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With Signing Their Lives Away (Quirk, 2009), Denise Kiernan and Joseph D’Agnese introduced readers Also available
to the 56 statesmen and scoundrels who signed the Declaration of Independence. Now they’ve turned SIGNING THEIR LIVES AWAY
their attention to 39 men who met in the summer of 1787 and put their names to the U.S. Constitution. ISBN 978-1-59474-330-6
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Signing Their Rights Away chronicles a moment in U.S. history when our elected officials actually knew how (see page 28)
to compromise—and put aside personal gain for the greater good of the nation. These men were just
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as quirky and flawed as the elected officials we have today: Hugh Williamson believed in aliens, Robert ISBN 978-1-59474-410-5
Morris went to prison, John Rutledge attempted suicide (twice!); and Thomas Mifflin was ruined by (see page 28)
alcohol. Yet somehow they managed to craft what is now the world’s oldest living Constitution. With 39 SECRET LIVES OF THE
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DENISE KIERNAN and JOSEPH D’AGNESE have written for (see page 28)
the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Village Voice, Wired, Discover, and SECRET LIVES OF THE
other national publications. Their previous book, Signing Their Lives FIRST LADIES
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Away, received a starred review in School Library Journal. They live in
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North Carolina. (see page 28)
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with 39 illustrations and reversible
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Alex and Susan Wendt are the perfect couple in search of the perfect brownstone—and they find their Also available
dream house in the heart of Brooklyn Heights. Sure, the landlady is a little eccentric, and the handyman Sense and sensibility
drops some cryptic remarks about the previous tenants. But the rent is so low, it’s too good to pass up! and sea monsters
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every morning with fresh bites, but neither Alex nor their daughter Emma has a single welt. Extermina- (see page 23)
tors search the property and turn up nothing. Neighbors insist the building is clean. Susan fears that she’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING TREKKIES
going mad—but as the mysteries deepen, a more sinister explanation presents itself: She may literally be ISBN 978-1-59474-463-1
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confronting the bedbug problem from hell.
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R An understated horror story filled with loving references to Rosemary’s Baby and other classic tales of urban
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paranoia, Bedbugs will keep your skin crawling into the wee hours of the night. FOR PECULIAR CHILRDEN
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Ben H. Winters is the New York Times best-selling author of Sense and Sensibility and Sea e-ISBN 978-1-59474-513-3
(see page 22)
Monsters (Quirk, 2009). His most recent book, the YA novel The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman
(HarperCollins, 2010), was nominated for an Edgar Award. After ten years of living in PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
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Explore Strange
New Words
By David Borgenicht
Is your child exploring strange new words? Or are you simply a Trekkie who needs a goofy gift for a Also available
fellow-fan friend? The Star Trek Book of Opposites will transport you together to an exciting voyage of silly THE ENCYCLOPEDIA
educational fun, pairing colorful photographs of Star Trek’s classic heroes and aliens to introduce the SHATNERICA
concept of opposites through immediate visual humor. ISBN 978-1-59474-230-9
(see page 34)
With the help of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, you can teach children the meaning of happy and sad, open
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and closed, apart and together, and much more. With a hip, up-market design sensibility, The Star Trek ISBN 978-1-59474-463-1
Book of Opposites will make a great kitschy gift for Trekkies of all ages. e-ISBN 978-1-59474-516-4
(see page 22)
DAVID BORGENICHT attended his first Star Trek convention when he was nine years
old. He is the coauthor of all the books in the New York Times best-selling Worst-Case
Scenario Survival Handbook series and the author of The Jewish Mother Goose and Sesame
Street Unpaved, among many other titles. He lives with his family in Philadelphia.
® & © 2011 CBS Studios Inc. STAR TREK and related amarks are trademarks of CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.
By Meg Favreau
Photographs by Mike Reali
Celebrity chefs? Exotic ingredients? Immersion blenders? Who needs ’em?!? Little Old Lady Recipes honors Also available
the extraordinary women who create pot luck dinners, church socials, wedding banquets, and the best OLD MAN DRINKS
desserts you’ve ever tasted. Every page features their simple, no-frills recipes for pot roast, meat loaf, ISBN 978-1-59474-450-1
dumplings, corn bread, fried chicken, bundt cake, and other mouth-watering favorites—along with gor- (see page 25)
geous photography of the chefs at work and generous portions of their kitchen table wisdom (“Butter THE ENCYCLOPEDIA
comes from a cow. Tell me where the heck margarine comes from, and then maybe I’ll eat it!”). OF SANDWICHES
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These Little Old Lady Recipes are simple, delicious, and ridiculously cheap and easy to make. So ditch the (see page 24)
food processor, stop wasting money on overpriced organic frozen dinners, and start enjoying the classic ON A STICK!
dishes that our aunties and grandmothers have made for generations! ISBN 978-1-59474-489-1
(see page 25)
MEG FAVREAU is a food writer and comedian living in Philadelphia.
