"The hilarious, irreverent Jen Dixon is class mom-again-for her son's fifth grade year, and a class bully, spin-teacher training, and her irresistible granddaughter keep her on her toes and perpetually in yoga pants"-- Jen Dixon of Overland Park, Kansas--fearless mother of a fifth-grade boy and two thirty-something daughters--is used to juggling a lot, from her mission to become a spin instructor, to stepping in as the most acerbic class mom ever...

Curious George, an inquisitive monkey, causes quite a stir when he tries his "hand" at making pancakes at a fundraiser for the children's hospital.

When bossy Annelise insists on making the school fundraiser a stuffy formal dance, the rest of the committee worries that the boys won't go and the fundraiser will be a flop. Victoria Torres suggests they trade tiaras for cowboy hats and make the dance a Wild West theme. Annelise finally agrees but on one condition: they make it a Sadie Hawkins dance where the girls ask the boys. Will Victoria find the nerve to ask her crush Drew to the dance, or...

Seventh-grader Sidney Camazzola plans to be the director of the Juicebox Children's Theater one day, but for now, he has a great idea--extortion--for keeping the theater open.

Reluctantly agreeing to organize a children's benefit at which a rock-star ex-lover is performing, Claire Danner Crispin finds her efforts complicated by her clashes with a fellow organizer, her best friend's catering mishaps, and a new relationship. Claire has a problem with setting limits. All her life she has taken on every responsibility, assumed every burden, granted every request. Claire wants it alland in the eyes of her friends, she has it:...

From the author of Home Land and Venus Drive comes Sam Lipsyte'ssearing, beautiful, and deeply comic novel, The Ask. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Milo Burke, a development officer at a third-tier university, has "not been developing": after a run-in with a well-connected undergrad, he finds himself among the burgeoning class of the newly unemployed. Grasping after odd jobs to support his wife and child, Milo is offered one...

The hospital's least eligible bachelor and its aloof administrator hate each other... so why are they pretending to date? Dr. Owen Gagnon and HR director Erin Andreas are infamous for their hospital hallway shouting matches. So imagine the town's surpise when Erin bids an obscene amount of money to win Owen in the hospital bachelor auction--and Owen ups the ante by insisting Erin move in with him. Copper Point may not know what's going on, but neither...

Steve Stevenson is a jerk. That might not be a cool thing to say about someone with cancer, but it's true. Yeah, he throws legendary parties and is the most popular guy in school, but he also loves humiliating pranks and Cardi B, and he doesn't recycle. Worst of all, he's dating Kaia--the girl of nice guy Cam's dreams. But when a desperate Kaia asks Cam to help her raise money to pay for Steve's experimental treatment, Cam offers to organize the biggest,...

Julia Wild, a high society fundraiser at a prestigious performing arts center, begins to doubt her new career choice as she weakens to the seduction of elite social circles and the allure of becoming a fundraising rainmaker. But what really matters are the fascinating and strong-willed women who become her confidantes. They meet regularly for lunch, gossip, subtle lessons, and cocktails--while dissecting the wealth-fueled dynamics of the rich and...

"A novel about sexual love, straight and queer, about love between friends, between exes, between parents and children, between lovers old and new, Erik Tarloff’s Tell Me the Truth About Love tells the story of Toby Lindeman, a divorced man in San Francisco leading what appears to be an enviable bachelor’s life. Suave, attractive, somewhat detached from the emotional needs of those around him, he seems to sail blithely above life’s...