[Michlib-l] U.P. Notable Book Club features Susan Purvis, author of "Go Find" 🐶 on Aug 12th 2021

[Victor R. Volkman]

Next month's UP Notable Books Club presentation -- please share with 
patrons!


      For Immediate Release…

*Contact: Victor Volkman
(734) 417-4266
President at UPPAA.org*
www.UPPAA.org 
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      UP Notable Book Club presents a virtual Q&A with U.P. author Susan
      Purvis, author of the award-winning/Go Find /🐶//


*Official Seal of the U.P. Notable Books 
<https://UPPAA.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b1016c5c910959a236f2ff48f&id=6f2b13b169&e=fd2c186103>UP 
Notable Book Club:*  the Crystal Falls Community District Library in 
partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) has 
scheduled author events with winners of the /UP Notable Book List/. The 
8th event is with U.P. author *Susan Purvis *who will present her 
award-winning memoir /Go Find: My Journey to Find the Lost - and Myself. 
/ 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 the U.P. Book Review. 
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/*When: */Thursday, August 12th , 2021 at 7pm Eastern / 6pm Central
/*Where: */ on the Zoom platform -- please contact Evelyn Gathu in 
advance by email: egathu at uproc.lib.mi.us 
<mailto:egathu at uproc.lib.mi.us>, 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.

*SUSAN PURVIS*' 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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

More information about the U.P. Notable Book list, /U.P. Book Review, 
/and UPPAA can be found on www.UPNotable.com 
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*About the Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association (UPPAA)*
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 www.uppaa.org 
<https://UPPAA.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b1016c5c910959a236f2ff48f&id=ef20c3fdbe&e=fd2c186103>. 
UPPAA welcomes membership and participation from anyone with a UP 
connection who is interested in writing.
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-- 
Regards,

Victor R. Volkman, President
L H Press Inc.
www.LHPress.com

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