A new side-splitting Meg Langslow mystery from award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Terns of Endearment. When Meg's grandmother Cordelia hosts a Renaissance Faire at her craft center, the whole family is put to...
Humorous fiction
- Author:Andrews, DonnaSummary:
- Author:Wilson, KevinSummary:
Their children called it mischief.
Performance artists Caleb and Camille Fang dedicated themselves to making great art. But when an artist’s work lies in subverting normality, it can be difficult to raise well-adjusted children....
- Author:Girard, Mario, Ouriou, SusanSummary:
A hilarious fairytale for adults facing a complicated world.
- Author:Philippe, BenSummary:
Norris Kaplan is clever, cynical, and quite possibly too smart for his own good. A Black French Canadian, he knows moving to Austin, Texas won't be easy. He decides to label people before they can label him, but he may have more in...
- Author:Bryan, AliSummary:
A hilarious portrait of a modern, mostly happy family, in all its glorious messiness. Meet the Figgs. June, the family's matriarch, looks forward to a quiet retirement--if only she can get her three adult children to finally, finally,...
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
Invited to lecture in America, von Igelfeld envisions a visit to California or New York. Instead, he finds himself at the University of Arkansas. Still, in von Igelfeld's view, one American state is very like the other. An expert...
- Author:Forsythe, LaurenSummary:
In this funny and sharp romantic comedy, a woman with a knack for turning her boyfriends' lives around starts a professional service to help wrangle men, only to be unexpectedly matched with an old flame. Ever since she can...
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
At age 4, Thursday chooses her own name. At age 6, she falls in love with her best friend, James, with whom she happily spends all her time. But in the adult world, things are not so simple: at the same time that Thursday's mother finds...
- Author:Rayner, Mark A.Summary:
"With plenty of humor and much more, The Fridgularity is an exciting, sci-fi view askew, highly recommended." ~Midwest Book Review "If you're looking for a combination of humor, romance and a power hungry refrigerator, look no further...
- Author:Lamprell, MarkSummary:
A funny, compelling novel about love, family, and the precarious business of being a man. Michael O’Dell is hit by a car. When he doesn’t die, he is surprised and pleased. But he can’t seem to move from the crash position. In fact, the...
- Author:Henderson, JuliettaSummary:
Twelve-year-old Norman Foreman and his best friend, Jax, are a legendary comedic duo in waiting. But when Jax dies, Norman decides the only fitting tribute is to perform by himself. The problem is, Norman's not the funny one. Jax...
- Author:Friddle, MindySummary:
Cutter is determind to sabotage the sale of her family's dilapidated ancestral home. Her sister Ginny (in the midst of an affair with a professor) doesn't seem to care either way. When the professor's reclusive wife gathers up the...
- Author:Andrews, DonnaSummary:
** An AudioFile Earphones Award-winning production. ** New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews returns with another Meg Langslow mystery written "firmly in the grand tradition of Agatha Christie's Christmas books...
- Author:Campbell, MelodieSummary:
Follow along as reluctant mob goddaughter Gina Gallo gets dragged into one wild scheme after another by her bumbling mob family that never gets it right. This digital bundle includes the entire Gina Gallo Mystery series: The Goddaughter...
- Author:Jonasson, JonasSummary:
On June 14, 2007, the king and prime minister of Sweden went missing. Later it was said that both had fallen ill. The truth is different. The real story begins much earlier, with the birth of Nombeko Mayeki in a shack in South Africa, a...
- Author:Bate, DanaSummary:
Hannah Sugarman seems to have it all. She works for an influential think tank in Washington, DC, lives in a great apartment with her high-achieving boyfriend, and is poised for graduate school and an academic career just like her famous...
- Author:Campbell, MelodieSummary:
Gina Gallo is a gemologist who would like nothing better than to run her little jewelry shop. Unfortunately she's also "the Goddaughter," and, as she tells her new friend Pete, "you don't get to choose your relatives." And you can't...
- Author:Campbell, MelodieSummary:
When jewelry-store owner Gina Gallo and her boyfriend Pete take a week's vacation, she leaves the store in the hands of her cousin from New York. After all, cousin Carmine is a certified gemologist, but Carmine is also in the Mob. When...
- Author:Novak, Luka, Charney, UrškaSummary:
The first novel by renowned Slovene publisher, politician, and TV personality Luka Novak is an intellectual farce, a surrealistic gallop through philosophy and art. With echoes of Thomas Pynchon and Woody Allen (with Hegel chanting in...
- Author:Gaston, BillSummary:
The Good Body is a triumphant blend of mordant humour and heartbreak. It tells the comic and poignant story of a retired pro-hockey ruffian named Bobby Bonaduce who is stubbornly ignoring a disease - multiple sclerosis - that may be...