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- Bachelder, Chris
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(2001)Curtis Norman and his family travel to Las Vegas to watch a monster pay-per-view event.
- Baird, Jonathan
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(1998)A disillusioned customer service worker, struggling to find meaning in his job, records his day in a journal that is part business self-help, part humorous novel.
- Bennett, Alan
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(2001)The quiet existence of Mr.and Mrs. Ransome is turned inside-out when, on coming home from the opera, they discover that their Notting Hill flat has been robbed.
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan
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(2001)In his sixth collection of short stories, Boyle presents a series of ironic and darkly humorous tales of contemporary life.
- Friedman, Bruce Jay
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(2000)A Mother's Kisses is the story of 17-year-old Joseph and his mother, Meg, in the summer after Joseph's high school graduation. Meg starts arranging his life for him, even going so far as to accompany him to college.
- Hornby, Nick
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(1998)Inventing a son got Will into a single parents support group, but rather than a fabulous new sex life, he found someone else's very real son — a 12-year-old with a lot to teach about being a grown-up.
- Klam, Matthew
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(2000)An O. Henry Award winner, with a cult following in literary circles, distills into nine high-energy stories the comically painful truth about young men and women trying to get it on with each other and on with their lives.
- Lodge, David
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(2001)The author of Small World offers a funny, compassionate portrayal of a balding, chubby television writer whose creeping restlessness leads to an obsession with existentialism, brushes with the police and strange bedfellows.
- Loh, Sandra Tsing
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(1997)Bronwyn and Paul are a couple stranded at a temporary stop on their way to Hollywood glamour. But just as the Bohemian life is wearing thin, their fortunes change, catapulting them out of the world of practical problems and into the world of ethical ones.
- Munroe, Jim
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(1998)Ryan Slint can turn into a fly. Cassandra, a waitress at a greasy-spoon, can make things disappear. They were made for each other…and to fight crime!
- Toole, John Kennedy
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(1980)This entertaining story set in New Orleans is centered around a slob named Ignatius Reilly and his relationship with his mother.
- Townsend, Sue
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(1986)This humorous, sometimes touching diary of 13-year-old Adrian Mole, an English boy who writes down his daily experiences and observations, is the first in a series that follows him through adolescence into marriage and fatherhood.
- Zadoorian, Michael
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(2000)Richard happily trolls Detroit's thrift stores, estate and garage sales to find stock for his store, Satori Junk; but his complacency is shattered when his mother dies and he meets and falls in love with "junk goddess" Theresa Zulinski.
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(2001)817.5 O58d 2001This compilation of headlines and articles satirizes modern life and newspaper journalism. The Onion's first book, Our Dumb Century, won the 1999 Thurber Prize for American Humor.
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(2001)817.5 F465 2001Collected in Fierce Pajamas is a cornucopia of literary humor from The New Yorker, the magazine that has defined the category for almost a century.
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(2000)817.5 M676 2000In this first volume of a new biannual series, 45 great literary humorists trade jabs, spoofs, satire and tirades — such as John Updike on cross-dressing with J. Edgar Hoover, Fran Lebowitz on the richness of money, David Ives on being Degas for a day and Garry Trudeau on re-retranslating Madonna.
- Almond, Steve
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(2004)338.7664 A452cAlmond embarks on a hilarious, sugar-high tour through America's last remaining independent candy companies.
- Beckerman, Ilene
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(1995)391.00974 B396LThe author reflects on her fortunes and misfortunes through the clothes she has worn, clothes that have expressed her hopes and dreams: from her Brownie uniform to her first maternity dress.
- Borkowsky, Amy
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(2001) )818.6 B734a 2001Borkowsky shares more than a decade's worth of phone messages from her overprotective mom.
- Bryson, Bill
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(1999)973.92 B916i 1999Bill Bryson muses on the course of his two-year reacquaintance with American life in a series of brief pieces chronicling everything from getting a haircut to the nine options for eggs.
- Colas, Emily
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(1998)616.85227 C683j 1998Colas presents a series of brief vignettes detailing the minutiae of living day-to-day with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), including candid ruminations on her family members and friends and her relationship with her husband.
- Eggers, Dave
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(2000)B-Eg33h 2000This memoir is the story of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother.
- Gould, John
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(2000)818.5 G697tf 2000When a feisty 92-year-old Mainer takes up residence in an assisted-living facility, he finds there are at least four things he can do about his situation: move, die, get over it or write a book.
- Gray, Spalding
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(1999)818.5 G782mo 1999In his newest book the accomplished monologuist tells the story of one day of his life in October 1997, after the birth of his son Theo.
- McCarthy, Pete (Peter Charles McCarthy Robinson)
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(2004)910.41 M123r 2004An Anglo-Irishman in search of his roots takes readers on a classic meander through some of the world's most exotic and intriguing Irish communities.
- Nissel, Angela
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(2001)378.198 N726b 2001In 1997 undergraduate University of Pennsylvania Nissel began an online diary of her financial hardships.
- Pollack, Neal
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(2000)814.5 P771n 2000Neal Pollack has published 50 books of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and Middle Eastern history. Pollack has fought in three wars and covered three others. The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature is the crowning achievement of his glorious career, which is still ongoing.
- Stewart, Jon
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(2004)320.973 S849a 2004Timed to coincide with the height of the 2004 presidential election campaign, this book offers profane, snarky and sometimes hilarious insights into America's unique system of government, dissecting its institutions, explaining its history and processes, and exploring modern urban myths.
- Vowell, Sarah
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(2000)818.5 V974t 2000National Public Radio broadcaster and columnist Vowell presents a mix of personal essays.
- Wallace, David Foster
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(1997)814.5 W188sThe author reports on his trips — to the Caribbean on a cruise ship, to the Illinois State Fair, a David Lynch set, a Canadian tennis tournament — and reviews his childhood tennis career and novels by his contemporaries.