Garrison Keillor
Author
Series
Lake Woebegotten novels volume 2
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A small town... a plucky heroine, a shiny vampire, and a hunky Native American rival with a secret. But all is not as it seems in Lake Woebegotten. Let Harrison Geillor reveal what lies beneath the seemingly placid surface. You'll Laugh. We promise. When Bonnie Grayduck relocates from sunny Santa Cruz, California to the small town of Lake Woebegotten, Minnesota to live with her estranged father, chief of the local two-man police department, she thinks...
Publisher
Docuramafilms
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 86 min.) : sound color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"This freeform intimate look at the private man in the public spotlight goes behind the scenes of America's most popular radio show, A prairie home companion, and inside the imagination of the man who created it"--Container.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As if the result of some strange mass-media fluke, the popular radio program "A Prairie Home Companion" somehow managed to survive the television age to entertain its audience every Saturday night from the stage of the historic Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn. Week after week, hangdog host G.K. serves as unflappable emcee to an amiable hodgepodge of radio-friendly acts that include the likes of popular country duo Yolanda and Rhonda Johnson and...
49) Good Poems
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Formats
Description
Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by the narrator for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m."
The title Good Poems comes from common literary parlance. For writers, it's enough to refer to somebody
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Language
English
Formats
Description
"Upon the border of a remote and out-of-the-way village in south-western Missouri lived an old farmer named John Gray..."In 1876, the same year The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was published, Mark Twain wrote a story for The Atlantic Monthly. He meant it as a "blind novelette"—a challenge to other writers to submit their own ending of the story in a national competition. Twain asked his editor at The Atlantic to request submissions from leading...
52) Song Of America
Author
Publisher
Angel Records
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
Goes inside the imagination of the man who created the popular radio show A Prairie Home Companion. Keillor single-handedly revived the art of live radio for generations of fans by creating an on-stage world that deeply resonates with his audiences. His mix of storytelling and humor gives a lighthearted but deeply felt reflection to viewers.