Michael Perry: 59 books
Visiting Tom
A Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
“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...
Montaigne in Barn Boots
An Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
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...
by Michael Perry
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
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...
Roughneck Grace
Farmer Yoga, Creeping Codgerism, Apple Golf, and Other Brief Essays from on and off the Back Forty
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
New York Times bestselling author, humorist, and newspaper columnist Michael Perry returns with a new collection of bite-sized essays from his Sunday Wisconsin State Journal column, “Roughneck Grace.” Perry’s perspectives on everything from cleaning the chicken coop to sharing a New York...
by Michael Perry
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Mike Perry’s extraordinary and thoughtful account of meeting the people of his small hometown by joining the fire and rescue team was a breakout hit that “swells with unadorned heroism” (USA Today**)**
Welcome to New Auburn, Wisconsin (population: 485) where the local vigilante is a farmer’s...
by Michael Perry
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Whether he's fighting fires, passing a kidney stone, hammering down I-80 in an 18-wheeler, or meditating on the relationship between cowboys and God, Michael Perry draws on his rural roots and footloose past to write from a perspective that merges the local with the global.
Ranging across subjects...
Coop
A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
In over his head with two pigs, a dozen chickens, and a baby due any minute, the acclaimed author of Population: 485 gives us a humorous, heartfelt memoir of a new life in the country.
Living in a ramshackle Wisconsin farmhouse—faced with thirty-seven acres of fallen fences and overgrown...
From the Top
Brief Transmissions from Tent Show Radio
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
“Bottom line is, I’m the kind of guy who’s happy to go to the opera, but I should like to be allowed to wear steel-toed boots with my evening suit. I like to read Harper’s with a chaser of Varmint Hunter Magazine. Maybe that’s why I enjoy a good show under canvas. Here we sit, brain-deep...
Danger, Man Working
Writing from the Heart, the Gut, and the Poison Ivy Patch
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
*"Every writer has advice for aspiring writers. Mine is predicated on formative years spent cleaning my father’s calf pens: Just keep shoveling until you’ve got a pile so big, someone has to notice. The fact that I cast my life’s work as slung manure simply proves that I recognize an apt...
The Jesus Cow
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
New York Times bestselling humorist Michael Perry makes his fiction debut with this hilarious and big-hearted tale, a comic yet sincere exploration of faith and the foibles of modern life that blends the barbed charm of Garrison Keillor, the irreverent humor of Christopher Moore, and the audacious...
Tales from the Cincinnati Bearcats Locker Room
A Collection of the Greatest Bearcat Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Tales from the Cincinnati Bearcats Locker Room covers 10 coaching eras, from former National Football League standout John Socko” Wiethe (1946-52) to Mick Cronin, the Cincinnati native who returned to his alma mater in 2006 and resurrected the program. Former Cincinnati Enquirer sports editor...
by Michael Perry
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“A touching and very funny account. . . . Thoroughly engaging.”—New York Times
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...
The Modern Stephen King Canon
Beyond Horror
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
The Modern Stephen King Canon: Beyond Horror is a collection of essays focused on the more recent writings of Stephen King, including Revival, 11/22/63, and a selection of short stories by the “Master of the Macabre.” The authors write about King works that have received little critical attention...
by Michael Perry, Simon Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
This manual is a condensed and didactic "how to" book, demonstrating surgical procedures in a step by step manner. It is fully comprehensive and highly illustrated (in colour, using mostly operative photographs), restricted solely to the surgical management of maxillofacial trauma, but includes...