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After a year in Battle Lake, Minnesota, aspiring PI Mira James would kill not to stumble over another dead body. Given her latest discovery, though, it isn’t looking good. An ominous note hidden in an old book not only mentions Battle Lake’s former librarian, who vanished into thin air, but also Mira’s own father, who died thirteen years ago. The word “HELP” scrawled at the top is even more unnerving. But who’s in danger? And why? As if the note isn’t mystery enough, a girl’s sudden disappearance adds another case to Mira’s plate.

Meet the many generations of the great Dinostein Pranksters! In this family, April Fools' lasts a whole week. It's a tradition that dates back to the Jurassic Period. But little Joelle may be the best prankster yet!

What happens when a free-spirited, dad joke-loving college girl meets a staid, reclusive, mildly obsessive-compulsive businessman? Hilarity and Chaos reign of course!

This is Bryce Courtenay's moving tribute to his son, Damon, a hemophiliac who died from medically acquired AIDS on April 1, 1991, at the age of 24. April Fool's Day is controversial, painful and heartbreaking, yet has a gentle humor. It is also life-affirming, and, above all, a testimony to the incredible regenerative strength of love: how when we confront our worst, we can become our best. This tragic yet uplifting story will change the way you think.

एक एकदम फ्रेश आणि हलकं फुलकं दोन अंकी कॉमेडी नाटक.

For his favorite charity, the high school drama club, Willard Platt fakes his own murder as an April Fool stunt. But the repeat performance later that day is the real thing. And some, including the next-door neighbor, say he deserved it. Investigator (and ex-nun) Christine Bennett is haunted by the sad state of Willard's survivors. His widow roams the road at night. His son has a troubled marriage and bizarre secret life. Behind this suburban family's respectable facade, violent passions are seething.

We were Army Rangers, the best of the best. And then one day, everything that we worked so hard to become was ripped away. Now, we're in some podunk town, trying to find a sense of normal among the crazy, and learn how to live again. That gets a hell of a lot harder to do when a virus spreads mercilessly across the country, killing 85 percent of the people who contract it. In the midst of the panic, we're tasked with one last rescue mission. It's just our luck that the fool we're rescuing doesn't believe that the world as we know it is actually ending.

The origins of April Fools' Day remain shrouded in mystery, but the tradition of playing pranks on the first of April has been observed since at least Renaissance Europe, with roots that likely extend even further back in history. Despite numerous theories attempting to trace the holiday's beginnings to ancient Roman festivals like Hilaria or to the reign of Emperor Constantine, conclusive evidence supporting these claims is scarce. One oft-repeated story, itself an example of an April Fools' hoax, suggests that the holiday began in France in 1564 when King Charles IX officially moved the ...

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls, this slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York—and about Sully, one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years—is a classic American story. "Remarkable...

Growing up black in 1960s Chicago, Jean "Stevie" Stevenson came of age amid the tumult of the Civil Rights Movement, learning to value not just her race and gender but her sexuality as well. Now, nearly a decade later, Stevie is a college graduate enjoying a week of vacation in San Francisco. After getting a taste of the bohemian life, she can't bring herself to return home to her family and journalism career in Chicago.

Welcome to The Sacred Fool Podcast; A Spread of Spiritual Subjects, A Mess of Metaphysical Musings, A Collection of Cosmic Consciousness Calculations. Join Me, April (your clown host), as I playfully dive into everything and all things relating to the Nature of Reality, with just the right amount of Woo-Woo.

With more than 34 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading! Ella Mentry School has been taken over by a prank-palooza in this holiday-themed My Weird School Special from New York Times bestselling author Dan Gutman. A.J. and the gang are tired of Miss Banks and her...

Es el día de los inocentes. El día del cumpleaños de mi padre, y el peor día del año para mí. ¿Que por qué? Pues por varios motivos:Porque no me gustan las bromas. Porque tenemos que jugar un torneo con El Cerrillo, el equipo que juega más sucio de toda la Liga Intercentros, y nos van a machacar. Y porque me acabo de enterar de que el colegio tiene que vender el campo de fútbol para pagar sus deudas. Y si no podemos jugar al fútbol, ¿qué será de los Futbolísimos?

Celebrate 20 years of A to Z Mysteries! No foolin’! It’s the first of April in Green Lawn! Mr. Paskey, owner of the Book Nook, plays an April Fools’ Day prank on Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose. They hatch a plan to get back at him, but then the bookstore is robbed—no joke! Can the kids...

Meet the World's Funniest Kindergartner—Junie B. Jones! With over 50 million books in print, Barbara Park's New York Times bestselling chapter book series, Junie B. Jones, is a classroom favorite and has been keeping kids laughing—and reading—for over 20 years! In the 9th Junie B. Jones...