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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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

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Sedaris, David

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.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2020

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 814 SED

Sedaris, David

Summary: "For more than twenty-five years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre. A Sedaris story may seem confessional, but is also highly attuned to the world outside. It opens our eyes to what is at absurd and moving about our daily existence. And it is almost impossible to read without laughing. Now, for the first time collected in one volume,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 818 SED

Sedaris, David

Summary: The American humorist, author, and radio contributor shares his most memorable work in a collection of stories and essays that feature him shopping for rare taxidermy, hitchhiking with a quadriplegic, and hand-feeding a carnivorous bird.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 SED

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 818 SED

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 SED

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 SED

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

Hunter-Gault, Charlayne

Summary: "Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an eminent Dean of American journalism, a vital voice whose work chronicled the civil rights movement and so much of what has transpired since then. My People is the definitive collection of her reportage and commentary. Spanning datelines in the American South, South Africa and points scattered in between, her work constitutes a history of our time as rendered by the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 HUN

Klein, Jessi

Summary: In Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Jessi Klein's second collection, she hilariously explodes the cultural myths and impossible expectations around motherhood and explores the humiliations, poignancies, and possibilities of midlife. Klein explores this stage of life in all its cruel ironies, joyous moments, and bittersweetness.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KLEIN, JESSI KLE

Krakauer, Jon

Summary: "The gripping articles collected in Classic Krakauer--originally published in magazines such as The New Yorker, Outside, and Smithsonian--show why he is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism. Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these pieces take us from a horrifying avalanche on Mount Everest to a volcano poised to obliterate a big chunk of Seattle; from a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2019

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

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

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

Doyle, Brian

Summary: "When Brian Doyle passed away at the age of sixty after a bout with brain cancer, he left behind a cult-like following of devoted readers who regard his writing as one of the best-kept secrets of the twenty-first century. Doyle writes with a delightful sense of wonder about the sanctity of everyday things, and about love and connection in all their forms: spiritual love, brotherly love,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019

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