HUMOR
ANDREWS MCMEEL
A Friend Is... A Get Fuzzy Gift Book (May, $9.95) by Darby Conley collects comic strips from the series that portrays single life with pets.
ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS
Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism (June, $23) by P.J. O'Rourke. The outspoken political commentator gives a no-holds-barred tour of the new world order. 100,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. 18-city author tour.
B&W PUBLISHING (dist. by Interlink)
Jim Hewitson's Scottish Miscellany (Mar., $15) by Jim Hewitson collects facts, figures, yarns and trivia to reveal all things Scottish.
BLOOMBERG PRESS
TheNew YorkerBook of New York Cartoons (May, $21.95), edited by Robert Mankoff. More than 100 drawings that span eight decades capture the New York City state of mind.
CHRONICLE
Dumb Luck: The Idiotic Genius of Gary Baseman (May, $40) by Gary Baseman features outlandish artwork populated by maimed bunnies, anthropomorphic ice-cream cones and other bizarre characters.
DOUBLEDAY
Remember Me When I'm Gone (Mar., $17.95) by Larry King collects imagined eulogies and epitaphs by celebrities.
HENRY HOLT
How Tough Could It Be?: The Trials and Errors of a Sportswriter Turned Stay-at-Home Dad (May, $23) by Austin Murphy recounts the misadventures of a Sports Illustrated writer who quits his job to care for his children full-time.
KNOPF
Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best ofMcSweeney's, Humor Category: 1998—2003 (Aug., $16), edited by Dave Eggers et al., collects humorous essays from the literary magazine. 100,000 first printing.
MANIC D PRESS
Fears of Your Life (Mar., $12.95) by Michael Bernard Loggins. An African-American adult with developmental disabilities battles his fears by listing more than 150 of them. Advertising.
POMEGRANATE
Manglo-Saxon: Marvelously Mangled Meanings for Well-Worn Words (Mar., $12.95) by R.S. Young offers a lexicon in which words mean what they sound and look as if they should mean.
PUBLICAFFAIRS
Going Nucular: Language, Politics and Culture in Confrontational Times (May, $22.95) by Geoffrey Nunberg. Essays reveal how our use of language reflects the mindset of contemporary America.
Idiot Proof: A Twenty-Five Year History of How We Stopped Thinking (June, $24) by Francis Wheen. From UFO scares to dot-com mania, this covers the period when everything ceased to make sense.
RUTLEDGE HILL PRESS
MAD About Dad: The Usual Gang of Idiots (Apr., $12.99) by MAD magazine artists and writers. Cartoons poke fun at the institution of fatherhood.
S&S/FIRESIDE
The Deluxe Election-Edition Bushisms: The First Term, in His Own Special Words: With All New Fact-Checking and Snarky Commentary! (June, $12.95), compiled by Jacob Weisberg, combines new and selected Bushisms with fact-checking of Bush's "accurate" statements.
TEN SPEED PRESS
Furry Logic: A Guide to Life's Little Challenges (Mar., $9.95) by Jane Seabrook. Quotes and drawings turn life's challenges into opportunities for laughter.
WILLOW CREEK PRESS
Happy Cat Day: A Manifesto for a National Cat Holiday (Mar., $14.95) by Stu Hample proposes a national holiday that will name cats as America's number one pet.
