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| 2003 | 1st ed. | ix, 544 p. ; 25 cm. | On Shelf
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| [2010], ©2005 | 1st U.S. pbk. ed., special ill. ed. | 624 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 26 cm. | On Shelf
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| p2003 | Library ed. | Books on Tape | 15 sound discs (19 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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| 2003 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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The author traces the Big Bang through the rise of civilization, documenting his work with a host of the world's most advanced scientists and mathematicians to explain why things are the way they are.
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| [2013] | First edition. | Doubleday | 509 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. | On Shelf
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| 2014. | First Anchor Books edition. | Anchor Books, a division of Random House LLC | 509 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm | On Shelf
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| [2013] | Unabridged. | Random House, Inc | 14 sound discs (1020 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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| 2013 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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| [2013] | MackinVIA | Doubleday Canada | 1 online resource (533 pages) : illustrations | English | Available Online
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| c2013 | 1st large print ed. | Random House Large Print | 784 p. (large print) : ill. ; 24 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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| [2013] | Unabridged. | Findaway World, LLC | 1 audio media player (approximately 17 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | Available at another branch
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Bryson chronicles the events and personalities of the summer of 1927, when Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic, Ruth closed in on the home run record, Capone tightened his grip on bootlegging, the first true "talkie" was filmed, and Americans in general attempted and accomplished outsized things.--From publisher description.
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| 2019. | First edition. | Doubleday | x, 450 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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| [2019]. | Large print edition. | Random House Large Print | 703 pages (large print) ; 24 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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"Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. As compulsively readable as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner's manual for everybody. Bill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides us through the human body--how it functions, its remarkable ability to heal itself, and (unfortunately)...
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| c2010 | 1st U.S. ed. | 497 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. | On Shelf
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| 2013. | Special illustrated edition. | 553 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm. | On Shelf
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| p2010 | Books on Tape | 13 sound discs (16 hr., 33 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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| 2010 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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| 2010 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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| p2010 | Unabridged. | [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC | 1 sound media player (16 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English |
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"From one of our most beloved authors, a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home--now richly illustrated with almost four hundred images. A national bestseller, At Home is Bill Bryson's epic chronicle of domestic history. In this lavish new edition, his riveting room-by-room journey of discovery around his house--a Victorian parsonage in southern England--is enhanced by some four hundred carefully selected full color and...
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| 1998. | 1st ed. | Broadway Books | 276 pages : map ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
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| p1998 | Library ed. | [Published by arrangement with Broadway Books] | 9 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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| 1998 | OverDrive | Recorded Books, Inc | Available Online
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Following his return to America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The "AT" offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes--and to a writer with Bryson's comic genius, it also provides endless opportunities to test his own powers of ineptitude and to witness the majestic silliness...
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| [2015] | First United States edition. | Doubleday, an Imprint of Penguin Random House LLC | 380 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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| p2015 | Unabridged. | Books on Tape | 11 sound discs (approx. 14 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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| [2016] | Random House Large Print | 528 pages (large print) ; 24 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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| [2015] | Unabridged. | Findaway World, LLC | 1 audio media player (approx. 14 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | Available at another branch
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A loving and hilarious--if occasionally spiky--valentine to Bill Bryson's adopted country, Great Britain. Prepare for total joy and multiple episodes of unseemly laughter.
Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, a true classic and one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Now he has traveled about Britain...
Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, a true classic and one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Now he has traveled about Britain...
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| c2006 | 1st ed. | Broadway Books | x, 270 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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| p2006 | Library ed. | Books on Tape | 6 sound discs (ca. 77 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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| c2006 | 1st large print ed. | Random House | xiv, 426 p. (large print) : ill. ; 25 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century--1951--in the middle of the United States--Des Moines, Iowa--in the middle of the largest generation in American history--the baby boomers. As one of the funniest writers alive, he is perfectly positioned to mine his all-American childhood for memoir gold. Like millions of his generational peers, Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy life as a superhero. In his case, he ran around his house...
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| 1991, ©1990 | Avon Books | 270 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available at another branch
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| 2015 | OverDrive | William Morrow Paperbacks | English | Available Online
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| [2015] | Findaway World, LLC | 1 audio media player : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | Available at another branch
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Offers a journey through the intricacies, puzzles, and quirks of the English language, tracing the history of English from its earliest origins to the present day.
