What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night,...
Humorous fiction
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Author:Atkinson, KateSummary: - Author:Svec, Henry AdamSummary:
A grossly inaccurate "memoir" about Canadian folk legends. Henry Adam Svec has been pushing boundaries in Canadian folklore since he unearthed songs by CFL players in Library and Archives Canada, thereby thrusting himself into...
- Author:Pierre, D. B. C.Summary:
Caught up in his decadent lifestyle, 20-something Gabriel Brockwell decides to kill himself. But before he does, he embarks on a quest for Wonderland--a bacchanal to end all bacchanals. His journey takes him around the globe, from...
- Author:Burns, AnnaSummary:
An irate woman bursts into the best gun shop in the town of Tiptoe Floorboard, helps herself to a Kalashnikov rifle and sets off in a taxi on her mission of retribution. So begins this kaleidoscopic, surreal and enigmatic tale of dark...
- Author:Weiner, JenniferSummary:
The story of three very different women as they navigate one of life's most wonderful and perilous transitions: the journey of new motherhood. Becky is a plump, sexy chef who has a wonderful husband and baby girl, a restaurant that...
- Author:Eddings, MazeySummary:
Mazey Eddings, author of the "witty, fast-paced rom-com"* A Brush with Love , mixes passion and humor to create a luscious love story between two people stumbling through life and learning to open their hearts in Lizzie Blake...
- Author:Dewdney, AnnaSummary:
Yucky music, great big feet. Ladies smelling way too sweet. Look at knees and stand in line. Llama Llama starts to whine. Does any child like to go shopping? Not Llama Llama! But Mama can't leave Llama at home, so off they go to Shop-O-...
- Author:Evanovich, JanetSummary:
Stephanie Plum faces the toughest puzzle of her career in the twenty-fifth entry in Janet Evanovich's #1 New York Times-bestselling series. There's nothing like a good deli, and the Red River Deli in Trenton is one of the best. World-...
- Author:Reynolds, JasonSummary:
From National Book Award finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes a novel told in ten blocks, showing all the different directions kids' walks home can take. This story was going to begin like all the best...
- Author:Peters, ElizabethSummary:
English archeologist Amelia Peabody Emerson and her eccentric family and friends are hard at work excavating Egyptian ruins. But this is not just another season in the desert, as Amelia leads her loyal family into a thrilling, crime-...
- Author:Ives, LucySummary:
It’s the end of summer 2003. George W. Bush has recently declared the mission in Iraq accomplished, the unemployment rate is at its highest in years, and Martha Stewart has just been indicted for insider trading. Meanwhile, somewhere in...
- Author:Shalvis, JillSummary:
USA TODAY BESTSELLER. What would you change if you had to start your life—and love life—over again? When Emma Harris wakes up from a coma she learns that her fiancé and her BFF have fallen in love, she's lost her job, and the life...
- Author:Bright, RachelSummary:
Everyone in Cutesville is excited for the most special day of the year: Present Day. Love Monster goes on a hunt for the perfect gift for his special someone, but as it turns out, finding the perfect gift is not easy. And the only thing...
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
Stil enduring psychotherapy, the precocious Bertie gets a chance to escape when he joins a junior orchestra trip to Paris--wher he is accidentally left behind. Never fear for Bertie, though. He quickly finds the silver lining by making...
- Author:Guertin, ChantelSummary:
“Love Struck will have you laughing out loud and constantly hoping, ‘Please don’t do what I think you’re going to do.’” — ChickLitReviews.com
When 27–year–old image consultant Poppy Ross discovers that her seemingly...
- Author:Majors, InmanSummary:
Majors explores the big-money world of SEC football through the wide eyes of coach Raymond Love. Already knee deep in a Pigskin Cavalcade designed to woo the state's biggest boosters, Love sets out to romance the athletic director's...
- Author:Amis, KingsleySummary:
This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university. The story leads the listener through a gallery of emphatically English bores, cranks, frauds, and neurotics with whom Dixon must contend...
- Author:Fraser, GailSummary:
Tucked into the foothills of the Rockies lies the charming village of Lumby, where quirky but tolerant townsfolk usually make the best of any situation. Not a week goes by without some humorous mayhem occurring under the watchful eyes...
- Author:Barry, DaveSummary:
- Author:Yanofsky, JoelSummary:
L’Échelle de Jacob est une comédie romanesque écrite sous la forme d’un journal. Un roman à l’humour décapant, plein d’esprit, de dialogues cocasses et d’observations amusantes sur les charmes et les travers de la vie de banlieue, et...
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