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Porch Talk Stories of Decency, Common Sense, and Other Endangered Species
A nostalgic collection of personal anecdotes reflects on a time when porch-centered lives enabled greater family and community connections, remembering such simple pleasures as lemonade, chirping crickets, and bonding with a pet dog.
Record details
- ISBN: 0060736585
- ISBN: 9780060736583
- Physical Description: 170 pages ; 20 cm
- Publisher: San Francisco : HarperSanFrancisco, [2007]
- Copyright: ©2007
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Porch talk -- A curious obsession -- Charley -- The gig's up -- Call me coach -- Pond life -- The slow life -- You get what you pay for -- The compact -- The tornado -- The state of housing -- Better late than never! -- Exercise and other dirty words -- My conflicted life -- Too many friends -- Professional thinkers -- Zipper -- The writing life -- My wife, the scofflaw -- The death of freedom -- Simplicity -- The natural order of things -- A growing problem -- Things i ponder when sitting in meeting -- Contentment -- Camping -- On the road again -- Spring and all it portends -- My history with easter -- The end times. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Gulley, Philip > Anecdotes. Christian life > Anecdotes. Quaker authors. |
| Genre: | Anecdotes. |
Available copies
- 14 of 14 copies available at Missouri Evergreen.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Cass County. (Show)
Holds
- 1 current hold with 14 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cass County Library-Drexel | 242 GUL 2007 (Text) | 0002203334251 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Adair County Public Library | A 242 Gul (Text) | 34029001690808 | Non Fiction | Available | - |
| Barry Lawrence - Cassville Library | 242 GUL (Text) | 37884101411456 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Camden County Library District - Stoutland | 242 Gulley (Text) | 31320003010969 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Carthage Public Library | 242 G95p (Text) | 34M0200153867I | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Lebanon-Laclede County Library | 242 Gulley (Text) | 380307360+ | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Marshall Public Library | 242 GUL (Text) | 33391000138319 | Adult Non-fiction | Available | - |
| Neosho Newton - Neosho | 242 GUL (Text) | 34162001118197 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Pulaski County Library-Richland | 242 Gul (Text) | 33642000302323 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Putnam County Public Library | 242 GUL (Text)
(PCPL) Donated by:
Donated by Tom and Stephanie Fowler
(PCPL) In Memory of:
In Memory of Dorothy McGregor
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00048415 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
