idaho

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The skydiving beavers

a true tale
Describes the successful 1948 effort of Elmo Heter of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game to transport beavers from an overcrowded town, McCall, Idaho, to the remote Chamberlain Basin region by parachuting seventy-six beavers into the area.
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Running loose

Louie, a high school senior in a small Idaho town, learns about sportsmanship, love, and death as he matures.

The underworld

a novel
2017
"In an isolated silver mining town in Idaho in the 1970s, almost everyone in town lost someone in the disastrous fire. Jordan is a young widow with twin children; David, a college student trying to make a life for himself in another town; Lionel, a lifelong hard-rock miner. It's a tough, hard-working, hard-drinking town, but as they struggle to come to terms with the loss nobody's tough enough to get through this undamaged."--Provided by publisher.
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Old traditions, new pride

2001
Seventeen-year-old Tom Long wants to be proud of his heritage as a Nez Perce Indian, but he finds it difficult to be true to his own culture in modern society.

The big burn

Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America
2010

Idaho facts and symbols

2003
Presents information about the state of Idaho, its nickname, motto, and emblems.

Running loose

1983
Louie, a high school senior in a small Idaho town, learns about sportsmanship, love, and death as he matures into manhood.

The Garden of Eden Motel

1999
In the early 1950s, eleven-year-old Dal accompanies his stepfather Mr. Sabatini on a business trip to a rural community in Idaho, where Dal makes new friends and becomes involved in a scheme involving a uranium mine.

The cyanide canary

2004
Chronicles the fight of the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice to convict Idaho fertilizer plant owner Allan Elias of nearly killing twenty-year-old employee Scott Dominguez, whom he ordered to clean out a storage tank that supposedly contained only mud and water but was laced with cyanide.

My darlin' Clementine

2009
Expands on the folk song to tell of seventeen-year-old Clementine, whose dream of being a doctor is complicated by her drunken, gambling father, the lawlessness of 1866 Idaho Territory, and the affections of handsome Boone Reno.

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