Humorous fiction Books

Musician Sam Greene will play the piano at any dingy Chicago establishment that will hire him. At the end of many evenings, he can count on his longtime mentor, the great jazz pianist Ben Webster to join him for a few numbers. In his seventies, Ben...

In this stimulating collection of short stories amazing things happen: Nessie grants an exclusive interview, turkeys and foxes speak, ghosts write, dreams and fantasies take on a menacing realty, ancient history is brought to life, revenge is sought and...

After being passed over for yet another promotion at The Company, Marvin comes to the sobering realization that his life is a failure. He watches others around him become happier and more successful while he continues to fail time and time again. Every...

In 1986, about 20 years ago, Brent Forrester, retired high school English teacher, and a widower, bought a second-hand jacket in a thrift store in Philadelphia. It had the logo of an aardvark on one pocket. Over the years he came to see it as a kind of...

After discovering that hurricane Andrew did something to their hedges, known in Florida as ficus, this group of seniors find a way to turn the leaves into a miraculous ointment. It not only heals and soothes, it reduces sags and bags. It tightens...

Welcome to Cythera, the jewel (more or less) of Mid-America, where anything can-and often does-go wrong! And, when it does go wrong, run for cover!America is at war (again) with one of its smaller neighbors, and the pros and cons are clearly delineated...

Brimming with the sights and sounds of the golden era of hockey, Bath Night and Hockey Sticks tells the heartwarming story of a hockey-loving twelve-year-old boy and the hometown hockey team that united his Canadian village in 1939.The small town of...

Frozen in a block of ice and awakened 11,000 years later, a woolly mammoth is nursed back to life by a herd of distantly related coos. His existence is discovered by Ian and Ina Stevenson and their friend, Baird, who live a simple life in the hills and...

Richard Stukk is a full-time English professor at the College of the Living Dead (otherwise known as Copequa Community College) and a part-time private eye.Born a curmudgeon and raised paranoid in New York City, he now finds himself with an overly needy...

A selection of poetry, drama, and short fiction. The material is mostly experimental although rhyming and word play are important in the poetry. The subject matter varies from split-second perceptions to life long debates with inner demons. As life is...

HAVE YOU EVER HOPED FOR A REAL FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH? The White Raven Mystery is a serious investigation into the actual location of the TREE of LIFE and the GARDEN of EDEN, written into a hilarious adventure. Fruit from the TREE of LIFE, says scripture,...

A comedy about a 9 year old boy who is disappointed and concerned about his social status in his grammer school and community becauses he receives a J.C.Higgins bicycle instead of a Schwinn. To make his point he compares his J.C.Higgins to America's...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Woody, Dawn, Ryan, Summer and their friends continue their island adventure as a new political movement takes shape, the Caribbean enters the Space Race and a hostile White House unleashes a bumbling C.I.A. "black ops" team. Include a flying cat, an...

A doggington bark.  A doggington woof.  A doggington growl...    Dogs are everywhere and troubled retiree Lindy Styre is terrified of dogs.  Even a walk through her neighbourhood is fraught with peril...    How can such...

A prototypical child of the sixties, Senator Reuben Castle coasted through his early life on a cloud of easy charisma, leaving behind more skeletons than Arlington: a highly questionable Vietnam record, an abandoned wife, and worse. Now, two decades...

When Gadget and his friends arrive at Fantazmagoricon, they have no idea what is in store. Like mad scientist superheroines and even more mad supervillains. Aliens, time travel, alternate realities, virtual realities, vampires, werewolves. shapeshifters,...

It's happening, and you're invited! After three mystery stories crammed with blackmail, poisonings, graveyard theft, arms dealing, gunfights, and more than a few suspicious deaths, Bliss Moonbeam Cornwall and Police Chief Neil Redfern have given up...

Who killed Milly Tine, a rich elderly widow in the sleepy town of Sunny Hills? Lt. Chuck Goodwin, a former Big City Homicide Detective, is on the job. He suspects the homicide is too perfect to be the killer's only victim. As Goodwin and his partner, Sgt...

É com grande satisfação que apresentamos ao público brasileiro e português esta nova obra do consagrado escritor espanhol Francisco Angulo, "Coisas que não deves fazer se queres ser escritor".Angulo...

This is a unique book and fascinating story, where seven developmentally challenged adults go camping in the wilds in National Parks. The story is seen through the eyes of Dave, who somewhat volunteers to go along on the insane 10-day trip, and soon...

Se hai mai pensato di fare lo scrittore, non perderti questa storia!Dieci racconti brevi in cui racconto alcune delle cose che mi sono capitate mentre cercavo di diventare scrittore..."Non è un romanzo, è un insieme di racconti...

The Promethean is an amazingly funny novel exposing the utter insanity of modern academia and the world of technology. An extraordinary tale of ambition, social justice, and human folly, it combines the mordant wit of W. Somerset Maugham with a sense of...

A Rose, la decente y correcta, le encantan los libros, la natación y el coro folclórico. Pero, cuando su gregaria mejor amiga llega a casa después de un viaje de diez años alrededor del mundo, su existencia segura y cómoda se ve sumida en el caos...

In cerca di rifugio dopo una vita disastrosa, Yvette Grimm arriva in Australia e vi resta fin dopo la scadenza del visto turistico.Volendo disperatamente ritagliarsi una vita da immigrata britannica clandestina, fonda le sue speranze sulla profezia di...

