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2004 | Penguin Press | xi, 818 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm | English |
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[2016] | Unabridged. | Books on Tape | 29 audio discs (35hr., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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2005 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2005 | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Ron Chernow tells the story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow's biography argues that the political and economic greatness of today's America is the result of Hamilton's countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. Chernow here recounts...
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c2009 | Carolrhoda Books | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 31 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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2011 | OverDrive | Recorded Books, Inc | English | Available Online
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2014 | OverDrive | Lerner Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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This biography profiles the life of Bass Reeves, a former slave who was recruited as a deputy United States Marshal in the area that was to become Oklahoma.
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[2018]. | First edition. | Crown | xiii, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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[2018] | Unabridged. | Random House Audio, Inc | 16 audio discs (19 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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2018 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2018 | OverDrive | En català | Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España | Catalan | Available Online
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[2018] | Large print edition. | Random House Large Print | xvi, 675 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm | English | Available at another branch
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In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America, she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private. A deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily...
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1 bag (black and yellow) ; 30 x 44 cm. + 10 books, discussion questions, author's biography, "Tips for starting a successful Book club" and instructions for Book Club in a Bag program. |
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[2015] | Unabridged. | Random House Audio : | 3 audio discs (3 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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2015 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2015 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2015 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2016. | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning | 337 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him--most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear ... In [this book], Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings--moments when he discovered some new truth...
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2016. | First edition. | Spiegel & Grau | x, 288 pages ; 25 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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2016 | Unabridged. | Brilliance Audio, Inc | 7 audio discs (528 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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2016 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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[2016] | MackinVIA | Spiegel & Grau | 1 online resource (x, 288 pages) | English | Available Online
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2016 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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[2018] | Unabridged. | Findaway World, LLC | 1 audio media player (approximately 9 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English |
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"Trevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison . . . 'Born a Crime' is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story...
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2011 | 1st ed. | Little, Brown and Co | viii, 277 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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[2011] | Unabridged. | Hachette Audio | 5 sound discs (5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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2011 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Hachette Book Group | English | Available Online
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2011 | OverDrive | Little, Brown and Company | English | Available Online
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2011 | Little, Brown and Company | English | Available Online
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2011 | 1st large print ed. | Little, Brown and Co | viii, 343 p. (large print) : ill. ; 25 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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[2011], p2011 | Unabridged. | [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC | 1 sound media player (ca. 5 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | Available at another branch
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From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon, comedian Tina Fey reveals all, and proves that you're no one until someone calls you bossy.
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2006 | 1st Riverhead trade pbk. 10th anniversary ed. | Riverhead Books | xix, 328 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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[2014] | Unabridged. | Penguin Audio | 7 sound discs (540 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | Available at another branch
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p2010 | Phoenix Audio | 6 sound discs (ca. 6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | Available at another branch
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2006 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2006 | Riverhead Books | 1 bag (Black and yellow) ; 30 x 44 cm. + 10 books, discussion questions, author's biography, "Tips for starting a successful Book club" and instructions for Book Club in a Bag program. | English | Available at another branch
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1996 | G.K. Hall | 296 p. (large print) ; 25 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and The Good Lord Bird, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction:
The modern classic that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a generation and that launched James McBride’s literary career.
More than two years on The New York Times bestseller list.
Who is Ruth McBride Jordan?...
The modern classic that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a generation and that launched James McBride’s literary career.
More than two years on The New York Times bestseller list.
Who is Ruth McBride Jordan?...
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©2011 | Campfire | 91 p. : chiefly col. ill., col. map ; 26 cm. | English | On Shelf
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In graphic novel format, presents brief biographies of New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and describes the 1953 British expedition which took the two men to the peak of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world, and earned them the honor of being the first men to ever reach it.
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[2007], c1995 | 1st ed. | Crown Publishers | xvii, 442 p. ; 25 cm. | Available at another branch
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c1995 | 1st ed. | Times Books | xi, 403 p. ; 25 cm. | Available at another branch
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c2004 | Rev. ed. | Three Rivers Press | xvii, 442 p. ; 21 cm. | Available at another branch
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c2004 | Rev. ed. | Three Rivers Press | xvii, 442 p. ; 21 cm. | Available at another branch (library use only)
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p2007 | Library ed. | Books on Tape | 6 sound discs (ca. 75 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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2005 | OverDrive | Abridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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p2005 | Abridged [ed.] | Random House Audio | 1 sound media player (7.5 hrs.) : digital ; 8 x 5 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS
In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama “guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race” (The Washington Post Book World).
“Quite extraordinary.”—Toni Morrison
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In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama “guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race” (The Washington Post Book World).
“Quite extraordinary.”—Toni Morrison
In...
