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Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
One of the most celebrated contemporary golf writers captures golf as a way of life, profiling golfers with unique stories and showcasing both private and public courses across the U.S. and the U.K.
After a lifetime of writing about the professional sport, Michael Bamberger, “the poet laureate of golf” (GOLF magazine), delivers an exhilarating love letter to the amateur game as it’s played—and lived—by the rest of us.
Over Michael Bamberger’s...
Publisher
Jim Dashiell
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Appalachian Trail was beautiful, evil, demanding but forgiving. It taught us the importance of individuality, luck and determination. The best lesson, however, was the value of the people who hiked it, maintained it, provided trail magic to the random anonymous hiker. We're all family on the Trail. Shared hardships act as a bond. This book offers observations of the same experiences from a variety of viewpoints complete with the good and bad memories....
Author
Language
English
Description
With his trademark wit and ever-curious eye, Sedaris draws brilliance and poignancy from the everyday. Full of generosity, revelation, and the kind of belly laughter only family can spark, Happy-Go-Lucky invites readers back into the singular world of a preeminent chronicler of American eccentricity and contradiction--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From the best-selling, Pulitzer prize-winning author of All Over But the Shoutin' and The Best Cook in the World, a collection of his irresistible columns from Southern Living and Garden & Gun A collection of wide-ranging and endearingly personal columns by the celebrated author, newspaper columnist, and Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg, culled from his best-loved pieces in Southern Living and Garden & Gun. From his love of Tupperware (My Affair with...
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Language
English
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Description
Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England. But before all that, he was a bomb that exploded his parents' lives--or so he was told. In Dirtbag, Massachusetts, Fitzgerald, with warmth and humor, recounts his ongoing search for forgiveness, a more far-reaching vision of masculinity, and a more expansive definition of family and self. Fitzgerald's memoir-in-essays...
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Language
English
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Description
The host of the NBC Today Show's popular segment shares his favorite stories of citizens making a difference around the country.
For the six million people who watch the Emmy Award-winning 'American Story with Bob Dotson' on NBC's Today Show, Bob Dotson's reports celebrate the inspirational stories of everyday Americans. Dotson has been crisscrossing the country for more than forty years-logging more than four million miles-in search of people who...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An environmental journalist traces the historical war against rust, revealing how rust-related damage costs more than all other natural disasters combined and how it is combated by industrial workers, the government, universities, and everyday people.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A sparkling anecdotal account with the pace of an epic, about the men and women who created turning points in history. Rebecca Fraser's dramatic portrayal of the scientists, statesmen, explorers, soldiers, traders, and artists who forged Britain's national institutions is the perfect introduction to British history.
Just as much as kings and queens, battles and empire, Britain's great themes have been the liberty of the individual, the rule of law,...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In The Dad Report, award-wining sportswriter Kevin Cook weaves a tapestry of uplifting stories in which fathers and sons--from sport's superstars to Cook and his own ball-playing father--share the game"--provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Gaffigan has made his career rhapsodizing over the most treasured dishes of the American diet ('choking on bacon is like getting murdered by your lover') and decrying the worst offenders ('kale is the early morning of foods') ... [Now] he will give them what they really crave--hundreds of pages of his thoughts on all things culinary(ish). Insights such as: why he believes coconut water was invented to get people to stop drinking coconut water, why...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Emmy-award winning gadfly Mike Rowe presents a ridiculously entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite episodes from America's #1 short-form podcast, The Way I Heard It, along with a host of memories, ruminations, illustrations, and insights. It's a delightful collection of mysteries. A mosaic. A memoir. A charming, surprising must-read"--
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Series
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English
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"The rolling fields and quiet towns of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, belie its dynamic history. From slaves who escaped to freedom through Underground Railroad stations in Shippensburg and Boiling Springs to a telephone-like invention created by Lower Allen & Daniel Drawbaugh a full decade before the patent of Alexander Graham Bell, the pages of Cumberland County'ss history conceallong-forgotten but true tales. There are numerous but often-overlooked...
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"An entertaining collection of the most audacious and underhanded deceptions in the history of mankind, from sacred relics to financial schemes to fake art, music, and identities. World history is littered with tall tales and those who have fallen for them. Ian Tattersall, a curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, has teamed up with Peter Nevraumont to create this anti-history of the world, in which Michelangelo fakes a masterpiece;...
Author
Language
English
Description
In The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Sarah Vowell travels through the American past and, in doing so, investigates the dusty, bumpy roads of her own life. In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell -- widely hailed for her inimitable narratives on public radio's This American Life -- ponders a number of curious questions: Why is she happiest when visiting the sites of bloody struggles like Salem or Gettysburg? Why do people always...
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