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Y2K : how the 2000s became everything : essays on the future that never was

Shade, Colette, author.

Publication Date

2025

Format:

Book

Call Number

306.0973 SHA

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:794998

Happy to help : adventures of a people pleaser

Wilson, Amy, author.

Publication Date

2025

Format:

Book

Call Number

817.6 WIL

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:724330

Chicken soup for the soul : laughter's always the best medicine : 101 feel good stories

Newmark, Amy, compiler.

Publication Date

2025

Format:

Book

Call Number

152.43 CHI

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:801614

The lede : dispatches from a life in the press

Trillin, Calvin, author.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Book

Call Number

071.3 TRI

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:708756

Hey, Jesus, it's me : I have questions, comments, and concerns

Skrmetti, Ellen, author.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Book

Call Number

230 SKR

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:790457

What this comedian said will shock you [CD]

Maher, Bill, author, narrator.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Call Number

818.602 MAH

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:723687

Cover image for Rosamond Lehmann in Vegas : a collection of riotously entertaining columns, written for The Believer magazine during its years in the desert

Rosamond Lehmann in Vegas : a collection of riotously entertaining columns, written for The Believer magazine during its years in the desert

Hornby, Nick, author.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Book

Call Number

028.9 HOR

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:801702

Comedy bang! bang! : the podcast (the book)

Aukerman, Scott, editor.

Publication Date

2023

Format:

Book

Call Number

791.46 COM

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:695088

Naked in the rideshare : (stories of gross miscalculations)

Shaw, Rebecca (comedy writer), author.

Publication Date

2023

Format:

Book

Call Number

818.602 SHA

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:708127

10.

Quietly hostile : essays

Irby, Samantha, author.

Publication Date

2023

Format:

Book

Call Number

814.6 IRB

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:672909

11.

We're all in this together... : so make some room

Papa, Tom, author.

Publication Date

2023

Format:

Book

Call Number

818.602 PAP

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:684194

12.

Chicken soup for the soul : Well that was funny, 101 feel good stories

Newmark, Amy, editor.

Publication Date

2023

Format:

Book

Call Number

817.6 CHI

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:670230

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Lambda Literary Awards (2022) -- Winner.

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Atkins, Chet.

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(1)

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(1)

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(1)

Dederer, Claire, 1967- writer of introduction.

(1)

Dinello, Paul.

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Driver, John, 1924- author.

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Dunham, Lena, 1986-

(1)

Elliott, Bob.

(1)

Ephron, Nora.

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Garlin, Jeff, 1962-

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Home Box Office (Firm), broadcaster.

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Jacobson, Abbi, author.

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Kreider, Tim.

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Martin, Demetri.

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Motion picture adaptation of (work) : Meyerowitz, Rick, 1943- Drunk stoned brilliant dead.

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National Public Radio (U.S.)

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Neal, Link, author.

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Noah, Trevor, 1984- writer of introduction.

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Pearl-McPhee, Stephanie, author.

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Rakoff, David. Love, dishonor, marry, die, cherish, perish.

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Rhodes, Melissa, editor.

(1)

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Scalzi, John, 1969- author.

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Sedaris, Amy.

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Sedaris, David. Glen's homophobia newsletter vol. 3, no. 2.

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Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014.

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