RS Surtees Soapy Sponge's ruthless pursuit of his passion for fox-hunting at the expense of others, brings him into contact with a Dickensian gallery of observed characters, from Dukes to...

Tom PerrottaEve Fletcher is floundering. A forty-six-year-old divorcee whose beloved, clueless only child has just left for college, Eve is slowly learning to contend with life on her own when,...

Judith Viorst Barbing her trademark insight with humor, the multi-talented Viorst, known for her verse ( It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty and Other Atrocities of Married Life ),...

Hannah Hart My Drunk Kitchen: A Guide to Eating, Drinking, and Going with Your Gut One day, lonely cubicle dweller and otherwise bored New York City transplant Hannah Hart decided...

Gerald Durrell 'What we all need,' said Larry, 'is sunshine...a country where we can grow.''Yes, dear, that would be nice,' agreed Mother, not really listening.'I had a letter from George this...

Author: Fredrik Backman Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy, standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-men-who-want-to-talk-about-Jesus-crazy. She is also Elsa's best, and only, friend. At night Elsa...

AJ Jacobs A collection of A.J. Jacobs’s hilarious adventures as a human guinea pig, including “My Outsourced Life,” “The Truth About Nakedness,” and a never-before-published essay.One man. Ten extraordinary quests.Bestselling...

Ellen Degeneres The personal story of Ellen DeGeneres, the star of ABC's comedy series, Ellen, offers insight into her simple observations on life, her outrageous dreams, and her strange-but-true experiences....

David SedarisWelcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its proverbial ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of...

Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither Here nor There he brings his unique brand of...

David Lodge"A funny, intelligent, superbly paced social comedy." --The New York Times Vic Wilcox, a self-made man and managing director of an engineering firm. has little regard for academics, and...

Mary Pope OsborneJack and Annie have been transported back to ancient Japan. Here they learn ninja secrets from a ninja master. When they leave his cave evil samurai warriors follow...