Summary: Follows a wayward California brown pelican from her "arrest" on the Golden Gate Bridge into care at a wildlife rehabilitation facility, and from there explores pelicans' nesting grounds, Pacific coast migration and survival challenges.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PELLevitt, Paul M.
Summary: "Wherever stories are told, in whatever language, life and death hold center stage, along with pain and glee, mystery and magic, fools and foes, deceit and decency. This book has them all. Here, in embellishments upon the folklore of Native American tribes from the Pacific Northwest, are tales that seek to explain the world, dispel its darkness, and celebrate its light. So, meet a sorcerer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taylor Trade Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398 LEVRaban, Jonathan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.982 RABSides, Hampton
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 910.92 SIDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.92 SIDNickum, Nora
Summary: The endangered Southern Resident orcas whistle and click their way around the waters of the Pacific Northwest in three small family groups while facing boat noise, pollution, and scarce food. Superpod introduces young readers to the experts who are training scat-sniffing dogs, inventing ways to treat sick orcas, quieting the waters, studying whales from the air, and speaking out. Author Nora...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.53 NICProudfit, Benjamin
Summary: "The Pacific Coast Highway, or PCH, has inspired five songs, two albums, and many people who travel its scenic length in California. Part of California Route 1, the Pacific Coast Highway is one of the most beautiful drives travelers can take in the United States, as much of it overlooks the Pacific Ocean! The full-color photographs of this route will transport readers to the West Coast as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.4 PRORidley, Scott.
Summary: Four years after the Revolutionary War, America's independence was still in doubt. The new nation needed money and a vital surge in trade. In 1787, a group of Boston merchants decided to send two ships on a desperate mission around Cape Horn and into the Pacific Ocean, to establish new trade with China, settle an outpost on territory claimed by the Spanish, and find the legendary Northwest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENDRICK, JOHN RidleyWilliams, Glyndwr.
Contents: El Mar del Sur : the Spanish lake -- "The world encompassed" : Drake and his successors -- Geographical enigmas and literary utopias -- "They were not come out to go upon discovery" : buccaneers and interlopers in the South Sea -- "I speak as to the compass of my own knowledge" : Dampier's explorations and writings -- The "cruising voyages" of Dampier and Rogers -- "A gross, palpable illusion"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 995 WILSpectre, Peter H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sheridan House 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.82 SPEHall, Ron
Summary: The co-author relates how he was held under plantation-style slavery until he fled in the 1960s and suffered homelessness for an additional eighteen years before the wife of the other co-author, an art dealer accustomed to privilege, intervened.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2006
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HALL, RON HALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem HallCase, Jonathan
Summary: In the twenty-second century, a sun shift has made it impossible for mammals to survive in the daylight, and ten-year-old Elvie and her caretaker, Flora, are studying the migration route of monarch butterflies along what used to be the western coast of the United States, hoping that something in the butterflies wing scales can be used to protect people from the sun and save humanity from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 CASCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC CASCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC CAS (Graphic Novel)Yasuda, Anita
Summary: "Introduces the main native nations of the United States' northwestern coast, including the Tlingit, Nuu-chah-nulth, Makah, Haida, Chinook, Nisga'a, Puyallup, and Tsimshian nations. The nations' historical significance, cultural highlights, and contemporary life are all examined through respectful text and well-chosen photos. Additional features to enhance comprehension include informative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.5 YASNúñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar
Summary: "This edition of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca'a Relacion offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's celebrated translation of Cabeza de Vaca's account of the 1527 Panfilo de Narvaez expedition to North America. The dramatic narrative tells the story of some of the first Europeans and the first-known African to encounter the North American wilderness and its Native inhabitants. It is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970 NUNPress, Petra.
Summary: Explores the culture of the peoples who lived along the coastline from what is now southern Alaska to northern California, focusing on their life before contact with Europeans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Courage Books 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.4 PRECobb, Daniel M.
Summary: Join the Smithsonian Institution to discover the rich history of native Americans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 NATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD NATSummary: Get up close to the wildlife, see the many natural wonders of Cape Town, drive along the beautiful coastline, and visit the village of Franschhoek, in the heart of wine country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Questar, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 916.804 BESVorhees, Mara
Summary: Lonely Planet's Costa Rica is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the country has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Trek through dense jungles in Parque Nacional Corcovado, swim under Montezuma Waterfalls and catch waves on Santa Teresa; all with your trusted travel companion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Traces the personal crisis the author endured after the death of her mother and a painful divorce, which prompted her ambition to undertake a dangerous thousand-mile solo hike that both drove her to rock bottom and helped her to heal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 STRAYED, CHERL STRCalloway, Colin G. (Colin Gordon)
Summary: " ... A large number of Native leaders were well acquainted with city life. In fact, over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries they were in town often, regularly traveling to Albany, Boston, Charleston, Philadelphia, Montreal, Quebec, New York and New Orleans -- primarly to conduct diplomatic or trade business, but often from a sense of curiosity and adventure. Some were even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.2 CALWaterman, Jonathan
Summary: "This breathtaking book highlights the most glorious wilderness areas and nature preserves in North America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2023
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Summary: "Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAILHOT, TERESE MARIE MAIWilson, Joseph S.
Summary: This book provides an introduction to the roughly 4,000 different bee species found in the United States and Canada, dispelling common myths about bees while offering tips for telling them apart in the field. The book features more than 900 color photos of the bees living all around us -- in our gardens and parks, along nature trails, and in the wild spaces between. It describes their natural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2016
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Summary: Presents information about the harbor seals and other marine mammals that seek refuge in a seal garden in the Great Bear Sea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2018
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Summary: This collection of five tales represents the first written record of Chief Lelooska's tellings of the ancient myths and legends that have been a part of the oral tradition of the Northwest Coast Indians for centuries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Ink in association with Callaway Editions 1997