David Drummond
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"Edward Curtis was dashing, charismatic, a passionate mountaineer, a famous photographer--the Annie Liebowitz of his time. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his great idea: He would try to capture on film the Native American nation before it disappeared. At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan's book tells the remarkable untold story behind Curtis's iconic photographs,...
3) The plover
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2014.
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Declan O Donnell has left Oregon aboard his boat, the Plover, to escape the life that's so troubled him on land. He sets course west into the Pacific in search of solitude. Instead, he finds a crew, each in search of something themselves, and what at first seems a lonely sea voyage becomes a rapturous, heartfelt celebration of life's surprising paths, planned and unplanned.
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[2015]
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The acclaimed author of The Brother Gardeners and Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of the visionary German naturalist whose ideas continue to influence how we view ourselves and our relationship with the natural world today. Alexander von Humboldt (1769 - 1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether climbing the highest volcanoes in the world...
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In 1962, Carols Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Cuba - exiled from his family, his country, and his own childhood by the revolution. The memories of Carlos's life in Havana, cut short when he was just eleven years old, are at the heart of this stunning, evocative, and unforgettable memoir.
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[2008]
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"Nick Heil tells the story of 2006, the deadliest year on Everest since the infamous season of 1996. As more climbers attempt the summit each year, Heil shows how increasingly risky expeditions and unscrupulous outfitters threaten to turn Everest into a deadly circus."--BOOK JACKET.
10) Inheritance
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[2004]
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"Youth is wasted on the young," Mrs. Baker declares. When the ailing, bitter old lady dies, she inexplicably leaves everything she owns to her beautiful caretaker. But Abbey may have inherited more than just her deceased employer's worldly possessions. In fact, otherworldly forces seem to be at work, as the young woman gradually loses control of her own life and begins to take on Mrs. Baker's identity. Has Abbey's family history of mental instability...
11) Joker One
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2009
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A sobering account of the seven-month street-to-street, house-to-house battle in Ramadi fought by Marine platoon "Joker One" and the platoon's commander, Lt. Campbell.
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The first book to bring to life the influential friendship between Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali.
In 1962, no one believed that the obnoxious Cassius Clay would ever become the heavyweight champion of the world. But Malcolm X saw the potential in Clay, not just for boxing greatness, but as a means of spreading the Nation of Islam's radical message. Malcolm secretly molded Clay into Muhammad Ali--a patriotic boxing star in public, and a radical reformer...
14) Follow the river
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IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 25
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After being captured in an Indian raid during 1755, Mary Draper Ingles follows the Ohio River for 1,000 miles to return home to Virginia by herself.
16) Fire trucks
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2016.
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"Simple text and supportive full-color photographs introduce young readers to fire trucks. Intended for kindergarten through third grade."
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At forty-seven, Gil has reached a relatively happy period in his life as the world's oldest twenty-two-year-old man. In exchange for doing the odd carpentry and construction job, he gets paid to live rent-free in Los Angeles at the glorious summerhouse of rich retirees who are never there. Its a world of solitary splendor spent mainly in the company of his four dogs, Cheney, Fruity, Dinky, and Jimmy, the alpha and the only one of the four that Gil...
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c2007
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For more than three centuries, slave ships carried millions of people from the coasts of Africa to the New World. Here, award-winning historian Rediker creates a detailed history of these vessels and the human drama acted out on their rolling decks. Rediker restores the slave ship to its rightful place alongside the plantation as a formative institution of slavery, as a place where a profound and still haunting history of race, class, and modern capitalism...
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[2011]
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The author, a historian reveals the long forgotten history of America's largest slave uprising, the New Orleans slave revolt of 1811 that nearly toppled New Orleans and changed the course of American history. In this narrative, he offers new insight into American expansionism, the path to Civil War, and the earliest grassroots push to overcome slavery. Five hundred slaves, dressed in military uniforms and armed with guns, cane knives, and axes, rose...