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"The story of one woman's remarkable work with a trio of charismatic, endangered bird species-and her discoveries about the devastating threats that imperil them. In Feather Trails, wildlife biologist and birder Sophie A. H. Osborn reveals how the harmful environmental choices we've made-including pesticide use, the introduction of invasive species, lead poisoning, and habitat destruction-have decimated Peregrine Falcons, Hawaiian Crows, and California...
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Monkey/Stone Bridge Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A fantasy set in the ninth century, Takaoka's Travels recounts the adventures of a Japanese prince-turned-monk on a pilgrimage to India. As Prince Takaoka and his companions pass through faraway lands, the rules of the ordinary world are upended, and they find curiosities and miracles wherever they go. The travelers encounter strange creatures--a white ape who guards a harem of bird-women, beasts who feed on dreams, a dog-headed man who can see hundreds...
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Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"On All Other Nights is a joyful middle-grade anthology centered around Passover-from an exciting array of bestselling and award-winning Jewish creators! Welcome to Passover, a Jewish holiday that has been celebrated for thousands of years. The heart of Passover is the seder-a meal full of rituals, special foods, and songs-where we gather together to retell the story of the Exodus, when the Jewish people achieved freedom from Egypt. And yet this story...
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White Owl
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Take advantage of nature's bounty and craft in time with the seasons! Whether potting up dandelion honey, cooking and crafting with rose petals or preserving autumn leaves and acorns, there are so many wonderful gifts, ornaments and treats that can be made from either a short walk in the woods or a rummage in your cupboard. With an emphasis on foraging and upcycling, Becci explores the ways we can create beautiful projects using materials readily...
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Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"A herald of desire, suffering, mortality, and the mission of poetry itself, Jane Miller's Paper Banners 'say[s] the cosmos / isn't hostile. / Yet strangles a dove / with one hand.' Against this angst, Miller steps outside of history to contemplate voices of love, aging, and artmaking. Many poems are addressed to family members, friends, and young poets, or pay homage to familiar figures taken by time or tragedy, including Virginia Woolf, Osip Mandelstam,...
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NYQ Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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The poems in WORN SMOOTH BETWEEN DEVOURINGS travel through fears of ecological devastation and national and global tragedy, and map routes away from despair. Worry remains in the background, even in landscapes that still hold time's beginning. Even in long love. "We are suspended in places / entire and different and home," Camp writes. These precise, sonically-driven poems investigate a confessed gaze for contentment with the conviction of quiet rebellion....
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Real Pigeons volume 3
Publisher
Altea
Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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La Pandilla Paloma es un grupo de palomas que lucha contra el crimen y protege su ciudad de todo tipo de peligros. Pero con un buitre quebranta huesos sueltos, una bestia niña desatada y una familia perdida desde hace mucho tiempo, ¿serán capaces de encontrar el nido perfecto?
"The Real Pigeons must help a robbed vulture, a lost child, and Homey's kidnapped family, all while trying to find the perfect nest"--
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Lyons Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"This book ranks, from 1 to 50, the top 50 players in Boston Celtics team history, using as measuring sticks the degree to which they impacted the fortunes of the team, the extent to which they added to the Celtics legacy, and the levels of statistical compilation and overall dominance they attained while wearing a Celtics uniform"--
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Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Summer Reading helps kids stay motivated, maintain reading skills, and learn all summer long! Kids will build confidence and avoid summer slide as they master literacy skills with interactive games, challenges, and storybooks.
Daniela knows there are many things we can do to keep Earth happy and healthy. Read about them!
Toss the trash into the bin and never get bored! Set up your own challenge by choosing the environment and and check the wind...
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Cottage Door Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Discover faraway lands and magical kingdoms, flee from thundering giants and cunning beasts, and fall in love with brave animals and beautiful princesses... There is always time to read together with this treasure trove of over 50 five-minute fairy tales, fables, and classic stories.--
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Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2024]
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None
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The history of screen comedy did not begin with Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton. Before their appearances on the American screen, an entire generation of comedians was already establishing (and breaking) the boundaries of this rapidly evolving genre. While working at the Vitagraph Studios, music hall artists such as John Bunny, Frank Roberts, and Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew retooled their brands of comedy into something uniquely cinematic, advancing...
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Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"The definitive, authorized, and first-ever biography of Terry Allen, the internationally acclaimed visual artist and iconoclastic songwriter who occupies an utterly unique position straddling the disparate, and usually distant, worlds of conceptual art and country music. 'People tell me it's country music,' Terry Allen has joked, 'and I ask, 'Which country'?' For nearly sixty years, Allen's inimitable art has explored the borderlands of memory, crossing...
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