Humorous fiction Books

Ross Blakey, a mining contractor on Zygol III strays from his compound and is kidnapped by a woman warrior, wielding a sword and dagger, and her grumpy male servant. So begins an perilous adventure that finds Blakey confronting death several times; each...

Edward R. Williams is in a terrible state. Set adrift in a world gone awry, he drinks far too much. His hearing is bad, accentuating his emotional numbness; he has felt lost and wandered the world since the end of the war, reeling from the death of his...

If you were about to lose your business, what would you do?This is Danny Monk's dilemma as he realises how hard it is to make ends meet in the book and office supply retail business. That is until his friend, Albert, makes what seems like an outlandish...

An anthology of humorous short stories and poetry that were all spontaneously written by J. F. Nodar during his monthly writers' group sessions attended in Camden, New South Wales. Mostly the stories are completely imaginary, but some of them are from...

An anthology of short stories and poetry. This book is a collection of short stories and poetry written while engaged in a writers group in Camden New South Wales. While the stories are both fictional there are few that are from the actual life of the...

YOU'LL SMILE, YOU'LL LAUGH, YOU'LL CRINGE,~ YOU'LL ESCAPE TO A WEIRD WORLD ~ YOU'LL WISH YOU WERE WEARING SUNGLASSES* . . ."The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" meets "Mills & Boon" with a dash of Discworld, a dog-eared 1998 copy of Lonely...

Maybe, eventually, I'll get some idea of who I am. Where I am. What I am.That's bound to be a good thing.Hadleyville is a small east-Tennessee mountain town, and Heathcliff Vanlandingham is a country boy with a wealthy father, a mother who loved Bronte,...

Bea Winslow, Private Investigator, drives her Aunt Julia McKenna (whom she fondly calls Aunt Jewels) to explore the beach in Lafouchfeye County, Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina for buried treasure. With her new metal detector, Aunt Jewels discovers...

Consider the road, any road. How things would look without it, why it is where it is, what it brings us to when we don't have anyplace to be.Where these stories take place the road cuts through fields of potatoes, corn and tobacco, past ponds and broken...

Hypocrites, heretics and heroes collide at Dirty Frank's where it is always Happy Hour. Where the cocktails are Molotovs and the garnishes are skewered Sacred Cow. Regulars at this Philadelphia bar include the millionaire minister to the mindless, an...

More Haikus for Punsters continues in the tradition of the recent Haikus for Punsters, embodying a pun word or pun expression in each haiku, that 3-line Japanese unrhymed verse form that has survived from antiquity.These 266 haiku/puns focus on a whole...

He's not pro-choice. He's not pro-life. He's just pro wrestling.At age eleven, Ted Schuman witnessed one of the most inhumane crimes of the twentieth century: Baron Von Murder lost the heavyweight wrestling championship. Ted would witness many more...

An eighteen-month contract coaching soccer skills to the affluent communities of rural New Jersey brings a young British lad to one of the greatest metropolitan districts in the world-New York City. The minute Jonny Carter has his passport stamped in the...

Amon is a black angel sent to a white family in distress. Amon has his work cut out for him in the form of Harry Stewart, the patriarch of the family, whose heritage includes many generations of prejudices.Harry and Beverly Stewart have raised Bonnie as...

Jeanne Richards, a personal trainer whose business is waning, didn't knowwhat she was getting into when she answered a casting call for a new realityTV show called Connect. But she soon finds out when she meets the othercontestants: Shirley, an...

The Great American Pity Party is a series of musings and observations that have been pulled right out of everyday American life. The topics range from "Afro Thoughts" to "Dub-ya in the White House" This book leaves no American subculture safe from its...

There's only so much abuse a young genius can take before he starts writing about the world around him. That genius is Phil Wells. In this collection of essays, plays, and poems, we see the product of an imagination warped by cartoons, fuelled by...

It is a well-written book. It grabs you right away. Exuberantly mixes sweet things in life such as friendship, love, family and its filled with plenty of action. It is easy to read, can be read by anyone and you don't want to put it down. In Found by...

Jim Armond is in serious trouble. His business and marriage are on the verge of failure, and his best friend has been linked to the mob. When Jim meets Jack-the voice he's been hearing all his life who has suddenly decided to step out of the shadows of...

Cerberus was their Dad's dog. You had to tell people he was a dog because it was hard to tell at first glance. Cerberus was the abomination that happens when a miniature dachshund gets a poodle intoxicated enough to think that a dachshund is sexy. While...

The contents of this book originally appeared as columns in The Huntsville Item, in Huntsville, Texas. Here is a sampling of the comments the columns generated: "I laughed myself silly over Latin and German as applied to Sir Isaac Newton. Am sending a...

What is the one thing we have in common? We love to laugh!From the car that creates its own music out of thin air and a mass murderer appearing on Jeopardy to the strange way in which the hunt for Osama bin Ladin first began, Have Jokes, Will Travel has...

A blonde walks into a bank in New York City and asks for the loan officer. She says she's going to Europe on a business trip for two weeks and needs to borrow $5,000. The bank officer says the bank will need some kind of security for the loan, so the...

Corey Burdick, a down at the heels Hollywood screenwriter, believes that each man should have many things he refuses to do. But he's down to his last one, namely to write for television. However, the winds of fate have other ideas and his very survival...

