The Original Muffler Man
The Original Muffler Man

Author: Shubhra Krishan

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2022-02-10

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9354892299

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In 1941, fresh off the train from Kasur, a poverty-stricken village now in Pakistan, Kasturi Lal Jain began manufacturing and selling mufflers to beat the winter chill in Ludhiana. Today, he commands a clothing company with multiple labels and a footprint across three continents. This book traces his heart-warming journey through eight eventful decades, offering lessons in building an enterprise from scratch, facing adversity, and living simply in the midst of abundance. Woven together with fond recollections and affectionate tributes from family, friends and co-workers, The Original Muffler Man reminds you of the things that really matter-gumption, grace and giving.

Muffler Man / El hombre mofle
Muffler Man / El hombre mofle

Author: Tito Campos

Publisher: Arte Publico Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1558853189

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Chuy works hard at the muffler shop to earn enough money to join his father in America, where together they create an army of "muffler men," statues made from old muffler parts, that they scatter around the city.

The American Dream?
The American Dream?

Author: Shing Yin Khor

Publisher: Zest Books

Published: 2019-08-06

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1942186371

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As a child growing up in Malaysia, Shing Yin Khor had two very different ideas of what “America” meant. The first looked a lot like Hollywood, full of beautiful people and sunlight and freeways. The second looked more like The Grapes of Wrath - a nightmare landscape filled with impoverished people, broken-down cars, barren landscapes, and broken dreams. Those contrasting ideas have stuck with Shing ever since, even now that she lives and works in LA. The American Dream? A Journey on Route 66 is Shing’s attempt to find what she can of both of these Americas on a solo journey (small adventure-dog included) across the entire expanse of that iconic road, beginning in Santa Monica and ending up Chicago. And what begins as a road trip ends up as something more like a pilgrimage in search of an American landscape that seems forever shifting, forever out of place.

Roadside Giants
Roadside Giants

Author: Brian Butko

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780811732284

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From Lucy, the colossal elephant-shaped building on the Jersey Shore, to the grand donut atop Randy's in Los Angeles, this full-color guide profiles the commercial giants that loom over America's highways. Created to sell products and promote tourism in a big way, they can be found all over the United States. The authors have traveled far and wide to bring readers the world's largest duck in Long Island, an enormous Amish couple in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, and towering Paul Bunyans all over the Midwest. There are buildings shaped like hot dogs, ice cream cones, and baskets, as well as the roadside phenomena known as "Muffler Men," giants who originally advertised mufflers but now have been converted to cowboys, Indians, spacemen, and pirates. Big fun!

I Know You, Al
I Know You, Al

Author: Constance C. Greene

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2015-02-24

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 1504004418

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Al’s father decides to visit her for the first time in years—but does Al really want him back in her life? Al has always marched to the beat of her own drum—and that includes never letting anyone call her by her real name, Alexandra. But now Al’s mom is dating a strange man from work, and her dad is coming to visit for the first time in six years. As her whole world is thrown into turmoil, Al doesn’t know what to do. What if her mom marries this new man? And should she agree to see her father, who walked out on their family years ago? In this heartwarming sequel to A Girl Called Al, Al learns that although families can be confusing, hers is irreplaceable.

A Confederacy of Dunces
A Confederacy of Dunces

Author: John Kennedy Toole

Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Published: 2007-12-01

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 0802197620

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).

Jeremy's Muffler
Jeremy's Muffler

Author: Laura F. Nielsen

Publisher: Atheneum

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13:

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Jeremy's aunt knits him a muffler that is so long people make fun of it.

Killdozer
Killdozer

Author: Patrick Brower

Publisher: Wilcox Swanson LLC/ DBA Deer Track Publishing

Published: 2017-10

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9780982352014

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The full examination of the incident and aftermath in the story of a man who built a tank out of a bulldozer and sought revenge against his perceived enemies in the small town of Granby, Colorado. He wreaked havoc and destroyed numerous buildings with his monstrous machine before taking his own life in a stand-off with law enforcement.