Pritchett, David Michael
Summary: "In Mossback, David Michael Pritchett seeks to celebrate those who move so deliberately through the natural world that they can fully observe, appreciate, and ultimately become a part of it. Mossbacks carry their environment on their backs instead of subjugating it to human will and motive. Pritchett's essays traverse a variety of terrains, exploring landscapes and mythologies at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trinity University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 PRIGilbert, Julie
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Maddy Rollag struggles with prairie life on her aunt and uncle's farm in Dakota Territory, but on January 12, 1888, when a blizzard threatens to trap Maddy and her classmates inside their damaged schoolhouse, she finds the courage and strength to lead them to safety. Includes historical note, glossary, and discussion questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GILPeterson, Scott
Summary: "What would you do for $50,000? For Mack, the prize money would be life changing. She knows her time at the women's shelter is already up. And she's good at hiding. At least this time, her life doesn't depend on it--or so she thinks. The challenge is simple. All fourteen competitors must spend seven days hiding in an abandoned amusement park from dawn to dusk. There's only one rule: Don't get...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Graphic, an imprint of Ten Speed Press 2023
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Summary: In this first-person account, former Olympian Eric LeMarque recounts a harrowing tale of survival--of eight days in the frozen wilderness, of losing his legs to frostbite, and coming face-to-face with death. But Eric's ordeal on the mountain was only part of his struggle for survival--as he reveals, with startling candor, an even more harrowing and inspiring tale of fame and addiction, healing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Good Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEMARQUE, ERIC LEMSummary: One is more likely to go to prison in the USA than any other country in the world. Follow the stories of two innocent men who spent decades behind bars for murders they did not commit. With gripping testimony from inmates, guards, staff, cops, analysts, lawyers, and reformers, it exposes the failed "punishment model" and examines the dramatic programs proven to work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gravitas Ventures 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SURTarshis, Lauren
Summary: When John Hale's parents moved from Chicago to a farm in the Dakota Territory in the late 1880s, he was not happy (too hot in summer, too cold in winter, and that is just the beginning); but after a year, and now eleven, he has settled in and made some friends at school--but when a sunny day in January 1888 turns abruptly into a deadly blizzard he will need all his strength and courage to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION TARSnyder, Scott
Summary: "In Undiscovered Country, readers will journey into an unknown region that was once the United States of America--a mysterious land that has been literally walled off from the rest of the world for well over a century. Two small expeditions enter the former US simultaneously--one from the east, one from the west--and journey inward, each seeking their own form of truth as they struggle to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 UNDSummary: Wild horses: Texas Ranger Samantha Payne reopens a 15-year-old missing person case and uncovers evidence that suggests the boy was likely murdered on a ranch belonging to wealthy family man Scott Briggs. Samantha will stop at nothing to discover the truth about the boy's death - even putting her own life in jeopardy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN FIVGiffen, Keith
Summary: "A visit to a small town seemingly untouched by the nanite plague that turned the world into a monster-infested wasteland puts the gang at the heart of tragedy, as new allies Cliffy and Daisy have a hard time dealing with what the gang has had to become to stay alive. And when Velma comes up with a plan to try and ensure their survival, a shopping mall becomes the zombie-ruled site of what may...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA GRAPHIC SCORevoyr, Nina
Summary: Four hikers from Los Angeles journey to the Sierra Neveda and discover an untraversed trail which leads them into unexpected territory.
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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 REVEaton, Maxwell
Summary: Stay calm and scout it out! Take inventory of what you have. Find shelter. Make a fire. Signal for help. Secure water and food. Follow Scout's trial through the mountains as she explains how to survive if you ever find yourself lost in the wildnerness. A perfect travel companion for those with a knack for adventure!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 EATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC EAT (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Sheridan, Sam.
Summary: A former Marine describes his efforts to prepare himself for extreme disaster scenarios, from learning emergency medicine and wilderness survival skills to navigating clogged evacuation routes and mastering a variety of defensive weapons.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHERIDAN, SAM SHERemender, Rick.
Summary: "Tajo returns to her family home on Salus to find a city on the brink of devastation. There is no food, no air, no hope for mankind's last great domed city. Now, Tajo must fight for a future everyone else has given up on. Can mankind unite to survive the judgment of a merciless nuclear sun? Can we rise from the depths of despair to the promise of a unified tomorrow?"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 REMMayo, Matthew P.
Summary: In autumn, 1849, 14-year-old Janette Riker travels westward to Oregon Territory with her father and two brothers. Before crossing the Rockies, they stop briefly to hunt buffalo. The men leave camp early on the second day ... and never return. Based on actual events, and told in diary format, Stranded is the harrowing account of young Janette Riker's struggle to survive the long winter alone....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star Publishing, a part of Cengage Learning, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MAYMcGinnis, Mindy
Summary: When Ashley goes hiking in the Smokies with her friends for a night of partying, the falling dark and creaking trees are second nature to her. Catching her boyfriend with another girl, drunken rage sends Ashley running into the night, stopped only by a nasty fall into a ravine. Morning brings the realization that she is alone-- and far off trail. Lost in undisturbed forest, with nothing but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCGJaeger, Ellsworth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shelter Publications 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.54 JAEVilden, Lynx
Summary: "In this memoir, earth advocate chronicles her journey to reconnect with the earth, offering a model for how we all can nurture the wild around and inside ourselves. In 1991, twenty-four-year-old Lynx Vilden crawled out of a sweat lodge covered in mud, her face streaked with tears, and whispered a promise to the earth: "I will love you and cherish you, I will learn how to live and share what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VILDEN, LYNX VILDiMartino, Michael Dante
Summary: When Asami is kidnapped, Korra sets out to the Spirit Wilds to find her. Now teeming with dark spirits influenced by the half spirit-half human Tokuga, the landscape is more dangerous than ever before. The two women must trust in each other and work together if they are to make it out alive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LEGSummary: In a world that has become overrun with zombies, two men must figure out how to survive. Wimpy Columbus is afraid of his own shadow, while Tallahassee is the biggest, baddest, gun-toting zombie-slayer who ever lived. When they meet two sisters, Wichita and Little Rock, the four strike out for an amusement park that is said to be zombie-free. This mismatched group will have to rely on each other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ZOMIreland, Justina
Summary: "Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania -- derailing the War between the States and changing the nation forever. In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Negro and Native Reeducation Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. But there are also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC IREBourne, J. L.
Summary: When a weapon that could destroy the moral fabric of humanity is unleashed inside the Syrian border, one man takes a stand against the overwhelming wave of tyranny triggered by martial law, hell-bent on restoring America's liberty and saving civilization as we know it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Bourne 2015Summary: "Joel and Ellie, brought together by harsh circumstance, must survive a brutal journey across the US in a dangerous post-pandemic world. Remastered features ... includes additional game content: delve into Ellie's past in Left behind, the single-player prequel chapter; eight new multiplayer maps in the abandoned and reclaimed territories packs; in-game cinematic commentary"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Henderson, Smith
Summary: "After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, nearly feral eleven-year-old boy living in the Montana wilderness, social worker Pete Snow comes face-to-face with the boy's profoundly disturbed father, Jeremiah. With courage and caution, Pete slowly earns a measure of trust from this paranoid survivalist itching for a final conflict that will signal the coming End Times. But as Pete's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HENAlcott, Kate.
Summary: A spirited woman survives the sinking of the Titanic only to find herself embroiled in the tumultuous aftermath of that great tragedy. Tess is one of the last people to escape into a lifeboat. When an enterprising reporter turns her employer, Lady Duff Gordon, into an object of scorn, Tess is torn between loyalty and the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2012