humorous fiction

Larry Hutch and his agent Ned encounter very mixed reactions when Larry pens a novel about the trials and tribulations of Lanny Hooch, one of the few remaining nonbelievers in a world taken over and ridiculously sanitized by Christians.

Surprise and Umlaut Golem are delighted when the stork arrives with their long-awaited son, but when Surprise is disqualified from motherhood on a technicality, the couple sets out on a quest to find someone who can help them be reunited with the child they have longed for.

A young dragon-girl named Becka must stop the evil Dastard, a demon with the power to erase events and control the future.

Cynthia Centaur journeys to the Good Magician Humfrey to ask him a personal question, but in return for the answer, she must protect the future of Xanth from a distant peril.

A young English widow's in-laws intervene when she takes off on the grand tour and along the way marries a penniless Italian man.

In order to pay her way through NYU, Nanny takes a job caring for the only son of a wealthy family, where she soon realizes her real job responsibility is making sure the Park Avenue wife who doesn't work, cook, clean, or raise her own child has a smooth day.

As Henry Bech travels around the world trying to overcome his writer's block, he manages to stumble onto some of the strangest adventures anyone has ever heard of.

One day in 1905, eleven-year-old Lucius is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck to "borrow" his grandfather's car. Ned McCaslin, a black man, stows away in the car and the three embark on an odyssey which ends at Miss Reba's bordello.

Although not very good at sports or in his schoolwork, Jimmy can draw and dreams of being a great cartoonist; that dream seems within reach when star athlete Charley Beemer suggests they create comics together.

Henderson, a middle-aged American millionaire, travels to Africa in search of a more rewarding life, and finds himself regarded as a messiah when he manages to bring rain to a drought-stricken tribe.