Then We Came to the End tom thorne

Then We Came to the End tom thorneWinner of the Hemingway Foundation PEN Award, this debut novel is "as funny as The Office, as sad as an abandoned stapler . . . that rare comedy that feels blisteringly urgent." (TIME) No one knows us in quite the same way as the men and women who sit beside us in department meetings and crowd the office refrigerator with their labeled yogurts. Every office is a family of sorts, and the Chicago ad agency depicted in Joshua Ferris's exuberantly

For generations of Americans

com started off delivering books through the mail

Dealing with Bob Marley as a man and myth

and malice

In private

and the two set out to capture the killer before he begins his most public lesson yet--a deadly message for the entire city to witness

she used it to mean "Grandma

He's the guy on the mound who doesn't hear the crowd

filled with intricately layered research

As Christmas approaches

"People I Miss" -- memorable salutes to the likes of Tim Russert

this one uses different methods every time