Humorous fiction Books

"Caper-Sauce" is a pleasing and satirical brief tale written by Fanny Fern, the pen call of nineteenth-century American writer Sara Payson Willis Parton. The narrative humorously critiques societal norms and gender roles ordinary in Victorian America...

Una estancia de una semana en una espeluznante mansión de Connecticut que está llena de pasadizos ocultos, cadáveres que desaparecen y extravagantes receptores de herencias. Y si eso no es suficiente para crear momentos espeluznantes en la apartada...

Simon and Auden Triller are twins whose only similarity is the surname they share. From an early age, Simon's life is filled with academic and athletic accomplishments, friends and adults who admire him. As he grows older, his determination to succeed...

Embark on a Deliciously Funny Adventure with Our Hilarious Coloring Book!Product Overview:Title: Deliciously Funny Dimensions: 8.5 x 8.5 inches Pages: 94A Whimsical Journey Awaits: Dive into the delightful world of "Deliciously Funny," where every page...

Wir hinterlassen Spuren, doch viele verblassen irgendwann. Doch wie bleibt Erinnerung lebendig? Was kann den Augenblick vor dem Vergehen bewahren? Günter Bosien hat Worte gefunden, um diese Spuren zu sichern, um Wege nachvollziehbar zu machen. Manchmal...

"Unsere eingespielte Hausordnung" das war der Maßstab aller Dinge und Bewertungen. Wehe, jemand wagte, anderer Meinung zu sein. Welche Auswüchse diese vorgefertigten Meinungen haben können, wird hier in einer Fülle von Begebenheiten dargestellt, über die...

Die pensionierte Ärztin Elena hat alles was sie zum Leben braucht, doch der "Ruhestand" macht sie eher unruhig. Das ändert sich, als sie im Lotto sechs Millionen gewinnt. Was tun mit dem vielen Geld? Erst denkt sie daran, es ihren Kindern zu schenken,...

Spontan nimmt Charlotte die Einladung ihrer Freundin Lena an, zusammen mit ein paar Bekannten an die Nordsee zu fahren. Doch dort prallen unterschiedliche Interessen aufeinander, das Wetter spielt nicht immer mit, alte Konflikte kochen hoch, Lenas Freund...

Märchen, Mord und mehr aus Pforzheim und Umgebung.Zum fünfjährigen Jubiläum des Goldstadt-Autoren e. V. setzen sich siebzehn Vereinsautorinnen und -autoren mit der Region auseinander, in der sie leben. In spannenden, bissigen, tiefgründigen oder...

Viktor würde gerne ein selbstbestimmtes Leben führen und in Ruhe mit seinen 250kg Körpergewicht auf seinem Geld sitzen bleiben. Doch dann muss er wegen Steuerhinterziehung ins Gefängnis, wo er aufgrund seines Aussehens Schwerverbrecher genannt wird. Als...

Wieso muss ein Mensch mit Flugangst ausgerechnet einen neuen Job in der Luftfahrt bekommen?Welche großen Geheimnisse verbergen sich hinter den Vorhängen von Umkleidekabinen?Woran liegt es tatsächlich, dass die Bahn niemals pünktlich ist?Warum kann eine...

Konflikte sind vorprogrammiert:Acht Teilnehmer eines Selbsterfahrungsseminars aus Hessen unternehmen eine einwöchige Reise durch das Wattenmeer. In der Enge eines alten Segelschiffes prallen die unterschiedlichsten Charaktere aufeinander. Besonders...

Imagine an author in her prime and she wants to retire. Easy it seems. Except writing is in her blood. Literary licence follows the fortunes of Ursula Drewsbury as she discovers retirement is more than gardening and cups of tea. She creates a...

Planet Hy Man is in turmoil. Her leader lost on earth. Will Mex rise to the challenge or fade faster than her hair dye?Mex is heading for the Edinburgh Festival in search of lost energy. Hot on her heels is Beryl, her leader who has already dropped Mex...

Roger is a down-to-earth builder, Judy is the harassed single mother of four teenage boys, and Thelma is a librarian who usually looks as though she's been sitting on a wasps' nest for most of her life. Neville is on the lookout for a woman (any...

Welcome to the guesthouse on the Green, where Mammy and her girls will make you feel part of the family. Settle in and enjoy your stay at O'Mara's, where stories abound, romance lurks and laughter sounds.It's short notice, but you're invited to an O'Mara...

Brace yourselves! The Etrurian Players are back!The Gods are well aware that mortals have a habit of taking themselves far too seriously. This is especially true of The Etrurian Players, the greatest theatrical troupe in the Roman Empire.Basking in the...

This is the story about a young homicide detective who along with her childhood friends form a club called The Totem Lake Lesbian Coffee Society. When her friend Vincent {the damsel in distress} and several of her friends get abducted by aliens, the...

A quirk of fate has enabled the donation of a history-altering amount of cash to the ministry of a popular religious leader in a solidly Conservative state. Having interpreted the donation as a sign from above, the pastor has divined its purpose: to...

Embark on a darkly humorous journey of reality TV meets the macabre. On the set of The Groom, a group of women must compete for the heart of Midwestern bachelor Tristan by spending a week in a haunted house. Divorcee Linda, resigned to her role as the...

Malcolm Douglas runs from a convenience store.Officer Mike Hargreaves orders the young Black man to stop, but Malcolm raises his hand and Officer Hargreaves shoots him, only to realize that Malcolm's 'weapon' was a hot dog, not a gun. In small-town...

Fresh out of art school with a pile of debt and a broken heart, Della moves into her parents' basement in suburban Nebraska and lands a "temporary" job as a deli clerk. Struggling to smile under the small talk of corporate commands, she contends with...

