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"The incredible true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion. In 1954, Annie Wilkins, a sixty-three-year-old farmer from Maine, embarked on an impossible journey. She had no relatives left, she'd lost her family farm to back taxes, and her doctor had just given her two years...
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Physical Desc
465 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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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 Force,...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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The role of the flatboat in our country's evolution is far more significant than most Americans realize. Buck chronicles his adventure building a wooden flatboat from the bygone era of the early 1800s and journeying down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. He cast off down the river on the flatboat Patience accompanied by an eccentric crew of daring shipmates. Over the course of his voyage, steering a fragile wooden craft through narrow channels...
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 413 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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For the last five years, James and Deborah Fallows have been traveling across America in a single-prop airplane, visiting small cities and meeting civic leaders, factory workers, recent immigrants, and young entrepreneurs, seeking to take the pulse and discern the outlook of an America that is unreported and unobserved by the national media. Our Towns is the story of their journey, an account of their visits to twenty-one cities and towns: the individuals...
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Publisher
Viking
Language
English
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"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 was still a loose and quarrelsome confederation and a tentative...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
x, 465 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Evan Osnos moved to Washington, D.C., in 2013 after a decade away from the United States, first reporting from the Middle East before becoming the Beijing bureau chief at the Chicago Tribune and then the China correspondent for The New Yorker. While abroad, he often found himself making a case for America, urging the citizens of Egypt, Iraq, or China to trust that even though America had made grave mistakes throughout its history, it aspired to some...
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Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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"A personal, lyrical, and idiosyncratic ode to our national parks"--
"For years, America's national parks have provided public breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why close to 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now, to honor the centennial of the National Park Service, Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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When thirty-eight jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land in Gander, Newfoundland on September 11, 2001, due to the closing of U.S. airspace, the citizens of this small community and surrounding towns were called upon to care for the thousands of distraught travelers.