Thomas P Hanna: 59 books

In what is for her a lucky accident, a curse spell spoken by Big Momma Turnyipp affects Merk McNeap whom she enjoyed tormenting with a different curse earlier. This time he grows thick fur on his palms and soles, making it hard to do many routine activities and even harder to hide that pelage so he...

These eight stories, two of novella length, are about people and their foibles more than about machines or schemes, although those may be involved with emphasis on the humorous elements.There is funny stuff going on in a train sleeper car, a strange doctor’s office, a walnut grove, an office building...

Small-time con man Sylvester Pernell expects to make enough money pulling little scams on the train ride from Philadelphia to Miami to keep him through the winter. However, impressed with his smooth talk ability, two other cons mess that up to force him to make a pickup for them from mobster Alfonso...

Sound technician and inventor Dred Faraday enters a block-square, three-story municipal garage that has heavy metal roll-down grilles to block vehicle access in or out when it is closed for the night to test his special sound equipment that lets him echo-locate, listen from a distance, and play back...

The Proudly Defiant Provocateurs are three anonymous civil rights defenders, gay men in flamboyant Cavalier costumes, who periodically appear in public to support causes or to oppose abuses. In this case they lock horns with a right wing group who are determined to keep the trio from getting public...

Only when they move into their bargain new house do the Lawfords (Dad, mom, Josh, 11, and Annie, 9) learn that because of a bureaucratic snafu they were thought to have agreed in advance to operate this location as an arrival and departure depot for tourists of many species from around the universe...

At times chemist Pamela Princeton disguises herself as Granny Glue, a street person pulling a cart of all she owns - but actually an array of specialty purpose adhesives - to rescue someone in need of help or to inhibit and thwart those up to no good without revealing her true identity. When a coworker...

High school students Todd and Alice time travel back in time using a time machine invented by Todd’s missing uncle to try to save Romeo and Juliet from rash and untimely death without messing up history in the process. The pair must depend on their wits, Mr. Shakespeare’s version of history, and...

Court politics lead to Toby, 12, and Alex, 10, the sons of Sir Bobboli (who is largely running the kingdom since the King is ill) being named whipping boy for the next year so they must endure the punishments imposed for nasty practical joker Prince Baddkind’s bad deeds. The resourceful and imaginative...

Recognize that you make a deliberate decision each time about whether to let yourself feel happy so focus on the reasons to feel that way and decide to enjoy life more without doing more than choosing to do so. Rethink all aspects of your life and surroundings and choose to focus more on those parts...

Recurring nightmares about terrifying sparking electric attacks from wall outlets and overhead power lines send Corbin Sheenan desperately seeking answers before he goes crazy or is locked up by the Army as a dangerous Dreamer. Without knowing why, he anticipates that several large meteors that are...

“Hot Tub Powwow”: The police discover three dead men in a hot tub who appear to have simultaneously shot one another to death. They must find the connections between the three men in the tub, a mobster, and a missing entrepreneur - and then prevent other murders.“A Star Too Bright”:...

Diverse fictional adventures with funny bonesFunny Fungal Diplomacy: Bette’s secret diplomatic mission depends on her being recognized on sight but suddenly she must cope with becoming 80 pounds bigger literally overnight. She is then pursued by enemies that she always knew she had to avoid...

“Family Fake-Out”: An adult daughter, eager to take control of the family business,plans to disguise herself and scare her father to death. But an unpleasant surprise other than the one she set up changes her situation.“Hidden Awareness”: Ambitious Clare and Oliver Markand want her...