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Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe-and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
American blogger and food writer Ree Drummond relates the real life story of how she met and married her "Marlboro Man." Her stories about her husband, family, and country living paint a warm and touching picture of life on an Oklahoma ranch.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
“West with the Night” is a memoir by British-born author, aviator, and equestrian, Beryl Markham. Friend and fellow author Ernest Hemingway once wrote to his editor Maxwell Perkins asking: "Did you read Beryl Markham's book, West with the Night?... bloody wonderful work." Markham was one of, if not the first, female bush pilots in Africa, and her memoir details adventures in Kenya with a unique perspective both from the ground and the sky.
Markham...
Author
Language
English
Description
One of the most iconic, beloved, and bestselling books of our time from the bestselling author of City of Girls and Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert.
Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love touched the world and changed countless lives, inspiring and empowering millions of readers to search for their own best selves. Now, this beloved and iconic book returns in a beautiful 10th anniversary edition, complete with an updated...
Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love touched the world and changed countless lives, inspiring and empowering millions of readers to search for their own best selves. Now, this beloved and iconic book returns in a beautiful 10th anniversary edition, complete with an updated...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
From one of the world's most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.
Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century—1951—in the middle of the United States—Des Moines, Iowa—in the middle of the largest generation in American history—the baby
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arbor Day, Boys Town, and Kool-Aid® are just a few of the marks the Great Plains state of Nebraska has made on American culture. From the state's eastern border along the Missouri River, where Lewis and Clark embarked on the Corps of Discovery expedition, to the towering geologic landmarks of the west, chronicled in pioneers' journals, there are treasures to explore on each page of C is for Cornhusker: A Nebraska Alphabet.Rajean Luebs Shepherd...
8) Nebraska
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces the geography, history, government, people, culture, and attractions of Nebraska.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, a true classic and one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Now he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot, to see what has changed--and what hasn't. Following a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis in the south to Cape Wrath in the...
Author
Publisher
World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and text present the history, geography, people, politics and government, economy, and social life and customs of Virginia, which was first colonized by the English in 1607.
13) Japan, the land
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
15) Israel: the land
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Introduces the history, geography, people, and economy of the state of Israel.
16) China, the land
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Pub
Pub. Date
1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and text present the history, geography, people, politics and government, economy, and social life and customs of Massachusetts, home to Plymouth Rock and the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained -- the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. The biggest redwoods are over a thousand years old, rising more than thirty-five stories in what's left of the once-vast ancient redwood forest. Believed to be impossible to ascend, these majestic giants have remained unexplored until recently Š when a tiny...
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