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Milking the Rhino  by Chris Rush
In Milking the Rhino, master comedian Chris Rush uses a series of unforgettable surreal images to create hilarious verbal cartoons presented in a seductive list form to transport you into a world of nonstop laughter. Lists include: -Seven Examples of Truth in Advertising You Will Never See -Twenty-Five Really Lousy Jobs -The Ten Worst Pickup Lines -Ten Bizarre Hobbies -Fourteen Novelty Items That Never Took Off -Four Things You Shouldn’t Do in Zero-Gravity Conditions -Four UFO Incidents That Are Weirder Than Usual

Paperback,  112 pp,  $13.95. Buy now

Every Day is Mother’s Day  by Darrin Zeer
This is a charming illustrated gift book that pays tribute to Mum. Relaxation expert Darrin Zeer has created quick and easy ways to incorporate stretching, massage, and spa treatments into Mum’s busy day, such as doing a quick hand massage while picking up the kids from football. He also suggests shortcuts and organisation techniques to help make parenting easier. Cheerful, tender, and practical, Every Day Is Mother’s Day is an excellent gift for Mum on Mother’s Day – or any day

Hardback,  96 pp,  $13.95. Buy now

Notecards: Baby  by Paul Kepple and Jude Buffum
Quirk extends their reach in the gift market to include a new line of notecards. Combining Quirk’s slightly twisted content and a package with total object appeal, this fresh, humorous line of stationery will appeal to our core market of young, urban consumers. Cards are large enough to hold a 4 x 6 photograph, making them a great vehicle for sharing pictures with relatives and friends. This title features cute illustrations from The Baby Owner’s Manual, rolling the brand further into the gift market. Perfect for birth announcements, thank-you notes, and general correspondence from new parents

Cards,  16 pp,  $21.95. Buy now

Happiness  by Ingrid Goff-Maidoff
Reminiscent of a handmade, one-of-a-kind keepsake, this fine gift book is bound with handmade paper to celebrate happiness. Poet, anthologist, and book artist Ingrid Goff-Maidoff made keepsake tomes on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. Now it is available with the same attention to detail – complete with tactile fine Japanese art paper binding, linen-like interior pages, and eloquently themed verses on the topic of happiness.

Hardback,  64 pp,  $8.95. Buy now

Love  by Ingrid Goff-Maidoff
Reminiscent of a handmade, one-of-a-kind keepsake, this fine gift book is bound with handmade paper to celebrate love. Poet, anthologist, and book artist Ingrid Goff-Maidoff made keepsake tomes on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. Now it is available with the same attention to detail – complete with tactile fine Japanese art paper binding, linen-like interior pages, and eloquently themed verses on the topic of love.

Hardback,  64 pp,  $8.95. Buy now

Babysmarts  by Joseph Cummins
Overwhelmed by all those baby books? Play BabySmarts and discover the fun way to learn about pregnancy and babies. Play at a baby shower, with friends, or your partner and discover what happens before, during and after the baby is born. The 60 colourful question and answer cards explore: Can infants see colours? What is a baby’s most frequently used word? What is colic? What is the most common day of the week babies are born? The companion Tips Guide offers tips for traveling with a baby, exposes common myths, and shares some of the changes that happen to a mum during pregnancy.

Kit,  100 pp,  $23.95. Buy now

The Little Big Book for Dads  by Lena Tabori
Filled with stories, poetry, activities, recipes, and songs, this compendium contains everything a father might need to spend quality time with his children. The volume is illustrated throughout with early 20th-century art from Jessie Willcox Smith, Randolph Caldecott, Kate Greenaway, and others. 250 illustrations, 100 in color

Hardback,  352 pp,  $39.95. Buy now

The Little Big Book of Pregnancy  by Katrina Fried
Presents a collection of literary excerpts, poems, essays, home remedies, recipes, old wives’ tales, traditions, facts, and activities surrounding pregnancy, childbirth, and babies

Hardback,  352 pp,  $34.95. Buy now

Sci-fi Baby Names  by Robert Schnakenberg
Here’s an irreverent twist on a perennial gift book genre: the baby name book meets the weird, unusual, otherworldly realm of science fiction. ‘Sci-Fi Baby Names’ compiles 500 distinctive names from sci-fi books, movies, and TV shows into a handy reference with a crazy, retro, sci-fi design. Think babies on rocket ships! Babies with laser guns! Babies on Mars! This book has something for everyone. Many sci-fi fans will feel comfortable naming a child “Luke,” “Robbie,” or “James Tiberius” to honor their favourite characters. But a few fans will boldly go where no parents have gone before – with outlandish names like “Zardoz,” “Klaatu,” and “Davros.”

