Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The book of Bebb	Frederick Buechner	Pulitzer Prize finalist Frederick Buechner's quartet of outrageously witty, inspirational Bebb novels in one volume.	OL12918W
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls	David Sedaris	From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new book of essays taking his listeners on a bizarre and stimulating world tour. From the perils of French dentistry to the eating habits of the A…	OL16921842W
Marvin composes a tea	Judith Hunt	A collection of humorous stories.	OL16995164W
The Irish wine trilogy	Dick Wimmer	"Through three comic novels that span ten years and two continents, Dick Wimmer's Irish Wine Trilogy follows the misadventures of brilliant Irish painter Seamus Boyne; his old friend, Gene Hagar; his…	OL1800852W
Out of the closet and nothing to wear	Lesléa Newman	This collection of humorous stories starring Leslea Newman and her butch, Flash, who live in Lesbianville, U.S.A., is based on her popular column, which has run in lesbian and gay periodicals all ove…	OL18175038W
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day	Judith Viorst	On a day when everything goes wrong for him, Alexander is consoled by the thought that other people have bad days too.	OL1932036W
Bravo, Amelia Bedelia!	Herman Parish	From the time she is sent to pick up the guest conductor, Amelia Bedelia's normal confusion causes quite an uproar at the school concert.	OL1984634W
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories	James Finn Garner	[link text][1]From Cinderella rejecting unrealistic ideas of feminine beauty, to the Three Little Pigs arming themselves and overthrowing their imperialist wolf oppressors, all right-minded people wi…	OL2272532W
When You Are Engulfed in Flames	David Sedaris	"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever i…	OL2693090W
McSweeney's	Hamish Hamilton,Dave Eggers,McSweeney's Books Staff	This issue of McSweeney's offers 11 new stories by Wells Tower, Bill Cotter and Michael Cera among others.	OL27974018W
Squids will be squids	Jon Scieszka,Lane Smith	Contemporary fables with tongue-in-cheek morals address such topics as homework, curfews, and television commercials.	OL39544W
The jumping frog and other stories	Mark Twain	The jumping frog of Calaveras County -- Taming the bicycle -- Journalism in Tennessee -- Cannibalism in the cars.	OL413372W
Novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad / Tom Sawyer Detective)	Mark Twain	dfdf	OL413670W
Velcome	O'Malley, Kevin	An illustrated collection of scary stories with humorous endings, featuring such elements as a boy being followed home by a coffin, a rapping noise in a haunted house, and strange intruders at the fr…	OL495081W
The noctambulists & other fictions	Peter Spielberg	"FC2 veteran Peter Spielberg returns with The Noctambulists & Other Fictions, a collection of spare, deadpan tales in which life's absurdity acts as a gateway to an even more confounding reality. Her…	OL5358262W
Life on the Mississippi	Mark Twain	At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Twains early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, here is the raw material from which Mark…	OL53959W
Editorial Wild Oats	Mark Twain	I was a printer's "devil," and a progressive and aspiring one. My uncle had me on his paper (the Weekly Hannibal Journal, two dollars a year, in advance—five hundred subscribers, and they paid in cor…	OL54112W
The Jumping Frog and 18 Other Stories	Mark Twain	Jumping frog -- Glorious whitewasher -- On the decay of the art of living -- Punch, brothers, punch -- Death of Jean -- How I was sold in Newark -- On the babies -- About barbers -- On the we…	OL54154W
Stoopnagle's Tale Is Twisted	Keen James	Retells Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and forty-one other classic fables and tales in spoonerisms, changing those titles to Beeping Sleauty and Prinderella and the Since.	OL6030779W
Thurber Carnival	James Thurber	James Thurber's unique ability to convey the vagaries of life in a funny, witty, and often satirical way earned him accolades as one of the finest humorists of the twentieth century. A bestseller upo…	OL9323423W