Island Boys Can't Swim by Patricia Grant Price verified 2 hours ago

A lonely rum-drinking island boy and an ambitious nightclub bandleader pursue friendship and adventure as a hurricane ravages their island home. Guns, liquor and fruit - now that's paradise - paradise, island boy style!

Genre: Humor & Satire

Skeletons in the Closet (Laundry Hag Series, Book 1) by Jennifer L. Hart (Elements Unleashed) (6,869 Reviews)    Price verified 7 minutes ago

Murder, mayhem, meet your match! Maggie Phillips hasn't had it easy. As the wife of retired Navy SEAL, and the adoptive mother of two little hellions, Maggie is constantly looking for ways to improve her family's financial situation. She accepts a cleaning position for her new neighbors (who redefine the term 'eccentric'), never imagining she will end up as the sole alibi for a man with a fascination for medieval torture devices when he is brought up on murder charges. While Maggie struggles to prove the man's innocence, her deadbeat brother arrives, determined to sell Maggie and Neil on his next great scheme and to mooch with a vengeance. If that isn't bad enough, her in-laws, (the cut-throat corporate attorneys) descend on the house, armed with disapproval and condemnation, for the family's annual Thanksgiving celebration. As the police investigation intensifies, Maggie searches for the killer among the upper echelon of Hudson, Massachusetts in the only way she can -- by scrubbing ...

Genre: Humor & Satire

Chasing Squirrels in Retrospect by Stephanie Lawless (98 Reviews)    Price verified 7 minutes ago

One woman's determination to triumph over life's adversities, one sarcastic comment at a time... Georgia Leonard is short, optimistic and refuses to take life too seriously unless it is absolutely necessary. Her appalling dating skills ensure that she tackles life largely on her own, and with varying degrees of success. We follow Georgia through family heartbreak, an accusation of hoover crime, love without a chance and being attacked by a swan during a sponsored swim. When George discovers that somebody has been stealing money for her ancient Auntie D, it sparks a series of tragedies that take her family life by storm. Soon, she not only has to deal with a puzzling case of fraud, but also the emotional rollercoaster of facing death as another family member is diagnosed with leukaemia. As if that wasn't enough, after being single for many years, Georgia feels certain that she has finally met the man she's been waiting for. Why then, is he attached? And why won't he leave her alone? ...

Genre: Humor & Satire

ARTEMISIA: a humorous Regency novel (Regency Goddesses Series) by DG Rampton (Amazon Digital Services) (2,171 Reviews)    Price verified 7 minutes ago

"I've found my new Queen of the Regency Romance Novel" - Kindle Amazonian 100,000 readers have already discovered the Regency Goddesses Series. The books, which can be read in any order, are regularly in the U.S. top 20 for Historical Romance and Humor & Satire. ? a love-hate romance ? a reluctant debutante ? an English lord spy ? a glorious London Season "You forget yourself, your lordship. You have no rights to allow or disallow anything I may choose to do. You have, in fact, no claim over me whatsoever - a circumstance for which I thank the Lord on a daily basis! I am neither your ward nor your dependent, and I will not allow you to talk to me in that odiously overbearing fashion!" High-spirited Artemisia Grantley, niece of the Duke of Wentworth, has never made any attempt to conform to the feminine ideal expected of a lady of quality, nor has she ever had the benefit of an unfavourable opinion formed against her. But when the Marquess of Chysm enters her life, it seems to her ...

Genre: Humor & Satire

Posthumous Accolades by Dennis C Mariotis (8 Reviews)    Price verified 19 hours ago

Posthumous Accolades is a fictional dramatic hilarious comedy about a very wealthy 60 year old man, named Nigel Scratford, who finds an opportunity to fake his death after surviving an explosion which resulted in a horrific building fire. His purpose is to expose each family member's genuine feelings & opinions of him. Only a few trusted people know he's alive. Searching for his supposed remains takes time. His family who believes he died in the fire proceeds with a mock funeral service using a mannequin wearing a mask, bearing an incredible likeness, in his place. Attending his own funeral he switches places with the mannequin in the casket during separate family-only visiting hours to witness his family's private confessions, first hand, which they were required to do to comply with the request from his Last Will and Testament, or they forfeited their portion of a huge inheritance. Lots of dramatic and comical situations arise throughout the story with his plan, and his ...

Genre: Humor & Satire

Cómo sobrevivir a la peor novela jamás escrita (Spanish Edition) by Phoebe Wilkes (17 Reviews)    Price verified 20 hours ago

Oscar ha dedicado buena parte de su tiempo a leer novelas de romance en la web para luego poder criticarlas en su blog. Todo parece irle bien, puesto que cuenta con un gran número de seguidores que le apoyan, le hacen recomendaciones de lectura y se muestran encantados con su manera de ensañarse con las obras poco originales.Pero, ¿qué pasaría si, de repente, Oscar transmigrase a una de esas novelas que criticó? ¿Y si aterrizase justo en la peor de todas? No, más que eso... ¿Qué sucedería si reencarnase en el personaje carne de cañón destinado a morir a manos del villano?

Genre: Humor & Satire

A Christmas Tune In Bethlehem (New Zealand) by Nykki Dawn (13 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This is a lighthearted, short story, 5,000 words (approximately 20 or so minutes reading) set in the small town of Bethlehem (New Zealand) where the minister's wife, Verity Spragwell, is excited. The Auckland choir is coming to town and she will be leading the singing. But not everyone in the small town of Bethlehem shares her joy, nor is the visiting choir prepared for their leading lady's performance.

Genre: Humor & Satire