The Fairy Gunmother
by Daniel Pennac | 
Riotous Assembly
by Tom Sharpe | 
Indecent Exposure
by Tom Sharpe | 
Missing Links
by Rick Reilly |
The Year of the Hare
by Arto Paasilinna | 
Nuclear Family
by Susanna Fogel |
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
by Paul Gallico | 
Amp'd
by Ken Pisani | 
Crazy in Alabama
by Mark Childress | 
Walking Across Egypt
by Clyde Edgerton | 
Jeeves and the Impending Doom
by P. G. Wodehouse |
The Front Porch Prophet
by Raymond L. Atkins | 
Up and Down
by Terry Fallis |
High Society
by Ben Elton |
Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast
by Bill Richardson |
Raney
by Clyde Edgerton | 
The End of the Road
by Tom Bodett | 
Ancestral Vices
by Tom Sharpe | 
The Throwback
by Tom Sharpe | 
Adequate Yearly Progress
by Roxanna Elden |
Willow Havens is ten years old and obsessed with the fear that her mother will die. Her mother, Polly, is a cantankerous, take-no-prisoners Southern woman who lives to shoot varmints, drink margaritas, and antagonize the neighbors and she sticks out like a sore thumb among the young modern mothers of their small conventional Texas town. She was in her late fifties when Willow was born, so Willow knows she's here by accident, a late-life afterthought. Willow's father died before she was born, her much older brother and sister are long grown and gone and failing elsewhere. It's just her and bigger-than-life Polly.