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Warlock / by Harrison, Jim,1937-;
Subjects: Black humor (Literature); Middle aged men; Unemployed;
© [1989], c1981., Delta/S. Lawrence,
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Catch-22 / by Heller, Joseph.;
Subjects: War stories.; Black Humor (Literature); World War, 1939-1945;
© 1994., Dell Publishing,
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Doctor Rat / by Kotzwinkle, William.;
Kotzwinkle's tale is a montage from scenes of gross black humor in the experimental lab to idyllic glimpses of the animal kingdom. Designed to shock us into ecological awareness, Kotzwinkle's lab experiments are hair-raising. Doctor Rat is a trip through a laboratory worthy of a Nazi mad doctor, except this doctor is a wisecracking rodent who could have been played by Groucho Marx.
Subjects: Animal experimentation;
© 2014., Open Road Integrated Media,
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Anxious people : a novel / by Backman, Fredrik,1981-author.; Smith, Neil(Neil Andrew),translator.;
Viewing an apartment normally doesn't turn into a life-or-death situation, but this particular open house becomes just that: a failed bank robber bursts in and takes everyone in the apartment hostage. As police surround the premises and television channels broadcast the hostage situation live, the eight strangers begin opening up to one another. Before long, the robber must decide which is the more terrifying prospect: going out to face the police, or staying in the apartment with this group of impossible people. -- adapted from jacket
Subjects: Black humor.; Humorous fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Hostages; Married people; Real estate agents; Bank robberies;
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Sister mine [sound recording] : [a novel] / by O'Dell, Tawni.; Raudman, ReneÌe.;
Read by Renee Raudman.Former police officer Shae-Lynn Penrose now drives a cab in the coal mining town she grew up in. Five of her friends still struggling with memories of being trapped in a mine two years earlier. Shae-Lynn finds herself facing harsh realities and reliving bad dreams of her own including her relationship with her brutal father, her conflicted passion for one of the miners, and the hidden identity of the man who fathered her son. When the younger sister she thought was dead arrives on her doorstep followed closely by a gun-wielding Russian gangster, a shady New York lawyer, and a desperate Connecticut housewife, Shae-Lynn is forced to grapple with the horrible truth she discovers about the life her sister's been living.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Black humor.; Taxicab drivers; Sisters; Coal mines and mining;
© p2007., Random House,
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in Heaven / [electronic resource]. by Alexie, Sherman.;
Sherman Alexie’s celebrated first collection, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, established its author as one of America’s most important and provocative voices. The basis for the award-winning movie Smoke Signals, it remains one of his best loved and widely praised books twenty years after its initial publication.Vividly weaving memory, fantasy, and stark reality to paint a portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian reservation, this book introduces some of Alexie’s most beloved characters, including Thomas Builds-the-Fire, the storyteller who no one seems to listen to, and his compatriot, Victor, the sports hero who turned into a recovering alcoholic. Now with an updated introduction from Alexie, these twenty-four tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet they are filled with passion and affection, myth and charm. Against a backdrop of addiction, car accidents, laughter, and basketball, Alexie depicts the distances between men and women, Indians and whites, reservation Indians and urban Indians, and, most poetically, modern Indians and the traditions of the past. -- provided by Amazon.com.Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 4153 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB).
Subjects: Black humor.; Autobiographical fiction.; Electronic books.; Spokane Indians; Indians of North America; Fiction.; Short Stories.;
© 2013., Open Road Media Iconic Ebooks,
On-line resources: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=1421564 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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I'm starting to worry about this black box of doom / by Pargin, Jason,1975-author.https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjBmmXbdrkPjvVWxxWDgJC;
"Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the country, to Washington, DC. But there are rules: He cannot look inside the box. He cannot ask questions. He cannot tell anyone. They must leave immediately. He must leave all trackable devices behind. As these eccentric misfits hit the road, rumors spread on social media that the box is part of a carefully orchestrated terror attack intended to plunge the USA into civil war. The truth promises to be even stranger, and may change how you see the world"--
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Science fiction.; Automobile travel; Ridesharing; Taxicab drivers;
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The black dove / [electronic resource] : by Hockensmith, Steve.; Dufris, William.;
Narrator: William Dufris.In the summer of 1893, Gustav “Old Red” Amlingmeyer and his brother Otto (a.k.a. “Big Red”) find themselves down and out in San Francisco. Though cowpokes by training, the brothers are devotees of the late, great Sherlock Holmes and his trademark method of “deducifying.” But when they set out to land jobs as professional detectives, they land themselves in hot water, instead.     First their friend Dr. Chan mysteriously takes a potshot at them, fatally wounding Big Red’s new hat. Then a secretive young woman from their past pops up and convinces them that Chan’s in trouble -- and they’re just the men to get him out of it. Unfortunately, they’re too late: By the time they track Chan down again, he’s dead. The police call it a suicide. Old Red calls that a lie. When he and his brother set out to prove it, they put themselves on a collision course with shady S.F.P.D. cops, brutal Barbary Coast hoodlums and the deadly Chinatown tongs. Before long, all sides are in a race to uncover the secret that could rock the city. And their only clue to what’s actually going on is the enigmatic, exotic and extremely difficult to find “Black Dove.” -- from Amazon.com.Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 301358 KB).
Subjects: Electronic books.; Fiction.; Humor (Fiction).; Literature.; Thriller.;
© 2008., Tantor Audio,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=185180 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven / by Alexie, Sherman,1966-; Walter, Jess,1965-writer of prologue.;
Every little hurricane -- A drug called tradition -- Because my father always said he was the only Indian who saw Jimi Hendrix play "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock -- Crazy Horse dreams -- The only traffic signal on the reservation doesn't flash red anymore -- Amusements -- This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona -- Fun house -- All I wanted to do was dance -- The trial of Thomas Builds-the-Fire -- Distances -- Jesus Christ's half-brother is alive and well on the Spokane Indian Reservation -- A train is an order of occurrence designed to lead to some result -- A good story -- The First Annual All-Indian Horseshoe Pitch and Barbecue -- Imagining the reservation -- The approximate size of my favorite tumor -- Indian education -- The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in Heaven -- Family portrait -- Somebody kept saying Powwow -- Witnesses, secret and not -- Flight -- Junior Polatkin's Wild West Show.In his darkly comic short story collection, the author brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-four interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, yet filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. There is Victor, who as a nine-year-old crawled between his unconscious parents hoping that the alcohol seeping through their skins might help him sleep; Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who tells his stories long after people stop listening; and Jimmy Many Horses, dying of cancer, who writes letters on stationary that reads "From the Death Bed of Jimmy Many Horses III," even though he actually writes them on his kitchen table. Against a backdrop of alcohol, car accidents, laughter, and basketball, Alexie depicts the distances between Indians and whites, reservation Indians and urban Indians, men and women, and most poetically, between modern Indians and the traditions of the past.
Subjects: Short stories.; Black humor.; Autobiographical fiction.; Spokane Indians; Indians of North America;
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Invisible man / by Ellison, Ralph.;
In the course of his wanderings from a Southern Negro college to New York's Harlem, an American black man becomes involved in a series of adventures. Introduction explains circumstances under which the book was written. Ellison won the National Book Award for this searing record of a black man's journey through contemporary America. Unquestionably, Ellison's book is a work of extraordinary intensity--powerfully imagined and written with a savage, wryly humorous gusto.Young Adult.
Subjects: African American men; Literature, Modern; African Americans; Race Relations; African American men Fiction;
© 1995., Vintage International,
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