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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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"In his first book of essays since his 1997 bestseller, Wry Martinis, Buckley delivers a rare combination of big ideas and truly fun writing. Tackling subjects ranging from 'How to Teach Your Four-Year-Old to Ski' to 'A Short History of the Bug Zapper,' and 'The Art of Sacking' to literary friendships with Joseph Heller and Christopher Hitchens, he is at once a humorous storyteller, astute cultural critic, adventurous traveler, and irreverent historian."--www.Amazon.com....
Publisher
HighBridge Audio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The latest collection of knee-slappers, toe-tappers and groaners from A Prairie Home Companion features the most recent Joke Shows plus the very best joke segments from recent seasons, all recorded live before doubled-over audiences in Minneapolis, St. Paul and New York.
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"Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and bestselling author of Dave Barry Turns 40 now shows how to age gracefully, taking cues from his beloved and highly intelligent dog, Lucy. Faced with the obstacles and challenges of life after middle age, Dave Barry turns to his best dog, Lucy, to learn how to live his best life. From "Make New Friends" (an unfortunate fail when he can't overcome his dislike for mankind) to "Don't Stop Having Fun" (validating...
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English
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Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him once more. He tests the limits of love when Hugh lances a boil from his backside, and pushes the boundaries of laziness when, finding the water shut off in his house in Normandy, he looks to the water in a vase of fresh cut flowers to fill the coffee machine. From armoring the windows with LP covers...
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Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006.
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IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Various award-winning artists present their own verison of the classic joke, from Marle Frazee's chicken who is searching for a luxury "coop," to Mo Willems's chicken who confesses his motives to a police officer.
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English
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A bedtime book in which a father is bluntly honest about his feeling about his child not going to sleep.
"[A] bedtime book for parents who live in the real world ... profane, affectionate, and radically honest, it captures the familiar--and unspoken--tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. ... You probably should not read it to your children"--P. [4] of cover.
8) Binge
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2015.
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English
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"Pop culture phenomenon, social rights advocate, and the most prominent LGBTQ voice on YouTube, Tyler Oakley brings you his first collection of witty, personal, and hilarious essays written in the voice that's earned him more than twenty-one million followers across social media. For someone who made a career out of over-sharing on the Internet, Tyler Oakley has a shocking number of personal mishaps and shenanigans to reveal in his first book: he...
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Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
From the author of the bestselling Why We Suck comes a searing comic look at these divisive times, skewering liberals and conservatives alike with a signature dose of sarcasm and common sense.In an America so gluten-free that a box of jelly donuts is now a bigger threat than Vladimir Putin, where college kids are more afraid of Ann Coulter than HIV, its time for someone to stand up and make us all smell the covfefe. Dr. Denis Leary is that guy. With...
10) Meaty: essays
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English
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"The widely beloved, uproarious, first essay collection and the basis for the upcoming FX Studios series from smart, edgy, hilarious, and unabashedly raunchy Samantha Irby. Samantha Irby exploded onto the printed page with this debut collection of essays about trying to laugh her way through failed relationships, taco feasts, bouts with Crohn's disease, and more. Every essay is crafted with the same scathing wit and poignant candor thousands of loyal...
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