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Armchair Travel April 2018
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| The Monk of Mokha by Dave EggersStarring: Mokhtar Alkhanshali, who grew up in San Francisco's notorious Tenderloin district, lived with his grandparents in Yemen for a while as a teen, and then moved back to the U.S. and made a career in his twenties importing Yemeni coffee. Then, a 2015 civil war left Mokhtar stranded in Yemen, trying to get home via any path he could.
For fans of: Dave Eggers, of course, but also coffee lovers and fans of Ian Purkayastha's Truffle Boy, another fascinating book about a globe-trotting, gourmet food-importing son of an immigrant. |
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The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
by Laurie Gwen Shapiro
Documents the true story of a scrappy teen from New York's Lower East Side who stowed away on a daring expedition to Antarctica in 1928, tracing the sensational heyday of the time and how high schooler Billy Gawronski jumped into the Hudson and snuck aboard the expedition's flagship, eventually becoming an international celebrity.
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Icefall: Adventures at the Wild Edges of Our Dangerous, Changing Planet
by John All
The executive director of the American Climber Science Program, famed for his life-risking viral videos documenting climate change, shares dramatic accounts of some of his most significant experiences while outlining how humans will be adapting to dynamic environmental shifts.
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River Master: John Wesley Powell's Legendary Exploration of the Colorado River and Grand Canyon
by Cecil C. Kuhne
In 1869, Civil War veteran and amputee Major John Wesley Powell led an expedition down the uncharted Colorado River through the then-nameless Grand Canyon. This is the story of what started as a geological survey, but ended in danger, chaos, and blood. The men were inexperienced and ill-equipped, and they faced unimaginable peril. Along the way there was death, mutiny, and abject terror, but Powell persevered and produced a masterwork of adventure writing still held in the highest regard by the boatmen who follow his course today. With never-before-used primary sources and firsthand experience navigating Powell’s legendary route, Cecil Kuhne brings this remarkable chapter of frontier history to life.
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Deep Life: The Hunt for the Hidden Biology of Earth, Mars, and Beyond
by T. C. Onstott
Explains challenges faced by researchers in their quest to learn more about the origins of life and the potential existence of extraterrestrials through examining lifeforms in extreme environments beneath the earth's crust, whether below the desert floor on frozen under the Arctic tundra.
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Great Decisions
Monday, April 9, 6:30 pm
Library Meeting Room
The foreign policy discussion program Great Decisions returns to the library for a 20th season. The discussion this session is Turkey: A Partner in Crisis. For information, call 873-3049.
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The Glass Castle Film Showing
Sunday, April 15, 2:00 pm
Library Meeting Room
Based on the bestselling memoir. Four siblings must learn to take care of themselves as their responsibility-averse, free-spirit parents both inspire and inhibit them. When sober, the children’s brilliant and charismatic father captured their imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Meanwhile, their mother abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn’t want to take on the work of raising a family. Rated PG-13. The film is shown in collaboration with the Purdue Northwest Odyssey Arts and Cultural program.
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Purchase Tickets Now for the Friends of the Library Collector's Breakfast
Saturday, April 21, 9:30 am
Full Gospel Church, 2700 Ohio Street, Michigan City
The Collector’s Breakfast is an annual fundraiser for The Friends of the Library. Tickets are $25 and you can bring one item for appraisal. Breakfast will be catered by Portofino’s of LaPorte. Martin Papke will entertain with his expertise of a wide range of collector items. The breakfast will be at the Full Gospel Church, 2700 Ohio St., Michigan City. Tickets will be available from Friends’ board members and at the Circulation Desk in the library. We are also auctioning the library’s egg chairs at the Collector’s Breakfast! The chairs will be sold via silent auction. Don’t miss your chance to bid on these unique chairs.
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Axis 360 eBooks
Find popular fiction, non-fiction, and picture e-books and e-audiobooks for children, teens, and adults! It's simple--just download the app on your device, search for "Michigan City Public Library", and log in with your library card number and PIN.
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Library Catalog
Look up books and other materials, place items on hold, and more.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Michigan City Public Library 100 E. 4th Street Michigan City, Indiana 46360 219-873-3044mclib.org/ |
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