Humorous fiction Books

I "Gi' den gas, Finn!" møder man de skønne beboere i boligforeningen Kanaljebo. Det er med de humoristiske og lettere satiriske briller at beboernes dagligdag beskrives.Finn, også kaldet Isgas-Finn, er ejendommens lokale brokkerøv. Han har den sureste...

Ein Irokese an der Ahr, eine randvolle Tasse Globuli und eine am falschen Tag eingetragene Beerdigung. So beginnen die Geschichten der Anni Kredelbach. Es sind kleine Dramen des Alltags, die die alte Dame mit Witz und überraschenden Ideen meistert. "Wenn...

Ein Schauspielschüler wittert die große Chance, mit berühmten Darstellern einen gemeinsamen Film drehen zu können. Dafür setzt er sich spontan mit seinem Freund in den Schnellzug nach Venedig. Was dann passiert, überrascht alle Beteiligten.Wird die...

Launige Gespräche zwischen zwei Frauen über die kleinen und die großen Dinge des Alltags, die ihnen einen philosophischen Rahmen geben. Und: Mythen aus der Antike in die Jetztzeit transportiert und neu geschrieben.

Glaube, Gerechtigkeit und Liebe, aber auch Gefräßigkeit und Arschkriecherei - bestimmte Aspekte des menschlichen Charakters überschreiten die Grenzen von Zeit, Raum und Sprache.Mehr als zweitausend Jahre nach seinem erstmaligen Erscheinen präsentiert...

Die beste zeithistorische Dokumentation aller Zeiten auf höchstem inhaltlichen Niveau beschert launige Stunden in multimedialer Art und Weise. Gespickt mit humorigen Spitzen sind die Brieferln an den Lieben Cousin Herbert mit Bildern vom großartigen...

Jeder Hundebesitzer kann von seinem Hund eine lustige Geschichte erzählen. Deswegen habe ich die Besten gesammelt und aufgeschrieben. Einige Erlebnisse wurden mir erzählt und ich erlebte einige mit meinem Hund. Ich besaß auch ungezogene Hunde und werde...

Grevinnans hämnd är den 3:e delen av trilogin: Ett rop till Gud och uppföljaren till romanen Medic and the Nun. Innehållet i denna roman berör den mörka sidan av tankar och handlingar hos män och kvinnor som drivs av dumhet, girighet, hat och hämnd som...

Advent, Advent Besinnliche Zeit? Was zumeist beschworen und wie ein Banner vorangetragen wird, das spiegelt selten die Realität. Was tatsächlich vor dem Fest der Liebe angesagt ist, sind: Stress, Streit, Gewalt, Hektik, Panik, maßlose Forderungen,...

Martin ChristenAchgott. Und andere Dialoge.Die Gespräche zwischen mir und meinem persönlichen Achgott sind zwar privat - jedoch aufgrund ihrer unterhaltsamen, oft witzigen, skurrilen und ironischen Art auch für ein breiteres Publikum von Interesse, vor...

Nörgeln Salatgurken im Kühlschrank? Hören Sie mal genau hin! Ansonsten beschäftigt sich der Autor mit Callcentern, Verschwörungen und der beruhigenden Erkenntnis, dass in der Familie seiner Lebensgefährtin und der Schwiegermutter in spe niemand...

Nepomuk ist kein normaler Dackel. Nein, er ist etwas ganz Besonderes. Er ist ein Super-Held, ein Super-Dackel!Das erkannte auch schon Hermann, als er ihn bei der Züchterin entdeckte. Der jüngste im Rudel zeigte ihm, wie gerne er zu ihm wollte: Nepomuk...

"Megazoff bei den Windsors" ist eine schrille, tabulose, freche und witzige Comedy - und viel mehr. Sie repräsentiert ein neues Genre, das der ehemalige Wochenshow-Autor Siegfried Schilling entwickelt hat und vergleichbar mit dem Comic ist: die...

"Der tägliche Blackout" - Das Sketche-Buch beinhaltet eine Sammlung von Sketchen aus den vergangenen zwei Jahren. Sie nehmen Alltagssituationen und menschliche Schwächen von "Otto Normalverbraucher" sowie "Promis", aber auch Institutionen wie die Kirche...

Plongez-vous dans les pages enchanteresses de "Trois hommes dans un bateau, sans parler du chien" et laissez-vous entraîner dans une aventure aussi hilarante qu'inoubliable. Écrit par le maître de l'humour britannique, Jerome K. Jerome, ce livre est un...

Des savants, des médecins, une course cycliste hors-norme entre Paris et Irkoutsk, des courtisanes et l'inventeur de la Perpetual-Motion-Food, un aliment qui permettrait la régénération des muscles pendant l'effort... Placé sous le signe de...

Sometimes, you've just got to get the lobster.Apart from his thankless job at Hot Dawgy Dawgs, Brooklyn's best and worst hot dog joint, twenty-something Josh Cantillo doesn't have much going on in his life. Unless you count his never-ending...

"My grandparents went to Pacific Grove and all I got was this wonderful coloring book."The latest prize from Joyce Krieg, author, and Keith Larsen (artist) is a delightful journey we take along with a brother-and-sister team of Monarchs who have come to...

Juliette, a New Yorker transplanted to Portland, Oregon for a teaching job journeys through single parenthood, orphanhood, widowhood, new love, neurotic parents, beloved students, and a life-altering bereavement group. Along the way, Juliette blends...

The crew of your starship are being systematically slaughtered. What do you do?The galaxies' ruling council have lost two ships, thousands of light years distant on the outer fringe of the Milky Way. A civilian exploration vessel and the military ship...

