Summary: TESTIFICATE MAN FACES HIS GREATEST CHALLENGE YET!!! It’s just another day around the village for Testificate Man, when suddenly a group of flying, black-robed wizards appear from out of the skies! They inform the villagers that they are Mods. . . and they’ve come to deliver some rather bad news. The server just isn’t interesting anymore, and nobody seems to want to drop by. Because of this,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace] 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MINBraithwaite, Oyinkan
Summary: "Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. "Femi makes three, you know. Three and they label you a serial killer." Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRAPerelman, S. J. (Sidney Joseph)
Summary: "A collections of the very best writings of America's funniest and zaniest humorist, made by the comic genius himself, is reissued in a handsome paperback. Here, S. J. Perelman's gift for wordplay, witticism, spoofery, and sheer nonsense are on full display. In a playful, loving tribute to the funny man, novelist Joshua Cohen-also an erudite wordsmith and punster-introduces Perelman's sui...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817.52 PERWalter, Jess
Summary: We all live like we're famous now, curating our social media presences, performing our identities, withholding those parts of ourselves we don't want others to see. In this riveting collection of stories from acclaimed author Jess Walter, a teenage girl tries to live up to the image of her beautiful, missing mother. An elderly couple confronts the fiction writer eavesdropping on their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALPerelman, S. J. (Sidney Joseph)
Summary: "From October 1948 to October 1953, The New Yorker published humorist S. J. Perelman's "Cloudland Revisited" series: twenty-two reviews of once-popular books and silent films whose expiration dates had passed. All but forgotten even at the time, they were nonetheless part of Perelman's youth and made an indelible mark on him. ln the comic genius's biting satire they live once again: Gertrude...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817.52 PERVonnegut, Kurt.
Summary: Tender stories of love, incisive essays on human greed and misery, and imaginative tales of futuristic happenings reveal Vonnegut's versatility and vision.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press Trade Paperbacks 2010
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Summary: "When the Internet suddenly stops working, society reels from the loss of flowing data, instant messages, and streaming entertainment. Addicts wander the streets, talking to themselves in 140 characters or forcing cats to perform tricks for their amusement, while the truly desperate pin their requests for casual encounters on public bulletin boards. The economy tumbles further and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLAReed, Ishmael
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dalkey Archive Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REEBegley, Louis
Summary: After four decades of what he believes to be a happy, healthy partnership, Hugo Gardner's world is overturned when he learns that his wife, Valerie, is not only requesting a divorce but has left him for a younger, more vital man. Hugo, an octogenarian political writer and retired journalist for Time, must rethink the way he's lived, and reassess how he'd like to spend his remaining years....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEGBurgess, Anthony
Summary: Told through a central character, Alex, the disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism. A modern classic of youthful violence and social redemption set in a dismal dystopia whereby a juvenile deliquent undergoes state-sponsored psychological rehabilitation for his aberrant behavior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1986
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3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURFontenay, Blake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John F. Blair, Publisher 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FONRosenfeld, Lucinda
Summary: Working full-time for a non-profit organization and sending her daughter to an integrated school, Karen is forced to rethink her liberal ideals in the face of her do-gooder husband's questionable priorities and her daughter's struggles with bullying.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017