Rakoff, David.
Summary: The witty David Rakoff defends the notion that you should always assume the worst, because you'll never be disappointed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.6 RAKRakoff, David.
Summary: A collection of essays provides a sardonic glimpse of American contemporary society, documenting how extreme consumerism has led to a culture of excess, greed, and vanity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Misc RakoffRakoff, David.
Contents: In New England everyone calls you Dave -- Arise, ye wretched of the earth -- Lush life -- Before & after science -- Including one called Hell -- Lather, rinse, repeat -- Hidden people -- Extraordinary alien -- Best medicine -- Christmas Freud -- I'll take the low road -- We call it Australia -- Back to the Garden -- Tokyo story -- I used to bank here, but that was long, long ago.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 081 RAKContents: Disc 1: Subsoil / Nicholson Baker ; read by Thomas Gibson -- Farrell's caddy / John Updike ; read by Charles Keating -- Disc 2: Jamaica / David Schickler ; read by Isaiah Sheffer -- Chivalry / Neil Gaiman ; read by Christina Pickles -- Disc 3. Nachman from Los Angeles / Leonard Michaels ; read by David Rakoff -- On the U.S.S. Fortitude / Ron Carlson ; read by Laura Esterman -- Fatso / Etgar...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELRich, Simon.
Summary: A collection of nine short stories by well-known American authors. From wild and wacky to knee-slapping, laugh-out-loud fun, these humorous tales represent some of the best of recent sessions of the hit public radio series Selected Shorts."--Publisher description.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Open Britain's most famous door for a glimpse at the personal affairs that have unfolded over the centuries inside Number 10 Downing Street. Spanning the Napoleonic era to the 1920s, each episode tells the story of a great public statesman, and of the private individual whose passions, hopes, and fears played out within the narrow confines of Number 10"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV NUMQualley, Margaret
Summary: An aspiring writer receives personal advice from reclusive author J.D. Salinger.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MYCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MYSummary: A look at the creation of the American team for the Olympics in 1896, and of their journey to get to Athens, where the games were being held.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008