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Cockloft: Scenes from a Gay Marriage by Kyle Thomas Smith

“Seinfeld meets Sedaris in the Snapchat Age.”
- Jill Dearman, The Great Bravura

Whether they’re trembling before an invasive squirrel, giving the straight dope to an errant call-girl or enduring a #MeToo moment with a handsy waiter on their Roman honeymoon, Kyle and Julius are just the kind of gay married couple who didn’t see the 2016 election coming.

In this variegated book of vignettes, flash scenes and personal essays, award-winning author Kyle Thomas Smith documents the peculiarities of life in his home, his borough, his chiropractor’s office and these times.

Step into his Cockloft.

The Angel's Dictionary: A Spirited Glossary for the Little Devil in You by Sol Luckman

In this knee-slapping dictionary—Winner of the 2017 National Indie Excellence Award for Humor and Finalist in the Humor category of the 2018 International Book Awards—for coming to terms with modern culture (or lack thereof), politics (so-called) and life (such as it is), bestselling author Sol Luckman reinvigorates satire to prove that--though we might not be able to change the world--we can at least have a good laugh at it.

Then again, maybe laughter can transform the world!

genetically modified organism (GMO): (n.) member of the public who has regularly consumed the biotech industry's food products.

Taking a page from Ambrose Bierce's scathing satirical masterpiece, THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY, THE ANGEL'S DICTIONARY updates the genre to include blistering contemporary references and no small sampling of risqué humor to make adults giggle like mischievous teens.

entanglement: (n.) quantum physics term for when the sheets wrap around two bodies in space.

treason: (n.) crime against one's country and its people punishable by reelection.

shadow side: (n.) self you encounter when you do not look in the mirror.

I'm a Little Brain Dead by Kimberly Davis Basso

Award Winning Finalist for Humor, 2018 International Book Awards. "Panicking never helps." Tuesday's breakfast was interrupted by a stroke, and the only available help is the author's second grader. Launched into a medical crisis, Kimberly Davis Basso (and her brain) respond with wit, wisdom, and wishful thinking. From surviving a stroke to surviving a zombie apocalypse, "I'm a Little Brain Dead" is alarmingly irreverent. No matter how critical or ridiculous the situation, Kimberly abides by their family rule "Panicking never helps." You'll get an inside look at being a middle aged stroke patient as she hosts a neurological event, juggles doctors, undergoes a heart procedure and asks the really big question - how tiny is tiny when it refers to dead tissue? What would you do? Are you prepared to have a medical crisis, unable to speak or walk? Would your kids know what to do? It's time to make an escape plan. Kimberly will walk (or rather shuffle) readers through her experience in an honest, hilarious look at the site of the world's smallest zombie apocalypse - her brain.