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Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 24 cm
Description
After going viral for an insane crime she never meant to commit, a Florida woman accepts a community service placement at a wildlife refuge for exotic monkeys and ventures into an offbeat world of secrets and danger.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Although orangutans are not supposed to like water, an orangutan living at a wildlife preserve in South Carolina plays with her dog friend in the bathtub and learns to swim and dive in the pool. Based on a true story.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Bill Reed manages a wildlife sanctuary in rural Idaho, caring for injured animals--raptors, a wolf, and his beloved bear, Majer, among them--that are unable to survive in the wild. Seemingly rid of his troubled past, Bill hopes to marry the local veterinarian and live a quiet life together, the promise of which is threatened when a childhood friend is released from prison. Suddenly forced to confront the secrets of his criminal youth, Bill battles...
6) Chomp
Author
Description
When the difficult star of the reality television show "Expedition Survival" disappears while filming an episode in the Florida Everglades using animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find him while avoiding Tuna's gun-happy father.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
201 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
Working up the nerve to invite Rose Mbikwa to the Nairobi Hunt Club Ball, Mr. Malik, a reserved, honorable widower, is suddenly confronted by the return of his school nemesis, the flashy Harry Kahn, who also sets his sights on Rose.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
135 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 20 cm
Description
Kira teams up with Evie, a student at the animal sanctuary to track down the paradise parrot--a bird thought to be extinct--and prove that it still exists. While they're trying to observe the elusive bird, bushfires threaten to wipe out the sanctuary and the parrot's habitat.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2007
Formats
Description
Neve Halloran and her daughter Mickey are starting a new life near a wildlife sanctuary in South County Rhode Island. Mickey becomes friends with a lonely boy who is also fascinated by the creatures of the coasts and Neve is drawn to a man who has devoted his life to the sanctuary.
Author
Series
Alex Carter novels volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2022.
Physical Desc
309 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Description
"When a remote camera on a large, rugged expanse held by the Land Trust for Wildlife Conservation picks up a blurry image of what could be a mountain caribou, they contact Alex Carter to investigate. After all, mountain caribou went extinct in the contiguous U.S. years ago, and if one has wandered down from Canada, it’s monumental. But when Alex arrives on scene in the Selkirk mountains of northeastern Washington state, she quickly learns that her...
13) Farallon Islands
Publisher
Huell Howser Prod
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Huell spends the day with the biologists who live on the Farallon Islands and learns about this wild and beautiful place which is just a group of islands and rocks found 27 miles off the coast of San Francisco, known as California's Galapagos, they make up the The Farallon National Wildlife Refuge. These wild and remote islands are rich with not only flora and fauna, but human history as well."--Description from www.calgold.com
Author
Series
Nancy Drew clue books volume 11
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
80 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
Nancy, Bess, and George are excited about their school trip to the Wildlife Refuge, but when they arrive the animal Nancy most wants to see, a sixty-year-old tortoise, is on the loose.
15) Kira down under
Author
Series
Girl of the year. 2021: Kira volume 2
Girl of the year. Kira volume 1
Girl of the year. 2021 Kira volume 2
Girl of the year. Kira volume 1
Girl of the year. 2021 Kira volume 2
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
135 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
"Kira Bailey is living her dream: Cuddling koalas and bottle-feeding baby kangaroos. Kira and her mom are spending the summer at a wildlife sanctuary in Australia helping her aunt Mamie, a veterinarian, care for the animals. When Kira falls in love with an orphaned koala joey, her joy is complete--until a health emergency pulls Aunt Mamie away. Suddenly Kira can't seem to do anything right. She's put the wombats and her beloved koala joey in danger,...
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Formats
Description
It had been nearly a century since elephants had lived in Southern Zululand, South Africa, where Lawrence Anthony founded his Thula Thula wildlife reserve. Yet one day a phone call changed all that. A troubled, unpredictable herd needed a new home. In order to save their lives, Lawrence took them in, and in the years that followed found that they had a lot to teach him about life, loyalty, and freedom. He tells of hair-raising fights with poachers,...
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Journey with National Geographic to Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park and discover what is being done to bring this African oasis back to its former glory, including perhaps the most ambitious restoration effort ever attempted, with elephants, hippos, and scores of zebra, wildebeest, impala, and buffalo being relocated into the park.
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