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Summary: "A personal and historical exploration of the Bears Ears country and the fight to save a national monument. The Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah, created by President Obama in 2016 and eviscerated by President Trump in 2017, contains morearchaeological sites than any other region in the United States. It's also a spectacularly beautiful landscape, a mosaic of sandstone canyons...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.2 ROBRoberts, David
Summary: Traces the life of the early twentieth-century adventurer, writer, and watercolor artist, describing his early years as a child prodigy, his solitary journeys through the American Southwest, and his mysterious 1934 disappearance in Navajo country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2011
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Summary: "The riveting story of one of the greatest but least-known sagas in the history of exploration from David Roberts, the "dean of adventure writing." By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centuries. The east coast, however, was another story. In August 1930, Henry George Watkins (nicknamed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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Summary: On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A line of poetry gave him the will to haul himself back to the surface. On February 8, when he staggered back to base, his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MAWSON, DOUGLAS RobRoberts, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 ROBRoberts, David
Summary: A celebrated mountaineer and authorsearches for meaning in great adventuresand explorations, past and present. --Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROBERTS, DAVID ROBRoberts, David
Summary: Imprisonment, hunger strikes, suffrajitsu -- the decades-long fight for women's right to vote was at times a ferocious one. Acclaimed artist David Roberts gives these important, socially transformative times their due in a colorfully illustrated history that includes many of the important faces of the movement in portraiture and scenes that both dignify and enliven. He has created a timely and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 ROBRoberts, David
Summary: Describes the epic journey undertaken by Douglas Mawson, who suffered starvation, the loss of his team, and a crippling foot injury as he resorted to crawling back to base camp during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1913.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2013
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Summary: His two companions were dead, his food and supplies had vanished in a crevasse, and Douglas Mawson was still one hundred miles from camp. On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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Summary: Follows the author's reconstruction of the survival story of four eighteenth-century Russian sailors who were shipwrecked on the barren Arctic island of Svalbard for six years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival RobertsRoberts, David
Contents: Riverside -- The Ford Motor Company of Canada -- Mr. Ford's Canadian Model T -- Victory bonds -- Lockout -- Motoropolis -- McGregor's legacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ray is in a loveless marriage and hopes to escape the monotony when he begins a torrid affair with next-door neighbor Carla. Although she is married to a low-level mobster, she also seeks a little excitement. Ray's moral values are tested to the limit when Carla presents him with a bag of cash from one of her husband's latest crimes. What was to be an opportunity to take the money and run, soon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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Summary: When Miss Greer asks each child in the class to write a story, second-grader Aaron, who loves to draw but struggles with reading, creates a story using pictures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2021
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Summary: When pets go missing in Blue River Creek it is up to Ada to follow the scientific method by making a hypothesis, collecting data, and experimenting to find the missing animals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022
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Summary: Ada Twist is full of questions. A scientist to her very core, she asks why again and again. One question always leads to another until she’s off on a journey of discovery! When Rosie Revere’s Uncle Ned gets a little carried away wearing his famous helium pants, it’s up to Ada and friends to chase him down. As Uncle Ned floats farther and farther away, Ada starts asking lots of questions: How...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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Summary: Ada Twist is a very curious girl who shows perseverance by asking questions and performing experiments to find things out and understand the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2016
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Summary: When Rosie is unable to invent a contraption to help one of Aunt Rose's Raucous Riveters friends, she calls on classmates Iggy Peck and Ada Twist to help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2018
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Summary: Tired of standing still on their old hill, several sheep board an airplane for a round-the-world adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andersen Press 2014
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Summary: Dad has posted a list of chores for the family to do before grandma comes, including bathing the cat; but the cat does not want a bath, so she mixes up the instructions, and soon the family is mowing the floor, vacuuming the lawn, mopping the baby--and the house is in chaos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2021
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Summary: "A young aspiring bear spotter ventures into bear country. But coming face-to-face with the furry creatures themselves, whether black or brown, can be dangerous, and our protagonist, accompanied by a trusty teddy bear, might need to use some unconventional means to stay out of trouble and avoid being (gulp!) eaten"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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Summary: The only American to have climbed all fourteen of the world's eight-thousand-meter peaks sets his sights on Mount Everest, in a work that combines his own climbs as well as narratives of famous climbs throughout the last century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VIETURS, ED VIEAnker, Conrad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.52 ANKClary, Julian
Summary: Two hyenas from Africa find a pair of passports (memo: do not go swimming in a crocodile pool), and move to Teddington, England, where they live suburban lives, hold jobs, and raise their children to hide their tails and act human--the only trouble is oldMr. McNumpty, their nosy neighbor, who is hiding a secret of his own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2016