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Tell Me a Story
by Lisa Suhay  Publisher Comments In this collection of original fables for the modern world, Lisa Suhay, a writer for the New York Times, brings us back to a time when life's lessons were taught in tales by characters who shared our loves, losses, and weaknesses. Though our problems...
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The Exploding Toilet: Modern Urban Legends
by David Holt Publisher Comments Hey, did you hear the one about the man who dropped a lit cigarette into the toilet with some gasoline-soaked rags? Of course you did, it happened to your gym teacher's cousin. Or was it your cousin's gym teacher?...
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The Stories We Tell: An Anthology of Oregon Folk Literature (Oregon Literature)
by Suzi Jones Publisher Comments These traditional stories, songs, tales, and sayings -- from Native American creation myths to spotted owl jokes -- reveal the richness of Oregon's oral traditions....
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Curses! Broiled Again!: The Hottest Urban Legends Going
by Jan Harold Brunvand Publisher Comments Urban legends are those bizarre but believable stories that pass by word of mouth aas gospel truth. But, of course, though often told by a FOAF (friend of a friend), they aren't true. Included in this collection are legends about sex, horror, cars...
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The Baby Train: And Other Lusty Urban Legends
by Jan Harold Brunvand Publisher Comments Called "Mr. Urban Legend" (Smithsonian, Brunvand offers more zany but dubious stories that "really happened" to someone's sister's boyfriend's accountant. This book uncovers the mysteries behind some of the bawdiest, goriest, and funniest urban legends...
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The Monster Stick: & Other Appalachian Tall Tales
by Paul Lepp Publisher Comments What's the Monster Stick? It's Paul's nine-foot, surf casting rod full of six miles of brand new 50-pound test Stren Carp cord with 20 pound, custom made, stainless steel, slip-sliding sinkers. The adventures Paul finds himself in from the day the...
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The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings
by Jan Brunvand Publisher Comments The noted folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand has written the first book about one of the most common forms of contemporary folkloreùthe urban legend. All of the major legends are fully discussed, from teenage horror stories like "The Hook" and...
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Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana
by Carl Lindahl Publisher Comments Transcribed oral tales that display the lively art of storytelling in the Bayou...
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Tales from the Cloud Walking Country
by Marie Campbell Publisher Comments Assembled here are seventy-eight stories from six of the "ballad-singingest, tale-tellingest" residents of the eastern Kentucky mountain country. Based on stories rooted in European traditions from German fairy tales to Irish hero stories to Greek myths,...
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The Choking Doberman and Other "New" Urban Legends
by Jan Harold Brunvand Publisher Comments Reissue....
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Encyclopedia of Urban Legends
by Jan Harold Brunvand Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 497-499) and index....
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Florida Folktales
by Russell J Reaver Publisher Comments "A splendid collection from one of the nation's richest and most diverse traditional cultures....["Florida Folktales"] will appeal not only to scholars and lovers of folklore, but to anyone interested in the wellsprings of American storytelling and...
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Urban Legends: The As-Complete-As-One-Could-Be Guide to Modern Myths
by Ngaire Genge Publisher Comments Urban Legends is a remarkably complete collection of the modern myths that make the rounds in offices, college dorms, and every other place where people tell the stories that spring from our deepest fears and fascinations. Every culture has its...
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Thats Bollocks Urban Legends Conspiracy
by Albert Jack Publisher Comments From crack-addicted squirrels to the kidnap of JFK's brain, Albert Jack gathers together all the strangest, sickest, funniest and most unforgettable urban legends and recounts them with his usual deadpan humour. *Also appeared in October Buyer's Notes*...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American Folklore
by Alan Axelrod Publisher Comments The Penguin Dictionary of American Folklore is a comprehensive and highly readable encyclopedic dictionary perfect for students and anyone who wishes to explore our country's immensely varied folk traditions. In its pages are the characters-fictional and...
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Ozark Tall Tales
by Richard Young Publisher Comments This collection captures authentic mountain stories as hill folk have told them for generations and continue to tell them today....
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Gumbo YA-YA: Folk Tales of Louisiana
by Lyle Saxon Publisher Comments The living folklore of Louisiana returns in this new edition of the classic long considered the finest collection of Louisiana folk tales and customs ever chronicled. A charming look at the legends and practices of the bayou country, especially New...
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American Folk Tales and Songs
by Richard Chase Publisher Comments Full of lively stories, jokes, and games for performance, the book also includes 40 songs with melody and guitar chords. Written by the outstanding practicing folk performer. Includes 44 illustrations....
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A Treasury of North American Folktales
by Catherine Peck Publisher Comments This book is a celebration of the voices that make up America. Ranging from Davy Crockett's account of killing a bear with a knife, from Brer Rabbit's mischief to Johnny Appleseed's good deeds, from hilarious yarns about killer mosquitoes to eerie...
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Chicano Folklore: A Guide to the Folktales, Traditions, Rituals and Religious Practices of Mexican Americans
by Rafaela G Castro Publisher Comments Did you know that barrio is a term for a Chicano neighborhood, and that some of the oldest barrios can be found in major U.S. cities, like Los Angeles, Chicago, El Paso, and San Antonio? Or that menudo is actually a soup-type dish made with tripe, the...
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