Once more, we catch up with the delightful goings-on in the fictitious 44 Scotland Street from Alexander McCall Smith. With customary charm and deftness, Alexander McCall Smith gives us another instalment in this popular series, now...
Humorous fiction
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Author:Smith, Alexander McCallSummary: - Author:Lambert, AnnieSummary:
À trente et un ans, j'ai l'horloge biologique qui sonne dans le tapis ! Le problème ? L'homme avec qui je partage ma vie refuse de s'engager dans mon projet d'avoir un enfant. Résultat ? Je le plaque. Suis-je plus avancée ? Pas vraiment...
- Author:Learn, PeterSummary:
Surrender is a wacky tale about a defunct school mascot, Chester the Beaver, and how he comes back to haunt the school principal responsible for his demise. It is a witty and outrageously funny book, abounding in linguistic pyrotechnics...
- Author:McCarthy, CormacSummary:
By the author of Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses, Suttree is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near...
- Author:Hart, LivySummary:
I've got ninety-nine problems and my brother's snarky, smart-mouthed best friend Sam is tangled up in every last one of them. When it comes to firefighter Sam O'Shea, absence-and a regime of tactical avoidance-has been...
- Author:Brown, Rita MaeSummary:
In this fast-paced mystery by Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and her animal friends seek to solve a whodunit rooted in eighteenth-century Virginia-uncovering a shocking secret that...
- Author:Davies, RobertsonSummary:
An amateur production of The Tempest provides a colorful backdrop for a hilarious look at unrequited love when a mathematics teacher, stirred by Shakespeare's play, falls for a young beauty.
- Author:Quinn, SpencerSummary:
Spencer Quinn's Tender Is the Bite is a brand new adventure in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling series that Stephen King calls without a doubt the most original mystery series currently available. Chet and Bernie are...
- Author:Andrews, DonnaSummary:
A new side-splitting Meg Langslow mystery from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Toucan Keep a Secret. Meg Langslow's grandfather has been booked by a cruise line to give lectures on birds and other...
- Author:Pratchett, TerrySummary:
Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different ... Collected together for the first time are...
- Author:Jonasson, JonasSummary:
After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he's still in good health-and tomorrow is his hundredth birthday. A big celebration is in the...
- Author:Kijinski, PaulSummary:
Roger Jakubiak isn't where he thought he would be at age 45: single, predictable and working as an eighth-grade social studies teacher in the same Cleveland area school district from which he graduated. Now a suspected brain aneurysm...
- Author:Beauchemin, Yves, Grady, WayneSummary:
Montreal student Jerome Lupien - libidinous, unscrupulous, and fresh out of university - is ambitious and at loose ends. Whether on a hunting trip into Québec's northern woods, on an escape planned in good faith to Cuba, or...
- Author:Jonasson, JonasSummary:
It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they're not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship carrying contraband...
- Author:Hulse, CarolineSummary:
A couple (now separated), plus their daughter, plus their new partners, all on an epic Christmas vacation. What could go wrong' This razor-sharp novel puts a darkly comic twist on seasonal favorites like Love Actually and The Holiday. "...
- Author:Marie, AnnetteSummary:
As a guild bartender, I can handle pretty much anything-mages, sorcerers, witches, the occasional demon. But show me anything family-related and I'd rather run for the hills. It doesn't even have to be my family. So I have no...
- Author:Maharaj, RabindranathSummary:
Both familiar and strange, this story of a large Canadian city seen through the wide eyes of a naive and inexperienced young immigrant - wise in the culture of comic books - is both hilarious and heartbreaking. Samuel is just 17 when...
- Author:Harper, Charise MericleSummary:
Sometimes school can be scary and even embarrassing, but not today. Today is Birdie's birthday, and everything will be perfect! Birdie's panda-riffic cupcakes are beautiful, and there's one for everyone. She will be the star of the...
- Author:Curtis, HerbSummary:
An invasion? For teenagers Dryfly Ramsey and Shadrack Nash, poor and ignorant in the world’s terms but rich in the lore of the magical Miramichi, the annual influx of American anglers, with their money, fishing gear, and thirst for...
- Author:Richler, MordecaiSummary:
Duddy -- the third generation of a Jewish immigrant family in Montreal -- is combative, amoral, scheming, a liar, and totally hilarious. From his street days tormenting teachers at the Jewish academy to his time hustling four jobs at...
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