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Coming out Swiss : in search of Heidi, chocolate, and my other life / by Herrmann, Anne,author.(CARDINAL)769858;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Herrmann, Anne.; Swiss American women; Swiss Americans; Swiss;
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The Swiss family Robinson / by Wyss, Johann David,1743-1818,author.(CARDINAL)636565;
"Building a life on a deserted island is quite an adventure! Abandoned by crew and passengers, then shipwrecked in the East Indies on their way to Australia, the Swiss Family Robinson gathers their resources and builds a life over a period of ten years living on a deserted island. Included in the Robinsonade genre-which is built on the novel Robinson Crusoe-this story imparts high morals and practical self-reliance skills through adventures that are sure to thrill all ages. Bound in a beautiful cloth cover with full-color illustrations inside and foil stamping on the front, this exciting volume in our Illustrated Classics series will be a welcome addition to any home library." --
Subjects: Fiction.; Survival; Families; Islands;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The longest winter / by Harris, Julie,1957-(CARDINAL)385823;
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Robinsonades.; Eskimos; Aircraft accidents;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Masterpieces of the imaginative mind [videorecording] : literature's most fantastic works / by Rabkin, Eric S.(CARDINAL)505043; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Includes bibliographical references in accompanying guidebook.Instructed by Eric S. Rabkin.University of Michigan professor Eric S. Rabkin discusses the fantastic in its most important modern variety, science fiction, as part of the entire course on fantasy literature.DVD.
Subjects: Educational films.; Lectures.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings.; Fantasy fiction; Fantasy literature; Fantasy literature; Science fiction;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The road / by McCarthy, Cormac,1933-2023,author.;
670LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Robinsonades.; Survival fiction.; Fathers and sons; Regression (Civilization); Voyages and travels;
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Masterpieces of the imaginative mind [sound recording] : literature's most fantastic works / by Rabkin, Eric S.(CARDINAL)505043; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Part 1. Disc 1. Lecture 1. The Brothers Grimm & fairy tale psychology ; Lecture 2. Propp, structure, and cultural identity -- Disc 2. Lecture 3. Hoffman and the theory of the fantastic ; Lecture 4. Poe, genres and degrees of the fantastic -- Disc 3. Lecture 5. Lewis Carroll, puzzles, language, & audience ; Lecture 6. H.G. Wells, we are all talking animals -- Disc 4. Lecture 7. Franz Kafka, dashed fantasies ; Lecture 8. Woolf, fantastic feminism & periods of art -- Disc 5. Lecture 9. Robbe-Grillet, experimental fiction & myth ; Lecture 10. Tolkien & mass production of the fantastic -- Disc 6. Lecture 11. Children's literature and the fantastic ; Lecture 12. Postmodernism and the fantastic -- Part 2. Disc 7. Lecture 13. Defining science fiction ; Lecture 14. Mary Shelley, grandmother of science fiction -- Disc 8. Lecture 15. Hawthorne, Poe, and the Eden complex ; Lecture 16. Jules Verne and the Robinsonade -- Disc 9. Lecture 17. Wells, industrialization of the fantastic ; Lecture 18. The history of utopia -- Disc 10. Lecture 19. Science fiction and religion ; Lecture 20. Pulp fiction, Bradbury, & the American myth -- Disc 11. Lecture 21. Robert A. Heinlein, he mapped the future ; Lecture 22. Asimov and Clarke, cousins in utopia -- Disc 12. Lecture 23. Ursula K. Le Guin, transhuman anthropologist ; Lecture 24. Cyberpunk, postmodernism, and beyond.Lecturer: Professor Eric S. Rabkin, University of Michigan.Focusing on the early 19th century to contemporary times, Professor Rabkin casts a wide net for fantastic works and delves deeply into some of the most astounding. You'll learn about the works and times of Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, Lewis Carroll, Franz Kafka, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, J. R. R. Tolkien, Ray Bradbury, Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and more.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Fantasy fiction; Fantasy literature; Science fiction;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The last man / by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,1797-1851.(CARDINAL)142354; Paley, Morton D.(CARDINAL)715266;
MARCIVE 03/01/06Includes bibliographical references.1210L
Subjects: Apocalyptic fiction.; Robinsonades.; Twenty-first century; Plague;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Three A.M. / by John, Steven,1982-(CARDINAL)397564;
Surviving an apocalyptic event after embarking on what he believed would be a promising military career, Thomas Vale struggles to protect survivors, follow orders, and endure life in a chaotic world of limited supplies and constant danger.
Subjects: Survival fiction.; Robinsonades.; Fiction.; Regression (Civilization);
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner [large print] : who lived eight and twenty years ... / by Defoe, Daniel,1661?-1731.(CARDINAL)141177;
Subjects: Large print books.; Robinsonades.; Fiction.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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On the island / by Garvis Graves, Tracey.(CARDINAL)401032;
Stranded on an uninhabited island after their private plane crashes, thirty-year-old Anna Emerson and sixteen-year-old T.J. Callahan, her tutee, struggle to survive and, as the months pass, slowly fall in love.
Subjects: Robinsonades.; Romance fiction.; Survival fiction.; Aircraft accidents; Cancer; Man-woman relationships; Teenage boys;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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