A hilarious send-up of Enid Blyton adventure stories. It mocks fundamentalism, racism and pseudo-intellectuality. The novel asks, in the most unlikely manner, for reconciliation among the blighted peoples of Zimbabwe.
Humorous fiction
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Author:Eppel, JohnSummary: - Author:London, StefanieSummary:
Social media consultant Isla Thompson went viral for all the wrong reasons. With her career over, she gets a job caring for a high maintenance dachshund and tries not to fall for the owner.
- Author:Munsch, RobertSummary:
Jule Ann pounds on the bottom of a cookie jar and a small, dark lump bounces out. The Dark quickly eats up Jule Ann's shadow, and then her mother and father's shadows, growing bigger and bigger with each swallow. When the Dark grows as...
- Author:Lee, JayciSummary:
With witty characters and heartrending romance, Jayci Lee, author of A Sweet Mess, returns with The Dating Dare--where two people might just find out how hard it is to resist falling in love with the right person. No serious...
- Author:Strugat︠s︡kiĭ, Arkadiĭ, Strugat︠s︡kiĭ, BorisSummary:
When Inspector Peter Glebsky arrives at a remote ski chalet on vacation, the last thing he intends to do is get involved in any police work. But he hadn't counted on the discovery of a corpse. Glebsky's vacation is over, and he's...
- Author:Sykes, PlumSummary:
Young Manhattanite Sylvia Mortimer can't help noticing that her friends "put almost as much effort into losing husbands as they once did into finding them." Lauren, the most recent to discard hers, has just had a champagne-fueled...
- Author:McCall, Smith AlexanderSummary:
From the beloved and bestselling author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series comes a lighthearted comedic novel about a Swedish police department tasked with solving the most unusual, complicated, and, often, insignificant...
- Author:Weisberger, LaurenSummary:
Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, lands the job "a million girls would die for." Hired as the assistant to Miranda Priestly, the high-profile, fabulously successful editor of Runway magazine, Andrea finds...
- Author:Elkin, StanleySummary:
A hilarious panorama of the world of talk radio.
- Author:Hingston, MichaelSummary:
The Peak: a university student newspaper with a hard-hitting mix of inflammatory editorials, hastily thrown-together comics and reviews, and a news section run the only way self-taught journalists know how--sloppily. Alex and Tracy are...
- Author:Hingston, MichaelSummary:
The Peak: a university student newspaper with a hard-hitting mix of inflammatory editorials, hastily thrown-together comics and reviews, and a news section run the only way self-taught journalists know how'sloppily.Alex and Tracy are...
- Author:Portis, CharlesSummary:
Ray Midge is on the trail of his wife Norma, who's headed for Mexico with her ex-husband. On the way Ray meets the eccentric Dr. Reo Symes, a man with more get-rich-quick schemes than common sense. Together, they'll have to overcome...
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
Alexander McCall Smith brings his peerless wit to this second entry featuring a motley collection of residents in London's Pimlico neighborhood. Literary agent Barbara Ragg has agreed to represent a man writing a book about his...
- Author:Tieu, JulieSummary:
Julie Tieu sparkles in this debut romantic comedy, which is charmingly reminiscent of the TV show Kim's Convenience and Frankly in Love by David Yoon, about a young woman who feels caught in the life her parents have made for her...
- Author:Robinson, GregorSummary:
With exceptional power, Robinson exposes both the gravity and levity of relationships — formed in duty, in fear, in need — and the subtle ways we attempt to escape their persistent pull. At turns humourous, chilling and tender, Robinson...
- Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:
A collection of off-the-wall short stories by Japan's leading contemporary novelist. An elephant vanishes; hunger drives a couple to rob McDonalds; an insomniac wife wakes in a different world. Murakami is a cult figure throughout...
- Author:Morrow, JamesSummary:
Completing the World Fantasy Award-winning author's darkly comic trilogy, The Eternal Footman brings us into a future world in which God's skull is in orbit, competing with the moon, and a plague of "death awareness...
- Author:Sterling, ErinSummary:
New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins, writing as Erin Sterling, casts a spell with a spine-tingling romance full of wishes, witches, and hexes gone wrong. Nine years ago, Vivienne Jones nursed her broken heart like any young...
- Author:Fitzhugh, BillSummary:
All Bob Dillon ever wanted was a truck with a big fiberglass bug on the roof. All he had to do was survive a half dozen assassination attempts, pull a 10 million dollar con on a Bolivian drug lord, and then fall off the face of the...
- Author:Fink, JosephSummary:
From the New York Times bestselling authors of Welcome to Night Vale and It Devours! and the creators of the hit podcast, comes a new novel set in the world of Night Vale and beyond. In the town of Night Vale, there's a faceless...
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