Humorous fiction

A 15 year-old girl is uprooted from her ranch home when her father is sentenced to prison for manslaughter, until she decides to earn enough money to repurchase their ranch and find the man she suspects of committing the crime.

Justine was an early work of the Marquis de Sade, written while imprisoned in the Bastille.

He Knew He Was Right describes the failure of a marriage caused by the unreasonable jealousy of a husband exacerbated by the stubbornness of a willful wife.

The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel is a connected series of five novels written in the 16th century by Francois Rabelais.

A Canadian mobster gets his day in court in this comic crime novel by the author of The Weird World of Wes Beattie.

A disreputable lawyer is out to prove his lying client is no killer in this classic Canadian mystery: "e;Very exciting and full of excellent comedy"e; (P.

In her second novel, Jill G.

Finalist, 2016 National Indie Excellence Awards (Fiction - General) Finalist, 2016 International Book Awards (Fiction - General) Finalist, 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards (Two categories: General Fiction/Novel, under 80,000 words, and Second Novel) Finalist, 2015 USA Best Book Awards (Women's Fiction) When English major Nora Plowright finds herself staring at college graduation as if at the edge of a cliff, she decides to become a newspaper reporterand right away, she manages to get a job at a local paper (which you could still do in 1978).

'Dating in your 60s?

Supervision is a critical function of leadership that is often overlooked, and yet the quality of supervision is often what makes or breaks a leader-and an organization.

When the classical scholar Phineas Ort, Bogus U.

A surprise best-seller in Britain, this outrageous, weirdly funny first novel will appeal to fans of Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha.

Named a book of the year by BUSTLE and ELECTRIC LITERATURE"e;Alby is Holden Caulfield in the Internet age.

Babbitt is professionally successful as a realtor.

When Andy Green, fresh-combed and shining with soap and towel polish, walked into the dining-room of the Dry Lake Hotel, he felt not the slightest premonition of what was about to befall.

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In Manalive we follow the madcap adventure of Innocent Smith.

In The Man Who Was Thursday we are transported to a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard.

Collected here, in one volume are Gilbert K.

A Double Barreled Detective Story by Mark Twain features Sherlock Holmes in the American west.

The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade relates the story of four wealthy men who enslave 24 mostly teenaged victims and sexually torture them while listening to stories told by old prostitutes.

Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete.

Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete.

Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete.

The Grand Inquisitor is a passage taken from Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel, The Brothers Karamazov.

This novel tells of how two boys, O'Hara and Moriarty, tar and feather a statue of the local M.

The girl of the title is red-haired, dog-loving Wilhelmina "e;Billie"e; Bennet, and the three men are Bream Mortimer, a long-time friend and admirer of Billie, Eustace Hignett, a lily-livered poet who is engaged to Billie at the opening of the tale, and Sam Marlowe, Eustace's dashing cousin, who falls for Billie at first sight.

It is September 1793 and French Agent and chief spy-catcher Chauvelin is determined to get his revenge for the previous humiliations dished out to him at the hands of the Scarlet Pimpernel.

"e;Guilty pleasures don't come much tastier"e; than this sharp romantic comedy from the New York Times-bestselling author of The First Wives Club (People).

Dude!

One woman discovers that her professional rival's bark is worse than his bite in this charming debut romantic comedy for fans of You've Got Mail.

A rollicking coming-of-age comedy set in 1970s New Jersey, from a multiple award-nominated author.

This tragicomic novel set in sixteenth-century Jamaica is a "e;gusty, boisterous, [and] entertaining .

A novel of a young man's adventures in New York City by an author who is "e;part Lewis Carroll, part Franz Kafka"e; (Library Journal).

A collection of short fiction that's "e;fearless, fun, and sometimes filthy"e; (Alice Sebold, bestselling author of The Lovely Bones).

This novel reveals that lunacy is by no means restricted to the village madman.

A novel of a young man's adventures in New York City by an author who is "e;part Lewis Carroll, part Franz Kafka"e; (Library Journal).

Sometimes life is full of surprises, especially when you least expect them.

"e;The plotting and the mechanics of the solution are in the best traditions of the classic British mystery.

Trent Tucker, the protagonist of this hilarious satire, hates reality TV.

Trent Tucker, the protagonist of this hilarious satire, hates reality TV.

Librarian Syd Murphy flees the carnage of a failed marriage by accepting an eighteen-month position in Jericho, a small town in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia.

Jill Fryman (Friday to her friends) is a Line Supervisor at a truck manufacturing plant in a small southern Indiana townand life on the assembly line is almost as predictable as her love life.

An American student in 1970s Kyoto rambles among the city's beauties and traditions, learning as he goes.

A quirky assortment of materialistic suburbanites trying to supersize and spend their way to happinessAn affectionate satire of the culture of self-indulgence, The Final Days of Great American Shopping exposes the American obsessions with money, mass marketing, and material objects.

Zu seiner großen Freude erhält der Patentanwalt Richard Welling die Möglichkeit, am einer Konferenz unter hochkarätigen Patentexperten teilzunehmen, die, etwas ungewöhnlich, in der Nähe von St.

Deep in the woods of Maine, the Revolutionary War is still fresh in settlers minds as a young man named Peter Loon sets off at his mothers urging to find a mysterious person.

Under the wise and jovial leadership of their chairman Mister Tobias Walton and the shrewd and gallant Sundry Moss, The Moosepath League has foiled pirates and kidnappers, joined a hobo army to save a burning village, bumped into the supernatural, and even successfully treated a depressed pig.

Opening with the long-awaited wedding of Mister Walton, Fiddlers Green follows Mister Waltons aide-de-camp, Sundry Moss, as he embarks on a Good Samaritan mission.

Van Reids Moosepath League novels will sweep you away to a joyful time and place, sparkling with lighthearted comedy, splendid writing, and a playful, romantic spirit.