The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey is $1.99 digitally at Amazon ($4.99 at BN). This is a digital graphic novel so the file can only be read on tablet devices, so heads up on that. This is one of the most popular books in my kids' elementary schools, and is full of truly excellent toilet humor and assorted silliness. This might be a great gift for a young reader you know.
The first book in Dav Pilkey's mega-bestselling Captain Underpants series. Now with super-cool foil covers! Shiny! Fun!
George and Harold have created the greatest superhero in the history of their elementary school–and now they're going to bring him to life! Meet Captain Underpants! His true identity is so secret, even HE doesn't know who he is!
Acclaimed author and Caldecott Honor illustrator Dav Pilkey provides young readers with the adventure of a lifetime in this outrageously funny, action-packed, easy-to-read chapter book. With hilarious pictures on every page, THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS is great for both beginning and chapter-book readers.
And like Dav's other best-selling books of humor, it is sure to provide even the most reluctant readers with hours of fun.
Outlander is $4.99 at Amazon. If you've been thinking that it's about time to read or re-read the book, and all the copies at your library have a waiting list, a $5 ebook might be the perfect solution.
This eBook includes the full text of the novel plus the following additional content:
• An excerpt from Diana Gabaldon’s Dragonfly in Amber, the second novel in the Outlander series
• An interview with Diana Gabaldon
• An Outlander reader’s guide
Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another…
In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon—when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord…1743.
Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire's destiny in soon inextricably intertwined with Clan MacKenzie and the forbidden Castle Leoch. She is catapulted without warning into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life …and shatter her heart. For here, James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a passion so fierce and a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire…and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
How to Booze is not a romance (obviously). This book is described as half bartender's guide and half guide to life, and it has a 3.9-star average on GR, where readers reported enjoying the humor, even if they never mix the drinks. It's on sale for $1.99 digitally.
Offering exquisite cocktails and unsound advice, How to Booze by Jordan Kaye and Marshall Altier pairs the perfect cocktail with unfailingly entertaining advice for all of life’s most alcohol-inducing moments.
Much more than just a guide to mixology, How to Booze is a hilarious and remarkably prescient, if somewhat degenerate, guide to life—or at least that part of life that would be greatly improved in the company of Johnny Walker or Jack Daniels.
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling is $4.99 at Amazon right now. This book is a mix of humor and memoir from Mindy Kaling, and has a 3.8 star average on Amazon. Readers really liked the mix of autobiography, humor, and advice, especially if those readers already liked Mindy's work from The Office and/or The Mindy Project.
Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck–impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and, finally, a comedy writer and actress prone to starting fights with her friends and coworkers with the sentence “Can I just say one last thing about this, and then I swear I’ll shut up about it?”
Perhaps you want to know what Mindy thinks makes a great best friend (someone who will fill your prescription in the middle of the night), or what makes a great guy (one who is aware of all elderly people in any room at any time and acts accordingly), or what is the perfect amount of fame (so famous you can never get convicted of murder in a court of law), or how to maintain a trim figure (you will not find that information in these pages). If so, you’ve come to the right book, mostly!
In Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, Mindy invites readers on a tour of her life and her unscientific observations on romance, friendship, and Hollywood, with several conveniently placed stopping points for you to run errands and make phone calls. Mindy Kaling really is just a Girl Next Door—not so much literally anywhere in the continental United States, but definitely if you live in India or Sri Lanka.
I just wanted to pop in and recommend Mindy Kaling’s book. She’s hilarious and I really enjoyed it.
I LOVE Captain Underpants! http://geekgirlinlove.com/2013/04/22/review-captain-underpants-by-dav-pilkey/
I really want to read Mindy’s book. It’s nice to see how someone else handled the same challenges as I did as brown girl growing up. And that advice about guys and awareness of elderly people in the room, is spot on.
Believe it or not….the wonderful Captain Underpants is on the Banned Book list. Yep….it’s #13 out of a 100.
http://www.ala.org/bbooks/top-100-bannedchallenged-books-2000-2009
Captain Underpants is actually the most challenged book for both 2012 and 2013
http://billmoyers.com/2014/09/24/banned-books/
I just created a display at my library of banned and challenged books that we own.
@Lynn Pauley, you are my kind of librarian. Kudos!