Martel, Yann.
Summary: Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2003
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MARMartel, Yann.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MartelMartel, Yann.
Summary: After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship in the Pacific, one solitary lifeboat remains, carrying a hyena, a zebra, a female orangutan, a Bengal tiger, and a 16-year-old Indian boy named Pi. His story is a dazzling work of imagination that will delight and astound listeners in equal measure. It is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will as one character puts it, make you believe in God.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAR
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MartelCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MARMartel, Yann.
Summary: After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship in the Pacific, one solitary lifeboat remains, carrying a hyena, a zebra, a female orangutan, a Bengal tiger, and a 16-year-old Indian boy names Pi. His story is a dazzling work of imagination that will delight and astound listerners in equal measure. It is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will as one character puts it, make you believe in God.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MARMartel, Yann.
Summary: Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World 2006
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MARMartel, Yann.
Summary: Like "Life of Pi, Beatrice and Virgil" uses animals to discuss the human condition, in this case, to address the atrocities of the Holocaust. At the center of the novel is the relationship between two Henrys, a novelist and a taxidermist, who collaborate on a play about a donkey and a howler monkey who have survived a genocide. Heartbreaking and utterly original, the novel asks enduring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MARMartel, Yann.
Summary: Like "Life of Pi, Beatrice and Virgil" uses animals to discuss the human condition, in this case, to address the atrocities of the Holocaust. At the center of the novel is the relationship between two Henrys, a novelist and a taxidermist, who collaborate on a play about a donkey and a howler monkey who have survived a genocide. Heartbreaking and utterly original, the novel asks enduring...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010