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[2007]
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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.
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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...
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From more than ten thousand interviews, StoryCorps--the largest oral history project in the nation's history--presents a tapestry of American stories, told by the people who lived them to the people they love. StoryCorps began with the idea that everyone has an important story to tell. And since 2003, this remarkable project has been collecting the stories of everyday Americans from all ages, backgrounds, and walks of life and preserving them for...
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With the color and richness of a novel, Chevrolet Summers, Dairy Queen Nights leads us across the country to chronicle the people, places, and passions at its secret heart. Greene tells the stories that don't make the headlines - funny, gripping, warm, chilling, sentimental, exhilarating. A small-town cop saves a child's life by double-checking, on a hunch, a closed case of suspected abuse. Frank Sinatra, on his last concert tour, shares off-the-cuff...
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[1998]
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Charles Kuralt is a national treasure, a reporter and man of the world who was to many the real and true voice of America. To several generations Kuralt was the Mark Twain of television, a wanderer transfixed by the richness and greatness that he found in practically every corner of the country. The project that Kuralt was working on before he died was An American Moment with Charles Kuralt, a series of brief television essays about the people, places,...
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[2014]
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The first-ever animated feature from StoryCorps celebrates the transformative power of listening. Presents stories from ten years of the innovative oral history project, where everyday people sit down together to ask life's important questions and share stories from their lives.
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1996
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"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 --...