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320 pages : map ; 22 cm
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English
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Harold Fry is convinced that he must deliver a letter to an old love in order to save her, meeting various characters along the way and reminiscing about the events of his past and people he has known, as he tries to find peace and acceptance.
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English
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A man named Gil walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new neighbors move into the glass-walled house next door, and his life begins to mesh with theirs. In this warmly textured, drily funny, and philosophical account of Gil's unexpected devotion to the family, Lydia Millet explores the uncanny territory where the self ends and community begins what one person can do in a world beset by emergencies. Dinosaurs...
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1 videodisc (approximately 48 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A gentle fat-burning fitness program that tones and conditions muscles and the heart and helps with weight loss. The first workout is an 18 minute, one mile indoor walk, and the second workout is two miles and takes 30 minutes.
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xi, 432 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, of the stories our tracks keep and tell, and of pilgrimage and ritual. Told in Macfarlane's distinctive voice,...
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327 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Henri "Halti" Haltiwanger can charm just about anyone. But his easy smiles mask a burning ambition to attend his dream college, Columbia University. There is only one person who seems immune to Henri's charms: his "intense" classmate and neighbor Corinne Troy. When she uncovers Henri's less-than-honest dog-walking scheme, she blackmails him into helping her change her image at school. Henri agrees, seeing a potential upside for himself. Soon what...
10) Man on wire
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"On August 7th, 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between the New York World Trade Center's Twin Towers. After dancing for nearly an hour on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, and brought to jail, before finally being released. This extraordinary documentary incorporates Petit's personal footage to show how he overcame seemingly insurmountable challenges to achieve the...
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xiv, 236 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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"For nearly a decade, Pulitzer prize-winning critic Justin Davidson has explained New York, the city, to his readers at New York, the magazine. He has visited new and preserved buildings, explored neighborhoods in mid-transformation; interviewed architects, developers, and urban thinkers; and tracked the city's constant change. Now, he distills those experiences into Magnetic City, an ambler's guide to New York--the city around us, the one that's...
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Caldecott medal book volume 2004
Language
English
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A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.
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