The 5 Miss Seeton novels by Heron Carvic are entertaining. The eccentric residents of a small English Village are great to settle down with for an afternoon. Carvic's way of playing with words is fun to read.
Don Quixote USA by Richard Powell is a fun read. The protagonist Arthur Peabody Goodpasture is a young Bostonian who joins the Peace Corp. to promote the cultivation of Dwarf Cavendish bananas in a fictional island nation. The regime and the revolutionaries both assume that's a cover for the CIA and hilarity follows.
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