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Summary: A collection of personal tales features the author's wry observations about such topics as eBay addiction, gay personal ads, and Santa Claus.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.6 BURBurroughs, Augusten.
Summary: Draws on the author's roller-coaster experiences with limited opportunities, successes, and failures, to offer darkly humorous advice on surviving everything from riding elevators and gaining weight to finishing drinks and finding love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 BURBurroughs, Augusten.
Summary: Presents a humorous account of the author's deranged adolescence that explores the concept of cause and effect. It is a cautionary tale in essay form.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2006
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 813.6 BURBurroughs, Augusten.
Summary: A true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist. At the age of twelve, Augusten Burroughs found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian in perfect squalor. Co-inhabitants of the doctor's bizarre family included some patients and a pedophile. There were no house rules and no schooling. And the Christmas tree stayed up...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 813.6 BURBurroughs, Augusten
Summary: "For as long as Augusten Burroughs could remember, he knew things he shouldn't have known. He manifested things that shouldn't have come to pass. And he told exactly no one about this, save one person: his mother. His mother reassured him that it was all perfectly normal, that he was descended from a long line of witches, going back to the days of the early American colonies. And that this...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 BURROUGHS, AUGUSTEN BURBurroughs, Augusten.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813 BurroBurroughs, Augusten.
Summary: Augusten Burroughs takes a hilarious look at the holiday season and how it can bring out the best and worst in people. Filled with nostalgia, Burroughs covers a plethora of past and present Christmas happenings.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 813.6 BURBurroughs, Augusten
Summary: "From the number one New York Times bestselling author comes another stunning memoir that is tender, touching...and just a little spooky. 'Here's a partial list of things I don't believe in: God. The Devil. Heaven. Hell. Bigfoot. Ancient Aliens. Past lives. Vampires. Zombies. Homeopathy. Bigfoot. Canola oil, because there's no such thing as a canola. Note that 'witches' and 'witchcraft' are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BURROUGHS, AUGUSTEN BURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BURROUGHS BURBurroughs, Augusten.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BURBurroughs, Augusten.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.6 BURBurroughs, Augusten.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2002