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  • Peaceful Persistence

    Essays On...

    by Michael Perry ...
    Brief essays by New York Times bestselling author Michael Perry on memorials and mercy, storms and farewells, family and fowl, barnyard ballets, the Sunday night sads, the wisdom of roadies, cucumbers and kindness, quotidian asparagus, appropo malaprops, pickleball, sushi boats and weird TV, the poetics of garlic, contrails, Mobius mind-grooves, quietude, Christmas tree injuries, cats, waffle ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Big Boy's Big Rig: The Leftovers

    by Michael Perry ...
    In the 1990s, when he was a magazine freelancer hustling books off a card table at craft fairs, the mall, and out of his car trunk, Michael Perry self-published two books: Why They Killed Big Boy and Other Stories and Big Rigs Elvis, & the Grand Dragon Wayne. In 2005, after the success of Perry's book Population 485, Harper Perennial published Off Main Street, a collection of Perry's essays, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Forty Acres Deep

    by Michael Perry ...
    When farmer Harold wakes to find his wife dead beside him in bed and snow threatening to crush the last life from his dwindling farm, he takes drastic steps toward a fresh start. Set in a world of stark wintry beauty, Forty Acres Deep is the brief, unrelenting tale of one person's attempt to make sense of a world he no longer recognizes while pitilessly calling himself into account. Seamed with ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Art of Immutable Architecture

    Theory and Practice of Data Management in Distributed Systems

    by Michael L. Perry ...
    Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
    This book teaches you how to evaluate a distributed system from the perspective of immutable objects. You will understand the problems in existing designs, know how to make small modifications to correct those problems, and learn to apply the principles of immutable architecture to your tools.Most software components focus on the state of objects. They store the current state of a row in a ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Truck

    A Love Story

    by Michael Perry ...
    A part-time emergency medical technician humorously chronicles life in a small Wisconsin town, featuring tales of romance and auto repair.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 his hair on fire, is attacked by wild turkeys, and ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Improbable Mentors & Happy Tangents

    How firefighters and poets, truckers and nurses, soldiers and singers, and other improbable individuals can show you the way in business and creativity

    by Michael Perry ...
    New York Times bestselling author, humorist, and speaker Michael Perry delivers real-world lessons on leadership, creativity, resilience, and entrepreneurship.Entertaining and fundamentally useful no matter the form of art or business you pursue, Improbable Mentors & Happy Tangents is a masterclass in identifying unexpected opportunities and concludes with a chapter titled, "The Most Improbable ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Montaigne in Barn Boots

    An Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy

    by Michael Perry ...
    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 led him to discover the essays of Michel de Montaigne. Reading the philosopher in a manner he equates to chickens ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Art of Immutable Architecture

    Theory and Practice of Data Management in Distributed Systems

    by Michael L. Perry ...
    Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
    This book teaches you how to evaluate a distributed system from the perspective of immutable objects. You will understand the problems in existing designs, know how to make small modifications to correct those problems, and learn to apply the principles of immutable architecture to your tools.Most software components focus on the state of objects. They store the current state of a row in a ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Visiting Tom

    A Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace

    by Michael Perry ...
    “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 to pull readers from all corners onto his Wisconsin spread, and make them feel right at home.”—Seattle TimesTuesdays ... Read more

    $7.49 USD

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    Raising and Caring For Your Child: Parenting Your Young Toddlers of age 12 months to 5 years (Baby Milestone Book)

    by Melinda Perry ...
    Narrated by Michael Borge ...

    Unabridged

    41 min

    Do you know that understanding how to flow perfectly with your toddlers and how to assist your baby walk while pressing the wheel during playtime is crucial in toddler parenting?This book focuses on how to simply help parents understand what is expected of them while parenting toddlers which begins with; understanding how to improve a child behaviour, how to positively raise a child, how to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Scavengers

    by Michael Perry ...
    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 two choices: move into the Bubble Cities…or take their chances outside.Maggie's family chose to live in ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Population: 485

    Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time

    by Michael Perry ...
    “Part portrait of a place, part rescue manual, part rumination of life and death, Population: 485 is a beautiful meditation on the things that matter.” — Seattle TimesWelcome to New Auburn, Wisconsin (population: 485) where the local vigilante is a farmer’s wife armed with a pistol and a Bible, the most senior member of the volunteer fire department is a cross-eyed butcher with one kidney and two ... Read more

    $10.49 USD