By: Alexander McCall Smith
CORDUROY MANSIONS - Book 3In the Corduroy Mansions series of novels, set in London's hip Pimlico neighborhood, we meet a cast of charming eccentrics, including perhaps the world's most clever terrier, who make their home in a...
By: P. G. Wodehouse
When George allows a woman to hide in his cab, he begins an adventure that turns out to be both intriguing and hilarious. One of Wodehouse's early (but excellent) novels about Belpher Castle (the idyllic home of the aristocratic Marshmoreton family),...
By: Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi
It's a summer to remember . . . at the Jersey Shore. Giovanna "Gia" Spumanti and her cousin Isabella "Bella" Rizzoli are going to have the sexiest summer ever. While they couldn't be more different—pint-size Gia is a...
By: Meredith Schorr
Jane Frank is ready to fall in love. It's been a year since her long term relationship ended and far too long since the last time she was kissed. With the LSAT coming up she needs to find a long term boyfriend (or husband) before acing law school and...
By: P. G. Wodehouse
A collection of wonderful articles, poems, and stories by that master of comedy and complications, P. G. Wodehouse, the author of My Man Jeeves. Includes 'Some Aspects of Game-Captaincy,' 'An Unfinished Collection,' 'The New Advertising,' 'The Secret...
By: Dan Wald
BANNED BY AGENCY CEOs NATIONWIDE! "I'll fire anybody at my agency who I see reading this book!" -Agency CEO "Dull. Dull. Dull. Put me to sleep." -Agency CEO "DON'T READ THIS BOOK!" ...
By: Kevin Postupack
not since Jack London's Martin Eden a century before has an American writer delivered such an uncompromising broadside against the money-hungry monolith of the publishing industry. begun in October of 2003 completed in March of 2012 ...
By: Paul Neilan
The only thing Shane cares about is leaving. Usually on a Greyhound bus, right before his life falls apart again. Just like he planned. But this time it’s complicated: there's a sadistic corporate climber who thinks she's his girlfriend, a...
By: Stephen Leacock
Stephen Butler Leacock (1869 -1944) was a Canadian writer and economist. Leacock, always of obvious intelligence, was sent to the elite private school of Upper Canada College in Toronto, where he was top of the class and so popular he was chosen as...
By: Richard Babcock
John Lincoln is a book editor miserably ensconced at Pistakee, a dinky Chicago publisher. His overwhelming ambition is to flee the bland, over polite Midwest and land in New York—where, he imagines, he'll work with real writers; brandish success...
By: Robert Kroetsch
In 1916, scientist William Dawe leads a palaeontological expedition into the badlands of Alberta, obsessed with achieving world renown by discovering dinosaur fossils. Fifty years later, his daughter, Anna, enters these same badlands. In her visit to...
By: Esmahan Aykol
DIVBRPPraise for the first Kati Hirschel Istanbul mystery:/PBRP"The heroine is an offbeat amateur sleuth with a distinctive narrative voice. Fans of such female detectives as Amanda Cross's Kate Fansler and Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher will find a...
By: Alec Klein
FROM AWARD-WINNING WASHINGTON POST WRITER ALEC KLEIN "You're a drunk, you're a womanizer, you're lazy-" I raise an index finger. "A point of clarification," I note. "What?" "You forgot Godless." ...
By: Jody Lane
Meet BeBe, she was a rootin' tootin', hell raising Granny who knew how to have a good time.She was the life of the party and years ahead of her time; a loving Mother and Grandmother who was the hippest senior citizen in Thompsonville,...
By: Dave Barry
Dave Barry makes his fiction debut with a ferociously funny novel of love and mayhem in south Florida.In his career, Dave Barry has done just about everything--written bestselling nonfiction, won a Pulitzer Prize, seen his life turned into a...
By: Bill/ Lamb Bryson
This is a collection of tall tales, absurd stories, and crazy true-life anecdotes. Bill Bryson is also the author of The Lost Continent, Made in America, and Neither Here Nor There.
By: P. G. Wodehouse
"I envy those who've never read [Wodehouse] before—the prospect of reams of unread Wodehouse stretching out in front of you is . . . something which is enticing to contemplate." —Tony BlairWelcome to Blandings...
By: D. Harlan Wilson
Rutger Van Trout has worse problems than his mundane existence in the all-consuming, all-suppressing Vulgaria of Grand Rapids, Michigan. IIt's not that his son might be turning into a werewolf, or that his daughter might be a nymphomaniac. The...
By: Terry Southern
Take King B., and Oscar-winning director who's seen everything under the sun, add Sid Krassman, a producer who's made fortune catering to the tastes of the American public, and Angela Sterling, a misunderstood sex symbol who'd give anything for a...
By: Liz Kingswood
As Lifestyles Editor for The Seattle Sun Times, thirty-three-year-old Emily Royce covers stories about the strange and unusual. When her boss assigns her to write about Seattle's "slutterati"--a community that celebrates sensuality in...
By: Isaac Asimov
Who better to parody science fiction than science fiction authors themselves? *** In this classic collection of stories, compiled by Mike Resnick (winner of five Hugos, plus a plethora of other awards in multiple categories), such prominent...
By: Brad Smith
Summoned by a Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, law firm, aimless Dock Bass learns that he's inherited an ancient house from a deceased relative whom he never knew existed. Renovating the home, Dock stumbles upon a treasure trove of Civil War memorabilia...
By: Diane Vallere
Out of work fashion expert Samantha Kidd is strapped, until the buyer of handbags for a hot new retailer turns up murdered. Samantha snatches the victim's job, but is soon convinced the wrong person has been labeled as the perp. With patent...
By: Jeanne Ray
bA delightfully funny novel packing a clever punch, from the author of the iNew York Times/i bestselling iJulie and Romeo/i/bbr br A mom in her early fifties, Clover knows she no longer turns heads the way she used to, and she's only really...
By: Julia Slavin
Struggling with her corrupt politician husband's imprisonment and her former child actor son's recklessness on the streets of their northwest Washington home, Wendy Dunleavy finds her life further challenged by an unruly and mysterious individual who...
By: William Slusher
Wildly liberal Washington State Senator Lisa Belle from the Seattle area pins her hopes for an upcoming U.S. Senate run on 'milestone ecological legislation': The Belle Noble Grizzly Bear Restoration Act. Sixty grizzly bears are about to be seeded...
By: Denny Hatch
"There are laughs at everyone's expense in this slick, sometimes raunchy spoof."—Publishers' Weekly "As a writer, (Denny) Hatch is no slouch. In a mirror-slick, ribald style, he has fleshed out his wishbone with a...
By: Anthony Strong
A shy chemist studying orgasms falls for his most incurable test subject, discovering that love is more than a simple solution to a chemical equation.
By: Vicki L. Hubbard
Imari studied her notes, What made you start this relationship? I pondered for a moment. I wanted to try something different. Curiosity, I guess. Feeling uncomfortable, as if I were being judged and fearing that this meeting...
By: India Knight
If Bridget Jones had two ex-husbands, three children, and invited her entire extended family over for Christmas... It's December 23, and Clara Dunphy is running around Oxford Street like a chicken with its head cut off trying to pick up...