Perry, Michael

Summary: "A collection of previously published magazine pieces and essays by Michael Perry. Sources include Backpacker, Outside, Runner's World, Men's Health, No Depression, Oxford American, Best American Science Writing, Wisconsin Trails, Encyclopedia of the Midwest, Minnesota Monthly, liner notes from Blind Boys of Alabama album I'll Find A Way, Wisconsin Humanities Council newsletter."--Provided by...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wisconsin Historical Society Press 2017

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Perry, Michael

Summary: Written in a spirit of exploration rather than declaration, Montaigne in Barn Boots is a down-to-earth (how do you pronounce that last name?) look into the ideas of a philosopher "ensconced in a castle tower overlooking his vineyard," channeled by a midwestern American writing "in a room above the garage overlooking a disused pig pen." Whether grabbing an electrified fence, fighting fires,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

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Perry, Michael

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 2007

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Perry, Michael

Summary: With a neighbors help, twelve-year-old Ford Falcon learns to survive in the harsh world outside the Bubble Cities by scavenging for items to use or trade--skills she needs when her parents unexpectedly go missing.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Perry, Michael

Summary: Details the author's experiences and conversations with his octogenarian, cannon-shooting neighbor Tom Hartwig, who, armed with an arsenal of stories and an anti-authoritarian streak a mile wide, offers guidance and inspiration.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2012

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Perry, Michael

Summary: When Harley Jackson finds a calf in his barn bearing the image of Jesus Christ, he hopes to keep it to himself to avoid a scene, but word gets out anyway, and Harley has to decide how to deal with the media circus, and save his farm from developers.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

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Perry, Michael

Summary: In over his head with two pigs, a dozen chickens, and a baby due any minute, the acclaimed author of Truck: A Love Story gives us a humorous, heartfelt memoir of a new life in the country.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009

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Perry, Michael

Summary: The author chronicles a year during which he struggled to grow his own food, live peaceably with volatile neighbors, and fix his pickup truck, at a time when he also fell in love and befriended a paraplegic and quadriplegic biker team.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2006

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Perry, Michael

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002

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Perry, Michael

Summary: Details the author's experiences and conversations with his octogenarian, cannon-shooting neighbor Tom Hartwig, who, armed with an arsenal of stories and an anti-authoritarian streak a mile wide, offers guidance and inspiration.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HATWIG, TOM PER