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Wisdom and Humor from the Front Porch

Master storyteller Philip Gulley shares tender and hilarious real-life moments that capture the important truths of everyday life.

When Philip Gulley began writing newsletter essays for the twelve members of his Quaker meeting in Indiana, he had no idea one of them would find its way to radio commentator Paul Harvey Jr. and be read on the air to 24 million people. Fourteen books later, with more than a million books in print, Gulley still entertains as well as inspires from his small-town front porch.

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This is an easy-to-follow timeline to help students to maximise their high school years and optimise their chances of 'getting where they want to go'. While encouraging exploration and self-discovery, these "to-do's" provide the nitty gritty details necessary to the college admissions process. There will be no missed deadlines, or missed opportunities, as this step-by-step guide shows students and parents what to do and when to do it..
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These laugh-out-loud stories from New Hampshire and Vermont are set during the four seasons of the year. The storyteller in his appealing dialect tells little-known tales, among them “Mothah Skunk” and the night she had to move out with her kits because Sherman Curtis smelled so bad; the escapades of Big Gertie Benson, the lumberjacks’ cook and a cousin of the Bunyans in the Midwest; and George Petty, who delivered the mail even during mud season by standing on the back of his horse with only his head sticking out. Interspersed throughout are comic style episodes as an unsuspecting tourist tries to get information from the “locals.”

A delightful preface about living in New Hampshire for the past thirty-five years and visiting the North Country since he was a boy, explains why Tomie dePaola has perfect pitch for the dialect and a genuine appreciation for these unforgettable characters and their understated humor. Perfect for reading aloud to the family or in the classroom with a glossary to help with the pronunciations, these tales are sure to be a hit with Tomie’s fans, young and old..
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This is the work of a writer unafraid to gaze directly at characters challenged by crisis and pathology But for readers who are willing to look, unblinkingly, along with the writer, there are unusual rewards..
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"Whether or not we've come a long way since then, this engaging study of courtship shows that at least half the fun is in reading about getting there." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Selected from twenty years' worth of photographs by award-winning Magnum member Larry Towell, The World From My Front Porch is a collection of photographs of family life in northern Ontario-a romantic and beautiful rural idyll. This photo-essay is at the heart of a book that also, in separate sections of albums and found objects, explores both the history of Towell's front porch and his outside journeys into the war zones of the world. Themes of land and belonging are woven together in an extensive autobiographical essay. The book is dramatically designed in the manner of an Edwardian album and accompanies retrospective exhibition touring the United States and Canada.

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This heartbreaking novel from award-winning Mississippi writer Lewis Nordan is a meditation upon guns and love, all kinds of love -between fathers and sons, husbands and wives, gay lovers, friends

"This is not just a good book, this is a marvelous book."

--Voice Literary Supplement

"A comedy at least half as divine--and dark--as Dante's own, The Sharpshooter Blues is a flat-out tour de force."

--The Miami Herald.
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First published in 1975 and long out of print, this book is now reissued in a handsome new edition Alabama is like one big front porch where folks gather on summer nights to tell tales. It's a sprawling porch stretching from the Tennessee River Valley to the sandy Gulf beaches. In this book, Mrs. Windham takes readers on a tour of the history, people, and places of the "heart of Dixie." The stories are alike in their unmistakable Southern blend of exaggeration, humor, pathos, folklore, and romanticism with family history woven in..
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