Author: Monica Farrier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780971111110
Category : Animals, Mythical
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
A field guide to imaginary animals from North American folklore for campers, hikers, hunters, and all who love the northwoods.
Mysterious Beasties of the Northwoods
Author: Monica Farrier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780971111110
Category : Animals, Mythical
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
A field guide to imaginary animals from North American folklore for campers, hikers, hunters, and all who love the northwoods.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780971111110
Category : Animals, Mythical
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
A field guide to imaginary animals from North American folklore for campers, hikers, hunters, and all who love the northwoods.
Monsters of the Northwoods
Author: Paul Bartholomew
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Four Upstate New York researchers have compiled a book of Bigfoot sightings primarily in the Adirondacks. Witnesses include police officers, farmers, and prominent business people.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Four Upstate New York researchers have compiled a book of Bigfoot sightings primarily in the Adirondacks. Witnesses include police officers, farmers, and prominent business people.
Arrowsmith
Author: Sinclair Lewis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788382266405
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788382266405
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Library Book
Author: Susan Orlean
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1476740194
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Susan Orlean’s bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is “a sheer delight…as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library” (USA TODAY)—a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries. “Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book” (The Washington Post). On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. The fire was disastrous: it reached two thousand degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who? Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a “delightful…reflection on the past, present, and future of libraries in America” (New York magazine) that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before. In the “exquisitely written, consistently entertaining” (The New York Times) The Library Book, Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries; brings each department of the library to vivid life; studies arson and attempts to burn a copy of a book herself; and reexamines the case of Harry Peak, the blond-haired actor long suspected of setting fire to the LAPL more than thirty years ago. “A book lover’s dream…an ambitiously researched, elegantly written book that serves as a portal into a place of history, drama, culture, and stories” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), Susan Orlean’s thrilling journey through the stacks reveals how these beloved institutions provide much more than just books—and why they remain an essential part of the heart, mind, and soul of our country.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1476740194
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Susan Orlean’s bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is “a sheer delight…as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library” (USA TODAY)—a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries. “Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book” (The Washington Post). On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. The fire was disastrous: it reached two thousand degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who? Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a “delightful…reflection on the past, present, and future of libraries in America” (New York magazine) that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before. In the “exquisitely written, consistently entertaining” (The New York Times) The Library Book, Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries; brings each department of the library to vivid life; studies arson and attempts to burn a copy of a book herself; and reexamines the case of Harry Peak, the blond-haired actor long suspected of setting fire to the LAPL more than thirty years ago. “A book lover’s dream…an ambitiously researched, elegantly written book that serves as a portal into a place of history, drama, culture, and stories” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), Susan Orlean’s thrilling journey through the stacks reveals how these beloved institutions provide much more than just books—and why they remain an essential part of the heart, mind, and soul of our country.
Boy's Life
Author: Robert McCammon
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453231560
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
An Alabama boy’s innocence is shaken by murder and madness in the 1960s South in this novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of Swan Song. It’s 1964 in idyllic Zephyr, Alabama. People either work for the paper mill up the Tecumseh River, or for the local dairy. It’s a simple life, but it stirs the impressionable imagination of twelve-year-old aspiring writer Cory Mackenson. He’s certain he’s sensed spirits whispering in the churchyard. He’s heard of the weird bootleggers who lurk in the dark outside of town. He’s seen a flood leave Main Street crawling with snakes. Cory thrills to all of it as only a young boy can. Then one morning, while accompanying his father on his milk route, he sees a car careen off the road and slowly sink into fathomless Saxon’s Lake. His father dives into the icy water to rescue the driver, and finds a beaten corpse, naked and handcuffed to the steering wheel—a copper wire tightened around the stranger’s neck. In time, the townsfolk seem to forget all about the unsolved murder. But Cory and his father can’t. Their search for the truth is a journey into a world where innocence and evil collide. What lies before them is the stuff of fear and awe, magic and madness, fantasy and reality. As Cory wades into the deep end of Zephyr and all its mysteries, he’ll discover that while the pleasures of childish things fade away, growing up can be a strange and beautiful ride. “Strongly echoing the childhood-elegies of King and Bradbury, and every bit their equal,” Boy’s Life, a winner of both the Bram Stoker and World Fantasy Awards, represents a brilliant blend of mystery and rich atmosphere, the finest work of one of today’s most accomplished writers (Kirkus Reviews).
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453231560
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
An Alabama boy’s innocence is shaken by murder and madness in the 1960s South in this novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of Swan Song. It’s 1964 in idyllic Zephyr, Alabama. People either work for the paper mill up the Tecumseh River, or for the local dairy. It’s a simple life, but it stirs the impressionable imagination of twelve-year-old aspiring writer Cory Mackenson. He’s certain he’s sensed spirits whispering in the churchyard. He’s heard of the weird bootleggers who lurk in the dark outside of town. He’s seen a flood leave Main Street crawling with snakes. Cory thrills to all of it as only a young boy can. Then one morning, while accompanying his father on his milk route, he sees a car careen off the road and slowly sink into fathomless Saxon’s Lake. His father dives into the icy water to rescue the driver, and finds a beaten corpse, naked and handcuffed to the steering wheel—a copper wire tightened around the stranger’s neck. In time, the townsfolk seem to forget all about the unsolved murder. But Cory and his father can’t. Their search for the truth is a journey into a world where innocence and evil collide. What lies before them is the stuff of fear and awe, magic and madness, fantasy and reality. As Cory wades into the deep end of Zephyr and all its mysteries, he’ll discover that while the pleasures of childish things fade away, growing up can be a strange and beautiful ride. “Strongly echoing the childhood-elegies of King and Bradbury, and every bit their equal,” Boy’s Life, a winner of both the Bram Stoker and World Fantasy Awards, represents a brilliant blend of mystery and rich atmosphere, the finest work of one of today’s most accomplished writers (Kirkus Reviews).
Running with Sherman
Author: Christopher McDougall
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 1524732362
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A heartwarming story about training a rescue donkey to run one of the most challenging races in America. "McDougall is a gifted storyteller who gets to the heart of the human-animal connection."--John Grogan, author of Marley & Me.e.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 1524732362
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A heartwarming story about training a rescue donkey to run one of the most challenging races in America. "McDougall is a gifted storyteller who gets to the heart of the human-animal connection."--John Grogan, author of Marley & Me.e.
The Long Labrador Trail
Author: Dillon Wallace
Publisher: New York : The Outing publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Labrador (N.L.)
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Author's expedition 1905-1906 from Hamilton Inlet to Lake Michikaman along the route followed by Leonidas Hubbard, Jr. in 1903. Botanical, geological, and meteorological appendix with tables.
Publisher: New York : The Outing publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Labrador (N.L.)
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Author's expedition 1905-1906 from Hamilton Inlet to Lake Michikaman along the route followed by Leonidas Hubbard, Jr. in 1903. Botanical, geological, and meteorological appendix with tables.
The Boy Scouts in a Trapper's Camp
Author: Thornton Waldo Burgess
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boy Scouts
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boy Scouts
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The Mysterious Stranger
Author: Eric Wiggin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781883002268
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Hannah spots a light in the old abandoned Sampson place, the only other house on the island.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781883002268
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Hannah spots a light in the old abandoned Sampson place, the only other house on the island.
A Daughter of the Forest
Author: Evelyn Raymond
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465561803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465561803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description