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Best road trips Culture smart! Kaufman field guide Lonely Planet guidebooks You chooseBaker, Mark
Summary: Discover the freedom of open roads with Lonely Planet's Midwest & the Great Lakes' Best Road Trips. This trusted travel companion features a collection of amazing drives, from day escapes to multi-week adventures. Follow the Tribal Trails, see Highway 61's vistas, and conquer Chicago. Get to the Midwest & Great Lakes, rent a car, and hit the road! Itineraries for classic road trips plus other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet 2022
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Summary: Writing from the Center is about one very fine writer's quest for a meaningful and moral life. The center he seeks and describes is geographical, emotional, artistic, and spiritual - and it is rooted in place. The geography is midwestern, the impulses are universal. Where and how do we find meaning? Where does a writer find inspiration? How can personal, artistic, family, and community needs be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Indiana University Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 SANLaskin, David
Summary: January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked to school without coats and gloves. But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. One moment the air was calm; the next the sky exploded in a raging chaos of horizontal snow and hurricane-force winds. Temperatures...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US LaskinContents: Plan your trip. On the road. New York City -- New York State -- New Jersey -- Philadelphia -- Pennsylvania -- Washington, DC -- Delaware -- Maryland -- Virginia -- West Virginia -- Understand. Survival guide. Special features.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Global Limited 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.404 LONKaufman, Kenn
Summary: Whether you're walking in the woods, camping, hiking, canoing, or just enjoying your own backyard, this book will help identify all your nature discoveries, including birds, mammals, tress, wildflowers, insects, reptiles, amphibians, fish, spiders, mushrooms, ferns, grasses, even constellations overhead and rocks underfoot it's all here. With authoritative and broad coverage, using nontechnical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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Summary: Looks at the boom and bust of America's upper Midwest and Great Lakes region, tracing its role as a leader in manufacturing, the forces that shaped it, and the innovations and industrial fallouts that brought about its downfall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.977 MCCClampitt, Cynthia
Summary: "The Midwest's place at the crossroads of the nation makes it a rich travel destination for anyone interested in the history and heritage of the United States. Cynthia Clampitt's guide to heartland historical sites invites readers to live the past, whether it's watching a battlefield reenactment or wandering the grounds of an ancient Native American city. From the National Underground Railroad...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 3 Fields Books, an imprint of University of Illinois Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.70 CLABuhayer, Constantine
Summary: For much of its history Cyprus was regarded as the Cinderella of empires--beautiful, abused, isolated. Today, the island is divided between the Greek-Cypriot south and the Turkish occupied north. However, both sides take pride in a shared "Cypriotness," and are united in their common hopes, pain, memories, music, excellent cuisine, rich history, and majestic landscape.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kuperard 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.693 CYPSinclair, Iain
Summary: "The visionary writer Iain Sinclair turns his sights to the Beat Generation in America in his most epic journey yet "How best to describe Iain Sinclair?" asks Robert Macfarlane in The Guardian. "A literary mud-larker and tip-picker? A Travelodge tramp (his phrase)? A middle-class dropout with a gift for bullshit (also his phrase)? A toxicologist of the twenty-first-century landscape? A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SINCLAIR, IAIN SINSummary: Each issue of Game & Fish Midwest details proven local strategies for whitetails, turkeys, bass, walleyes and more. Discover the best places to hunt and fish from North Dakota to Kentucky, and learn the top times for success in the field and on the water. Get info on hot new gear and how it performs, as well as updates on trends, regulations, seasons and destinations to help you plan your next...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Outdoor Sportsman Group 2019
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Summary: General index map of Automobile routes showing main highways in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Kentucky with correct geographical location of cities and towns, also adjacent Tennessee, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Automobile Blue Book Publishing Co. 1920
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 912 OFFGeisert, Bonnie.
Summary: Describes a year in the life of a prairie town including the effect of seasons and of economics on the ebb and flow of this agricultural community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 307.72 GEICollins, Ailynn
Summary: "It is January 12, 1888, and you are caught by surprise by a powerful blizzard that sweeps across the Midwest. Dangerously cold temperatures, high winds, and deep snow make travel nearly impossible. Will you be able to find your way home through the storm after leaving school? Can you find your father after he becomes lost in the blinding snow? Will you be able to help your students find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 ANDGiffels, David.
Summary: "Award-winning author and journalist David Giffels explores the meaning of identity and place, hamburgers, hard work, and basketball in this collection of wry, irreverent essays reflecting on the many aspects of Midwestern culture and life from an insider's perspective.The Industrial Midwest built modern America, thrived for almost a century, then profoundly collapsed. But for cities like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0977 GIFMorris, Roy.
Summary: Acclaimed literary biographer Roy Morris carefully sorts fact from fiction to tell the story of a young genius finding his voice in the ramshackle mining camps, boomtowns, and newspaper offices of the wild and woolly West, while the Civil War rages half a continent away.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TWAIN, MARK MORShapiro, Aaron.
Summary: "This book tells the story of how northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and Michigan's Upper Peninsula became a tourist paradise, turning a scarred industrial countryside into the playground we know today. Aaron Shapiro describes how residents and visitors reshaped the region from a landscape of exploitation to a vacationland and reveals how leisure--and tourism in particular--has shaped...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.479 SHAVogler, Kevan
Contents: Land and people -- Values and attitudes -- Festivals and traditions -- Making friends -- At home -- Time out -- Travel, health, and safety -- Business briefing -- Communicating.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kuperard 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.37 CZEMcNamee, Lyn
Summary: "Don't just see the sights-get to know the people. New Zealand, or Aotearoa (the Land of the Long, White Cloud ) as it is known by the Maori population, is a land of myth and reality, contrast and contradiction, rolling hills and glacial mountains, native bush and gentle farmland. Its people are friendly and welcoming and will often go the extra mile to help you without expecting anything in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kuperard 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.3 NEWMcPherson, Charlotte
Summary: At first glance, Turkey may seem Westernized and entirely "modern" -- but appearances can be misleading. It is above all a land of contrasts, a heady mixture of Oriental etiquette and ultramodern city life, deep-rooted religious faith and determined secularism, a fierce sense of national pride and openness to foreign ideas. The Turkish people are very much their own center of gravity, and for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kuperard Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.61 TURHomoya, Michael A. (Michael Allison)
Summary: "The broad reach of this field guide will lead readers to wildflowers occurring commonly in regions across the Midwest. This eight-state region (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa) contains a surprising variety of ecosystems. This field guide will feature more than 1,000 species in all major midwestern environments, such as forests and woodlands,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2022
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 582.13 HOMHill, Laban Carrick
Summary: Explores the literary, artistic, and intellectual creativity of the Harlem Renaissance and discusses the lives and work of Louis Armstrong, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and other notable figures of the era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 810.9 HILJohnson, Diane
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Le Divorce, a dazzling meditation on the mysteries of the "wispy but material" family ghosts who shape us. Growing up in the small river town of Moline, Illinois, Diane Johnson always dreamed of floating down the Mississippi and off to see the world. Years later, at home in France, a French friend teases her: 'Indifference to history--that's why...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2014