Funny Satire

The Bull in the China Shop: The Use and Abuse of X-Rays You’ve had X-rays. Your dentist swears by them. Your doctor orders them “just in case.” But what if the world’s most routine medical procedure isn’t as harmless as everyone claims? In The Bull in the China Shop, author and critic Bill Jordan pulls back the lead curtain on one of the most overlooked health risks of modern times: medical radiation. Delivered in a style equal parts serious investigation and satirical romp — somewhere between a public health warning and a Monty Python sketch — this book takes you on a journey...

In "The Importance of Being Roger," prepare to embark on a riotous journey alongside Roger Sidebottom, a man whose life seems to be a magnet for chaos. From his tumultuous childhood to his disastrous forays into adulthood, Roger's path is paved with mishaps, misadventures, and the occasional stroke of luck. Haunted by the spectre of an indifferent father and the scars of lost love, Roger stumbles through school, university, and the working world, leaving a trail of uproarious incidents and near-misses in his wake. As he grapples with the absurdities of everyday existence, readers will find ...

Fourteen-year-old Wyatt is having a difficult time dealing with the death of his mother. He often visits the spot where he and his mother would star gaze and dream of what it's like on Mars. Before she died, he told her he intended on traveling to Mars someday. Meanwhile, Herman is a teenage Martian who watches the NASA channel on the teletube and dreams of visiting Earth. One night, he and his friends take a joyride in a spaceship and ends up on Earth, where they accidentally zap Wyatt aboard before flying back home to Mars. Wyatt and Herman quickly become friends—and both like to ...

Every blizzard begins with a single snowflake. Rhys and his 3 closest friends are young adventurers trying to make a name for themselves in a world filled with monsters and magic. When they're sent on a royal quest to investigate rumors of a strange phenomenon happening up north, they get their chance. People all over the continent of Ravnia have been talking about frozen, white rain falling from the sky up north. Ravnia's sometimes warm, sometimes cool: never hot, never cold. This icy, white rain - which is being calling snow - has never known to exist. And many doubt it's real: snow ...

Rachel Klein never meant to kiss her creative writing professor, but with his long eyelashes, his silky hair, and the sad, beautiful life he laid bare on Twitter, she does, and the kiss is very nice. Zahid Azzam never planned to become a houseguest in his student's sprawling Connecticut home, but with the sparkling swimming pool, the endless supply of Whole Foods strawberries, and Rachel's beautiful mother, he does, and the home is very nice.

The first two books in THE PEDLEY CHRONICLES series: BERYL, FRED AND A DOG CALLED TED: When Beryl and Fred decide to sell up and take a camper van tour around Spain with their lovable Cocker Spaniel, Ted, little do they realise how eventful their poorly planned trip will turn out to be. Intending to tour the whole country thoroughly in an anti-clockwise direction, one unexpected incident after another throws them off track and sees their faithful VW Camper, Vernon, transporting them to the south coast well ahead of any real or imagined schedule. Parked up and ready to enjoy the delights of ...

Take Me to Your President is another brilliant political satire by the author of The Mouse That Roared. After chasing his dog (who was chasing a rabbit), a simple farmer from a small village in England finds himself inexplicably on board a top-secret intergalactic missile. Before he can sort it out, the farmer finds himself touching down in the United States of America where he is mistaken for a Martian. And now it’s up to him to bring world peace. “Once again Leonard Wibberley—author of The Mouse That Roared—has conjured a unique sort of comedy from a blend of fantasy, blandly ...

From the bestselling author of The Mouse That Roared comes a witty tale of a leprechaun in New York. Timothy Patrick Fergus Kevin Sean Desmond McGillicuddy (for short) is a leprechaun diplomat on a mission to convince the President of the United States to halt the construction of a new U.S.-owned airport on a tract of Little People land in Ireland. With the belief “mischief is me nature” and the help of a 10-year-old American boy, he proves wee folk a big force to be reckoned with. This special 60th Anniversary edition features a new introduction by journalist and author Quentin ...

If you’ve just fallen into this beguiling treasure, then it’s in your best interest to just spank yourself and throw this book back in the vault where you found it. Because once opened, fabulous words that grow into sentences and paragraphs and stories will leave you with a massive rock-solid sense of the surreal. Leave now and we can both forget about this momentary plunge of lusciousness your eyes were about to feast on. Go! Prevail upon the legendary badassery life that is yours elsewhere. You have been thanked for your no-obligation, risk-free read of this secure blurb and I wish ...

Have you read J.S. Mason’s works before? Are you looking to read something that is entertaining, exciting, fresh, fast-paced, humorous, eccentric, and enjoyable? If so to the first question, then this is the book for you. If so to the second question, then this is the book for you. Much like his previous three books offer, this fourth installment of J.S. Mason’s …And Other series has just as many and now even more giggles, chuckles, chortles, guffaws, crack-ups, and laughter of the rolling on the floor and full-belly variety. With silly and zany adventures afoot in these hilarious ...

