Sedaris, David

Summary: David Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation toward middle age and mortality. This is beach reading for people who detest beaches, required reading for those who loathe small talk, and also Sedaris' darkest and warmest book yet.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2018

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Sedaris, David

Summary: "For more than twenty-five years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre. A Sedaris story may seem confessional, but is also highly attuned to the world outside. It opens our eyes to what is at absurd and moving about our daily existence. And it is almost impossible to read without laughing. Now, for the first time collected in one volume,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020

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Sedaris, David

Summary: For nearly four decades, David Sedaris has faithfully kept a diary in which he records his thoughts and observations on the odd and funny events he witnesses. Anyone who has attended a live Sedaris event knows that his diary readings are often among the most joyful parts of the evening. But never before have they been available. Now, Sedaris brings listeners his favorite entries. From deeply...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 SED

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Sedaris, David.

Summary: In a collection of essays, observations, and commentaries, the humorist describes his recent move to Paris, life as an American in Paris, his struggle to learn French, his family, and restaurant meals.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 SED

Sedaris, David.

Summary: The author presents a collection of three animal-themed essays. In The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck, a group of complete strangers bitterly discuss the order of things within the animal kingdom. In Hello Kitty, a miserable alcoholic cat attends AA. In The Squirrel and the Chipmunk, two lovers are torn apart by their quarrelling families.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010

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Sedaris, David

Summary: From a spectacular career spanning almost three decades, these stories, selected by Sedaris himself, have become modern classics and are now for the first time collected in one volume.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2020

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 814 SED

Sedaris, David

Summary: The best-selling author offers a new collection of satirical and humorous essays that chronicle his own life and ordinary moments that turn beautifully absurd, including how he coped with the pandemic, his thoughts on becoming an orphan in his seventh decade, and the battle-scared America he discovered when he resumed touring.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown and Company 2022

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Sedaris, David.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2004

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Sedaris, David.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004

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Sedaris, David.

Summary: A best-selling classic features six additional works on the joys and embarrassments of favorite holidays, in a volume that includes tales of tardy trick-or-treaters, the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to another culture, and a barnyard Secret Santa scheme gone awry.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2008

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Sedaris, David.

Summary: Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him once more. He tests the limits of love when Hugh lances a boil from his backside, and pushes the boundaries of laziness when, finding the water shut off in his house in Normandy, he looks to the water in a vase of fresh cut flowers to fill the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Wit Sedaris

Sedaris, David

Summary: Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018

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Sedaris, David

Summary: For nearly four decades, David Sedaris has faithfully kept a diary in which he records his thoughts and observations on the odd and funny events he witnesses. Anyone who has attended a live Sedaris event knows that his diary readings are often among the most joyful parts of the evening. But never before have they been available. Now, Sedaris brings listeners his favorite entries. From deeply...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 814 SED

Sedaris, David

Summary: For nearly four decades, David Sedaris has faithfully kept a diary in which he records his thoughts and observations on the odd and funny events he witnesses. Anyone who has attended a live Sedaris event knows that his diary readings are often among the most joyful parts of the evening. But never before have they been available in audio. Now, in this book, Sedaris reads us his favorite entries.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 814 SED

Sedaris, David

Summary: The American humorist, author, and radio contributor shares his most memorable work in a collection of stories and essays that feature him shopping for rare taxidermy, hitchhiking with a quadriplegic, and hand-feeding a carnivorous bird.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 SED

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 SED

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 SED

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 818 SED

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Sedaris, David

Summary: Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 814 SED

Sedaris, David

Summary: David Sedaris captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about recent upheavals, and expresses the misanthropy and desire for connection that drives us all.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 814 SED

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 814 SED

Sedaris, David

Summary: "Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask, or not, was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes. But then the pandemic...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Sedaris, David

Summary: "In this hilarious illustrated fable, Anna Van Ogre loses her lovely monstrous looks and is turned into a sickeningly adorable, rosy-cheeked little girl. It starts her on a journey to learn an unforgettable lesson about true beauty"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: TOON Books 2024

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Sedaris, David

Summary: What could be a more tempting holiday gift than a compendium of David Sedaris's best stories, selected by the author himself? From a spectacular career spanning almost three decades, these stories have become modern classics and are now for the first time collected in one volume. The collection will also feature an introduction by the author; a never-before-collected story, 'Unbuttoned'; and a...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 814 SED

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 814 SED

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SED

Sedaris, David

Summary: "There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observation turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between two men on the street, pedestrians being whacked over the head or gathering to watch as a man...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021

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