Humour & Riddles Books

English literature has been deluged by memoirs, commentaries and travel logs depicting the fascinating adventures of hearty souls and brilliant intellectuals. In contrast, "Throw Me Under the Bus...Please" is a cynical yet humorous account of a bus tour...

Are you driving more (or less) and enjoying it less?Many of us are, and we've had just about enough of it!Is the stress and strain of dealing with traffic getting on your nerves?Do you suffer from aggressive driving in yourself or others?Or worry about...

"To be a Benny Bell meant to be spirited, witty, funny and sometimesa little crazy. But to be a Benny Bell also meant to be obstinate,paranoid, suspicious and sometimes a little hasty."Given all the facts about his traits and personality, it is no...

Learn Spanish slang, street words and fun terms the same way you practice verbs and nouns in Spanish class. Only this isn't your normal, boring Spanish! Classroom workbooks teach conjugation with lame verbs--I walk, you walk, he walks. Eff that. Wouldn't...

In this delightful essay collection that reads like a memoir Diane Radford draws the reader into the enchanting world of her parents — her mother Margery, and her long-suffering father Sidney. Margery had a way with words — she was never lost...

The Colefaxes are an unconventional family. When you think you understand them their behaviour startles you. The story tells us about Rosemary, a traditional wife whose discovery of her husband's deceit changes her into a renegade and fierce rival. ...

This is my story and journal of my experience with breast cancer. I started journaling about it shortly after I was diagnosed, knowing that this journey was going to be a long one. The journey was actually a blessing in many ways, so I don't think of it...

In Wacked: Hey, Wanna Squeeze My Cheese? you'll find a pumpkin who gets married, a girl who thinks she's a bird, Sally, a golfer who only banks her shots off trees, a surfing pig, and a grandma who tries to jam an apple in her ear. There's a crazy world...

Snacks For Thought is a collection of random thoughts, some serious others not so. Thoughts that were developed at different times under different circumstances. They are not to be devoured in large quantities but rather nibbled in small bites. Each...

Beverly  Carinus together with her husband Steve Pilkington-Williams write an amusing and unusual  glimpse into living with and coping with Steve's  inoperable brain tumour. This book is not about the tragedy of the tumour rather it's about the fight and...

Each week, for three years, a group of guys gathered at Seneca Bowl in Wichita, Kansas, as members of the Rockwell Collins Fantasy Bowling League. A brainchild of author John H. Murphy II, the league served as a source of fun and fellowship, complete...

As I have sat in my office solving my company's procurement woes, vendors, friends and colleagues would fax me jokes and funny stories. At first, I would read them and toss. Quickly, I decided they were too funny to throw away, so I started a file and...

"Run Sallie Run". You may remember reading a similar sentence in the Fun with Dick and Jane books as a child. What was Sallie running from, and why did she feel the need to run? Humorously, this pocket book looks at dating from the perspective of the...

Caution: Keep this book away from any cartoon mice living in your house! Married the day after Christmas in 1986, the company I was working for went out of business while I was away on my Honeymoon. This left me unemployed for a few months. During this...

"Don't Get Mad...Get Even" is a hilarious compilation of stories, most of them about practical jokes Aspenites played on each other during the years between 1960 and 1980. In those years Aspen was a booming tourist town, buildings were cropping up...

Hand drawn colouring pages. Perfect for when it's just not acceptable to punch someone in the throat.

In 2013, M. J. Perry launched a personal challenge to write a piece of fiction per day for a calendar year. This volume is the result. Over the course of those twelve months short stories suitable for a wide age-range flowed from his pen, as did many...

With hardly a nod to chronology, the author moves back and forth through the first twenty years of his life, from trams, horses and valve wirelesses to scooters, cars and rock and roll, boozy coach trips to the seaside, youth clubs and Carnaby Street...

It will be Beneficial for any reader to read this book. Why? Because this book includes the Experiences of many people.And what is Experience? It is Knowledge. When we combine Knowledge with the Desire to succeed, it will give us Success, Power and Money...

