Bo Tully, sheriff of Blight County, Idaho, has seen his share of small-town crime. Fact is, everyone in the area knows Tully and his Blight Way of doing things. But when he and his deputy hike into the deep woods, tracking a suspected...
Humorous fiction
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Author:McManus, Patrick F.Summary: - Author:John, Jory, Barnett, MacSummary:
Miles Murphy was his town's best prankster, so he's not happy to be moving to Yawnee Valley, a sleepy town that already has a brilliant prankster. If Miles is going to take the title from this mystery kid, he'll have to...
- Author:Farnsworth, VanessaSummary:
The stories in Farnsworth’s The Things She’ll Be Leaving Behind explore what it means to be a woman in the modern world, struggling against circumstances that are often unfair, inexplicable, and destructive. The women in this book don’t...
- Author:Meades, ChristopherSummary:
Henrik Nordmark is a bald, middle-aged security guard with few friends and no romantic possibilities. Tired of being the weed sprouting out of the wallflower, generic in his generality, Henrik has an epiphany. He will have one moment of...
- Author:Kimmel, Eric A.Summary:
When three Hanukkah latkes fight over which of them tastes the best, the winner is decided by the family cat. Which will he choose? The excited latkes can't wait to find out, but perhaps they should be careful what they wish for!...
- Author:Trias de Bes, FernandoSummary:
AG and his family live in a smallish apartment with a not-so-smallish debt to the bank. But AG dreams of a different life and steps onto a path of exhilarating uncertainty.
- Author:Morgenthaler, SarahSummary:
He had a strict "no tourists" policy ... Until she broke all of his rules. When Graham Barnett named his diner The Tourist Trap, he meant it as a joke. Now he's stuck slinging reindeer dogs to an endless parade of resort...
- Author:Rowe, BillSummary:
"My mother told me about the good old days of long ago, which she’d heard about from her own mother and grandmother, when our ancestors were rootless, roaming mongrels known as the St. John’s water dogs. That was before some Lord...
- Author:Bayliss, JennySummary:
'Tis the season for finding romance in this hilarious and uplifting holiday readWhen it comes to relationships, thirty-four-year-old Kate Turner is ready to say "Bah, humbug." The sleepy town of Blexford, England, isn...
- Author:Andrews, DonnaSummary:
The cast of Donna Andrews' New York Times bestselling Meg Langslow mystery series is back for an unforgettable holiday story in The Twelve Jays of Christmas . Meg's brother Rob and his fiancé Delaney have been engaged for...
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
Precocious six-year-old Bertie joins the scouts to escape his mother, Matthew learns to handle the challenges of marriage, and Domenica deals with loneliness. Even four-legged Cyril gets in on the action, finding himself a bit of canine...
- Author:Munroe, DavidSummary:
Jim Kearns, a career manual labourer, struggles to overcome stifling cynicism brought on by missed opportunities and mid-life discord - then he loses his job for punching out a Hollywood action star in a bizarre job-site confrontation....
- Author:Wirestone, MaxSummary:
Meet Dahlia Moss. Unemployed, broke, and on her last bowl of ramen, she's not living her best life. But that's all about to change. Before Dahlia can make her life any messier on her own, she's offered a job that will lead her to a...
- Author:Lauren, ChristinaSummary:
For two sworn enemies, anything can happen during the Hawaiian trip of a lifetime?even love?in this witty and swoonworthy romance from the New York Times bestselling duo who "hilariously depict modern dating" (Us Weekly) and...
- Author:Faldbakken, MatiasSummary:
In the tradition of modern classics The Dinner and A Gentleman in Moscow comes The Waiter, in which the finely-tuned balance of a grand European restaurant (that has seen better days) is irrevocably upset by an unexpected guest. In a...
- Author:Trollope, AnthonySummary:
Presents the aged Reverend Harding as warden of the almshouse at Barchester providing charity for the town's neediest, and his life.
- Author:Sosa, MiaSummary:
Solange is helping a wedding until she decides to crash it to save Dean, the groom. Afterward, Dean needs a significant other for his job and he asks Solange to be his pretend girlfriend until true feelings bloom.
- Author:Pratchett, TerrySummary:
Armed only with a frying pan and her common sense, Tiffany Aching, a young witch-to-be, is all that stands between the monsters of Fairyland and the warm, green Chalk country that is her home. Forced into Fairyland to seek her kidnapped...
- Author:Snicket, LemonySummary:
Dear Listener, I am sorry to say that the lives of the Baudelaire orphans, Violet, Klaus and Sunny, are filled with bad luck and misery. All of the stories about these three children are unhappy and wretched, and the one you are holding...
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
Business is slow at the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, so slow in fact that for the first time in her estimable career Precious Ramotswe has reluctantly agreed to take a holiday. The promise of a week of uninterrupted peace is short-...
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