Nationally acclaimed storyteller J.J. Reneaux grew up Cajun for true, surrounded by the stories, music, food, and culture of rural communities in southeast Texas and southern Louisiana. A traditional storyteller who collects by wordofmouth, Reneaux has developed her repertoire over years of collecting on front porches, school playgrounds, and her beloved fishing trips, as well as at nursing homes, airports, and at neighborhood faisdodos.
"Like any good raconteur," she says, "I have told the tales as I heard them, but added personal touches, twists, and turns as the stories grew to be part of my own life. For me, these tales are not museum pieces whose time was and is no more. They are alive and vigorous, brimming with joie de vivre, the zest for life that is the essence of Cajun culture."
Nationally acclaimed storyteller J.J. Reneaux grew up Cajun for true, surrounded by the stories, music, food, and culture of rural communities in southeast Texas and southern Louisiana....
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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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What is your favorite story? is the question children across the country often ask professional storyteller Pleasant DeSpain....
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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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Scary stories help children face fear and master it, by portraying the elements of conflict in clear, goodversusevil terms with good triumphant in the end....
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What is your favorite story? is the question children across the country often ask professional storyteller Pleasant DeSpain....
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In the hills of Appalachia, humor and wisdom are mixed up forever in funny, wise stories that seem to grow more lustrous with each telling....
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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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Joe Davis was in his mid40s when he became a father, and the experience he was able to apply in raising his sons lent creativity to his parenting....
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Wobegon Boy is the story of John Tollefson, last seen in Lake Wobegon Days leaving home, now a 40something Norwegian bachelor publicradio manager living in upstate New York....
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W.C. Jameson takes his listeners back to a time when the sixgun was king, life was cheap, and many a bandit died before recovering his stolen loot....
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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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Marion Winik, one of the country's bestknown personal essayists, believes in telling the truth. Her awardwinning personal essays tell secrets about herself....
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Why I Recommend
Audible by Alan Twigg
Audible (an Amazon.com company) is the world's leading online
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