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Anecdotes. Audiobooks. Autobiographies. biography essay Essays. humor, satire Humor. Personal narratives.Sedaris, 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: 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
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 817 HUGCarolla, Adam
Summary: Taking actual questions from his fans--and even some celebrity friends, including Ray Romano, Maria Menounos, and Judd Apatow--Adam dishes out hilarious rants, unpredictable tangents, brilliant inventions, sage advice, and controversial opinions in a way only a self-proclaimed asshole can.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 818.602 CARDexter, Pete
Summary: In the 1970s and 1980s, before he earned national acclaim for his novels, Pete Dexter was a newspaper columnist. Every week, in a few hundred words, he cut directly to the heart of the American character at a time of national turmoil and crucial change. His columns laid bare the violence, hypocrisy, and desperation he saw on the streets of Philadelphia and in the places he visited across the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817.54 DEXSothen, John von
Summary: "Americans love to love Paris. We buy books about how the French parent, why French women don't get fat, and how to be Parisian wherever you are. While our work hours increase every year, we think longingly of the six weeks of vacation the French enjoy, imagining them at the seaside in stripes with plates of fruits de mer. John von Sothen fell in love with Paris through the stories his mother...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SOTHEN, JOHN VON SOTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Wit SothenSedaris, 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Wit SedarisSedaris, David.
Summary: Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him once more. He tests the limits of love when Hugh lances a boil from his backside, and pushes the boundaries of laziness when, finding the water shut off in his house in Normandy, he looks to the water in a vase of fresh cut flowers to fill the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 814 SedCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 SEDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Wit SedarisSedaris, 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: 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 SEDBee, Samantha.
Summary: Bee delivers hilarious essays on everything from her parents' views on religion and sex to her pre-"Daily Show" stint as a Japanese anime character.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 814.6 BEETrillin, Calvin
Summary: "Calvin Trillin can write just about anything--and has. He covered the Civil Rights movement in the South for Time, chronicled stories from small towns and cities for The New Yorker, and wrote comic poetry for The Nation. He has been called "perhaps the finest reporter in America" (The Miami Herald), "our funniest food writer" (The New Yorker), and "one of the most brilliant humorists of our...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Rooney, Andrew A.
Summary: Offers essays written by the famed commentator that discuss varied topics including media bias, torture, baseball, and holidays. Subject HeadingsAmerican wit and humor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2006