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Dominion : the railway and the rise of Canada / by Bown, Stephen R.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Stephen R. Bown continues to revitalize Canadian history with this thrilling account of the engineering triumph that created a nation. In The Company, his bestselling work of revisionist history, Stephen Bown told the dramatic, adventurous and bloody tale of Canada's origins in the fur trade. With Dominion he continues the nation's creation story with an equally thrilling and eye-opening account of the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. In the late 19th century, demand for fur was in sharp decline. This could have spelled economic disaster for the venerable Hudson's Bay Company. But an idea emerged in political and business circles in Ottawa and Montreal to connect the disparate British colonies into a single entity that would stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific. With over 3,000 kilometers of track, much of it driven through wildly inhospitable terrain, the CPR would be the longest railroad in the world and the most difficult to build. Its construction was the defining event of its era and a catalyst for powerful global forces. The times were marked by greed, hubris, blatant empire building, oppression, corruption and theft. They were good for some, hard for most, disastrous for others. The CPR enabled a new country, but it came at a terrible price. In recent years Canadian history has been given a rude awakening from the comforts of its myths. In Dominion, Stephen Bown again widens our view of the past to include the adventures and hardships of explorers and surveyors, the resistance of Indigenous peoples, and the terrific and horrific work of many thousands of labourers. His vivid portrayal of the powerful forces that were molding the world in the late 19th century provides a revelatory new picture of modern Canada's creation as an independent state."--
Subjects: Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Railroads; Railroads;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The ride of her life : the true story of a woman, her horse, and their last-chance journey across America / by Letts, Elizabeth,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The incredible true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion. In 1954, Annie Wilkins, a sixty-three-year-old farmer from Maine, embarked on an impossible journey. She had no relatives left, she'd lost her family farm to back taxes, and her doctor had just given her two years to live--but only if she "lived restfully." He offered her a spot in the county's charity home. Instead, she decided she wanted to see the Pacific Ocean just once before she died. She bought a cast-off brown gelding named Tarzan, donned men's dungarees, loaded up her horse, and headed out from Maine in mid-November, hoping to beat the snow. She had no map, no GPS, no phone. But she had her ex-racehorse, her faithful mutt, and her own unfailing belief that Americans would treat a stranger with kindness. Between 1954 and 1956, Annie, Tarzan, and her dog, Depeche Toi, journeyed more than 4,000 miles, through America's big cities and small towns, meeting ordinary people and celebrities--from Andrew Wyeth (who sketched Tarzan) to Art Linkletter and Groucho Marx. She received many offers--a permanent home at a riding stable in New Jersey, a job at a gas station in rural Kentucky, even a marriage proposal from a Wyoming rancher who loved animals as much as she did. As Annie trudged through blizzards, forded rivers, climbed mountains, and clung to the narrow shoulder as cars whipped by her at terrifying speeds, she captured the imagination of an apprehensive Cold War America. At a time when small towns were being bypassed by Eisenhower's brand-new interstate highway system, and the reach and impact of television was just beginning to be understood, Annie and her four-footed companions inspired an outpouring of neighborliness in a rapidly changing world"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Wilkins, Mesannie; Horsemen and horsewomen; Overland journeys to the Pacific.; Travel with horses;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Drowning : the rescue of Flight 1421 : a novel / by Newman, T. J.(Novelist),author.;
"Six minutes after takeoff, Flight 1421 crashes into the Pacific Ocean. During the evacuation, an engine explodes and the plane is flooded. Those still alive are forced to close the doors--but it's too late. The plane sinks to the bottom with twelve passengers trapped inside. More than two hundred feet below the surface, engineer Will Kent and his eleven-year-old daughter Shannon are waist-deep in water and fighting for their lives. Their only chance at survival is an elite rescue team on the surface led by professional diver Chris Kent--Shannon's mother and Will's soon-to-be ex-wife--who must work together with Will to find a way to save their daughter and rescue the passengers from the sealed airplane, which is now teetering on the edge of an undersea cliff. There's not much time. There's even less air. With devastating emotional power and heart-stopping suspense, Drowning is an unforgettable thriller about a family's desperate fight to save themselves and the people trapped with them--against impossible odds."--Publisher website.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Aircraft accidents; Airplane crash survival; Engineers; Families; Fathers and daughters; Women divers;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Drowning [sound recording] : the rescue of Flight 1421 : a novel / by Newman, T. J.