humorous fiction

Addie Downs and Valerie Adler, who were best friends in grade school but grew apart when they became teens and are now in their thirties, find their relationship evolving once again when Valerie shows up at Addie's house with blood-stained sleeves and says Addie is the only person who can help her.

A collection of short stories by Jean Shepherd that capture the agony of coming of age in America.

Combines stylized lettering with the author's personal views, which highlights his self-professed superior intelligence that he deems necessary to share with the world, meanwhile exposing his sense of humor and the possible flaws in his genius.

Unsuccessful in life or love, Melissa Romney-Jones, disguised as Honey, a blond bombshell, sets out to market her social skills by helping single men shop, entertain, and navigate the social scene.

A graphic novel about a lonely thirty-six-year-old man named Jimmy Corrigan, who meets his father for the first time and contemplates the worth of his own existence.

After the disappearance of Good Magician Humfrey's son, Hugo, six characters--including Hugo's blind wife, a couple of storm-spirits, a cursed girl, Demon Xanth's son, and an outlaw--set forth on quests which reveal secrets about their role in the world.

The rootless lives of Zelikman, an itinerant physician, and his comrade and fellow conman Amram, gain focus when they are dragooned in 950 A.D. into service as escorts and defenders to a stubborn and unlikable young royal whose uncle has usurped the throne.

Eldridge, a twelve-year-old West Virginia boy, and Felton, a banjo player, set out to reunite Tyrane Percival with his long-lost love, Leona, by transporting Tyrane's corpse--on ice in a kiddie pool in the back of a pickup truck--to bury it next to Leona's in Louisiana, but Leona's brother is determined to keep "that jailbird" Tyrane out of the family plot.

Angry after hearing her father paid for her brother to attend Yale University, an opportunity she missed because he made a bad investment at the same time she was applying, Washington spin doctor Cassandra Devine suggests baby boomers euthanize themselves by the age of seventy-five for an incentive, an idea that catches the nation's attention.