When Tuppy tells his fiancee that her hat makes her look like a Pekingese, she huffily calls off their engagement. But love is in the air for Gussie Fink-Nottle. He abandons his beloved newts to court the new object of his affections,...

The ninth Earl of Rowcaster, also known as Bill, has a certain Jeeves temporarily in his employment. At the racetrack, Bill, posing as a bookie, has run off with Captain Biggar's generous winnings and retreated to Rowcaster Abbey.

A woman named Cannie Shapiro is (like the author) a columnist for a Philadelphia newspaper. Life is good until her ex-husband starts writing his own column, for a hip magazine, called 'Good in Bed,' in which he details the intimate tr...

Full of McCall Smith's gentle humor and sympathy for his characters, this second novel set at 44 Scotland Street is also an affectionate portrait of a city and its people who, in the author's own words, 'make Edinburgh one of the most...

Distraught when an author withdraws his manuscript from publication, the publisher, Lord Tilbury, sets about retrieving his fortunes, never guessing that his final obstacle would be the rotund form of a prize pig. Wodehouse's humor is...

March Monroe and her daughter Olivia are going to college. Not together at the same school, of course, just at the same time. March knows that Olivia is going, naturally, since she and her husband have just made their first exorbitant...

Estranged from her family since childhood, Abby lands on a small Irish dairy farm where she encounters down-on-his-luck New York stockbroker Kit, who with Abby helps a pair of elderly cheesemakers save their farm, in addition to comfo...

Baking is an alchemical process for Corinna Chapman. At four am she starts work at Earthly Delights, her bakery in Calico Alley. But one morning Corinna receives a threatening note saying 'The wages of sin is death' and finds a syrin...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Walking in Circles Before Lying Down comes a hilarious novel about a man who won't grow up, his confused relationships with women, and his four (talking) dogs.

David Sedaris' first collection of comic stories and essays. Performed by the author and his sister Amy Sedaris, this program is described by the New York Post as 'a nuclear barrage of humor you could never replicate by reading this ...

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.

The veteran comedian lends his cantankerous and pungent humor to such everyday musings as "Is a vegetarian permitted to eat animal crackers?" and "Griddle cakes, pancakes, hotcakes, flapjacks: why are there four names f...

Mindy Solomon absolutely has to leave Miami. Florida is bad for her head and her hair. She dreams of a dancing career on Broadway and moves to New York, but after a string of failures and mishaps, she realizes that she needs to rethin...

The New York Times calls him 'the funniest man in America,' and his legions of fans agree, laughing and snorting as they put his books on bestseller lists nationwide. In Boogers Are My Beat, Dave gives us the real scoop on: ' The scie...

When Alaric, Duke of Dunstable, decides to take the Empress of Blandings away from her loving master and get her fit, Lord Emsworth calls in the services of the redoubtable Uncle Fred. Fred arrives full of the joys of spring, with nep...

In an attempt to gain Congressional approval for a top secret weapons system, Washington lobbyist "Bird" McIntyre and sexy Neo-Con wonkette Angel Templeton start a rumor that the Chinese secret service is trying to assassina...

The line between dream and reality gets a bit blurred in this decidedly offbeat concoction by southerner Will Clarke. Travis Anderson, a millionaire with probably supernatural powers, definitely weird dreams, and a possibly unfaithful...

Fawlty Towers has become a landmark in comedy history, with its twelve episodes being shown again and again on television. It is impossible to tire of the antics of Basil, Sybil, Polly and the hapless Manuel. Now, all their timeless h...

From Lauren Graham, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood, comes a witty, charming, and hilariously relatable debut novel about a struggling young actress trying to get ahead--and keep it together--in New York City. It's J...

Set in the bright lights of daytime television, SATAN'S SISTERS is the story of The Lunch Club – a long-running, popular ladies' talk show in which alliances are forged, careers are made, and bridges are burned. The show's famous re...

In 1940, America was still staggering its way out of the Great Depression and war clouds were rolling in from Europe. The upcoming Presidential campaign spotlight turned to perhaps the unlikeliest, but certainly the most entertaining,...

Bertie Wooster (a young man about town) and his butler Jeeves (the very model of the modern manservant)—return in their first new novel in nearly forty years: Jeeves and the Wedding Bells by Sebastian Faulks. P.G. Wodehouse documen...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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;...