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Summary: The narrator's own story is interwoven with the early history of a small town (1418 alt., 942 pop.) in Minnesota.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEIKeillor, Garrison.
Summary: Storyteller Garrison Keillor relates humorous anecdotes appropriate to each of the seasons.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Minnesota Public Radio 1983
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN KEIKeillor, Garrison
Summary: In Cheerfulness, veteran radio host and author Garrison Keillor reflects on a simple virtue that can help us in this stressful and sometimes gloomy era. Drawing on personal anecdotes from his young adulthood into his eighties, Keillor sheds light on the immense good that can come from a deliberate work ethic and a buoyant demeanor. "Adopting cheerfulness as a strategy does not mean closing your...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction KeillorKeillor, Garrison.
Contents: Lonesome Shorty.--Chuck show of television.--Mid life crisis of Dionysus.--Buddy the leper.--Mr. St. Paul.--Old picayune moon.--Marooned.--Don Giovanni.--Roy Bradley, boy broadcaster.--Gary Keillor.--Omoo the wolf boy.--Country mouse and the city mouse.--Casey at the bat (Road game).--Herb Johnson, the god of Canton.--Earl Grey.--Winthrop Thorpe Tortuga.--Al Denny.--George Bush.--Christmas in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1993
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KEIKeillor, Garrison.
Summary: Margie Krebsbach organizes a trip to Rome for twelve people to clean up the final resting place of Gussie Norlander, a Lake Wobegon boy who died in the liberation of Rome, 1944.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KEIKeillor, Garrison.
Summary: "I think people have an absolute ear for what is true," Garrison Keillor told an interviewer. It is this rare and marvelous sense of truth--of laughter, joy, and compassion and situations--that makes Keillor such a brilliant and beloved storyteller. This audio collection includes his own favorite stories from his many years as a contributor to The New Yorker and from two of his best-selling...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KEIKeillor, Garrison.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KEIKeillor, Garrison
Summary: 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEIKeillor, Garrison.
Summary: On the 12th floor of the Acme Building, on a cold February day in St. Paul, Guy Noir looks down the barrel of a loaded revolver in the hands of geezer gangster Joey Roast Beef who is demanding to hear what lucrative scheme Guy is cooking up with stripper-turned-women's-studies-professor Naomi Fallopian. Everyone wants to know-Joey, Lieutenant McCafferty, reporter Gene Williker, Guy's...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC 2012
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KEIKeillor, Garrison.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEIKeillor, Garrison.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KEICopies Available at Woodmere
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEIKeillor, Garrison.
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEIKeillor, Garrison.
Summary: Wobegon goes abroad in this rousing and moving story of a group trip to Rome in which the warm circle of kinship invites stories of astonishing frankness and self-revelation--and of course, humor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KEIKeillor, Garrison.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEIKeillor, Garrison.
Summary: Excitement is in the air as Lake Wobegon prepares for the 4th of July and the magical parade in which Clint Bunson has run for the last six years. Clint, the town mechanic with a rocky marriage and a drinking problem, announces his desire to run for Congress, sending the town into a tizzy.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: High Bridge Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KEIKeillor, Garrison.
Contents: Me and choir (29:17) -- A day in the life of Clarence Bunsen (13:48) -- Letter from Jim (11:52) -- Fiction (3:58).
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Highbridge/Minnesota Public Radio 1983
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN KEIKeillor, Garrison.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KeillKeillor, Garrison.
Summary: Storyteller Garrison Keillor relates humorous anecdotes appropriate to summer.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Highbridge Co. 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN KEIKeillor, Garrison.
Summary: In 1926, brothers Ray and Roy Soderbjerrg plunge into radio by founding Station WLT (With Lettuce and Tomato) in order to rescue their failing restaurant and become the Sandwich Kings of South Minneapolis. For the next 25 years, the 'Friendly Neighbor' station produces a dazzling array of shows and stars: Dad Benson, Wingo Beals, Slim Graves and his Blue Movers, chain-smoking child star Little...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN KEISummary: An anthology by various authors on a variety of subjects. Akhil Sharma's Cosmopolitan is a love affair between an American woman and an Indian immigrant, while Tim Gatreaux's Wedding with Children is on a man caring for his grandchildren.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2006