Author: Bruce D. Keillor
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Keywords: praeger, perspectives, volumes, four, century, marketing
Number of Pages: 880
Published: 2007-07-30
List price: $325.00
ISBN-10: 0275992756
ISBN-13: 9780275992750

Marketing is the crucial connection between company and customer; no enterprise can expect to succeed without a substantial investment in its marketing efforts. Not surprisingly, marketing is one of the core areas of study in the hundreds of business schools and MBA programs around the world, and a vital department of virtually every business. This dynamic set showcases the most current trends, issues, ideas, and practices in marketing, especially as the field evolves in the context of globalization and advances in technology. From branding to public relations, e-tailing to customer-retention

Author: Garrison Keillor
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: wobegon, lake, romance, pilgrims
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-09-22
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0670021091
ISBN-13: 9780670021093

Wobegon goes abroad in this rousing and moving story of a group trip to RomeMargie Krebsbach dreams up the idea of a trip to Rome, hoping to get her husband Carl to make love to her-he’s been sleeping across the hall and she has no idea why. She finds a patriotic purpose for the journey. A Lake Wobegon boy, Gussy Norlander, died in the liberation of Rome, 1944, and his grave, according to his elderly brother, Norbert, is in a neglected weed patch near the Colosseum. So it’s decided they will go to clean Gussy’s final resting place. Margie is unprepared for the enthusiastic re

Author: Garrison Keillor
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: blizzard, christmas
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2009-11-03
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0670021369
ISBN-13: 9780670021369

A short comic novel about a Hawaii-bound holiday traveler who ends up stranded in his North Dakota hometown during a blizzard.A wealthy and depressed man (thanks to the economy he’s not quite rich enough to expand his cache of paintings by Vincent Van Guy, the famed Dutch realist) bound for Christmas in the tropics is abruptly summoned home to North Dakota to visit an ailing aunt. He arrives just in time to be trapped there by a blizzard. The electricity goes out, and when it does, figures from his childhood appear, and historical figures too, for a festive candlelit holiday. In his reverie,

Author: Garrison Keillor
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Keywords: lutherans, among, life
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2009-08-01
List price: $23.99
ISBN-10: 0806670614
ISBN-13: 9780806670614

Based on Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon monologues, Life among the Lutherans is a collection of stories about the struggles of ordinary people in an imperfect world, the life and work of the pastor who leads them, and the church to whose high standards they aspire in the small town they call home.The stories in Life among the Lutherans reflect everything Keillor fans have come to expect of this master storyteller. Some are familiar, including the quintessentially Lutheran "95Theses" from Lake Wobegon Days, others are new. Laugh out loud about the church directory filled with photos that

Author: Garrison Keillor
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: wobegon, lake, novels, novel, liberty
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-06-30
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0143116118
ISBN-13: 9780143116110

Just in time for the Fourth of July, a firecracker of a Lake Wobegon novel from bestselling author and radio storyteller Garrison KeillorPublished to wide and enthusiastic acclaim, Liberty is Garrison Keillor’s most ribald Lake Wobegon novel yet, set in a spectacular Fourth of July celebration amid marching bands and circus wagons drawn by teams of Percherons. The Chairman of the Fourth, Clint Bunsen, is in the midst of an identity crisis brought on by a DNA test just as he turns sixty, and he finds solace in the arms of Angelica Pflame, the young beauty who marched as Liberty in last ye

Author: Garrison Keillor
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH
Keywords: girl, daddy
Number of Pages: 18
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 1423105141
ISBN-13: 9781423105145

O baby won’t you dance with meLittle baby bouncing on my kneeWave your hands and shake your feetOoohh baby you’re so sweet… From the familiar pleasures of baby’s favorite food to the joy of dancing together, this collection of three songs celebrates the special relationship between a daddy and his little girl.

Author: Garrison Keillor
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: poems
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2003-08-26
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0142003441
ISBN-13: 9780142003442

Every day people tune in to The Writer’s Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by Keillor for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m." Good Poems includes verse about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendance. It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost, as well as the work of contemporary greats such as Howard Nemer