Humorous category: 20629 books

The Starlight Sentinels goes beyond The Watchmen’s question of "Who would want to be a superhero?" by asking "Who would want to be a superhero if being a superhero was just another job people needed doing?" The Starlight Sentinels, that’s who!They’re not your traditional superhero team,...

One day the Little Red Hen finds a pen in the barnyard and decides to write a book and find an agent, editor, and publisher.She wants to sell it at Ducks a Billion and Barns and Nibble bookstores. This hard working chicken embarks on a writing career with zany results. A humorous fable about the publishing...

The world is turned upside down when a good old boy gives another redneck a Moon Pie down at the trailer park. A humorous fable for grown ups by David Davis writing as Tom Twain.

We all have a story. This is our story. A delightful, humorous, yet occasionally dispirited comparative of then and now that explores life after a devastating loss of income – and our home. How many like me are out there? According to news reports and the Internet, tens of thousands of hapless...

Three Men on the Bummel (also known as Three Men on Wheels) is a humorous novel by Jerome K. Jerome. It was published in 1900, eleven years after his most famous work, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog). The sequel brings back the three companions who figured in Three Men...

VAN IN LOVE is a humorous look at relationships with a blackmail plot thrown in. Sandwiched between his life in the Highlands in the first and last chapters, Van’s history as a contemporary drummer, a father and a helpless ladies' man is traced through a succession of relationships with women in Ottawa and Vancouver. He escapes to Scotland with a woman who is older and wiser than he.

What are the relations between the state and its army? Reasonable person would say that the army is in the service of civil society. But in some places it happens vice versa: the army sets the rules of life for ordinary citizens. I know a very nice city with unique sea coves and magnificent ancient...

In exchange for a burger and a chocolate shake, Shan’s elderly neighbor, Mr. Parker, lures him away from a day of video games with talk of seeing zombies on television and going to kill them. As they get further from home, Shan becomes more and more concerned that Mr. Parker has gone from amusingly...

Tom, a New Zealander living in Oxford, is feeling stifled and worn down by his rollercoaster relationship with the increasingly domineering Janice. After some soul-searching and unsure where he wants the relationship to go, the decision is taken out of his hands. Following a night out seeking...

This two part rollicking tongue-in-cheek film noir mystery begins in 1951 in Eda City, a small metropolis in the Mid-West. Retired detective Phillip Bartlow has made a name for himself as the citys only Culinary Private Eye. In Part One, The Maltese Mystery Meatloaf, Bartlow is hired by a beautiful...

Dealing in an accessible and humorous way with major topics of concern today (the failures of our economic system, media monopolies and materialism), 'Saving the World' has been praised by academics (Prof. Bruce K. Alexander - 'Dangerous to the status quo. It offers people a glimpse of hope.' and...

Filled with humorous, Lovecraft-spoofing humor, where the cats wind up getting the best of the human, despite his malicious intentions! Perfectly appropriate for animal lovers of all kinds!

Darren’s cousin was never the sharpest pencil in the box, and when an attempt to get his home video on television by faking a fall from a high dive misfired, the pencil was reduced to a stub. After a ship-wrecked alien takes up residence in his cousin’s vacant head, Darren finds himself dragged...

A humorous look at the diabolical side of certain golf clubs.