In the hilarious new novel in the best-selling Detective Varg series, an eminent art historian is framed and the ace investigators of the department of sensitive crimes are on the case.   Detective Ulf Varg is a man of refine...

New York Times bestselling author P.J. O'Rourke has toured the fighting in Bosnia, visited the West Bank disguised as P.J. of Arabia, lobbed one-liners on the battlefields of the Gulf War, and traded quips with Communist rebels in the...

bA delightfully funny novel packing a clever punch, from the author of the iNew York Times/i bestselling iJulie and Romeo/i/bbr br   A mom in her early fifties, Clover knows she no longer turns heads the way she used to, and she's...

Lovably troublesome Gladie Burger runs into sizzling danger and a fiery love triangle in the second installment of Elise Sax's hilarious and sexy Matchmaker romance series. "Elise Sax will make you laugh. Her larger-than-life ch...

Now a classic! The hilarious novel of the healing arts that reveals everything your doctor never wanted you to know. Six eager interns -- they saw themselves as modern saviors-to-be. They came from the top of their medical school ...

In the Swedish criminal justice system, certain cases are considered especially strange and difficult, in Malmö, the dedicated detectives who investigate these crimes are members of an elite squad known as the Sensitive Crimes Divisi...

[Thorne Smith] created the modern American ghost.   A ghost with style and wit. A ghost that haunts us still.' --The New York TimesThorne Smith is a master of urbane wit and sophisticated repartee. Topper, his best-known work, is th...

Amy Gallup is an aging novelist and writing instructor living in Escondido, California, with her dog, Alphonse. Since recent unsettling events, she has made some progress. While she still has writer's block, she doesn't suffer from it...

"To dive into a Wodehouse novel is to swim in some of the most elegantly turned phrases in the English language."—Ben Schott Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning ...

Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge has hit upon a foolproof plan to get rich quick: he's starting a chicken farm. Dragging his adoring wife Millie and his long-suffering friend, novelist Jeremy Garnet with him to Dorset, he begins his ...

At that time it had become my habit to begin my day by rising before breakfast and taking a swim in Fermain Bay which lies across the road in front of our cottage.

Readers who fell in love with Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, now have new cause for celebration in the protagonist of these three light-footed comic novels by Alexander McCall Smith. Welcome...

Wigfield is a small bucolic hideaway, situated in front of a massive dam which is about to be torn down by the state government to restore the salmon run. Wigfield's only hope lies in the self-righteous, self-involved 'journalist' Rus...

Tully Mars lights out from Wyoming for a warmer climate after he incurs the wrath of his boss, who raises poodles for a living and has hired a squad of goons to track him down. As he heads south, Tully meets the woman of his dreams, l...

Dear Reader, Some people run toward love with arms outstretched. Hoping of course, that love doesn't gasp in fear and make a hasty retreat in the opposite direction. Others go to great lengths to hide from the very possibility of roma...

Sara Swerdlow and Adam Langer are in many ways the ideal Manhattan pair. Their relationship is unvexed by the strains of sexual attraction, since both prefer men, and has even survived Adam's huge early success as 'the gay Neil Simon...

Refusing to play by the rules, four divorces--Jess, whose affair with a grad student ended her marriage; Nell, whose husband left her for another man; Laura, whose ex-husband refused to have children; and Grace, who still supports her...

The 10th Anniversary Show (July 6-7, 1984) is one of the best live radio shows ever recorded, considered a must by fans and friends. Recorded live, it features performances by Greg Brown; The Butch Thompson Trio; Garrison Keillor; L...

Filled with sharp wit, biting humor, and canine conversation that would make Doctor Dolittle's jaw drop, Merrill Markoe's engaging, cleverly written novel is about the confusing search for love and the divine acts of dog.

P"The undisputed king of the comic crime novel."BR—EMProvidence Journal/PPNobody does Florida weirdness quite like Tim Dorsey! Case in point: EMWhen Elves Attack, the EMNew York Times bestselling author's twisted Christmas...

In this collection of stories you'll meet a bunch of memorable guys including Lonesome Shorty, a cowpoke torn between the proud life in the saddle and the comforts of warm apartments and women; Buddy the teen-age leper in Sioux Falls;...

When Pel is promoted to head his IT department, he finds that his new job involves some very shady elements, and Pel realizes too late that he's going to take the rap for his predecessor, who has mysteriously disappeared. Meanwhile, P...

The biggest selling rodeo novel ever written, is available for the first time on an unabridged CD set!This is the story of two cowboys, Lick and Cody, as they travel the rodeo circuit toward the National Finals. Adventure, romance, a ...

Contemporary romance writer Jennifer Crusie teams up with thriller writer Bob Mayer for this humorous work of romantic suspense. Commercial director Lucy Armstrong steps in at the last minute to finish shooting a nearly complete actio...

A television Domestic Diva who is happy as a perfect size 12, Delilah White suddenly finds herself in competition with her arch-rival, the statuesque Margo Hart, for a much coveted promotion, a situation that is complicated by cutthro...

Instead of saying "I do" to Mr. Irresistible, Lucy Jorik hitches a ride on the back of a beat-up motorcycle with a rough looking, bad-tempered stranger who couldn't be more foreign to her privileged existence. While the worl...

The bestselling author who made mincemeat of political correctness in Thank You for Smoking, conspiracy theories in Little Green Men, and Presidential indiscretions No Way to Treat a First Lady now takes on the hottest topic in the en...

This classic performance of Garrison Keillor's American Radio Company was broadcast live from the Mark Twain Memorial in Hartford Connecticut. The Hartford house is where Twain wrote many of his works. The show pays homage to Twain's ...

A young man from Lake Wobegon escapes to upstate New York, becomes manager of a college radio station, and dodges marriage with various eligible maidens. Garrison Keillor uses the plot as a vehicle for his comic takes on various subje...

Visiting his working-class childhood home in Rhode Island after learning that his first girlfriend has passed away, part-time actor Jono Riley remembers his coming of age at the sides of three best friends, a period that was marked by...