humorous fiction

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humorous fiction

Who is the boss?

1992
Two power-hungry passengers learn who's really in charge when their boat sinks after each tries to outdo the other with preposterous feats.

Henry Reed's baby-sitting service

1966
Back in Grover's Corners, N.J., for the summer, Henry and his partner Midge establish a baby sitting service and find a disappearing child and a peacock among their charges.

Chancy and the grand rascal

1997
Skinny Chancy and his newly found friend, the great rascal, enjoy humorous escapades as they travel by their wits up and across the Midwest in search of Chancy's family.

Mr. Yowder and the giant bull snake

1978
A sign painter and a giant bull snake cause a commotion when they replace Buffalo Bill as official buffalo hunters for the United States Army.

The voice from the Mendelsohn's maple

1990
Penny's expectations of a long boring summer are exploded when she meets an elderly, practically naked, woman in a tree and soon finds herself embroiled in a mystery involving the Beacon Manor Senior Citizen's Residence.

Nature girl

2006
Fed up with telemarketers and suffering from manic-depressive illness, Honey Santana plans to teach salesman Boyd Shreave a lesson and arranges a meeting with him in the Florida Everglades, but when she arrives, she realizes she isn't the only one using the remote site to deal with their problems.

Once upon a more enlightened time

more politically correct bedtime stories
1995

Friend or foe?

2002
Jack and his friends are launched into a grand adventure when they discover the used laptop computer Jack received for his birthday is really the last uncontrolled Outernet server in space.

In God we trust

all others pay cash
2000
A collection of humorous and nostalgic writings of life in the American midwest, based on the author's adolescent experiences in Holden, Indiana.

Theodore Jonathan Wainwright is going to bomb the Pentagon

a comic novella
1973
An eighteen-year-old college freshman is preoccupied with his plans for entering the first National Collegiate Elephant Race and bombing the Pentagon.

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