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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In these wide-ranging essays, Jon Mooallem chronicles the beauty of our blundering and the inescapability of our imperfections. He investigates the collapse of a multimillion-dollar bird-breeding scam run by an aging farmer known as the Pigeon King, intimately narrates a harrowing escape from California's deadliest wildfire, visits an eccentric Frenchman building a town at what he claims is the center of the world, shadows a man through his first...
Author
Language
English
Description
Lisa Scottoline and her daughter Francesca Serritella are back with another audiobook collection of warm and witty stories that will strike a chord with every woman.
This six book series is among the best reviewed humor books published today and has been compared to the late greats, Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron. Delia Ephron said of the fifth book in the series, Have a Nice Guilt Trip, "Lisa and Francesca, mother and daughter,
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate who died tragically five days after graduation details the struggle that we all face as we figure out what we want to be and how we can positively impact the world.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A single volume that brings together the full range of Keillor's work: monologues from A Prairie Home Companion, stories from The New Yorker and The Atlantic, excerpts from novels, newspaper columns. With an extensive introduction and headnotes, photographs, and memorabilia, The Keillor Reader also presents pieces never before published, including the essays Cheerfulness and What We Have Learned So Far.
Author
Publisher
Triumph Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In the plainest of terms, baseball scouts are tasked with seeing the future-a distant future, at that. Some prospects shoot like arrows toward their projected potential, while others fizzle out or chart an unexpected course. Smart, Wrong, and Lucky explores how first impressions measure up to their aftermaths: the draft, years of progression, and for a talented few, major league success. Writer Jonathan Mayo profiles a diverse range of modern stars...
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