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Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xix, 260 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Drawing on a career of environmental reporting and over two years of travel to the front lines of climate migration across the globe, an award-winning science journalist, in this urgent call to action, discusses the underreported, seismic consequences ofclimate change and how it will reshape humanity.
5) Silverwing
Author
Series
Silverwing saga volume 1
Description
In this graphic novel edition of a best-selling story, young silverwing bat Shade is blown off course during his colony's migration to Hibernaculum, during which he meets other winged loners on his journey back to his family, but with a long and dangerousflight ahead, he must figure out who he can trust.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
19 CDs (22 hrs., 55 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From 1915 to 1970, roughly six million African-American citizens fled the South for improved lives in northern and western America. Comparing this rarely discussed exodus to other great migrations in history while culling data from interviews and historical records, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles the decades-long journey that greatly altered the cultural landscape of America.
9) Fins
Author
Series
Sharks Incorporated volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Marine biologist Doc Ford enlists the help of three kids--Luke, Maribel, and Sabina--to tag sharks for his research and help take down poachers targeting Florida's biannual migration of blacktip sharks.
13) Finding Langston
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 1
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
107 pages ; 22 cm
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Description
Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.
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
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"2084: Global warming has proven worse than even the direst predictions scientists had made at the turn of the century. No country-and no one-has remained unscathed. Through interviews with scientists, political leaders, and citizens around the globe, this riveting oral history describes in graphic detail the irreversible effects the Great Warming has had on humankind and the planet. In short chapters about topics like sea level rise, drought, migration,...
18) Claiming ground
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
241 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In 1977, Laura Bell, at loose ends after graduating from college, leaves her family home in Kentucky for a wild and unexpected adventure: herding sheep in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin. By turns cattle rancher, forest ranger, outfitter, masseuse, wife and mother, Bell vividly recounts her struggle to find solid earth in which to put down roots.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In this memoir of motherhood, love, and resilience, a woman and her toddler son follow the grey whale migration from Mexico to northernmost Alaska. In this striking blend of nature writing, whale science, and memoir, Doreen Cunningham interweaves two stories: tracking the extraordinary northward migration of the grey whales with a mischievous toddler in tow and living with an Iñupiaq family in Alaska seven years earlier. Throughout the journey she...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
viii, 263 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm.
Description
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journalist Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the mystery of life in the sea, and particularly to creatures living in hostile or remote environments. Each essay in their debut collection profiles one such creature: the mother octopus who starves herself while watching over her eggs, the Chinese sturgeon whose migration route has been decimated by pollution...
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