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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

Jeeves -- my man, you know -- is really a most extraordinary chap. So capable. Honestly, I shouldn't know what to do without him. On broader lines he's like those chappies who sit peering sadly over the marble battlements at the Pennsylvania Station in...

I would urge you to get hold of the complete novel Right Ho, Jeeves, where you will encounter it fully in context and find that it leaps even more magnificently to life. I don't know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up...

Falling in love is like stand-up comedy.You have to be crazy to do it...Spence is a stand-up comedian whose claim to fame is a one-time appearance on The Late Late Show. Eight years ago. Since then, he's been living on the road, working in clubs like The...

Every day for 5 years television writer John Matta has hand-drawn a one-panel cartoon on a napkin and posted it on the web. After posting 1,000 he's decided to gather his work into the full-color collection: Matta Napkin... A Daily Comic.....

In this extraordinary piece all of John Cowper Powys’ eccentric and wild inventiveness is on display.In a small flat in New York in the 1920s an old couple, former circus performers, live a crotchety life of poverty and fear. The ones they fear are...

The time: The 1980s.The city: Boston. The protagonist: Adam Panflick, preppie, iconoclast, sensualist, gambler and failed theologian. The antagonist: Boston's certifiable commitment to the automobile. The result: Mayhem and then some.

Presently all planets in the solar system are bereft of music-except Earth. In their quest for knowledge in eons past, interstellar beings favored science over music. All memories of music gradually faded, and love that had once existed vanished.The...

Pru Sowers gave up a professional dance career for a life of sloth and malfunction, a move she has never regretted. Forced to find gainful employment at the age of 49, Sowers became a reporter for the weekly newspaper in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and...

After numerous disasters in the lab, a geneticist, Victor Liberalstein, succeeds in cloning a seemingly ideal liberal candidate. The candidate, whom Victor vainly names Frank N. Liberalstein, is brilliant, articulate, and movie star handsome.But Victor...

Continuing his forays into unconventional literature, Duane assails the literary world with a unique style of humor and wisdom through world travels with his well-worn stuffed animals.Fourth in the World of Boo series, European Boo follows the adventures...

Haikus for Punsters is a compendium of my original poems, each of which embeds an original (and occasionally a second-hand) pun. May the reader enjoy what the author enjoyed composing these tidbits. These funny haikus cover the gamut of humor...

Our heroine is a senior lady who is sure there's foul-play in her condo. She's a Court TV junky and fancies herself a sleuth. She's feisty-she lets you know her last name is Marder, not martyr! This story if full of fun and humor and our Viv Marder's...

Sydney Stewart needs a man, and not just any man, she needs Joseph. Joseph is tall, handsome and Ivy League educated. He works in the stock market and tells wonderfully descriptive tales of his days traveling the globe. Sydney's friends will love Joseph;...

It's the final year of the millennium, and the First Church of the Everlasting Saints is searching for its spiritual identity in a Rust Belt city in need of rebirth. Enter the Reverend Henry Snow, summoned by his Bishop to resurrect First Saints. But...

We're fortunate to be able to enjoy the gifts of knowledge and technology. Sometimes these do not come problem-free for each of you. We have inherited some of the silliness and sheer stupidity such "progress" has imposed. In this series of humorous and...

The Peddler's Trade is a picaresque, satirical novel based on my five years in West Africa from 1955 to 1960. The central character, through a series of comical accidents, finds himself working for the Spillswell Flour Company while, without knowing it,...

In a terrible accident with a Mulligan Cookie Company truck, Dickie Dickason loses her right foot and must try to put her life back together. An injured puppy appears on her doorstep, and Dickie nurses him back to health. The two become best friends...

This satirical social first novel is intended as a kind of Europeanresponse to Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City.Instead of San Francisco, Pierre Tá Mar's novel is set mainly inAmsterdam (and partly in Brussels) in the 1970's and 1980's.The central...

Are you bored with characters who are too good or too evil to believe, tired of plots about threats to the world by sinister evil gangs, tired of the obligatory sex scenes? Welcome to 13 everyday nasty type people talking hypocritically and doing...

This Volume VI, a collection of 'who done it" mysteries is filled with nasty characters doing very nasty things in funny and outrageous ways, as exemplified in Murder at BB's Big Bash (A Lonely Detective Mystery) where one finds idealistic teachers...

When the eight of them - four men and four women - sign up for a literature class, they don't know that they've signed on for life. Meet the half-baked bunch - the real estate tycoon, the computer geek, the interpreter, the nurse, the stationer, the...

Redbeard the Pirate is a satirical story about the former sailors and officers of a moth-balled WW II destroyer who become bored with their post-war lives and who, on one dark night, steal their old ship and put to sea to become modern day gentleman...

The next trendsetter has arrived!In a world constantly seeking something new, coauthors Gay Tyra and Sally Bearden unveil the comedic and timely Blog'AGE'. The cutting-edge vernacular found in Blog'AGE' transcends all walks of life and is likely heard...

This is the first in a series of joke books. Other books in this serial will include politics, men, men and women and many more titles.Being that I am 75 I thought it was a good idea to print Aging first.There are long and short quips. A short one is...

When the Leader of the Universal Church, Gogo, sends his Holy Painter out on a mission, he couldn't possibly imagine what the consequences would be. The Pontifex considers the Painter an utterly depraved, non-conditioned, darkly smart man, as he is (or...

Forsyth sat on the step of the parking lot office reading the Monday morning newspaper. The same little tombstone notice had appeared in the paper three times now, just like clockwork. He wasn't given to reading the paper's legal notices, but a news...

Twenty-something Aviva moved to Cairo shortly after graduating from college with a degree in elementary education. She became a teacher not because she cared passionately about educating the young, but for the traveling opportunities the career provided...

Do you like reading those hilarious tabloid 'news" stories about Aliens, Bigfoot, dumb crooks, super-powered household pets, and 'incredible but true" current event stories from tabloids? Do you also hate all the raunchy pictures, perverted stories,...

When Professor Bud Harkness is found dead near the campus of Allegheny State University, Dan Quarrier, an old friend and colleague, cannot accept suicide as the apparent cause of death.With the help of Wally Fosse, his younger, red-bearded and...

Gilbert Rangle, 88, is the last surviving member of the Supreme Court of the United States under Chief Justice Earl Warren.Rangle's last project in life is a series of unique visits to the graves of Presidents.Rangle is devoted to his daughter Alice and...

Suburban Boy. Related by a narrator careening, making his personal statement from the edge of something. It is a setting everybody knows, but nobody quite knows. The suburbs. Bayview, Long Island. This is the place the protagonist, Peter, arrives at,...

Smiling Jimmy, a young sailor who has just arrived in England from a voyage onthe South Seas, stumbles into a harbor canteen where he hopes to have his hungrystomach filled with homemade food. Instead, he gets into a fight with thirtypatrons, and meets a...