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Series
This American Life volume 1
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Join host Ira Glass and his company, as they bring a different theme to life each week, in the format of the popular Chicago radio show by the same name.
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Pub. Date
2004
Description
Mark Twain was known as a great American short-story writer as well as novelist and humorist. This collection of eighteen of his best short stories, from the well known to the lesser known, displays his mastery of Western humor and frontier realism. The stories also show how Twain earned his place in American letters as a master writer in the authentic native idiom. He was exuberant and irreverent, but underlying the humor was a vigorous desire for...
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Interviews with dead people by a man who visited Heaven, courtesy of Dr. Kevorkian, the euthanasia specialist. The noted author jumps back and forth from the afterlife to interview Sir Isaac Newton, Clarence Darrow, William Shakespeare, and his own character, Kilgore Trout, in this humorous look at death.
27) Babycakes
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Tales of the city volume 4
Pub. Date
1994
Description
When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there's more to making a baby than meets the eye.
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Big Nate (Chapter books) volume 5
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Description
"In this latest misadventure, Nate, the all-time record-holder for detentions, gets to see how the other half lives as he follows his best friend Francis's example and becomes a total neat freak; has Nate totally flipped out?"--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Mooses with Bazookas: And Other Stories Children Should Never Read is a fun collection of stories. Its exactly like The Count of Monte Cristo apart from the many differences. Our lawyers have instructed us to warn you that reading it may directly cause you to come down with every single disease you are worried about contracting. On the plus side, our nations beloved and heroic critics have had their say.
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Appears on list
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"Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has been enjoyed by generations of readers across the world since its publication in 1876. With its humorous glimpses into life in nineteenth-century, small-town America, this novel has provided unique social commentary that continues to be discussed in classrooms today. Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy growing up in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, is constantly getting in and out of...
32) Cranial fracking
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
The great humorist Ian Frazier gathers his dispatches from the frontlines of American culture. -- Provided by publisher.
35) Halloweenies
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Five stories offer comical rewrites of well-known horror movies.
39) Happy to be here
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Pub. Date
©1983
Description
A collection of short stories from America's favorite midwestern wit.