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Pub. Date
1993
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A guide for motorists, pilots, etc. on how to survive if you are lost or stranded in the mountains. Mistakes to avoid, edible plants, dealing with wildlife, how to equip your car, and handling hypothermia are among topics included.
3) Deep survival: who lives, who dies, and why : true stories of miraculous endurance and sudden death
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After her plane crashes, a seventeen-year-old girl spends eleven days walking through the Peruvian jungle. Against all odds, with no food, shelter, or equipment, she gets out. A better-equipped group of adult survivors of the same crash sits down and dies. What makes the difference? Examining such stories of miraculous endurance and tragic death-how people get into trouble and how they get out again (or not)-Deep Survival takes us from the tops of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
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Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of Alaska, the long, cold winters and isolation. Locals...
5) Northwind
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
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When sickness decimates his fishing village, an orphan named Leif flees north in a cedar canoe, journeying along a brutal but beautiful coastline.
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Tim Colter novels volume 1
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"Leaving their Pennsylvania home to forge a new life in the untamed Oregon Territory of 1845, the Colter family is ambushed by a kill crazy gang of Indians on the Oregon Trail. Fifteen-year-old Tim Colter manages to escape and hide--only to return and find his parents butchered, his sisters Nancy and Margaret missing. Forced to fight for his life, the young Colter embarks on a perilous journey across a lawless wilderness, hoping to save his sisters...
8) Sting
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When Jordie Bennet and Shaw Kinnard lock eyes across a disreputable backwater bar, something definitely sparks. Shaw gives off a dangerous vibe that makes men wary and inspires women to sit up and take notice. None feel that undercurrent more strongly than savvy businesswoman Jordie, who doesn't belong in a seedy dive on the banks of a bayou. But here she is, and Shaw Kinnard is here to kill her. As Shaw and his partner take aim, Jordie is certain...
9) The grey
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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After their plane crashes into the remote Alaskan wilderness, a roughneck group of oil drillers is forced to find a way back to civilization. As Ottway leads the injured survivors through the brutal snow and ice, they are relentlessly tracked by a vicious pack of rogue wolves that will do anything to defend their territory. Adrenaline-fueled, action-packed and loaded with some of the most intense and brutally realistic attack scenes ever filmed.
11) Hatchet
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
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From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between. The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this afterlife until they are completely forgotten. But the City is shrinking, and the residents clearing out. Some of the holdouts, like Luka Sims, who produces the City's only...
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Protecting the evidence means facing down assassins and an unforgiving wilderness... Framed for murder and corporate espionage, future aerotech company CEO Haley Whitcombe flees in her plane with a camera full of evidence that could clear her name -- until she's shot out of the sky. Now trapped in North Cascades National Park, her survival in the wilderness depends on park ranger Ezra Dalton. Yet escaping the wild will mean nothing if they can't outrun...
15) Darkest night
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Warriors (Erin Hunter). Vision of shadows volume 4
Warriors. Vision of shadows volume 4
Warriors a vision of shadows volume 4
Warriors. Vision of shadows volume 4
Warriors a vision of shadows volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
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After the SkyClan returns to its rightful place among the warrior clans, not all the cats are convinced this is where the SkyClan belongs, leaving the clans' fate uncertain.
17) Something wilder
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Pub. Date
2022.
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"Growing up the daughter of notorious treasure hunter and absentee father Duke Wilder left Lily without much patience for the profession . . . or much money in the bank. But Lily is nothing if not resourceful, and now uses Duke's coveted hand-drawn maps to guide tourists on fake treasure hunts through the treacherous and storied red rock canyons of Utah. It pays the bills but doesn't leave enough to fulfill her dream of buying back the beloved ranch...
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In 1871, nineteen men, women, and children, voyaging on the Arctic explorer USS Polaris found themselves cast adrift on an ice floe as their ship began to founder. Based on one of the most remarkable events in polar history, Afterlands tells the haunting story of this small society of castaways -- a white and a black American, five Germans, a Dane, a Swede, an Englishman, and two Inuit families -- and the harrowing six months they spend marooned in...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm.
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After the Ute Indian boy Thomas Black Bull has been betrayed both by his own people and by the white man, he dedicates himself to killing the legends that gave him his distinction and his pride - and becomes a man without a dream, with emptiness inside him.
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