The Pocket Book of Esquire Cartoons, 142 pages

 

Charles in Charge by Elizabeth Faucher, 142 pages

 With wild Buddy Lemback as his best friend and gorgeous Gwendolyn Pierce as his girlfriend, it seems unlikely that Charles can take care of three kids and still get good grades--but he does

Missouri's Mad Doctor McDowell: Confederates, Cadavers and Macabre Medicine by Victoria Conner & Lorelei Shannon, 142 pages

 Body snatcher. Grave robber. Mad scientist. Brilliant surgeon. Delve into the macabre world of St. Louis's Dr. Joseph Nash McDowell, a man so loathed by the public that he wore body armor and so idolized by his anatomy students that they dug up corpses for his experiments. This ghoulish doctor cast a pall over the city and left a host of fiendish mysteries. Did his mother's ghost actually help him escape an angry mob? Did he really hang the corpse of his daughter in Hannibal's Mark Twain Cave? What very real horrors remained in his medical college after loyal Unionists drove him out? Dissect a life surrounded by speculation and a legend littered with ghosts.

What the Neighbours Did and Other Stories by Philippa Pearce, 142 pages

 Eight humorous short stories involving secret midnight snacks, peculiar neighbours, thefts, and an old man who claims to have had a grandfather who was seven feet tall.

More Adventures of the Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald, 142 pages

 Has Tom, a.k.a. the Great Brain, given up his con-artist ways for a bicycle?  Not for long.  Soon the Great Brain is back to his old tricks, swindling and trading, even convincing the whole town there's a prehistoric monster on the loose.  But when someone robs the bank, even the police are stumped.  Can the Great Brain solve the crime and put the crooks behind bars?

Long Story Short: Turning Famous Books into Cartoons by Mr. Fish and Friends, 142 page

 The Catcher in the Rye. Lolita. Moby-Dick. Infinite Jest. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. A Room of One's Own. Native Son. These are but a handful of classic works spectacularly distilled by Mr. Fish and a very talented group of painters, illustrators, graphic designers, and political cartoonists into succinct snapshots that are at times funny, sad, inspiring, rude, crude, beautiful, profound, stomach-turning, and mind-blowing.

Includes original artwork from: Mr. Fish, Ted Rall, Stephanie McMillan, Sarah Awad, Eli Valley, Wes Tyrell, Tamara Knoss, Keith Henry Brown, Sam Henderson, Lodi Marasescu, Surag Ramachandran, Tami Knight, Eric J. Garcia, Marissa Dougherty, Siri Dokken, John G., Andy Singer, Tara Seibel, Gary Dumm, Clare Kolat, Nate Ulsh, Benjamin Slyngstad, Ron Hill, JP Trostle, John Kovaleski, and Beth McCaskey.

Jelly Side Down by Nancy Stahl, 142 pages

A collection of humorous writings from a newspaper columnist during the late 1960s/early 1970s about being a mom and wife.

Emily the Strange: Lost, Dark, & Bored, 142 pages

I knew Emily the Strange was extremely dark and creepy so I picked it up to give it a read. It was too odd to really suit my taste. But I can now mark this off my list of "want to read" books.

Tales from Missouri and the Heartland by Ross Malone, 142 pages

Ross Malone is a Missouri author who coming to the library for the December Coffee Talk. This book was a little bit like "The Rest of the Story" vignettes by Paul Harvey. It was very entertaining and a good read. I'm thinking that I'm going to buy his books and get them autographed as a Christmas present for Mom. She would really enjoy them.