(Novelist),author.; Benanti, Laura,narrator.; Weber, Steven,1961 March 4-narrator.; Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Steven Weber, Laura Benanti."Six minutes after takeoff, Flight 1421 crashes into the Pacific Ocean. During the evacuation, an engine explodes and the plane is flooded. Those still alive are forced to close the doors--but it's too late. The plane sinks to the bottom with twelve passengers trapped inside. More than two hundred feet below the surface, engineer Will Kent and his eleven-year-old daughter Shannon are waist-deep in water and fighting for their lives. Their only chance at survival is an elite rescue team on the surface led by professional diver Chris Kent--Shannon's mother and Will's soon-to-be ex-wife--who must work together with Will to find a way to save their daughter and rescue the passengers from the sealed airplane, which is now teetering on the edge of an undersea cliff. There's not much time. There's even less air. With devastating emotional power and heart-stopping suspense, Drowning is an unforgettable thriller about a family's desperate fight to save themselves and the people trapped with them--against impossible odds."--Publisher website.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Novels.; Thrillers (Fiction); Aircraft accidents; Airplane crash survival; Engineers; Families; Fathers and daughters; Women divers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Throne of grace : a mountain man, an epic adventure, and the bloody conquest of the American West / by Drury, Bob,author.; Clavin, Tom,1954-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier. It is the early 19th century, and the land recently purchased by President Thomas Jefferson stretches west for thousands of miles. Who inhabits this vast new garden of Eden? What strange beasts and natural formations can be found? Thus was the birth of Manifest Destiny and the resulting bloody battles with Indigenous tribes encountered by white explorers. Also in this volatile mix are the grizzled fur trappers and mountain men, waging war against the Native American tribes whose lands they traverse. This is the setting of this book, and the guide to this epic narrative is arguably America's greatest yet most unsung pathfinder, Jedediah Smith. His explorations into the forested frontiers on both sides of the Rocky Mountains and all the way to the West Coast would become the stuff of legend. Thanks to painstaking research and riveting writing, the story of the making of modern America is told through the eyes of both the ordinary and memorable men and women, settlers and Indigenous, who witnessed it"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Smith, Jedediah Strong, 1799-1831.; Explorers; Fur trade; Overland journeys to the Pacific.;
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Adrift : a true story of love, loss, and survival at sea / by Ashcraft, Tami Oldham,1960-author.; McGearhart, Susea,author.; revision of:Ashcraft, Tami Oldham, 1960-Red sky in mourning.;
Subjects: Ashcraft, Tami Oldham, 1960-; Shipwrecks; Yachting accidents; Survival at sea.; Shipwreck survival.;
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All the gallant men : an American sailor's firsthand account of Pearl Harbor / by Stratton, Donald,author.; Gire, Ken,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; Stratton, Donald.; United States. Navy; Arizona (Battleship); Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941; Sailors; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Moana. [videorecording] / by Cravalho, Auli'i,2000-voice actor.; Derrick, David G.,1978-film director.; Fraser, Awhimai,voice actor.; Hand, Jason,film director.; House, Rachel,voice actor.; Johnson, Dwayne,1972-voice actor.; Matafeo, Rose,1992-voice actor.; Miller, Dana Ledoux,film director,screenwriter.; Morrison, Temuera,voice actor.; Scherzinger, Nicole,1978-voice actor.; Tudyk, Alan,voice actor.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.; Walt Disney Animation Studios,production company.;
Voices: Auli'i Cravalho, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Alan Tudyk, Rachel House, Nicole Scherzinger, Temuera Morrison, Rose Matafeo, Awhimai Fraser.An epic animated musical takes audiences on an expansive new voyage with Moana, Maui and a brand-new crew of unlikely seafarers. After receiving an unexpected call from her way-finding ancestors, Moana must journey to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she's ever faced.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Children's films.; Musical films.; Comedy films.; Animated films.; Feature films.; Māui (Polynesian deity); Moana (Fictitious character); Adventure and adventurers; Gods, Polynesian; Ocean travel; Polynesians; Women heroes; Quests (Expeditions); Women adventurers; Women explorers;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Girl in the woods : a memoir / by Matis, Aspen.;
Includes Internet addresses.LSC
Subjects: Matis, Aspen; Hiking; Rape victims;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Sasquatch and the Muckleshoot / by Gidwitz, Adam.; Bruchac, Joseph,1942-; Aly, Hatem.;
Elliot and his friend Uchenna join Professor Fauna as they travel to the Pacific Northwest and help keep a sasquatch family safe from a pack of journalists and a logging company.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Animals, Mythical; Wildlife rescue; Sasquatch; Muckleshoot Indians; Indians of North America; Friendship;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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