Humorous fiction Books

Life had been going swimmingly, as life usually does in Hampton Cove, when suddenly disaster struck. Odelia had scheduled a surprise visit to Vena Aleman. Vena is our local vet, and a master at inflicting pain and suffering. And as it happens she was...

When Grandma Muffin announced she'd found religion, and started recruiting followers for her new church, I just figured it was par for the course. After all, Gran has always had an eccentric streak. But when Harriet decided to follow in Gran's footsteps...

O humor inteligente e afiado de Bert Jr. alça voo e vem a público em Fict-Essays e contos mais leves, coletânea que apresenta sete contos inéditos. Alguns mais sutis, outros mais complexos, mas sempre com uma narrativa de estilo forte, vivo e sagaz, os...

In a leafy suburb of Shanghai lives Li Yang: a local employed by various foreign families to take care of their needs.It's the turn of the millennium, and China is evolving. At the centre of the dynamic change is the vibrant hub of Shanghai, a melting...

Southern Shorts is a collection of the very best of Sue Mydliak's short stories, set in a small town called Dry Prong, Louisiana.Now, you'll never imagine the situations that Charlese gets herself into with her friends, co-workers, and her nutty...

Graphic artist Rob Stone is selected as the new CEO of Remora Insurance. Although he has guile and a sharp tongue, he lacks any management or business experience, and must overcome a variety of challenges.He must contend with a white-collar rebellion, a...

City streets break the weak. The vice and violence compel men and women to swear an oath to protect the most vulnerable in society.To swim amidst the criminal tide, a police officer needs courage and conviction. To thrive in a department corrupt to the...

Uma nevasca se aproxima do Condado de Wharton com uma vingança.A Madame Zenya previu que essa tempestade furiosa iria mudar a vida do Kellan, mas a vidente famosa nunca poderia tê-lo preparado para todos esses danos colaterais. Depois que a Nana D...

Sucia Oscuridad son diez historias de la corriente de los asuntos humanos, para los que nos sentimos magnéticamente atraídos por lo apasionado, lo extraño y lo espantoso.Prepárese para conocer a la pareja de luna de miel que se encuentra con desolación...

Si fueras el padre de una hija de veinticinco años, que es una estudiante perpetua desempleada y que viene con su gato, ¿qué harías?Rachel y Joe, que se han retirado a un condominio para mayores de 50 años, deben ejercer un amor duro con su única hija,...

Dies ist der mittlerweile vierte Band der Geschichten für alle Lebenslagen. Wie auch in den bisher erschienenen Büchern dieser Reihe liegt das Hauptaugenmerk auf dem Humor. Ich lasse hier einfach mal die Leser der Vorgängerbände sprechen, ja?"Geschichten...

Die Busbestie liefert die Geschichte von Oberkommissar Blaosiegel und seinen tollkühnen Mitstreitern,die einen ausufernden Mordfall aufklären müssen ohne sich dabei selbst im Wege zu stehen. Gemessen an der "Volle Hose Mentalität" manch kompromissloser...

Wer von Ihnen hat nicht schon mal den Koffer gepackt, um sich in das Abenteuer einer Reise zu werfen? Wer von Ihnen kam nicht schon einmal enttäuscht wieder zurück und fragte sich, warum er sich das angetan hat. Auch ich habe manches Lehr-geld zahlen...

Ein Musiker reist mit seiner Begleiterin nach Italien, Ischia, wo die beiden für sechs Wochen ihren Auftritt haben. Allerlei Humoristisches passiert zwischendurch. Ein fröhlicher Reise- und Aufenthaltsbericht erwartet den geschätzten Leser, darüber...

Walter ist Pessimist - und das aus gutem Grund. In seinem Leben läuft alles schief. Er hat kein Glück mit den Frauen, seine Familie will nichts von ihm wissen und in der Arbeit muss er einen albtraumhaften Chef ertragen. Zudem kämpft er mit chronischen...

