McMurtry, Larry.
Summary: A rodeo cowboy turned antique dealer centers his vaguely gypsy life on his collector's classic Cadillac, which carries him to backroad flea markets, small-time collectors, Washington high life, and the two women he loves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMVonnegut, Kurt.
Summary: The author questions the condition of modern man in this novel depicting a science fiction writer's struggle to find peace and sanity in the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VONEco, Umberto.
Summary: "From the best-selling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, a novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder. A newspaper committed to blackmail and mud slinging, rather than reporting the news. A paranoid editor, walking through the streets of Milan, reconstructing fifty years of history against the backdrop of a plot involving the cadaver of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ECOGreer, Andrew Sean
Summary: Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his life, reinventing himself, and making connections with the past.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A Lee Boudreaux Book, Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Greer 2017Mills, Magnus.
Summary: When sloth and alcohol lead to a horribly botched job, two fence builders named Tam and Richie flee their native Scotland to England, where all hell quickly breaks loose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 2012
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Summary: The story of the amoral beauty Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to climb the social ladder, and her sentimental companion Amelia, who falls for a caddish soldier, presents a panoramic satire of Regency society.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC THAKlam, Matthew
Summary: "Two people, who are married to other people, meet at a conference for artists and writers in a charming seaside village much like Provincetown. Rich, a formerly sort-of-famous cartoonist, and Amy, a student of narrative painting, shared a moment of passion the summer before, and have returned to see what happens next. In the wicked events that follow, both of their lives completely unravel"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLAMills, Magnus.
Summary: "The whole concept is so simple yet so perfect; men drive to and from strategically placed warehouses in Univans, identical and very serviceable vehicles, transporting replacement parts for Univans."--Jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador USA 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILRoth, Philip
Summary: If you've never heard of the homeless baseball team the Ruppert Mundys it's because of the Communist plot, and the capitalist scandal, that expunged the entire Patriot League from baseball memory.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ROTContents: We talk about cars / (Ric Seaberg) -- Me and my automobile / (Jack Williams) -- If she wasn't on blocks / (The New Duncan Imperials) -- Light blue Saturn / (Ben Frey) -- 1000 dollar car / (The Bottle Rockets) -- Who taught these idiots to drive? / (Arnold & Gretz) -- S.U.V. / (Mem Shannon) -- Auto mechanically declined / (Joe Jencks) -- Ranchero / (Adam Kay) -- Unfit to drive / (The Auto Body...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Company 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CARSummary: From the host of television's comedy-punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23 hours of your day. This book contains all of the opinions that Stephen doesn't have time to shoehorn into his nightly broadcast, his most deeply held knee-jerk beliefs on The American Family, Race, Religion, Sex, Sports, and many more topics, conveniently arranged in chapter form. Stephen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.602 COLSummary: Presents twelve radio episodes, digitally restored and remastered from recordings of comedy shows broadcast during the golden age of radio. Includes Abbott and Costello's "Who's on first?" routine.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Radio Spirits, Inc. 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN OLDSummary: It's time to be rocked by these rib-ticklers! Featuring the toughest and funniest Superstars of WWE, these jokes are more savage than Macho Man, deadlier than Undertaker, and with punch lines so hilarious, you will never Cena them coming. Use this book to become the Heavyweight Comedian of the world!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 818 WWEAttell, Dave.
Contents: Odd look -- Drinking tips -- Fun happens late -- Travel -- Flying -- Bus station -- The Unf**kables -- Tattoos -- Smoking -- Lonely bug -- I miss my Dad -- Fireworks -- Homophobic -- Midget friend -- Parrot -- Condoms -- Love -- Gambling -- Shaved pubes -- Religion -- Drugs -- Breast feeding -- Sex with animals -- Amish sex -- D**k jokes -- Sex store -- Masturbation -- Find the smell.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Comedy Central Records 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN ATTAwad, Mona
Summary: "Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and are often found entangled in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AWABehrendt, Greg.
Contents: Intro (:51) -- Do it dude (2:53) -- Col. Nick (1:14) -- Chain wallet (2:57) -- Adult rock show (2:33) -- Air guitar (1:05) -- CD repair guy (2:52) -- Ointment (1:16) -- Chicken situation (2:47) -- I don't understand my robe (1:33) -- My sexy faces (1:03) -- Crybaby Spiderman (7:35) -- Tattoos for daddy (1:29) -- Free Sunday? (1:44) -- Pictionary (7:12) -- I'm no picnic (2:49) -- Playmate...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN BEHBlack, Lewis
Contents: Superbowl redux -- MTV -- Halftime '04 -- What sex ... are they? -- Gay marriage -- Justin and Janet -- America loses its mind -- Nipple clamps -- One nation under God -- Michael Jackson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Ronald Reagan -- Voting (a flashback) -- Iraq, an idiots delight.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Comedy Central Records 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN BLABoone, Brian
Summary: This follow-up to The Unofficial Harry Potter Joke Book: Great Guffaws for Gryffindor offers hundreds of hilarious jokes from the Harry Potter world for Slytherins and Hufflepuffs alike. The Pottermore website allows Harry Potter fans everywhere to be sorted into the house that’s right for them, and now the Ravenclaws the world over will find their place in The Unofficial Harry Potter Jokes...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2019
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Humor BooneBorge, Victor.
Contents: Requests: Tea for two ; Malaguena ; Stardust ; Nola ; Trees ; One fine day ; Tales from the Vienna Woods ; Third man theme ; Nocturne ; Blue Danube waltz -- A Mozart opera by Borge -- Three Borge favorites: Tango ; "Minute" waltz ; Liebestraum -- Family background --Phonetic punctuation.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS Records 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN BORCarlin, George.
Summary: In a collection of irreverent humor, the author presents his observations and opinions on the foibles and follies of modern life, taking on such topics as the media, the battle of the sexes, hygiene, evasive language, and politics.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Audiobooks 2004
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Contents: The bozos song -- The four gobs -- The 8 shoes -- In the hot tub -- Hey, Reagan -- In the war zone -- Oh, Afghanistan -- In the alley -- Violent juvenile freaks -- In the hot tub, again -- This bus won't go to war -- Jimmy Carter.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Firesign Theatre Records 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN FIRFitzhugh, Bill.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2004