The Cranium Star Performer Book of Outrageous Fun!


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An exciting new Cranium format celebrating the Star Performer in all of us




The Cranium Creative Cat Book of Outrageous Fun!


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An exciting new Cranium format celebrating the Creative Cat in all of us




Reading My Father


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PART MEMOIR AND PART ELEGY, READING MY FATHER IS THE STORY OF A DAUGHTER COMING TO KNOW HER FATHER AT LAST— A GIANT AMONG TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN NOVELISTS AND A MAN WHOSE DEVASTATING DEPRESSION DARKENED THE FAMILY LANDSCAPE. In Reading My Father, William Styron’s youngest child explores the life of a fascinating and difficult man whose own memoir, Darkness Visible, so searingly chronicled his battle with major depression. Alexandra Styron’s parents—the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Sophie’s Choice and his political activist wife, Rose—were, for half a century, leading players on the world’s cultural stage. Alexandra was raised under both the halo of her father’s brilliance and the long shadow of his troubled mind. A drinker, a carouser, and above all “a high priest at the altar of fiction,” Styron helped define the concept of The Big Male Writer that gave so much of twentieth-century American fiction a muscular, glamorous aura. In constant pursuit of The Great Novel, he and his work were the dominant force in his family’s life, his turbulent moods the weather in their ecosystem. From Styron’s Tidewater, Virginia, youth and precocious literary debut to the triumphs of his best-known books and on through his spiral into depression, Reading My Father portrays the epic sweep of an American artist’s life, offering a ringside seat on a great literary generation’s friendships and their dramas. It is also a tale of filial love, beautifully written, with humor, compassion, and grace.




Jennifer Government


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A wickedly satirical and outrageous thriller about globalization and marketing hype, Jennifer Government is the best novel in the world ever. "Funny and clever.... A kind of ad-world version of Dr. Strangelove.... [Barry] unleashes enough wit and surprise to make his story a total blast." --The New York Times Book Review "Wicked and wonderful.... [It] does just about everything right.... Fast-moving, funny, involving." --The Washington Post Book World Taxation has been abolished, the government has been privatized, and employees take the surname of the company they work for. It's a brave new corporate world, but you don't want to be caught without a platinum credit card--as lowly Merchandising Officer Hack Nike is about to find out. Trapped into building street cred for a new line of $2500 sneakers by shooting customers, Hack attracts the barcode-tattooed eye of the legendary Jennifer Government. A stressed-out single mom, corporate watchdog, and government agent who has to rustle up funding before she's allowed to fight crime, Jennifer Government is holding a closing down sale--and everything must go.




Freedom's Challenge


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The alien Catteni invaded Earth and enslaved thousands of humans on the planet Botany, where they struggle to survive while colonizing the world for their overseers. Now that they’ve proved Botany is capable of sustaining life, Kris Bjornsen and her fellow settlers have no intention of surrendering the home they’ve created for themselves… Armed with the knowledge that the true enemy behind the Catteni is the Eosi race, Kris has begun a campaign to free Botany’s settlers by raising a rebellion among her people against their parasitic oppressors. Aided by her Catteni lover, Zainal, Kris and the colonists manage to steal warships—and discover dissidents on other Eosi-controlled worlds. If all of the subjugated races join forces, they will have an army large enough to win their freedom and their worlds. The war of liberation has begun.




Divine and Dateless


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Complete Series alert! Binge all five fun and flirty books today! Good girls go to heaven...bad girls go all the way. Fallen Angel Ash MacLeod has to be a good girl if she wants to trade up her dump in purgatory for a high-rise in heaven. If only she wasn't tempted by a sexy grim reaper in tight denim. Five Reasons Why Purgatory Sucks: 1. I can't unsee my grandpa in that leather thong. 2. PMS is just as miserable when you're dead. 3. My dating options have been reduced to a hydrophobic grim reaper with an aversion to commitment, a guy with a hammer stuck in his cranium, and a sadistic drill sergeant with a big whistle and an even bigger ego. 4. Demons want to burn my eyes out. 5. I left my vibrator back on earth. PRAISE (or not) FOR DIVINE AND DATELESS "Warning! Tears of laughter is expected." "This is a trashy book laced with sex scenes." "The author is either very h*rny or hungry." "For those who watched the food poisoning scene in the movie Bridesmaids and didn't think it was laugh out loud hilarious, this is not your book. For the rest of you, this is a great romp (and no, the book is not consumed with only scatological humor -- it's rich in all kinds.)" "Divine and Dateless is a well crafted, well edited, wonderfully imaginative, fast-paced, full-length standalone supernatural tale filled to the brim with spellbinding fantasy, laugh-out-loud humor, outrageously hilarious characters, a wonderfully unique story arc and sweet, heavenly romance." **Winner of the 2015 eFestival of Words Best Romance** Search terms: Steamy paranormal romance, fantasy romance, fallen angel romance, demon slayer, heavenly romance, humorous romance, chick lit, romantic comedy, comedy romance, romance satire, heaven and hell romance, afterlife romance, ghost romance, demon romance, angel romance, alpha male, free books to read and download, free paranormal romance, free full-length romance For fans of Sookie Stackhouse, Charlaine Harris, Darynda Jones, Angie Fox, Deborah Wilde, and K.F. Breene




Quill & Quire


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The Dictionary of Difficult Words


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What is a moonbow? What does it mean when someone absquatulates? Over 400 words to amaze, confuse and inspiring budding wordsmiths (and adults!).




The Cranium Word Worm Book of Outrageous Fun!


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Following the success of THE CRANIUM BIG BOOK OF OUTRAGEOUS FUN! this newest wave of books invites children to celebrate their talents - and discover new ones! With alternating rewritable pages and more than 150 all-new activities designed for both solo and group play, each book offers them hours of fun. In Word Worm's book, children will enjoy hours of wacky wordplay, riddles and rhymes using their Word Worm Letter Cubes. In addition, it has other components, including: an erasable marker, Cranium Clay®, a Mini Sand Timer, 25 Game Cards, a Die and a Game Piece. Also, hidden within it, is a secret slide-out game board and a unique acetate game sheet. As children collect all four Cranium sets, they can mix and match their BOOKS OF OUTRAGEOUS FUN to create new multi-layered games.




Baked


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While selling premium mango-flavored marijuana, botanist Miro is nearly killed by a sniper and struggles to figure out who wants him dead, an investigation marked by an obsessive cop, a kinky paramedic, and a Mormon missionary.