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Adventure and adventurers United States Biography Authors, American 20th century Family relationships Buckley, Christopher 1952- Family Buckley, William F. (William Frank) 1925-2008 Death and burial Buckley, William F. (William Frank) 1925-2008 Last years da Vinci Leonardo 1452-1519 Hitchhiking Alaska McCandless, Christopher Johnson 1968-1992 Parents Death Psychological aspects Wayfaring life AlaskaMcDougall, Christopher
Summary: McDougall reveals the secrets of the world's greatest distance runners--the Tarahumara Indians of Copper Canyon, Mexico--and how he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of super-athletic Americans.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.42 MCDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.42 McDSummary: A journey in the footsteps of the enigmatic young American named Chris McCandless, who vanished and ultimately perished in the Alaskan wilderness. New interviews and never before released letters probe the mystery behind the best-selling book and movie 'Into the Wild.'
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV RETSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless instead walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people - a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. Based on a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Into 2007Krakauer, Jon.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 1999
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MCCANDLESS, CHRISTOPHER KRAKrakauer, Jon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.98 KRASummary: Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless instead walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people - a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. Based on a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INTCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INT RATED RRobinson, Andrew
Summary: The extraordinarily inventive Linus Pauling, twice winner of the Nobel Prize, was asked how he came to have so many good ideas. Pauling replied: "Well, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones." Where do ideas come from? And why do the best ideas sometimes strike in a flash of "sudden genius"? Andrew Robinson here offers a fascinating look at the genesis of creativity in science and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.35 ROBSorrentino, Christopher
Summary: "When Christopher Sorrentino's mother died in 2017, it marked the end of a journey that had begun eighty years earlier in the South Bronx. Victoria's life took her to the heart of New York's vibrant mid-century downtown artistic scene, to the sedate campus of Stanford, and finally back to Brooklyn--a journey witnessed by a son who watched, helpless, as she grew more and more isolated,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SORRENTINO, CHRISTOPHER SORRubin, Susan Goldman
Summary: Twelve diverse actors, directors, writers, editors, designers, and producers fought against sexism, racism and prejudice to have their voices heard and changed the industry forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 RUBRule, Ann.
Summary: About the inexplicable and violent death of Hawaiian Airlines Pilot Chris Northon in a lonely campground in Wallowa County, Oregon.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A deft politician and skillful diplomat, TR's magnetic personality and genius for publicity made him a legend in his own time. Through archival footage and interviews with historians, this is an engaging portrait of the private man and the president who created the modern American presidency.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2008
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PRERule, Ann.
Summary: About the inexplicable and violent death of Hawaiian Airlines Pilot Chris Northon in a lonely campground in Wallowa County, Oregon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.152 RULWeir, Alison
Summary: "Packed with dramatic true stories from one of European history's most romantic and turbulent eras, this epic narrative chronicles the five vividly rendered queens of the Plantagenet kings who ruled England between 1299 and 1399. The Age of Chivalry describes a period of medieval history dominated by the social, religious, and moral code of knighthood that prized noble deeds, military greatness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WEIWard, Yvonne
Summary: In 1901, two literary gentlemen were appointed a novel task: to preserve the memory of Queen Victoria in her own words. By the time they were finished, 460 volumes of the Queen's correspondence had become just three; their decisions--and distortions--would influence perceptions of Victoria for generations to come. The editors chosen for the task were deeply eccentric and complicated men. Baron...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.081 WARBlack, Michelle Richmond
Summary: Drawing on exclusive interviews with the survivors of her husband's unit, research into the military leadership and accountability and her own unique vantage point as a gold star widow, the author sets out to find the truth behind her Green Beret husband's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.88 BLALeonetti, Ron
Summary: From the Publisher: "Celebrated photographers Ron Leonetti and Christopher Jordan explore the diversity of Michigan landscapes in their latest collection of photographs. Forests, prairies, savannas, wetlands, the shorelines of four Great Lakes, and the variety of terrain that crosses the Upper Peninsula are featured in more than 140 color images. Of Woods and Water conveys the natural allure...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quarry Books/Indiana University Press 2008
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.36 LEOHitchens, Christopher
Summary: "At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as "the four horsemen," the heralds of religion's unravelling--Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett--sat down over cocktails for a filmed discussion. The video of the enthralling, path breaking evening that followed was released on YouTube and soon went viral. This is intellectual inquiry at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: As the enormously popular mystery series returns, World War II is over, but the Cold War simmers in 1946 London. DCS Christopher Foyle has retired from police work when Britain's secret intelligence service compels him to join its ranks. Reunited with his former colleague, newlywed Sam Wainwright, Foyle faces new--but no less deadly--threats in the world of spies and counterintelligence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by RLJ Entertainment 2013
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYDeng, Sally
Summary: "An empowering and informative picture book biography about Khutulun, the great-great-granddaughter of Genghis Khan, and how she defied the expectations of her time to become commander of the Khan's army"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KHUPayne, Christopher
Summary: "For more than half the nation's history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent feature of the American landscape. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, over 250 institutions for the insane were built throughout the United States; by 1948, they housed more than a half million patients. The blueprint for these hospitals was set by Pennsylvania hospital superintendant Thomas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIT Press 2009
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 362.2 PAYBuckley, Christopher
Summary: Bestselling author Buckley's most personal and transcendent work--the tragicomic true story of the year in which he lost both of his parents. The author offers consolation, wit, and warmth to those coping with the death of a mother or father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 BUCKLEY, CHRISTOPHER BUCReeve, Christopher
Summary: Drawing on his own personal experiences and those of others, the author explains how to overcome seemingly insurmountable problems and challenges and advocates living life fully with gratitude, zeal, and curiosity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 791.43 REEPurnell, Karl H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Horizon Press 2001