Hätte Emma doch bloß ihren Mund gehalten! Nach einem Gefühlsausbruch schicken höhere Mächte die Studentin - schwanger, pleite und von ihrem Freund im Stich gelassen - auf Selbstfindungs-Trip in die Vergangenheit. Die Krönung erlebt Emma im Essen des 21...

"Wer eine Reise macht, der kann was erzählen" - und so ist auch mit einem Schiff. Es gibt die kuriosesten Erlebnisse. Staunen, Lachen, Kopf schütteln. Alles kommt vor. Da kam mir die Idee - das muss man irgendwann festhalten. Freizeit-Kapitäne und...

Beiß die Nabelschnur durch und hau ab!Ein heiteres Buch über die nahezu üblichen Mutter/Tochter-Probleme. Kichern und Lachen auf jeder Seite garantiert!

Die erste romantische Liebeskomödie, die auch Männern gefällt! Und coolen Frauen sowieso. Ein Roadtrip durch China voller tiefgründigem Blödsinn, wagemutigen Heldinnen und fesselnden Tinderdates. Kommentiert von Gott, Buddha, Donald Trump und Hugo, dem...

Aller guten Dinge sind drei. Auch in Ihrem 3. Band schreibt Sandy Jud über Gott und die Welt,über grossartig Kleines, über kleine Grossartigkeiten und über denganz alltäglichen Wahnsinn in einer bekloppten Welt.Gewohnt frisch und frei von der Leber weg,...

Walther Schneider ist mit seinem Leben zufrieden. Er hat alles strukturiert und organisiert und scheint alles im Griff zu haben. Doch eines Tages, nach einem Sturz, rät ihm sein Arzt zu einem Aufenthalt in einer Rehaklinik. Walther lässt sich überzeugen,...

"Babette hat schon immer geahnt, dass es Echsenmenschen geben muss, schließlich steckt in dem Wort existieren ja auch irgendwie das Wort Echse." Mit viel satirischem Witz und absurder Komik erzählen die Kurzgeschichten von Babette, einer rüstigen...

Bob, ein unternehmungslustiges Stoffbärchen, hat inzwischengroße Fortschritte bei der Bewältigung seiner Unfallfolgengemacht. Susi, eine kleine süße Stoffmaus, begleitet ihn durch sein Leben. Sie wurde seine beste Freundin, zum Leidwesen seines besten...

Kafkas Wellten Zwei Erzählungen aus Absurdistan Kunstkunst Kunst des Lesens

Als feinsinniger Beobachter seiner Zeitgenossen hat Max Spiecker über das Alltagsleben in Pommern Ende des 19. und Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts geschrieben.Mit viel Verständnis und Einfühlungsvermögen hat er die Freuden, Sorgen und Nöte der Menschen in...

Als Susanne mit 55 Jahren ihren Top-Job verliert, muss sie erfahren, dass es in ihrem Alter gar nicht so leicht ist, neuerlich im Berufsleben Fuß zu fassen. Zum Glück hat sie gute Freunde, eine Menge Ideen und das Rosenschlösschen, ihr ehemaliges...

Professor Sigurdsen is a textbook paranoid with a persecution complex and delusions of grandeur.  He lives in a world that rarely connects with the real one.Dr. Hobart Blember.Do yourself a favour.  Don't send us any more articles.  We...

A selection of short stories.Library Girl. Departure, Flagrant. Ecstatic. Pretty Vroom. 74.Tantalizing thrills too far. Alluring Macau.Inviting Tiger love wealth death.An Irresistible woman... exotic so far.Devotion, chasing a persuasive mystic fortune...

Do you like escape? From self-imposed retreat to world venture.Travel with a freethinking man, and a woman free to think.   Year 2000. Isolation Spa – Art of Confusion.Damascus – Peshawar – Kashgar.Bratislava – Vancouver...

12 Women.24 Hours.100 Bands.Mema's in the hospital & that money would pay her mounting medical billsCan Trequan sling enough d***, so his grandma ain't sick?Follow Tre on this comedic debaucherous adventure from the salacious mind of Otis Twinkles.

ORACLE OF THE THOUSAND HANDSThe biography of D'Arcy's life isn't meant to be definitive, but D'Arcy's biographer is being as diligent in his efforts as he can. Scant attention will be paid to his childhood. D'Arcy's story will start with his formative...

They thought this was just another salvage job. They thought wrong.An AI overseer and a human crew arrive on a distant planet to salvage an ancient UN starship. The overseer is unhappy. The crew, well, they're certainly no A-team. Not even a C-team on...

As a twenty-something corporate employee with a doctor-in-training girlfriend, Livingstone Modicai Ackerman—Liv, to his friends—personifies success. Yet all is not as it seems. His job is tedious and soul-gutting, his girlfriend is a vacuous,...

Last Mile Home is the second book in O’Shea’s revealing Ivory Tower Trilogy. In this fast paced saga, a cast of modern fictional characters interact within the social and political context of higher education. Through their eyes, you are...

Apparently, vid stars need CIU NannyBots in 2105.Secret Agent Mina Kane's prime objective is to help a friend who's running from a powerful corporation hellbent on keeping him quiet. While doing so, she finds herself inside a lollipop shop at the edge of...