| Looking for a humorous read to keep your spirits light. Here are some great comic
capers to make you laugh out loud. This bumbling
collection of petty crooks, femme fatales, and dopey marks
provide endless entertainment. Below are great novels
by authors you may have heard of, and others you may want to
explore. Click on the title or book cover to check for
availability at your library.
We promise that if
you read these funny books in the library, we won't even
shush you!
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Be Cool
by Elmore Leonard
With his unique
combination of the good, the bad, and the unexpected, the
bestselling author of "Get Shorty" gives readers a new Chili
Palmer novel that twists and turns to the very end. From
screen tests to jam sessions, from the Hills and the Valley
to Hollywood and Vine, "Be Cool" is all new, all clever, and
most definitely, all that. |
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Big Trouble
by Dave Barry
The humorous
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist makes his fiction debut
with a ferociously funny novel about love and mayhem in
south Florida, and the the life-changing events that rumble
through a odd-ball family after two hit men pull up to their
door. |
Fax Me a Bagel
by Sharon Kahn
Follow the
bagel crumbs as this savvy, heartwarming new series welcomes
an enchanting sleuth: Ruby, the rabbi's wife--a 46-year-old
widow who dodges a cunning killer, from her favorite bakery
in Eternal, Texas, to the Lower East Side of New York City. |
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Florida Roadkill
by Tim Dorsey
From murder
by Levi's 501s to the annual Running of the Hemingways in
Key West, "Florida Roadkill" is a manic, violent, lyrical,
and hysterically funny post-postmodern crime novel--the
first book by the night news coordinator of "The Tampa
Tribune." |
I Still Miss My Man but My Aim is Getting Better
by Sarah Shankman
There are plenty of
laughs in the outrageous, rhinestone-studded story of Shelby
Kay Tate, a Nashville waitress hoping to make it big in
country-and-western music. |
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The Miracle Strip
by Nancy Bartholomew
Fluff, it's me and you
against the rest of the idiots", Sierra Lavotini says to the
only one she can trust in the world -- her dog, Fluffy.
Sometimes that's the way it feels for the star of Nancy
Bartholomew's debut, an exotic dancer in Panama City,
Florida. |
Skinny Dip
by Carl Hiaasen
Hiaasen's
signature mix of hilariously over-the-top villains, lovable
innocents and righteous indignation at what mankind has done
to his beloved Florida wilderness is all present in riotous
abundance in his latest. |
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What's the Worst That Could Happen?
by Donald Westlake
John Dortmunder, the taciturn con man who is
the hero of Westlake's funniest series of caper novels, is
someone perfectly capable of nursing a grievance. When his
own ring is stolen by a hotshot billionaire, the stage is
set. Dortmunder makes repeated attempts to get his ring back
with hilarious results. |
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section.
Posted: 3/25/05
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