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Author
Series
On the road volume 3
Description
A television journalist chronicles his travels and memoirs--the people, places, and events encountered in his life.
Pub. Date
1996
Description
"Read all about it! Journalist Bill Bailey, known as 'America's Good News Newsman,' is widely celebrated for his efforts to give positive stories greater prominence in the news...He offers his singularly optimistic slant in a collection of inspiring, uplifting true stories you won't hear or read about anywhere else. Everyday heroes -- Corporations that care -- Kids making a difference -- Breakthrough medical advances -- Amazing senior citizens --...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Formats
Description
Bill Geist shares tales of eccentric individuals, such as the ninety-three-year-old pilot-paperboy who delivers to his far-flung subscribers by plane and the entrepreneur who finds success employing a sewer vacuum to rid Western ranchers of problematic prairie dogs.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
In a groundbreaking first, cancel culture and its core elements are clearly defined, and a convincing case is made against this fundamentally un-American practice.
Cancel culture is an insidious force in society today. In the seconds it takes to make one regrettable social media post-or wind up on the wrong side of a false accusation or misunderstanding-reputations, relationships, and careers are destroyed. Have we entered an era when people cannot...
15) The 1980s
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Discusses the political, historical, and cultural life of the United States in the 1980s, including the end of communism, the Iran-Contra affair, and pop culture of the time.
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Poe Ballantine's risky personal essays are populated with odd jobs, eccentric characters, boarding houses, buses, and beer. He takes us along on his Greyhound bus journey through small town America (including a detour to Mexico) exploring what it means to be human. Written with piercing intimacy and self-effacing humor, Ballantine's stories provide entertainment, social commentary, and completely compelling slices of life.
Author
Description
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 that nearly three million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens - as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They were greeted by a new-and-improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is...
18) The 1990s
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Discusses the political, historical, and cultural life of the United States in the 1990s.