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Syrup: a novel
Par Max Barry. 1999
Scat has a new marketing degree and a wonderful idea for a new cola. Coke offers him three million, but…
Scat's roommate, Sneaky Pete, beats him to the trademark office. Scat scrambles to come up with another winning idea to impress an appealing Coke marketing employee named 6. Strong languageThe country life
Par Rachel Cusk. 1999
Twenty-nine-year-old Stella Benson--ditching family, job, and London flat--escapes to the country as an au pair to a disabled teenager. The…
eccentric Madden family intrigues Stella. She gradually begins to like her antagonistic charge, Martin, who tries his best to uncover Stella's secrets. Strong languageCatch-22: a novel
Par Joseph Heller. 1989
Bombardier Yossarian desperately tries to stay alive during World War II. Military rules make it impossible for anyone to achieve…
the combat quota necessary to quit flying. Yossarian and his buddies concoct ways to avoid the ridiculous orders of their officers. Strong language and descriptions of sexThe dinosaur club: a novel
Par William Heffernan. 1997
Jack Fallon's life suddenly goes downhill--his wife is leaving him, his spoiled kids demand money, and his company is deliberately…
laying off older workers. Fallon teams up with a beautiful and sympathetic company lawyer and his work buddies to sabotage the evil machinations of the CEO. Some strong languageBig babies: a novel
Par Sherwood Kiraly. 1996
A lengthy humorous letter to his unknown birth mother describes the life of A.J. Fleger and that of his older…
brother, Sterling. Sterling's acting career is halted for years after an embarrassing error, and his comeback brings out his own odd birth family. Meanwhile A.J. finally stumbles into a career in child safety and provides Sterling's big break. Strong languageMiss Julia speaks her mind: a novel
Par Ann Ross. 1999
Miss Julia, of Abbotsville, North Carolina, is just recovering from the shock of her husband's death, when Hazel Marie Puckett…
arrives on her doorstep with a nine-year-old boy. Mr. Springer might have left Miss Julia well off financially (which she is just beginning to enjoy), but he also left her with a stepsonCrane spreads wings: a bigamist's story
Par Susan Trott. 1998
T'ai Chi practitioner Effie leaves her husband of one month and becomes the nanny for a neighbor, Gled. Gled, not…
knowing of her marriage, falls in love with her. Effie marries him but doesn't know who the father of her baby is. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sexWhere you are
Par George Constable. 1997
Lake Stevenson has just inherited a house from his late Aunt Ilsa, but her will stipulates that Lake live in…
the house with her springer spaniel, Randall, until the dog dies. Wanting to sell the house, Lake begins thinking of ways to get Randall out of the pictureBlood Lake and other stories
Par James Krusoe. 1997
A collection of eight darkly humorous short stories each revealing a bizarre twist on ordinary events. The title tale opens…
with two men fishing in a leaky boat on a lake of actual blood, so that occasionally they need to dip their lures in anticoagulant. Some violence and some descriptions of sex. BestsellerWilkes: his life and crimes
Par Winston Schoonover. 1981
As reported by his law partner Schoonover, Wilkes is more colorful than most of his New York clients. The two…
attorneys are jailed in contempt of court and participate in a jailhouse riot. Wilkes's cases involve him in a rigged TV game show, in defending a pimp from his own prostitutes, and even in obstructing his own election to a judgeship. Strong languageStraight man
Par Richard Russo. 1997
A week in the life of Hank Devereaux, interim chairman of a mediocre English department at West Central Pennsylvania University.…
He maintains a sense of humor as he deals with budget problems, paranoid colleagues, and family crises. Some strong languageFresno stories
Par William Saroyan. 1994
A collection of eleven of the author's humorous short stories that span the length of his career. Each story revolves…
around ethnic families in Fresno, California, in the early part of the centuryA dog's life
Par Peter Mayle. 1995
The author of A Year in Provence (RC 33617) presents the autobiography of the "mutt" Boy, who was abandoned at…
an early age by his mother, mistreated by his master, and eventually adopted by the Mayles. Boy tells how he learned to please and manipulate "the management" and mixes a lighthearted account of his adventures with advice on dealing with the human species. BestsellerPudd'nhead Wilson, and Those extraordinary twins
Par Mark Twain. 1986
Two novels by an American humorist. In Pudd'nhead Wilson Twain provides a complex, ironical and morally disturbing account of human…
nature under slavery as a brilliant and inventive nineteenth-century lawyer attempts to prove his case by using the newfangled science of fingerprinting. Those Extraordinary Twins is about Siamese twins who share many amusing problemsMiss you like crazy: Eliza Clark
Par Eliza Clark. 1991
Marylou travels to Florida where Flossie, who was her mother and best friend, died playing gin rummy. The trip back…
to Kansas with her father becomes an adventure filled with odd characters, including the flighty neighbor, CeCe, who leaves her doltish husband and beetle-eating young son. Strong language and some descriptions of sexDi and I: a novel
Par Peter Lefcourt. 1994
Leonard Schecter has been given the opportunity to write the script for a television series about England's royal family. Entranced…
by Princess Di, he woos her by promising to write an epic poem about her. Leonard and Di are besotted with one another, and Di packs up the two princes and heads to California for a life with Leonard. Strong languageLaughing gas
Par P. G Wodehouse. 1936
Reginald, the third earl of Havershot, goes to Hollywood to prevent the ill-contemplated marriage of his cousin Egremont. The earl…
encounters even greater difficulties when he accidentally ends up changing places--and bodies--with a famous, but spoiled, child movie starOnce upon a more enlightened time: more politically correct bedtime stories
Par James Garner. 1995
In the sequel to Politically Correct Bedtime Stories (RC 38598, BR 9870), Garner once more provides fairytales without biases. Hansel…
and Gretal become ecoheroes who turn their tree butcher father into a beaver. In "The Little Mer-Persun," the air breather sacrifices his peopleness and becomes half prawn to be with his mer-person underwater. BestsellerPolitically correct bedtime stories
Par James Garner. 1994
In eliminating sexist, racist, culturalist, ageist, ableist, and other biases from well-known fairy tales, Garner has created an Esmeralda who…
refuses to negotiate her reproductive rights in "Rumplestiltskin," a grandmother who is capable of taking care of herself as a mature adult in "Little Red Riding Hood," and a Chicken Little with logically underenhanced conclusions. Some strong language. BestsellerWhat's wrong with America
Par Scott Bradfield. 1994
Emma O'Hallahan begins a journal to explain to her relatives and assorted genetic riff-raff why she shot her husband, Marvin,…
and buried him in the back yard. During the writing, flustered by a little too much brandy and the constant appearances of her annoying husband's ghost, Emma discovers she has also buried a nosy neighbor. When she finds a third grave, she fears she has gone too far. Strong language