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Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing by Judi Barrett This cute book tells why animals should not wear clothing by telling how odd it would look or that animals might even wear them wrong. My favorite images of the animals wearing clothing is how many neckties a Giraffe can wear or that a billy goat might eat his clothes! If your a lover of chickens then seeing a chicken wearing clothes will be a funny sight for you. Whatever you do just don’t give a porcupine clothes to wear.  Never Trust a Troll by Kate McMullan If you have ever wanted to go to dragon slaying school with a troll than this book is for you. Wiglaf is attending another year of Dragon Slaying school when he finds out that there is a dragon on the loose who is headed straight for his school. While trying to be a great role model for the first year students Wiglaf gets partnered with a troll who is always joking around. The first year students thinks that the troll is pretty funny and would rather hang around the troll than to do their studies. But the jokes stop when things get serious at the school.  Bad Kitty Gets a Bath by Nick Bruel In this great adventure bad kitty teaches the do’s and don’ts of giving your cat a bath. There is the difficult ways which are funny to read an the illustrations are funny as well. I love how in the house all the furniture is portrayed as being torn up or scratched up even the humans as well. The dog even gets an amusing bath in this book as well but it too is a joke for the cat to trick her into a getting a bath. Don’t be tricked by a calm cat at bath time, she may be waiting to attack.  Let’s Eat in The Funny Zone By Gary Chmielewski This book of jokes is all about food. It is separated into sections that include breakfast jokes and lunch jokes. No worries these jokes don’t get too inappropriate for the dinner table. Some examples of the jokes are “What do you get when you cross an elephant and some peanut butter?” I won’t give you the answer though you have to check out the books for that. “Why did the strawberry cross the road?” Once again you’ll have to take a look at the book for that.  Dinosaur Jokes Compiled by Pam Rosenberg This book is pretty funny with some of the dinosaur puns and jokes that it has. Some of them make you wonder if that’s how some of the dinosaurs went extinct. An example of this is, “What’s huge and bumps into the sides of mountains?” Trust me it’s not an answer you’re expecting. This book is a fun and easy read for reader’s that is sure to entertain you and the family.  Magical Mischief By Rick and Ann Walton This book is a fun read and has a lot of jokes and humor packed into it. It is sure to keep anyone entertained. This one also has jokes about the circus, animals and daredevils. Some of the jokes that are within it are: “Ringmaster: I hear the fire-eater’s sick. What’s wrong? Clown: She has heartburn.” Q. What do you get when a dragon jumps into the ocean? A. A heat wave. Get the family together and have some laughs with this book.  The Science Zone by Gary Chmielewski This is another fun joke book that is a great way to get family friends to laugh. This book deals with science jokes, riddles, and tongue twisters. The book is separated into sections and so you can choose to start with out-in-space jokes or computer science. You don’t really have to read this book in order, unless you want to. Examples of jokes from this book are: “Star light, star bright. First star I see tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might. Darn- it’s just a satellite!” ............... Q.How does the barber cut the moon’s hair? A. Eclipse it! ............... Q.How do Hurricanes see? A. With one eye!  Missy
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Romance is one of my favorite genres and I just wanted to share a few of my top picks.  I’ve Got Your Number By Sophie Kinsella I picked up I’ve got your Number By Sophie Kinsella as part of a dare I set for myself on a reading slump. I needed new books to read so I decided to go the thrift store and pick out a few books at random, without reading the back, the plainer they looked the better. The copy of I’ve Got Your Number I found was a hardback without its dust jacket. All I had to go on was the title on a black background (I didn’t have high hopes). When I started reading it I was pleasantly surprised. I loved it. I read it nonstop cover to cover and laughed all the way through. It is a funny story about a woman named Poppy that starts with desperate measures. Poppy’s phone is stolen and her engagement ring is lost. When she finds a phone in the trash can she figures finders keepers she can leave a number for the hotel to call her on when they find her ring, its perfect! Well the phones owner kind of disagrees… What comes after is a funny and surprising string of events. I really enjoyed this book and highly recommend it to anyone who likes a lot of humor with their stories.  At Any Price By Brenna Aubrey At Any Price is a book I found on one of those free ebook sites. Now if you get a lot of the free romance ebooks you’ll know to read them with a bit of acceptance. A lot of the free ebook romances you find can be a little slapdash and even disappointing in some cases. At Any Price is a brilliant exception to this trend. It is a trilogy about a woman named Mia and her manifesto. Mia has decided that woman’s virginities have been valued and used by men to gain money or influence throughout history and it is high time women have gotten something out of it. She decides to sell her virginity to the highest (thoroughly screened) bidder. She ignores her friend’s protests and when all the bids are in she could have enough to save her mother’s ranch and finish out her schooling. The problem is the winner’s reluctance to claim his prize. The book sounds like it could be a same old same old sort of story but Brenna Aubrey turned a romance trope of a down on her luck girl into an emotional rollercoaster series that is a must read. The first one was a free ebook because they know that after you read the first book you’re hooked. I not only got the other two in ebook, but I ordered them in print for my own collection, and to borrow out.  The Obsession By Nora Roberts I have always been a fan of Nora Roberts because of her wide range of topics. She can go from futuristic mystery to fantasy with witches, immortals, and mermaids, and most that’s in-between. The Obsession is one of my favorites of Nora Roberts’s vast collection because it is great at flirting with the line between romance and suspense. This was the first of her books that had a little bit of a Dean Koontz kind of vibe. Now don’t get me wrong, it is a romance book, but when you’re in the perspective of the killer it really is up there with bad guy factor. The Obsession follows a Girl named Naomi from when she is a little girl trying to outrun her daddy’s reputation, to when she grows up, now a successful photographer, and finds a place to settle down in Sunrise Cove. She finds friends and a love interest in Xander Keaten but her past and the sins of her father are never more than a nightmare away…  Charming the Prince by Teresa Medeiros Charming the prince is a great historical romance and fairytale retelling of Cinderella. Lord Bannor is the pride of the English and the Terror of the French until the war ends and he finds himself overrun with a dozen children he doesn’t know how to deal with let alone raise. It is a war he can’t win alone. He sends out his steward the find them a mother and him a bride. He wants a mother for his children and has no interest in the bride herself, until Lady Willow shows up. He never expected she would join forces with his mischievous kids. The story is filled with humor and hijinks, and is a must read for anyone who likes a good historical romance.  Jake By Leigh Greenwood Jake is another historical romance but this one is a western. Jake is a rancher who just came back from the civil war to find his family ranch in shambles. Isabelle is taking a wagon-load of orphan boys to Santa Fe to try and get them adopted. They pair up. Jake is a help and a protection on their travels and the boys help him in driving his cattle to market. You end up getting to know all the characters and really root for them. Jake can be read as a standalone but it is the first in the series that has a book for each of the boys. Crystal
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AuthorsLooking for some inspiration on what to read next? Who better to ask then the people who work around books for a living!? Each month we will post a "staff picks" blog post written by one of our staff members. These posts will vary in genre, theme, age appropriateness, etc. If you have any requests on a genre or age category you would like to see, submit a comment here and we will get it on the list! Archives
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