Gunther Temple is fretting about the empty library at the Texas Museum of Natural History, where he is the sole librarian as budget cuts and the internet whittle away at his workplace. His reverie i……続きを見る
A fun collection about ghouls, ghosts, zombies, and an advice column featuring dead letters from the lovelorn! You'll want to steer clear of Bubba's Cafe after you find out what they serve, and if y……続きを見る
Bringing together Jane Austen's most beloved characters and storylinesーa clever, playful, interactive, and highly entertaining approach to the wildly popular novels in which you, the reader, decide……続きを見る
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'Comedy is never as clever as when Howard Jacobson is on a roll and this book finds him barrelling' - Independent on Sunday
'Brilliantly composed ... crackling with Jacobson's wit, s……続きを見る
著者:Martin Page
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年01月26日
Another mordantly hysterical tale from the author of the cult favorite How I Became Stupid
A funny yet poignant tour of one young man's existential crisis, The Discreet Pleasures of Rejection is ano……続きを見る
著者:Viola Grace
出版社: Devine Destinies
発売日: 2011年11月04日
Abby wants a new life, but magic was never on the agenda. Her new neighbours are great, if you like mermaids, werewolves, and medusi. Adapting to her role in the neighbourhood is tricky as it involv……続きを見る
著者:Ann Wertz Garvin
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年11月02日
Maggie Finley has returned with her husband from the big city to her Wisconsin hometown, where she reunites with her best friend and awaits the any-minute-now birth of her baby. She's determined to ……続きを見る
The unusual thing about the collection Quite Contrary is the range of subgenre. Although these are all crime stories, each is vastly different in its approach to the crime. One story, "A Step Above……続きを見る
Life behind bars isn't all fun and games....Well sometimes it is!
Go behind the scenes with a nightshift crew working in a jail and get the lowdown on how to make the best of what could be some b……続きを見る
Clarence couldn't believe how many outfits Harriet owned. Dresses in every color of the rainbow. Forests of skirts and oceans of blouses. Dance outfits, Halloween costumes, and three long formal gow……続きを見る
SnarkyKu is a collection of senryu (haiku-style poems) providing snarky commentary for every occasion. Feeling like snapping someone's head off? Do it with wit: quote a snarkyKu.
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“You’ll be hooked by this charming story. . . . Smolinski gives us a quick-witted heroine . . . with just the right amount of romance and a tad of suspense.”
ーRichmond Times-Dispatch
Meet June Park……続きを見る
Amy's a hobbyist songwriter with big dreams, but not the usual 'making it as a musician' kind. No, Amy wants to honor her late best friend by finally starting the support center for teenage girls th……続きを見る
A new neighbour makes for new adventures...
Koko takes to the stage in The Cat Who Brought Down the House, the twenty-fifth instalment in Lilian Jackson Braun's enchanting feline crime series. Perfe……続きを見る
A hilarious romp through a year of expat living in Pattaya, Thailand.
Imagine leaving the comfort zone of your home, family and friends to venture into the unknown. Imagine discovering an alien para……続きを見る
著者:Laurie Notaro
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年05月29日
The first novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club is a rollicking tale of small-town peculiarity, dark secrets, and one extraordinary beauty pagean……続きを見る
Here is a daring new explanation for obesity. Don't let the facts stand in the way of junk food science. Just grab some chips and start reading. 3 Faces of Obesity takes a light-hearted look at a he……続きを見る
From maintenance worker to costumed crusader! Arnie Jensen is a repairman of office equipment in the growing metropolis of Santa Bonita. He shares a small apartment with his friend Chester, wayward ……続きを見る
"It's only funny when it's someone else paranoia"
Meet Paranoid Parrot. Just your average Amazonian parrot trying to make his way though this constantly changing, totally confusing world of ours whi……続きを見る
No one was more surprised than cynical former academic George Timmins when his old friend and property magnate David Adler contacted him out of the blue. Adler had news: not only did he have plans t……続きを見る
How to lose your job and find true love
Fed up with impossible deadlines and meaningless busywork, Anne Wyatt goes to work one day determined to resign. But that's the day her boss announces someone……続きを見る
A Fine Day for a Drive is great medicine for over-worked and tired-out people. Prepare to laugh until your face hurts as you enter the quirky and endearing world of Slim Shambles, a shop owner with ……続きを見る
Текст представляет собой небольшую по объему цельную вещь, состоящую из 70 снов, разбитых на десять седмиц, каждая из которых заканчивается сном, зацепившимся за один из Моисеевых законов. Изложение……続きを見る
THE SELLAMILLION is NOT a parody of Tolkien's THE SILMARILLION. That would be pointless because although all Tolkien fans have a copy, only three of them have read past page 40.
It is, however, a pa……続きを見る
Third in the USA -Today and Kobo Top-5 bestselling Leigh Koslow Mystery Series.
Saints, sinners, and snoops!
Leigh Koslow's thrice-married Aunt Bess always was the black sheep of the family. That's ……続きを見る
One of Lardners celebrated stories is Alibi Ike first published in 1915 in the Saturday Evening Post. The author in this short tale follows the career of a funnily strong-headed baseball player who ……続きを見る
Every year we spend hundreds of hours at work, don't you think it's about time we started enjoying it?
Have you ever considered the office anything other than a place of work? Perhaps you have troub……続きを見る
Cast as a fictional memoir of the 1960s, ‘Madame de Gaulle’s Penis’ tells the story of John Sinclair, an ambitious young broadcaster with marital problems whose career nosedives following what shoul……続きを見る
著者:Anya Ulinich
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2008年03月25日
In her stunning debut novel, Anya Ulinich delivers a funny and unforgettable story of a Russian mail-order bride trying to find her place in America. After losing her father, her boyfriend, and her ……続きを見る
Book Four of the Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery Series
Anastasia and her fellow American Woman editors are steaming mad when minutes before the opening of a consumer show, they discover half the……続きを見る