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American wit and humor Authors, American 21st century Biography Lancaster, Jen 1967- Nineteen seventy-four, A.D United States United States Description and travel United States Social conditions 21st century United States Social life and customs 21st century United States Social life and customs 21st century Fiction United States Social life and customs 21st century HumorCardiff, Ashley.
Summary: The deputy editor of "The Gloss" reflects on her introverted, awkward, and too-smart teenage years to her adult relationships, while navigating the complexities of love and sex.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARDIFF, ASHLEY CARZoellner, Tom
Summary: "The National Road is a collection of essays about American places, each dealing with contentious matters: religion, politics, sex, race, poverty, loss and the stubborn persistence of national pride, despite abundant reasons for cynicism. An important question lies at the heart of this collection: what does it mean to "belong" in America in the midst of an era when rootedness to a particular...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 ZOECaputo, Philip.
Summary: Traces the author's 2011 road trip from the southernmost to the northernmost points of the United States to experience firsthand the country's diversity and political tensions in the face of a historic economic recession.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 CAPSpringsteen, Bruce
Summary: "Two longtime friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music, and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and contradictions, in this stunningly produced expansion of their groundbreaking Higher Ground podcast, featuring more than 350 photographs, exclusive bonus content, and never-before-seen archival material"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 SPRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.9309 OBAWaters, John
Summary: The visual artist behind such cult films as "Hairspray" traces his haphazard cross-country hitchhiking journey at the sides of a motley group of unsuspecting drivers, including a gentle farmer, an indie band, and the author's unexpected hero.--Publisher iinformation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Based on the popular and groundbreaking PBS multiplatform documentary project, this is an inspiring and striking photographic portrait that brilliantly captures the tumultuous, historic year that was 2020. American Portrait offers an intimate look at what it really means to be an American today, revealed through the stories of ordinary people and in their own voices. Told by people of all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 779.2 AMEMoore, Lorrie.
Summary: In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, in a perfect blend of craft and bewitched spirit, explores the passage of time and summons up its inevitable sorrows and hilarious pitfalls to reveal her own exquisite, singular wisdom. In "Debarking," a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits about him as the United States prepares to invade Iraq, and against this ominous moment, we see--in all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Boyle, T. Coraghessan.
Summary: With trademark imagination, T.C. Boyle presents a collection of fourteen short stories. In the volume's title story, Victor, a feral boy in Napoleonic France, is captured and is introduced to civilization for the first time. However it is the child't captors that end up learning the most about humanity and civility.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYCarr, Patrick J.
Contents: Introduction: The heartland and the rural youth exodus -- The achievers -- The stayers -- The seekers -- The returners -- Conclusion: What can be done to save small towns?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.76 CAREllmann, Lucy
Summary: "Peeling apples for tartes tatin, an Ohio mother wonders how to exist in a world of distraction and fake facts, besieged by a tweet-happy president and trigger-happy neighbors, all of them oblivious to what Dupont has dumped into the rivers and what's happening at the factory farm down the interstate--not to mention what was done to the land's first inhabitants. A torrent of consciousness,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Biblioasis 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLWill, George F.
Summary: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George F. Will, his ninth collection of reflections on our culture, examining the many ways in which expertise, reason, and manners are continually under attack in our institutions, courts, political arenas, andsocial venues. George F. Will has been one of this country's leading columnists since 1974. He won the Pulitzer Prize for it in 1977. The Wall...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 WILQuinn, Colin
Summary: The comedian star of the one-man Broadway show "Red State, Blue State" lampoons the idiosyncrasies of the fifty states of the United States, sharing sharp-witted observations about their contradictory interpretations of the Constitution and a representative government.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 QUILancaster, Jen
Summary: Lancaster attempts to achieve cultural enlightenment, and bears witness to the hilarious missteps and genuine moments of inspiration she encounters along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANCASTER, JEN LANLancaster, Jen
Summary: Recounts the author's search for domestic bliss as she embraces the word of Martha Stewart and attempts to follow her in all things, from closet organization to stain removal, with laughably disastrous results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANCASTER, JEN LANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Wit LancasterSedaris, 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 SEDBerg, Elizabeth.
Summary: A short story collection that explores women's lives, from every woman's struggle with food and eating, to love and relationships, to life and aging, to small acts of rebellion along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BERGerard, Sarah
Summary: "One of today's most provocative literary writers--the author of the critically-acclaimed Sunshine State and the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award finalist Binary Star--captures the confused state of modern romance and the egos that inflate it in a dark comedy about a woman's search for acceptance, identity, and financial security in the rise of Trump. Nina is a struggling writer, a college...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GERBrownstein, Ronald
Summary: Documents the kaleidoscopic year during which transformative talents from Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard, and Beverly Hills heavily influenced pop culture, politics, and social movements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021