Humorous

Tears of a Class Clown

by Sara Faith Alterman

Have you ever suffered from FUNNY GIRL SYNDROME? Are you the gal who makes people laugh? Are you considered "a lot of fun" and "a good sport"? Do all your male friends bring you their troubles and ask for your...

The Coroner's Lunch

Dr. Siri Paiboun #1

by Colin Cotteril

The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill"A wonderfully fresh and exotic mystery."--The New York Times Book ReviewDr. Siri Paiboun, one of the last doctors left in Laos after the Communist takeover, has been drafted...

Penguin Island

by Anatole France

This masterwork of satire is a must-read for anyone who has ever rolled their eyes at the soft-focus, heavily romanticized histories of Europe's origins that were popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries....

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Dirk Gently #1

by Douglas Adams

There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently's...

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

DON'T PANIC! #4

by Douglas Adams

Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just...

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

DON'T PANIC! #2

by Douglas Adams

"DOUGLAS ADAMS IS A TERRIFIC SATIRIST."

--The Washington Post Book World

Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a craving for tea. It could only happen to the cosmically...

Life, the Universe and Everything

DON'T PANIC! #3

by Douglas Adams

"HYSTERICAL!"

--The Philadelphia Inquirer

The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads--so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals...

Hadley

by Nick Macfie

British journalist Hadley Arnold—who is based in Hong Kong—is employed by a mysterious American “casting agent” to help destroy the reputation of an actor tipped to become the next James Bond. With only...

Espresso Tales: A 44 Scotland Street Novel (2)

44 Scotland Street #2

by Alexander Mccall Smith

44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 2

The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial novels, featuring six-year-old...

As Dog Is My Witness: Another Aaron Tucker Mystery

by Jeffrey Cohen

In this, the third Aaron Tucker mystery, Aaron, fresh from a trip to Hollywood to "take meetings" on his screenplay, finds himself dragged kicking and screaming once again into investigating a murder, this time...

For Whom the Minivan Rolls: An Aaron Tucker Mystery

by Jeffrey Cohen

Aaron Tucker isn't a detective. An aspiring screenwriter, freelance reporter, stay-at-home dad, and expert on consumer electronics, Aaron actually defies all traditional characteristics of a detective. He's...

The Sinful Life of Lucy Burns

by Elizabeth Leiknes

Lucy Burns wants a normal life: friends, love, and a family of her own. And she could have it all if only she could break free from the job she hates. That job? Facilitator to hell. And her boss is a real devil....

A Farewell to Legs: An Aaron Tucker Mystery

by Jeffrey Cohen

Work-at-home dad, devoted husband, hustling freelance writer, aspiring screenwriter-all ways to describe the unwilling sleuth Aaron Tucker, whom one reviewer dubbed a combination of "Bart Simpson and James Bond"....

Edie Investigates

by Nick Harkaway

From the author of The Gone-Away World and the forthcoming Angelmaker—an exhilarating espionage murder-mystery eShort.

There has been a strange death in the quiet village of Shrewton: old Donny Caspian has...

Babycakes

Tales of the City #4

by Armistead Maupin

"An extended love letter to a magical San Francisco."

--New York Times Book Review

When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there's more to making a baby then...

Dearest Dacha

by Norman MacLean

Perhaps the first Gaelic black comedy' - John Murray, RTE Radio 1 'Norman is a 24-carat comedy jewel that just keeps sparkling' - Bruce Morton, BBC Radio Scotland 'Norman MacLean is the Billy Connolly of the...

Anarchy and Old Dogs

Dr. Siri Paiboun #4

by Colin Cotterill

A blind retired dentist has been run down by a logging truck on the street in Vientiane just opposite the post office. His body is duly delivered to the morgue of Dr. Siri Paiboun, the official and only coroner...

Kai Lung Raises His Voice

by Ernest Bramah & William Charlton

A new collection of "Kai Lung" stories by Ernest Bramah, including four previously unpublished stories. Related by Kai Lung, an itinerant story-teller, these stories, set in an Ancient China that never was,...

Red Meat Cures Cancer

by Starbuck O'Dwyer

What would you do if you were a few months from collecting early retirement—a pension for which you’d sucked up and sycophanted almost twenty years—when your obscenely overweight and extremely crass boss...

Grab On to Me Tightly as if I Knew the Way: A Novel

by Bryan Charles

A wise, bighearted, and hilarious look at one teenager's life by a remarkable new voice in contemporary fiction

It's 1992, and as Vim Sweeney deals with the recent end of his high school career and the uncertainty...