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1) Birdsong
Author
Language
English
Description
When a young girl moves from the country to a small town, she feels lonely and out of place. But soon she meets an elderly woman next door, who shares her love of nature and art. As the seasons change, can the girl navigate the failing health of her new friend? Acclaimed author and artist Julie Flett's textured images of birds, flowers, art, and landscapes bring vibrancy and warmth to this powerful story, which highlights the fulfillment of intergenerational...
Series
Peterson field guide volume 38
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
p1989
Language
English
Description
Designed to help listeners recognize birds of eastern and central North America by their songs and calls. Points out exactly what to listen for to tell one bird from another.
3) Owl moon
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.
Publisher
Independent Records
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (60 min.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A guide for anyone who wishes to improve their ability to recognize bird songs. Featuring 189 species found in the midwest and northeast states, each bird song recording is followed by a short description along with a common mnemonic used to remember it.
Author
Publisher
Time Warner AudioBooks
Pub. Date
p1997
Physical Desc
3 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Covers the songs and calls of 372 bird species living in eastern North America, named and ordered according to the July 1995 supplement to the 6th ed. of the American Ornithological [i.e. Ornithologists'] Union Checklist of North American birds.
Author
Series
Peterson field guide volume 47
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
p1994
Physical Desc
3 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (64 p. : ill. ; 12 cm.)
Language
English
Description
Designed to help birders recognize the songs and calls of ninety species of birds found in eastern and central North America, including virtually all of the warblers, many finches and sparrows, waders, gulls, terns, and others.
Author
Series
Hawthorne volume 05
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Detective Hawthorne is once again called upon to solve an unsolvable case--a gruesome murder in an idyllic gated community in which suspects abound."
Riverside Close is a picture-perfect community. The six exclusive and attractive houses are tucked far away from the noise and grime of city life, allowing the residents to enjoy beautiful gardens, pleasant birdsong, and tranquility from behind the security of a locked gate. It is the perfect idyll,...
11) The fixer upper
Author
Language
English
Description
Andrews's latest Southern charmer begins with junior lobbyist Dempsey Jo Killebrew in the crosshairs of a political bribery investigation. Suddenly unemployed and the victim of a sleazy smear campaign by her former boss, Dempsey decides to take up her father's offer of flipping a recently inherited family home in Guthrie, Ga. As it turns out, the house needs much more than a fresh coat of paint, and Dempsey's ornery cousin and her dog are squatting...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 39
Language
English
Description
Lady Sybil, wife of Sam Vimes, convinces him to travel to the countryside for a vacation. Out of his element, Sam soon finds various crimes to investigate. But he is out of his element and must rely on his instincts to bring the culprits to justice.
13) The long Earth
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The stepper enables a person using it to step sideways into another America, another wherever that person happened to be, another Earth. And if the person using it keeps on stepping, they keep on entering even more Earths. This is the Long Earth. And the further away a stepper travels, the stranger -- and sometimes more dangerous -- the Earths become.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasons -- from a crow spied on New Year's Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year, to the lingering bluebirds of December, revisiting the nest box they used in spring -- what develops is a portrait of joy and grief: joy...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In her second poetry collection, Barbara Kingsolver offers reflections on the practical, the spiritual, and the wild. She begins with "how to" poems addressing everyday matters such as being hopeful, married, divorced; shearing a sheep; praying to unreliable gods; doing nothing at all; and of course, flying. Next come rafts of poems about making peace (or not) with the complicated bonds of friendship and family, and making peace (or not) with death,...
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