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"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. 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...
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The hilarious and loving sequel to a hilarious and loving classic of travel writing: Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson s valentine to his adopted country of England In 1995 Bill Bryson got into his car and took a weeks-long farewell motoring trip about England before moving his family back to the United States. The book about that trip, Notes from a Small Island, is uproarious and endlessly endearing, one of the most acute and affectionate portrayals...
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Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these...
5) France
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Escapi
Pub. Date
c2003
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1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Traveler Justine Shapiro starts her journey in northern France on the beaches of Normandy. Traveling east through the vineyards of Champagne, she then explores Brittany and Somme. Christina Chang takes over in Bordeaux, traveling through Arles, Marseilles and Lourdes. She ends her journey in Monaco, on the beaches of the Riviera"--Container.
6) Time bandits
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Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
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1 DVD (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A troupe of tiny bandits, challenged with the task of patching up the handiwork of a Supreme Being who was forced into creating the world in only 6 days, instead steal the priceless map of the universe. Accompanied by an English school boy (Warnock), they are swept away on a whirlwind adventure through time and space, encountering bizarre incarnations of Napoelon (Holm), Robinhood (Cleese), Agamemnon (Connery), and others.
7) Provence
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Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
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1 DVD (79 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Inhabited since prehistoric times, Provence is bounded by the Alps to the east and the Rhone River to the west. Its timeless charms, celebrated by writers and painters over the centuries, have been more dazzling than in this aerial tour, enhanced by a historical narrative and set regional music.
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W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
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xviii, 247 pages : maps ; 25 cm
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"America's northern border is the world's longest international boundary, yet it remains obscure even to Americans. The northern border was America's primary border for centuries--much of the early history of the United States took place there--and to the tens of millions who live and work near the line, the region even has its own name: the northland. Travel writer Porter Fox spent three years exploring 4,000 miles of the border between Maine and...
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In one of his first books, "The Mountains of California", John Muir, famed naturalist, environmentalist, and author, recounts his travels through the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Yosemite Valley. First published in 1894, "The Mountains of California" is a captivating and vivid portrait of the raw beauty of this spectacular place. He takes the readers on a tour of the wonders that abound, writing "Go where you may within the bounds of California, mountains...
10) Primer
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New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
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1 DVD (ca. 77 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Everything you think you know about modern science is about to unravel in this critically acclaimed film about two young engineers and the consequences they face when they invent a machine that enables them to travel back in time.
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Despite his heartbreak at losing the love of his life, Holly, nineteen-year-old Jackson throws himself into his role as an agent to Tempest, the shadowy division of the CIA that handles all time-travel-related threats, but Eyewall, an opposing division of the CIA, puts the lives of both Jackson and Holly at risk again.
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 1
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Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic treehouse, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs.
15) 11/22/63
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On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The author's new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. In this novel that is a tribute to a simpler era, he sweeps readers back in time to another moment, a real life moment, when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has...
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 3
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Jack and his younger sister take a trip in their tree house back to ancient Egypt, where they help a queen's mummy continue her voyage to the Next Life.
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"In March 2019, the Viking Sky cruise ship was struck by a bomb cyclone in the Arctic Sea. Rocked by 50-foot swells and 40-knot gales, the ship lost power and began to drift straight toward the notoriously dangerous Hustadvika coast in Norway. This is thesuspenseful, harrowing, funny, touching story by one passenger who contemplated death aboard that ship. Chaney Kwak is a travel writer used to all sorts of mishaps on the road, but this is a first...
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"When Jack and Annie receive an invitation to spend Christmas Eve in Camelot--a magical place that exists only in myth and fantasy--they know they are in for their biggest adventure yet. What they don't know is that the invitation will send them on a quest to save Camelot. Can they succeed even though Camelot's greatest knights have failed?"--Amazon.com.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
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vi, 179 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
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"The beloved author Peter Mayle, champion of all things Provence, here in a final volume of all new writing, offers vivid recollections from his twenty-five years in the South of France--lessons learned, culinary delights enjoyed, and changes observed. Twenty-five years ago, Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, were rained out of a planned two weeks on the Cô̂te d'Azur. In search of sunlight, they set off for Aix-en-Provence; enchanted by the world...
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