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62) A vast and open plain: the writings of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in North Dakota, 1804-1806
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State Historical Society of North Dakota
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
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The book presents chronologically the writings - journal entries, reports and letters - of all the members of the Lewis and Clark expedition,allowing for examination the 215 days the Corps of Discovery spent in the state from several perspectives.--Publisher's description.
63) The ugly truth
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Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 5
Language
English
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"While trying to find a new best friend after feuding with Rowley, middle-school slacker Greg Heffley is warned by older family members that adolescence is a time to act more responsibly and to think seriously about his future." -- Provided by publisher.
64) Go ask Alice
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English
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A fifteen-year-old drug user chronicles her daily struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
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English
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"Jacobite exile Mary Dundas is filled with longing--for freedom, for adventure, for the family she lost. When fate opens the door, Mary dares to set her foot on a path far more surprising and dangerous than she ever could have dreamed. As Mary's gripping tale of rebellion and betrayal is revealed to [amateur codebreaker Sara Thomas, she] faces events in her own life that require letting go of everything she thought she knew--about herself, about loyalty,...
69) Chronicles from the future: the amazing story of Paul Amadeus Dienach : based on his diary pages
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Publisher
This Way Out Productions
Pub. Date
©2016
Language
English
Description
In 1921, Paul Amadeus Dienach, a Swiss-Austrian teacher with fragile health, falls into a one-year-long coma. During this time, his consciousness slides into the future and enters the body of another man, Andreas Northam, in the year 3906 A.D. When Dienach awakens from his coma, he finds himself back in 1922. Knowing that he doesn't have much time left, he writes a diary, recording whatever he could remember from his amazing experience. Without any...
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English
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This is Henri Nouwen's "secret journal." It was written during the most difficult period of his life, when he suddenly lost his self-esteem, his energy to live and work, his sense of being loved, even his hope in God. Although he experienced excruciating anguish and despair, he was still able to keep a journal in which he wrote each day a spiritual imperative to himself, which emerged from his conversations with friends and supporters.
For more than...
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English
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Emily Carr' s journals from 1927 to 1941 portray the happy, productive period when she was able to resume painting after dismal years of raising dogs and renting out rooms to pay the bills. These revealing entries convey her passionate connection with nature, her struggle to find her voice as a writer, and her vision and philosophy as a painter.
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Washington State University Press
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
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By the time Medora Espy moved to Oysterville as a toddler in 1902, the quaint, remote village was long past its heyday. The population had dwindled and times were hard. Dependable, devoted, and tender-hearted, Medora was the oldest child of Washington State senator and dairy farmer Harry Albert Espy. At various times throughout her life, she endured long months of separation from her parents, especially her mother. Whether the absence was due to the...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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For eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, Tina Brown kept delicious daily diaries. Today they provide an incendiary portrait of the flash and dash and power brokering of the Excessive Eighties. Astute, openhearted, often riotously funny, this is a compulsively fascinating and intimate chronicle of a woman's life in a glittering era.
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Junie B. Jones series volume 23
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Junie B.'s journal entries start with Room One's stomach virus excitement, the first-grade Columbus Day play, and getting the part of the Pinta, the fastest ship.
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 4
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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In the latest diary of middle-schooler Greg Heffley, he records his attempts to spend his summer vacation sensibly indoors playing video games and watching television, despite his mother's other ideas.
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English
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Two university professors set out to bike the Great Western Trail again and again, observing and writing about its variations with every season. The accounts of their adventures, however, refuse to be limited to flora and fauna as they explore fear of aging, male behavior patterns left over from junior high, anguish at the relentless "development" of wild lands, and what Thoreau described as "wild and noble sights... such as they who sit in parlors...
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