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What do readers say about I'm a Stranger Here Myself?
sharp, hilarious commentary they are still enjoyable more reflective than educational one of his bestA classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body.
After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere tha... More details on I'm a Stranger Here Myself
I once joked in a book that there are three things you can’t do in life. You can’t beat the phone company, you can’t make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can’t go home again. Si...
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What do readers say about The Lost Continent?
memories of 1950s usa classic bryson style a good light read part humor, part travelogue"The kind of book Steinbeck might have written if he'd traveled with David Letterman." -New York magazine
An inspiring and hilarious account of one man's rediscovery of America and his search for the perfect small town.
Following an urge to rediscov... More details on The Lost Continent
I COME FROM Des Moines. Somebody had to. When you come from Des Moines you either accept the fact without question and settle down with a local girl named Bobbi and get a job at the Firestone factory ...
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What do readers say about Practical Demonkeeping?
funny and witty travis and catch crazy, whacked out tale how not to storyIn Christopher Moore's ingenious debut novel, we meet one of the most memorably mismatched pairs in the annals of literature. The good-looking one is one-hundred-year-old ex-seminarian and "roads" scholar Travis O'Hearn. The green one is Catch, a dem... More details on Practical Demonkeeping
The Breeze blew into San Junipero in the shotgun seat of Billy Winston’s Pinto wagon. The Pinto lurched dangerously from shoulder to centerline, the result of Billy trying to roll a joint one-handed w...
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What do readers say about A Walk in the Woods?
first person narrative entertaining & educational easy and flowing witty and humorousNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The classic chronicle of a "terribly misguided and terribly funny" (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body
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A sign announced that this was no ordinary footpath, but the celebrated Appalachian Trail. Running more than 2,100 miles along America’s eastern seaboard, through the serene and beckoning Appalachian ...
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What do readers say about At Home?
entertaining and informative descriptive and satirical humor our modern age gentle sense of humourFrom one of the most beloved authors of our time-more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alone-a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home.
"Houses aren't refuges from history. They are whe... More details on At Home
In the autumn of 1850, in Hyde Park in London, there arose a most extraordinary structure: a giant iron-and-glass greenhouse covering nineteen acres of ground and containing within its airy vastness e...
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What do readers say about Neither Here nor There?
sad little book a travel memoir wry, deprecating tone an interesting travelogueBryson brings his unique brand of humour to travel writing as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet and heads for Europe. Travelling with Stephen Katz-also his wonderful sidekick in A Walk in the Woods-he wanders from Hammerfest... More details on Neither Here nor There
In winter Hammerfest is a thirty-hour ride by bus from Oslo, though why anyone would want to go there in winter is a question worth considering. It is on the edge of the world, the northernmost town i...
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What do readers say about The Road to Little Dribbling?
ambling, possibly rambling a hardly concealed sequel very entertaining and educational super grumpy and unfunnyIn 1995, Iowa native Bill Bryson took a motoring trip around Britain to explore that green and pleasant land. The uproarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, is one of the most acute portrayals of the United Kingdom ever written. Two de... More details on The Road to Little Dribbling
BEFORE I WENT THERE for the first time, about all I knew about Bognor Regis, beyond how to spell it, was that some British monarch, at some uncertain point in the past, in a moment of deathbed acerbit...
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What do readers say about Wings?
very well written more of the same they were ok the story line was engagingIn a world whose seasons are defined by Christmas sales and Spring Fashions, hundreds of tiny nomes live in the corners and crannies of a human-run department store. They have made their homes beneath the floorboards for generations and no longer rem... More details on Wings
I mean, take Gurder. Back in the Store he was the Abbot. He believed that Arnold Bros made the Store for nomes. And he still thinks there’s some sort of Arnold Bros somewhere, watching over us, becaus...
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What do readers say about The Christmas Books?
a graphic novel sickly sweet romances feelgood christmas love stories crappy romance novelsDickens's story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors, has proved one of his most well-loved works. Ever since it was published in 1843 it has had an enduring influence on the ... More details on The Christmas Books
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What do readers say about One Summer?
masterful story telling well written and researched humorous and clever smooth entertaining proseA Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book
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The summer of 1927 began with Charles Lindbergh crossing the Atlantic. Meanwhile, Babe Ruth was closing in on the home run record. In Newark, New Jersey, Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly sat atop ... More details on One Summer
TEN DAYS BEFORE he became so famous that crowds would form around any building that contained him and waiters would fight over a corncob left on his dinner plate, no one had heard of Charles Lindbergh...
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