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Pub. Date
2004.
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English
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David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't it? In his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 60-61
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 90
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
5) Calypso
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English
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Description
Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.
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Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This exciting volume of Big Nate adventures includes all of the comics from Revenge of the Cream Puffs and What's a Little Noogie Between Friends? Two books in one! This bind-up features two books from the bestselling Big Nate series. Big Nate: Revenge of the Cream Puffs: Here come the Cream Puffs! Nate and his baseball team, saddled with the most embarrassing moniker in Little League history, want to show the world they're not just a bunch of cupcakes....
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Publisher
Fleming H. Revell
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
From Philip Gulley to Chicken Soup books, short stories are everywhere! And readers can't get enough. In Homemade Humble Pie Annette Smith offers a collection of 26 heartwarming and wonderfully quirky stories about fictional characters we all seem to know. She dips into her experience as a friend and neighbor to cook up slice-of-life tales about people of all ages and walks of life. Smith's book introduces readers to an array of interesting characters--an...
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From Mallory Ortberg comes a collection of darkly mischievous stories based on classic fairy tales. Adapted from her beloved "Children's Stories Made Horrific" series, "The Merry Spinster" takes up the trademark wit that endeared Ortberg to readers of both The Toast and her best-selling debut Texts From Jane Eyre. The feature become among the most popular on the site, with each entry bringing in tens of thousands of views, as the stories proved a...
10) Funny business
Series
Guys read volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011, 2010.
Language
English
Description
A collection of humorous stories featuring a teenaged mummy, a homicidal turkey, and the world's largest pool of chocolate milk.
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Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Mark Twain and Jean Shepherd, Dave Barry and Garrison Keillor, Jerry Nelson is a humorist whose beat is the American heartland, a small-town world of pickup trucks and Sunday night pancake dinners, dropping in on neighbors and complaining to the country agent. A fourth-generation dairy farmer, Jerry Nelson discovered his voice after he wrote a tongue-in-cheek letter to his county agent for advice on what to do, after a period...
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English
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A high-jumping frog named Daniel Webster ... A town so boastfully free of corruption that one visitor decides to test its mettle ... A man who buys a burglar alarm only to have it stolen with his other possessions. Such are the results when a traditional American genre, the tall tale, are put into the hands of a true American genius, Mark Twain. A collection of 13 stories.
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