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Pub. Date
2001
Description
Before Garrison Keillor and Spalding Gray there was Jean Shepherd: a master monologist and writer who spun the materials of his all-American childhood into immensely resonant -- and utterly hilarious -- works of comic art. These two reissues represent the peak of his achievement, a compound of irony, affection, and perfect detail that speaks across generations. In God We Trust disproves the adage "You can't go home again" as Shepherd bends the ear...
44) Flip this zombie
Author
Series
Living with the dead volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Description
As they launch their ZombieBusters business, married couple Sarah and David, trying to be successful after the zombie apolocalypse, must take down a mad scientist who wants to keep zombies alive and use them for experimentation.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
The adventures of Tom Sawyer: The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town on the early nineteenth century. The prince and the pauper: A peasant changes places with a prince and both youths learn something about the other side of life.
The prince and the pauper: A peasant changes places with a prince and both youths learn something about the other side of life.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Rebellious,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
"Boyhood is the most familiar province of Mark Twain's fiction, but a reader doesn't have to look far to find feminine territory - and it's not the perfectly neat and respectable place where you'd expect to see Becky Thatcher. This is a fictional world where rather than polishing their domestic arts and waiting for marriage proposals, girls are fighting battles, riding stallions, rescuing boys from rivers, cross-dressing, debating religion, hunting,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
A new collection of essays by the humorist author that 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.
Author
Series
Guys read volume 7
Pub. Date
[2016].
Description
Presents a collection of humorous stories featuring an array of characters with and without capes.
Author
Pub. Date
p1989
Description
All monologues from this collection are from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion. Contents: Rotten Apples; O Death; The Wise Men; A Trip to Grand Rapids; Truckstop; Smokes; The Perils of Spring; Let Us Pray; Alaska; Uncle Al's Gift; Skinny Dip; Homecoming; Pontoon Boat; Author; Freedom of the Press; Vicks
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
When he isn't responsible for pleasing 73 million online readers a month, Elite Daily managing editor Greg Dybec worries about rent, sex, love, family, andthe most millennial topic of them alla desire to leave a legacy. In The Art of Living Other People s Lives, Greg delivers a funny, brash, and insightful collection of twenty never-before-published stories on becoming a pick-up artist to get over an ex-girlfriend, late-night adventures with his Uber...