Humorous category: 20629 books

When Mary Lou stirs up her brew, she spells trouble for the Dean of the Academy of Sophists: just one more problem when the future of the Academy is in jeopardy, faculty members vanish, an assistant causes a unique traffic jam, lab creatures escape, and a disenchanted junior professor tries to alter...

Cast back into the dating pool, Andrew Weber is ill-equipped to handle the treacherous and confusing waters of the American singles scene. From Craig's List to bars, and ultimately to the liberated women he meets, Andrew's comic adventures, full of missteps and misunderstandings, will leave you laughing out loud until he learns that love is a funny thing--and often quite humorous.

When Inspector Paws, a battle-scarred alley cat, narrowly escapes death by cougar, he moves in with Stella and Ernie Clayton, a couple in their late fifties. They provide him with good food, and their home, with its big backyard, caters to his roaming instincts. The best part, though, is that there...

In Cruising in Your Eighties, cantankerous octogenarian Paul Jacobson becomes involved in a series of crimes while struggling with the problems of his short-term memory loss. On an Alaskan cruise, he must deal with mayhem, missing people and murder and use all his geezer resources to solve a case...

A Working Men’s Club is in Financial trouble. The Committee have to convince the members to agree to their bold plan to avoid imminent closure. The deadline for agreement has to be made that night but how will the vote go? A humorous short story of how a club in desperate trouble hopes to find a way of surviving.

Humorous tales of a small southern town called Bristol. Fables of farmlife and country music. Writing influenced by Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll. Guitars that feud with fiddles. Children who turn into pigs. Church bells that talk. Cornbread that tells the truth. Butter that sings like Hank Williams....

Alaska Virgin Air is a humorous mystery set in Fairbanks, Alaska.Abigail Vertuccio, reluctant clairvoyant, returns to Alaska to run the family air service.Home only a week, she stumbles onto a plot to destroy the business. To make matters worse, someone is trying to kill her.She...

This collection of 13 humorous short stories was written by the creator of Keep Austin Weird. This 75-page salmagundi ranges from buffoonish golf stories to poignant romance, all with money-back guaranteed laughs. Imaginary critics have incorrectly compared Wassenich"s writing to his favorite authors--Wodehouse, Thurber, Parker, Leyner, Ames, Bialystock and Bloom.

'Fond of a Double Entendre' is a humorous and often-risqu look at the world through jokes and double entendres. No subject is taboo, as celebrities, athletes, and politicians alike are lampooned with equal aplomb. Laughs abound on every page, as author Cormac G. McDermott imbues his collection with...

For non-stop laughs that bring back visions of your own childhood blunders, Memories of My Misadventures is a humorous adventure the whole family can enjoy together!

This is a story of people who exist simultaneously in two different and unusual worlds. It addresses both mental illness, and the realities of health care in the current climate of cutbacks and hospital closures.It is a humorous foray into the mind of a young man in a mental institution who, although...

Remember the deliciously scary stories we shared around the campfire when we were kids? J.B. Hawker has written a collection of spooky tales with a cozy twist to share around your fireside today. Taking her cue from those creepy campground tales and horror film classics, she spins yarns...

"Packed with charmingly ridiculous characters, I laughed my way through this small town mystery." ―Book Riot A doll walks into a bar... Ida Gilbertson of the Battle Lake Senior Sunset has a new hobby: crafting life-sized dolls to display around town. Budding PI Mira James...

"I laughed, gasped, and cried (all out loud)." -Catriona McPherson, author of Scot and Soda Librarian and aspiring PI Mira James has discovered one corpse a month for each of the eleven months she's lived in Battle Lake, Minnesota. She'd give her left foot to break that streak this...