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Aircraft accidents Andes Region Cannibalism Andes Region Graphic novels Secrecy Secrecy Comic books, strips, etc Shipwrecks North Atlantic Ocean Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc Fiction Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc Juvenile fiction Titanic (Steamship)Lassieur, Allison.
Summary: "Describes the fight for survival during the sinking of the ship Titanic"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC LASCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LASParrado, Nando
Summary: A survivor of the horrific 1972 plane crash that stranded his rugby team in the Andes for seventy-two days provides his account of the ordeal and of his desperate expedition across seventy miles of frozen wilderness to find help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 982 PARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival ParradoShirai, Kaiu
Summary: "The children of the Grace Field House orphanage must escape a macabre fate before it's too late. Life at Grace Field House is good for Emma and her fellow orphans. While the daily studying and exams they have to take are tough, their loving caretaker provides them with delicious food and plenty of playtime. But perhaps not everything is as it seems... In order to save a dying family member,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 PRODruett, Joan.
Summary: Describes how the crews of two different vessels became shipwrecked on opposite ends of the same deserted island and the very different experiences of the two groups--one of which through sheer determination and fortitude overcame the challenges of theirenvironment, while the other descended into complete anarchy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.399 DRUKinder, Gary.
Summary: The riveting true account of death, danger, and discovery on the high seas in the dramatic search for America's greatest lost treasure. In September 1857, the side-wheel streamer S.S. Central America, carrying five hundred passengers and tons of gold from the mountains of California, sank in a hurricane off the Carolina coast. Lost in legend for more than a century, the tragic story resurfaced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.452 KINSummary: On October 13, 1972, a young rugby team from Montevideo, Uruguay, boarded a plane for a match in Chile, then vanished into thin air. Sixteen of the 45 passenger resurfaced, 72 days after their plane crashed. Thirty-five years later, the survivors returned to tell their story in their own words.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STRRead, Piers Paul
Summary: On October 12, 1972, an Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying a teamof rugby players crashed in the remote snowy peaks of the Andes. Ten weeks later, only sixteen of the forty-five passengers were found alive. This is the story of those ten weeks spent in the shelter of the plane's fuselage without food and with scarcely any hope of a rescue. The survivors protected and helped one another, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 982 READCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 982.6 ReaClements, Andrew
Summary: The fifth grade's annual camping trip in the woods tests Mark's survival skills and his ability to relate to a teacher who seems out to get him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CLEPaulsen, Gary.
Summary: On his way to visit his recently divorced father in the Canadian mountains, thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is the only survivor when the single-engine plane crashes. His body battered, his clothes in shreds, Brian must now stay alive in the boundless Canadian wilderness.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 1992
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Place a hold to request this item.Souhami, Diana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 996.18 SOUAndrade, Allan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tern Book Co. 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.545 ANDKearns, David A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 998 KEAJessop, Violet
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sheridan House 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.452 JESCorsetti, Emilio.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Odyssey Publishing 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.124 CORDefoe, Daniel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press Book Publishers 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DEFWard, Nick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.1 WARSchumacher, Michael.
Summary: From the Publisher: By the author of Mighty Fitz, the dramatic account of the sinking of the Carl D Bradley on Lake Michigan, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the wreck. At approximately 5:30 PM on November 18, 1958, the Carl D Bradley, a 623-foot limestone carrier caught in one of the most violent storms in Lake Michigan history, snapped in two and sank within minutes. Four of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.452 SCHCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival SchumacherTougias, Mike
Summary: In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal nor'easter in years. While the storm raged on the freezing Atlantic, two oil tankers, the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer, found themselves in the same predicament. Not built to withstand those seas, both tankers split in two. This is the gripping, true story of the Coast Guard's valiant attempt to rescue the dozens of men left...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 910.9163 TOUBazterrica, Agustina Maraia
Summary: Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans-- though no one calls them that anymore. First an infectious virus made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the "Transition." Now, eating "special meat" is legal. Then one day he is given a live specimen of the finest quality. Though aware that any form of personal contact is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Kantar, Andrew.
Contents: The great November terror -- The sweetwater sea -- Death on Huron -- The Morrell's world -- Outward bound -- The witch of November -- Madness at sea -- Chaos! -- A nightmare without end -- Where is the Morrell? -- "Waiting to die" -- And the bodies keep coming -- Human wreckage -- Seeking answers -- Epilogue -- Morrell crew list.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.452 KANLandis, Geoffrey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANMartel, Yann.
Summary: Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World 2006
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MARMarkle, Sandra.
Summary: "... shows how people use their brains, as well as their bravery, to rescue people in trouble all over the world"--Front flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.3481 MARShakespeare, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1999