Adulting: LOL

Being a grown-up is difficult and is often steeped in hilarious contradictions. Add in a dash of magic and those contradictions seem to become impossible. In this booklist you will find the fantastical and the farcical, but most importantly the funny. Laugh out loud at the hilarious things that can happen when you are just trying to adult.  


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Blood Test A Comedy

In this fresh take on love and trouble in the American heartland, Brock Hobson, an insurance salesman and Sunday-school teacher, finds his equilibrium disturbed by the results of a blood test. Baxter, a master storyteller, brings us a gradually building rollercoaster narrative, and a protagonist who is impertinent, searching, and hilariously relatable. From his good-as-gold, gentle girlfriend to the excessively macho subcontractor guy his ex-wife left him for, not to mention his well-raised teenage kids, now exploring sex and sexuality, the secondary characters in Brock’s life all contribute meaningfully to the drama, as increasing challenges to his sense of self and purpose crash over him.  

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby. 

 


How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying

Davi has done this all before. She’s tried to be the hero and take down the all-powerful Dark Lord. A hundred times she’s rallied humanity and made the final charge. But the time loop always gets her in the end. Sometimes she’s killed quickly. Sometimes it takes a while. But she’s been defeated every time. This time? She’s done being the hero and done being stuck in this endless time loop. If the Dark Lord always wins, then maybe that’s who she needs to be. It’s Davi’s turn to play on the winning side. 

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and as an eAudio on Libby. 


I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com

A hilarious and sexy romance about a woman who gets dropped on a strange planet only to fall for not one, but two, aliens, from the author of “I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf. Dorothy Valentine is close to getting her PhD in wildlife biology when she’s attacked by a lion. On the bright side, she’s saved! On the not-so-bright side, it’s because they’re abducted by aliens. In her scramble to escape, Dory and the lion commandeer an escape pod and crash-land on an alien planet that has…dinosaurs?  

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and in eAudio on Libby. 


I Might be in Trouble

A suspenseful dark comedy about a struggling writer who wakes up to find his date from the night before dead–and must then decide how far he’s willing to go to spin the misadventure into his next big book. 

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and as an eAudio on Libby. 

 


I See You’ve Called in Dead

Bud Stanley is an obituary writer who is afraid to live. Yes, his wife recently left him for a ‘far more interesting’ man. Yes, he goes on a particularly awful blind date with a woman who brings her ex. And yes, he has too many glasses of Scotch one night and proceeds to pen and publish his own obituary. The newspaper wants to fire him. But now the company’s system has him listed as dead. And the company can’t fire a dead person. The ensuing fallout forces him to realize that life may be actually worth living. 

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and as an eAudio on Hoopla.  


Losing Sight

Sports reporter Tanika “Nikki” Ryan is at the top of her game until she isn’t. Squinting at the teleprompter and flubbing lines, she loses her coveted Thursday Night football spot to a younger, less qualified woman–and that’s only the start of her troubles. After her impaired sight leads to an accident nearly costing her life, Tanika finds herself in the office of handsome widowed optometrist Gideon Miles. There, mysterious circumstances lead Tanika to an enchanted pair of glasses, changing her world–and Gideon’s–forever.  

This title is also available for checkout as an eAudio on Hoopla