Jerome K Jerome   Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.Three Men in a Boat is a comic classic. When it first...

Mary Pope OsborneSummary:Jack and Annie travel back in time to a desert in the Middle East at the behest of Merlin who has given them a rhyme to help on...

Author: Joe Dunthorne Ray Morris is a tech journalist with a forgettable face, a tiresome manner, a small but dedicated group of friends, and a wife, Garthene, who is pregnant....

Michael McIntyreMichael McIntyre has become Britain’s biggest comedy star. His debut stand-up DVD was the fastest selling of all time, only to be eclipsed by his second that sold over...

William Novak and Moshe WaldoksTwo rival businessmen meet in the Warsaw train station. "Where are you going?" says the first man."To Minsk," says the second."To Minsk, eh? What a nerve...

Howard SternRock stars and rap gods. Comedy legends and A-list actors. Supermodels and centerfolds. Moguls and mobsters. A president.Over his unrivaled four-decade career in radio, Howard Stern has interviewed thousands...

Edward LearThe owls, hen, larks, and their nests in his beard, are among the fey fauna and peculiar persons inhabiting the uniquely inspired nonsense rhymes and drawings of Lear (20th...

Janet EvanovichLow-rent bounty hunter Stephanie Plum reaches depths of personal experience that other women detectives never quite do. In Hot Six, for example, a sequence of new and hideous cars...

Yaakov WolfsonThe Strength to ChangeOn a ride across the Verrazano Bridge, Yaakov Wolfson hears the story of a man who had the courage to cross another sort of bridge -...

Carole MatthewsSally Freeman is a 20-something single mum and superwoman trying to make her world a better place. Hopelessly in love with her is Johnny, an artist with not a...

Tina Fey   Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being...

Elmore Leonard   “A Hollywood hit….Taut, inimitable prose and characters who could have only sprung from the mind of Elmore Leonard.”—Detroit NewsThe Chicago Tribune has dubbed Elmore Leonard, “the coolest,...