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English
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From armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds to the awkwardness of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a sleeping fellow passenger on a plane, David Sedaris uses life's most bizarre moments to reach new heights in understanding love and fear, family and strangers. Culminating in a brilliantly funny account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, Sedaris' sixth essay collection will...
Publisher
Abrams Image
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
208 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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The Dreaded Feast will act as a balm for the millions of people who face Christmastime with a mixture of dread and obligation. Whether it's the last-minute shopping, the unappealing office party, or the prospect of more than 24 hours with family, it's never easy. The anthology, which includes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry on these and many more related subjects, deflates the notion of the "perfect" holiday season, and allows the reader to commiserate...
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (168 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join host Ira Glass and his company, as they bring a different theme to life each week, in the format of the popular Chicago radio show by the same name. In Reality check, we hear the stories of three people who hatched plans to make their dreams come true, only to be brought back to reality by unpleasant outcomes. Growth spurt introduces the viewer to three people who simply will themselves to the next stage of their lives, with mixed results. The...
Publisher
McSweeney's Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
476 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
I Found This Funny is a compilation of work by some of Judd Apatow's favorite authors. The book showcases many different styles of writing, from fiction to short humor to essays to comedy sketches to poetry. Featured writers include F. Scott Fitzgerald, Conan O'Brien, Lorrie Moore, Paul Feig, Jonathan Franzen, Alice Munro, and many more. Proceeds from the book will go to 826 National, a nonprofit tutoring, writing, and publishing organization with...
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Series
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
xiii, 1004 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
James Thurber, whimsical fantasist and deadpan chronicler of everyday absurdities, brought American humor into the 20th century. His comic persona, a modern citydweller whose zaniest flights of free association are tinged with anxiety, remains hilarious, subtly disturbing, and instantly recognizable. Here, in over 1000 pages, editor Garrison Keillor presents the best and most extensive collection ever assembled. Over 100 pieces include “The Secret...
Author
Publisher
Yellow Cat Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
vi, 130 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
For the first time in recorded history, the complete short stories of the infamous Chinle Miller have been compiled in a book that the publisher hopes won't get anyone arrested (especially the publisher). Come sit around the campfire with an archaeologist after he unwittingly brings a unique curse upon himself; watch Ernie, the county road supervisor, accidentally bomb his own highway shed; discover a cryptic form of rock art just in time for it to...
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (3 hrs., 21 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join host Ira Glass and his company, as they bring a different theme to life each week, in the format of the popular Chicago radio show by the same name. In Escape, teenage boys in Philadelphia impress girls using a mode of transportation obsolete in their neighborhood since the 19th century, and a young man's fight for independence from his mother is complicated by some very specialized circumstances. In Two wars, we learn about two foreigners in...
Author
Series
Pig trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Delphinium Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
195 p.; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Unhappy in love, New York creative writing instructor Aaron McCloud, 32, arrives in Western Ireland's County Kerry to suffer amid its natural beauty. Aaron stays with his aunt Kitty, who makes a living rewriting the classics (her version of Oliver Twist features lots of repentance), but Aaron's wallow in self-pity is interrupted by a lost pig that attaches itself to him. When the pig digs up a human skeleton buried in the backyard, Kitty identifies...
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Alcatraz Smedry adventures volume 1
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English
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Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians is the first adventure in a fantasy series for all ages by the #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson. On his thirteenth birthday, foster child Alcatraz Smedry gets a bag of sand in the mail-his only inheritance from his father and mother. He soon learns that this is no ordinary bag of sand. It is quickly stolen by the cult of evil Librarians who are taking over the world by spreading misinformation...
Author
Series
Zelda and Ivy volume 4
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
42 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In three short stories, two fox sisters run away from home, bury a time capsule, and take advantage of some creative juice.
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Language
English
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From the perils of French dentistry to the eating habits of the Australian kookaburra, from the squat-style toilets of Beijing to the particular wilderness of a North Carolina Costco, we learn about the absurdity and delight of a curious traveler's experiences. Whether railing against the habits of litterers in the English countryside or marveling over a disembodied human arm in a taxidermist's shop, Sedaris takes us on side-splitting adventures that...
13) Happy-go-lucky
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Language
English
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The bestselling author offers a collection of satirical and humorous essays that chronicle his own life and ordinary moments that turn beautifully absurd, including how he coped with the pandemic, his thoughts on becoming an orphan in his seventh decade, and the battle-scared America he discovered when he resumed touring.
14) Calypso
Author
Language
English
Description
Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality. This is beach reading for people who detest beaches, required reading for those who loathe small talk, and also Sedaris' darkest and warmest book yet.
Series
Comics squad volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
129 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of comics about every kid's favorite school subject: lunch!"--
16) Me and Caleb
Author
Publisher
Hester Publ
Pub. Date
2006, c1962
Physical Desc
153 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Here 12-year-old Bud tells of life with his litte brother Caleb in a small Missouri town at the edge of the Ozarks. The boys find a dog, hand-fish for carp with Gramps in mud-bottomed caves, and hunt squirrel with Papa in the hickory grove. These and other highlights, as related by Bud, are sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and always adventuresome. A splendid tale for kids of all ages and for parents with long memories.
Author
Series
Clementine volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
133, [3] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
249 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a medieval princess appears out of a rusty box bought at a yard sale, fourteen-year-old tomboy Casey Peabody and her family are stuck with her royal snobbiness until the young wizard who had trapped her there figures out the spell to send her home.
Author
Series
Judy Moody volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
144 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Judy Moody gets serious about protecting the environment, her little brother Stink thinks she is overdoing it, but she manages to inspire her third grade class to undertake an award-winning, environment-saving project.
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