Classic Humor Megapack, The: 45 Short Stories and Poems
by O Henry, Ellis Parker Butler, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Everett Hale, Jr., Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Washington Irving, Deceased James Whitcomb Riley, May Isabel Fisk, and Bret Harte
Cody's Christmas Adventure
by Lisa Jones and Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
Tear Down and Die (Cara MIA Delgatto Mystery, #1)
by Joanna Campbell Slan
Evil Genius or Model Citizen? (Our Town Eccentric, #1)
by Elmer Nusshausen
Joseph, the tactician behind the Piccadilly Circus bombing, finds himself in a nursing home in Pierrefonds, Quebec. A visit from a long-lost former fellow cell member interrupts his dalliance with the night nurse, provoking both a crisis and a period of reflection. Did he lose his mind back then as a young man? Or is he losing it now? Why did a systems analyst living on the Kandahar Road in London, with a PhD from the London School of Economics and an enthusiasm for Bobby Darins hit Dream Lover...
Friday, 23 January The cat funeral. Yeah, that happened today. I went and participated in—aided and abetted?—a cat funeral. London life is tough on idealists. In an ideal world, after years of flirtation, Leo would be cosily settled down with Jack, his long-time crush. In an ideal world, Jack wouldn't now be engaged to a woman. And in an ideal world, Leo would move on....
THE LORD GIVETH, AND THE LORD TAKETH AWAY. Since leaving Louisville's homicide division to become the only P.I. in Pigeon Fork, Kentucky, Haskell Blevins regrettably spends more time helping out at his brother's drugstore than solving crimes. So when he's interrupted from shelving deodorant to discuss a "very private matter" with Brother Tallman, the preacher at the Pentecostal Church, Haskell can barely suppress a hallelujah. It seems someone has been making unsolicited deposits into the chur...
Supposing one day at the office, you simply forgot why you were there...Would anybody notice? Would anybody care? Would it make any difference, so long as you went on doing the job you were paid to do? Lorna comes to work one morning in a buzzing newspaper office, high up in a shining tower block. A colleague offers to bring her a smart new sandwich and fancy coffee in a paper cup. Emails, boyfriends, sparkling parties follow...The problem is that Lorna has had a brainstorm. She can't remember w...
Willa Cather's best known novel is an epic--almost mythic--story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows--gently, all the while contending with an unforgivi...
Bones is back in the second story of The Lieutenant Bones series. A mischievous businessman, Bones seems to have every financial schemer in London coming after him, but somehow he always comes out on top. Humor and romance follow Bones as well, as he makes his way through the underworld of London moneymakers.