Paperback,  160 pp,  $18.95. Buy now

Friendship  by Ingrid Goff-Maidoff
Reminiscent of a handmade, one-of-a-kind keepsake, this fine gift book is bound with handmade paper to celebrate friendship. Poet, anthologist, and book artist Ingrid Goff-Maidoff made keepsake tomes on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. Now it is available with the same attention to detail – complete with tactile fine Japanese art paper binding, linen-like interior pages, and eloquently themed verses on the topic of friendship

Hardback,  64 pp,  $8.95. Buy now

Baby Shower Games  by Sharon Wood
Featuring 8 ready-to-play games (with 15 perforated game sheets for each game), this baby shower gamepad includes instructions, prize ideas, hosting tips and a gift log

Paperback,  254 pp,  $18.95. Buy now

Baby Owner’s Gift Set  by Louis Borgenicht
A gift set intended for any parent to be. The kit includes: the Baby Owner’s Manual Growth Chart (for tracking child’s growth to 4 feet); Diaper Changing Instructional Poster; Swaddling Instructional Poster; Heimlich Maneuver for Infants Poster; Babysitter’s Memo Pad; sheet of stickers for marking growth chart; and, sheet of printed magnets

Kit,  228 pp,  $39.95. Buy now

Mama Lama Ding Dong  by Ayun Halliday
Twenty years ago, a mother named Erma Bombeck brought the suburban family out of the closet – dirty laundry and all. Her candid, hilarious accounts of family life became more than mere books; they became a philosophy. Meet Ayun Halliday, a new generation’s urban Bombeck. Creator of the underground parenting magazine “The East Village Inky”, Halliday’s words and drawings detail the quirks and everyday travails of a young Brooklyn family, warts and all. Honest in her parenting foibles and fixed in her opinions on public breastfeeding and the perfect Halloween costume, Halliday validates the complex, absurd wonderousness of one modern family.

Paperback,  300 pp,  $19.95. Buy now

The Sex Doctor  by Tracey Cox
Combining humour with expert advice, this work covers standard sex issues to the more bizarre carnal conundrums. It features: singles sex and how to get more of it; the top five things your new lover’s hoping for; foolproof ways to tell how you rate as a lover; and more

Paperback,  320 pp,  $24.95. Buy now

Help Yourself with the Kumars  by Sanjeev Bhaskar
‘Help Yourself with The Kumars’ is the Kumars’ very own self-help guide to improving your life so you can be just as successful, rich and popular as the Kumars themselves. Well, nearly. There’s only so much you can get from a book, after all. In there you will find Ummi’s tips for older people on how to keep the mind agile: the Indian version of Su Doku, So Don’t Que, is particularly effective at Argos while the Kumar Sutra gives some great ideas on spicing up your sex life. Like Sanjeev, you might be wondering how you can fight off the ladies. He shows how you can ensure that you’re never tied down by making them leave you. His helpful advice on the best chat-up lines will inspire many (though not necessarily any women). Of course, Mum giv

,  144 pp,  $45.00. Buy now

The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster  by Bobby Henderson
The Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) appeared to Bobby as a giant ball of spaghetti‚ with meatballs for eyes‚ and touched Bobby with “His noodly appendage” – resulting in the revelation that the FSM is the real creator of the universe. Shortly after Bobby’s revelation a website (www.flyingspaghettimonster.org) came into existence to promote the word. Then came the articles‚ which were worldwide, as many others chimed in to report the existence of the FSM. Bobby received letters of support and a couple million hits per day on the website – and it was all-too-clear that there needed to be a book to lay out FSM scripture‚ rites and observances‚ proofs‚ and answers to the Big Questions. This is that book.

,  240 pp,  $24.99. Buy now

Cookie Sutra: An Ancient Treatise: That Love Shall Never Grow Stale. Nor Crumble.   by Edward Jaye
Birds do it, bees do it.And guess what—cookies do it, too. In fact, never have a pair of gingerbread cookies looked so pleased.Yes, the Kama Sutra meets the Joy of Cooking. Featuring an unabashed gingerbread couple, who are photographed in unflinching full color, the Cookie Sutra is a recipe for pleasure. There is The First Posture, where two are yoked as one (yet the calorie count remains unchanged). The Pair of Tongs, allowing the woman to be open, free, sweet and crunchy. Pounding the Spot, requiring the suppleness of freshly rolled dough. There is Scissors, Autumn Dog, Tripod, The Wheelbarrow, The Snake Trap. And, for the advanced and adventurous, The Suspended Congress—great care must be taken lest the cookies crumble.

Paperback,  64 pp,  $14.95. Buy now

This Book  by Mitchell Symons
A new collection of extraordinary facts and mind-boggling trivia from the creator of “That book”

,  432 pp,  $34.95. Buy now

Opening the Invitation  by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
A gift edition of the author’s best-selling signature prose poem features two short new chapters and includes an account of how the poem was written and published, in a volume complemented by woodcut illustrations.

Paperback,  112 pp,  $13.95. Buy now

The Parables of Peanuts  by Robert L. Short
Discusses fundamentals of Christianity, including the life and teachings of Jesus Christ as illustrated in the attitudes and actions of Charles Schulz’s cartoon characters.

Paperback,  322 pp,  $24.95. Buy now

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