Stand-Up and Die is a mystery novel set in the funny, dark and necrotic world of stand-up comedy. Meet plus sized Mannie Grand - comedienne and amateur sleuth. When a fellow comic dies on-stage, Mannie sets out to kind the killer. Awarded the Merit Award for Fiction from the Independent Publishers Association. "Her characters are as wacky as one would except from a professional comedienne. This book won't scare you to death, but it may make you die from laughing...." Heartland Reviews.

Stand-Up and Die

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Dennis, Pat

Mystery

Penury Press

A marvelous collection of 50 haiku honoring hotdish, as well as 30 tantalizing oriental hotdish recipes.(Hotdish is a popular term for casserole in the upper midwest.) Our sort-of Zen Master Poets meditate upon the eternal mysteries of hotdish, a cuisine that originated in the Midwest and spread as far as–well–the Midwest. Written by Pat Dennis (author of Hotdish to Die For), Mary Hirsch (former writer for Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion and author of I Wake Up Beautiful &amp; Other Fantasies), Dean Johnson, Mary Monica Pulver, Jeremy Yoder, Lance Zarimba, Codey Livingood, Peggy Jaegly, Thea Miller Ryan, Marit Livingood, Marilyn Victor, Wendy Nelson, Sandra Thomas and Dale Wolf. Recipes include such oriental hotdish favorites as: Crouching Chicken–Hidden Veggies, Buddhist Temple Basement Hotdish, Seven Samurai Five Can Hotdish and Buddha’s Lutefisk Delight.

Hotdish Haiku

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

While spending New Year’s Eve in her Nana’s cluttered house, twelve-year old Starr convinces her best friends to make New Year’s Reversolutions instead of the boring New Year’s Resolutions which no one ever keeps anyway. Each girl writes down the opposite of what she would normally resolve to do: Dark, Gothic Rave will suck up to all her teachers and join the cheerleading squad. A+ student Cap will strive to be get Cs and will eat all the junk food she wants. And Starr will get some fashion sense and fall in love with her worst enemy, Roy Baxter. To make it official, they sign and date the list of reversolutions, then hide it inside one of Nana’s dusty old scrapbooks for safekeeping. But the hiding place is more than just a keep-sake, it’s magical. When the girls wake up the next morning, Starr and her friends are caught up in a whirlwind of magic, cheerleading, snacking and dreams of Roy Baxter. If Starr doesn’t figure out a solution soon, the three just might stay that way.

The Witches of Dorkdom

Children's Books

England, Nora

Science Fiction & Fantasy

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