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Winterdance
- The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
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Fueled by a passion for running dogs, Gary Paulsen entered the Iditarod - the 1,180-mile sled-dog race through the Alaskan wilderness - in dangerous ignorance and with a fierce determination. For 17 days, he and his team of dogs endured blinding wind, snowstorms, frostbite, dogfights, moose attacks, sleeplessness, hallucinations - and the relentless push to go on.
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good but bit unlikely story
- By Lisa on 11-18-10
By: Gary Paulsen
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The Rifle
- By: Gary Paulsen
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In this wonderfully crafted novel, a rifle, not the people who come to own it, is the main character. This story follows the rifle from its creation in 1768 to a shattering event as it roars back to life in 1994. Gary Paulsen is one of the most popular writers of young adult fiction in America today.
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Don't waste your time
- By Brad on 12-29-17
By: Gary Paulsen
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This Side of Wild
- Mutts, Mares, and Laughing Dinosaurs
- By: Gary Paulsen
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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The Newbery Honor-winning author of Hatchet and Dogsong shares surprising true stories about his relationship with animals, highlighting their compassion, intellect, intuition, and sense of adventure. Gary Paulsen is an adventurer who competed in two Iditarods, survived the Minnesota wilderness, and climbed the Bighorns. None of this would have been possible without his truest companions: his animals.
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This is an enjoyable read.
- By Annie on 02-15-16
By: Gary Paulsen
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The Cruelest Miles
- The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
- By: Gay Salisbury, Laney Salisbury
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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The year is 1925. It is sixty degrees below zero. The wind sweeps tons of snow over the deep-frozen Alaskan landscape. The nearest railhead is seven hundred miles away. Airplanes cannot fly. The way to Nome is blocked by a treacherous frozen sound, an icebound port, and mountains to the west. But there is a diphtheria epidemic in Nome. The children need serum from the outside world if they are to survive. Their only hope is a few chosen Eskimo drivers and their teams of dogs.
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The Cruelest Miles Makes Exciting Reading
- By Susan Carter on 01-07-04
By: Gay Salisbury, and others
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Nightjohn
- By: Gary Paulsen
- Narrated by: Michele-Denise Woods
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Life on the Waller plantation is harsh and bleak. Twelve-year-old Sarny knows that it won’t be long before she will be forced to leave Mammy and join the other young women who serve the master’s household as breeders. Then one day a new slave arrives, bought from an overseer for a thousand dollars. He comes in a bad way, walking in front of the horses and Waller’s ready whip. His back is covered with scars as thick as Sarny’s hand, but he holds his head high.
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Excellent book!
- By T. Perkins on 11-24-14
By: Gary Paulsen
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Canyons
- By: Gary Paulsen
- Narrated by: Peter Coyote
- Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
- Abridged
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Coyote Runs, an Apache boy, takes part in his first raid. But he is to be a man for only a short time. More than 100 years later, while camping near Dog Canyon, 15-year-old Brennan Cole becomes obsessed with a skull he finds, pierced by a bullet. He learns it is the skull of an Apache boy executed by soldiers in 1864. A mystical link joins Brennan and Coyote Runs, and Brennan knows that neither boy will find peace until Coyote Runs' skull is carried back to an ancient sacred place.
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A childhood favorite lives on!
- By Michael Fortunato on 04-28-19
By: Gary Paulsen
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Harris and Me
- A Summer Remembered
- By: Gary Paulsen
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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“I’m 11-years-old, from the city, and my parents are mean alcoholics. One day the deputy takes me away to live with some distant relatives on their sprawling farm in the country. At the Larsen farm, I meet my Uncle Knute and Aunt Clair and their two children, Glennis and her wild brother Harris. I also meet Louie, the crusty old guy who works as a farmhand and steals all the pancakes at breakfast. Harris introduces me to life on the farm, and it proves to be a rude awakening."
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Teenage city boy sent to a farm
- By Wayne on 11-27-17
By: Gary Paulsen
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The Foxman
- By: Gary Paulsen
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
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Carl and his 15-year-old cousin stumble into a clearing to find the small tarpaper shack with the smoke coming out of the chimney. It may belong to a trapper. Or it could belong to a woodsy - a man who live in the woods because he can’t be with other people. But with night advancing quickly, the boys know they must find shelter from the coming storm - and fast. And that’s how they first meet the Foxman, a strange recluse with a face hideously deformed by a wartime injury. While Carl is just as glad to leave the shack after the storm, his cousin feels strangely drawn to the Foxman.
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Great... ...Story....
- By britton l foster on 04-18-16
By: Gary Paulsen
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