Robertson, Willie
Summary: Chronicles the history of some of the nation's most famed hunters, from Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett to Kit Carson and Teddy Roosevelt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Howard Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639 ROBFranklin, Jonathan
Summary: The miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history. For fourteen months, Alvarenga survived constant shark attacks. He learned to catch fish with his bare hands. He built a fish net from a pair of empty plastic bottles. Taking apart the outboard motor, he fashioned a huge fishhook. Using fish vertebrae as needles, he stitched together...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 FRACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 FRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival FranklinSummerill, Erin
Summary: Seventeen year-old Britta Flannery is the outcast daughter of a bounty hunter who must use her powers to track her father's killer in a world of warring kingdoms and dangerous magic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION SUMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SUMBender, Michael C.
Summary: "Beginning with President Trump's first impeachment and ending with his second, [this book] chronicles the inside-the-room deliberations between Trump and his campaign team as they opened 2020 with a sleek political operation built to harness a surge of momentum from a bullish economy, a unified Republican Party, and a string of domestic and foreign policy successes--only to watch everything...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 BENHarrod-Eagles, Cynthia
Summary: The year is 1915, and the war is raging on, in this second book in the new series by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles. The series is an epic family drama set against the evocative backdrop of World War I, with a book a year for each year of the war. Set against the real events of 1915, this is a rich and wonderfully depicted drama featuring the Hunter family and their servants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARMehrotra, Rati
Summary: In the pursuit of a better life, seventeen-year-old flower hunter Irinya and her childhood best friend find a priceless silver spider lily, only to have it fall into the wrong hands, leading Irinya on a perilous quest to reclaim the magical flower.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MEHCorreia, Larry.
Summary: Monster Hunter International Five days after Owen Zastava Pitt pushed his insufferable boss out of a fourteenth story window, he woke up in the hospital with a scarred face, an unbelievable memory, and a job offer. It turns out that monsters are real. All the things from myth, legend, and B-movies are out there, waiting in the shadows. Officially secret, some of them are evil, and some are just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COREvan, Erin
Summary: Rome, A.D. 306. Emperor Constantine converts the Roman Empire to Christianity. Over the next two decades, his armies destroy pagan idols across Europe and the Middle East. England, A.D. 1830. Paleontologist Mary Anning writes to Sir Richard Owen, describing a fossil that she discovered in the cliffs of Lyme-Regis. She writes that the fossil is a large wing made of black bone. Montana, A.D....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkshares, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC EVASummary: A four hundred year old clue in the coffin of Sir Francis Drake sets a modern-day fortune hunter on a pulse-pounding exploration for the fabled treasure of El Dorado.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Computer Entertainment 2007
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Summary: "Luke Ransom was just eighteen years old when he answered an ad in a St. Louis newspaper that would change his life forever. The American Fur Company needed one hundred enterprising men to travel up the Missouri River--the longest in North America--all the way to its source. They would hunt and trap furs for one, two, or three years. Along the way, they would face unimaginable hardships:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 1864: As war ravages the nation, on the outskirts of the Civil War, it is business as usual for slave-owners and traders. Will is a fatherless thirteen-year-old boy who survives by working with a white bounty hunter gang. They send him to earn the trust of runaway slaves in order to lure them back to the south. On a dangerous mission into the free north to find Nate, a fugitive freedman, things...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RETThompson, Hunter S.
Summary: Begun in 1959 by a then twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico,in the late 1950s. The autobiographical hero, a young writer dreaming of Hemingway but stuck in a dead-end newspaper job, embarks on a carousing, hell-raising journey through...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2010
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Talarigo, Jeff.
Summary: Set at the turn of the 21st century in China, this novel follows the daily life of a Chinese ginseng hunter. He is little aware of the world outside until shadowy figures hiding in the fields, bodies floating in the river, and rumors of thievery and murder begin to intrude on his cherished solitude. On one of his monthly trips to Yanji, where he buys supplies and visits a brothel, he meets a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALSummary: In the year 12,090 AD, the Earth has fallen into the clutches of vampires. Humans are enslaved by a corrupted feudal system, prey to the whims of vampire aristocrats. Vampire Hunter D is the only being who dares to challenge the authority of the immortal vampires.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Urban Vision Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME VAMHunter, Alberta.
Contents: Two cigarettes in the dark (2:55) -- What shall I do? (2:39) -- Soon (3:01) -- Where the mountains meet the sea (2:50) -- A lonely singing fool (2:43) -- Long may we love (2:55) -- Miss Otis regrets (she's unable to lunch today) (3:10) -- Be still my heart (3:02) -- Stars fell on Alabama (2:56) -- Two little flies on a lump of sugar (2:47) -- I travel alone (3:00).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: DRG Records 1981
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES HUNSummary: Between the two of them, Wynton Marsalis and B.B. King have jazz, classical music, and the blues covered. What are these towering composer/musicians like as writers and performers-and as people? This NewsHour program shares a few moments of their lives to look deeper. Episodes include. * Wynton Marsalis-Jazzing the Pulitzer: Charlayne Hunter-Gault and a 35-year-old Wynton Marsalis talk...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Philip Johnson, who lived for nearly a century, played a significant part in the changing look of that century-from the glass towers that came to dominate so many American cities, to a return to more classical forms, to buildings using a mix of styles in playful ways. This NewsHour program brings together a 1983 interview with Johnson (then a youthful 77) and a retrospective on the master...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Bischer, Karen
Summary: Ellie Agresti's not sure anything could be worse than being dumped by her boyfriend, Hunter, the first day of senior year. But sharing a "life skills" class with him and his new girlfriend, Brynn? AND getting partnered with a "family" of misfits (A.J., the loudmouth; Isaiah, the horse-racing obsessive; and Luke, the tattooed stunt-biker)? It's a recipe for certain disaster...until an in-class...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Swoon Reads 2021