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Author
Series
Meg Langslow mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
v, 279 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
The local curmudgeon, whose beard and belly made him a natural for the role of Santa Claus, has been murdered. Now Meg and Chief Burke, who is playing one of the wise men in the annual Caerphilly Christmas parade, are faced with the two-fold mission of solving the murder and saving Christmas!
Author
Series
Lily to the rescue volume 4
Publisher
Starscape
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
139 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"Lily lives with her girl, Maggie Rose. Once a stray, Lily was rescued by the kind people at the animal shelter run by Maggie Rose's mom. Now she has a very important purpose: to rescue other animals in trouble. A gaggle of orphaned baby geese think Lilyis their mother. But they need to learn how to fly. Can Lily find a way to teach them? It's Lily to the rescue!"--
Author
Description
"The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, John Green reviews different facetsof the human-centered planet-from the QWERTY keyboard and Staphylococcus aureus to the Taco Bell breakfast menu-on a five-star scale. John Green's gift for storytelling shines throughout this artfully...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xii, 194 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A lyrical and unique memoir, from one of our finest writers, proving that life can be as strange as fiction. Howard Norman's life has been framed by five incidents of 'arresting strangeness,' each given its chapter -- and each chapter yielding clues to the improbable trajectory of a fascinating life. First, a portrait, both harrowing and humorous, of a Midwest boyhood summer under the erotic tutelage of his brother's girlfriend. Later, he spends...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Acclaimed scientist and author Bernd Heinrich has returned every year since boyhood to a beloved patch of western Maine woods. What is the biology in humans of this deep in the bones pull toward a particular place, and how is it related to animal homing? Heinrich explores the fascinating science chipping away at the mysteries of animal migration: how geese imprint true visual landscape memory; how scent trails are used by many creatures, from fish...
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
viii, 307 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
As he was composing what was to become his most enduring book, E. B. White was obeying the maxim: "Write what you know." Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats--White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours. Painfully shy his entire life, "this boy," White once wrote of himself, "felt for animals a kinship he never felt for people." It is all the more impressive, therefore, how many...
12) Dragon on trial
Author
Series
The menagerie (Tui Sutherland) volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
290 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
Seventh graders Zoe and Logan investigate a missing goose who lays golden eggs, a disappearance they believe is being wrongly blamed on a hungry dragon.
Author
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
287 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and color), map ; 24 cm
Description
The Irish have always been a travelling people. In the centuries after the fall of Rome, Irish missionaries carried the word of Christianity throughout Europe, while soldiers and mariners from across the land ventured overseas in all directions. Since the first voyages of St Brendan, an estimated 10 million people have left the Irish shores and today more than 80 million people worldwide claim Irish descent. The advent of the British Empire ignited...
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