Benjamin Laskin

There's good luck, bad luck, no luck, and dumb luck-and then there's Murphy's luck.The wildest creature known to man has been discovered in the jungles of the Amazon, and his name is Murphy Drummer.When a bumbling, 99th-rate Colombian cartel captures Murphy's in-laws, it is up to Murphy to rescue them. Doing so will require an arsenal of hobbies, a gorgeous and deadly assassin with cursed cockles, and maybe a dowsing rod and an arthritic water buffalo named Hannibal.Curse meets jinx, and every loser comes out a winner in Murphy's new riotous and rip-roaring adventure.Murphy returns to blow minds, open hearts, and tickle funny bones. When you march to the beat of Murphy Drummer, nothing is impossible but trying not to laugh.

His luck is a weapon of mass hilarity.Murphy's mind-boggling luck returns with a vengeance in a new, uproarious adventure. When America calls upon Murphy to employ his unique talents to help bring down an evil mastermind, it's a request his handlers soon regret.After a bank's surveillance camera captures Murphy's amazing, hobby-honed abilities in action, the tape comes to the attention of the FBI. The agency decides that the Eureka recluse is just the man to help with a matter of national security, only to learn how one man with Murphy's luck undermines everyone's sense of security.When you march to the beat of Murphy Drummer, the impossible becomes the inevitable and the inevitable inescapably hysterical. All may regret the day they met Murphy Drummer, but none knows what they'd have done without him.Don't miss this riotous comedy of mayhem and miracles

Buck 'n' roll Coinworld: Book Two picks up in the year 1958. Ned's elite team of Raider Special Forces are redeeming coins around the country and establishing new bullion bases. Ned's true love, Franny the Peace Dollar, has been located, but rescuing her will mean putting Ned and his entire enterprise in jeopardy.New menaces have arisen--both human and coin--that threaten Coin Island and The Four. Deirdre Dime faces her first great challenge as head of Coin Intelligence, Chief Iron Tail receives a disturbing new vision, and to everyone's chagrin, Pete Penny has gone MIA. With no one to help him, luckless Pete Penny must call upon everything he's learned to fight his way back to his friends. But perhaps The Four's greatest foe is a coin whose ghastly past Pete discovers on Route 66.Coinworld is bigger, funnier, and more action-packed than ever in Book Two. Are you ready to enter Coinworld? Once you do, no coin will ever look the same again.Coinworld: Book Two is e pluribus wondrous.

Sometimes rotten luck is better than no luck at all.Jinxed from birth with mystifying bad luck, Murphy Drummer hasn't ventured beyond the safety of his backyard since he was a little boy. To remedy his loneliness, he became the master of a thousand hobbies and as amazing as his crazy luck.When events demand that Murphy go in search of a new, luck-free sanctuary to spare the world from his puzzling disorder, his relentless whammy plows an uproarious path of mayhem and miracles straight to Joy Daley-an incurable optimist who never forgot to thank her lucky stars. The comical, topsy-turvy effects from the collision of Lady Luck and Murphy's jinx whimsically upends the lives of everyone in their orbit.At first, Murphy's victims question who he is-at last, they'll be questioning who they aren't.If you like a fresh, feel-good story with loads of laughs and a dollop of mystery on top, then you'll love Murphy's Luck.

Putting the will in willpower.Josh McCain has two years to reinvent himself. Stripped of everything that made life a swanky, booze and babe-filled breeze, Josh embarks on a grueling and often hilarious two-year regimen of self-discipline that targets his mind, body, and spirit.Along the way, skeptics mock him, his own past taunts him, and saboteurs resolve to stop him. But Josh is determined to complete his "bucket list from hell" and prove that who he was is not as important as who he can become. Operating in unfamiliar territory, Josh turns to a cast of endearing characters to aid him on his secret journey-persons he'd have previously shunned.Upbeat and inspiring, The Will is an enthralling story of goofs and grit, of the regenerative power of friendship-and if Josh doesn't blow it-maybe love, too.