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English
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"The story of a bear named Millie: her life, death, and cubs, and what they reveal about the changing wilds of the American West"-- The grizzly's range is diminished, but they're spreading across the West again. Descending into valleys where once they were king, bears find the landscape they'd known for eons utterly changed by the new most dominant animal: humans. Andrews tells us about Millie, a typical mother: strong, cunning, fiercely protective...
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Publisher:
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2000]
Language:
English
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A documentary that captures a concert of traditional American music featuring the soundtrack artists of the Coen Brothers' film O brother, where art thou? Features behind-the-scenes encounters and performances including interviews, rehearsal, and concert segments.
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Publisher:
HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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The story of a grizzly bear named Millie: her life, death, and cubs, and what they reveal about the changing character of the American West. Millie was cunning, a fiercely protective mother to her cubs. But raising those cubs in the mountains was hard, as the climate warmed and people crowded the valleys. There were obvious dangers, like poachers, and subtle ones, like the corn field that drew her into sure trouble. That trouble is where award-winning...
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Publisher:
JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
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Every step can be life-or-death. With only a year's experience under his belt, wagon train scout Gage Pardee knows he still has a lot to learn from seasoned men like his mentor, Culley. But Pardee has no interest in sharing Culley's tolerance of the Native American tribes that plague their trail West. Indians murdered Pardee's father years ago-as far as he's concerned, they'll always be the enemy. Tragedy strikes when the wagon train's legendary wagonmaster...
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Publisher:
Lost Highway
Pub. Date:
2001
Language:
English
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Publisher:
Sweetspire Literature Management LLC
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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This book traces the path of a young man born immediately after the Second World War and classified throughout the world as a Baby Boomer. Brian was a borderline failure at school but worshipped the outdoors and in particular his close mates - these attributes served him well when he was unexpectedly drafted into a two year National Service Scheme created to meet the demands of the Vietnam war. Brian served a thirteen month tour of Vietnam as an Infantry...
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Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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How do you know you've done enough seeking to find out who you are and why you're here; enough dismantling everything you're not; enough exploring altered states of consciousness and journeying through other realms to gather fragmented pieces of yourself that it's time to come home? And who and what are we coming home to? In a bold follow-up to her first book, "The Second Half of the Mountain: A Guide to Personal Alchemy after Awakening," McCall Erickson...
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Publisher:
Brevia Publishing Co
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
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By the age of 18, Kyle Elliot was fighting the Plains Indians, especially the more fierce warriors who'd ever ridden across the broad plains of Texas, the legendary and ruthless Comanche. He'd ridden with Captain John Coffee Hays in the Texas Rangers and learned to fight in ways most men never understood. "Captain Jack" had taught him and the men who'd ridden with him, skills with weapons, tactics, fighting effectively from a horse at full gallop,...
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Publisher:
Upper Room
Pub. Date:
2000
Language:
English
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The mountaintop Emmaus weekend experience is temporary, while the rest of a pilgrim's life may seem like a valley. The author guides new pilgrims on how to come down from the mountain and work in the valleys of everyday congregational life.
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Publisher:
Speaking Tiger Books LLP
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
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A gripping psychological interplay of murder, sex, and drugs, of exploitation and conflict, and yet, of friendship and empathy. Dev-charismatic and powerful, a guru with thousands of followers around the world, and a string of ashrams fueled by a flourishing business in drugs and gunrunning. Ashrams that bring him the power and wealth he craves and fulfil his desire for women. But, of all the women he knows, and at times, loves, there are three, who...
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Publisher:
Rogue Wave
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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Lexile measure:
660L
Language:
English
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A collection of folk tales from the southern Appalachians that center on a single character, the irrepressible Jack.

13. Heidi

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Lexile measure:
1000L
Language:
English
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A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city. "A hardcover edition of the classic Swiss novel, in Helen B. Dole's English translation and with illustrations by William Sharp from the 1945 edition"--
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English
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5 stars
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"Natural Resources police officer, Sloan Cooper, and her partner had just taken down three men preying on hikers in the Western Maryland mountains. Driving back, she pulled in at a convenience store - and walked right into a robbery in progress. One gunshot from a jittery thief was about to change her world. After being shocked back to life on the operating table, she has a long recovery ahead, so she moves back to her parents' peaceful house in Heron's...
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Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen's reservoirs for as long as she can remember. But a secret is like a knot. Sooner or later, it is bound to come undone. When Saeris comes face-to-face with Death himself, she inadvertently reopens a gateway between realms and is transported to a land of...
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Lexile measure:
810L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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The second volume in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure, The Lord of the Rings, now featuring film art on the cover. Frodo and his Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost the wizard, Gandalf, in a battle in the Mines of Moria. And Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force....

17. Dracula

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Lexile measure:
990L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"A dreary castle, blood-thirsty vampires, open graves at midnight, and other gothic touches fill this hardcover Dover Bookshelf edition of the chilling tale about a young Englishman's confrontation with the evil Count Dracula"-- "By night, Abraham "Bram" Stoker (1847-1912) navigated the flourishing world of Victorian theater, yet, in the shadows, he was the brilliant mind behind the chilling vampire masterpiece Dracula, a tale of insatiable hunger...
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Lexile measure:
1320L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"Reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion, Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996. He hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours. As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028 feet (roughly the cruising altitude of an Airbus jetliner), twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly to the top, unaware that the sky had begun to roil with clouds..." "This is the terrifying story of...
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English
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4.7 stars
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It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal?...
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English
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5 stars
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The epic conclusion the adventures of Bilbo Baggins. Having reclaimed their homeland from the Dragon Smaug, the Company has unwittingly unleashed a deadly force into the world. Enraged, Smaug rains his fiery wrath down upon the defenseless men, women and children of Lake-town. Obsessed above all else with his reclaimed treasure, Thorin sacrifices friendship and honor to hoard it as Bilbo's frantic attempts to make him see reason drive the Hobbit towards...