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Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the personal crisis the author endured after the death of her mother and a painful divorce, which prompted her ambition to undertake a dangerous 1,100-mile solo hike that both drove her to rock bottom and helped her to heal.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1995, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his home. The hilarious book he wrote about that journey, Notes from a Small Island, became one of the most loved books of recent decades, and was voted in a BBC poll as the book that best represents Britain. Now, in this hotly anticipated new travel book, his first in fifteen years and sure to be greeted as the funniest book of the decade,...
10) The Ohio River
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
187 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.
Language
English
13) Colombia
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
144 p. : col. illus.
Language
English
Description
Describes the geography, history, people, industries, and culture of Colombia.
14) Wild
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio/Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2012
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
11 sound discs (13 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir. The story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe, and built her back up again.
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Language
English
Description
Bill Bryson, instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail: 2,200 miles of America's most unspoiled, spectacular, and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find, though, is anything but, when the only person he can find willing to join him on the trek is his long-lost former friend Katz, a down-on-his-luck serial philanderer....
17) Chile
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
19) The Canadians
Author
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
1985
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
385 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
TEN MILLION STEPS is a sketch of the U. S. through the eyes of coal miners, farmers, banjo players, parents, country folk and city folk. The book is also about ducks that walk on fish, scary cows, women in hard hats, a bike that floats, and the bravest little car in the world. And it's about places you can't savor in the fast lane. You can visit Cape Cod a thousand times, but you won't understand the cape until you travel the back roads in winter....
