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Sightings
Stories
Av B.J. Hollars
Häftad, 2013
201 kr
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B. J. Hollars's debut short story collection offers ten thematically linked tales, all of which are out to subvert conventional notions of the Midwestern coming-of-age story. The stories feature an assemblage of Bigfoot believers, Civil War reenactors, misidentified Eskimos, and grief-stricken …
This Is Only a Test
Av B.J. Hollars, W. Scott Olsen m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
217 kr
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On April 27, 2011, just days after learning of their pregnancy, B. J. Hollars, his wife, and their future son endured the onslaught of an EF-4 tornado. There, while huddled in a bathtub in their Alabama home, mortality flashed before their eyes. With the last of his computer battery, Hollars began …
Blurring the Boundaries
Explorations to the Fringes of Nonfiction
Av B.J. Hollars
Häftad, 2013
379 kr
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Contemporary discussions on nonfiction are often riddled with questions about the boundaries between truth and memory, honesty and artifice, facts and lies. Just how much truth is in nonfiction? How much is a lie? Blurring the Boundaries sets out to answer such questions while simultaneously …
From the Mouths of Dogs
What Our Pets Teach Us About Life, Death, and Being Human
Av B.J. Hollars
Inbunden, 2015
304 kr
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What is it that dogs have done to earn the title of “man’s best friend”? And more broadly, how have all of our furry, feathered, and four-legged brethren managed to enrich our lives? Why do we love them? What can we learn from them? And why is it so difficult to say good-bye? Join B.J. Hollars as …
Flock Together
A Love Affair with Extinct Birds
Av B.J. Hollars
Inbunden, 2017
304 kr
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Named by Forbes as one of the 12 Best Books About Birds and Birding in 2017After stumbling upon a book of photographs depicting extinct animals, B.J. Hollars became fascinated by creatures that are no longer with us: specifically, extinct North American birds. How, he wondered, could we preserve so …
Road South
Personal Stories of the Freedom Riders
Av B.J. Hollars
Inbunden, 2018
295 kr
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Revisits the inspiring and heroic stories of the Freedom Riders, through their own words. In May 1961, despite multiple Supreme Court rulings, segregation remained alive and well within the system of interstate travel. All across the American South, interstate buses as well as their travel …
Midwestern Strange
Hunting Monsters, Martians, and the Weird in Flyover Country
Av B.J. Hollars
Häftad, 2019
284 kr
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Midwestern Strange chronicles B.J. Hollars’s exploration of the mythic, lesser-known oddities of flyover country. The mysteries, ranging from bipedal wolf sightings to run-ins with pancake-flipping space aliens to a lumberjack-inspired “Hodag hoax,” make this book a little bit X-Files, a little bit …
Go West, Young Man
A Father and Son Rediscover America on the Oregon Trail
Av B.J. Hollars
Häftad, 2021
232 kr
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2022 Silver Midwest Book Award Winner At the sound of the bell on the last day of kindergarten, B.J. Hollars and his six-year-old son, Henry, hop in the car to strike out on a 2,500-mile road trip retracing the Oregon Trail. Their mission: to rediscover America, and Americans, along the way. …
Flock Together
A Love Affair with Extinct Birds
Av B.J. Hollars
Häftad, 2022
260 kr
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Named by Forbes as one of the 12 Best Books About Birds and Birding in 2017After stumbling upon a book of photographs depicting extinct animals, B.J. Hollars became fascinated by creatures that are no longer with us: specifically, extinct North American birds. How, he wondered, could we preserve so …
From the Mouths of Dogs
What Our Pets Teach Us About Life, Death, and Being Human
Av B.J. Hollars
Häftad, 2022
260 kr
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What is it that dogs have done to earn the title of “man’s best friend”? And more broadly, how have all of our furry, feathered, and four-legged brethren managed to enrich our lives? Why do we love them? What can we learn from them? And why is it so difficult to say good-bye? Join B.J. Hollars as …
Dinosaur Dreams
A Father and Daughter in Search of America's Prehistoric Past
Av B.J. Hollars
Häftad, 2025
241 kr
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In the summer of 2023, one of the hottest on record, B.J. Hollars and his nine-year-old daughter Ellie embarked on a two-thousand-mile road trip to complete the Montana Dinosaur Trail, a fourteen-stop trail consisting of museums, state parks, and dinosaur dig sites throughout a state known for its …
You Must be This Tall to Ride
Contemporary Writers Take You Inside the Story
Av B.J. Hollars
Häftad, 2009
296 kr
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Becoming Bobby Kennedy
The Transformative Life of an American Icon
Av B.J. Hollars
Inbunden, 2026
393 kr
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While the broad strokes of Robert F. Kennedy's life are well known—from presidential campaign manager to attorney general, senator, and presidential candidate—far less is understood about the deeper forces that shaped his extraordinary transformation. How did an entitled, silver-spooned prep school …
Greetings from Duluth: Essays on Destruction
Av B.J. Hollars
E-bok, 2015
38 kr
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Join B.J. Hollars as he takes readers on a whirlwind tour of destruction: from Fort Wayne’s almost-obliteration at the hands of Adolf Hitler, to Tuscaloosa’s 2011 tornado, and finally, to a triple lynching that occurred in Duluth in the summer of 1920. Spanning nearly a continent and a century, …
