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Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
In "American Gun", the deadliest sniper in U.S. history tracks down and shoots the most important American firearms, from a flintlock rifle to a Colt revolver to the latest high-tech weapon he used as a SEAL. Chris Kyle uses these guns as a window on United States history, making the sweeping argument that the American story has been tied to and shaped by the gun.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The author reveals how, shortly after giving birth to a child she adored, she drank herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide before a spiritual awakening led her to sobriety.
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Series
Language
English
Description
White tells his emotional, incredible true story of crime and redemption, vanity and spirituality, as he discovers happiness and fulfillment in an unlikely place--imprisonment in The Long Center, the last leper colony in the U.S. Includes P.S. insights, interviews & more ...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Book World Norman Olstead's New York Times bestselling memoir Crazy for the Storm is the story of the harrowing plane crash the author miraculously survived at age eleven, framed by the moving tale of his complicated relationship with his charismatic, adrenaline-addicted father. Destined to stand with other classic true stories of man against nature-Into Thin Air and Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer; Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm-it is a literary...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 461 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
One month in 1865 witnessed the frenzied fall of Richmond, a daring last-ditch Southern plan for guerrilla warfare, Lee's harrowing retreat, and then, Appomattox. It saw Lincoln's assassination just five days later and a near-successful plot to decapitate the Union government, followed by chaos and coup fears in the North, collapsed negotiations and continued bloodshed in the South, and finally, the start of national reconciliation.
In the end, April...
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Series
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First Harper Perennial edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 337, 18 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A chronicle of the mid-nineteenth-century wagon train tragedy draws on the perspectives of one of its survivors, Sarah Graves, recounting how her new husband and she joined the Donner party on their California-bound journey and encountered violent perils, in an account that also offers insight into the scientific reasons that some died while others survived.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st Harper Perennial ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 335 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines the extraordinary life of legendary backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson and his mysterious disappearance in California's unforgiving Sierra Nevada. Over the course of 28 summers in this craggy wilderness, Morgenson became a celebrated ranger in the National Park Service. For Morgenson, who as a young man honed his mountaineering skills in the Himalayas, this was more than a job--it was a calling. He became fiercely devoted to preventing outside...
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Series
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Why would a talented young woman enter into a torrid affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Through five lengthy hospital stays, endless therapy, and the loss of family, friends, jobs, and all sense of what it means to be "normal," Marya Hornbacher lovingly embraced her anorexia and bulimia - until a particularly horrifying bout with the disease in college put the romance of wasting away to rest forever. A vivid, honest, and emotionally wrenching...
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Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Combining the soul-baring insight of Wild, the profound wisdom of Shop Class as Soulcraft, and the adventurous spirit of Eat, Pray, Love, Lynn Darling's powerful, lyrical memoir of self-discovery, full of warmth and wry humor, Out of the Woods. When her college-bound daughter leaves home, Lynn Darling, widowed over a decade earlier, finds herself alone--and utterly lost, with no idea of what she wants or even who she is. Searching for answers, she...
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Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press Ltd
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
GN 550L
Physical Desc
72 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As the top cat at P.U.R.S.T (Pets of the Universe Ready for Space Travel), Sergeant Fluffy Vandermere takes his job very seriously. He has devoted his life to keeping space pets--and the world--safe from alien domination. And he does it all from his desk at P.U.R.S.T. headquarters. But this isn't another day at the office. There's been a security breach! Aliens have invaded headquarters! Hostages have been taken! Well, no one messes with P.U.R.S.T.--not...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
72 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When aliens emerge from the walls and neutralize everyone on the space station but Gordon, he travels back in time in an experimental time machine to stop the alien invasion, but accidentally ends up five years in the past.
Author
Series
School for S.P.I.E.S volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
670L
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Reluctant orphan-turned-spy Max Segredo discovers intrigue at the Merry Sunshine Orphanage and must confront an international group bent on world domination, while uncovering mysteries from his past.