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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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 814 SED

Sedaris, 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 SED

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 814 SED

Allen, Jenny

Summary: "A collection of first-person essays and humor pieces about one woman's attempt to make sense of the baffling, humiliating, and extremely annoying world around her"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 ALL

Hughley, 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 HUG

Lavery, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 LAV

Scottoline, 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 SCO

Carolla, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 818.602 CAR

Handler, Chelsea.

Summary: On safari in Africa, it's anyone's guess as to what's more dangerous: the wildlife or Chelsea. In this uproarious collection, Chelsea Handler answers your most frequently asked traveler's questions about Africa, hot travel trips, and travel etiquette, none of which should be believed.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 818.602 HAN

Notaro, 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 NOT

Sothen, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SOTHEN, JOHN VON SOT

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Wit Sothen

Thomas, R. Eric

Summary: "The beloved bestselling author of Here for It presents a collection of heartening, thoughtful, and laugh-out-loud funny essays about the lifelong search for community and returning home. After going viral "reading" the chaotic political news, having one-too-many awkward social encounters, and coming to terms with his intersecting identities, R. Eric Thomas is ready to live his best life. Or,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.603 THO

Sedaris, David

2 holds on 6 copies

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 SED

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 SED

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 814 SED

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 SED

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Wit Sedaris

Sedaris, David

Summary: For nearly four decades, David Sedaris has faithfully kept a diary in which he records his thoughts and observations on the odd and funny events he witnesses. Anyone who has attended a live Sedaris event knows that his diary readings are often among the most joyful parts of the evening. But never before have they been available in audio. Now, in this book, Sedaris reads us his favorite entries.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 814 SED

Wright, Jennifer

Summary: "A humorous, well-researched pop history of the disastrous love lives of prominent historical figures, from Lord Byron to Elizabeth TaylorIf you are lying in bed right now, a pint of ice cream in one hand, a bottle of scotch in the other, and this book clenched between your teeth (one tooth is missing from last night's bar fight), with tears streaming down your face over how much you loved,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WRI

Brammer, John Paul

Summary: The popular LGBTQ advice columnist and writer presents a memoir-in-essays chronicling his journey growing up as a queer, mixed-race kid in America's heartland to becoming the "Chicano Carrie Bradshaw" of his generation.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRA

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRAMMER, JOHN PAUL BRA

Oakley, Tyler

Summary: Social rights advocate and prominent LGBTQ+ voice on YouTube, Tyler Oakley brings you his first collection of personal essays. For someone who made a career out of over-sharing on the Internet, Tyler has a shocking number of personal mishaps and shenanigans to reveal in his first book: experiencing a legitimate rage blackout in a Cheesecake Factory; negotiating a tense stand-off with a White...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2015

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 818 OAK

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