Humour
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Fore! : The Best of Wodehouse on Golf
Wodehouse, P. G.Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1999A collection of golf stories from the celebrated satirist: “A delight. Wodehouse’s drives . . . were deadly accurate when writing about the game.” —TheBoston Globe P. G. Wodehouse...
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Meeting Luciano : A Novel
Esaki-Smith, AnnaWorkman Publishing 1999A "funny [and] enchanting" novel about a Japanese-American mother and daughter—and a legendary Italian tenor (The New Yorker). Hanako Shimoda, recently divorced, is fixated on Lu...
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Balls : A Novel
Kincaid, NanciWorkman Publishing 1998Set in Alabama, this is a "funny, entertaining novel about college football coaches and the women who love them" (Library Journal). Balls is the story of the rise and fall of a So...
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Redeye : A Western
Edgerton, ClydeWorkman Publishing 1995A New York Times Notable Book: A quirky tale of the Old West from the author of The Bible Salesman, "a master of comic timing" (Richmond Times-Dispatch). "A Hollywood pitchman mi...
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Succubus Dreams
Mead, RichelleKensington Publishing Corp. 2024Some days, a girl just can’t catch a break… …especially when the girl in question is Georgina Kincaid, a shape-shifting succubus who gets her energy from seducing men. First there’...
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The Best American Humorous Short Stories
Duke Classics 2022Although every literary tradition has its own rich vein of humor writing, there's something about American humor that sets it apart from the pack in terms of accessibility and lack...
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Twain, MarkDuke Classics 2024In Mark Twain's 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Hank Morgan awakes from a blow to the head only to find that he has been mysteriously transported back in ti...