'It's a bit tricky to find. Just down the lane from the old ochre pit.'With these words, Trish, badly bruised by life, is catapulted into the world of celebrity author, Amanda Turner.Her marriage on the rocks, no job, and at odds with her teenage...

Who really won the Presidential Election? What's the true purpose of the Chinese moon mission? Who's building big in Madagascar? Who's on a mission to disrupt? America won't be the same again. In fact...Will it even be America?A third-party candidate to...

Who orchestrated the Financial Crash and who is behind the emerging New World Order? This book reveals all. The story is told through the eyes of a struggling entrepreneur, William Taylor Findler. Twice dead, he is reviewing his lives as a writer...

Sarabande is a novel presented mostly through the rapid-fire interactions of the characters in one-on-one situations or in small groups. Most of the novel revolves around the male protagonist, the journalist Pavlo Dudnyk, who takes his schoolhood...

HOPE AND HAPPINESS MAY NEVER DIE... BUT PEOPLE DO...It's never a good sign for the living when the dead rise & leave empty graves behind. In this of zombie tales Murphy & friends face down a jinn's deathwish; Moni the Graveyard Angel tries to close down...

The legendary gang from Bulfinche's Pub in New York City returns in new stories inwhich: A bridge jumper is saved by a god in winged sneakers while the goddess ofsuicides & a guardian of graves hunt a beast that feeds on death; the cosmic chickenlays an...

Two people trapped in their different worlds. One by wealth and one by poverty. Twenty years working for The Firm has given Marcus Barlow everything he wants but has taken his soul in return. Finding a way to leave has become an obsession.Claire...

No good deed goes unpunished: Captain Vivi Zant firmly believes that should be painted in giant red letters on station walls of every spaceport.Waking in a regen facility after a botched rescue effort, retired Space Marine Vivi Zant discovers that kindly...

He fantasizes about saving damsels in distress and battling beasts. He'd better be careful what he wishes for... Will Kirby has hit his mid-life crisis at full speed. Once a rugged outdoorsman, he's now soft around the middle and trapped in the...

You think you know the Lewis and Clark expedition, but you don't. Hi Ziege is a man who thought he was wasting his life until he discovered that he could do so much more by joining the Discovery Corps from such a nameless place as La Charrette...

Lenore is a professional mourner with the unwanted gift of a peculiar variety of precognition. She spends her days pretending to grieve for strangers and her nights genuinely grieving her recently deceased boyfriend. When Lenore is hired to attend the...

Animal Verses is just that; verses about animals. In full color, sometimes silly, but always in fun.

A Kardashian-like family and the early climate change movement are linked by a suspicious death 30 years ago.Artie Flanagan leaves his job as scriptwriter for Peepin' on the Pisanos to investigate three tragic accidents connected to the reality show...

I never thought my perp walk would lead to true love.Then again, I never thought I'd be arrested on RICO charges and hauled away in zip ties on camera for the world to see, minutes after closing the most amazing deal of my career.And all of it in front...

"Danger Slater is fearless and should be ashamed of himself. Thank God he's not." -- JOSH MALERMAN, author of Bird Box"Bizarro horror at its best."  -- SPLATTERPUNK ZINEWith the help of her gothy best friend, a socially-awkward 80s movie-obsessed...

Lillian, a gorgeous 35-year-old redhead, suburban housewife, and renowned klutz, is the last to know that her marriage is over. Her husband, Fred, is a skirt-chasing tyrant, and Lillian—who is bored to tears tending her home and family—gets...

If you like clever science fiction stories, mixed in with horror and an added twist of humour in some cases, then you maybe amused at this little concoction (light reading during the lunch hour or on the journey to and from work)

"A lovely look at a version of life as we know it. The characters are well written and the bird is a hoot. Most lives are not perfect, but most have those special moments. Read this book for a peak into those moments." -Memory Lane, Vine VoiceLucas and...

Set in the isolation of northern Canada, Hoarfrost and Cherry Blossoms is the story of Brian, a young man with a zest for life, and his eclectic group of good friends. Comedy and tragedy rival each other as they highlight the tenuous relationship...

A southern literary master's captivating novel about the rise of a Nashville-bound singer as "hillbilly" evolves into "country."

This 1894 comedy in three-acts was translated by Barrett Clark. Edmond Rostand later became famous with his writing of "Cyrano de Bergerac. The Romancers is best produced with the late 18th century in mind and customs from the Louis XVI period. This...

In this collection of hilarious essays, Edward Riche stretches his satiric muscles to lambaste just about anything that crosses his field of vision. Newfoundland writes a heartfelt letter to Canada, offering to console mainland...

­­­Bored with the usual cattle mutilations and earthling abductions, The Alien Captain and his daring, gray explorers head to Kansas to participate in a crop circle contest.  Unfortunately, due in part to a gray navigator’s poor...

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), more commonly known under the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, lecturer, publisher and entrepreneur most famous for his novels “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876) and “The Adventures of Huckleberry...

"1920 - Dips Into The Near Future" is a 1917 work by English economist John Atkinson Hobson. It contains a number of satirical writings that predict what life and the world will be life in 1920, just three years after the first publication of this book...

This is an ageless story about the genuine and cherished love between a grandfather (Papa) and his grandson. They are companions in play, storytellers, trailblazers of adventures, and explorers, unleashing their innermost boy-like innocence. As Papa...

What happens when a boy or a girl does not wear socks with their sneakers? The result, we might say, is not good! This story is about a very true situation that happened to a real little nine-year-old girl named Audra. She loves going barefoot, shopping...