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Holidays on Ice

David Sedaris

(46 reviews )

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David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favoritesas the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters ("Us and Them"); the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to the French...more

Popular Tags: christmas, dark humor, disturbing ...more

christmas , dark humor , disturbing , fiction , holidays , humor , satire , short stories

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David Sedaris Live at Carnegie Hall

David Sedaris

(40 reviews )

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If you are driving, pull over. If you are at work, close your door-unless you don't mind your colleagues seeing you doubled over, in tears, on your office floor. With this CD, taped before a delirious sold out audience at Carnegie Hall, you are there as David Sedaris performs new stories from his upcoming book. A parrot who mimics an ice maker, ...more

Popular Tags: 2009, essays, form ...more

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All Editions	Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays David Sedaris (140 reviews ) Description Short stories and essays by an apartment cleaner and a popular commentator for National Public Radio highlight the absurd behavior of modern Americans, such as the suburban dad who saves money by performing surgery at home. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. Popular Tags: 2009, humor 2009 , humor
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All Editions	Holidays on Ice: Stories David Sedaris (302 reviews ) Description A new holiday classic--six of the most profound Christmas stories by the author of the bestselling "Naked" and "Barrel Fever"--is now in a paperback edition perfect for stocking stuffing. Popular Tags: humor, memoir, humor, gay, non-fiction humor , memoir, humor, gay, non-fiction
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames

David Sedaris

(116 reviews )

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"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of as...more

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humor , memoir , amy sedaris , book club 2009 , david sedaris , favorite author , me write pretty some day , sedaris , short stories

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All Editions	The Amber Brown Collection II: #4 Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit; #5 Forever Amber Brown; #6 Amber Brown Sees Red Paula Danziger Write the first review.(See your review) Description 3 hours, 44 minutesPerformed by Dana LubotskyThe spunky third-grader is back in this collection of stories on two cassettes. Includes Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit, Forever Amber Brown and Amber Brown Sees Red.
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All Editions	The Amber Brown Collection Paula Danziger (1 review ) Popular Tags: girls & women, juvenile fiction girls & women , juvenile fiction
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10th Grade: A Novel

Joe Weisberg

(4 reviews )

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Jeremiah Reskin has big plans for tenth grade—he wants to make some friends and he wants to take a girl’s shirt off. It’s not going too well at first, but when he meets a group of semibohemian outcasts, things start to change. Soon he’s negotiating his way through group back rubs and trying to find the courage to make a move on Renee Shopm...more

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angst , bildungsroman , coming of age , education , family & friendship , family breakdown , fiction genres , high school students , human qualities & behavior , love & sex , science fiction & fantasy , secondary , stages of life , students & student life

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The Moon Lady (Aladdin Picture Books)

Amy Tan

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A MAGICAL NIGHT WHEN SECRET WISHES CAN COME TRUE On a rainy afternoon, three sisters wish for the rain to stoop, wish they could play in the puddles, wish for something, anything, to do. So Ying-Ying, their grandmother, tells them a tale from long ago. On the night of the Moon Festival, when Ying-ying was a little girl, she encountered the Moon Lad...more

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Notes From Underground

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

(61 reviews )

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A predecessor to such monumental works such as Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Notes From Underground represents a turning point in Dostoyevsky's writing towards the more political side. In this work we follow the unnamed narrator of the story, who disillusioned by the oppression and corruption of the society in which he lives with...more

Popular Tags: alienation, anger, body & soul ...more

alienation , anger , body & soul , conflicts & dualities , disillusionment , dream & reality , existentialism in literature , fanaticism , fiction , fiction themes , god & humanity , guilt & innocence , history & myth , hope & despair , human qualities & behavior , individualism & conformity , inner & outer worlds , novellas , philosophers , politics , questing , right & wrong , russian, classic , short-story collections , types of characters