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Summary: David Sedaris captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about recent upheavals, and expresses the misanthropy and desire for connection that drives us all.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2022
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 814 SEDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 814 SEDHughley, D. L. (Darryl L.)
Summary: Legendary satirist D. L. Hughley here uses humor to draw attention to injustice, sardonically offering advice on a number of lessons--a much-needed antidote in these distressing times.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 817 HUGSedaris, David
Summary: David Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation toward 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 814 SEDSedaris, David
Summary: Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 814 SEDHughley, D. L. (Darryl L.)
Summary: For more than four hundred years, white America has been safely a majority and has used that power to f*ck with blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and Native Americans. Now, however, the demographic tide has turned-and a reckoning is coming. On the eve of America becoming a majority-minority nation, D. L. Hughley offers his terms for reparations and reconciliation in this edgy book infused with his...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2020
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 305.89 HUGScottoline, Lisa
Summary: Lisa and Francesca are back with another collection of warm and witty stories that will strike a chord with every woman. This seven-book series is among the best-reviewed humor books published today and has been compared to the late greats, Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 818 SCOScottoline, Lisa.
Summary: "Lisa and Francesca are back with another collection of warm and witty stories that will strike a chord with every woman. This four book series is among the best reviewed humor books published today and has been compared to the late greats, Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron. Booklist raved of the third book in the series, Meet Me At Emotional Baggage Claim, "readers can count on an ab-toning laugh...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 SCOIrby, Samantha
Summary: "The widely beloved, uproarious, first essay collection and the basis for the upcoming FX Studios series from smart, edgy, hilarious, and unabashedly raunchy Samantha Irby. Samantha Irby exploded onto the printed page with this debut collection of essays about trying to laugh her way through failed relationships, taco feasts, bouts with Crohn's disease, and more. Every essay is crafted with the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: "Samantha Irby explodes onto the printed page with her debut collection of brand-new essays about trying to laugh her way through failed relationships, being black, taco feasts, bouts with Crohn's disease, and more. Every essay is crafted with the same scathing wit and poignant candor thousands of loyal readers have come to expect from visiting her notoriously hilarious blog,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Curbside Splendor Publishing 2013
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 IRBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 IRBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 814 IRBNotaro, Laurie
Summary: "...Laurie Notaro isn't exactly a domestic goddess--unless that means she fully embraces her genetic hoarding predisposition, sneaks peeks at her husband's daily journal, or has made a list of the people she wants on her Apocalypse Survival team (her husband's not on it). Notaro chronicles her chronic misfortune in the domestic arts, including cooking, cleaning, and putting on Spanx while...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2016
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NOTScottoline, Lisa
Summary: The "mother daughter duo are back with more hilarious, witty, and true tales from their lives. Whether they are attempting to hike the Grand Canyon, setting up phone calls with their dogs, or learning what adulting means, Lisa and Francesca are guaranteed to make you laugh, cry, and appreciate the funniest moments in life"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 SCOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Scottoline 2018Han, Han
Summary: Han Han is the most influential (and provocative) young person in China, equally beloved and reviled for the satirical wit with which he takes on everyone from corrupt politicians to ludicrous protesters. In this collection of essays, he tackles everything from Internet culture in a country that censors the Internet to his own escapades driving around with fake police IDs and a megaphone, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 890 HANSedaris, David
Summary: Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 814 SEDCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 SEDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 814 SEDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 SEDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Wit SedarisAlsadir, Nuar
Summary: Taking laughter's revelatory capacity as a starting point, and rooted in Nuar Alsadir's experience as a poet and psychoanalyst, Animal Joy is an ode to spontaneity and feeling alive.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 ALSIrby, Samantha
Summary: "Beloved writer Samantha Irby has returned to the printed page for her much-anticipated, sidesplitting fourth book following her 2020 breakout, Wow, no thank you, a Vintage Books Original. The success of Irby's career has taken her to new heights. She fields calls with job offers from Hollywood and walks the red carpet with the iconic ladies of Sex and the City. Finally, she has made it. But,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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5 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 IRBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 IRBSedaris, David.
Summary: 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 814.54 SEDBenoit, Sophia
Summary: From GQ columnist and Twitter sensation, this hilarious, clever, and eye-opening memoir-in-essays explores the ins and outs of modern womanhood, from finding feminism, the power of pop culture, and how to navigate life₂s constant double standards.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 921 BENSedaris, David.
Contents: A plague of tics -- Get yer ya-ya's out -- Next of kin -- Cyclops -- True detective -- The drama bug -- I like guys -- Ashes, parts 1 and 2 -- Naked.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time Warner Audiobooks 2001
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Summary: From a spectacular career spanning almost three decades, these stories, selected by Sedaris himself, have become modern classics and are now for the first time collected in one volume.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2020
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 814 SEDSummary: Stories of crime and stories of miscommunication. There are funny moments, there are serious moments, there are suprising situations. Unless otherwise noted the stories are one hundred percent true.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout Factory 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN CRILavery, Daniel M.
Summary: "Daniel Mallory Lavery is known for blending genres, forms, and sources to develop fascinating new hybrids--from lyric rants to horror recipes to pornographic scripture. In his most personal work to date, he turns his attention to the essay, offering vigorous and laugh-out-loud funny accounts of both popular and highbrow culture while mixing in meditations on gender transition, family dynamics,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperbacks, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 LAVSedaris, David.
Summary: With Dress Your Family in Courduroy and Denim, David Sedaris returns to his deliriously twisted domain, hilarious childhood dramas infused with melancholy; the gulf of misunderstanding that exists betwen people of different nations or members of the same family; and the poignant divide between one's best hopes and most common deeds.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time Warner AudioBooks 2004
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Summary: "A modern Thoreau explores the mysteries of the universe."--publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 EISEiseley, Loren C.
Summary: "A paleontologist with the spirit of a poet."--publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2016