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Someday she’ll have a backyard raspberry garden like her grandmother ISBN 978-1-59474-423-5
had. MIKE REALI is a photographer based in Philadelphia. In devel- (see page 23)
oping this project, he has helped many a little old lady cross the street.
Are your favorite sweaters covered with cat hair? Are there fur balls piled up in every corner of your home? Also available
Do you love to make quirky and one-of-a-kind crafting projects? If so, it’s time to throw away your lint THE CAT OWNER’S
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and more, these projects are cat-friendly, eco-friendly, and require no special equipment or training. You
can make most of these projects in under an hour—with a little help, of course, from your feline friends! 100 CATS WHO CHANGED
CIVILIZATION
KAORI TSUTAYA is a Japanese writer obsessed with cats. She exhibits ISBN 978-1-59474-163-0
(see page 33)
her craftwork and runs kitty craft workshops to inspire other cat own-
ers. AMY HIRSCHMAN is a translator, crafter, and LOLcat expert.
By Nick Mamatas
With over 100,000 copies in print, the 2008 release Jokes Every Man Should Know proved that some sub- Also available
jects are evergreen—especially when packaged in a stylish pocket-size hardcover. Now Quirk is proud to Jokes every man
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“Screw your ancestors for eighteen generations back” to Jeff Foxworthy’s “Just how many times were you !
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circumcised?” this handsome anthology collects the world’s finest insults, along with commentary and (see page 30)
historical context. Topics include:
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• Insults for the Office (see page 36)
• Comebacks, Insulting Gestures, and Backhanded Compliments Dirty Jokes every
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NICK MAMATAS is a novelist, blogger, and editor renowned for his blistering re- e-ISBN 978-1-59474-468-6
(see page 29)
sponses to the stupid things people say on the Internet. His nonfiction has appeared in
Razor, The Village Voice and In These Times. A native New Yorker, he now lives in the San STUFF every HUSBAND
Francisco Bay area. should know
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Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without impulse-priced holiday gift books—and now The Onion is bring-
ing its signature irreverence to the genre. Christmas Exposed features more than one hundred shocking tales
R of secret Santas, shopping mall mayhem, dysfunctional families, and (don’t ask) autoerotic asphyxiation.
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In the tradition of David Sedaris’s Holidays on Ice or Lewis Black’s I’m Dreaming of a Black Christmas, The
Onion Presents: Christmas Exposed is the perfect stocking stuffer for the well-informed reader in every family.
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with 50 photogrpahs
Mind-Blowing Revelations
From Willy Wonka, Lois Lane,
and Other Geek Icons
We live in the era of the geek. Computer nerds are our titans of industry; comic-book heroes are our Also available
Hollywood idols; the Internet is our night on the town. Clearly, the geeks know something that other folks THE BATMAN
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So here it is: Geek Wisdom. Painstakingly gathered and interpreted by a diverse team of hardcore nerds (see page 34)
who’ve spent years poring over the most beloved texts of the modern-day imagination. Beginning with
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Internet, and more, Geek Wisdom offers illuminating insights into the eternal truths to be found therein.
Yes, this collection of mini-essays is by, for, and about geeks—but it’s just so surprisingly profound, the THE SHERLOCK HOLMES
rest of us would have to be dorks not to read it. HANDBOOK
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STEPHEN H. SEGAL is the Hugo Award winning senior contributing editor to Weird (see page 35)
Tales, the world’s oldest fantasy/sci-fi/horror magazine, and a staff editor at Quirk Books. THE NANCY DREW
His geek portfolio includes work for Tor Books, Viz Media, and WQED Pittsburgh. A HANDBOOK
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native of Atlantic City, he lives in Philadelphia.
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Since 2001, Gigposters.com has been the Internet’s premier resource for rock-show poster art; the site’s Also available
massive online database showcases more than 100,000 posters from 10,000 different designers, including Gig Posters VOLUME 1
all of today’s top poster studios. Gig Posters Volume 2 highlights 700-plus masterpieces from the archives, ISBN 978-1-59474-326-9
including 101 perforated and ready-to-frame posters for acts like Cee Lo Green, Crystal Castles, Vampire (see page 26)
Weekend, Wilco, Arcade Fire, and more. Among the many designers contributing to this collection are DC COMICS
James Quigly, Pete Cardoso, Alan Hynes, the Ames Brothers, and many more. Packaged in an oversized ISBN 978-1-59474-462-4
(see page 26)
11-by-14-inch paperback, Gig Posters Volume 2 is a spectacular compilation of rock show art (and one hell
of a cheap way to decorate a dorm room or apartment).
