Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+5189+6644+4294967242 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712670 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694748 In this enthusiastic, heartfelt, and sometimes humorous ode to bookstores and booksellers, 84 well-known writers pay tribute to the bricks-and-mortar stores they love and often call their second home. Writers include: Isabel Allende, Wendell Berry, Rick Bragg, Dave Eggers, Louise Erdrich, Fannie Flagg, Ian Frazier, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., John Grisham, Pete Hamill, Ann Hood, Stephanie Kallos, Laurie R. King, Kate Niles, Ann Packer, Chuck Palahniuk, Ann Patchett, Francine Prose, Tom Robbins, Lisa See, Brian Selznick, Lee Smith, Nancy Thayer, Terry Tempest Williams and more. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1623865 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668553 An Almanac with information about famous events and celebrations for each day of the year and related childrens book recommendations-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1683049 A wide-ranging collection of essays by a contemporary critic and historian traces four decades of writing and considers such diverse topics as Beethoven, Kilimanjaro, and Britains Imperial War Museum. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1284065 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1394200 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1198186 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1115977 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1187834 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1054437 In this first collection of the work of David Maraniss, one of the most honored and versatile writers of his generation, thirty-two stories cover a rich array of topics, ranging from seminal moments in modern history to intimate personal reflections, each piece illuminated by the authors deep reporting and singular sensibility. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1008981 The best-selling author of Downtown Owl and Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs takes a humorous look at expectations versus reality in pop culture, sports, and media, in a book that explores such questions as: Why is pop culture obsessed with time travel?; What do Kurt Cobain and David Koresh have in common?; and much more. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1015030 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=810974 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=761532 ESPN has collected the very best sport stories from the sport pages. Unforgettable tales about fathers sending their sons off to battle, sons who dared to challenge their fathers in competition, boys and men finding a common language in a shared passion. From the Little League diamond to the local fishing hole to the high school wrestling mat to the collegiate gridiron, from the backyards of America to the most famous stadiums in the world, these stories all share one thing: breathtaking insight into what makes sports an essential part of life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=749793 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=688340 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=609486 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=552585 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=557438 A yearly anthology of fiction, essays and poetry from the small presses chosen by writers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=459265 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=412276 When John F. Kennedy called America the land we love more than forty years ago, he was reminding us of the lofty ideals on which our country was founded. But what are those ideals, and how have Americans defined them? Is America the land of George Washington and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who rallied the countrys spirits for unity in wartime, or is it a land of dissent, a land in which Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Martin Luther King Jr. remind us of our duty to protect our most fundamental freedoms? Are we defined by the speeches of Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Reagan, or by the humor of H. L. Mencken and Mark Twain? Caroline Kennedys answer in A Patriots Handbook is that we are all of these things and more. In fact, the America you will meet in these pages is one that derives its strength from its diversity, and from the way our variety allows us constantly to reinvent ourselves. We are a country of poets, from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Langston Hughes; we are a country of songwriters, from Irving Berlin to Woody Guthrie. We are a country of The Pledge of Allegiance, but also of The Times They Are A-Changin. The poems, songs, speeches, letters, and historical documents Caroline has chosen for this remarkable collection remind us of the foundations on which America was built. But they also ask us to examine what it truly means to be a patriot, even if our assumptions are challenged along the way. Because it is only by doing so that America can truly be our own. A Patriots Handbook is a book that every family should own, a valuable resource that can be shared for years to come.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=418649 These Hands I Know offers readers an intimate view of the inner workings of black family life from the point of view of prose and poetry writers. This collection of seventeen essays includes portraits of fathers, mothers, nieces, brothers, grandparents, husbands, wives, and daughters - in short, the full spectrum of humanity in contemporary black families.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=83032 These selections, many available for the first time, span nearly three centuries and examine themes such as the centrality of family life, the pain of uprooting from established communities, collision between tradition and assimilation, roles and relationships of men and women, and the toxicity of self-hatred. Informed by sources ranging from biblical literature to historical events, oral traditions, classical poetics, the beat generation, and post-modern ironies, these works introduce a literature that, though small on an absolute scale and little known, forces us to take a new critical perspective on Jewish American writing.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=182770 The inspiring speeches of more than 130 prominent Americans are gathered in this fascinating compilation. Represented are leaders, as well as less prominent or controversial individuals, hailing from the four major ethnic groups, including African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native North Americans. A keyword index adds to the value of this unique resource. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=184387 In this collection of essays, her first since the best-selling The Worst Years of Our Lives, Barbara Ehrenreich delves into the soul of the 1990s in search of the American zeitgeist after The Decade of Greed. What she finds is a sour passivity. Only a homicidal car-rental spokesman or penis-severing small-town manicurist can induce a brief outbreak of giddiness. The youthful, pumped-up look has given way to menopause chic, and our biggest hope for a national health program is that it will provide coverage for Dr. Jack Kevorkians services. Even channel surfing may have to be automated soon if the current listlessness continues.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=155844 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=27600 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=63295 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=87006