We promise that if you read these funny books in the library, we won't even shush you!

With his unique combination of the good, the bad, and the unexpected, the bestselling author of "Get Shorty" gives readers a new Chili Palmer novel that twists and turns to the very end. From screen tests to jam sessions, from the Hills and the Valley to Hollywood and Vine, "Be Cool" is all new, all clever, and most definitely, all that.

The humorous Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist makes his fiction debut with a ferociously funny novel about love and mayhem in south Florida, and the the life-changing events that rumble through a odd-ball family after two hit men pull up to their door.

Follow the bagel crumbs as this savvy, heartwarming new series welcomes an enchanting sleuth: Ruby, the rabbi's wife--a 46-year-old widow who dodges a cunning killer, from her favorite bakery in Eternal, Texas, to the Lower East Side of New York City.

From murder by Levi's 501s to the annual Running of the Hemingways in Key West, "Florida Roadkill" is a manic, violent, lyrical, and hysterically funny post-postmodern crime novel--the first book by the night news coordinator of "The Tampa Tribune."

There are plenty of laughs in the outrageous, rhinestone-studded story of Shelby Kay Tate, a Nashville waitress hoping to make it big in country-and-western music.

Fluff, it's me and you against the rest of the idiots", Sierra Lavotini says to the only one she can trust in the world -- her dog, Fluffy.  Sometimes that's the way it feels for the star of Nancy Bartholomew's debut, an exotic dancer in Panama City, Florida.

Hiaasen's signature mix of hilariously over-the-top villains, lovable innocents and righteous indignation at what mankind has done to his beloved Florida wilderness is all present in riotous abundance in his latest.

John Dortmunder, the taciturn con man who is the hero of Westlake's funniest series of caper novels, is someone perfectly capable of nursing a grievance. When his own ring is stolen by a hotshot billionaire, the stage is set. Dortmunder makes repeated attempts to get his ring back with hilarious results.

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Posted: 3/25/05