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Discoveries in geography Discoveries in geography Drama Discoveries in geography Fiction Explorers Fiction Frontier and pioneer life Frontier and pioneer life Fiction Large type books Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) Fiction West (U.S.) Discovery and exploration Fiction West United StatesHeikkilä, Cecilia
Summary: Grandpa and Little Bear share a dream to visit Faraway Valley -- a special, hard-to-find place full of wild and wonderful creatures, a place where the air smells of pine needles, a place they've only seen on a postcard. The determined pair study maps, read books and practice camping to prepare for their adventure, then set sail for the long journey. But when they arrive in the north, they find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Floris Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HEISummary: Kong, Skull Island: When a scientific expedition to an uncharted island awakens titanic forces of nature, a mission of discovery becomes an explosive war between monster and man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KONYolen, Jane
Summary: "Under Grandpa's watchful eye, the kids are thrilled to discover that the craggy rocks, tufted grass, and windswept trees on Giant Island are much more than they seem. Are the children the first to fathom this huge secret, or does Grandpa have a secret of his own?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flashlight Press 2022
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Summary: "In the wake of the First World War, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Antarctic expedition, determined to find his rightful place in the world of men. Aboard the expeditionary ship of his hero, the world-famous explorer James "Australis" Randall, Jonathan may live as his true self--and true gender--and have the adventures he has always been denied. But not all is smooth sailing: the war casts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC WILCleary, Rita
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP W CLECussler, Clive.
Summary: "The outstanding new Fargo adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Baffin Island: Husband-and-wife team Sami and Remi Fargo are on a climate-control expedition in the Arctic, when to their astonishment they discover a Viking ship in the ice, perfectly preserved--and filled with pre-Columbian artifacts from Mexico. How can that be? As they plunge into their research, tantalizing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CUSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction CusslerDruett, Joan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRUHolland, Cecelia
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLRoss, Stewart.
Summary: Discover how the greatest explorers in history plunged into the unknown and boldly pieced together the picture of the world we have today. With the help of masterful cross sections, dramatic storytelling, and sidebars that highlight key concepts, places, and technology, readers explore fourteen historic journeys.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910.9 ROSThom, James Alexander.
Summary: George Drouillard accompanies Lewis and Clark as they explore the territory acquired in the Louisiana Purchase.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballentine Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOBuechner, Frederick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUERundell, B. N.
Summary: "When the Salish War Leader, Spotted Eagle appeared in the clearing before their cabin, life-long friends Gabe and Ezra weren't sure what to think. This man had shown himself to be their friend, and now he invited them to join him and the village on a buffalo hunt. With winter just around the corner, it seemed the likely thing to do, but had they known what the journey would bring, they might...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNThom, James Alexander.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOSummary: Inspired by a true story, follow the British Royal Navy's perilous voyage into unchartered territory as the crew attempts to discover the Northwest Passage. Faced with treacherous conditions, limited resources, dwindling hope and fear of the unknown, the crew is pushed to the brink of extinction. Frozen, isolated and stuck at the end of the earth, it highlights all that can go wrong when a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TERBinge, Nicholas
Summary: "A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of the Pacific Ocean leads a group of scientists to a series of jaw-dropping revelations that challenge the notion of what it means to be human. An enormous snow-covered mountain has appeared in the Pacific Ocean. No one knows when exactly it showed up, precisely how big it might be, or how to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BINRundell, B. N.
Summary: "It started as a brother defending the honor of his only sister, but it led to a bloody duel and a young man of a prominent family lying dead in the dirt. Gabriel Stonecroft along with his life-long friend, Ezra, the son of the pastor of the African Methodist Episcopal church, at his side, the journey to the far wilderness of the west would begin. One man from prominent social standing, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNRundell, B. N.
Summary: "Osage, Kansa, Otoe, were all tribes west of the Mississippi and dwelt directly in the path of the two friends determined to escape the bounty hunters from Philadelphia and to explore the uncharted wilderness of the west. But when they encounter former French Voyageurs turned slave traders that take Pawnee women captive, their purposes take a turn. But slave-traders are nothing compared to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNSummary: Astronaut Sam Bell is completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth's primary source of energy on the dark side of the moon: Helium-3. His declining health is causing headaches and hallucinations that lead to a near-fatal accident, rendering him unconscious. After recuperating, an unexpected discovery leads him to doubt his sanity, his identity, and the integrity of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI MOOMessner, Kate
Summary: Once again the mysterious box takes the golden retriever Ranger back in time, and he finds himself on Robert Falcon Scott's ship, the Terra Nova, headed for Antarctica, where his mission is to save Jack Nin, a Chinese-Maori stowaway from New Zealand, from the blizzards, unstable ice, and the other hazards that lie ahead for the doomed expedition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MESCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MESRundell, B. N.
Summary: "Two friends committed to one another and their destiny of exploring the wilderness known as French Louisiana. A land that would soon become the Louisiana Purchase and a part of the growing nation of the United Colonies. But another man, wealthy, influential and vindictive is determined to see Gabriel Stonecroft pay the ultimate price for the death of his son, a ne'er do well troublemaker who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNSummary: Biologist and former soldier Lena is shocked when her missing husband comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone from which no one has ever returned. Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how to stop the growing phenomenon that threatens all life on Earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ANNVernon, John
Summary: Blending fact and fiction, presents the story of John Wesley Powell's 1869 voyage of exploration from the Green River in Wyoming Territory to the canyons of the Colorado River.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2001