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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 814 SEDShatner, William
Summary: By revealing stories of his life, William Shatner reflects on what he has learned along the way to his ninth decade and how important it is to apply the joy of exploration to our own lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 921 SHARather, Dan
Summary: "In a collection of original essays, the venerated television journalist, Dan Rather, celebrates our shared values and what matters most in our great country, and shows us what patriotism looks like. Writing about the institutions that sustain us, such as public libraries, public schools, and national parks; the values that have transformed us, such as the struggle for civil rights; and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 323.6 RATRipa, Kelly
Summary: In her first book, Kelly shows what really makes her tick. As a professional, as a wife, as a daughter, and as a mother, she brings a hard-earned wisdom and an eye for the absurdity of life to every minute of every day. It is her relatability in all of these roles that has earned her fans worldwide and millions of followers on social media. Whether recounting how she and Mark really met, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 RIPSedaris, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 814.54 SEDDubus, Andre
Summary: Andre Dubus III reflects on a life of challenges, contradictions, and fulfillments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: In this collection of 26 personal essays, Claire Messud opens a window on her life: a peripatetic upbringing; a warm, complicated family; and, throughout it all, her devotion to art and literature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MESSUD, CLAIRE MESSedaris, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2022
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 817 HUGKundera, Milan
Summary: This short collection of early essays offers context for the Milan Kundera's subsequent career and holds a mirror to recent European history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2020
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 814 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 921 BENHughley, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2020
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 305.89 HUGMorrison, Toni
Summary: The source of self-regard is brimming with all the elegance of mind and style, the literary prowess and moral compass that are Toni Morrison's inimitable hallmark. It is divided into three parts: the first is introduced by a powerful prayer for the dead of 9/11; the second by a searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., and the last by a heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. In the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 814 MORRather, Dan
Summary: In a collection of original essays, the venerated television journalist, Dan Rather, celebrates shared values and what matters most in this great country, and shows what patriotism looks like. Writing about the institutions that sustain the people, such as public libraries, public schools, and national parks; the values that have transformed the people, such as the struggle for civil rights;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 323.6 RATSedaris, David
Summary: "Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask, or not, was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes. But then the pandemic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "A light-hearted nonfiction picture book about the formation and history of the moon and its history in relation to earth--told from the perspective of the moon itself!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG MCABohjalian, Christopher A.
Summary: Essays by Bohjalian, originally written weekly for his newspaper column, are personal observations of the author's life in Lincoln, Vermont.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BohGreer, Judy
Summary: The prolific actress best known for her appearances in such productions as "The Descendants" presents a collection of comedic essays on topics ranging from stepmotherhood to midnight shopping trips at the pharmacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 GREER, JUDY GRESlate, Jenny
Summary: The actress and stand-up comedian explores her internal self, dreams, and insecurities through bursts of writing on a wide range of subjects, from heartbreak and divorce to the smell of honeysuckle and a French-kissing rabbit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SLAWarren, Richard
Summary: Rick Warren guides listeners through a personal 40-day spiritual journey that will answer life's most important question: What on earth am I here for?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 248.4 WARCoetzee, J. M.
Summary: A new collection of twenty-two literary essays from the Nobel Prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee J.M. Coetzee is not only one of the most acclaimed fiction writers in the world, he is also an accomplished and insightful literary critic. In Late Essays, a thought-provoking collection of twenty-two pieces, he examines the work of some of the world's greatest writers-from Daniel Defoe and Samuel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 824 COESummary: This unabridged collection covers a multitude of subjects, including philosophy, politics, turkeys, and dogs. It includes Ralph Waldo Emerson's ''Self Reliance''; Henry David Thoreau's ''Walking'' and ''Civil Disobedience''; Mark Twain's ''Hunting the Deceitful Turkey''; Benjamin Franklin's ''Reply to a Begging Letter''; and Thomas Paine's ''The American Crisis''. Also includes essays by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Golden Words 2012
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017