humorous fiction

Thomas de la Croix, the spirit of a fourteenth-century knight, needs a contemporary girl to help him protect the Black Rose, a powerful ancient force, but popular, quirky high school junior Cassidy Carter-Lewis is not happy about being chosen to train before dawn and battle demons at parties, the mall, and even school.

Contains six stories in which SpongeBob gets caught up in a campaign, prepares to meet a princess, is locked in a freezer, participates in an art contest with Squidward, is transported back to the Middle Ages, and does a circus act for Patrick.

A quirky picture book in the spirit of Monty Python about two bumbling knights who keep finding objects in a stove (a sword, a shield, a helmet) ... objects that ominously belong to their missing friend Harold.

Misha Vainberg longs to return to New York City, but since his grandfather killed a prominent Oklahoma businessman, Misha knows he is stuck in Russia, where he becomes the hapless Minister of Multicultural Affairs and finds himself fighting for his life, falling in love, and trying to lead a normal life.

Boston antiques dealer Abby Randolph, betrayed by an old friend, dumped by her lover, and grieving the death of her mom, makes the surprising discovery that an old chamber pot she inherited from her mother once belonged to poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning and is worth nearly one hundred thousand dollars--a fact that brings a lot of people from her past calling.

Ave Maria Mulligan, a thirty-five-year-old spinster in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, is jolted out of her rut when her mother reveals a shocking secret, and things become even more exciting when Elizabeth Taylor announces plans to visit the sleepy town.

Ellen Kaplan returns to her affluent Pennsylvania home after a two-year jaunt about Europe only to find that her family has taken in a fun loving border who has managed to capture her parents' as well as her brother's heart.

Miles and Jack, two friends facing mid-life crises, take a week-long road trip through California's wine valleys and evaluate their lives and their respective futures.

Native New Yorkers Elise and Donald are engaged and now live in Washington. As they adjust to their new environment, shopping for groceries with senators and pundits, Donald's old flame appears. Now Elise must conduct womanly warfare to keep her prize.

When Willy goes outside to check on his grill, he finds a UFO full of aliens who want some of his barbecue and chili, and then tear up his farm square dancing while he plays the fiddle. Includes a recipe for barbecue sauce.