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"Kingsolver is a gifted magician of words."
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The extraordinary New York Times bestselling author of The Lacuna (winner of the Orange Prize), The Poisonwood Bible (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize), and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver returns with a truly stunning and unforgettable work. Flight Behavior is a brilliant and suspenseful novel set in present day Appalachia; a breathtaking parable of catastrophe and denial that explores...
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Animals behave the way they do because of genetics and their environment. In most cases, scientists study animal behavior to better understand certain personality traits. Read about camouflage, migration, hibernation and flight. Identify the animals that are well-known to display such behaviors. Lessons learned through reading are remembered better. So what are you waiting for? Grab a copy today.
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ARL-SR volume 0337
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September 2015.
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"An emotional masterpiece . . . A novel in which humor, passion, and superb prose conspire to seize a reader by the heart and by the soul." —New York Daily News
From Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed author of Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, The Bean Trees, and other modern classics, Animal Dreams is a passionate and complex novel about love, forgiveness, and one woman's struggle to find her place
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When Taylor Greer hits the road she has no real destination, only to get as far from Kentucky as possible. By the time she ends up in Arizona, she has inherited a three-year-old Cherokee girl from an Indian woman she met in a bar.
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Each story in Mohamed Makhzangi's unique collection Animals in Our Days features a different animal species and its fraught relationship with humans-water buffalo in a rural village gone mad from electric lights, brass grasshoppers purchased in a crowded Bangkok market, or ghostly rabbits that haunt the site of a long-ago brutal military crackdown. Other stories tell of bear-trainers in India and of the American invasion of Iraq as experienced by...
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How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law...
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"Richard Crossley, Winner of the 2012 ABA Robert Ridgway Award for Publications in Field Ornithology, American Birding Association" "One of The Guardian's Best Nature Books of 2013, chosen by Stephen Moss" Richard Crossley is an internationally acclaimed birder and photographer and the award-winning author of The Crossley ID Guide series (Princeton/Crossley Books), which has been recognized for its pioneering approach to bird identification. He is...
15) Migrations
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"Franny Stone has always been a wanderer. By following the ocean's tides and the birds that soar above, she can forget the losses that have haunted her life. But when the wild she so loves begins to disappear, Franny can no longer wander without a destination. She arrives in remote Greenland with one purpose: to find the world's last flock of Arctic terns and follow them on their final migration. She convinces Ennis Malone, captain of the Saghani,...
17) Crow flight
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High school senior Gin and new transfer student Felix work on a school project that uses computer simulations to study the behavior of crows, but as the two grow close, Felix mysteriously disappears and Gin's quest to find answers turns dangerous.
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You can be more effective in your relationships at home and at work... a better friend, spouse, parent, employee and/or boss. The unique and understandable mix of brain research and behavioral science in Fight, Flight, Freeze is, a proven recipe for unleashing your interpersonal potential. Let author Gilmore Crosby guide you on a journey of self-improvement certain to have quick and lasting results!