"What is your favorite story?" is the question children across the country often ask professional storyteller Pleasant DeSpain. As he attempts to answer, his list grows longer and longer, until he confesses he likes them all. An untiring researcher of oral traditions, DeSpain is known for his concise versions of world folktales specifically crafted for retelling. This new, digital recording of 10 stories is excerpted from DeSpain's 22 Splendid Tales to Tell from Around the World, Volume Two. The accompanying music, original compositions for this recording by Jim Wolfe, reflects the styles of the featured cultures.
Professional storytellers Richard Alan Young and Judy Dockrey Young have scoured the Ozarks to collect these authentic stories....
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Nowhere are Kathryn Tucker Windham's transcendent themes of community, fidelity, and family more evident than in these stories....
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From the team that brought you the best selling Have You Heard the One About audios, this is another ribtickling collection of stories....
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David Sedaris' new collection of essays including live recordings! tells a most unconventional life story. It begins with a North Carolina childhood filled with speechtherapy classes...
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In A Song Flung Up to Heaven, Maya Angelou describes her work with Martin Luther King, Jr.; the civil rights struggle; and the devastation she suffered from the turmoil of the '60s.
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Old Man Hawkins was a largerthanlife character among deer hunters, or, more precisely, among tellers and hearers of tall tales....
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World Tales of Wisdom and Wonder is a collection of folktales told in a weave of poetry, prose, original melody, and guitar....
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Traditional values abound in these hilarious stories from Appalachia: friendship, family, orderliness, humor, and delight in an especially inventive practical joke....
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In a beautifully rendered portrait of very special Christmases, Jimmy Carter begins by returning to his early years in Plains, Georgia...
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Mike Daisey is a fierce storyteller, one minute hilarious, the next minute sweet, with a finetuned ear for digression....
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All of us are familiar with the fairy tales of youth where the young hero and heroine fall in love, defeat their enemies, marry, and live happily ever after....
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This live recording could not be more fun! A seasoned storyteller who loves rhythm and song joins with a traditional musician playing instruments....
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If you are driving, pull over. If you are at work, close your door, unless you don't mind your colleagues seeing you doubled over, in tears, on your office floor...
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On February 2, 2002, Stephen King, Pat Conroy, John Grisham, and Peter Straub gathered at New York's Town Hall for a very special evening...
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This humorous reminiscence of the pioneering and settlement of the United States is set aboard a packet traveling up the Mississippi River....
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