary society what 'real art' is becomes infuriating as Michelangelo holds amusing discussions about enlarged, abstract geometric shapes, gigantic statues rising out of the river, graffiti, tattoos, and more which he vehemently contends cannot be art. His conversations reflect his historical interactions with political figures who commissioned art, his family and other noteworthy artists. Time is running out as St. Peter has allowed Michelangelo to spend only three weeks in the twentieth century. Michelangelo's frustration mounts as he struggles to comprehend the modern world and educate people on the art of the past.

“Satire at the highest level.… [A] godsend of a book.” —Amy Fusselman, Washington Post A witty, absurdist satire of the last 500 years, Alexandra Petri’s US History is the fake textbook you never knew you needed! As a columnist for the Washington Post, Alexandra Petri has watched in real time as those who didn’t learn from history have been forced to repeat it. And repeat it. And repeat it. If we repeat history one more time, we’re going to fail! Maybe it’s time for a new textbook. Alexandra Petri’s US History contains a lost (invented!) history of America. (A history for people disappointed that the only president whose weird sex letters we have is Warren G. Harding.) Petri’s "historical fan fiction" draws on real events and completely absurd fabrications to create a laugh-out-loud, irreverent takedown of our nation’s complicated past. On Petri’s deranged timeline, John and Abigail Adams try sexting, the March sisters from Little Women are sixty feet tall, and Susan Sontag goes to summer camp. Nearly eighty short, hilarious pieces span centuries of American history and culture. Ayn Rand rewrites The Little Engine That Could. Nikola Tesla’s friends stage an intervention when he falls in love with a pigeon. The characters from Sesame Street invade Normandy. And Mark Twain—who famously said reports of his death had been greatly exaggerated—offers a detailed account of his undeath, in which he becomes a zombie. This side-splitting work of historical humor shows why Alexandra Petri has been hailed as a "genius,"* a "national treasure,"† and "one of the funniest writers alive"‡. *Olivia Nuzzi, Katha Pollitt †Julia Ioffe, Katy Tur, John Scalzi, Chuck Wendig, Jamil Smith, and Susan Hennessey ‡Randall Munroe

The trilogy of the Dragon, Father of air, Mother of earth are dying, or more precisely moving to a higher state of being. The world that was created, and is now bound by their Spirit Matrix will end the instant they move on and will put all Throldor into chaos from a Demon within, unless they can find a child of power to make them three that will keep the Spirit Matrix alive. The power, soul and spirit would have to be of the Dragon, but born into the world of man naturally of a mortal woman, not created by magic, as above, so below. This is the law. Chronicles of Throldor ch5. vs6-11.

Two college professors of a reputable California institute of higher learning are drawn together in a series of inexplicable mysteries involving a timeless woman. Two law enforcement officials put their polished skills to the test in some effort to solve an unbreakable chain of dark enigmas that center around Santa Monica, California. Two Britishers are pulled into a web of amicable intrigue that is shielded in a dark secret.