Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Humorous - General

""You are in danger as well...Please heed my warning..." "

So begins the diary written by Catherine Morgan as she describes the events of a Monday in 1810 Regency England. When another Catherine Morgan, who lives in present-day New York City, receives the diary, she is drawn into the mystery as the present Monday begins to resemble the Monday in 1810.

Writing in the diary, Catherine pleads for help by hinting this particular Monday can be changed as long as the day doesn't end the same way. Catherine and her brother XJ desperately try to unravel the clues from 1810, but this is...

Gina Johnson-Logan is a 30 something year old country bumkin reflecting on her teen years. Having been a teenage mother, Gina transforms from a promiscuous teen to a woman putting God first in her life.As Gina humorously tells the story of her family members, her blessings and her success, there are valuable lesson she's trying to convey. As Gina goes through her three stages of womanhood, she finds herself blaming her mother for her promiscuity and the way her life plays out.Now looking back, Gina chuckles at how fast she was, and how she was trying to be a woman too soon. Gina eventually...

"I thought it was brilliant, really brilliant. What a smart boy Tristram is."--Mrs. Hoosier

"I'm really a lot cooler than the book makes me out to be."--Jason Hoosier

"Okay, so Tristram wrote a book. Big deal. Anybody could do that. He thinks he's so big all of a sudden. But I can still kick his ass, and he better never forget it."--Aaron Hoosier

Tristram Hoosier, age 12, gets in a fight at school over a haircut, becomes a vegetarian for a day, sneaks out to watch a midnight movie and builds a fort in the woods--perfectly normal activities for a seventh-grader growing up in Indiana....

Whether you are a nurse, or just someone in "need" of some nursing, you'll find humor, health, and healing in the endless fields of Nebraska corn

Join your old pal Chuck as he shares with you 16 of his favorite "diatribes" and "die by trials," in "Nursing the Corn."

A viciously cynical newspaper hack, Page toils at several small rags on Florida's gulf coast. His warped memory of literature, history, and quotes for every occasion--however inappropriate--allow him to write filler, win arguments, placate and enrage friends and enemies, and dissect his own blistering existence.

With constant typing as both master and servant, he pecks endlessly at his collection of old typewriters, hilariously chronicling his sad past and humiliating present, his rage at God, and his hatred for the universe. Page left the wintry north after tragedy and divorce. Now he...

Jack Clooney is a twenty-something aspiring writer, who is in love with Allison Blake, the beautiful, adventurous woman who has captured his heart. One evening Allison goes out with her friends and doesn't come home until the next morning. Afterward she tells a heartbroken Jack that she needs space.

Jack desperately wants Allison back, but he doesn't know how. He must decide whether he wants to be the man he's always yearned to be, or whether he should continue hanging out with his juvenile friends. Jack solicits the help of his happy-go-lucky brother Kevin, and best friend Annie, to try...

What really goes on in the mind of an overweight person? The inspirational novel "Diet King" takes a whimsical look into the world of Peter Wells and his emotional twenty-five-year journey through dieting hell.

When young Peter Wells embarks on a field trip with his third-grade class, his problems begin when he hurls insults at a large-sized classmate. In high school, Wells cuts gym classes and rapidly gains weight. His parents and his school counselor send him to a drill sergeant/psychologist who believes that exercise will help cure Wells of his poor eating habits. Wells begins a...

Mark Gentry, like every other college student just about to graduate, is facing the most difficult decision of his life: what does he want to be when he grows up? Unlike most other graduating seniors, Mark Gentry is a thirty-one year old former professional baseball player without a notion of what he wants to do.

Mark's career counselor proposes agriculture as the answer. Mark's girlfriend believes that the solution lies in a ballpark in Helena, Montana.

"Catchers, Cows, and Nachos," a sequel to 2001's "Wildfire Summer," follows Mark Gentry's adventures in the Big Sky Country as he...

Maxine Dorfman has it all--sagging jowls, chubby elbows, sexual batteries that need repair, and frustrating fantasies about Burt Lancaster and her dentist, Dr. Ronald Kertler. But, there are two things she does not have: the notorious, hooked Kleinkopf nose that runs in her family, and a faithful husband. Mel, her laid-off CPA husband dumps her for an older woman--a sixty-five-year-old woman. Maxine is left on ground zero in denial, depressed and addicted to macadamia nuts.

Hope arrives in the form of Connie Piccini, her best friend who encourages a reluctant Maxine to sign up for "Earth...

FARCE--An unexpected hit off Broadway

THE CAPTAIN--Heroism from an unexpected source, real or imagined?

BOND, JAMES BOND--The de-glamorized version of 007. Southern style.

Bobbie Burns would understand this one--A DAY AT THE BEACH

GROWING PAINS--Do we ever forget those special moments of childhood?

HOW I MADE COLONEL THE HARD WAY--Improbable story of success.

THE CRITIQUE--What a writer doesn't learn in Creative Writing class.

