Dean, Patrick
Summary: "In 1913, four men made a months-long journey by dog sled to the base of the tallest mountain in North America. Several groups had already tried but failed to reach the top of a mountain whose size--occupying 120 square miles of the earth's surface --and position as the Earth's northernmost peak of more than 6,000 meters elevation make it one of the world's deadliest mountains. Although its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 DEAHommer, Ed.
Summary: Ed Hommer discusses his life as an air pilot and mountaineer, how he and a fellow mountain climber survived for four nights with no supplies after their plane crashed on Mount McKinley, his recovery from the episode, life as an amputee, and recent climb of Mount McKinley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 HOMMarriott, Emma
Summary: Discover the incredible journeys of more than 60 explorers from across the world and throughout history in this big, fun, illustrated compendium. Among the adventurers you'll meet are famous figures such as Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, and Roald Amundsen, as well as lesser-known intrepids, including Jeanne Baret, the first woman to circumnavigate the Earth (which she did disguised...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Global Ltd 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910.922 MARHerman, Gail
Summary: Recounts the journey made by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkey to the peak of Mount Everest, the highest location on Earth, highlighting how they used teamwork to make it to the top.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.54 HERKizzia, Tom.
Summary: Kizzia captures an era-defining clash between environmentalists and pioneers ignited by a mesmerizing sociopath who held a town and a family captive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.805 HALE, ROBERT KIZPettrey, Dani.
Summary: "After Kayden McKenna discovers the body of a fellow climber, she and Jake Westin team up to investigate the death--provoking threats on her entire family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETSouthwell, Rex.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Word 2004
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Rozell, Ned
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duquesne University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.98 ROZFletcher, David.
Summary: A lone mountaineer's incredible ordeal when stalked by a three-ton Alaskan grizzly bear bent on his death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf 2002
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Summary: "Firsthand account of a life spent hunting, studying, and living alongside caribou that reveals the fragile, intertwined lives of people and animals surviving through sweeping changes in the Alaskan Arctic"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KANTNER, SETH KANDix, Benjamin
Summary: "In the tradition of Maus, Palestine, and Persepolis, Vanni is a graphic novel documenting the human side of the conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the “Tamil Tigers.” Told from the perspective of a single family, it takes readers through the horrors and life-changing decisions individuals are forced to make when caught up in someone else’s war. Set in the northern region of Sri...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pennsylvania State University Press 2023
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 954.9303 DIXFountain, Henry
Summary: "In the tradition of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm, a riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in recorded history in North America--the 1964 Alaskan earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and obliterated the coastal village of Chenega--and the scientist sent to look for geological clues to explain the dynamics of earthquakes, who helped to confirm the then controversial theory of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.2 FOUPowter, Geoff
Summary: This collection of original and previously published pieces includes provocative editorial and opinion work about the state of adventure, personal tales from a life of exploration and risk-taking, some touches of humour, and award-winning profiles of some of Canada's mountaineering greats. Stories include conversations with and profiles of alpine personalities such as Barry Blanchard, Sonnie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: RMB Rocky Mountain Books Ltd 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 POWTaliaferro, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.802 TALSummary: "Drawn from a cache of personal video recordings from the past 22 years, director Steve Loveridge's Sundance award winning MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. is a startlingly personal profile of the critically acclaimed artist, chronicling her remarkable journey from refugee immigrant to pop star. She began as Matangi. Daughter of the founder of Sri Lanka's armed Tamil resistance, she hid from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MATBermudez, Alyssa
Summary: "In Big Apple Diaries, a heartfelt diary-style graphic memoir by Alyssa Bermudez, a young New Yorker doodles her way through middle school--until the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack leaves her wondering if she can ever be a kid again. It's the year 2000 in New York City. For 12-year old Alyssa, this means splitting time between her Puerto Rican dad's apartment in Manhattan and her white...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BERBerglund, Bruce R.
Summary: "In January 1925, many people in Nome, Alaska, and the surrounding area were sick and dying from an outbreak of diphtheria. A supply of medicine was found but there was one problem-it was hundreds of miles away. The only way to get it to Nome was by dogsled. Ride along with the heroic sled dog Togo and his owner, Leonhard Sepalla, as they make a dangerous journey across Alaska's unforgiving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.73 BERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J636.73 BERAzad, Yasmin
Summary: This sharply insightful memoir depicts a young Muslim girl's struggle to balance the traditions of a loving yet conservative father, who wants to keep her safe, against the more liberal Westernized Sri Lankan world outside. This memoir provides a glimpse into the microcosmic Galle Fort Muslim community of the 1960s post independent Sri Lanka. -- from cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perera-Hussein Publishing House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AZAD, YASMIN AZASummary: The award-winning feature documentary tells the inspiring journey of Cliff, Ahmani, and Nicholas, three underserved teenage boys from Atlanta, attempting to climb four 12,000 ft snowcapped peaks in the heart of the Colorado wilderness, all while overcoming their own personal mountains.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THALende, Heather
Summary: Tiny Haines, Alaska, ninety miles north of Juneau, is accessible mainly by water or air and only when the weather is good. There's no traffic light and no mail delivery; people can vanish without a trace; and funerals are community affairs. As both obituary writer and social columnist for the local newspaper, Heather Lende knows better than anyone the goings-on in this breathtakingly beautiful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 979.82 LENTriplett, Dawn.
Summary: "Brave boys were they! contains the biographies of over four hundred Civil War veterans who lived in Kalkaska County, Michigan. More than two hundred veterans are interred in Kalkaska County cemeteries, some in unmarked graves that are only now being marked with military headstones. The book chronicles the events and activities of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Women's Relief Corp that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dawn Triplett 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7474 TRI1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 977.465 TRI
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 973.7479 TRIMurphy, Brian
Summary: "Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a test flight. Only one ever returned: Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with little more than a parachute on his back when he bailed from his B-24 Liberator before it crashed into the Arctic. Alone in subzero temperatures, Crane managed to stay alive in the dead of the Yukon winter for nearly twelve weeks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CRANE, LEON MURMcGinniss, Joe.
Summary: Presents a study of the illusion and the reality of Sarah Palin.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011