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The best American travel writing 2018

Strayed, Cheryl, 1968- editor, writer of introduction.

Publication Date

2018

Format:

Book

Call Number

910.4 BES 2018

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SD_ILS:488097

The best American travel writing 2017

Collins, Lauren (Journalist) editor.

Publication Date

2017

Format:

Book

Call Number

910.4 BES 2017

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:454182

Earth keeper : reflections on the American land

Momaday, N. Scott, 1934- author.

Publication Date

2020

Format:

Book

Call Number

814 MOM

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SD_ILS:587068

The highest calling : conversations on the American Presidency

Rubenstein, David M., author.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Book

Call Number

973.099 RUB

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SD_ILS:784965

The sunset route : freight trains, forgiveness, and freedom on the rails in the American West

Quinn, Carrot, author.

Publication Date

2021

Format:

Book

Call Number

305.48442 QUI

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SD_ILS:627133

American happiness and discontents : the unruly torrent, 2008-2020

Will, George F., author.

Publication Date

2021

Format:

Book

Call Number

973.93 WIL

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SD_ILS:632970

Where the deer and the antelope play [CD] : the pastoral observations of one ignorant American who loves to walk outside

Offerman, Nick, 1970- author, narrator.

Publication Date

2021

Format:

Call Number

917.3 OFF

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SD_ILS:640180

App kid : how a child of immigrants grabbed a piece of the American dream

Sayman, Michael, 1996- author.

Publication Date

2021

Format:

Book

Call Number

005.13 SAY

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SD_ILS:616238

Gods at play : an eyewitness account of great moments in American sports

Callahan, Tom, author.

Publication Date

2020

Format:

Book

Call Number

796.0973 CAL

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SD_ILS:594247

10.

American cuisine : and how it got this way

Freedman, Paul, 1949- author.

Publication Date

2019

Format:

Book

Call Number

641.5973 FRE

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SD_ILS:512300

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Never look an American in the eye : a memoir : flying turtles, colonial ghosts, and the making of a Nigerian American

Ndibe, Okey, 1960- author.

Publication Date

2016

Format:

Book

Call Number

928.213 NDI

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SD_ILS:405095

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Go home!

Buchanan, Rowan Hisayo, editor.

Publication Date

2018

Format:

Book

Call Number

810.9 GOH

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SD_ILS:467761

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