Mel Foster
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English
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From flying squirrels to grizzly bears, and from torpid turtles to insects with antifreeze, the animal kingdom relies on some staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human counterparts, who must alter the environment to accommodate physical limitations, animals are adaptable to an amazing range of conditions.
Examining everything from food sources in the extremely barren winter land-scape to the chemical composition that...
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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In a matter of days, Peter McDowell loses everything he has worked so hard for--his wealth, his property, his livelihood. Stripped of everything, he has only one place to retreat: a lakeside cottage he inherited from his parents, who left most of their modest estate to Peter's twin. With no other choice, the prodigal son goes home. A beloved small-town doctor, a devoted family man, and a pillar of his community, Michael McDowell serves others without...
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English
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Naturalist Heinrich brings us the same bottomless reserve of wonder and reverence for the teeming animal life of backwoods New England that he brought us in Winter World. Now he focuses on the animal kingdom in the extremes of the warmer months, with all its feeding, nesting, fighting, and mating. Whether presenting disquisitions on ant wars, the predatory characteristics of wasps, the mating rituals of woodpeckers, or describing an encounter with...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this groundbreaking book, parenting expert and acclaimed author of the bestselling book Simplicity Parenting Kim John Payne, M.Ed., flips the script on children's challenging or defiant behavior and lays out an elegantly simple plan to support parents in establishing loving, age-sensitive boundaries that help children feel safe and settled. In short: What looks like misbehavior is actually your children's signal that they're feeling lost, that...
5) Snow blind
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Series
Monkeewrench volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
311 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Minneapolis Detectives Magozzi and Rolseth, along with the new sheriff, Iris Rikker, are on high alert after two policemen are killed during a friendly snowman-building contest, and set out to find the killer before he claims another victim.
6) Walden
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Series
Language
English
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An unabridged republication of nineteenth-century essayist Henry David Thoreau's reflections on the natural world, written during a two year period when he lived alone in a cabin on the shores of Walden Pond.
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Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Free Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and living that elite schools should be--but aren't--providing"--
Author
Series
Monkeewrench volume 8
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Minneapolis homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth are called to a crime scene in a heavily wooded city park, everything about the setting is all too familiar. And when they discover a playing card on the victim's body, their worst fears are confirmed--there's a serial killer operating in the city for the first time in years. Across town, Grace MacBride and her unconventional partners at Monkeewrench Software find themselves at both...
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Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Americans are justly proud of the role the United States played in liberating Europe from Nazi tyranny. For many years, we have celebrated the courage of the Allied soldiers, sailors, and aircrews who defeated Hitler's regime and restored freedom to the continent. But in recounting the heroism of the "greatest generation," Americans often overlook the wartime experiences of European people themselves-the very people for whom the war was fought. In...
10) Walden
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Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Walden is the classic account of two years spent by Henry David Thoreau living at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. The story is detailed in its accounts of Thoreau's day-to-day activities, observations, and undertakings to survive out in the wilderness for two years. Thoreau's journal is an exquisite account of a man seeking a more simple life by living in harmony with nature. In today's fast-paced consumer-driven society, the austere lifestyle...