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| 1995 | 1st U.S. ed. | Morrow | 324 p. : map ; 24 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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| 2015 | OverDrive | William Morrow Paperbacks | English | Available Online
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Before New York Times bestselling author Bill Bryson wrote The Road to Little Dribbling, he took this delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled floating nation of Great Britain, which has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie's Farm, and places with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey.
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| c1999 | 1st ed. | Broadway Books | xiii, 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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| p1999 | BDD Audio | 5 sound discs (6 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body.
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 3 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...
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 3 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...
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| c2007 | 1st ed. | Atlas Books/HarperCollins | vii, 199 p. ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
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| p2007 | Recorded Books | 5 sound discs (5 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English |
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William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself.
Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, from today's most respected academics to eccentrics like Delia Bacon, an American
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| c2000 | 1st ed. | Broadway Books | x, 307 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. This time in Australia.
His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the country that doubles as a continent, and a place with the friendliest inhabitants, the hottest,...
His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the country that doubles as a continent, and a place with the friendliest inhabitants, the hottest,...
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| c1989 | 1st ed. | Harper & Row | 314 p. ; 25 cm. | English |
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| p2013 | Unabridged. | AudioGO | 10 sound discs (10 hr., 13 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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| 2015 | OverDrive | William Morrow Paperbacks | English | Checked Out
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"The kind of book Steinbeck might have written if he'd traveled with David Letterman."—New York magazine
An inspiring and hilarious account of one man's rediscovery of America and his search for the perfect small town.
Following an urge to rediscover his youth, Bill Bryson left his native Des Moines, Iowa, in a journey that would take him across 38 states. Lucky for us, he brought a notebook.
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| 2002 | 49 p. : col. ill., maps ; 19 cm. | On Shelf
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| c2002 | 49 p. : col. ill., map ; 19 cm. | Available at another branch
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Travel writer Bill Bryson recounts the experiences he had during his journey to Kenya in 2002, where he witnessed the crushing poverty that plagues the country and its people.
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| 2002 | 1st Broadway Books ed. | Broadway Books | xiii, 241 p. ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
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One of the English language’s most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free grammar.
As usual Bill Bryson says it best: “English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense. This is a language where ‘cleave’ can mean to cut in half or to hold two halves together; where the simple word ‘set’...
As usual Bill Bryson says it best: “English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense. This is a language where ‘cleave’ can mean to cut in half or to hold two halves together; where the simple word ‘set’...
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| 1996, c1994 | Avon Books | xiv, 417 p. ; 21 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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"A literate exploration of why we use—or mangle—our native tongue."—USA Today
Bill Bryson celebrates America's magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood...and exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle call his befeathered cap "Macaroni."
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| ©1992. | First edition. | Morrow | 254 pages ; 25 cm | English |
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| 2015 | OverDrive | William Morrow Paperbacks | English | Checked Out
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| 2000 | Compass Press | 352 p. (large print) ; 24 cm. | English |
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Bill Bryson's humorous account of his trip to Europe.
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| c2010 | 1st ed. | William Morrow | 506 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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| 2010 | OverDrive | HarperCollins e-books | English | Available Online
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As editor of "Seeing Further," Bryson has rounded up an extraordinary roster of scientists who write and writers who know science in order to celebrate 350 years of the Royal Society, Britain's scientific national academy. The contributors include Margaret Atwood, Steve Jones, Richard Dawkins, James Gleick, Richard Holmes, and Neal Stephenson, among many others, on subjects ranging from metaphysics to nuclear physics, from the threatened endtimes...
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| [2009], c2008 | 1st U.S. ed., newly illustrated, abridged, and adapted ed. | Delacorte Press | 169 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps; 29 cm. | English | On Shelf
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Short, illustrated segments explore the history of science.
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| 2015. | Widescreen ed. | Broad Green Pictures | 1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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Bill Bryson, instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail: 2,200 miles of America's most unspoiled, spectacular, and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find, though, is anything but, when the only person he can find willing to join him on the trek is his long-lost former friend Katz, a down-on-his-luck serial philanderer....
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