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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"True Raiders is The Lost City of Z meets The Da Vinci Code, from critically acclaimed author Brad Ricca. This book tells the untold true story of Monty Parker, a British rogue nobleman who, after being dared to do so by Ava Astor, the so-called "most beautiful woman in the world," headed a secret 1909 expedition to find the fabled Ark of the Covenant. This amazing tale not only inspired the blockbuster film Raiders of the Lost Ark but stands on its...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xii, 297 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Since the early 1980s, David Byrne has been riding a bike as his principal means of transportation in New York City. Two decades ago, he discovered folding bikes and started taking them on tour. Byrne's choice was made out of convenience rather than political motivation, but the more cities he saw from his bicycle, the more he became hooked on this mode of transport and the sense of liberation it provided. Convinced that urban biking opens one's eyes...
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Language
English
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For forty years, David Sedaris has kept a diary in which he records everything that captures his attention -- overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers. These observations are the source code for his finest work, and through them he has honed his cunning, surprising sentences. Now, Sedaris shares his private writings with the world. Theft by Finding, the first of two volumes, is the story of...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
ix, 340 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
On September 28, 2000, former Indiana State Trooper David Camm made a frantic call to his former colleagues in the state troopers office: He'd just walked into his garage, and found lying on the floor the bodies of his 35-year-old wife, Kim, and their two children, Brad and Jill, ages 7 and 5. Three days later, it got worse when police arrested David Camm for the triple murder. Soon, new stories started emerging: stories about mistresses and violent...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Physical Desc
414 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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When he was 18, the author witnessed, in Boulder, Colorado, the death of his first climbing companion. Later he was at the scene of a climber's death in Mount Washington, New Hampshire, and a few months after that Roberts saw his friend fall 4,000 feet to his death while exploring a new route in Alaska. The author of 16 other books dealing with mountaineering, Roberts here analyzes his years spent hiking these dangerous trails. He writes that although...
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Language
English
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"In an effort to help us reconnect with the food that sustains our lives, David Moscow has spent four years going around the world, meeting with rock-star chefs, and sourcing ingredients within local food ecosystems -- experiences taking place in over twenty countries that include milking a water buffalo to make mozzarella for pizza in Italy; harvesting oysters in Long Island Sound and honey from wild bees in Kenya; and making patis in the Philippines,...
12) Ancient America
Author
Publisher
R. Rinehart Publishers
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
239 p. of plates : chiefly col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
Through 250 exquisite full-color and black-and-white photos, photographer David Muench presents a superb visual interpretation of what the North American continent was like before the arrival of Europeans. Printed on high-quality paper with excellent reproduction, this is a stunning collection that will appeal to photographers as well as nature lovers.
Author
Publisher
Graphic Arts Center Pub
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
207 p. : col. ill. ; 33 cm.
Language
English
Description
Celebrated landscape photographer David Muench turns his keen photographic eye to the mystery of the sculpted earth in Windstone : Natural Arches, Bridges, and Other Openings. These spectacular photographs of natural arches, land bridges, windows, sea stacks, caves, and sea arches represent a master photographer at the top of his game. David Muench beautifully captures the play of form and light in these magnificent creations of wind, water, and stone....
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Language
English
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"These diaries remind you that you once really hated George W. Bush, and that not too long ago, Donald Trump was just a harm℗Ưless laughingstock, at least on French TV. Sedaris' observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between two men on the street, pedestrians being whacked over the head or gathering to watch as a man considers leap℗Ưing to his death. There's a dirty joke shared at a book signing, then a dirtier...
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Language
English
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"The Roaring Twenties -- the Jazz Age -- has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland and the West. They hated Blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants in equal measure, and took radical steps to keep these people from the American promise. And the man who set in motion their takeover of great swaths...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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The Colorado River is a crucial resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado's headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes readers on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and RV parks,...
19) Calypso
Author
Language
English
Description
Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality. This is beach reading for people who detest beaches, required reading for those who loathe small talk, and also Sedaris' darkest and warmest book yet.
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the 1996 disaster that took eight climbers in a single day, scientists follow a team of hikers to measure, for the first time ever, the toll high-altitude climbing takes on the heart, lungs, blood, and brain. Why do seemingly rational people make poor, sometimes fatal decisions as they approach the peak? and much more.
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