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2018., Adult, Little, Brown and company Call No: 814.54 S447c Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong. When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun with those he loves most. And life at the Sea Section, as he names the vacation home, is exactly as idyllic as he imagined, except for one tiny, vexing realization: it's impossible to take a vacation from yourself. With Calypso, Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation toward middle age and mortality. Make no mistake: these stories are very, very funny--it's a book that can make you laugh 'til you snort, the way only family can. Sedaris's powers of observation have never been sharper, and his ability to shock readers into laughter unparalleled. But much of the comedy here is born out of that vertiginous moment when your own body betrays you and you realize that the story of your life is made up of more past than future. This is beach reading for people who detest beaches, required reading for those who loathe small talk and love a good tumor joke. Calypso is simultaneously Sedaris's darkest and warmest book yet--and it just might be his very best."--From publisher.
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By Ephron, Norac2010., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Bio E63i Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A humorous collection of personal essays discusses the author's career in journalism, divorce, a long-anticipated inheritance with unanticipated results, and the evolution of her relationship with her e-mail in-box.
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[2014], Adult, Blue Rider Press Call No: 818.6 G981i Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A collection of humorous essays about aging by actress and comedian Annabelle Gurwitch"--From publisher.
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2012., Penguin Call No: QWF 817 G622i Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: I'll Seize the Day Tomorrow is the story of Jonathan Goldsteinœs journey to find some great truth on his road to forty.In a series of wonderfully funny stories, the host of CBCœs WireTap recounts the highs and lows of his last year in his thirties. Throughout the year, Goldstein asks weighty questions that would stump a person less seasoned. For example: What is it about a McRib that drives people crazy? Can we replace extending an olive leaf with extending an olive jar? How much wisdom can we glean from episodes of Welcome Back, Kotter? His friends and family, many of them known through their appearances on WireTap, weigh in with hilarious results as Goldstein eats, sleeps, and watches bad TV all the way to his date with destiny.
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c2010., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: Fic Col Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In his first two, Governor General-shortlisted novels, Trevor Cole proved himself a master of drawing us into the shadowy side of human nature with sharp observation and warm wit. In PRACTICAL JEAN, he goes a step further: this is a deeply humorous and revelatory tale of an ordinary, small-town woman with the usual challenges of middle age - a do-nothing husband, a family that refuses to understand her - who realizes her fondest wish is to protect her dearest friends from the indignities of aging and illness. And that's when she decides to kill them!"--Publisher.
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2002., Bloomsbury Call No: 305.26 T583t Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Collection of wit and wisdom about old age.
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2015., Plume Call No: Bio L215m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The book June Cleaver would have written if she spent more time drinking and less time vacuuming. As a girl, Una LaMarche was as smart as she was awkward. She was blessed with a precocious intellect, a love of all things pop culture, and eyebrows bushier than Frida Kahlo's. Adversity made her stronger...and funnier. In UNABROW, Una shares the cringe-inducing lessons she's learned from a life as a late bloomer, including the seven deadly sins of DIY bangs, how not to make your own jorts, and how to handle pregnancy, plucking, and the rites of passage during which your own body is your worst frenemy"--
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2018., General, Penguin Books Call No: Bio H688v Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Although his appearances as the "resident expert" on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart were founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn't seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. He was left only with the awful truth: he was an older white male monster with bad facial hair, wandering like a privileged Sasquatch through three wildernesses: the hills of Western Massachusetts where he spent much of his youth; the painful beaches of Maine that want to kill him (and some day will); and the metaphoric haunted forest of middle age that connects them. Vacationland collects these real life wanderings, and through them you learn of the horror of freshwater clams, the evolutionary purpose of the mustache, and which animals to keep as pets and which to kill with traps and poison. There is also some advice on how to react when the people of coastal Maine try to sacrifice you to their strange god. A funny, poignant and sincere account of one human facing his forties, those years when men in particular must stop pretending to be the children of bright potential they were and settle into the failing bodies of the wiser, weird dads that they are. American humorist John Hodgman is the author of The Areas of My Expertise, More Information Than You Require, and That Is All."--Provided by publisher.
