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Title: The Internet Is a Playground Author: David Thorne File Type: Mobi Subject:Non-fiction:Humor Description:David Thorne has quickly established himself as the world's leading internet troublemaker. Since his emailed efforts to settle an overdue account with a drawing of a spider achieved massive worldwide online exposure in 2008, millions of people have followed Thorne's hilarious exchanges with unwitting victims reported via the mainstream media, online and email inboxes globally. Thorne's razor-sharp writings, compiled here, say something about everyday life we can all relate to.

Title: When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It_ Th Author: Ben Yagoda File Type: Mobi Subject:Non-fiction Description:What do you get when you mix nine parts of speech, one great writer, and generous dashes of insight, humor, and irreverence? One phenomenally entertaining language book_._ In his waggish yet authoritative book, Ben Yagoda has managed to undo the dark work of legions of English teachers and libraries of dusty grammar texts. Not since School House Rock have adjectives, adverbs, articles, conjunctions, interjections, nouns, prepositions, pronouns, and verbs been explored with such infectious exuberance. Read _If You Catch an Adjective, Kill It and:_ Learn how to write better with classic advice from writers such as Mark Twain (If you catch an adjective, kill it), Stephen King (I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs), and Gertrude Stein (Nouns . . . are completely not interesting). Marvel at how a single word can shift from adverb (I did okay), to adjective (It was an okay movie), to interjection (Okay!), to noun (I gave my okay), to verb (Who okayed this?), depending on its use. Avoid the pretentious preposition at, a favorite of real estate developers (e.g., The Shoppes at White Plains). Laugh when Yagoda says he shall call anyone a dork to the end of his days who insists on maintaining the distinction between shall and will. Read, and discover a book whose pop culture references, humorous asides, and bracing doses of discernment and common sense_ _convey Yagoda's unique sense of the beauty, the joy, the artistry, and the fun of language.

Title: How Did You Get This Number Author: Sloane Crosley File Type: Mobi Subject:Travel Description:From Publishers WeeklyNine thoughtful, unfussy essays by the author of the collection I Was Told Thered Be Cake navigate around illusions of youth in the hope that by young adulthood theyll all add up to happiness. The account of Crosleys footloose adventure to Lisbon on the eve of her 30th birthday starts things off in rollicking fashion in Show Me on the Doll: without proficient language skills, getting hopelessly lost in the labyrinth of Bairro Alto, and panicking in front of the myriad QVC channels offered by her hotel, Crosley recognizes that Lisbon was a place with a painfully disproportionate self-reflection-to-experience ratio. There is the requisite essay about moving to New York and replacing her anorexic-kleptomaniac roommate with a more acceptable living arrangement: in Crosleys case, delineated in Take a Stab at It, she is interviewed by the creepily disembodied current occupier of a famous former brothel on the Bowery, McGurks Suicide Hall. As well, Crosley delivers witty, syncopated takes on visiting Alaska and Paris, and finding much consolation from a two-timing heartbreak in New York by buying stolen items from her upholstery guy, Daryl, who found them fallen Off the Back of a Truck, as the delightful last selection is titled. These essays are fresh, funny, and eager to be loved. (June) br Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. FromNo doubt about it, Crosley is funny. A Thurber Award finalist, Crosley earned her stripes as a comic writer and a keen observer of the sometimes absurd in life in her debut collection, I Was Told Thered Be Cake (an HBO series based on the essays may be in the works). Despite a few overlong pieces and an occasional dud, Crosley avoids the sophomore slump in her new collection, offering wry--and often downright hilarious--takes on all kinds of experiences. What about Crosleys writing continues to appeal to a wide audience, despite the seemingly narrow scope of her adventures? Crosley is a kind of anti-adult, refusing to buckle down, notes the Boston Globe, refusing to accept the way of the world, refusing to stop her bold mockery, from which she herself is not exempt.