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California Fiction Central Pacific Railroad Company Fiction Donner Party Fiction FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense Kelly, Nora (Fictitious character) Fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Novels in verse Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) Fiction Survival Fiction United States Sierra NevadaEngle, Margarita.
Summary: When his mother is sent to jail in Los Angeles, eleven-year-old Tony goes to live with his forest ranger great-uncle in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where Tony experiences unconditional love for the first time through his friendship with a rescue dog.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ENGKhor, Shing Yin
Summary: "Aware of the racial tumult in the years after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Mei tries to remain blissfully focused on her job, her close friendship with the camp foreman's daughter, and telling stories about Paul Bunyan--reinvented as Po Pan Yin (Auntie Po), an elderly Chinese matriarch"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 KHOPreston, Douglas J.
Summary: Curator Nora Kelly is approached by historian Clive Benton to lead an expedition unlike any other. Nora agrees, and they venture into the Sierra Nevada in search of the Donner Party camp.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2019
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC PREFeehan, Christine
Summary: Vienna Mortenson is tough, decisive, and not the sort to make a fool of herself over a guy. Though Zale Vizzini's job puts him in harm's way, he wants something real with Vienna. But soon both of their lives are threatened.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FEEWolf, Allan
Summary: "In powerful, vivid verse, the master behind The Watch That Ends the Night recounts one of history's most harrowing--and chilling--tales of survival. In 1846, a group of emigrants bound for California face a choice: continue on their planned route or take a shortcut into the wilderness. Eighty-nine of them opt for the untested trail, a decision that plunges them into danger and desperation and,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WOLFeehan, Christine
Summary: Stella Harrison thought she got away from her past. Running the Sunrise Lake resort has brought her peace. But a killer is out there. And Stella knows that this time she'll do whatever it takes to stop him.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FEEThoene, Brock
Contents: Cannons of the comstock -- The year of the grizzly -- Shooting star.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Inspirational Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOWilson, Anne A
Summary: When she is assigned to a new search and rescue team, Navy helicopter pilot Lt. Alison Malone meets mountain guide Will during a dangerous mission, a man who shows her that it is never too late to start living.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Wilson 2016Preston, Douglas J.
Summary: Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator with a series of important excavations already under her belt, is approached by the handsome Historian, Guy Porter, to lead an expedition unlike any other. Guy tells his story--one involving the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Preston 2019Fowler, Earlene.
Summary: Ruby never thought she'd return to Cardinal, but she's hoping the place and people who gave her so much can give her brother Nash, who's been drowning in drink in Nashville, the fresh start he so desperately needs. Saddlemaker Lucas McGavin is thrilled that Ruby has come back. He hasn't given up on his love for her, despite the awkward fact that she is his brother's widow, and he's well aware...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FOWWilson, Anne A
Summary: Navy helicopter pilot Lt. Alison Malone has been assigned to a search-and-rescue team based at Naval Air Station Fallon Nevada, near the rugged peaks of the Sierra Nevada and far from her former elite H-60 squadron. A rule follower by nature, Alison is exasperated and outraged every time she flies with her mission commander, "Boomer" Marks, for whom military procedures are merely a suggestion....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WILJohnstone, William W.
Summary: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the High Sierras. But Smoke Jensen and his children, Louis and Denise, won't let a little snow stop them from heading to Reno for the holidays. There are two ways for them to get there: the long way, going around the Sierra Nevada Mountains, or the short way, going right through them. Smoke decides to take a gamble. They'll follow the trail that,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult- Western, Call number: Western Johnstone 2018Preston, Douglas J.
Summary: Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator with a series of important excavations already under her belt, is approached by the handsome Historian, Guy Porter, to lead an expedition unlike any other. Guy tells his story--one involving the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing Large Print 2019
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PRERevoyr, Nina
Summary: Four hikers from Los Angeles journey to the Sierra Neveda and discover an untraversed trail which leads them into unexpected territory.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REVCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC REVFowler, Earlene.
Summary: Hoping to help her deceased husband's alcoholic brother, Nash, make a fresh start, Ruby McGavin returns to Cardinal, California, where she must confront her estranged mother and a terrible secret.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOWYee, Betty G.
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Tam Ling Fan disguises herself as her twin brother, journeys from her village in China to California, and works as a laborer on the Transcontinental Railroad--where she faces danger on multiple fronts--to earn the money her family desperately needs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Lab 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC YEERobinson, Kim Stanley
Summary: A "sublime" and "radically original" exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth for hiking and camping, from New York Times bestselling novelist Kim Stanley Robinson (Bill McKibben, Gary Snyder).--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.944 ROBLevinson, Nancy Smiler.
Summary: One winter John Thompson skis across the Sierra Nevada Mountains and creates a path upon which mail and people may travel, thus earning his nickname "Snowshoe Thompson."
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1992