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Summary: Greg Mortensen, best selling author of Three Cups of Tea, may not be all that he appears to be according to author Jon Krakauer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 361.74 KRAKrakauer, Jon.
Summary: Few, if any, outsiders gain a peek inside the shrouded, secretive compounds of Mormon Fundamentalists. However, after years of painstaking research, Jon Krakauer has composed a shocking and insightful picture of these communities. He also provides commentary on the heinous murder carried out by polygamists Ron and Dan Lafferty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 289.33 KRAKrakauer, Jon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 1999
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MCCANDLESS, CHRISTOPHER KRAKrakauer, Jon.
Summary: Jon Krakauer's literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders, taking readers inside isolated American communities where some 40,000 Mormon Fundamentalists still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.33 KRAKrakauer, Jon.
Summary: The author describes his spring 1996 trek to Mt. Everest, a disastrous expedition that claimed the lives of eight climbers, and explains why he survived.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Villard 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.5 KRAKrakauer, Jon.
Summary: The author describes his spring 1996 trek to Mt. Everest, a disastrous expedition that claimed the lives of eight climbers, and explains why he survived.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.98 KRAKrakauer, Jon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Villard 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 KRAKrakauer, Jon.
Summary: Krakauer provides a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster. The 1996 expedition he was reporting on and climbing with was engulfed by a storm. Five of his fellow climbers were dead and the sixth horribly frostbitten. By the time all expeditions had quit the mountains, twelve people had perished.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Pub. 1997
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 796.522 KraKrakauer, Jon.
Summary: Traces the 1984 murder of a woman and her child by fundamentalist Mormons, exploring the belief systems and traditions that mark the faith's most extreme factions and what their practices reflect about the nature of religion in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 289.3 KrakaKrakauer, Jon
Summary: "The gripping articles collected in Classic Krakauer--originally published in magazines such as The New Yorker, Outside, and Smithsonian--show why he is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism. Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these pieces take us from a horrifying avalanche on Mount Everest to a volcano poised to obliterate a big chunk of Seattle; from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 KRAKrakauer, Jon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.522 KRAKrakauer, Jon.
Summary: "Missoula, Montana, is a typical college town, with a highly regarded state university, bucolic surroundings, a lively social scene, and an excellent football team, the Grizzlies, with a rabid fan base. The Department of Justice investigated 350 sexual assaults reported to the Missoula police between January 2008 and May 2012. Few of these assaults were properly handled by either the university...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.8 KRAKrakauer, Jon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP 289.332 KrakauerKrakauer, Jon.
Summary: Krakauer draws on Pat Tillman's journals and letters, interviews with his wife and friends, conversations with the soldiers who served alongside him, and extensive research on the ground in Afghanistan to render an intricate mosaic of this driven, complex, and uncommonly compelling figure as well as the definitive account of the events and actions that led to his death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.33 KRACopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TILLMAN, PAT KRASummary: Three renowned climbers navigate nature's harshest elements and their own complicated inner demons to ascend Mount Meru, the most technically complicated and dangerous peak in the Himalayas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MERSummary: Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless instead walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people - a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. Based on a true story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Into 2007Summary: Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless instead walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people - a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. Based on a true story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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Summary: From the private investigator who cracked open the case that led to the arrest of Warren Jeffs, the maniacal prophet of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), comes the page-turning, horrifying story of how a rogue sect used sex, money, and power disguised under a fac̦ade of religion to further criminal activities and a madman's vision.--Bookjacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York 2011