Kurzgeschichten, die zum Schmunzeln, Lächeln und Lachen verleiten. Geschichten über fast normale, skurrile, verrückte oder fantastische Situationen, die nur selten so enden, wie man es zunächst vermutet.... und jetzt gehe ich eine rauchen ist ein Buch,...

Der Roman des Jahres, der es Insta hat!*** Scheißscheißtag: Alte Klamotten zum Bewerbungsgespräch anziehen. Nicht ausreichend über die Werbeagentur informiert sein. Mit dem Zeh im Schlafanzug hängen bleiben und mit der linken Braue die Türklinke küssen...

Sobald man sich ein Smartphone anschafft, ist man Herr oder Frau über Apps, ob man will oder nicht. Was da alles zugehört und was passieren kann, wird in einer lustigen Geschichte erzählt. Bitte nicht alles so ernst nehmen, auch wenn ihnen einiges...

Irrtümlicherweise ersteigert die Hellseherin Birgit alias Mme. Helena ein falsches Buch. Zu ihrem Erstaunen entdeckt sie darin eine alte japanische Weissagung, die sich direkt an sie wendet: Ausgerechnet sie kann mit sechs weiteren Verschworenen den...

Das neue Geschöpf sagt, sein Name sei Eva. Das ist ganz recht, und ich will nichts dagegen einwenden. Es sagt, der Name sei dazu da, dass ich es rufen könne, wenn ich es bei mir zu haben wünsche. Darauf erwiderte ich, dass der Name dann überflüssig sei.

Das Leben schreibt die unglaublichsten Geschichten. In diesem Buch sind lustige, amüsante, fröhliche, liebevolle, nachdenkliche, melancholische und schräge Gedichte und Kurzgeschichten, die Angie Pfeiffer kurz und knapp auf den Punkt gebracht hat.

Nantes, un jour de Noël. "Et allez ! un de plus !" diront certains. Mais lorsque L@moimon, un prince de l'enfer, revient sur terre, ici, en plein centre-ville, jette son grain de sel sur les préparatifs en cours - y compris les programmes télé -...

Augustin Triboulet s'apprêtait à reprendre la route mais il doit vite déchanter et revoir ses plans. Il lui faudra d'abord quitter le Cosmos où il cachait sa mélancolie et faire de nouvelles rencontres. L'enjeu est de taille, sauver la veuve et...

Plus de 400 anecdotes, entre humour et philosophie, du mythique héros oriental Nasr Eddin Hodja, annotées et commentées. Leur brièveté rend leur portée encore plus percutante (des sous-marins ou des missiles, c'est selon).

Le Rire est universel ! Adoptez la QUINQUATTITUDE !Que vous soyez une femme ou un homme et quel que soit votre âge, vous trouverez votre dose de rire dans ces tranches de vies piquantes et drôles de Sessile ! Famille, enfants, travail, amour...tout le...

Santa and His Merry Companions. This book, Santa and His Merry Companions, completes the trilogy, beginning with The Reindeer Dog and then the book, Diego and the Goofy Witches of Beigua. This story, Santa and His Merry Companions, begins on Christmas...

Gordon Pless’s One Loony Eclipse: A Real Full Moon follows the descendants of perpetually penniless Odem Jack Schitt as they interact with characters on both the right side of the law, like police officers Lauren Order, Jason Crooks, and Brook M...

Buddy Smithson is a jazz loving, romantically naïve college student who has never had a serious relationship with a girl.  When his best friend impulsively joins the Navy, Buddy reluctantly agrees to take care of his car and his fiancé...

A New Dark Leader Has Emerged...Following Maurice's near-assassination and the overthrow of the American Vampire Council, Reginald, Maurice, and Nikki have fled to Luxembourg, where they've taken refuge under the protection of Karl Stromm and the EU...

Immortality Has Met Its Match...Ever since the Ring of Fire, the world's vampires have seen their mortality. They won't live forever after all - not if the angels who created them decide to snuff them like candles.What do the angels want? What did their...

