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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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A portrait of Chris McCandless chronicles his decision to withdraw from society and adopt the persona of Alexander Supertramp, offering insight into his beliefs about the wilderness and his tragic death in the Alaskan wilderness.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter....
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In a surreal portrait of contemporary society run amok, Isserley spends her life picking up hitchhikers, a diverse array of trailer trash, graduate students, thugs, and philosophers, whose only interest for Isserley is whether they have families and whether they have muscles.
3) Bite
Author
Series
Wastelanders volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In a post-apocalyptic world that has lost its humanity, Kid tries to survive by joining a band of outlaws, but she soon discovers they may not be the heroes she was hoping for.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Giving a ride to a snowbound stranger who offers them a lucrative sum in exchange, a recently engaged couple is thrown into a nightmarish situation when the stranger dies in their back seat with more than two million dollars in his possession.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Alan is a young college student who is trying to get home to see his mother. She has just had a stroke and is in the hospital, and Alan has this underlying fear that he needs to get to her in case she passes away. So, Alan embarks on a 100 mile hitchhike. Along the way, he must confront his many demons - both living and dead - and in the end Alan must make the ultimate choice that will mean life or death for him and his mother.
6) Lost souls
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The disappearing hitchhiker is one of the hoariest urban legends, and no one knows that better than Gabriel Walsh, a lawyer who grew up on folklore and myth. When Patrickauthor of books on the supernaturalbrings him the case of a hitchhiking woman in white who vanished on a country road after accepting a ride from a businessman, Gabriel knows the Cainsville elder is just trying to wheedle into his good graces. But Gabriel is a man in need of a mystery,...
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002?], c1998
Language
English
Description
A self-centered college student has one thing on his mind--get home for Christmas. Just days before his deadline he wakes up in the California desert--stranded and penniless, wearing a Santa suit and a white beard glued to his face! The closer Jake gets to home, the closer he gets to the true meaning of Christmas and Family in this nonstop comedy of errors.
8) The quarry
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Quarry is another novel in which human nature betrays itself against the desolate backdrop of rural South Africa. It opens with a chance meeting on a lonely stretch of road, when a man picks up a hitchhiker. The driver is a minister on his way to a new congregation in an isolated village and the passenger, a fugitive from justice. When the minister realizes this and confronts his passenger overlooking an empty quarry, the response is deadly. As...
9) Fay: a novel
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Fay flees her abusive father and the migrant labor camps of her childhood and hitchhikes through Mississippi.
10) Up in smoke
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Two potheads in search of a good high unknowingly steal a van made entirely of marijuana.
11) The hitch-hiker
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A classic, tension-packed, three-way dance of death about two middle-class American homebodies on vacation in Mexico on a long-awaited fishing trip. Suddenly their car and their very lives are commandeered by psychopathic serial killer Emmett Myers.
Emmett Myers, a killer on the run from the police, gets picked up by two men on their way to a weekend fishing trip. The depraved hitchhiker Myers is determined to make his victims suffer due to his childhood...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Tim Brookes was a 20-year-old Oxford student when he began hitchhiking in 1973 from the East Coast to the West Coast and back again. His experiences led him to leave England and settle in New England. Twenty-five years later he decides to re-create his odyssey of 1973. "Highlighted by wonderful photographs, this book revisits old stomping grounds and discovers new ones, tracks down old friends and makes new ones, remembers old impressions of America...
Author
Publisher
B Grupo Zeta
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
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Description
"En abril de 1992, Chris McCandless, de 24 años, se internó solo y apenas equipado por tierras de Alaska. Habia regalado todo su dineroy abandonado su coche, y soñaba con una vida en estado salvaje. Cuatro meses mas tarde, unos cazadores encontraron su cuerpo sin vida. Su historia, difundida en un reportaje de Jon Krakauer, suscitó una agitada polémica; para unos, era un intrépido idealista; para otros, un loco y un ingenuo sin el menor conocimiento...
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