Fiction, Humorous
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Sunset Oasis Confidential
by Geoff Moore
Sunset Oasis is the last resort. The end of the line for its baby boomer resident retirees. Doyens Tom, Estelle and Nish have discovered the illicit secret of longevity: cigarettes, alcohol, edibles and Led Zeppelin. Their hazy golden years were...
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Madness, All Over Again
by Fabian Garcia
Milo is an inpatient at the Bellevue Psychiatric Institute & Hospital. He is clever, verbose, and wants absolutely nothing to do with the world outside—but doesn’t seem to want much to do with anything inside, either. He and his chatty roommate...
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Rise of the Jellies
by Brian Wilford
When flying jellyfish rise out of the ocean and maraud through Qualicum Beach, Canada’s “oldest” town, they set off a media circus that makes the sleepy retirement community an unlikely darling of every news organization and disaster fan on the...
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Reel to Real
by Jim Maxim
A tragic accident decimates the family of Leon Schmutz, leaving him captured in the throes of Retrograde Amnesia, and deprived of any recollection of his life prior to the incident. With no one to remind him about his past, Leon struggles to find...
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Millicent DeGroenfeld Rice
by Richard Sanders Polin
Melvin “the Troll” Horgan—lead singer and lyricist of the grunge band Billy Goat’s Gruff; self-loathing, angry little gargoyle, and a spiritually and literally impotent loser; a musician devoid of talent and artistry—finally gets his big break...
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When Salty Met Shady
by Stan Pinato
This riveting tale of historical fiction brings intrigue, action, love, and romance together to form a plot that will transport readers into the past and keep them guessing from beginning to end. In 1862, one person's greed and arrogance alters...
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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...
