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American wit and humor Humorous songs Lake Wobegon (Minn. : Imaginary place) Fiction Lake Wobegon (Minn. : Imaginary place) Humor Minnesota Social conditions Radio broadcasters United States Biography Short stories, American United States Economic policy United States Politics and government United States Social policyKeillor, Garrison
Summary: "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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 817.54 PRAKeillor, Garrison.
Summary: Enjoy the best of Garrison Keillor's comic fables from A Prairie Home Companion, all about true love and other tribulations, brought to life by a cast of brilliant radio actors.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN KEIKeillor, Garrison.
Summary: The creator of Lake Wobegon offers a photographic tour of the real-life places that inspired his beloved imaginary Minnesota town.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Studio 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.6 KEIKeillor, Garrison.
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.
Contents: Hello love / Robinson, Mnich, arr. Kallman -- Loyalty Days --Whoopi ti-yi-yo / Keillor, arr. Davidson -- Sons of Knute : loyalty oath --Sons of Knute : march / Grieg, Kielor, arr. Kallman -- Some words from Powdermilk Biscuits / Bizet, Keillor, arr. Brunelle -- Powdermilk Biscuit theme / Keillor, arr. Dworsky -- The young Lutheran's guide to the orchestra ; The radio announcer / Davidson,...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Virgin 1989
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN 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.
Contents: Guys on ice -- James Lundeen's Christmas -- The Christmas story re-told -- New Year's from New York -- Storm home.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Highbridge/Minnesota Public Radio 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN KEIKeillor, Garrison.
Summary: In this collection of poems, letters (written in the time of Ronald Reagan), and stories of love fumbled and recovered, of perils, of fame, death, the subway, and of traveling with teenage children, Garrison Keillor is at his best.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC 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
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction KeillorKeillor, Garrison.
Contents: 1. Prayer -- Supper -- Guardian -- Hoops Shall I -- Bad news -- Holsteins -- Updike -- Skeptic -- This life -- Manhattan -- Room 704 -- Self portrait -- Chopin -- Nude study -- Lent -- Freeway -- A couple on the street -- Boom -- Ulysses 2. -- Radio man -- First reader -- Long career -- My girl -- So much -- Midwest -- Columbus, Georgia -- Baltimore -- In a cab -- Anniversary -- Frankie -- The...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Common Good Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 KEIKeillor, 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
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KEIKeillor, Garrison.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 KEIKeillor, Garrison.
Contents: Giant decoys (6:08) -- Darryl Tollerrud's long day (9:35) -- Hog slaughter (13:42) -- Thanksgiving (10:28) -- The royal family (20:15).
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: 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.
Format: text
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
Copies Available at Fife Lake
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
Copies Available at Fife Lake
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: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 320.973 KEIKeillor, Garrison.
Summary: Lake Wobegon has been Garrison Keillor's fictional home town and America's for almost 40 years. The Chatterbox Cafe, the Sidetrack Tap, the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility, the Bunsens are places and people we know and love, thanks to Keillor's ability to weave a story. Never before collected, these expertly crafted tales are full of gentle humor, genuine emotion, and surprising...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Co. 2011
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD KEIKeillor, Garrison.
Summary: A tasty smorgasbord of sketches, stories, comedy, music, and more from America's favorite radio show, A Prairie Home Companion.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge/Penguin Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN KEIKeillor, Garrison.
Contents: The cat came back -- The hallelujah patrol -- The mystery -- The cats of cash -- Dance to my cats -- Eine kleine Kat -- In memory of our cat, Ralph -- Alaska cats -- Beethoven chased by Rossini -- Near death; or, The search rewarded -- Oy, Chuck and Katie -- Forty miles -- The rescue cat -- My grandmother's cat -- As I walked out -- Cats may safely sleep -- The in and out song -- Guilt and...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: High Bridge 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN KEIKeillor, Garrison.
Summary: Presents the complete original radio broadcast by Garrison Keillor's American Radio Company celebrating Twain's genius and cantankerous spirit with humor and period music, and a classic Keillor monologue on Twain's cherished themes.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 1992