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A best-selling classic features six additional works on the joys and embarrassments of favorite holidays, in a volume that includes tales of tardy trick-or-treaters, the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to another culture, and a barnyard Secret Santa scheme gone awry.
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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...
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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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2013.
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English
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A new collection of essays by the humorist author traces his offbeat world travel experiences, which involved surreal encounters with everything from French dentistry and Australian kookaburra eating habits to Beijing squat toilets and a wilderness Costco in North Carolina.
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Princess diaries volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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In a series of humorous diary entries, a New York City ninth grader agonizes over her love life, final exams, and future role as the princess of Genovia.
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English
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America's beloved writer, Lilian Jackson Braun, author of twenty-four Cat Who...mysteries, is now the subject of a mystery herself. In Robert Kaplow's brilliant and bawdy parody, Ms. Jackson's headless body has been discovered in the men's room of a bar in Lower Manhattan. The police are busy filming reality television shows, and so it falls to Braun writer friend James Qafka and his Siamese cats, Ying-and Poon-Tang, to solve the ghastly mystery.
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Guys read volume 1
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Walden Pond Press
Pub. Date
c2010
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IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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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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Lake Wobegon volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[1989]
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English
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A collection of short stories, poems, and letters of domestic problems, travels, etc., in rural America.
10) A bit more Bert
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
c2002
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IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Bert receives a disastrous haircut, loses his dog, and discovers that there are many other Berts in the world.
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Running Press
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2020.
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English
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A collection of twenty outrageously funny short stories for younger middle grade readers, Really Stupid Stories for Really Smart Kids is full of puns, "bad" jokes, and tall tales that will have you rolling on the floor with laughter. From "snowpeople" falling from the sky to a boy who only communicates through singing, there's a story for every fan of Alan Katz's signature humor.
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Macmillan
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[1995]
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English
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A collection of Christmas stories, retold for readers of evolved consciousness, liberated from archaic, sexist, ageist, classist, lookist and other environmentally unsound prejudices.
A new twist on old holiday favorites. Santa is described as an "overweight patriarchal oppressor" and Rudolph becomes the "nasally empowered reindeer." Also includes politically correct interpretations of "Frosty the snowman," "The nutcracker," and "A Christmas carol."...
18) Halloweenies
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2002
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IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Five stories offer comical rewrites of well-known horror movies.
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Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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"From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new book of essays taking his readers on a bizarre and stimulating world tour. From the perils of French dentistry to the eating habits of the Australian kookaburra, from the squat-style toilets of Beijing to the particular wilderness of a North Carolina Costco, we learn about the absurdity and delight of a curious traveler's experiences. Whether railing against the habits of litterers in the English...
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Debutante dropout mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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