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"A revelatory memoir of the author's efforts to develop the strength and resilience to survive in the demanding landscapes of Norway and Alaska describes her physically exhausting survival endeavors on a ruthless arctic tundra marked by violent natural and human threats. 30,000 first printing,"--NoveList.
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Pilot Productions
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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"Lush with palm trees and surrounded by turquoise oceans, the Caribbean Islands are real picture postcards. Join your host Zoe as she looks beyond these images to discover a hybrid of English, African and French culture and the magical landscapes found away from the golden beaches--Container.
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National Geographic Television
Pub. Date
©2012
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English
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"India proves to be an extraordinarily diverse country, its landscape shared between one-fifth of the world's human population and its spectacular wildlife. Viewers are invited to celebrate a land of beautiful and varied extremes as we venture 21,000 feet up in the Himalayas to the source of the Brahmaputra, one of Asia's great rivers, fed by billions of drops of melting ice. We'll meet the endangered one-horned rhinoceros and learn why Indian wild...
6) The skin map
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A Bright Empires novel volume 1
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English
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When Kit Livingstone finds out that the ley lines throughout Britain are pathways to other worlds, he sets out on a quest to find the Skin Map--the body of the most storied explorer who tattooed the ley lines' codes on his skin.
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After graduating from college, Jennifer isn't sure what she wants to do with her life. She is drawn to the Appalachian Trail, a 2175-mile footpath that stretches from Georgia to Maine. Though her friends and family think she's crazy, she sets out alone to hike the trail, hoping it will give her time to think about what she wants to do next. The next four months are the most physically and emotionally challenging of her life. She quickly discovers...
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[2022]
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English
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"Over the last forty years, Stuart Woods has written more than ninety novels of suspense and intrigue, beginning with the award-winning Chiefs. Featuring iconic crime-fighting and jet-setting leads, the plots are masterfully conceived and wonderfully escapist. What many readers don’t know is that Woods's very own life was filled with similar stories of adventure. Born in Georgia, Woods worked in advertising in New York, served in the US Air...
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PublicAffairs
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2022.
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English
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"A celebrated travel writer tells the story of the tiny, fascinating island of Pitcairn, home of precisely 49 people, all descendants of the original founders of the island, the famous mutineers who were the basis for the novels and movie, The Mutiny On the Bounty. The public has been fascinated by Pitcairn since tales of it first started spreading in the early 1900s. But beyond the fictional Mutiny on the Bounty trilogy, there's never been a true...
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"For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in the Colombia of the 1980s and 1990s in a house where "what did you dream?" was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy and violence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. As a young girl, Rojas Contreras eavesdropped...
11) Off the rails
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Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Three best friends from college recreate their post-graduation trip across Europe to honor the memory of their friend Anna. Joining Kate, Liz, and Cassie, is Anna's 18-year-old daughter Maddie fulfilling her mother's last wish to have them take this trip with her. When lost passports, train strikes, and romantic entanglements get in their way, they put old feuds aside to complete the journey and remind themselves that they are still at their peak....
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • #1 Indie Next Pick • Winner of the PEN New England Award
"Enchanting...A book filled with so much love...Long before Oregon, Rinker Buck has convinced us that the best way to see America is from the seat of a covered wagon." —The Wall Street Journal
"Amazing...A real nonfiction thriller." —Ian Frazier, The New York Review of Books
"Absorbing...Winning...The...
"Enchanting...A book filled with so much love...Long before Oregon, Rinker Buck has convinced us that the best way to see America is from the seat of a covered wagon." —The Wall Street Journal
"Amazing...A real nonfiction thriller." —Ian Frazier, The New York Review of Books
"Absorbing...Winning...The...
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Independently published
Pub. Date
© 2012
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English
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"Cascade Summer is the story of Bob Welch's 452-mile hike on the Oregon portion of the Pacific Crest Trail in 2011. Adventure, breathtaking views, and new friends from around the world - the trip had it all. But there was no way the author was prepared for the bittersweet ending."--Publisher's description.
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Pilot Productions
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Bobby begins his journey in Lima exploring some of the plentiful produce on offer. With the help of local Chefs and Restaurateurs, Bobby learns how the discovery of the Americas transformed the kitchens of the world and how in turn the Spanish influenced the Peruvian palette.
15) Jerusalem
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MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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An inspiring and eye-opening tour of one of the world's oldest and most enigmatic cities. Destroyed and rebuilt countless times over 5,000 years, the city's enduring appeal remains a mystery. What made it so important to so many different cultures? How did it become the center of the world for three major religions? Why does it still matter to people?
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 23
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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"On his way to visit an inmate at a Texas prison who has promised him information, Detective Dave Robicheaux stops off at an amusement park to watch a teenaged Elvis-like rock-and-roller from his hometown of New Iberia named Johnny Shondell playing to a crowd of swooming young girls. One of them is another New Iberia teenager named Isolde Balangie. The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime rivals in the New Iberia criminal underworld. Yet Johnny...
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Beaufort Books
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2016.
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English
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Steven Faulkner and his eighteen-year old son, Alex, follow the trail of Lewis & Clark. By road, foot, mountain bike, and canoe, Steven and Alex experience the vast landscape and try to capture an understanding of the wild northwest.
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Createspace
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20150620.
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English
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Washington State has some of the most spectacular scenery in the world, and among that spectacular scenery are seven very special places. Freelance photographer and Washington State native Howard Frisk has put together a simple guidebook that focuses on just those seven places. Each one is presented with beautiful full color photographs, and a description of what makes it amazing along with interesting and useful tidbits of information. The Seven...
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