What happens when marriage is truly "til death do us part"? Best buds Ian, Derek and Myra are the hottest young movie stars of their Hollywood era. But in a dystopian future where covenant "super vow" marriages are making divorce virtually impossible, the national scandal of their torrid sex triangle threatens their careers and their sanity. Seen through the eyes of the burnout tabloid reporter who covers them, Derek and Myra get caught up in religious and political cross-currents that could make their rocky marriage a life sentence…or maybe worse. "Kelton, whose writing credits include ...

From the mind of the ultimate corporate gunslinger comes this no-nonsense, real-world Curriculum, designed to augment - if not replace - the more traditional path to achieving mastery of the business universe. Conquer this sharp, practical and often amusing course of study and save $250,000 of wasted business school tuition. The Curriculum is dedicated to the study of business, how it works, and how it can be used against those who don’t know how it works.

A dreamy Pisces with a love of romance novels. A drop-dead gorgeous new boss. A dysfunctional family without any clue of how horrible they are. A new dating agency startup with its share of teething problems – and the fun is only just beginning. When permanently distracted Kirsty suddenly loses her job, she realizes it's time to start being more serious about her life. Dreaming about The One while her personal band of angels croon love songs is all very well, but real life apparently requires a certain degree of concentration. However, as she juggles the demands of her new job (which ...

If all goes according to plan, tonight will be Jack Current’s last. The young engineer is at the end of his emotional rope and plans to take his own life. But first, a bar crawl through his downtown Cincinnati neighborhood is in order. Accompanying him during his final hours is a dollar store notebook. The Drunk Log. In it, he documents the evening, ruminates on his existence and remembers his 7-year-old nephew, who died exactly a year earlier. It is a loss for which Jack feels responsible—a lapse in judgement for which there is no forgiveness. Buckling under the weight of oppressive ...

The Best Self-Help Book You'll Never Need to Read (Because Buying It Counts as Reading It*) Ever wondered why every life-changing revelation comes in exactly seven steps? Or why your morning routine isn't transformative enough unless it involves pre-dawn headstands and astronomically priced green juice? In this wickedly observant satire, our cheerfully delusional narrator guides you through the art of becoming a self-help guru - without all that messy business of actually achieving anything first. From creating color-coded spreadsheets to track your emotional growth (because feelings need ...

Don’t get me wrong. I love the manicured lawns and symmetrically planted flower beds in our beautiful neighborhood. There’s something undeniably picturesque about the row of houses, their paint colors all meticulously approved by a committee of self-appointed taste experts who seem to be more worried about the shade of beige than actual world problems. However, all this beautifully decorated façade comes at a great price—putting up with the HOA board members. Now, if you're unfamiliar with the phenomenon that is an HOA (Homeowners Association), allow me to enlighten you. You either ...

A rollicking tale of Washington lobbying that will have you in stitches and make you think twice about our government.Filled with a cast of characters only found in our nation’s capital, A Feeding Frenzy in Washington is a hilarious look at the politicians, lobbyists, and assorted scalawags who work behind the scenes to create public policy. A laugh-filled work of fiction that exposes how Congress really works and a must-read for anyone who thought it couldn’t get any worse.

The man was taken by the royal guards. His wife did not know that. What did his wife do? A man was ill at stomach. He was in search of a remedy. The royal guards picked him up. But he was not thrown into the prison. Rather, he was treated like a true guest. The princess was cursed. Nobody wanted to marry her. Yet she was too willing to get married. The king found a match for her. But the month of death delayed the wedding. For making the wedding legal, some laws needed to be amended. The amendment stirred the royal court to dust bowl. If you like rolling in laughter with tales of entangled ...

Matilda Dare can’t sleep. Her insomnia is one more reason to move to the quirky small town of Goodnight, New Mexico after she inherits a house, a small newspaper, and two old dogs there. But despite the Goodnight name, Matilda still spends hers wide awake, and she has good reason after a reporter is murdered. With a mystery to solve, she begins to investigate the town and uncovers more suspects than she knows what to do with. Meanwhile, the hottie cowboy sheriff is doing his own investigation into Matilda, and the mysterious, handsome stranger, who just happens to live with her, is ...

Managing Chaos and living with it when your best laid plans… get laid. The aircraft carrier USS America and its battle force visit Athens for a little fun in the sun for its 6,000 sailors. Spiros, the highly respected port Godfather, runs his own operations providing water taxis, barges of all types, unofficial security, and more. The more includes black marketing with visiting sailors providing cherished goods from the American Air Force Hellenikon Air Base Sales Store. He runs his port in such an extremely, profitable manner that no multi-national company could compete with him if such ...