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Thorndike Press large print laugh linesJefferson, Margo
Summary: "Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperamental autobiography," comprised of visceral, intimate fragments that fuse criticism and memoir. Margo Jefferson constructs a nervous system with pieces of different lengths and tone, conjoining arts writing (poem, song, performance) with life writing (history, psychology). The book's structure is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEFFERSON, MARGO JEFWeingarten, Gene
Summary: "Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten explores the events of a random day in U.S. history, offering a diorama of American life that illuminates all that has changed--and all that hasn't--in the past three decades. On New Year's Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day--chosen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 WEIPerry, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PERRY, MICHAEL PERDotson, Bob.
Summary: Dotson has been crisscrossing the country for more than forty years--logging more than four million miles--in search of people who have quietly but profoundly changed our lives and our country for the better. Now, in American Story, he presents a road map to the unsung heroes with thoughtful solutions to problems we all face, incredible ideas that work, and blueprints to living our dreams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973 DOTSummary: More than 450 accounts of the myriad customs, beliefs, legends, languages, adventures, and traditions that helped form America, illustrated with over 700 photographs, paintings, and engravings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Association 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 DISDotson, Bob.
Summary: The host of the NBC "Today Show" shares his favorite stories of citizens making a difference around the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 DOTSummary: The first-ever animated feature from StoryCorps celebrates the transformative power of listening. Presents stories from ten years of the innovative oral history project, where everyday people sit down together to ask life's important questions and share stories from their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LISSummary: From more than ten thousand interviews, StoryCorps--the largest oral history project in the nation's history--presents a tapestry of American stories, told by the people who lived them to the people they love. StoryCorps began with the idea that everyone has an important story to tell. And since 2003, this remarkable project has been collecting the stories of everyday Americans from all ages,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 ISAGreene, Bob.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 GREGeist, William.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.9240 GEISummary: "In the tradition of book anthologies created from public radio programs such as StoryCorps and This I Believe, THE MOTH collects the best storytelling moments--most in print here for the very first time--straight from their archive of more than 3000 shows since the first Moth Evening in 1997. From James Braly's struggling with what to do when his three-year-old son wants a pink bicycle to Dr....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 RATBryson, 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 BRYSchieffer, Bob.
Summary: A volume of signature pieces from the author's "Face the Nation" broadcasts covers a wide range of topics and includes original writings by the author on his life and work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 SCHIsay, Dave
Summary: "StoryCorps founder Dave Isay draws from ten years of the revolutionary oral history project's rich archives, collecting conversations that celebrate the power of the human bond and capture the moment at which individuals become family. Between blood relations, friends, coworkers, and neighbors, in the most trying circumstances and in the unlikeliest of places, enduring connections are formed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 ISAMiller, Larry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regan 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 MILSchieffer, Bob.
Summary: This book brings together 168 of Bob Schieffer's essays--from the hard issues of today to the human stories that show us who we are--along with a wealth of new material.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.929 SCHSummary: "From storytelling phenomenon and hit podcast The Moth, featuring contributions from Elizabeth Gilbert, Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Lin-Manuel Miranda alongside tales of an international rescue mission for Paddington Bear, a family matriarch running numbers in Detroit, an epic Lucha libre showdown in Mexico City, and more. An inspiring and entertaining collection of unforgettable true stories...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A collection of 180 personal, true-life accounts from NPR's National Story Project reflects the work of men and women of all ages, backgrounds, and walks of life and is accompanied by a look at the role of storytelling in our lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 ITHSummary: All These Wonders features voices both familiar and new. Storytellers include Louis C.K., Tig Notaro, John Turturro, and Meg Wolitzer, as well as a hip hop "one hit wonder," an astronomer gazing at the surface of Pluto for the first time, and a young female spy risking everything as part of Churchill's "secret army" during World War II. They share their ventures into uncharted territory--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 384.54 MOTWill, George F.
Summary: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George F. Will, his ninth collection of reflections on our culture, examining the many ways in which expertise, reason, and manners are continually under attack in our institutions, courts, political arenas, andsocial venues. George F. Will has been one of this country's leading columnists since 1974. He won the Pulitzer Prize for it in 1977. The Wall...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021