humorous fiction

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Huck Finn, the son of the town drunk, and Jim, an escaped slave, make a break for freedom down the vast Mississippi River on a raft.
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The adventures of Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy in early-nineteenth-century Missouri, embarks on a summer of adventures with his friends, Huck and Becky, after witnessing a shocking crime in the village graveyard.
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Bunny

"Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other 'Bunny,' and are often found entangled in a group hug so tight they become one. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled 'Smut Salon,' and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, a caustic art school dropout, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the sinister yet saccharine world of the Bunny cult and starts to take part in their ritualistic off-campus 'Workshop' where they magically conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur, and her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies are brought into deadly collision. A spellbinding, down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, creativity and agency, and friendship and desire, Bunny is the dazzlingly original second book from an author whose work has been described as 'honest, searing and necessary' (Elle)"--Provided by the publisher.
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The lunchroom of doom

Billy Furball, member of the Werewolf Club, is kicked out of the lunchroom for having a food fight with himself and ordered to see a psychiatrist who tries to convince him that he is not really a werewolf, but when aliens invade the town, Billy knows it is time to revert to his true nature.
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A long way down

A former talk-show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother, each intending to commit suicide, find themselves together on the roof of a London building and begin to contemplate their individual choices and circumstances.
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Little big Boubo

A toddler named Boubo describes all the ways he is no longer a baby.
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Big Nate

say good-bye to Dork City
Contains reprints of daily and Sunday "Big Nate" comic strips that follow the adventures of eleven-year-old Nate Wright.
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Holidays on ice

with six new stories
2010
Offers a collection of twelve short stories including six with themes on Christmas by David Sedaris.
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A grown-up kind of pretty

Tells the story of a young woman's search for the truth about her mother and a graveyard on their property.
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The unlucky lottery winners of Classroom 13

Unlucky teacher Ms. Linda LaCrosse wins the lottery and shares her winnings with her class. The students fulfill their dreams with their newfound wealth, but they soon learn that winning the lottery is not all that lucky.
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