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The Twenty-Ninth Day

The Twenty-Ninth Day
Author: Alex Messenger
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-11-30
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A six-hundred-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a seventeen-year-old's dream adventure, but after he is mauled by a grizzly bear, it's all about staying alive. This true-life wilderness survival epic recounts seventeen-year-old Alex Messenger's near-lethal encounter with a grizzly bear during a canoe trip in the Canadian tundra. The story follows Alex and his five companions as they paddle north through harrowing rapids and stunning terrain. Twenty-nine days into the trip, while out hiking alone, Alex is attacked by a barren-ground grizzly. Left for dead, he wakes to find that his summer adventure has become a struggle to stay alive. Over the next hours and days, Alex and his companions tend his wounds and use their resilience, ingenuity, and dogged perseverance to reach help at a remote village a thousand miles north of the US-Canadian border. The Twenty-Ninth Day is a coming-of-age story like no other, filled with inspiring subarctic landscapes, thrilling riverine paddling, and a trial by fire of the human spirit.


The Twenty-Ninth Year

The Twenty-Ninth Year
Author: Hala Alyan
Publisher: Mariner Books
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2019-01-29
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1328511944

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Wild, lyrical poems that examine the connections between physical and interior migration, from award-winning Palestinian American poet, novelist, and clinical psychologist Hala Alyan, author of Salt Houses.


The Twenty-ninth Day

The Twenty-ninth Day
Author: Lester Russell Brown
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Total Pages: 363
Release: 1978
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780393056730

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A lily pond, so the French riddle goes, contains a single leaf. Each day the number of leaves doubles--two leaves the second day, four the third, eight the fourth, and so on. Question: If the pond is completely full on the thirtieth day, when is it half full? Answer: On the Twenty-ninth day.


The Ninth Hour

The Ninth Hour
Author: Alice McDermott
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2017-09-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0374712174

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A magnificent new novel from one of America’s finest writers—a powerfully affecting story spanning the twentieth century of a widow and her daughter and the nuns who serve their Irish-American community in Brooklyn. On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens a gas tap in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove—to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his pregnant wife—that “the hours of his life . . . belonged to himself alone.” In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Saviour, an aging nun, a Little Nursing Sister of the Sick Poor, appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child. In Catholic Brooklyn in the early part of the twentieth century, decorum, superstition, and shame collude to erase the man’s brief existence, and yet his suicide, though never spoken of, reverberates through many lives—testing the limits and the demands of love and sacrifice, of forgiveness and forgetfulness, even through multiple generations. Rendered with remarkable delicacy, heart, and intelligence, Alice McDermott’s The Ninth Hour is a crowning achievement of one of the finest American writers at work today.


Out of the Briars

Out of the Briars
Author: Alexander Herritage Newton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1910
Genre: African American clergy
ISBN:

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The Grizzly in the Driveway

The Grizzly in the Driveway
Author: Robert Chaney
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2021-01-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0295747943

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Four decades ago, the areas around Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks sheltered the last few hundred surviving grizzlies in the Lower 48 states. Protected by the Endangered Species Act, their population has surged to more than 1,500, and this burgeoning number of grizzlies now collides with the increasingly populated landscape of the twenty-first-century American West. While humans and bears have long shared space, today’s grizzlies navigate a shrinking amount of wilderness: cars whiz like bullets through their habitats, tourists check Facebook to pinpoint locations for a quick selfie with a grizzly, and hunters seek trophy prey. People, too, must learn to live and work within a potential predator’s territory they have chosen to call home. Mixing fast-paced storytelling with rich details about the hidden lives of grizzly bears, Montana journalist Robert Chaney chronicles the resurgence of this charismatic species against the backdrop of the country’s long history with the bear. Chaney captures the clash between groups with radically different visions: ranchers frustrated at losing livestock, environmental advocates, hunters, and conservation and historic preservation officers of tribal nations. Underneath, he probes the balance between our demands on nature and our tolerance for risk.


Into the Abyss

Into the Abyss
Author: Carol Shaben
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2013-05-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1455545627

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Only four men survived the plane crash. The pilot. A politician. A cop... and the criminal he was shackled to. On an icy night in October 1984, a commuter plane carrying nine passengers crashed in the remote wilderness of northern Alberta, killing six people. Four survived: the rookie pilot, a prominent politician, a cop, and the criminal he was escorting to face charges. Despite the poor weather, Erik Vogel, the 24-year-old pilot, was under intense pressure to fly. Larry Shaben, the author's father and Canada's first Muslim Cabinet Minister, was commuting home after a busy week at the Alberta Legislature. Constable Scott Deschamps was escorting Paul Archambault, a drifter wanted on an outstanding warrant. Against regulations, Archambault's handcuffs were removed-a decision that would profoundly impact the men's survival. As the men fight through the night to stay alive, the dividing lines of power, wealth, and status are erased, and each man is forced to confront the precious and limited nature of his existence.


Mark of the Grizzly

Mark of the Grizzly
Author: Scott Mcmillion
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2011-11-08
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0762777400

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A must-read about these magnificent but sometimes deadly creatures—thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated


The Journey of a Warrior

The Journey of a Warrior
Author: Gerald H. Turley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2012-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781469761329

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The Journey of a Warrior tells the inspiring story of a truly unique marine who became a brilliant combat leader and achieved international prominence. General Alfred Mason Gray, US Marine Corps, was a loner by nature, and many of his peers considered him to be a maverick. At the same time, having established himself as a military intellectual of remarkable insight, he became an icon to service personnel of all ranks, as well as many prominent defense officials, politicians, and scholars. General Gray was a critical force behind the changes needed to prepare marines for the new millennium. He is now recognized as one of the finest commandants in fifty years. The Journey of a Warrior brings to the fore the journey of a most unusual individual: a warrior, a leader, a thinker, and a patriot. It is not written as a biography but rather as a retrospective of a unique marine whose impact on his institution was both untraditional and perhaps underappreciated. The Marine Corps is better for his unselfish and dedicated journey to faithfully serve his country. Brigadier General Edwin H. Simmons, USMC Retired, Marine Corps Historian Emeritus, appears to have best captured General Gray's character when he wrote, General Al Gray is imaginative, iconoclastic, articulate, charismatic, and compassionate. His Marines love him.


Fighting for Your Life

Fighting for Your Life
Author: Tom George Hron
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2009
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780984051595

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Adventurer, author, and bush pilot Hron, who has spent a lifetime flying floatplanes and helicopters in North America's most dangerous bear country, tells about real-life bear attacks and relates them to survival.