Category: humorous stories
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Five Reasons Why I Love the Aru Shah Series
The Pandava sisters’ stories are exciting and laugh-out-loud funny.
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Padoskoks
by Joseph Bruchac I loved this book! I loved the main character and first person mental dialogue. It reminds me of Craig Johnson’s Walt Longmire series. I also loved that I learned tidbits of information about various native cultures around the world. Padoskoks is the second in the Jacob Neptune series and is set in…
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Thereby Hangs a Tail
By Spencer Quinn Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Atria Books, 2010 Genre: Mystery, humorous stories Series: Chet and Bernie Mysteries; 2 ISBN: 9781416585855 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 309 Setting: The Valley (an unnamed desert city somewhere between Las Vegas and New Mexico), Rio Loco, Clauson’s Wells, and Las Vegas, NV Time period:…
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Dog On It: A Chet and Bernie Mystery
By Spencer Quinn Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Atria Books, 2009 Genres: Mystery, humorous stories Series: Chet and Bernie Mysteries; 1 ISBN: 9781416585831 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 305 Setting: An unnamed desert city in a valley somewhere between Las Vegas and New Mexico (presumably modeled on Phoenix) Time period: Contemporary Plot summary:…
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Undead and Unwed
By MaryJanice Davidson Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Berkley Sensation, 2004 Genres: Fantasy, contemporary fantasy, urban fantasy, paranormal romance, paranormal, romance, vampire, chick lit, humorous stories Series: The Undead Series – Betsy; 1 ISBN: 071831006998 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 255 (277 including an excerpt from Charlaine Harris’ Dead to the World) Setting:…
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Pippi Longstocking
By Astrid Lindgren; translated by Florence Lamborn; illustrated by Louis S. Glanzman Place: Publisher & Year: New York: The Viking Press, 1985, 1950 Genre: Humorous stories ISBN: 9780670557455 Intended audience: children – tween Number of pages: 160 Setting: The end of a tiny town (in Sweden) Time period: Not specified Plot summary: Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade…
Ra's Spiral Path 