Off Main Street Barnstormers Prophets And Gatemouths Gator

Author : Michael Perry
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9781417685967
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Off Main Street written by Michael Perry and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether he's fighting fires, passing a kidney stone, hammering down I-80 in an 18-wheeler, or meditating on the relationship between cowboys and God, Michael Perry draws on his rural roots and footloose past to write from a perspective that merges the local with the global. Ranging across subjects as diverse as lot lizards, Klan wizards, and small-town funerals, Perry's writing in this wise and witty collection of essays balances earthiness with poetry, kinetics with contemplation, and is regularly salted with his unique brand of humor.

Author : Michael Perry
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061852805
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Off Main Street: Barnstormers, Prophets & Gatemouth's Gator written by Michael Perry and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether he's fighting fires, passing a kidney stone, hammering down I-80 in an 18-wheeler, or meditating on the relationship between cowboys and God, Michael Perry draws on his rural roots and footloose past to write from a perspective that merges the local with the global. Ranging across subjects as diverse as lot lizards, Klan wizards, and small-town funerals, Perry's writing in this wise and witty collection of essays balances earthiness with poetry, kinetics with contemplation, and is regularly salted with his unique brand of humor.

Author : Marc Smirnoff
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1557289506
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford American Book of Great Music Writing written by Marc Smirnoff and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of fifty-five dynamic and wide-ranging essays from the pages of The Oxford American pays tribute to the lives and legacies of Southern musicians and the influence of musical trends and movements spawned in the American South on the development of American music, with contributions by Nick Tosches, Peter Furalnick, Susan Straight, and other notable authors.

Author : Michael Perry
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870208136
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roughneck Grace written by Michael Perry and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author, humorist, and newspaper columnist Michael Perry returns with a new collection of bite-sized essays from his Sunday Wisconsin State Journal column, “Roughneck Grace.” Perry’s perspectives on everything from cleaning the chicken coop to sharing a New York City elevator with supermodels will have you snorting with laughter on one page, blinking back tears on the next, and--no matter your zip code--nodding in recognition throughout.

Author : Robert Burgin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 837 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Going Places written by Robert Burgin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 837 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successfully navigate the rich world of travel narratives and identify fiction and nonfiction read-alikes with this detailed and expertly constructed guide. Just as savvy travelers make use of guidebooks to help navigate the hundreds of countries around the globe, smart librarians need a guidebook that makes sense of the world of travel narratives. Going Places: A Reader's Guide to Travel Narratives meets that demand, helping librarians assist patrons in finding the nonfiction books that most interest them. It will also serve to help users better understand the genre and their own reading interests. The book examines the subgenres of the travel narrative genre in its seven chapters, categorizing and describing approximately 600 titles according to genres and broad reading interests, and identifying hundreds of other fiction and nonfiction titles as read-alikes and related reads by shared key topics. The author has also identified award-winning titles and spotlighted further resources on travel lit, making this work an ideal guide for readers' advisors as well a book general readers will enjoy browsing.

Author : Michael Perry
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870206818
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Top written by Michael Perry and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Bottom line is, I’m the kind of guy who’s happy to go to the opera, but I should like to be allowed to wear steel-toed boots with my evening suit. I like to read Harper’s with a chaser of Varmint Hunter Magazine. Maybe that’s why I enjoy a good show under canvas. Here we sit, brain-deep in arts and culture, but we’re also just people hanging out in a tent, some of us wearing boots, a few of us wearing Birkenstocks, but best of all we’re breathing free fresh air filled with music.” From Scandihoovian Spanglish to snickering chickens, New York Times bestselling author and humorist Michael Perry navigates a wide range of topics in this collection of brief essays drawn from his weekly appearances on the nationally syndicated Tent Show Radio program. Fatherhood, dumpster therapy, dangerous wedding rings, Christmas trees, used cars, why you should have bacon in your stock portfolio, loggers in clogs—whatever the subject, Perry has a rare ability to touch both the funny bone and the heart.

Author : Michael Perry
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870208411
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Danger, Man Working written by Michael Perry and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Every writer has advice for aspiring writers. Mine is predicated on formative years spent cleaning my father’s calf pens: Just keep shoveling until you’ve got a pile so big, someone has to notice. The fact that I cast my life’s work as slung manure simply proves that I recognize an apt metaphor when I accidentally stick it with a pitchfork. . . . Poetry was my first love, my gateway drug—still the poets are my favorites—but I quickly realized I lacked the chops or insights to survive on verse alone. But I wanted to write. Every day. And so I read everything I could about freelancing, and started shoveling." The pieces gathered within this book draw on fifteen years of what Michael Perry calls "shovel time"—a writer going to work as the work is offered. The range of subjects is wide, from musky fishing, puking, and mountain-climbing Iraq War veterans to the frozen head of Ted Williams. Some assignments lead to self-examination of an alarming magnitude (as Perry notes, "It quickly becomes obvious that I am a self-absorbed hypochondriac forever resolving to do better nutritionally and fitness-wise but my follow-through is laughable.") But his favorites are those that allow him to turn the lens outward: "My greatest privilege," he says, "lies not in telling my own story; it lies in being trusted to tell the story of another."

Author : Melvil Dewey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 904 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Library Journal written by Melvil Dewey and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1166 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Library Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1008 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: