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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.099 VOWSummary: Justine Shapiro follows the Blue Ridge Parkway, journeying to Tennessee and the city of Nashville. She visits its famous country music sites and the old plantation home of US President, Andrew Jackson. Justine then hits the legendary Route 66, stopping at a giant cattle auction in Oklahoma City. She then joins the 'Trail of Tears' memorial walk for Native Americans before crossing the Texas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 GLOWhite, Mel
Summary: "This reference is the ultimate travel planner for all things national parks, scenic trails, seashores, historic areas, and more"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 UNITED STATES WHICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.304 WHICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 917.304 WHILong, McKenzie
Summary: "One woman's enlightening trek through the natural histories, cultural stories, and present perils of thirteen national monuments, from Maine to Hawaii This land is your land. When it comes to national monuments, the sentiment could hardly be more fraught. Gold Butte in Nevada, Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks in New Mexico, Katahdin Woods and Waters in Maine, Cascade-Siskiyou in Oregon and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 LONSummary: For three years, the Driftwood, a 60-foot motor yacht, and its modern-day band of explorers traveled along 25,000 miles of North American waterways rediscovering the sites and sounds of a continent that has fascinated and challenged adventurers for hundreds of years. Join the crew of sailors and young filmmakers in this 13-part series as they sample the substance, the spirit and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.304 ONYogerst, Joseph R.
Summary: From a vineyard route through Northwest wine country to a winter wonderland on Alberta's Icefields Parkway, this informative travel guide offers epic sights, good bites, and pure fun. Pack your car and hit the road to experience 100 drives--both classic and off the beaten track--across the United States and Canada. You'll find innovative itineraries outlining your route, along with when to go...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 UNITED STATES YOGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 YOGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 YOGWhite, Mel
Summary: From New England to Alaska, this 544 page resource is filled with helpful advice, historical background, and practical facts on how to reach scores of park system properties, when to go, and what to do there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 WHICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 WHICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 WHICotter, Tom
Summary: "Tom Cotter undertakes his most epic adventure in America's Greatest Road Trip. Launching from Key West, Florida, Cotter and photographer Michael Alan Ross pilot their Ford Bronco/Airstream camper combination nearly 9,000 miles to America's literal end of the road in Deadhorse, Alaska"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Motorbooks 2023
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Summary: "The epic road trips-and surprising friendship-of John Burroughs, nineteenth-century naturalist, and Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, inventors of the modern age"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3048 DAVHeat Moon, William Least
Summary: Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least-Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map--if they get on at all--only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.304 HEASummary: Filmmaker Joe Cross, recently obese and unhealthy, travels the United States promoting to all he encounters a lifestyle "reboot" centered around consuming only fruit and vegetable juices. Along the way he meets Phil Staples, a morbidly obese man to whom Cross offers his reboot cure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RebootYourLife 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FATLaskas, Jeanne Marie
Summary: "Character-driven stories about the people who make our lives run every day--and yet we barely think of them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 305.5 LASGuinn, Jeff
Summary: "A brilliant portrait of two American giants, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, and America entering the automobile age, told through the fascinating but little-known narrative of the summer road trips taken by Edison and Ford"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GUIJacobson, Abbi
Summary: When Broad City star Abbi Jacobson announced that she planned to drive across the country alone, she was met with lots of questions and opinions. Why wasn't she going with friends? Wouldn't it be incredibly lonely? The North route is better! Was it safe for a woman? The Southern route is the way to go! You should bring mace! And a common one: Why? But Abbi had always found comfort in solitude...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 814 JACCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACOBSON, ABBI JACLaskas, Jeanne Marie
Summary: Looks at the remarkable men and women whose low-profile accomplishments contribute to the running of the nation, from coal miners and oil rig workers to migrant laborers and air traffic controllers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.562 LASConaway, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shoemaker & Hoard 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.30492 CONRoberson, Blythe
Summary: Blythe Roberson quits her day job and sets off to visit America's national parks, all the while pondering the question: Is quitting society for the road about enlightenment and liberty, or is it just selfish escapism?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 917.304 RobersonHathaway, Margaret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.3 HathawayPhilbrick, Nathaniel
Summary: "Does George Washington still matter? The bestselling author argues for his unique contribution to the forging of America by retracing his journey as a new President through the former colonies, now an unsure nation. A new first-person voice for Philbrick, weaving history and personal reflection into one narrative. When George Washington became president in 1798, the United States of America...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 PHICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US Pres PhilbrickKaplan, Robert D.
Summary: "As a boy, Robert Kaplan recalls his father driving trucks across the country to earn a living for his family, a man who witnessed and understood America from a ground-level perspective. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation and understanding of American geography that is often lost in the jet age. Along the way, he witnesses both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 KAPIlʹf, Ilʹi͡a︡
Contents: The Road -- The Small Town -- Americans -- At the Birthplace of Mark Twain -- The Desert -- Indians -- California -- Hollywood -- Advertising -- Negroes -- New York.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cabinet Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 ILFJenkins, Jedidiah
Summary: "In this poignant memoir from the New York Times bestselling author of To Shake the Sleeping Self, a forty-year-old gay man and his eccentric conservative mother travel the country together and find surprising answers to our generational and cultural rifts. When his mother, Barbara, turned seventy, Jedidiah Jenkins was reminded of a palpable, sobering truth: Our parents won't live forever. For...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Convergent 2023
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Summary: "Oliver returns with his 10th cookbook, this one a colorful and quirky look at down-home American cooking. Traveling to the cities of New York and Los Angeles, as well as Louisiana, Georgia, Arizona, and Wyoming, Oliver paints a somewhat unbalanced portrait of American cuisine"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 OLIHunt, Linda
Summary: In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America. Hoping to save her family's farm, Helga and her teenaged daughter Clara, armed with little more than a compass, red-pepper spray, a revolver, and Clara's curling iron, set out on foot from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2005