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Liars, Thieves and Other Sinners on the Bench
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Product Description: “Haunting and funny, full of folk wisdom and unfl inching honesty.”—Publishers Weekly, on the work of Jo Carson“She is a quintessential community artist with a true ear for the way people talk and what they really mean to say...read more
By Jo Carson
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9781559363310 | 1 edition (Theatre Communications Group, June 1, 2009), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: “Haunting and funny, full of folk wisdom and unfl inching honesty.

Spider Speculations: A Physics And Biophysics of Storytelling
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Product Description: “I’ve spent about 15 years plus some working with people’s stories in a series of communities in this country. I write plays from oral histories for those communities. Just finished my 30th. I’m watching people’s lives and communities literally change, sometimes drastically, for the work...read more
By Jo Carson
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9781559362832 | Theatre Communications Group, March 30, 2008, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: “I’ve spent about 15 years plus some working with people’s stories in a series of communities in this country.

Teller Tales: Histories: What Sweet Lips Can Do; And, Men Of Their Time
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Product Description: “All my work fits in my mouth,” Jo Carson says. “I write performance material no matter what else the pieces get called, and whether they are for my voice or other characters’ voices . . . they are first to be spoken aloud...read more
By Jo Carson
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Hardcover:

9780821417539 | Ohio Univ Pr, April 1, 2007, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: “All my work fits in my mouth,” Jo Carson says.

Teller Tales: Histories
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Product Description: "All my work fits in my mouth," Jo Carson says. "I write performance material no matter what else the pieces get called, and whether they are for my voice or other characters' voices ... they are first to be spoken aloud." Following an oral tradition that has strong roots in her native Tennessee, the author of Teller Tales invites the reader to participate in events in a way that no conventional history book can...read more
By Jo Carson
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9780821417546 | Ohio Univ Pr, April 1, 2007, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: "All my work fits in my mouth," Jo Carson says.

Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet: Selections from the People Pieces
Product Description: “Haunting and funny, full of folk wisdom and unflinching honesty.” – Publishers WeeklyPlaywright and poet Jo Carson has long been mining the rich field of everyday life in her native Appalachia region and East Tennessee. Collecting found stories as part of her ongoing “People Pieces” series, she has created a remarkable distillation of the rhythms and nuances of a specific landscape that proves common to us all...read more
By Jo Carson
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9781559360272, titled "Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet: Selections from the People Pieces" | Theatre Communications Group, May 1, 1991, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Narrates everyday life in Appalachia and East Tennessee in fifty-four monologues and dialogues.

School and Library:

9780531058084, titled "Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet: Selections from the People Pieces" | Orchard Books, April 1, 1989, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of first-person poems taken from the actual conversations of Appalachian people
9780531084083, titled "Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet: Selections from the People Pieces" | Orchard Books, April 1, 1989, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A collection of first-person poems taken from the actual conversations of Appalachian people

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9780613130721, titled "Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet: Selections from the People Pieces" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $25.70 | About this edition: “Haunting and funny, full of folk wisdom and unflinching honesty.

Pulling My Leg
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When a joking uncle collects hammer, pliers, and screwdriver to help a child with her loose tooth, the tooth amazingly comes out by itself
By Jo Carson
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9780531070468 | Reprint edition (Orchard Books, March 1, 1994), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: When a joking uncle collects hammer, pliers, and screwdriver to help a child with her loose tooth, the tooth amazingly comes out by itself

Prebinding:

9780785734659 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $14.40 | About this edition: When a joking uncle collects hammer, pliers, and screwdriver to help a child with her loose tooth, the tooth amazingly comes out by itself

You Hold Me and I'll Hold You
When her great-aunt dies, a young child and her family go to the funeral services, where the little girl finds comfort in being held and in holding too
By Jo Carson
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9780531070888, titled "You Hold Me and I'll Hold You" | Reprint edition (Scholastic, March 1, 1997), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: When a great-aunt dies, a young child finds comfort in being held and in holding, too.

School and Library:

9780531058954, titled "You Hold Me and I'll Hold You" | Orchard Books, March 1, 1992, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: When a great-aunt dies, a young child finds comfort in being held and in holding, too.
9780531084953, titled "You Hold Me and I'll Hold You" | Orchard Books, March 1, 1992, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: When a great-aunt dies, a young child finds comfort in being held and in holding, too.

Reinforced:

9780606125833, titled "You Hold Me and I'll Hold You" | Reprint edition (Demco Media, March 1, 1997), cover price $14.77 | About this edition: When a great-aunt dies, a young child finds comfort in being held and in holding, too.

Prebinding:

9780613071260, titled "You Hold Me and I'll Hold You" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 2001, cover price $15.45 | About this edition: When a great-aunt dies, a young child finds comfort in being held and in holding, too.

The Great Shaking: An Account of the Earthquakes of 1811 and 1812
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A bear who was there describes three earthquakes in Arkansas, in 1811 and 1812, and their aftermath
By Jo Carson and Robert Andrew Parker (illustrator)
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Hardcover:

9780531068090 | Orchard Books, March 1, 1994, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A bear who was there describes three earthquakes in Arkansas, in 1811 and 1812, and their aftermath

The Great Shaking: An Account of the Earthquakes of 1811 and 1812 by a Bear Who Was a Witness New Madrid, Missouri
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Omens of floods, sickness, abnormal comets, and terrible earthquakes send men, bears, and other animals scurrying into trees to save themselves, until The Great Bear from the Stars reminds Mother Earth that some of her children need sleep during the cold season.
By Jo Carson and Robert Andrew Parker (illustrator)
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9780531086599 | Orchard Books, March 1, 1994, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: A bear who was there describes three earthquakes in Arkansas, in 1811 and 1812, and their aftermath

The Last of the 'Waltz Across Texas' and Other Stories
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Product Description: Jo Carson's first book of fiction which proves to be a deft storytelling with keen imagination and sense of humor. Carson's well-developed characters work within the context of family, friends and community as they cope with the raw edges of life itself...read more
By Jo Carson
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9780917788536 | Gnomon Distribution, October 1, 1993, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: Jo Carson's first book of fiction which proves to be a deft storytelling with keen imagination and sense of humor.

New American Plays
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Product Description: An anthology of four American Plays.
By Jo Carson, Peter Filichia (editor), Samuel L. Kelley and Janet Noble
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9780435086053 | Heinemann Drama, January 6, 1992, cover price $23.75 | About this edition: An anthology of four American Plays.

Daytrips
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By Jo Carson
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9780822202820 | Dramatist''s Play Service, October 1, 1991, cover price $9.00

Pulling My Leg: Story
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When a joking uncle collects hammer, pliers, and screwdriver to help a child with her loose tooth, the tooth amazingly comes out by itself
By Jo Carson and Julie Downing (illustrator)
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Hardcover:

9780531058176 | Orchard Books, August 1, 1990, cover price $15.95 | also contains Starry-eyed Sonnets | About this edition: When a joking uncle collects hammer, pliers, and screwdriver to help a child with her loose tooth, the tooth amazingly comes out by itself

School and Library:

9780531084175 | Orchard Books, August 1, 1990, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: When a joking uncle collects hammer, pliers, and screwdriver to help a child with her loose tooth, the tooth amazingly comes out by itself

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