On all other nights, the train departs from Stain'd Station and travels to the city without stopping. But not tonight. You might ask, why is this night different from all other nights? But that's the wrong question. Instead...
Humorous fiction
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Author:Snicket, LemonySummary: - Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
There is the surveyor who dreams of a membership in Muirfield golf club. There is the pushy Stockbridge mother. There is the intellectual lady who sees herself as part of a much larger world. These characters and more confront issues of...
- Author:Munsch, RobertSummary:
Jason's dad falls asleep everywhere … except in his own bed. All night long, Jason gets woken up by strange noises that lead him to find his dad in the most unexpected places—from on top of the refrigerator to the freezing cold woods...
- Author:Colgan, JennySummary:
Lissa is a nurse in a gritty, hectic London neighborhood. Always terribly competent and good at keeping it all together, she's been suffering quietly with PTSD after helping to save the victim of a shocking crime. Her supervisor quietly...
- Author:Jones, DaryndaSummary:
Del Sol, New Mexico is known for three things: its fry-an-egg-on-the-cement summers, its strong cups of coffee - and, now, a nationwide manhunt? Del Sol native Sunshine Vicram has returned to town as the elected sheriff - thanks to her...
- Author:Feiffer, JulesSummary:
In this humorous story, the court magician thinks a quest will cure Prince Roger's unkinglike tendency to laugh constantly. Soon Roger's annoying people in faraway lands, and someone is unfortunately clever enough to escape...
- Author:Lavoie, Marie-ReneeSummary:
A Boring Wife Settles the Score marks the return of Diane, the raunchy and entertaining heroine of the prize-winning and bestselling Autopsy of a Boring Wife. Despite the end of her marriage, Diane still has plenty of love to give....
- Author:Quinn, SpencerSummary:
Quinn delivers an original short story answering the question on all his fans' minds: How exactly did Chet (the dog) and Bernie (the PI) meet? Everyone knows that Chet met Bernie on the day he flunked K-9 police school, but the...
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
Life at Corduroy Mansions, nestled in London's hip Pimlico neighborhood, is as lively as ever. While Berthea Snark scribbles a scathing biography of a Parliament member--her son!--William French frets that his own son will never leave...
- Author:Jackson, KosokoSummary:
One of Amazon's Best Romances of December A December LibraryReads Pick Sometimes two cooks in the kitchen are better than one in this swoony romantic comedy from the author of I’m So (Not) Over You. Xavier Reynolds is doing...
- Author:Fleischman, PaulSummary:
Welcome to Cliffside High, the school of your nightmares. It's run by the Huns, a ruthless clique of rich students--and, as poor Charity Chase discovers, messing with them can be murder. There's Tiffany, avid reader of every beauty...
- Author:de Nikolits, LisaSummary:
The adage about “what happens in Vegas” is funny precisely because we know it’s wishful thinking. A Glittering Chaos is about what happens when “what happens in Vegas” comes home to haunt you. Melusine is a German librarian...
- Author:Brown, Rita MaeSummary:
Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown are back chasing a mystery with their unique circle of Southern sleuths. And though the changing colors of fall are a beauty to behold, this year the scattered leaves hide a grim...
- Author:Sorensen, SueSummary:
Janey knows she should be trying to put her academic career on the map, but how? She'll more readily poke fun at than engage in yet another overly dry and theoretical conference. And her husband and their friends simply encourage her...
- Author:Wringham, RobertSummary:
Indolent dandy Robert Wringham (“superb”—The Telegraph) occupies a lazy, hazy, mazy world of geriatric flies, winking sparrows, and smiling labradoodles.
Witness!
– a ‘Hungry Hippos’ hustle
– an operatic battle of...
- Author:Juby, SusanSummary:
Butler-detective Helen Thorpe returns to help a wannabe influencer get her life in order - and solve the murders of her fellow content creators - in this hilarious sequel to Mindful of Murder by bestselling author Susan Juby When...
- Author:Davies, RobertsonSummary:
An absorbing account of Monica Gall's education in London as a singer and as a human being, this novel is comic in the true sense, vivid and frequently moving.
- Author:Smith, RaySummary:
Set in the small German city of Waltherrott, this novel is a madcap excursion from the 1980s back to 1848, the year of revolutions, then back to the time of the Black Death in the late 1340s. A startling comedy, 'A Night at the Opera'...
- Author:Blackston, RaySummary:
At first, Lanny Hooch thinks the sign at the gas station is a practical joke: "Unleaded $0.12 per gallon for the Redeemed--$6.66 for everyone else." At McDonald's, he notices crosses on the employees' lapels and french fries--renamed...
- Author:Winkler, HenrySummary:
Hi there, I'm Hank. Here's what you need to know about me: I don't try to make the kids in my class laugh, but somehow I do. Spelling is my worst subject. (Come to think of it, so are math and reading!) I try hard-I...
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