Official Slacker Handbook

Official Slacker Handbook
Author: Sarah Dunn
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2009-09-26
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0446564931

The '90's answer to The Preppie Handbook is a satiric, humorous and comprehensive critique, written by the ultimate slacker, that reveals rules, guidelines and recommendations for being a state-of-the-art slacker. The book features a hip MTV-like format with fast-cut sidebars, cartoons, photos, lists, quizzes and charts.

The Official Slacker Handbook

The Official Slacker Handbook
Author: Sarah Dunn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1994
Genre: Laziness
ISBN: 9780349105918

This definitive critique of slackerdom contain alls the information that aspiring slackers need to know to go from a gainfully-employed sane person to a poverty striken malcontent. Topics covered include how to master sleeping, and big words to use in a heated cafe debate.

Slacker

Slacker
Author: Gordon Korman
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2016-04-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 054582317X

From the bestselling author of Swindle and Ungifted comes the funny, fantastic story of an underachiever who ends up achieving much more than any overachiever could ever imagine. Cameron Boxer is very happy to spend his life avoiding homework, hanging out with his friends, and gaming for hours in his basement. It's not too hard for him to get away with it . . . until he gets so caught up in one game that he almost lets his house burn down around him.Oops.It's time for some serious damage control--so Cameron and his friends invent a fake school club that will make it seem like they're doing good deeds instead of slacking off. The problem? Some kids think the club is real--and Cameron is stuck being president.Soon Cameron is part of a mission to save a beaver named Elvis from certain extinction. Along the way, he makes some new friends--and some powerful new enemies. The guy who never cared about anything is now at the center of everything . . . and it's going to take all his slacker skills to win this round.

Slacker

Slacker
Author: Richard Linklater
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1992-07-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780312077976

The movie Slacker unfolds during a 24-hour period in Austin, Texas, in which hundreds of characters wander about in a timeless entropy, working hard at doing nothing. Now, to coincide with the national video release of this cult classic, a book that is a ricochet of the movie and the phenomenon. Includes a foreword by bestselling author Douglas Coupland. Illustrated.

Level 13 (A Slacker Novel)

Level 13 (A Slacker Novel)
Author: Gordon Korman
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2019-06-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1338286226

From the bestselling author of Swindle, Restart, and Slacker is another hilarious story about an underachiever who learns to go above and beyond. Cameron Boxer, king of the slackers, has found something worth his time. By playing video games online in front of an audience he can find both fame AND fortune -- especially with Elvis (a beaver who seems to love video games as much as Cam) at his side.The only problem? Things keep getting in Cam's way. Like school. And the club he accidentally started. And the misguided people in his life who don't think beavers should be playing video games.It's going to take some trickery, some close calls, and a fierce devotion to slacking in order for Cam to get to his goal -- conquering the game's infamous Level 13. But if any slacker can do it, Cam can.

Showoff (Swindle #4)

Showoff (Swindle #4)
Author: Gordon Korman
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545393124

The heroes of SWINDLE, ZOOBREAK, and FRAMED are back - and this time, things have gone to the dogs! When Luthor goes berserk at a mall dog show, he's accused of ruining the career of the three-time best-in-show beagle. Griffin always knew that Luthor's viciousness was simmering just below the surface - so why does he feel bad enough to spring him from the pound?Griffin and his team have a new plan. This one involves New York City, a sinister saboteur, a reclusive dog-trainer who's quit the business, an international dog show, and a whole lot of red dye. But if they pull it off, no one will even notice their sting operation...right?

The Big Love

The Big Love
Author: Sarah Dunn
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2004-07-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0759511861

Hilarious and heartbreaking, combining the emotional incisiveness of Jane Austen with the up-to-the-minute frankness of "Sex and the City," Dunn's latest work will be the passing must-read novel of the summer.

Secrets to Happiness

Secrets to Happiness
Author: Sarah Dunn
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2009-03-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316040312

Holly Frick has just endured the worst kind of breakup: the kind where you're still in love with the person leaving you. While her wounds are still dangerously close to the surface, her happily married best friend confesses over a bottle of wine that she is this close to having an affair. And another woman comes to Holly for advice about her love life -- with Holly's ex! Holly decides that if everyone around her can take pleasure wherever they find it, so will she. As any self-respecting thirtyish New York woman would do, she brings two males into her life: a flawed but endearing dog, and a good natured, much younger lover. She's soon entangled in a web of emails, chance meetings, and misguided good intentions and must forge an entirely new path to Nirvana. From the author of The Big Love, Secrets to Happiness is a big-hearted, knife-sharp, and hilariously entertaining story about the perils of love and friendship, sex and betrayal -- and a thoroughly modern take on our struggle to be happy.

Death Watch

Death Watch
Author: Ari Berk
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2011-11-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1416991158

When seventeen-year-old Silas Umber's father disappears, Silas is sure it is connected to the powerful artifact he discovers, combined with his father's hidden hometown history, which compels Silas to pursue the path leading to his destiny and ultimately, to the discovery of his father, dead or alive.