Angels and Demons, Myths and Legends...It's been six months since Reginald Baskin became a vampire too fat to live happily with the beautiful undead - six months in which Reginald and his two-thousand-year-old maker Maurice have learned that safety does...

Now a new TV series on SYFY: Reginald The Vampire!Death Has a Brand New Appetite...When overweight treadmill salesman Reginald Baskin finally meets a co-worker who doesn't make fun of him, it's his own bad luck that tech guy Maurice turns out to be...

"A wild ride! I laughed, I gasped, and my face got all wet in the end." -G.M. NairMay's humdrum life is flung into hyperdrive when she's rescued from an alien abduction by Xan, an alien with a fondness for I Love Lucy who lives on the Audacity. But when...

Private Clubs in America and around the World - The Reprise Edition is a very funny and perceptive glimpse into the wonderfully zany world of private clubs. Private clubs are inextricably woven into the histories, traditions and cultures of ALL free...

The second paperback volume of the Stetson Jeff Adventures includes three books: Book 4, Danger in Dangriga; Book 5, Combat on El Camino; and Book 6, Denouement in Dallas. Our hero Stetson Jeff Stetson has found his way home, but a copy of a letter sent...

When Jeff Stetson's Daddy decides to try manufacturing Jeans in Thailand, Jeff decides he ought to go see the operation for himself. As Jeff begins to travel the world in pursuit of justice and a great piece of steak, it dawns on him that all is not as...

A fun and uplifting science fiction novel with an optimistic view of the futureNuclear scientist Tom, his brave, spunky 12-year-old daughter Stephanie, and NASA mission commander Theresa join forces during a First Contact. Tom finds himself risking his...

A match made on Aisle 5...Once she finishes these renovations, Lila can finally sell the money pit she'd been living in and get back on her feet. But on box store wages, that'll take decades. Then her friend Pierre proposes the perfect solution.Pierre...

Max Hilton is my high school nemesis turned billionaire. And tomorrow I deliver his lunch order.In a cat costume.You know he's going to love it. He'll smile that smirky smile, sitting there all superior in his gleaming tower, the wealthiest and most...

This satirical adaptation of the Lewis Carroll classic is a twisted retelling of an already absurdist vision of reality. Raul Contreras inspired artwork is an entertaining and modern take on familiar illustrations and the story is no children's...

That Demon Life is a comic tale of lust and laziness, of crime and competence-and incompetence. It's the story of Linda Smallwood, a sometimes depressed, always difficult, Austin criminal defense lawyer, who finds that her life is mired in a series of...

When rock’s former biggest rebel loses everything, he’s forced to call in favors from all the rock star royalty whom he’d burned his entire career.With a trashed comeback tour, creditors on his ass, no record deal, a health issue he...

“Loaded with plenty of whiskey-tango-foxtrot moments, War Under the Mango Tree is a thoroughly entertaining lampoon of the US military machine via a fictionalized mission in an equally fictional Central African country... Not since Catch 22 has a...

The First Lady Of Yuletide Cheer in her very first prose novel! Watch the champion of Christmas and her Sugar Plum Fairy companions, Holly, Noel and Carol, as they chase a treacherous yeti named Charlie through the mystical realms of "The Fade", a...

All Mallory needs to do to get home is travel across Toronto in a straight line-how hard could it be?But in this genderbent retelling of Homer's Odyssey set in the 2003 Northeastern Blackout, nothing so simple can ever go according to plan.Before even...

In the tradition of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett, we present the surreal adventures of the revered members of the Society for the Preservation of Preposterous Absurdity. The preposterous will live while there is breath in their bodies, living or...

Dol and Matt came to the countryside for a taste of the good life. Blissful peace and privacy in an old converted church, and not a single (living) neighbour. Matt's got his home office, Dol's got her soap-making. Their dogs, Ebony and Lola, have all the...