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Cosby volume 18
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With Ruth's birthday coming up, Erica suggests that Hilton buy her something other than a sweater, which has been his gift every year for the past ten years. In an attempt to be more original, Hilton paints a plate for Ruth at a pottery store.
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Cosby volume 14
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Pauline and Erica want to take Ruth to a spa for a weekend of pampering while the café is closed for maintenance. While they are away, Hilton is in charge of the coffee shop. Carla, the chaperone of a Brazilian girls' choir, offers Hilton $500 to rent the café for a private party for the college seniors. Hilton hesitates, but the money is too enticing to resist.
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Cosby volume 1
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Hilton has a nightmare that he's been fired from the airline, and his wife Ruth reminds him that it already happened to him three weeks ago along with 10,000 others. Ruth tells her friend Pauline that it's tough having Hilton around the house all day - he's trying to fix things that aren't broken.
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Cosby volume 18
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English
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Hilton and Ruth take a winter vacation in Florida and are so enchanted with the weather, the fresh oranges, the vegetation and the peace and quiet that they decide to put their house on the market immediately and move as soon as possible.
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"The definitive account of Bill Cosby's transition from revered father figure to convicted criminal, told by a veteran crime reporter and former senior writer for People magazine"--Amazon.com summary.
Bill Cosby's decades-long career as a sweater-wearing, wholesome TV dad came to a swift and stunning end on April 26, 2018, when he was convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting one of more than 60 women who have come forward to accuse him of similar...
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"The first major biography of an American icon, comedian Bill Cosby. Based on extensive research and in-depth interviews with Cosby and more than sixty of his closest friends and associates, it is a frank, fun and fascinating account of his life and historic legacy. Far from the gentle worlds of his routines or TV shows, Cosby grew up in a Philadelphia housing project, the son of an alcoholic, largely absent father and a loving but overworked mother....
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Cosby volume 24
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English
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Erica brings Julius, her boyfriend of three months and star of a kids' TV program, home to meet Hilton and Ruth; Hilton is unimpressed and gives Julius a hard time. Hilton goes with Erica to watch Julius' program and inadvertently becomes part of the show.
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Cosby volume 25
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English
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Hilton tries to convince the Social Security Administration that he is not dead.
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Cosby volume 6
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English
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Pauline is absolutely thrilled that, after years of being the single friend, she has finally become a couple with her new boyfriend Gregory, a self-absorbed, self-proclaimed genius who disturbs Hilton. When she decides to dump him because he's too uptight, Ruth thinks that Hilton is really the one to blame and sends him off to remedy the situation.
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Cosby volume 19
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English
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Pauline tries her hand at playwriting for a course she's taking at the community center. Following Hilton's advice about writing something "real," she turns out a thinly-disguised comedy about the Lucas family.
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Cosby volume 16
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English
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After Griffin and Erica attend their high school reunion, Griffin realizes that their relationship is going nowhere and decides to make a clean break from her.
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Cosby volume 4
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English
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When Griffin's non-stop eating starts to get on Hilton's nerves, and Hilton's non-stop opinion-giving begins to get to Griffin, the two challenge each other to a 24-hour contest to see which man has more self-control.
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Cosby volume 10
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English
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Frank Barone has been telling his son about sinking the winning shot in the 1955 Queens basketball championship since the day he was born. When Frank pleads with Hilton to help him save face with his son by lying for him, Hilton reluctantly agrees.
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Cosby volume 15
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English
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Despite Ruth's insistence that family and friends should never work together, Hilton goes to work for Griffin, narrating children's stories. He just can't refuse the temptation for some creative rewriting, and Hilton puts his own spin on some classic kids' tales. Will he have his poetic license revoked?
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Cosby volume 17
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It's Valentine's Day, and when Hilton realizes that he has bought Ruth a scarf that she already has, its back to the drawing board. When she mentions that she'd love to see singer Jeffrey Osborne, who's appearing at the Steinway Club that night, a desperate Hilton says that he has tickets and was going to surprise her.
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Cosby volume 8
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English
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When Ruth's snobbish sister-in-law Debra throws an engagement party for her daughter, Hilton and Ruth try to steal some of Debra's thunder by arranging for Erica to bring a handsome date to the party, but they get some unexpected results.
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Cosby volume 13
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English
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Hilton finds that his life insurance is practically worthless, so he tries to shape up to pass a physical for a new policy.
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Cosby volume 11
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English
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Hilton goes to school to become a security guard, and when Pauline sees him with his graduating class, she swears she'll never feel safe again. She urges Ruth to stop Hilton before he hurts himself or someone else.
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Cosby volume 19
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English
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As a 30th anniversary gift, Hilton tries to give Ruth the wedding she always wanted.
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