It’s 2006 and down-and-out protagonist Ghislain works as a reader for a publishing house in Montreal. He’s bored with all the wannabe writers who are determined to leave a trace of their passage on earth with their feeble attempts at...
Humorous fiction
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Author:Laverdure, BertrandSummary: - Author:Heisey, MonicaSummary:
Maggie is fine. She's doing really good, actually. Sure, she's broke, her graduate thesis on something obscure is going nowhere, and her marriage only lasted 608 days, but at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, Maggie is...
- Author:Silverman, LauraSummary:
To All the Boys I've Loved Before meets You've Got Mail in this charming and hilarious rom-com following two teen booksellers whose rivalry is taken to the next level as they compete for the top bookseller bonus. Shoshanna...
- Author:Juby, SusanSummary:
Prudence Burns is an overly idealistic Brooklyn girl who has inherited a derelict plot of land named Woefield Farm. Her motley crew of farm hands consists of Earl, an elderly, reclusive bluegrass legend; Seth, an agoraphobic heavy-metal...
- Author:Brown, Rita MaeSummary:
In this second entry from the New York Times best-selling series by Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown, the citizens of Crozet, Virginia, reap a gruesome harvest'of human body parts. Ever since her husband's affair, Mary Minor 'Harry'...
- Author:Labonté-Chartrand, MartineSummary:
Lucy Tremblay signe depuis peu une toute nouvelle rubrique destinée aux femmes dans le journal du quartier. Elle leur livre des conseils pour déjouer la nature et paraître plus jeune. Bientôt obsédée par cette idée, la...
- Author:Hodgins, JackSummary:
In this new edition of Jack Hodgins’ Governor General–winning novel (for 1979), the reader is taken into the everyday eccentricities of life in Port Annie on the west coast of Vancouver Island, a town that keeps slipping into the ocean...
- Author:Rankin, RobertSummary:
There is big and evil magic abroad upon the face of the Earth. History has been changed: the Germans won WWII, America is a nuclear wasteland, and The Wife's Legs Cafe is serving Bratwurst rather than the proper British banger. To...
- Author:McLean, StuartSummary:
"The world can be a perilous place. And the seemingly friendly world of Canada's favourite fictional family is no different. Everyone is afraid of something: Dave, for example, is afraid of dolls, germs and Mary Turlington....
- Author:Weisberger, LaurenSummary:
A sequel to "The Devil Wears Prada" finds Andy Sachs and her partner, Emily, blossoming throughout eight years at the head of a wildly successful high fashion bridal magazine only to be haunted by memories of their former boss...
- Author:McMurtry, LarrySummary:
Fast approaching 70, Duane Moore is adjusting to the loneliness of retirement. Then things get stirred up when a billionaire heiress moves to the area and opens a rhinoceros sanctuary.
- Author:Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)Summary:
Right Ho, Jeeves is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, the second full-length novel featuring the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, after Thank You, Jeeves.
- Author:St. James, Morgan, Rowe, CarolineSummary:
Who's ripping off the Federal prison system — and how? A funny crime caper with a diabolically clever scam. Thirty-something Kimberly was living the good life with a great executive job, a wardrobe to die for and a hot, young boyfriend...
- Author:Arnold, Marsha DianeSummary:
Disturbed by a deafening snore, Jack wakes up the family and animals one by one in search of the noisy culprit.
- Author:Eedy, LorneSummary:
When Wolfe Cruise buys an old hotel in downtown St. Marys, Ontario, there's a giant pile of weird rocks in the backyard that the previous owner won't stop talking about. Wolfe soon discovers that the barber who kept a shop...
- Author:Sittenfeld, CurtisSummary:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK - A comedy writer thinks she's sworn off love, until a dreamy pop star flips the script on all her assumptions-a "smart, sophisticated, and fun" ( Oprah Daily )...
- Author:Bryan, AliSummary:
Claudia, single mom of two, pines for her past independent life. Her ex, after all, has moved on to a new wardrobe, new hobbies and—worst of all—new adult friends. But in Claudia's house she's still finding bananas in the sock drawer,...
- Author:Dupont, ÉricSummary:
Rosa Ost grows up in Notre-Dame-du-Cachalot, a tiny village at the end of the world, where two industries are king: paper and Boredom. The only daughter of Terese Ost (a fair-to-middling trade unionist and a first-rate Scrabble player...
- Author:Guillory, JasmineSummary:
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal and a “rising star in the romance genre” (Entertainment Weekly) comes a dazzling novel about a spontaneous holiday vacation that turns into an unforgettable romance.
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- Author:Ehlert, LoisSummary:
The narrator describes discovering how Ralph the dog can talk, appropriately saying words such as "roof," "rough," "bark," and "wolf."
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