From “Haikougar”
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By Brian McGackin
Illustrations by Lars Leetaru
As contemporary poets deliver entire volumes on subjects like incest, menstruation, and pine cones, regular
guys are left scratching their heads. Who will speak for Everyman? Who will articulate his love for Xbox 360,
for Mama Celeste’s Frozen Pizza, for any movie starring Bruce Willis?
Enter Broetry—a stunning debut from a dazzling new literary voice. “Broet Laureate” Brian McGackin goes
where no poet has gone before—to Star Wars conventions, to frat parties, to video game tournaments, and
beyond. With poems like “Ode to That Girl I Dated for, Like, Two Months Sophomore Year” and “My
Friends Who Don’t Have Student Loans,” we follow the Bro from his high school graduation and college
experience through a “quarter-life crisis” and beyond. Packaged in a small gifty hardcover and illustrated
with tasteful black and white illustrations, Broetry is a funny and sly look at modern masculinity.
BRIAN MCGACKIN earned his MFA in poetry from the University of Southern Cali-
fornia. He lives in Los Angeles. This is his first book.
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By Stacy Adimando
Trendy cupcakes may come and go, but C is for Cookie—and that’s good enough for us! If you miss the Also available
days when snacks were simple and handmade, you’ll love this homespun encyclopedia of cookies. Full BOOZE CAKES
of hand-drawn illustrations and gorgeous photographs, The Cookiepedia features recipes for everything ISBN 978-1-59474-423-5
from Amaretti and Almond Crescents to Gingersnaps, Rugelach, Snickerdoodles, and dozens of other (see page 23)
favorites—more than 50 recipes in all. With a lovely lie-flat binding and a delightfully whimsical design, ON A STICK!
The Cookiepedia will be a trusted companion for a new generation of bakers. ISBN 978-1-59474-489-1
(see page 25)
STACY ADIMANDO lives in Brooklyn and is the current deputy lifestyle editor or
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Everyday with Rachael Ray. She is a graduate of the Institute of Culinary Education and OF SANDWICHES
weekly contributor to Serious Eats. ISBN 978-1-59474-438-9
(see page 24)
Microcrafts introduces readers to a world of miniature arts and crafts—each of the 25 projects are no larger Also available
than a spool of thread! Simple step-by-step instructions, color photographs, and hand-drawn illustrations CREEPY CUTE
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You’ll find tips and tricks for micropapercrafting, microsewing, microcrochet, and even microgardening, (see page 22)
plus whimsical ideas for modifying microcrafts into accessories you can wear. No previous crafting experi-
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ence or pricey materials necessary, just a love of all things small! ISBN 978-1-59474-486-0
(see page 22)
MARGARET MCGUIRE , ALICIA KACHMAR ,
KATIE HATZ and FRIENDS form a collective of
crafters obsessed with tiny things.
By Thomas J. Craughwell
Great news! Whoever you are, whatever you do, there is a patron saint who wants to help you—specifically
you—with your life. There is a patron saint of booksellers. There is a patron saint of traveling salesmen.
There are patron saints for vegetarians, cab drivers, and cancer patients. For astronauts, horseback riders,
and dysfunctional families. For men who are physically unattractive. For families stressed by houseguests.
These saints are ready to help, and their services are absolutely free!
This Saint Will Change Your Life! describes the real-life histories of more than 300 saints and explains how
they have become associated with certain people, places, and professions. Also included are 300 gorgeous
full-color holy cards that depict these heavenly allies in all their glory. First published in 2007, this revised
edition includes a fresh new design and a sprinkling of new saints—like St. Francis De Sales, patron saint
of bloggers!
THOMAS J. CRAUGHWELL is the author of several books about saints. He’s ap-
peared as an expert on CNN, the BBC, and Inside Edition and has written articles about
saints for the Wall Street Journal, Inside the Vatican, and Catholic Digest, among other national
publications. He lives in Connecticut.
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By Caroline Tiger
Emily Post gave us plenty of great advice, but she never tackled these tricky situations: Also available
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• Should I friend my boss on Facebook?
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• If I’m stuck in the middle seat of an airplane, which armrest is mine? (see page 31)
Fortunately, Caroline Tiger has been teaching readers “real-world etiquette” since How to Behave was first the newlywed’s
instruction manual
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with an all-new chapter on cyber-etiquette, text-messaging, Twitter, Facebook, smart phones, and more. (see page 31)
New technologies may come and go, but How to Behave reminds us that good manners and polite be-
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appears in The New York Times Style Magazine, Town & Country, Salon, Self, Ms., and a host
stuff every man
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