Humorous category: 20629 books

Book Description: These chronicles of Malay humour are commonly shared between people of different geography. For example, in Arab-speaking countries, a common theme in most tales of humour and those exemplifying a moral code revolves around a man referred to as Johar (Juha); in the Persian-speaking...

Holy Nativity is novice Pastor Bill Sanders last chance to make it as a minister. But the odd-ball members of his new congregation arent making it easy. Will a promised miracle at the churchs annual Christmas Pageant save the day? Or will the pastor have to take an icy dip in the lake on New Years...

The Card Game is a humorous description of a poker game by very interesting characters that are delightful.It is a novella that one cannot put down...the way a story should be told.

This pair of essays represent a fascinating glimpse of the gender rights rhetoric of the early twentieth century. Rambling, by turns patronizing, sexist, admiring and reverential, the authors reflect on many topics from suffrage to fashion. A quick read that is both humorous and thought-provoking.

Bindle is one of the immortals of humorous fiction. His mirth-provoking comments on life, his never-failing cheerfulness under the worst of hardships, his ingenious evasions of Mrs. Bindle's cold, sharp eye, his many laughable adventures, his much loved "little jokes", all these things have...

The collected stories from the Vertigo Research Labs. How can stairs stop working, when up becomes down? Can something be bigger on the inside than it is on the outside? Jepherson Thomas, janitor at the Vertigo labs, tells all in eleven humorous stories from the world's most unlikely research establishment....

8 Short Stories. Most of them are science fiction and some of them are humorous.Proper Care & Feeding of a Gort - Be careful adopting alien pets.Just To See What Happens - Quantum theories come to fruitionAdmirals & Dreadnoughts - The Kingdom has too many AdmiralsA Boy on a River Bank - A time...

Humorous tale of a young man and his dreams and loves.

When the Dowager Arabella, Lady Engleton announces to her relatives her jolly scheme to restore the family's fortunes by insuring their lives in favor of her grandson and heir, the young Lord Henry, they laugh at her and think her mad. But they won't be laughing for long. Soon she begins to kill them...

Celebrity Kidnappings, the Kama Sutra, Russian Mobsters, Congolese Shimmer Frogs... Book Club is a time to drink wine, to live vicariously through erotic fiction, and pay lip service to one’s life goals. The club's founder wants to be a writer but can’t find her story. Billie is the...

“Be careful trying to place blame, or it might come back to you,” Ceng Guangxian’s father warns him after the first time his good intentions end in ruin. Yet time and again as Guangxian comes of age, bad luck and his own desires for a bigger, better future wreak havoc upon his family, fortune,...

A somewhat humorous and sometimes heartbreaking tale of a motel and its occupants, and the woman who operates and owns it.  Interesting and provocative, not to be missed.

Three stories with a comedic undertone:Fail to Order - An elderly gentleman visits a new burger joint in his neighborhood, only to find a slow-witted worker taking orders. When it his his turn, he struggles to keep his cool when the young man continuously messes up his simple order.uPods...

Rex and Dolly Kraft live in a semi-rural area with their daughter Sheryl and son Chase. Like other families, they have an off-day once in a while. But for the Kraft family, Rex just seems to get a little more than his share. The Misadventures of the Krafts takes a humorous look at how an average family reacts to a day with some very unusual events.