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3) A fine line
Author
Series
Brady Coyne mysteries volume 19
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
290 p. ; 24 cm.
Author
Series
Memoirs of Lady Trent volume 5
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
333 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
A dragon naturalist and an explorer prone to igniting scandals, Lady Trent reveals what she discovered in the Sanctuary of Wings, behind the territory of Scirland?s enemies.- Novelist
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
190 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Charlie Carlisle's grandfather is ill. Charlie's friend, Singing Bird, a Teton Sioux, tells him that ravens have curing powers, so Charlie steals a baby bird from its nest. Granddad, a retired naturalist, encourages Charlie to record his observations of the bird and study the effect it has on humans. Charlie just hopes that the raven will make Granddad well.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
322 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
"At the age of thirty, newly single and without a college degree, Cassie Shaw desperately needs a decent paycheck. Which is why, against all her principles, she lies on her re?sume? for an office job at an elite university--and then finds herself employed in academia by two professors who are as rare as the birds she covets. One of her new bosses is Professor William Conner, a sexy, handsome, cheerfully aristocratic expert in animal behavior. Soon,...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2006, c2004
Physical Desc
177 pages ; 20 cm
Description
Timothy, a tortoise who lives in the garden of eighteenth-century curate Gilbert White, speaks out on his life in the garden, his nine-day adventure outside the gate, his observations of the curious habits and habitations of humans, and the natural world around him. Reprint.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
350 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Description
In this, the fourth volume of her memoirs, Lady Trent relates how she acquired her position with the Royal Scirling Army; how foreign saboteurs imperiled both her work and her well-being; and how her determined pursuit of knowledge took her into the deepest reaches of the Labyrinth of Drakes, where the chance action of a dragon set the stage for her greatest achievement yet.
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
268 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Calpurnia, Callie Vee es una niña que vive en un pueblo de Texas Central in 1899. A pesar de que su madre insiste en que aprenda a tocar el piano, coser y cocinar, ella está más interesada en lo que ocurre tras lapuerta cerrada de la biblioteca, oen el laboratorio de su abuelo. Poco a poco, irá ganándose a este señor un tanto hurãno y empezará a colaborar con él en sus observaciones del medio natural, aprenderá quien es Darwin, y también...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
192 pages
Description
The stories in Natural History are set largely in a small community in central New York state and portray some of Andrea Barrett's most beloved characters, spanning the decades between the Civil War to the present day. In 'Henrietta and Her Moths,' a woman tends to an insect nursery as her sister’s life follows a different path. In 'Open House,' a young man grapples with a choice between a thrilling life spent discovering fossils and a desire to...
16) Virgin earth
Author
Series
Tradescant novel volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
20 CDs (25 hrs. 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As England descends into civil war, John Tradescant the Younger, gardener to King Charles I, finds his loyalties in question, his status an ever-growing danger to his family. Fearing royal defeat and determined to avoid serving the rebels, John escapes to the royalist colony of Virginia, a land bursting with fertility that stirs his passion for botany. Only the native American peoples understand the forest, and John is drawn to their way of life just...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Description
In the early 1900s, a wild little girl nicknamed Squirrel meets John Muir, later to become a famous naturalist, when he arrives at her parents' hotel in Yosemite Valley seeking work and knowledge about the natural world.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
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Description
It's early one morning on a hot day in August, and millennial congressman Alexander Paine Wilson (R), planning his first reelection campaign and in deep denial about his sexuality, receives a mysterious, over-sized FedEx delivery on his front stoop. Inside is a gigantic taxidermied aardvark. This outrageous, edge-of-your-seat novel hurtles between contemporary Washington, D.C., where Wilson tries to get rid of the unsightly beast before it destroys...
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