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On a road trip, Sister Betty and a gaggle of colorful characters discover what matters most. Sister Betty determines to carry out her friend's last wishes by delivering million-dollar checks to three pastors in Baltimore. Others give chase--hoping to convince her to spread the wealth.

Former football star Billy Clyde Puckett's raunchy humor and obsession with the game collide head first when he founds his own NFL expansion team in West Texas.

Kenny Lee Puckett has yet to find game and fortune as a professional golfer, but he keeps swinging, hoping to make a name for himself. One of many fringe players on the tour, Puckett has been no more successful on the marriage circuit. Despite the old adage, the third time isn't the charm, as Puckett seems certain to see another walk down the aisle end up in divorce court. Stil, there's always the promise of the greens, and Puckett is gunning for a U.S. Open title that could turn everything around.

At first, Lanny Hooch thinks the sign at the gas station is a practical joke: "Unleaded $0.12 per gallon for the Redeemed--$6.66 for everyone else." At McDonald's, he notices crosses on the employees' lapels and french fries--renamed McScriptures--embossed with Bible verses. And he wonders why everyone calls him 'Mr. P." But when he detects changed lyrics in the oldies tunes blaring from his car radio, he realizes something is seriously wrong. The Beatles never sang about wanting to hold someone's tithe! And then there's the huge reward for his capture and conversion.

With a defeated sigh, ex-college professor Paul Trilby faces the downward spiral that is his existence. After his wife and three subsequent girlfriends dump him, and he loses just as many jobs, he's sure he's a pawn in some vast conspiracy. Now working as the most over-qualified temporary typist in Texas, he faces the daily grind of the offie, with all its snarky bickering, abrasive personalities, and fluorescent lighting. But something else is going on behind the battleship-gray veneer. Ceilings are warping. He's hearing voices. He may be losing the only thing he has left--his mind.

Edward Zanni has been kicked out of drama school because he's just too "jazz hands" for Juilliard. He moves to New York City and lands a job working as a stealth guest at corporate parties. When he gets caught up in an insider trading scandal, his crew of theater friends comes to his rescue.

A funny novel about life and death, heaven and hell.

Greenwich Village bookseller Bernie Rhodenbarr is trying to make an honest living. But when the landlord raises his rent, what's left for a refined burglar to do? His first night on the job leads him to a pile of cash, a dead body, and a frameup--where Bernie is accused of stealing a million-dollar baseball card collection.

Twelve-year-old Vincent and his fellow members of the Captain Stupendous Fan Club help out when someone new becomes Earth's most famous superhero, without knowing anything about him, just as evil Professor Mayhem and his robot arrive in Copperplate City.

"The world can be a perilous place. And the seemingly friendly world of Canada's favourite fictional family is no different. Everyone is afraid of something: Dave, for example, is afraid of dolls, germs and Mary Turlington. Sam, on the other hand, is afraid of bees, UFOs, and 'mewpilated' cows. Morley's fears - public nudity and drop-in visits - are slightly less peculiar.