Provides information on how to be funny, including ideas about comedic styles and routines, how to use props, developing a distinctive character, using music, improvisational techniques, as well as the history of comedy and some well-known people in the field.

A selection of humorous riddles, plays, and puppet jokes with directions for presenting them to an audience.

"Identical twins Ling and Ting like to be silly, tell jokes, and laugh together"--

Mr. Putter is convinced to run in a senior marathon with his neighbor, Mrs. Teaberry, when he learns that second prize is a train set.

She's left her dead husband -- and within forty-eight hours Tanya Dubois is a fugitive. It's almost impossible to live off the grid today, but Tanya-once-Amelia-now-Debra and Blue, a bartender, have the courage, the ingenuity, and the desperation, to try. Hopscotching from city to city, Debra especially is chased by a very dark secret ... can she outrun her past?

Dr. Peter McGraw, founder of the Humor Research Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder, teamed up with journalist Joel Warner on a far-reaching search for the secret behind humor. Their journey spanned the globe, from New York to Japan, from Palestine to the Amazon. Meanwhile, the duo conducted their own humor experiments along the way-to wince-worthy, hilarious, and illuminating results. In their quixotic search, they questioned countless experts,...

Ann B. Ross tickles the funny bone while touching the heart. Although Miss Julia vows to mind her own business for a change, she can't help investigating the possible murder of her financial reputation-and of the dead person in the toolshed. But the sudden arrival of Hazel Marie's twins during a raging blizzard brings a whole new set of challenges and a double helping of trouble for Ross' indomitable Southern heroine.

"After five hectic years of retirement from Lord's Chapel, Father Tim Kavanagh returns with his wife, Cynthia, to Mitford where he - and his beloved friends and family - face the challenge of settling into the next phase of their lives"--

A wedding planner job in Seattle means a fresh start for Margot Cooper. But never did she expect her important new client's Best Woman would be the one that got away.

Having long indulged himself in daydreams more exciting than his mundane life as a carpet merchant, Abdullah unexpectedly purchases a magic carpet and his life changes dramatically as his daydreams come true and dangerous adventures become daily fare.