If you're a NASCAR fan, then you're going to love this one-of-a-kind blend of NASCAR and children's best-loved fairy tales.Imagine your favorite driver as Cinderella getting ready for the ball (NASCAR banquet), wishing on a magic genie for an awesome pit...

Obstructive Sleep Apnea is a sleeping disorder that affects millions of people but which has only recently come to widespread public attention. Fortunately, an effective therapy called continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) can treat it. Simply...

The first major work by the guy who wrote it, The Vast Barbecued Wing Conspiracy is the book version of a soap dispenser filled with hydrochloric acid, a hallucinating corporate guy with a briefcase filled with crackers, and a lampshade soaked in...

Faith Green's comfortable existence as owner of Boutique Magnifique begins unraveling when her beloved mother is seriously injured and confined to a nursing home for rehabilitation. When well enough to leave, but still unfit to live alone, Mimi is moved...

Nobody's perfect. We all have our faults, right? Erica McNeal was the first one to admit that.Then, why was it so hard for her to accept David's faults, and his marriage proposal? David was handsome, comfortable, effortless, and always there. But, have...

The Champagne Slipper brings the reader into the world of transvestites and transsexuals. Meet Lita, the silicone body queen, who heaps revenge on all who cross her; Ms. Honey Babe, prostitute and streetwalker with a different plan; and the doctor who...

The Jersey shore is frequented by millions of tourists every year. For many people living in the great cities along the East Coast of America, the Jersey shore is their only vacation destination. They come for many reasons, the ocean, the glitz of the...

"There are laughs at everyone's expense in this slick, sometimes raunchy spoof."-Publishers' Weekly"As a writer, (Denny) Hatch is no slouch. In a mirror-slick, ribald style, he has fleshed out his wishbone with a cast of characters that would make Thorne...

Author Rob Ballister delivers a touching and entertaining portrait of his journey through dating, growing up in New Jersey, and surviving cancer. Along the way, he learns that God Does Have a Sense of Humor. Follow him:Through surgery-My understanding...

Shanghai 1936. Word reaches the newsroom of the North China Daily-News that King Edward VIII is planning to marry an American divorcee, Mrs. Wallis Simpson, a one-time resident of Shanghai's International Settlement.Wallis Simpson has a thin but...

In western North Dakota, John Pickett is about to lose the ranch he loves. While visiting The Chateau, a local resort, he intercepts a phone call from the secretary of Massachusetts Senator Sheila Montgomery. Thinking fast, John offers to let the senator...

HOW TO SUCCEED IN HEAVEN WITHOUT REALLY DYING.is not a self-help book, but a darkly satirical, modern-day urban fairy tale concerning the adventures of a young man coming to terms with life, death, and all their crummy consequences. It's also the...

"I thought it was brilliant, really brilliant. What a smart boy Tristram is."--Mrs. Hoosier"I'm really a lot cooler than the book makes me out to be."--Jason Hoosier"Okay, so Tristram wrote a book. Big deal. Anybody could do that. He thinks he's so...

In The Mysterious Chinese Book of Everything, eleven stories deliver a unique, sometimes tender, often laugh-out-loud glimpse into one man's evolution from a strict Catholic upbringing in Midwestern America to an experimental and unorthodox adulthood...

Bobby Washburn, a weed dealer who lives with his alcoholic, spiraling mother, are native to Buffalo, NY. Bobby and his associates discover a way to pry them away from poverty: selling Xanax acquired from the dark web. Their small-time business becomes...

Al Luvis Woke Up is an adult fable written as a simple children's book. It is a satire of the obvious issues in our current political climate told in rhyme with colorful pictures so as to not overcomplicate the lessons. Al Luvis Woke Up lampoons a long...

Afghanistan falls, and Americans and their animals are left behind. After some owners flee and others are beheaded, fourteen animals journey from Kabul toward freedom under the banner of No Paws Left Behind, led by BB the Tibetan Mastiff, Rae the Afghan...

Cameron Murphy just landed the ultimate dream job. Unfortunately, working at one of the world's largest tech companies is a bit of a nightmare. Now, stuck in the Pacific Northwest with his family in tow, he must sidestep corporate politics, avoid the...

Written in A/B rhyme scheme, The Pallid Express follows a young man on a journey of exploration through the absurdity, the complexity, the lies, and the truth of this reality. Embark on a captivating adventure alongside a young boy named Elbert...

The librarian is back with her first misanthropic anthology!When three brave astronauts embark on a trip to the moon, little do they know that a hidden purpose awaits them—an alien signal detected from the moon, shrouded in secrecy to prevent panic...

What if ghosts are more afraid of us than we are of them? Eileen didn't expect afterlife to be quite like this. Besides not being able to leave the house, she enjoys a normal existence, reading her favorite books over and over. It's not so bad...

Leo Larsson is a change-averse software developer with a forgettable presence and a life as bland and dry as Swedish crisp bread.  Leo has three goals: keep a low profile, avoid customer support at all costs, and deal with an obsessed dentist with a...

No one wants to be single at the holidays. Even Little Miss Grinch, Nikki, a successful and independent woman, must face her bachelorette status at the most horrible time of the year. December is her personal version of holly-jolly hell: a...