Paul Bunyan Swings His Axe

Paul Bunyan Swings His Axe
Author: Dell J. McCormick
Publisher: Caxton Press
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780870070938

Children of all ages will enjoy these tales of Paul Bunyan, mythical giant lumberjack of the North Woods. Exciting and rollicking stories--seventeen in all. A perpetual best-seller the country over, this book has sold more than one million copies.

Paul Bunyan's Sweetheart

Paul Bunyan's Sweetheart
Author: Marybeth Lorbiecki
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781585362899

When legendary logger Paul Bunyan falls in love with Lucette Diana Kensack, he will do whatever it takes to win her heart, including trying to restore the Minnesota environment to its previous condition as part of Lucette's "love test."

Tall Timber Tales

Tall Timber Tales
Author: Dell J. McCormick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 155
Release: 1992
Genre: Bunyan, Paul (Legendary character)
ISBN:

The stories of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox told from the woods of Maine to the timberlands of Washington, including Paul's dredging of Puget Sound, straightening out Powder River, and logging off the Dakotas.

Paul Bunyan

Paul Bunyan
Author: Esther Shephard
Publisher: New York : Harcourt, Brace
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1924
Genre: Bunyan, Paul (Legendary character).
ISBN:

Twenty-one stories about the legendary hero of loggers, Paul Bunyan.

Homer Kelley's Golfing Machine

Homer Kelley's Golfing Machine
Author: Scott Gummer
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2009-05-14
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1101052597

The remarkable true story of a lone genius whose quest to unlock the science behind the perfect swing changed golf forever In 1939, Homer Kelley played golf for the first time and scored 116. Frustrated, he did not play again for six months; when he did he carded a 77. Determined to understand why he was able to shave nearly 40 strokes off his score, Kelley spent three decades of trial and error to unlock the answer and to recapture that one wonderful day when golf was easy and enjoyable. In 1969, Kelley self- published his findings in The Golfing Machine: The Computer Age Approach to Golfing Perfection. The bestselling instruction books of the day required golfers to conform their swings to the author's ideals, but Homer Kelley configured swings to fit every golfer. He found an enthusiastic disciple in a Seattle teaching pro named Ben Doyle, who in turn found an eager student in 13-year-old prodigy Bobby Clampett. Clampett's initial success in amateur golf shined a bright spotlight on Homer Kelley and The Golfing Machine, but when the young star suffered a painfully public collapse and faltered as a pro, critics were quick to blast Kelley and his complex and controversial ideas. With exclusive access to Homer Kelley's archives, author Scott Gummer paints a fascinating picture of the man behind the machine, the ultimate outsider who changed the game once and for all of us.

Paul Bunyan

Paul Bunyan
Author: Brian Gleeson
Publisher: ABDO
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2004-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781591977674

Recounts the exploits of the legendary giant logger and his big blue ox, Babe.

Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox

Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox
Author: Jan Gleiter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1984-09
Genre: Bunyan, Paul (Legendary character)
ISBN: 9780817222727

Tall tales of the mighty logger, including his birth and his adventures in a logging camp, in the South Dakota forests, and among the California redwoods.

Alarms and Discursions

Alarms and Discursions
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Total Pages: 98
Release: 1927
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 3849677664

If Mr. Chesterton had been permitted to have his own way this handful of papers would have been sent out under the title of "Gargoyles." Perhaps the publisher foresaw horror upon the faces of really unimaginative readers when once brought face to face with a "monster" title; so it was changed to "Alarms and discursions," as indefinite and capable of possibilities as one could wish. "Fragments of futile journalism or fleeting impressions," Mr. Chesterton calls his essays. "This row of shapeless and ungainly monsters . . . does not consist of separate idols cut out capriciously in lonely valleys or various islands. These monsters are meant for the gargoyles of a definite cathedral. I have to carve the gargoyles, because I can carve nothing else; I leave to others the angels and the arches and the spires." Forty essays, in which excellent common sense and brilliantly phrased wisdom mingle with sheer nonsense.

Michigan in Literature

Michigan in Literature
Author: Clarence A. Andrews
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780814323687

Michigan in Literature is a guide to more than one thousand literary and dramatic works set in Michigan from its pre-territorial days to the present. Imaginative, narrative, dramatic, and lyrical creations that have Michigan settings, characters, subjects, and themes are organized into sixteen chapters on topics such as Indians in Michigan, settlers who came to Michigan, diversity in the state, the timber industry, the Great Lakes, crime in Michigan literature, Detroit, and Michigan poetry. In this most complete work to date, Clarence Andrews has assembled the literary reputation of a state. He illustrates, with a wide variety of literary works, that Michigan is more than just a builder of automobiles, a producer of apples and cherries, a supplier of copper and lumber, and the home of great athletes. It is also a state that has played—and continues to play—an important role in the production of American literature. To qualify for inclusion, a work or a significant part of it has to be set in Michigan. Andrews shows how novelists, dramatists, poets, and short story writers have created their particular images of Michigan by using and interpreting the history of the state—its land and waters, people, events, ideas, philosophies, and policies—sometimes factually, sometimes modified or distorted, and sometimes fancied or imagined. Biographical information is featured about authors, editors, and compilers, who range in fame from Ernest Hemingway and Elmore Leonard to persons long forgotten. The published opinions and judgments of reputable critics and scholars are also presented.