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<p>Next month's UP Notable Books Club presentation -- please share
with patrons!<br>
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<strong>Contact: Victor Volkman<br>
(734) 417-4266<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:President@UPPAA.org">President@UPPAA.org</a></strong><br>
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UP Notable Book Club presents a virtual Q&A with U.P. author
Susan Purvis, author of the award-winning<em> Go Find </em>🐶<em>
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underline;"><img alt="Official Seal of the U.P. Notable Books"
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style="color:#006400">UP Notable Book Club</span>:</strong> the
Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the
U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) has scheduled
author events with winners of the <em>UP Notable Book List</em>.
The 8th event is with U.P. author <strong>Susan Purvis </strong>who
will present her award-winning memoir <em>Go Find: My Journey to
Find the Lost - and Myself. </em> This book recounts Susan's
thrilling rescues with Tasha, her black Labrador, in some of the
most dangerous skiing areas of the north. The events are open to all
U.P. residents free of charge. Read my review of Susan's book at <a
href="https://UPPAA.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b1016c5c910959a236f2ff48f&id=30d8f1a76d&e=fd2c186103"
target="_blank" title="Click here to read about the book"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;">the U.P. Book Review.</a><br>
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<em><strong>When: </strong></em>Thursday, August 12th , 2021 at 7pm
Eastern / 6pm Central<br>
<em><strong>Where: </strong></em> on the Zoom platform -- please
contact Evelyn Gathu in advance by email: <a
href="mailto:egathu@uproc.lib.mi.us" style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #007C89;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">egathu@uproc.lib.mi.us</a>, or by phone (906)
875-3344. We recommend you borrow a copy of these books from your
local library or purchase from your local bookseller in advance to
get the most out of these events.
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id="author_biography"><strong>SUSAN PURVIS</strong>' love
for adventure and medicine has taken her to the hottest,
coldest, and highest places on earth: Ethiopia,
Antarctica, and Nepal. As a wilderness medicine expert and
extraordinary speaker, Susan has worked on film sets
for National Geographic Channel, truTV, appeared on the
science documentary, The Hottest Place on Earth, aired on
the BBC and Discovery. She's been featured or quoted in
the Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian, on CNN, television,
numerous magazines, and newspaper articles. Since 1998,
Susan has owned and operated Crested Butte Outdoors
International, based in Whitefish, Montana. Her mission is
to teach students how to think critically in
unconventional settings.<br>
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An explorer by passion, Susan combines wilderness
medicine, desert survival, exploration geology, and K-9
search and rescue to land jobs on all seven continents.
She teaches high altitude medicine for the local Mount
Kilimanjaro and Mount Everest Guides. Susan has served as
a medic at a remote field camp and ice breaker in
Antarctica, explored for gold in the Dominican Republic
and produced a documentary in the Amazon jungle. Susan
also spent a decade working at an urgent care ski clinic
in Crested Butte where she also worked as a professional
ski patroller, guide, K-9 avalanche expert and SAR member.
Susan was named a brand Ambassador for Marmot and received
Congressional Recognition for her role in avalanche search
and rescue.</span><br>
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href="https://UPPAA.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b1016c5c910959a236f2ff48f&id=245edb128f&e=fd2c186103"
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Purvis" style="mso-line-height-rule:
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<p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">Somewhere between
hunting for gold in Latin America as a geologist and getting
married to a new husband, thirty-three-year-old Susan Purvis loses
her way.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">Susan comes to believe
that a puppy and working on ski patrol at the last great ski town
in Colorado will improve her life. When she learns about
avalanches that bury people without warning, she challenges
herself: ''What if I teach a dog to save lives?'' This quest
propels her to train the best possible search dog, vowing to never
leave anyone behind.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">With no clue how to care
for a houseplant, let alone a dog, she chooses a five-week-old
Labrador retriever, Tasha. With the face of a baby bear and the
temperament of an NFL linebacker, Tasha constantly tests Susan's
determination to transform her into a rescue dog. Susan and Tasha
jockey for alpha position as they pursue certification in
avalanche, water, and wilderness recovery. Susan eventually learns
to truly communicate with Tasha by seeing the world through her
dog's nose.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">As the first female team
in a male-dominated search-and-rescue community, they face
resistance at every turn. They won't get paid even a bag of kibble
for their efforts, yet they launch dozens of missions to rescue
the missing or recover the remains of victims of nature and crime.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">Training with Tasha in
the field to find, recover, and rescue the lost became Susan's
passion. But it was also her circumstance -- she was in many ways
as lost as anyone she ever pulled out of an avalanche or found
huddled in the woods. ''Lostness'' doesn't only apply to losing
the trail. People can get lost in a relationship, a business, or a
life. Susan was con</p>
More information about the U.P. Notable Book list, <em>U.P. Book
Review, </em>and UPPAA can be found on <a
href="https://UPPAA.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b1016c5c910959a236f2ff48f&id=259b41517b&e=fd2c186103"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;">www.UPNotable.com</a><br>
<div style="text-align: left;"><strong>About the Upper Peninsula
Publishers and Authors Association (UPPAA)</strong></div>
Established in 1998 to support authors and publishers who live in or
write about Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, UPPAA is a Michigan
nonprofit association with more than 100 members, many of whose
books are featured on the organization’s website at <a
href="https://UPPAA.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b1016c5c910959a236f2ff48f&id=ef20c3fdbe&e=fd2c186103"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;">www.uppaa.org</a>. UPPAA
welcomes membership and participation from anyone with a UP
connection who is interested in writing.<br>
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Regards,
Victor R. Volkman, President
L H Press Inc.
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.LHPress.com">www.LHPress.com</a></pre>
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