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By Marina Keegan. 2014
Collection of essays and short stories by Keegan (1989-2012), who was killed in a car accident five days after her…
college graduation. In the title essay--which appeared in the graduation issue of the Yale Daily News--she reflects on the bright future awaiting the graduates. Bestseller. 2014By Philip Gulley. 2000
By Kurt Vonnegut. 2008
Twelve fiction and nonfiction pieces representing Vonnegut's views on violence and war and his desire for world peace. Contains both…
a 1945 letter to his family summarizing his prisoner-of-war experience in Germany and his last speech, written in 2007. Introduction by his son Mark Vonnegut. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2008By Zane Grey, George Reiger. 1972
Twenty short stories about outdoor sports adventures by western writer Zane Grey (1872-1939). Contains "Colorado Trails" and "Roping Lions in…
the Grand Canyon." Includes 1992 foreword by George Reiger. Reiger credits Grey's experiences as an avid conservationist and explorer for inspiring his stories. 1972By Paul D. Staudohar. 1998
Twenty-one stories and one classic poem, published between 1909 and 1997, by renowned authors. Includes John Updike's "In Football Season,"…
which evokes the wonderment of youth at Friday night high school games; an excerpt from Howard Nemerov's The Homecoming Game; and pieces by Ellery Queen, Damon Runyon, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and others. 1998By Zane Grey. 1979
Collection of six western short stories. In the title story, a new ranch hand, Wingfield, is accused when the payroll…
is missing. Wingfield follows tracks to a remote cabin to find not only the stolen money but also a missing piece of his lifeA humorous look at the workplace from the creator of the "Dilbert" cartoon strip. The Dilbert Principle is that "the…
most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage--management." BestsellerBy Robert James Waller. 1983
Nineteen essays written since 1983 by Waller, a folksinger and author of the bestselling Bridges of Madison County (DB 35861).…
The writings include a loving tribute to his wife, thoughts on his daughter leaving home at eighteen, a book signing on a snowy day in St. Ansgar, playing "Wabash Cannonball" for a program with Charles Kuralt, and thoughts on his fiftieth birthday. BestsellerCes Récits infectés donnent la parole à des autrices et auteurs qui tentent de prendre la mesure de la crise…
de la COVID-19, de ses aspects tragiques ou comiques, de ses désastres comme des utopies qu'elle a fait naître. Ils se demandent comment elle a agi et continue d'agir sur nous, puis la croise avec d'autres périodes noires, collectives ou plus intimes. Parce que toutes les grandes crises ont une chose en commun : elles révèlent le meilleur comme le pire de l'être humain