Now Everybody Really Hates Me

Patty Jane comes up with hilarious plans for how she will occupy the rest of her life now that she has been banished to her room, apparently forever.

Marx, Patricia

Martin, Jane Read

Children's Books

Harpercollins

When her perfect older sister forces her to finish her spinach, a young girl devises a plan to get rid of her sister

Now I Will Never Leave the Dinner Table

Chast, Roz

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Harpercollins Childrens Books

Patty Jane might be stuck at the dinner table forever, because she simply refuses to eat her spinach and Joy, her baby-sitter and sister, will not let her leave the table until she does, but Patty Jane is conjuring up her own plans to get back at Joy, in more ways than one.

Meet Walter.And better yet, turn the pages and --meet his staff. The Gum Guy, who archives his chewed-up gum. His Homework Helper who does...well, you know. A complete Dream Team, to do his sleeping for him...And thats only the beginning!This laugh-out-loud picture book is a dream come true for any kid who has ever wanted someone else to kiss Aunt Winnie or eat their lima beans. Author Patricia Marx and illustrator Roz Chast prove with hilarity that anyone can have the staff they need, if they have enough imagination.

Meet My Staff

Humor

After refusing to eat her spinach, Patty Jane Pepper begins to feel as though she will live the rest of her life at the dinner table since her baby-sitter sister won't excuse her until she gives it a taste. Reprint.

Offers tongue-in-cheek answers to everyday moral and ethical questions concerning children, work, money, love, friendship, parties, literature, the arts, travel, health, and good manners

You Can Never Go Wrong by Lying: And Other Solutions to the Moral and Social Dilemmas of Our Time

Humor & Entertainment

Houghton/Mifflin

Ever wonder how skinny women stay skinny? (Hint: it's not their metabolism.) Forget diet books. You've read them. You've tried them. You've lost five pounds . . . and gained back six. It's time you learned the truth about weight loss from those who know--the skinny women who have successfully (and secretly) dropped pounds and stayed slim. Do skinny women skip breakfast? Taint half their portions with salt, pepper--or Clorox--to make sure they don't eat it? You bet they do. You'll get the inside story on the dieting tricks, shortcuts, and closely guarded secrets of women who stay a perfect size 6 . . . forever. From using depression to lose weight (God makes you miserable for a reason) to the calories you unintentionally consume in cough syrup . . . or by licking a stamp, everything you really need to know about losing weight is right here in the first anti-diet diet book. So put on a pair of tight jeans (you'll find out why), say no to bagels, sprinkle sweetener and cinnamon on just about anything, and start reading.

The Skinny: What every skinny woman knows about dieting (and won't tell you!)

Sistrom, Susan

Dell

Former Saturday Night Live writers Patricia Marx and Douglas G. McGrath take aim at Hollywood in this wicked, satirical novel about the making of the flop of flops. Through the 1930s and 40s, X. Y. Schwerdloff brought us the best: the best comedies (Let’s Play Golf), the best dramas (Surprise Witness), the best musicals (Sing-a-ling), even the best World War II propaganda (Tokyo, Kansas). But by the 60s, the legendary Schwerdloff studio had fallen on hard times. To get out of accepting an assignment at the studio, many actors served in Vietnam. Fugitives liked to appear in a Schwerdloff film because they would be safe from being seen. Now, it is up to Bucky Schwerdloff to save his father’s studio. He must produce a blockbuster. To do so, he hires the most successful director in Hollywood, Ferris Keneally, whose last film, The Blinkies, broke box office records. Bucky promises Keneally that he can make whatever film he wants. Thus begins the hilarious drama of the most breathtaking flop in Hollywood history. There has never been a film to match Keneally’s version of The Pilgrim’s Progress, about which one film critic wrote: “You are mesmerized by it . . . the same way you can’t take your eyes away from a bad car accident.” “One of the most original and witty takeoffs on Hollywood . . . a delicious read.”—Judith Crist

Blockbuster (Bantam New Fiction)

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Bantam]

Joey searches all over for his missing cookie, from the hole his dog dug in the backyard to his father's shoe and his mother's purse

Joey T. and the Missing Cookie

Little Simon

Friends are great. They won't tell anyone that you color your hair, you always have someone to complain to, and a friendship is less likely to break up than a marriage. So say Lisa Birnbach, Ann Hodgman, and Patricia Marx. The trio has teamed up once again for the newest addition to the highly successful 1,003 series, 1,003 Great Things About Friends. This hilariously funny book includes tidbits such as: Her clothes are your clothes. In a real emergency, she'll lend you her spouse. Someone to stalk your ex for you. Someone to glop on your henna paste/hair color/sunless suntan lotion. Someone who pretends she doesn't notice your "Gucci" bag was manufactured in the Ivory Coast. At your wedding, your friend will talk to your great-uncle about his cataract operation so no one else has to. You can call a friend up on a Saturday night and ask her to the movies that very same night.

1,003 Great Things About Friends

Hodgman, Ann

Birnbach, Lisa

Andrews McMeel Publishing

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Now Everybody Really Hates Me

Now I Will Never Leave the Dinner Table

Now I Will Never Leave the Dinner Table

Meet My Staff

Now I Will Never Leave the Dinner Table

You Can Never Go Wrong by Lying: And Other Solutions to the Moral and Social Dilemmas of Our Time

The Skinny: What every skinny woman knows about dieting (and won't tell you!)

Blockbuster (Bantam New Fiction)

Joey T. and the Missing Cookie

1,003 Great Things About Friends