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(0)Garrison Keillor
Author
Language
English
Description
A national holiday in Lake Wobegon is always gaudy and joyful. But when the major planner behind the Fourth of July parade and the twenty-four-year-old girl who dresses up as the Statue of Liberty develop a close "friendship, " rumors begin to fly. What will happen is anybody's guess as CNN and the governor put in an appearance in Lake Wobegon--home to a good loving people who drive each other crazy.
2) Pontoon
Author
Language
English
Description
Astonished to learn that her impeccable mother led a secret life marked by her passionate love for a Las Vegas man and a private commitment to pleasure, Barbara elects to end destructive patterns in her own life while honoring her mother's final wishes.
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Lexile measure
1100L
Language
English
Description
During the summer of 1956, fourteen-year-old geek Gary struggles with the hormonal pains and obsessions of puberty as he experiences a passionate devotion to his rebellious cousin Kate and pursues his dream of becoming a writer, but when Kate gets into trouble with the local basketball star, Gary is forced to deal with the first pangs of a broken heart.
Author
Series
Lake Wobegon books volume 11
Language
English
Description
A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor farmer, the effect of which is episodic loss of social inhibition. Mayor Alice, Father Wilmer, Pastor Liz, the Bunsens and Krebsbachs, formerly taciturn elders, burst into political rants, inappropriate confessions, and rhapsodic proclamations, while their teenagers watch in amazement. Meanwhile, a wealthy outsider...
Author
Language
English
Description
In this thoughtful, deeply personal work, one of the nation's best-loved voices takes the plunge into politics and comes up with a book that has had all of America talking. Here, with great heart, supple wit, and a dash of anger, Garrison Keillor describes the simple democratic values-the Golden Rule, the obligation to defend the weak against the powerful, and others-that define his hard-working Midwestern neighbors and that today's Republicans seem...
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"All the puns, one-liners, knock-knocks, bar jokes, lawyer jokes, light-bulb jokes, third-grade jokes, chicken-crossing-the-road jokes, ethnic jokes, political jokes, regional jokes, blonde jokes, Yo' Mama jibes, and more from eight years of sometimes-annual Joke Shows, during which Garrison, cast, and guests expose their live audience and radio listeners to near-toxic levels of levity"--Container.
9) Wobegon boy
Author
Language
English
Description
A comedy on John Tollefson, a 40-something bachelor from Minnesota working in a college in New York State as manager of its radio station. The college caters to academically challenged children of financially gifted parents. A spoof on academia.
10) Leaving home
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
In this collection of stories about small-town life, Dale takes a step toward manhood and Darlene sets off for Minneapolis to begin a new life.
12) Daddy's girl
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A picture book celebrates the relationship between a father and his little girl, following them throughout the day as they turn ordinary events into the extraordinary. On board pages.
13) The family radio
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sampler of crowd-pleasers from A Prairie Home Companion: four "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues, "commercials" for Bertha's Kitty Boutique and the Fearmonger's Shoppe, and great music. All selections are from original live radio broadcasts.Contents:World Theater, Here We Come!Powdermilk BiscuitsThe Family RadioBertha's Kitty BoutiqueLifestyle WaltzFearmonger's ShoppeAs We Get OlderJason's SongDave's HarmonicaPorch SongNews from Lake WobegonBallad...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Margie Krebsbsch's husband, Carl, has been sleeping across the hall and she has no idea why. Hoping to reawaken his interest in romance, Margie plans a trip to Rome with the expressed purpose of tending to the neglected grave of Gussy Norlander, a Lake Wobegon boy who died in the liberation of the city in 1944. But what begins as a trip for two becomes a modern-day Canterbury Tales as more and more Wobegonians decide to go along.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A wealthy and depressed Chicago man, bound for Christmas in Hawaii, is abruptly summoned home to North Dakota. He arrives just in time to be trapped there by a blizzard. During his stay, he reaches an epiphany worthy of the season and resolves to simplify his life.
Author
Publisher
Augsburg Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories about the Lutherans of the fictional town of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, includes tales about a church directory filled with terrible pictures and twenty-four Lutheran ministers who sank in a pontoon boat.
