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"A personal, lyrical, and idiosyncratic ode to our national parks"--
"For years, America's national parks have provided public breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why close to 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now, to honor the centennial of the National Park Service, Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary...
147) Flags of our fathers
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In 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima. Through a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire that left the beaches strewn with comrades, they reached the island's highest peak and raised the American flag. The coauthor is Ron Powers.
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If you love baseball and the venerable stadiums its played in, you need this definitive history and guide to Major League ballparks of the past, present, and future. Ballparks takes you inside the histories of every park in the Major Leagues, with hundreds of photos, stories, and stats.
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Edward Curtis was dashing, charismatic, a passionate mountaineer, a famous photographer--the Annie Liebowitz of his time. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his great idea: He would try to capture on film the NativeAmerican nation before it disappeared. At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan's book tells the remarkable untold story behind Curtis's iconic photographs,...
150) Owl's winter rescue
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"The woods are beautiful in winter--there's a blanket of snow on the ground and icicles glitter on the trees like diamonds. But Rabbit's curiosity leads him into trouble. Can Owl save the day?"--Page [4] of cover.
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