Fiction, Humorous
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A Good Day and Other (Mostly) Humorous Stories and Lists
by Radu Guiaşu
Growing up under a dictatorship and the toil of academic life don’t seem like laughing matters, but the lighthearted stories in A Good Day and Other (Mostly) Humorous Stories and Lists find humour in all corners. Radu Guiaşu draws on his own...
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California Bound and Gagged
Fear and loathing in San-Dementia by Marc Luc Carrier
Doctor Nigel Fetherstonhaugh (pronounced Fanshaw) leaves the dreary museum he curates in London for the job of a lifetime, head of works on paper in one of the world's biggest, most prestigious museums: the Algur and Elizabeth Paddocks Museum of...
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Plain Jane Brown
by J. P. Dusel
Jane hasn’t left Canada since her honeymoon thirty-five years ago. Now she is fifty-six, her husband has left her for a younger woman, and she is on her way to Cuba to try to “get her groove back,” as her friend Mavis put it. That is, if she ever...
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Supermilk Inc.
by Michelle Ernst
Supermilk Inc. is a book representing what may become a new genre in fiction: animystic. A genre where our modern culture meets with a mystical perspective. It deals with ideas about responsibility and innovation in the technology young adults...
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Palmsvale
by Michael Gronnerud
A short distance up the West Coast you will find Palmsvale. Home to a thriving movie industry some may say it is just another sun-drenched paradise, but there is much more to it than palm trees and suntans. Living among its citizens is a weirdo...
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What's So Bloody Funny?
by Tim Galbraith
Dylan Davis is a funny guy, but his regular standup gig at the Carney Chop Shop doesn’t pay for more than a crummy car and a crummier apartment, and the club owner Dimitri is always telling him he’s not that good. So Dylan tends to forget about...
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The Pope Moves to Manyberries
by Alan Donnell
The Pope walks out of the Vatican and into the rest of the world. He quickly becomes more famous than he ever was, and sightings of the Pope are reported across the globe including The Last Ranchman bar in Manyberries, a village in the lower...
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Toadstool Manor & Yorkshire Pudding
by Murray Pellowe
Before Archie was born, his parents, the archduke and duchess of the former Atomauria, travelled to England and found themselves in Pudding, a small hamlet in Yorkshire County. Immediately upon arriving, and without much thought, they purchased a...
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Sir Middling U
by Kevin Crowley
A cheeky tale of campus folly! Things aren’t going well for James Duffy. The beleaguered communications director of Sir Richard Middling University is struggling to do the right thing while navigating the quirks and minefields of campus politics....
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Retail
Redemption at $8.25 an Hour by Mike Freedman
The 1990s was a time for drowning in the genre of grunge music and perfecting the art of slackerdom. At least that’s what it was like for Hunter, growing up in small-town America, the son of a successful doctor. Unlike his dad, serial slacker...
