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10 best books like If Jack's in Love (Stephen Wetta): Threats, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands, How to Date Men When You Hate Men, Silver in the Wood, Death and the Penguin, Where I End and You Begin, Blood Orange, Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets, Cake Time, Red: The Next Generation of American Writers--Teenage Girls--On What Fires Up Their Lives Today

Threats
AuthorAmelia Gray
ISBN0374533075
David's wife is dead. At least, he thinks she's dead. But he can't figure out what killed her or why she had to die, and his efforts to sort out what's happened have been interrupted by his discovery of a series of elaborate and escalating threats hidden in strange places around his home—one buried in...
My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
AuthorChelsea Handler
ISBN1582346186
You've either done it or know someone who has: the one-night stand, the familiar outcome of a night spent at a bar, sometimes the sole payoff for your friend's irritating wedding, or the only relief from a disastrous vacation. Often embarrassing and uncomfortable, occasionally outlandish, but most...
How to Date Men When You Hate Men
AuthorBlythe Roberson
ISBN1250319161
From New Yorker and Onion writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is a comedy-philosophy audiobook aimed at interrogating what it means to date men within the trappings of modern society...

Early Praise for How to Date Men When You Hate Men:

"How To Date...
Silver in the Wood
AuthorEmily Tesh
ISBN1250229790
There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, tethered to the forest, does not dwell on his past life, but he lives a perfectly unremarkable existence with his cottage, his cat, and his dryads.

When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely...
Death and the Penguin
AuthorAndrey Kurkov
ISBN1860469450
Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although he would prefer to write short stories, he earns a living composing obituaries for a newspaper. He longs to see his work published, yet the subjects of his obituaries continue to cling to life. But when he opens the newspaper...
Where I End and You Begin
AuthorPreston Norton
Ezra Slevin is an anxious, neurotic insomniac who spends his nights questioning his place in the universe and his days obsessing over Imogen, a nerdy girl with gigantic eyebrows and a heart of gold.

For weeks, Ezra has been working up the courage to invite Imogen to prom. The only problem is Imogen’s...
Blood Orange
AuthorHarriet Tyce
ISBN1472252756
An electrifying debut thriller for fans of Anatomy of a Scandal, Apple Tree Yard, and Gone Girl.

Alison has it all. A doting husband, adorable daughter, and a career on the rise - she's just been given her first murder case to defend. But all is never as it seems...

Just one more night....
Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets
AuthorEvan Roskos
“I hate myself but I love Walt Whitman, the kook. Always positive. I need to be more positive, so I wake myself up every morning with a song of myself.”

Sixteen-year-old James Whitman has been yawping (à la Whitman) at his abusive father ever since he kicked his beloved older sister, Jorie,...
Cake Time
AuthorSiel Ju
Winner of the 2015 Red Hen Press Fiction Award.

A new Novel-in-Stories that New York Times bestselling author Jillian Lauren calls -a delicious indulgence.-

Daring yet aimless, smart but slightly strange, Cake Time's young female protagonist keeps making slippery choices, sliding...
Red: The Next Generation of American Writers--Teenage Girls--On What Fires Up Their Lives Today
AuthorAmy Goldwasser
ISBN1594630402
A vivid portrait of what it means to be a teenage girl in America today, from 58 of the country's finest, most credentialed writers on the subject

If you're a teenage girl today, you live your life in words-in text and instant messages, on blogs and social network pages. It's how you conduct your...
The Gum Thief
AuthorDouglas Coupland
ISBN1596911069
The first and only story of love and looming apocalypse set in the aisles of an office supply superstore.

In Douglas Coupland's ingenious new novel--sort of a Clerks meets Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf--we meet Roger, a divorced, middle-aged "aisles associate" at Staples, condemned to...
Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster
AuthorAndrew Leatherbarrow
ISBN0993597505
At 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, Alexander Akimov pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl’s fourth nuclear reactor. It was an act that forced the permanent evacuation of a city, killed thousands and crippled the Soviet Union. The event spawned decades of conflicting, exaggerated and...
Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had
AuthorBrad Cohen
ISBN1889242241
This book should be required reading for every teacher, not specifically because of the tourette syndrome ties but simply because each and every teacher needs to work with each child regardless of capabilities or disabilities. Brad Cohen was a victim of numerous humiliations and banishments because...
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