[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;...

RunTime: 11 hrs, 8 CDs. In 'The First Assistant,' Clare Naylor and Mimi Hare have again joined forces to take a wry and hilarious look at the wheeling, dealing, schmoozing, and snubbing that make Hollywood the cutthroat capital of the...

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...

From the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant look at the ways in which we all struggle to find ourselves...no matter whe...

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 ...

"It's a dark night in a city that knows how to keep its secrets. But on the twelfth floor of the Acme Building, one man is still trying to find the answers to life's persistent questions: Guy Noir, Private Eye."   The radi...

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...

Low-level entertainment lawyer Nick Carter thinks it's a prank, not an alien encounter, when a redheaded mullah and a curvaceous nun show up at his office. But Frampton and Carly are highly advanced (if bumbling) extraterrestrials. Th...

Despite her globe-trotting lifestyle and her determination to avoid any kind of messy emotional entanglements, a reluctant Laura finds herself falling for Sebastien, a charming, sophisticated Parisian waiter and graphic artist who cha...

#1 International BestsellerThe Best Exotic Marigold Hotel meets The Italian Job in internationally-bestselling author Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg's witty and insightful comedy of errors about a group of delinquent seniors whose desire...