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Audiobooks. bibliography biography history Large type books. Love stories. Travel writing.Grayson, Emily.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1999
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRAGrayson, Emily.
Summary: Maude Latham, who falls in love with her married literature tutor, finds herself living through World War II as a trauma nurse in a hospital, and as the war progresses, Maude questions everything she knows about Stephen Kendall, the man she loves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRAGrayson, Emily.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRABryson, Bill.
Summary: Bryson, author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes readers on a tour of his house, a rural English parsonage, showing how each room has figured in the evolution of private life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 643.1 BRYBryson, Bill.
Summary: The author describes his return to America after two decades of living abroad and his disconcerting reunion with his homeland as he discusses motels, tax-return instructions, and hardware stores.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 BRYBryson, Bill.
Summary: Bill Bryson recounts some of the strange experiences he had when he returned to the United States after living in Britain for twenty years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 BRYBryson, Bill.
Summary: Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century--1951--in the middle of the United States--Des Moines, Iowa--in the middle of the largest generation in American history--the baby boomers. As one of the funniest writers alive, he is perfectly positioned to mine his all-American childhood for memoir gold. Like millions of his generational peers, Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD 921 BrysonBryson, Bill.
Summary: William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 Shakespeare 2007Bryson, Bill.
Summary: Bryson shares his breath-taking adventures and the fascinating history of the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, as he travels slowly on foot.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1998
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 917.404 BryBryson, Bill.
Summary: Bryson share his experiences hiking the Appalachian Trail with a childhood friend. The two encounter eccentric characters, a blizzard, getting lost, and rude yuppies along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2010
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Bryson, Bill
Summary: The hilarious and loving sequel to a hilarious and loving classic of travel writing: Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson s valentine to his adopted country of England In 1995 Bill Bryson got into his car and took a weeks-long farewell motoring trip about England before moving his family back to the United States. The book about that trip, Notes from a Small Island, is uproarious and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 914.2 BRYBryson, Bill
Summary: Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, a true classic and one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Now he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot, to see what has changed—and what hasn’t.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, an Imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 914.10 BRYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 914.104 BRYCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.2 BRYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.2 BRYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.2 BRYBryson, Bill.
Summary: Bryson (A Short History of Nearly Everything) takes readers on a tour of his house, a rural English parsonage, showing how each room has figured in the evolution of private life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643.1 BRYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643.1 BRYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Home BrysonBryson, Bill.
Summary: A travel writer with little background knowledge of Africa recounts his journey to Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, where he visited slums, historic sites, natural wonders, refugee camps, and relief projects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 916.76 BryCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 916.762 BRYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 916.762 BRYBryson, Bill.
Summary: Before returning to America after spending twenty years in Britain, the author decided to tour his second home and presents a look at England's quirks and its endearing qualities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 914.1 BRYBryson, Bill.
Summary: One of the most admired nonfiction writers of our time retells the story of one truly fabulous year in the life of his native country; a fascinating and gripping narrative featuring such outsized American heroes as Charles Lindbergh, Babe Ruth, and yes Herbert Hoover, and a gallery of criminals (Al Capone), eccentrics (Shipwreck Kelly), and close-mouthed politicians (Calvin Coolidge).
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.91 BRYBryson, Bill.
Summary: William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of supposition arranged around scant facts. With his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, and, emulating the style of his travelogues,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 822.33 BRYBryson, Bill.
Summary: Traces the author's adventurous trek along the Appalachian Trail past its natural pleasures, human eccentrics, and offbeat comforts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.4 BRYCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.4 BryCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 917.404 BRYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Travel BrysonBryson, Bill.
Summary: The author takes readers on a tour of the land Down Under that goes far beyond packaged-tour routes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 919.4 BRYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Travel BrysonBryson, Bill.
Summary: Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century--1951--in the middle of the United States--Des Moines, Iowa--in the middle of the largest generation in American history--the baby boomers. As one of the funniest writers alive, he is perfectly positioned to mine his all-American childhood for memoir gold. Like millions of his generational peers, Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 BRYSON, BILL BRYBryson, Bill.
Summary: [In this book, the author] offers a playfully anecdotal account of the etymology of distinctive words and phrases that help to create a distinctly American English. -http://www.bookinprint.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 420.973 BRYBryson, Bill.
Summary: Bryson offers a portrait of the Bard, presented in the style of a travelogue based on interviews with actors, the curator of Shakespeare's birthplace and academics.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM BRYBryson, Bill.
Summary: From one of the most beloved authors of our time--more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alone--a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home. "Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up." Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010
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Bryson, Bill.
Summary: "...A personal collection, built up over thirty years as a writer and editor in two countries" and "intended as a quick, concise guide to the problems of English spelling and usage." First published in the 1980s, Bryson's compilation has been updated and re-released, and includes definitions, guides to punctuation and grammar, and helpful conversion tables (Celsius to Fahrenheit; kilometers to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2008