Kuipers, Dean

Summary: "For readers of The Stranger in the Woods and H Is for Hawk, a beautifully written and emotionally rewarding memoir about a father, his three sons, and a scrappy 100-acre piece of land in rural Michigan. Bruce Kuipers was good at hunting and fishing, but not at anything else that makes a real father or husband. Distant, angry, and a serial cheater, he destroyed his relationship with his wife,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KUIPERS, DEAN KUI

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B KUIPERS KUI

Archibald, Brett

Summary: "In April 2013, fifty-year-old Brett Archibald set off with his friends on a dream surf charter trip off the Mentawai Islands of Indonesia. It quickly became a nightmare: in the middle of a storm, suffering from severe food poisoning, Brett leaned overboard--and blacked out. He awoke in the raging sea. No one had seen him fall, and no one heard his shouts for help. He watched his boat sail...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ARCHIBALD, BRETT ARC

Aston, Felicity

Summary: "The story of how British polar explorer Felicity Aston gathered a team of ten women from across Europe and the Middle East to ski over the frozen Arctic Ocean to the North Pole"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge Publishing 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.911 AST

Heywood, Suzanne.

Summary: Aged just seven, Suzanne Heywood set sail with her parents and brother on a three-year voyage around the world. What followed turned instead into a decade-long way of life, through storms, shipwrecks, reefs and isolation, with little formal schooling. No one else knew where they were most of the time and no state showed any interest in what was happening to the children. Suzanne fought her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Collins 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEYWOOD, SUZANNE HEY

Gornall, Jonathan

Summary: "Once an essential skill, the ability to build a clinker boat, first innovated by the Vikings, can seem incomprehensible today. Yet it was the clinker, with its overlapping planks, that afforded us access to the oceans, and its construction has become a lost art that calls to the do-it-yourselfer in all of us. John Gornall heard the call. A thoroughly unskilled modern man, Gornall set out to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Publishing 2019

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 GORNALL, JONATHAN GOR