"Sometimes our past is the only truth-teller, specially when the real-life persons are not always factual to us, or when the personal memories likewise are not so certain over the years." Such is the wisdom of kind-hearted Erasmus T. Yang, frustrated...

Ralph Bland's thirteenth novel, Fast Car, is the story of the friendship shared between an older man in his fifties and a young man closing fast on his thirties in current day Nashville, Tennessee. The two meet while working as automobile mechanics for...

A quest for institutional survival, two subversive corporate employees, Sid Sidney a technician and Mia Monroe a would-be shadow artist, get caught up in the undertow of office-speak and bastardized metrics tracking printer glitches, insurance profits,...

Laughing is Legal! The primary purpose for writing this book was to create a fun read. I hope my stories will variously entertain you with insights from a physician's perspective, or explain unexpected and fascinating details behind prosaic topics like...

"Beneath wordplay, double entendres, dry sarcasm, and pop culture references is a sweet and meaningful novel about love at every stage of a relationship." --Foreword Clarion ReviewsA "Snappy intimately comic stage satire of marriage life." -BooklifeIn...

"Cruz, do you remember NeuroDancer?"Our favorite, sci-fi private eye is back in the tenth novel in the Liquid Cool sci-fi noir detective series.New suit. New hat. New case. At first, he thought his natural paranoia was playing tricks on him, but now he's...

Barney Starr rolls into a bucolic Oregon wine country town as a recently demoted newspaper reporter forbidden to write anything more interesting than a fluff piece on a local celebrity dessert diva. But when his car literally crashes into what looks...

A Telepathic Hitman Has Stolen His Body!Beware the Fashion Police!After a hit man blasts telepathic psychiatrist David Lumen's mind into the body of a pampered kitty on its way home to the moon, David's desperate plan to make himself whole again is...

Fitzgerald's characters in this novel are complex, especially with respect to marriage and intimacy. The work is generally considered to have drawn upon and be based on Fitzgerald's relationship and marriage with his wife Zelda Fitzgerald...

Nicole is an average American woman who is looking for love in all the wrong places. Who would have guessed that a dumpster in the back alley below her bedroom window would hold the key to finding love?

[Slavitt's] sentences are so unburdened by the trivial or any kind of distraction, so transparent, that it would be too gross even to say that they are like angels in the sky. Because they don't just hang around in the sky like angels; they are the sky...

Tom Shipley's War: Memoirs of a Weekend Warrior.Tom Shipley was first introduced in The Innocence of Tom Shipley Teacher, Tom is an innocent, idealist reaching his maturity in the mid-1960s. He is dedicated, hardworking and loyal. His humorous escapades...

One holiday could change her life forever. When Tania is invited to spend the summer with her aunt Judith on the stunning Greek island of Crete, she's torn. She hasn't been able to bring herself to travel since her last vacation romance utterly...

Welcome to the little Irish village of Emerald Bay where the sun is shining, the locals are gossiping, and romance is in the air. But will returning home be the fresh start Imogen Kelly needs? Thirty-year-old Imogen Kelly is meant to be living her...

When four singers discover a curious vocal technique called The Fifth Voice, they reveal a prize that changes their lives. But the death of Ken, their inspirational coach and mentor, leaves them grief-stricken and uncertain about the future.Vince, Danny,...

A poignant and comic tale of four lives and a single passion...The lives of four singers are far from harmonious. Danny's marriage is on the rocks, while Vince is struggling with a debilitating illness. Henry is having a mid-life crisis, and Neil is at...

Has Katy inherited Johnny Norfolk's unerring left foot skills? Will Annabelle's shins ever recover? Just what do you wear to a Basque Night? Why doesn't Michael find anything easy? Why doesn't Judy enlist the aid of Johnny Stevens in writing her...

Linda, Bette, Gemma, and Augusta are four lifelong friends who live in Montreal. This year they're all going to turn fifty, so they decide to take a trip to New York together (courtesy of Linda's philandering husband's Visa Platinum). But at the...

Roughly Oddbins O'Reilly is a Detective Inspector with the Colwyn Bay force. Dr Heinz Pumpernickel is his mysterious writing professor. Roughly produces stories for his writing course that include a description of life on a Cornish lighthouse, the truth...

They came!They rolled!They shredded!Nothing can stop the killer tumbleweeds when they descend on Las Vegas!Starring Dean Valentine, and introducing Glitter, the most stunning showgirl on the strip. You won't want to miss ATTACK OF THE KILLER...

Curiosity didn't kill the cat. It mutated it into a vigilante crime fighter.Dan's cats are acting weird. One has grown into a strength powerhouse, the other wants to communicate... verbally. And now other kitties have begun to go missing from his quiet...

When a new drug is about to hit the L.A. market, it's up to two cops (and one more cop in a shoehorned-in sub-plot) to stop the drugs, take down the bad guys, and try not to get killed... or die trying.  When Detective John Expendable is killed...

An instant bookseller favourite, The Shame of John Slade is a darkly comic story, perfect for fans of About a Boy by Nick Hornby, Money by Martin Amis, and My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh.A...

Botched apple pie isn't the only thing that goes wrong at Fun Warriors Ranch. Loud snorers and a skillful predator also plague Rae Greyson.At a neglected campsite, it's not all s'mores as Rae fights for her wits and morals among testy coworkers, creepy...

Thatcher's Britain in the 1980s. A teenage boy obsessed with The Beatles and unsure of his sexuality is unceremoniously dumped in a boarding school full of rugby players who only listen to Madonna. No one wants to risk being seen with the boy who might...