CASANOVA JONES; A BASEBALL STORY--Curves, fastballs & indigestion.

THE JEWELS OF KINGDOM EXCELSIOR--A Poe story within a story.

MARK...

Marlene D. Morel is an emotionally troubled Chinese-American teenage girl growing up in Utopia-Zurich, Switzerland. To avoid her drunk, abusive father, who is the Swiss version of Oscar Wilde and her American mother, a has-been soap opera star, who has no interest in her chubby, slant-eyed daughter, Marlene spends most of her time hiding inside the warehouse, which houses the family business, Morel Theatrical Costumier.

Preferring life among mannequins, props and costumes, Marlene has created over the years, a life of make-believe, where her imagination runs rampant. Trouble is,...

Ten--nine professors and a graduate student--tell forty tales in rhymed verse as they drive a van to a conference from the University of Montana to San Francisco, wedging in two odes to an earthworm & dandelion, four sonnets, four ditties, one villanelle, and singing two original songs. In the spirit and style of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," they embark on a pilgrimage to reap knowledge at the Holy Grail of computer technology in Silicon Valley with one simple rule: "you can speak at any time so long as you speak in rhyme." The themes of the tales are as diverse as the group of reluctant...

Looking for a fun, yet thought-provoking novel? Your wish has been granted. Meet Isabelle, the most delightful and unlikely felon you'll ever encounter. Yes, she's truly a criminal; identity theft is, indeed, a felony. She doesn't set out to be a felon, certainly feels uncomfortable upon discovery of her crime, and continually (with the best of intentions) plans to come clean, but things just keep happening. Good things. Things she's always wanted--some knowingly, some not--to happen. And, it's difficult to apply the brakes, let alone turn around, when the drive is going so smoothly. But,...

For Melody, a twenty four year old graduate of UC Berkeley, being the girlfriend of Major, an ex-college football star turned Medical student, has been the definition of her happiness. Through heartbreaks, accomplishments and everyday life, Melody's relationship has provided her with the security she always wanted. Yet a chance meeting with Mecca, a smooth talking poet from New York causes her to reminisce on her life with Major. As Mecca begins to revive feelings long since left cold by Major, Melody begins to question if she is willing to let go of the history and stability she has with her...

Join Peggy Baseman as she takes us on an alternately hilarious and poignant journey through her world, often through the quirky prism of her kitchen. Dog testicular implants; raccoon home invasions; self-service salad bars; remodeling projects; mammograms; supermarket tabloids; dental visits; random acts of kindness; family Christmas celebrations; First Amendment rights; lost luggage; kids growing up; empty nesters and menopause; alternative energy; sickness and loss-are all explored in a voice which is a lot like the one sitting across from us at the kitchen table. Lots of recipes-some Mom...

CONFESSIONS is a collection of stories from a practical joker that plays up the 'Ol' Country Boy' routine mainly for the benefit of the tourists. Many of the local people will identify with the players in these comedies and philosophical stories, as Motz is a practical joker and has been known to instigate many a misunderstanding, or to feign innocence to initiate a comic and embarrassing situation. An innocent in a world of hunters, fishermen and other liars, Motz goes out of his way to make you laugh, sometimes at his expense and often at the expense of others, who try to show how...

Ladyfingers is the hilarious sequel to author Delorys Welch-Tyson's best-selling novel, Gingersnaps.

Million-dollar lotto winners, ex-convicts, an internationally famous pop diva, and a Belgian mime are just a few of the outrageous characters descending on the French Riviera. And they're having a party...

Americans Desiree Brown Simon and her husband David Simon live a relatively quiet life in the south of France while they churn out their respective best-selling novels. But when they meet the famous American singer Amelia Jackson, they are...

Confession #1: A Gator cheerleader never tells all...or does she?

Author and former Gator cheerleader Bess Harbin Auer exposes life at Florida under Steve Spurrier's first year as head coach. Although the Gator Nation becomes locked in the chaotic grip of brutal serial killer Danny Rolling, the cheerleaders strive to create an atmosphere of team spirit deep in The Swamp.

Go behind the scenes as the cheerleaders prepare for Gator Growl, work out in the sacred South End Zone weight room, and practice in the O'Dome. Follow the squad to Tennessee and see how they find a way to take the...

For some mysterious reason, the IPL Corporation is planning to bankrupt a recently acquired subsidiary, Rostor. All of Rostor's 256 original employees have a million dollars worth of stock they can't sell for three more years, and if IPL has its way, Rostor's stock will be wallpaper. Nancy Joseph has raised Rostor from birth, and she feels like IPL is murdering her baby. Thanks to Valium, she hasn't gone postal, but it is a thought. Then, inspired by one woman's subterfuge, Nancy organizes six women into a guerrilla band.

"The Bimbo Sluts from Hell" use deception, blackmail, rumor,...

"Dear Baby Boomers" is a series of humorous letters to the children of senior citizens on how to cope with their aging parents along with their growing children.