Amy Sedaris

In the winter of 1974, 14-year-old Arthur Parkinson was coping with the first powerful, confusing yearnings of adolescence just as his parent's marriage was unraveling. It was that dark winter that he learned of the death of Annie Marchand, his former baby-sitter. Now, decades later and still haunted by the events of that winter, Parkinson tries to understand the interconnected personal stories, the power of unrestrained emotion and the price that...

Follows a fresh-faced young couple from Delaware, Jeff and Samantha, who have only recently entered the world of New York City's elite private kindergartens. Every private school in the city informs Sam that she's simply too late to apply for a kindergarten spot for her five-year-old daughter this fall, but she begs Jeff to hire a 'consultant' to find a crack in the system.

The author recounts hitchhiking across the country with an odd cast of quadriplegics and deadbeats, working as a migrant worker in North Carolina, and other adventures.

In David Sedaris' world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz, and the National Enquirer, Sedaris' collection of essays is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad saves money by performing home surgery; a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tries to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; a bitter Santa abuses...

After losing his mother, a young boy is sent to a foster home with other orphans his age where he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love.

A story about the events leading up to the sword-fighting cat's meeting with Shrek and his friends.

When Shrek married Fiona the last thing he had in mind was becoming the next King of Far Far Away. But when Shrek's father-in-law, King Harold, suddenly croaks, that is exactly what he faces. Recruiting Donkey and Puss in Boots for a new quest, Shrek sets out to bring back the rightful heir to the throne. Meanwhile back in the kingdom, Fiona's jilted Prince Charming storms the city with an army of fairy tale villains to seize the throne. Fiona and...

Needy is a reserved bookworm. Her best friend is Jennifer, a conceited cheerleader. The two share little in common. They share even less in common when Jennifer mysteriously gains an appetite for human blood after a disastrous fire at a local bar. Soon, Needy's male classmates are steadily killed off in gruesome attacks and she must uncover the truth behind her friend's transformation and find a way to stop the bloodthirsty rampage before it reaches...

Chicken Little causes widespread panic about the sky falling but townspeople think it was just an acorn hitting him on the head. When a real piece of the sky lands on his head, Chicken Little and his band of misfit friends, Abby Mallard (aka Ugly Duckling), Runt of the Litter and Fish Out of Water, attempt to save the world without sending the town into a whole new panic.