Sattin, Anthony
Summary: "The remarkable story of how nomads have fostered and refreshed civilization throughout our history. Moving across millennia, Nomads explores the transformative and often bloody relationship between settled and mobile societies. Often overlooked in history, the story of the umbilical connections between these two very different ways of living presents a radical new view of human civilization....
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9 SATEnglebert, Victor.
Summary: Wind, Sand, & Silence is an extraordinary photographic document by world traveler/photographer Victor Englebert. Over a period of twenty-six years - from 1965 to 1991 - Englebert lived and traveled with the nomads of Africa. While accompanying them on their journeys across the vast African terrain, or simply living with them in their camps, Englebert captured stunning images of their daily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1992
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 305.9 ENGSummary: "One of the preeminent figures of Iranian cinema, Mohsen Makhmalbaf has written and directed an impressive array of acclaimed films, winning accolades at international film festivals and admiration of world cinema audiences. This collection presents three of his most lyrical works which the director has termed his Poetic Trilogy. Gabbeh tells of an elderly couple who stop by a stream to wash...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN MOHSummary: This is an intentionally poorly animated, comedically fast-paced glimpse into the twisted, surreal world of Xavier, an aesthetically (not to mention morally) objectionable wanderer with delusions of philosophical grandeur. As Xavier lands himself in situations born almost completely out of his twisted incompetence and inability to reason, he attempts to further understand himself and nearly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV XAVGrevemberg, Noami J.
Summary: "In 2016, Noami Grevemberg knew she had to make a big change. Dissatisfied with her office job and her "stationary home," she decided to quit her job, sell her belongings, and set out in her 1985 Volkswagen Vanagon to pursue a life of simplicity and travel with her husband and German Shepherd by her side. In her years living full-time on the road, Noami has become an expert in all things...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Element 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.7 GRESummary: A little girl in a family of nomads in Mongolia finds herself at odds with her family when she brings home a dog her father is certain killed their sheep, and he will not allow her to keep it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tartan Video 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CAVSummary: Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. Along the way, she meets other nomads who become mentors in the vast landscape of the American West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA NOMPeek, Tom
Summary: "Mauna A Novel of Hawai'i is a gripping tale of clashing passions—science and spirituality, vengeance and compassion, fear and courage—set atop Hawaiʻi’s 14,000-foot Mauna Kea, realm of revered goddesses and star-wise explorers. A young vagabond running from America’s turmoil is forced to confront his own grief and rage on an embattled holy mountain in the Pacific. There he encounters a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: All Night Books, an imprint of Easton Studio Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEEDavidson, Robyn
Summary: The author tells of her experiences traveling through a year's migratory cycle with the Rabari nomads of northwest India in 1992.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954.4 DAVMadia, Brianna
Summary: "In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chronicles her adventures traveling across the deserts of the American West in an orange van named Bertha and reflects on an unconventional approach to life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Salh, Shugri Said
Summary: "A fresh, captivating memoir about an indomitable woman's journey from her idyllic childhood with her nomadic grandmother in the deserts of Somalia to her escape from her country's brutal civil war and eventually to America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SALH, SHUGRI SAID SALSummary: Asa is a young Russian naval service dreamer who returns to his sister's nomadic brood on the desloate Hunger Steppe to begin a hardscrabble career as a shepherd. But before he can tend a flock of his own, Asa must win the hand of the only eligible bachelorette for miles, his alluringly mysterious neighbor Tulpan. Accompanied by his girlie magazine-reading sidekick, Asa will stop at nothing to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TULLemberg, R. B.
Summary: "Wind: To match one's body with one's heart. Sand: To take the bearer where they wish. Song: In praise of the goddess Bird. Bone: To move unheard in the night. The Surun' do not speak of the master weaver, Benesret, who creates the cloth of bone for assassins in the Great Burri Desert. But Uiziya now seeks her aunt Benesret in order to learn the final weave, although the price for knowledge may...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tachyon Publications 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEMLessing, Doris May
Summary: In a world destroyed by environmental damage, a people trek north in search of the remnants of civilization. They include two children and it is through their eyes that the novel analyzes the real meaning of civilization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFlamingo 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESLink, Barron
Summary: This book is the culmination of things Elsa and I have learned while exploring the backcountry of the western United States for the last five years. I wrote this to be the handbook I needed when we began our journey; it contains personal stories, esoteric strategies typically left out of nomad Youtube videos, thought patterns we’ve found useful, rigs and climates we like, how we monetized our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barron Link 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.7 LINMay, Molly Caro.
Summary: "Molly Caro May grew up as part of a nomadic family, one proud of their international sensibilities, a tribe that never settled in one place for very long. Growing up moving from foreign country to foreign country, just like her father and grandfather, she became attached to her identity as a global woman from nowhere. But, on the verge of turning thirty years old, everything changed. Molly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pgw 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAY, MOLLY CARO MAYMcDunn, Gillian
Summary: Eleven-year-old Simon is ready to make the Tangerine Pines his forever home, but when a robbery occurs in the apartment building, he and his new friend set out to solve the case and keep his family from moving again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MCDFeehan, Christine
Summary: "Gideon "Eagle" Carpenter is used to rolling with the punches life has thrown at him. It's the only thing that's kept him alive. He and his team of GhostWalkers have seen and experienced it all. He does his best to live with all the sins written on his soul. Then he hears the laughter of a woman with the ability to erase--even for a few previous moments--the darkness of his past. Laurel "Rory"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FEEHarding, Andrew.
Summary: "In The Mayor of Mogadishu, one of the BBC's most experienced foreign correspondents, Andrew Harding, reveals the tumultuous life of Mohamoud 'Tarzan' Nur--an impoverished nomad who was abandoned in a state orphanage in newly independent Somalia, and became a street brawler and activist. When the country collapsed into civil war and anarchy, Tarzan and his young family became part of an exodus,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B NUR HARDINGSuri, Tasha
Summary: "A nobleman's daughter with magic in her blood. An empire built on the dreams of enslaved gods. Empire of Sand is Tasha Suri's captivating, Mughal India-inspired debut fantasy. The Amrithi are outcasts; nomads descended of desert spirits, they are coveted and persecuted throughout the Empire for the power in their blood. Mehr is the illegitimate daughter of an imperial governor and an exiled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FACSummary: In the Gobi Desert, a family of nomads, who assist in the birth of its camel herd, face a crisis when one white calf is rejected by its mother. With all hope lost, the family sends its two young boys on a journey to a far-off village to fetch a musician capable of performing a magical ceremony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2005
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STOBow, Erin
Summary: Twelve--year-old Aisulu defies the expectations of her Kazakh family and tradition to train an eagle in order to save her brother, Serik, and prevent her family from giving up their nomadic life forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Feehan, Christine
Summary: Gideon "Eagle" Carpenter hopes he can persuade Laurel "Rory" Chappel to take a chance on him. But soon life conspires against him, forcing the GhostWalker to risk everything to protect the woman he loves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023