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5) Rivers
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Named one of "40 Gifts for the Book Lover on Your List," by Good Housekeeping: The definitive book about Joan Rivers' tumultuous, victorious, tragic, hilarious, and fascinating life.
Joan Rivers was more than a legendary comedian; she was an icon and a role model to millions, a fearless pioneer who left a legacy of expanded opportunity when she died in 2014. Her life was a dramatic roller coaster of triumphant highs and devastating...
Joan Rivers was more than a legendary comedian; she was an icon and a role model to millions, a fearless pioneer who left a legacy of expanded opportunity when she died in 2014. Her life was a dramatic roller coaster of triumphant highs and devastating...
Author
Publisher
Lyons & Burford
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Originally published in 1994, this book was a fly-fishing phenomenon in the way Howell Raines's Fly Fishing Through the Mid-Life Crisis was. Taking his fishing hobby to near metaphysical levels, Ted Leeson tells about his passions: rivers, trout, and fly fishing. With wry humor and rare insight, he explores questions that engage most fishermen: What is it about rivers that draws us so irresistibly, and why does fly fishing seem such an aptly suited...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joan Rivers was known all over the world--from the Palace Theater to Buckingham Palace, from the bright lights of Las Vegas to the footlights of Broadway, from the days of talkies to hosting talk shows. But there was only one person who knew Joan intimately, one person who the authorities would call when she got a little out of hand. Her daughter and best friend, Melissa.
Author
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Water, the most critical fluid on the planet, is seen as savior, benefactor, and Holy Grail in these fifteen essays on natural and faux oases. Fluvial geologist and former Colorado River guide Rebecca Lawton follows species both human and wild to their watery roots--in warming deserts, near rising Pacific tides, on endangered, tapped-out rivers, and in growing urban ecosystems. Lawton thoroughly and eloquently explores human attitudes toward water...
Author
Language
English
Description
The 150th anniversary of John Wesley Powell's first expedition down the Green and Colorado Rivers was an opportunity to reflect on the changes in the Colorado River Basin. Through essays of science and art, the Basin is re-examined through its complexity of reclamation, transformation, and revision of the sense of place that defines the American West. Through the lens of expedition and discovery, the modern Colorado River Basin is reimagined.
Author
Series
Green Knowe chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
An English girl, a Polish refugee, and a displaced boy from the Orient explore an island-strewn river flowing past the ancient manor house of Green Knowe.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A no-holds-barred ... look at the everyday life of the ultimate diva. Follow Joan on a family vacation in Mexico and on trips between New York and Los Angeles where she mingles with the stars, never missing a beat as she delivers blistering critiques on current events, and excoriating insights about life, pop culture, and celebrities (from A to D list), all in her ... signature style"--Dust cover flap.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A history of the role of rivers in shaping American politics, economics, and society draws on experts from diverse backgrounds to explore how the natural and human transformations of rivers have made a significant impact on the nation.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 102
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
While vacationing at a friend's country home, the four Alden siblings try to find a long-missing, priceless brooch, while also investigating the existence of a ghostly stream.
Publisher
Skinny Fist Productions, LLC
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
At the turn of the 20th Century, a handful of pioneers carried their fly rods into California's remote north coast and gave birth to a culture that would revolutionize their sport. For a select few, steelhead fly fishing became an obsessive pursuit without compromise. Leading the pack was the mythical, Bill Schaadt, an off-kilter angler famous for his ruthless pursuit to be 'in the fish'. The new endeavor was ruled by a demanding, unspoken code, which...
20) Damnation
Publisher
Patagonia
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
"This powerful film odyssey across America explores the sea change in national attitude from pride in big dmas as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our own future is bound to the life and health of our rivers."--Container.
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