Summary: Skiing and snowboarding are expected fare in a Warren Miller film, but in Storm there is also surfing, backpacking, mountain biking, and 'urban skiing.' The latter exports skateboarding style tricks to skis, where participants ski on stone, metal, and wooden rails, and even jump a road. A group of gung-ho athletes venture to South Georgia (an island 800 miles east of the Falklands) exploring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marketed by Shout! Factory 2002
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WARCarr, Tim
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 919.712 CARYogerst, Joseph R.
Summary: "This beautifully illustrated guide from National Geographic reveals 500 of the best tent, cabin, glamping, and RV campgrounds-including opening dates, booking information, activity recommendations, and more-in all 50 states and Canada"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.54 YOGCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.54 YOGKrist, Bob.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Arts Center Pub. 2004
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 975.7 KRILassieur, Allison
Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J917.3 LASSummary: Lonely Planet's Georgia & the Carolinas is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the region has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet 2022
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Summary: Describes points of interest in each state, recommends restaurants and hotels, and includes information on shopping, transportation, entertainment, and historical sites.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fodor's Travel 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 910 TRAVEL USAPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: For Black History Month, Ana & Andrew join a research group at the Community Center. They learn many interesting things about Martin Luther King Jr.! Later, with the help of some other children, they make one of Martin's famous dreams come true.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PLASummary: "Provides basic consumer health information about dental hygiene, preventive care, and oral health concerns for children and adults, with facts about surgical, orthodontic, and cosmetic dental procedures, and diseases of the mouth and jaw. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Omnigraphics 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.6 DEASlovo, Gillian
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 SLOHawley, Jonathan Pier
Summary: "An insightful account of lifesaving services by US lightkeepers and surfmen who battled high winds and waves, frigid temperatures and icy shores during their mission to protect lives on Lake Michigan."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4635 HAWHale, Grace Elizabeth
Summary: "In Cool Town, Grace Elizabeth Hale examines the town's flourishing as a Southern alternative culture mecca, emerging out of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s and early 1970s to become home for a set of artistic, social, and political alternatives to northern liberalism or urban punk on the left and Sunbelt Republicanism on the right. In this moment of cultural flourishing, Hale argues, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 HALLawrence, Mike
Summary: "Avani is the new kid in town, and she's not happy about it. Everyone in school thinks she's weird, especially the girls in her Flower Scouts troop. Is it so weird to think scouting should be about fun and adventure, not about makeovers and boys, boys, boys? But everything changes when Avani is 'accidentally' abducted by a spunky alien named Mabel. Mabel is a scout too--a Star Scout. Collecting...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LAWGrann, David
Summary: "On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Audio 2023
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 910 GRACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 910.9164 GRAAston, 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 ASTPatterson, Zahra
Summary: "Taking as its starting point an ultimately failed attempt to translate a Sesotho short story into English, Chronology explores the spaces language occupies in relationships, colonial history, and the postcolonial present. It is a collage of images and documents, folding on words-that-follow-no-chronology, unveiling layers of meaning of queering love, friendship, death, and power. Traveling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ugly Duckling Presse 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 PATCobb, 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: In this portrait of parental sacrifice and the love of a father for his son, former wrestler Kakhi embarks on a journey from his home in the Republic of Georgia to visit his son Soso in the Russian-speaking neighborhood of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. There he finds him living in a shabby boarding house populated by a colorful group of fellow Georgian immigrants. Soso is not studying medicine, as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BRICho, Tina
Summary: Wanting to follow in the footsteps of her free-diving haenyeo grandmother, a young Korean girl dutifully consumes her grandmother's strength-building abalone porridge and practices her breath control before suiting up and overcoming fears to make remarkable discoveries.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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Summary: "When Amy, Frankie, Rachael and Nina reunited for a holiday cruise, it changed their lives. Now they're getting together for another adventure, and what better winter setting than a ski lodge? It's perfect until Frankie goes snowshoeing alone. When she twists her ankle right after losing her phone in the snow, Frankie wonders how she'll be able to summon help--only to be rescued by a reclusive...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: During a troop meeting, a robot messenger delivers Avani some exciting news: she has been invited to join a secret society of elite scouts known as the League of Lasers. She is eager to join their ranks, but first she has to survive her initiation challenge. Stranded on an uncharted planet, Avani must contend with the methane atmosphere, hostile frog-like inhabitants, and her dwindling supplies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second Books 2018
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Summary: Once described by the Washington Post as "the most interesting mayor you've never heard of," Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-six-year-old Democratic mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has improbably emerged as one of the nation's most visionary politicians. First elected in 2011, Buttigieg left a successful business career to move back to his hometown, previously tagged by Newsweek as a "dying city,"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2019