By: Peter Milligan
Hewligan: The last sane man in the asylum. The fate of the planet Earth rests on his scalp. That's because of Hewligan's haircut; the most elegant thatch ever created which happens to contain a magic hole. Together with the reality-warping, Scarlet...
By: Shalom Auslander
The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing: no one was born there, no one died there, nothing of any historical import at all has ever happened there, which is why Solomon Kugel, like other urbanites...
By: Daphne Uviller
The smart and sassy detective Zephyr Zuckerman is now armed and undercover in a Greenwich Village hotel where mysteries—from garbage-grabbing guests to the reservation system—lurk around every corner. Now working as a junior detective...
By: Kevin L. Donihe
This is perhaps the weirdest book that anyone has ever written, or will ever write. Donihe is the best kept secret of the bizarro fiction genre.' - Carlton Mellick III, author of Adolf in Wonderland There once was an odd reclusive little man who...
By: Wm. Warren
How would you want to go? Quietly? Painlessly? With your boots on? Haven't really thought about it? Fortunately, one man has. In How to Die, have a peek at a few fatalistic daydreams from a creative mind. With a little death and a lot of humor, these...
By: Iain Levison
Praise for Iain Levison: "Levison is the real deal . . . bracing, hilarious, and dead on."—The New York Times Book Review "There is a naked, pitiless power in his work."—USA Today ...
By: Lois Chisholm
Amber never wanted children. When three unruly and nasty stepchildren are dumped on her doorstep, she explodes. Her lazy husband thinks she should just take them without complaining. The children wreck her neat house and break her beloved Gram's...
By: Francois Barcelo
"I hate hockey!" is the first and last sentence in this novel that offers a great take on our love-hate relationship with hockey. Narrator Antoine Vachon blames the game for killing his marriage with his beautiful ex-wife (well, that and...
By: April Sinclair
Chicago deejay Daphne 'Dee Dee' Dupree is sassy and successful—but a series of catastrophic relationships has left her gun-shy. Now with her own life and the lives of those closest to her seemingly coming apart at the seams, she's going to...
By: Shannon O'Neil
"I'll be home for Christmas," aren't the words that anyone in Bailey Hamilton's family have heard lately. She isn't exactly a recluse (so she tells herself and her couch stain-turned best friend, Fred), but when it comes to Christmas, she...
By: Tony Bender
Hooter Pridley didn't stand a chance. One look at "Miss June" Trixie Foxalot, posing seductively in her lime green bikini with a torque wrench, and he was smitten. His destiny was clear, or as clear as it gets for "a water bug...
By: Linda L Taylor
The friends, three professional women and a no nonsense older woman, sat near each other in church. At the Reverend's direction the congregation stood and bowed their heads for prayer. Joy Stanton, an executive assistant, divorcee, and single...
By: Chris Elliott
Now in paperback: For decades the world has credited renowned explorer Sir Edmund Hillary with being the first person to reach the peak of Mount Everest. But was he? Evidence to the contrary arrives one day on the doorstep of Chris ElliottÑan...
By: Mamizu Arisawa
Inukami: a sacred being with a dog-like appearance that forges a contract with a powerful human tamer to help them eliminate evil monsters and demons. Though Kawahira Keita is the descendent of a long line of Inukami-tamers, he seems to...
By: Donna Lynch
As a young woman raised in the soot-covered mediocrity of an English industrial town, Isabel has led a common and directionless life. Secretly she yearns to be the center of something, anything, that is momentous and vital. She dreams of making marks...
By: Ron Hansen
Stranded in Seldom, Nebraska, with her ex-fiance Pierre, sophisticated Parisian Natalie finds herself drawn to rancher Dick Tripper, while Pierre falls in love with a gorgeous waitress at the local diner, but soon mistaken identity, failed schemes,...
By: Michael Thomas Ford
How will Jane Austen break the news to her fiance that she's not only undead, but also a two-hundred-plus-year-old literary icon? In sleepy upstate New York, Jane's wedding preparations have taken on a bloodsucking intensity. So when...
By: P. G. Wodehouse
"To dive into a Wodehouse novel is to swim in some of the most elegantly turned phrases in the English language."—Ben Schott Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning...
By: Edward Hardy
Keeper and Kid is a marvel. I dare you. Open this book and try to put it down.' ---Ann Hood, author of The Knitting CircleEight years ago, James Keeper fell in love with his upstairs neighbor in Boston, a sassy pastry chef with gray eyes and a...
By: Garrison Keillor
A collection of humorous stories which focus on the fictional American Midwestern town of Lake Wobegon. From the author of WOBEGON BOY, LEAVING HOME and WE ARE STILL MARRIED.
By: Diego Marani
Twelve years ago after its first publication Las adventures des Inspector Cabillot arrives in the US by popular demand.Inspector Cabillot, the first Europanto detective tackles varied European concerns such as a mad cow disease terrorist cell that...
By: P. G. Wodehouse
"P.G. Wodehouse is still the funniest writer ever to have put words on paper." —Hugh LaurieRonald Psmith ("the 'p' is silent, as in pshrimp") is always willing to help a damsel in distress. So when he...
By: Tom Bradley
Damnation and Salvation in the American Food Services Industry! Spencer Sproul is a would-be serial-killing bus boy who can't manage to murder, injure, or even scare anybody. He longs to follow in the footsteps of his heroes, Ted Bundy and John...
By: Patrice Lyle
If Elle Woods were a teenage demon, her name would be Morgan Skully. Morgan is the world's only blonde demon girl, and she's got a brand new, very unusual afterschool job. Spying for the Devil. She'd much rather use her cloak-and-dagger skills to spy...
By: Gerard Woodward
pstrong"Sex, comedy, and life during wartime . . . pierced with brutal shafts of beauty, humor and heartbreak." —The New York Times Review of Books/strong/With her children evacuated and her husband at the front, Tory Pace is grudgingly...
By: J. R. Allison
Under all the glamour surrounding Beverly Hills, a sleazy underbelly quietly festers. As love for barter, lowlife scams, and trashy pickups lurk in the shadows, a small-time hustler masquerades as a big shot. Forty-year-old Joel Schebschitz is a...
By: Garrison Keillor
A national holiday in Lake Wobegon is always gaudy and joyful. But what is going on between Clint Bunsen and Miss Liberty?Clint Bunsen is one of the old reliables in Lake Wobegon— the treasurer of the Lutheran church and the auto mechanic...
By: John Stanley
"Little Lulu Volume 27: The Treasure Map and Other Stories."
By: Roy Thomas
Get ready for some giant-sized laughs, because funnymen extraordinaire John Stanley and Irving Tripp are at it again with two more Little Lulu Giants! These 100-page specials, unseen since they were originally published in the 1950s, are among the...
By: John Stanley
"Little Lulu's Pal Tubby Volume 3: The Frog Boy and Other Stories."