Abrams Image
Liberace: Your Personal Fashion Consultant (Sept., $12.95) by Michael Feder and Karan Feder. The performer and his outré outfits are well suited to this punch-out paper-doll format.
Black Dog & Leventhal
The Short Book: Tall Stories, Freakish Facts, & the Long & Short of Being Small in a Great Big World (Sept., $9.95) by Zachary Kanin. This unexpectedly lengthy tome addresses such topics as the science of shortness; short criminals, celebrities and superheroes; shortness in literature and film; and much more.
John F. Blair
The SWAG Life (Sept., $14.95) by Melinda Rainey Thompson. Humorous essays depict life as experienced by Southern Women Aging Gracefully. Author tour.
John Blake/Metro Books
(dist. by Trafalgar Square)
Great Email Disasters (Sept., $9.95) by Charles Newkey-Burden brings out the funniest, scariest and weirdest stories of e-mail box ignominy.
Collins
Disapproving Rabbits (Oct., $12.95) by Sharon Stiteler claims that the lovable creatures called bunnies disapprove of everything humans do.
Collins Business
Cube Monkeys: A Handbook for Surviving the Office Jungle (Sept., $13.95) by the editors of CareerBuilder.com and Second City Communications. The nation's largest online job site and the Chicago comedy club offer an irreverent handbook for cubists. 50,000 first printing.
Crane Hill
(dist. by IPG)
The Big Cheese Bathroom Reader Vol. 1 (Oct., $14.95) by Camille Smith Platt provides hours of reading with a bindup of four Real Cheesy Facts books.
DC/Mad
MAD's War on Bush (Sept., $9.99). The Usual Gang of Idiots spoofs the administration's many triumphs—of stubbornness, stupidity and incompetence.
Fireside
The Ultimate George W. Bushisms: Bush at War (on the English Language) (Nov., $9.95), edited by Jacob Weisberg. The final addition to the series collects more scattered pearls of accidental wit.
Gibbs Smith
Chinglish: Found in Translation (Oct., $7.95) by Oliver Radtke. Color photos spotlight the humorous misuses of English in Chinese street signs, products and advertising.
How Books
Really, You've Done Enough: A Parent's Guide to Stop Parenting Their Adult Child Who Still Needs Their Money But Not Their Advice (Oct., $16.99) by Sarah Walker scrutinizes the relationships between parents and adult kids.
Little, Brown
How to Raise a Jewish Dog (Sept., $12.99) by the rabbis of the Boca Raton Theological Seminary as told to Ellis Weiner and Barbara Davilman. The authors of the bestselling Yiddish With series advise on nurturing a kosher canine.
Metro Books
(dist. by Trafalgar Square)
Great E-mail Disasters (Sept., $9.95) by Charles Newkey-Burden celebrates the funniest, scariest and weirdest incidences of inbox ignominy.
Nation Books
The Brotherhood of the Disappearing Pants: A Field Guide to Conservative Sex Scandals (Nov., $14.99) by Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer casts a satiric eye on sex and its libidinous right-wing castigators.
Peter Pauper Press
When Housewives Go Bad! (Sept., $9.95) by Nancy Rider Hunt. The author's collage images and pithy captions celebrate serious “badditude.”
Penguin
The Dead Guy Interviews: Conversations with 45 of the Most Accomplished, Notorious, and Deceased Personalities in History (Oct., $14) by Michael A. Stusser features laugh-and-learn sessions with Cleopatra, J. Edgar Hoover, Nostradamus and others.
Perigee
Bad vs. Worse: The Ultimate Guide to Making Lose-Lose Decisions (Oct., $12.95) by Joshua Piven explains everything one needs to know about impossible choices.
Overheard in the Office Updated: Conversations from Cubicles Around the World and Overheard in New York Updated: Conversations from the Streets, Stores, and Subways (Feb., $12.95 each) by S. Morgan Friedman and Michael Malice contain new snippets culled from their eponymous Web sites.
Portable Press
Uncle John's Triumphant 20th Anniversary Bathroom Reader (Nov., $18.95) by Bathroom Readers' Institute contains 600 pages of obscure trivia, forgotten history and more.
Running Press
How to Live with a Unicorn (Oct., $12.95) by Jane Moseley illuminates every step on the path to owning a fantastical pet.
Sasquatch Books
(dist. by PGW)
A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body: Tales from a Life of Cringe (Oct., $16.95) by Lauren Weedman. Humorous essays examine what not to do as a fully realized, functional adult. Author tour.
Scribner
What Pets Do While You're at Work (Oct., $9.95) by Jason Bergund and Bev West. Who let the dogs out? This photo compilation provides clues. Ad/promo.
Skyhorse
(dist. by Sterling)
The Zen of Zombie: Better Living Through the Undead (Oct., $12.95) by Scott Kenemore supplies spiritual enlightenment revealed in life's lessons from the undead.
Sourcebooks/Hysteria
Man Skills (Oct., $12.95) by Nick Harper teaches fire starting with two sticks, one-handed bra undoing, smoke ring blowing and other essential skills.
Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics (Nov., $14.95) by Tom Rogers targets the biggest mistakes and outright lunacy in Hollywood's interpretation of the rules of science.
Southbank Publishing
(dist. by Trafalgar Square)
Will Write and Direct for Food (Sept., $19.95) by Alan Parker features satiric cartoons directed at the movie industry.
Sphinx
Dictionary of Legal Bullshit (Oct., $10.95) by Randall C. Young translates the legal profession's absurdly archaic and convoluted language.
Ten Speed Press
What Shat That?: A Pocket Guide to Poop Identity (Sept., $12.95) by Matt Pagett matches 50 species with their feces; includes color photos of each deposit.
Three Rivers Press
All the Rage: The Boondocks Past and Present (Oct., $16.95) by Aaron McGruder conducts a behind-the-scenes tour of the comic strip that has become a hit animated TV series. 75,000 first printing.
Thunder's Mouth Press
Nobody Likes a Quitter (and other reasons to avoid rehab): The Loaded Life of an Outlaw Booze Writer (Oct., $14.99) by Dan Dunn. The mentee of Hunter S. Thompson narrates a memoir of drinking for a living.
Univ. of Tennessee Press
Someday I May Find Honest Work: A Newspaper Humorist's Life (Sept., $17.95) by Sam Venable collects 125 of the award-winning Tennessee writer's columns.
Virgin Books USA
American Sissy: Modest Proposals to Revive a Wimpy Culture (Feb., $14.95) by John Strausbaugh articulates a provocative plan to recapture the country's pioneering adventurous spirit. 50,000 first printing.
Watson-Guptill
Spy vs. Spy 2: The Joke and Dagger Files (Oct., $25.95) by David Shayne includes 350 Spy strips and takes up where ...The Complete Casebook left off. 50,000 first printing.
Workman
The Official Filthy Rich Handbook (Feb., $10.95) by Christopher Tennant reveals the social circuit, vacation spots and clubs so exclusive most people don't know they exist. Author tour.