Are you fed-up with the dating scene? Have you recently been dumped or divorced and need a good laugh? Have you wondered if you might be better-off alone? Are you feeling sorry for yourself because you are single? If you answered "YES" to...

Real life is the birthplace of the best stories. The tales related in Lines From the Times are drawn from real life. Lacking the length of a short story, these tales are pithy reflections on life as it is encountered by the author. From a little girl's...

As a single woman in New York City, Michele laughed her way through adventures in dating and shopping until one day she realized a fundamental truth: men are like shoes! They are a woman's weakness! Suddenly it was obvious to her, and inspiration was...

Bartender Johnny is ready for a change as he struggles to find the right path in his life. With the help of his friends, the DMF, Johnny gets inspired and wants to write a book about the DMF mischief. Obstacles stand in his way to achieve his ultimate...

So why did I write this book?After moving from Australia to Dubai in 2007, I realised that life as we knew it was going to be very different. Weekly I would sit in front of my laptop emailing family and friends in England and Australia and keeping them...

Snuggle Up time was originally written for my grandchildren but having been persuaded to have the stories published I trust other small children will enjoy them too.

In Anal Probe writer Art Greenwald shares his "best of," a collected works of non-fiction stories and columns viewed through a gay man's lens.Part autobiographical, the Central Pennsylvania native and South Floridian chronicles the people, places and...

It is the adventures and misadventures of Dr. Pine's father during the baby boomer era including a run-in with "Injun Joe's " cave and when his pants fell off in front of a local sheriff.

The subtitle for this collection reflects the fact that some of the entries originated as decades-old jokes spread by word of mouth or later as prose--often at great length--in newspapers and magazines. Radio, television, and the Internet have served...

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This is a salutary tale of the 'adventures' of a pair of extremely innocent backpackers (one a debutante in this form of vacational masochism) as they embark on two, climatically very different, trips on the near continent. Seeking shelter each night...

We had a culture of our own; rules that we lived by, using humor to get us through the tough times. We learned to laugh at ourselves in the face of terror, evil, danger, and to laugh at our misgivings. This book offers something for a broad range...

A compilation of limericks written over the past 60 years or so about incidents that have occurred in the author's life experience. Most are for specific occasions with a few 'naughty bits' since there are so many of those by others.

Down through the years with my unusual amount of engine failures, over 18, most pilots with total engine failures usually died. Also, how many 16 year old teenagers have thumbed and hopped the freight trains to see the states from coast to coast and...

Joshua is joining Mrs. Grimmings class today, but the new classmates and the noise are overwhelming for him prompting him to start "stimming". His new classmates aren't quite sure why he is rocking back and forth and covering his ears...and what was it...

"How does a singular and perfect moment in a major American theme park inspire a ten year old to dream of a future 3000 miles away? Share the journey of a boy whose focus on his future intersects the growing pains of social acceptance. Struggling to rise...

Pet Moments is a book written by Robert Alexander Douglas-Lithgow and published in 1877. This book is a collection of stories and anecdotes about pets and their owners. The stories are heartwarming and humorous, and they showcase the special bond between...

""Riddles, Charades, And Conundrums, The Greater Part Of Which Have Never Been Published: With A Preface On The Antiquity Of Riddles"" is a book written by John Winter Jones and published in 1822. The book is a collection of riddles, charades, and...

Original Acrostics is a collection of acrostic poems written by a group of friends in 1864. Acrostic poems are a form of poetry where the first letter of each line spells out a word or phrase. The poems in this book are written in the form of acrostics,...

Pickings From My Portfolio: Or Pieces In Verse And Pictures In Prose, Descriptive And Humorous (1857) is a collection of poems and prose pieces by Charles Vaughan Grinfield. The book contains a mix of humorous and descriptive writing, with many of the...

Feline Philosophy is a book written by Thomas Cat and published in 1919. The book is a philosophical exploration of the feline mind and the unique perspective that cats bring to the world. Thomas Cat argues that cats have a deep understanding of the...