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1) Funny in Farsi: a memoir of growing up Iranian in America

Author

Dumas, Firoozeh

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Finalist for the PEN/USA Award in Creative Nonfiction, the Thurber Prize for American Humor, and the Audie Award in Biography/Memoir
This Random House Reader’s Circle edition includes a reading group guide and a conversation between Firoozeh Dumas and Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner!
“Remarkable . . . told with wry humor shorn of sentimentality . . . In the...

2) The greedy bastard diary: a comic tour of America

Author

Idle, Eric

Pub. Date

c2005

Physical Desc

325 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.

3) Charles Kuralt's America

Author

Kuralt, Charles

Pub. Date

c1995

Physical Desc

xvii, 279 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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Ever since October 1967, when he set off in a battered motor home to explore America and talk to its people, Charles Kuralt has been one of our premier chroniclers -- a man who has helped us see and celebrate our country in a way we never had before. After retiring from CBS News in 1994, he set out to spend a perfect year in America -- traveling to his twelve favorite American places, in just the right month for a visit to each. With his well-known...

4) We'll laugh again

Author

Buchwald, Art

Pub. Date

2002

Physical Desc

265 p.

5) Gullible's travels: the adventures of a bad taste tourist

Author

Peters, Cash

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Book, eAudiobook

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For years, British journalist Cash Peters trekked around Europe and America for the BBC and for his hilarious and hugely popular public radio series, The Bad Taste Tours. Join Peters on this outrageous behind-the-scenes look at some of the more ridiculous journeys and adventures of his career.

6) The lost continent: travels in small-town America

Author

Bryson, Bill

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An unsparing and hilarious account of one man's rediscovery of America and his search for the perfect small town.

7) Small town America

Author

Plowden, David

Pub. Date

1994

Physical Desc

159 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

8) American children's folklore

Pub. Date

1988

Physical Desc

281 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

9) Off Main Street: barnstormers, prophets, and gatemouth's gator : essays

Author

Perry, Michael

Pub. Date

2005

Physical Desc

xii, 284 p. ; 21 cm.

10) I'm a stranger here myself: notes on returning to America after twenty years away

Author

Bryson, Bill

Pub. Date

c1999

Physical Desc

xiii, 288 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

11) Bobos in paradise: the new upper class and how they got there

Author

Brooks, David

Pub. Date

c2000

Physical Desc

284 p. ; 23 cm.

12) For the love of Mike: more of the best of Mike Royko

Author

Royko, Mike

Pub. Date

2001

Physical Desc

xxi, 270 p. ; 24 cm.

13) One more time: the best of Mike Royko

Author

Royko, Mike

Pub. Date

1999

Physical Desc

xviii, 275 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

14) Ties that bind: stories of love and gratitude from the first ten years of StoryCorps

Pub. Date

2013.

Physical Desc

pages cm

15) America's good news almanac: inspirational true stories to warm the heart

Pub. Date

c1996

Physical Desc

306 p.

16) Somewhere in America: under the radar with chicken warriors, left-wing patriots, angry nudists, and others

Author

Singer, Mark

Pub. Date

2004

Physical Desc

ix, 255 p. ; 22 cm.

17) Whatever happened to pudding pops?: the lost toys, tastes & trends of the '70s & '80s

Author

Cooper, Gael Fashingbauer

Pub. Date

2011

Physical Desc

ix, 230 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

18) Redneck nation: how the South really won the war

Author

Graham, Michael

Pub. Date

c2002

Physical Desc

xv, 239 p. ; 22 cm.

19) Distracted: the erosion of attention and the coming Dark Age

Author

Jackson, Maggie

Pub. Date

2008

Physical Desc

327 p. ; 24 cm.

20) Notes from a big country: journey into the American dream

Author

Bryson, Bill

Pub. Date

2016.

Physical Desc

382 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

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Bill Bryson has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth. This became all too apparent when, after nearly two decades in England, the world's best-loved travel writer upped sticks with Mrs Bryson, little Jimmy et al. and returned to live in the country he had left as a youth.

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1) Funny in Farsi: a memoir of growing up Iranian in America

2) The greedy bastard diary: a comic tour of America

3) Charles Kuralt's America

4) We'll laugh again

5) Gullible's travels: the adventures of a bad taste tourist

6) The lost continent: travels in small-town America

7) Small town America

8) American children's folklore

9) Off Main Street: barnstormers, prophets, and gatemouth's gator : essays

10) I'm a stranger here myself: notes on returning to America after twenty years away

11) Bobos in paradise: the new upper class and how they got there

12) For the love of Mike: more of the best of Mike Royko

13) One more time: the best of Mike Royko

14) Ties that bind: stories of love and gratitude from the first ten years of StoryCorps

15) America's good news almanac: inspirational true stories to warm the heart

16) Somewhere in America: under the radar with chicken warriors, left-wing patriots, angry nudists, and others

17) Whatever happened to pudding pops?: the lost toys, tastes & trends of the '70s & '80s

18) Redneck nation: how the South really won the war

19) Distracted: the erosion of attention and the coming Dark Age

20) Notes from a big country: journey into the American dream

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