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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes--and to a writer with the comic genius of Bill Bryson, it also provides endless opportunities to witness the majestic silliness of his fellow human beings. For a start there's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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NYT - Combined Hardcover & Paperback Nonfiction
NYT - Travel
Oprah's Book Club
Read-Alikes for 'I'm Glad My Mom Died'
NYT - Travel
Oprah's Book Club
Read-Alikes for 'I'm Glad My Mom Died'
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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.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Legendary travel writer Paul Theroux fearlessly drives the entire length of the US-Mexico border, then goes deep into the hinterland, on the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind today's brutal headlines."--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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In this tribute to the Sierra Nevada mountains, the author explores what makes this span of mountains one of the most compelling places on Earth and shares his own personal experiences to inspire other travel readers to prepare for a life-changing adventure.
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English
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With wit, heartwarming stories and a keen insight into new and exciting ways to see both the past and the future of the country, the actor, writer and woodworker takes a literary journey to America's frontier to celebrate the people and landscape that have made it great.
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Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
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Fourteen years ago, famous Pakistani activist Samina Akram disappeared. Two years earlier, her lover, Pakistan's greatest poet, was beaten to death by government thugs. In present-day Karachi, her daughter Aasmaani has just discovered a letter in the couple's private code-a letter that could only have been written recently. Aasmaani is thirty, single, drifting from job to job. Always left behind whenever Samina followed the Poet into exile, she...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"The eagerly awaited return of master American storyteller Rinker Buck, Life on the Mississippi is an epic, enchanting blend of history and adventure in which Buck builds a wooden flatboat from the grand "flatboat era" of the 1800s and sails it down the Mississippi River, illuminating the forgotten past of America's first western frontier"--
Author
Series
Gooney Bird volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Gooney Bird Greene takes charge of a class project as she and her fellow students in Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class learn about fables by each making up their own based on an animal that begins with the same letter as their first name.
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Language
English
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A life of experience is collected into an entertaining, practical, fun and frank travel guide that gives listeners an introduction to some of Anthony Bourdain's favorite places. Supplementing Bourdain's words are a handful of essays by friends, colleagues, and family that tell even deeper stories about a place, including sardonic accounts of traveling with Bourdain by his brother, Chris; a guide to Chicago's best cheap eats by legendary music producer...
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Series
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English
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"Farlingaye Hall is a beautiful hotel in Suffolk on the east coast of England. Unfortunately, it is also the site of the brutal murder of Frank Parris, a retired advertising executive. Stefan Codrescu, a Romanian maintenance man, is arrested after police find blood spatter on his clothes and bed linen. He is found guilty and spends eight years in prison. It appears an open and shut case, but there is more than meets the eye. Alan Conway, the late...
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English
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This account of the author's seven-year stay in Africa's Kalahari wilderness covers their adventures of survival, their contact with curious and dangerous animals, and the establishment of their conservation research project
"Carrying little more than a change of clothes and a pair of binoculars, two young Americans, Mark and Delia Owens, caught a plane to Africa, bought a thirdhand Land Rover, and drove deep into the Kalahari Desert. There they...
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English
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Armchair Travel
Page to Screen 2021-2022
Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine Book Club
Transformative Hobbies
Page to Screen 2021-2022
Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine Book Club
Transformative Hobbies
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A poignant and transporting cross-cultural love story set against the lush backdrop of the Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food, family, and unexpected grace in her darkest hour.It was love at first sight when Tembi met professional chef, Saro, on a street in Florence. There was just one problem: Saros traditional Sicilian family did not approve of him marrying a black American woman, an actress no less. However,...
17) Ship of dolls
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Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
It's 1926, and the one thing eleven-year-old Lexie Lewis wants more than anything is to leave Portland, where she is living with her strict grandparents, and rejoin her mother, a carefree singer in San Francisco. But Mama's new husband doesn't think a little girl should live with parents who work all night and sleep all day. Lexie's class has been raising money to ship a doll to the children of Japan in a friendship exchange, and when Lexie learns...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
c2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While walking through a forest of sequoias, a father tells his family the story of the tree's namesake. Sequoyah was a Cherokee man who invented a system of writing for his people. His neighbors feared the symbols he wrote and burned down his home. All of his work was lost, but, still determined, he tried another approach. The Cherokee people finally accepted the written language after Sequoyah taught his six-year-old daughter to read.
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Language
English
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When two of Peyton Cross' bridemaids die in freak accidents, the third turns for help to Bailey Weggins, true crime writer, sometime-sleuth, and Peyton's former college roomate. A dangerous trail of clues leads Bailey from the elegant suburbs of Connecticut to New York's Lower East Side to a fabulous oceanfront hotel room in Miami.
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Puzzled over what to write for a creative writing contest, Abby finds inspiration when her dog digs up an old key on a gold chain and she sets out, with the help of Mrs. Mackenzie the public librarian, to solve the mystery of the golden key.
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