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[2018] | Random House, a imprint of and division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York | xv, 334 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available at another branch
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[2018]. | Unabridged. | Random House Audio | 10 audio discs (12 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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2018 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2018 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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[2018] | Random House Large Print | 493 pages (large print) ; 24 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...
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A biography, in graphic novel format, of German-born physicist Albert Einstin, who is best known for his theory of relativity.
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[2015] | Chronicle Books | 110 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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2015 | OverDrive | Chronicle Books LLC | English | Available Online
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2015 | Chronicle Books LLC | English | Available Online
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"Brief and humorous biographies of fascinating people"--
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2018. | xiv, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | Available at another branch
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[2018] | Young readers' edition. | 299 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | Available at another branch
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[2018] | Unabridged. | HighBridge Audio | 10 audio discs (approximately 12 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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"High adventure and high ideals merge when a corps of intrepid female aviators battle to take part in the hugely popular air shows of the 1920s and 1930s. Ultimately, one of our heroines would win a race that earned her the right to be called America's best pilot"--
14) Frida Kahlo
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2016. | Chronicle Books | 1 volume (unpaged) color illustrations ; 16 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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2016 | OverDrive | Chronicle Books LLC | English | Available Online
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Step into the world of one of history's most celebrated artists and feminist icons: Frida Kahlo. This beautifully illustrated biography is full of colorful details that illuminate the woman behind the artwork, including excerpts from Kahlo's personal letters and diaries on her childhood dreams of becoming a doctor, the accident that changed the course of her life, and her love affairs with famous artists. Featuring handwritten text alongside lovely...
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2013 | 1st Touchstone hardcover ed. | Simon & Schuster | xvii, 373 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 24 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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[2014] | Unabridged. | Brilliance Audio | 11 audio discs (approximately 780 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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2013 | OverDrive | Atria Books | English | Checked Out
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2013 | Atria Books | English | Checked Out
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2013 | Simon & Schuster | 2 bags ; 30 x 44 cm. + 10 books, discussion questions, author's biography, "Tips for starting a successful Book club" and instructions for Book Club in a Bag program. | English |
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2013. | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning | 655 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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In this book the author traces the story of the unsung World War II workers in Oak Ridge, Tennessee through interviews with dozens of surviving women and other Oak Ridge residents. This is the story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial role in one of the most significant moments in U.S. history. The Tennessee town of Oak Ridge was created from scratch in 1942. One of the Manhattan Project's secret cities, it...
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c2005 | Scribner | 288 p. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
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p2010 | Simon & Schuster | 8 sound discs (ca. 9 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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2006, c2005 | Scribner | 1 bag (Black and yellow) ; 30 x 44 cm. + 10 books, discussion questions, author's biography, "Tips for starting a successful Book club" and instructions for Book Club in a Bag program. | English | Available at another branch
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Now a major motion picture from Lionsgate starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts.
MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST
The perennially bestselling, extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, “nothing short of spectacular” (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world’s most gifted storytellers.
The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience...
MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST
The perennially bestselling, extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, “nothing short of spectacular” (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world’s most gifted storytellers.
The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience...
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[2016] | First edition. | William Morrow | xviii, 346 pages ; 24 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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[2016] | Unabridged. | Blackstone | 9 audio discs (10 3/4 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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2016 | OverDrive | Unabridged | HarperAudio | English | Available Online
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2016 | OverDrive | William Morrow | English | Checked Out
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[2016] | First edition. | William Morrow | 1 bag (black and yellow) ; 30 x 44 cm. + 10 books, discussion questions, author's biography, "Tips for starting a successful Book club" and instructions for Book Club in a Bag program. | English | Available at another branch
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[2016] | First Harper Luxe edition. | Harper Luxe | xxiv, 543 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in...
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[2016] | First edition. | Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | 264 pages ; 24 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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2016. | Blackstone Audio | 6 audio discs (6 3/4 hr.) : CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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2016 | OverDrive | Unabridged | HarperAudio | English | Available Online
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2018 | OverDrive | Harper Paperbacks | English | Checked Out
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[2016] | First edition. | Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | 1 bag ; 30 x 44 cm. + # books, discussion questions, author's biography, "Tips for starting a successful Book club" and instructions for Book Club in a Bag program. | English | Available at another branch
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2017. | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press | 381 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.
20) Into the wild
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1996 | 1st ed. | Villard Books | 207 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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p1999 | Unabirdged, library ed. | Books on Tape | 6 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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2007 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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2009 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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2009 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
3 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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Description
Tells the story of Chris McCandless, a twenty-four-year-old who walked into the Alaskan wilderness on an idealistic journey and was found dead of starvation four months later. Attempts to discover what led the young man to that point.