Introducing two-legged Bernie and his four-legged pal Chet--a canine with a penchant for solving mysteries--their first case is to track down a teenager who's out way past curfew.
Humorous fiction
- Author:Quinn, SpencerSummary:
- Author:Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel deSummary:
The greatest book about why you shouldn’t read books, weirdly written at a time when there weren’t that many books to read. Quest along with Don Quixote and the long-suffering Sancho Panza as they break peoples’ china, get beaten up by...
- Author:Cash, DixieSummary:
On an all-expenses-paid trip to a New York PI convention, the Texas Tornadoes hope to do some serious shopping. But that's before they stumble across a serial killer.
- Author:Blume, JudySummary:
His younger brother Fudge's obsession with money and an unexpected encounter with twin cousins Flora and Fauna and a weird younger cousin also named Farley Drexel Hatcher, just like Fudge, provide many embarrassing moments for...
- Author:Hiaasen, CarlSummary:
In big stakes bass fishing tournaments, contestants will do anything to win. Maybe that's why there is a corpse floating in Coon Bog. Now it's up to R.J. Decker, novice private investigator, to find out who was dying to get the biggest...
- Author:Evans, C.D., Shyba, L. M.Summary:
Ducks Redux is a YA RomCom about Maeve Wong, an environmental science graduate who gets caught up in a bizarre revolution with unscrupulous lawyers and oil barons who plan to take over the government of Oil Land. One love of Maeve’s...
- Author:Holiday, JennySummary:
There's a royal wedding on, and things are about to get interesting. Meet the man of honor. Maximillian von Hansburg, Baron of Laudon and heir to the Duke of Aquilla, is not having a merry Christmas. He's been dumped by a...
- Author:Wendig, ChuckSummary:
Molly has come home for her inheritance, and if her brother Dustin won't welcome her into the family business, then she'll take her half in cash. There's just one problem: the family business is a mortuary for monsters....
- Author:Davidson, Diane MottSummary:
Determined to take control of her life, Goldy Bear moves her catering business and her son to ritzy Aspen Meadows Country Club. Just as she's beginning to think she's got it made--catering decadent dinners and being wooed by both a...
- Author:Riche, EdwardSummary:
Nominated for the BMO Winterset Award and the ReLit Award From award-winning author Edward Riche comes an immensely readable and sharp novel about "C"-list screenwriter and wannabe vintner Elliot Johnson. With his life growing more...
- Author:Dorsey, Tim.Summary:
Serge A. Storms and his half-baked buddy Coleman are on the run from the authorities--something about a few murders--when Serge has the brilliant idea to resurrect his travelogue website. Soon he's taking his faithful readers on a...
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
Between glances in the mirror, vain Bruce contemplates a new career as a wine merchant. His troubled flatmate Pat finds herself looking for true love at a nudist picnic. Precocious Bertie, now six years old, prepares for kindergarten...
- Author:Horn, DaraSummary:
The award-winning, critically acclaimed author returns with an ingenious novel about what it would mean to live forever. Rachel has an unusual problem: she can't die. Her recent troubles-widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed...
- Author:Austin, EmilySummary:
This hilarious and profound debut for fans of Mostly Dead Things and Goodbye, Vitamin, follows a morbidly anxious young woman - "the kindhearted heroine we all need right now" (Courtney Maum, New York Times bestselling author) - who...
- Author:Rudin, PhyllisSummary:
Evie Troy, an impulsive and funny young Jewish woman, has a tendency to overcomplicate things. And that can get her into trouble. When her dying friend Jean-Gabriel, a successful and controversial francophone writer, cons her into...
- Author:Holmes, LindaSummary:
In a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth “Evvie” Drake rarely leaves her large, painfully empty house nearly a year after her husband’s death in a car crash. Everyone in town, even her best friend, Andy, thinks grief...
- Author:Kinsella, SophieSummary:
The favorite mother-daughter fairy team is back! Glittery wings, magic codes and multiplying ice cream cones combine in these next adventures from New York Times bestselling author Sophie Kinsella. Ella Brook is used to being a fairy in...
- Author:Kinsella, SophieSummary:
Fans of Sophie Kinsella's sparkling humor will love her first ever illustrated series for young readers about the charming adventures of a mother-daughter fairy duo! Ella Brook can't wait to grow up, because one day she will...
- Author:Schein, Bernie, Owens, JanisSummary:
Novelist Walker Percy once said that the only remaining unexplored territory in Southern literature was the Jewish southerner. Famous all over Town, the first novel from Southern storyteller Bernie Schein, stakes a claim on Percy's...
- Author:Smith, LeeSummary:
Speed, Alabama is celebrating its sesquintennial, 150 years of proud existence--and its whimsical inhabitants will surely not let the event pass without a party. Eccentric resident Miss Iona is there to chronicle the events in her...