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"Where there is stress, or receding hairlines and liver spots, there is humor." —John McPherson More than one third of the world's population is officially over the hill, while the

If laughter is the best medicine, The Get Well Book by John McPherson is just what the doctor ordered.

Start with an everyday occurrence, add several helpings of absurdity, a few cups of silliness and a dash of sickness and you get Close to Home.

Where there is stress, there is humor." —John McPherson Close to Home, syndicated by Universal uClick, lampoons the best of popular culture one controversy at a time.

Only in the world of Close to Home can you find hospitals staffed with hypochondriac-sniffing dogs, Yellowstone employees who secretly spike Old Faithful with gallons of Mr.

Ferociously Close to Home delivers McPherson's trademark take on the absurdities of everyday life.

No one walks away from a Close to Home cartoon unscathed. John McPherson's lumpy characters and bizarre situations are tailor-made for gut-splitting laughs.

Inside Women Are from Venus, Men Are Idiots, Close to Home cartoonist John McPherson illustrates what happens when planets—and planetary beings—just don't seem to align.

Some call it weird. Others, eclectic, creative, hilarious, laugh-out-loud funny and good old-fashioned snort-milk-out-your-nose humor.

Sports is one of cartoonist John McPherson's favorite topics for lampooning. The frustration inherent in almost any sport makes for a perfect comic target.

In this, the third and final book in Kerry Greenwood’s Delphic Woman Mystery series, Greenwood takes us into Troy as it struggles to rise from the ashes of the Trojan War.

From Mount Olympus, Aphrodite, the goddess of love, yawned. Even perfection can be tedious. “My Lord,” she called to Apollo, “Sun God and brother.

Phryne Fisher is doing one of her favorite things: dancing at the Green Mill (Melbourne’s premier dance hall) to the music of Tintagel Stone’s Jazzmakers, the band who taught St Vitus how to dance.

Corinna Chapman, owner of the bakery Earthly delights, detests Christmas. The shoppers are frantic and the heat oppressive in Melbourne, Australia, where Christmas is summer festival.

The redoubtable Phryne Fisher is holidaying at Cave House, a Gothic mansion in the heart of Australia’s Victorian mountain country. But the peaceful surroundings mask danger.