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Author
Publisher
Dutton
Language
English
Description
With wit, heartwarming stories and a keen insight into new and exciting ways to see both the past and the future of the country, the actor, writer and woodworker takes a literary journey to America's frontier to celebrate the people and landscape that have made it great.
42) Into the wild
Author
Language
English
Description
The story of Chris McCandless, a young man who embarked on a solo journey into the wilds of Alaska and whose body was discovered four months later, explores the fascinating allure that the wilderness has for the American imagination
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
1996, c1952
Edition
1st Harper Trophy ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
321 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Betsy sails for Europe to try to forget Joe Willard and to gather material which will aid her in becoming an author.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels. One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
471 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"A guide to some of the world's most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony Bourdain"--
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"In this remarkable collection of illustrated private journals, log books, letters, and diaries, we follow firsthand the voyages of intrepid sailors from the frozen polar wastes to South Seas paradise islands. And we meet a fascinating cast of real characters: officers and crew, cooks and whalers, surgeons and artists, explorers and adventurers- including Antonio Pigafetta, an Italian who sailed with Magellan; Tupia, a Tahitian who joined Captain...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Jane is disappointed when her summer plans are dashed by her parents' announcement of a family road trip, but as her family crosses the country, visiting national parks, Jane discovers a whole new world at her fingertips.
Author
Series
Infinity ring volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
188 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a latest mission to correct the past in order to save the future world and reveals the secret history connecting the SQ to the Ancient Mayans.