Alford, Henry
Summary: Part family memoir, part Studs Terkel, How To Live considers some unusual sources--deathbed confessions, late-in-life journals--as well as offering a rich compilation of interviews with the over-70 set to deliver a highly optimistic look at our dying days.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.67 ALFAlford, Henry
Summary: "A laugh-out-loud guide to modern manners"--Provided by the publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 395 ALFAlford, Henry
Summary: Part family memoir, part Studs Terkel, How To Live considers some unusual sources--deathbed confessions, late-in-life journals--as well as offering a rich compilation of interviews with the over-70 set to deliver a highly optimistic look at our dying days.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central/Twelve 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging AlfordAlford, Henry
Summary: Troubled by the absence of good manners in his day-to-day life, the author embarks on a journey to find out how things might look if people were on their best behavior a tad more often. Presents an illuminating, humorous take on grace and civility, and how we can simply treat each other better.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2012
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 395.02 ALFAlford, Terry
Summary: "The story of Abraham Lincoln as it has never been told before: through the strange, even otherworldly, points of contact between his family and that of the man who killed him, John Wilkes Booth. In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet-and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022