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  • Big Boy's Big Rig: The Leftovers

    by Michael Perry ...
    In the 1990s, when he was a magazine freelancer hustling books off a card table at craft fairs, the mall, and out of his car trunk, Michael Perry self-published two books: Why They Killed Big Boy and Other Stories and Big Rigs Elvis, & the Grand Dragon Wayne. In 2005, after the success of Perry's book Population 485, Harper Perennial published Off Main Street, a collection of Perry's essays, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Peaceful Persistence

    Essays On...

    by Michael Perry ...
    Brief essays by New York Times bestselling author Michael Perry on memorials and mercy, storms and farewells, family and fowl, barnyard ballets, the Sunday night sads, the wisdom of roadies, cucumbers and kindness, quotidian asparagus, appropo malaprops, pickleball, sushi boats and weird TV, the poetics of garlic, contrails, Mobius mind-grooves, quietude, Christmas tree injuries, cats, waffle ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Truck

    A Love Story

    by Michael Perry ...
    A part-time emergency medical technician humorously chronicles life in a small Wisconsin town, featuring tales of romance and auto repair.Hilarious and heartfelt, Truck: A Love Story is the tale of a man struggling to grow his own garden, fix his old pickup, and resurrect a love life permanently impaired by Neil Diamond. In the process, he sets his hair on fire, is attacked by wild turkeys, and ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Forty Acres Deep

    by Michael Perry ...
    When farmer Harold wakes to find his wife dead beside him in bed and snow threatening to crush the last life from his dwindling farm, he takes drastic steps toward a fresh start. Set in a world of stark wintry beauty, Forty Acres Deep is the brief, unrelenting tale of one person's attempt to make sense of a world he no longer recognizes while pitilessly calling himself into account. Seamed with ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Brotherhood of the Gun [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Blood Bond 2

    by William W. Johnstone ...
    Narrated by A Full Cast, Thomas Penny, Dylan Lynch, James Lewis, David Coyne, James Konicek, Nanette Savard, Jeff Baker, Terence Aselford, Richard Rohan, Michael Replogle, Ken Jackson, Christopher Graybill, Michael Glenn, Ericka Rose, Nathanial Perry, Chris Rohan, Mort Shelby ...
    Series series Blood Bond

    Unabridged

    5 hours 46 min

    Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves were hard on a trail that led them deeper and deeper into Apache territory toward the Mexican border where a bunch of varmints, desperate men who hire out to most anybody to most anything, were operatin' two of the scummiest dodges in the west. Running guns to the Apache and white-slaving kidnapped children. Matt and Sam had hooked up with two companions along the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The House of the Wolfings: The William Morris Book that Inspired J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings

    by Michael W. Perry ...
    J. R. R. Tolkien fans who long for more of the joy they get from The Lord of the Rings will find it in the writings of William Morris. He created the literature that Tolkien brought to such perfection. As a young man writing his future wife, Tolkien mentioned the inspiration he was getting from Morris: "Amongst other work I am trying to turn one of the short stories [of the Finnish Kalevala] . . . ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Improbable Mentors & Happy Tangents

    How firefighters and poets, truckers and nurses, soldiers and singers, and other improbable individuals can show you the way in business and creativity

    by Michael Perry ...
    New York Times bestselling author, humorist, and speaker Michael Perry delivers real-world lessons on leadership, creativity, resilience, and entrepreneurship.Entertaining and fundamentally useful no matter the form of art or business you pursue, Improbable Mentors & Happy Tangents is a masterclass in identifying unexpected opportunities and concludes with a chapter titled, "The Most Improbable ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Montaigne in Barn Boots

    An Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy

    by Michael Perry ...
    The beloved memoirist and bestselling author of Population: 485 reflects on the lessons he’s learned from his unlikely alter ego, French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne."The journey began on a gurney," writes Michael Perry, describing the debilitating kidney stone that led him to discover the essays of Michel de Montaigne. Reading the philosopher in a manner he equates to chickens ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Visiting Tom

    A Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace

    by Michael Perry ...
    “Somewhere between Garrison Keillor’s idyllic-sweet Lake Wobegon and the narrow-mindedness of Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street lies the reality of small-town life. This is where Michael Perry lives.”—St. Paul Pioneer Press“Perry can take comfort in the power of his writing, his ability to pull readers from all corners onto his Wisconsin spread, and make them feel right at home.”—Seattle TimesTuesdays ... Read more

    $7.49 USD

  • The Scavengers

    by Michael Perry ...
    Jeanne DuPrau's The City of Ember meets Louis Sachar's Holes in this imaginative and humorous middle grade debut from Michael Perry, New York Times bestselling author of the adult novels Population: 485 and Truck: A Love Story.When the world started to fall apart, the government gave everyone two choices: move into the Bubble Cities…or take their chances outside.Maggie's family chose to live in ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Tolkien Warriors—The House of the Wolfings: A Story that Inspired The Lord of the Rings

    by Michael W. Perry ...
    In letter written at the end of 1960, J. R. R. Tolkien wrote that, while parts of The Lord of the Rings, "owe something to Northern France after the Battle of the Somme. They owe more to William Morris and his Huns and Romans, as in The House of the Wolfings or The Roots of the Mountains." For the enjoyment of Tolkien fans everywhere, those two books have been republished in Inkling's Tolkien ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Raising and Caring For Your Child: Parenting Your Young Toddlers of age 12 months to 5 years (Baby Milestone Book)

    by Melinda Perry ...
    Narrated by Michael Borge ...

    Unabridged

    41 min

    Do you know that understanding how to flow perfectly with your toddlers and how to assist your baby walk while pressing the wheel during playtime is crucial in toddler parenting?This book focuses on how to simply help parents understand what is expected of them while parenting toddlers which begins with; understanding how to improve a child behaviour, how to positively raise a child, how to ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus