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Author
Publisher
Rinehart
Pub. Date
[1950]
Physical Desc
309 p. illus. 22 cm.
Language
English
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"Here is a wonderful, rambunctious gallery of folk: the early "ornery" ones like Hetty Green, the "outsider" who came to Vermont contrary, and stayed to become more so; Russel Colvin, the alleged corpse, who turned out to be not so dead; Eleazer Wheelock's son, John, who became the second president of Dartmouth College -- right through Calvin Coolidge. Her are Vermont's weird religions, fights, sports and finaglings; her artists (including the adopted...
3) Lab Girl
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"An illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a longtime friendship; and a stunningly fresh look at plants that will forever change how you see the natural world,"--Amazon.com.
Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. She tells about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classroom’s labs; about...
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English
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"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...
5) Calypso
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Language
English
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Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality
Author
Publisher
Pine Marten Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 271 pages : illustrated ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
True stories about lovesick moose, hungry bears, wily poachers, a goofy tracking dog and a most unusual use of dynamite.
Wacky, true stories of Vermont game warden adventures.
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English
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Accompanied by his dog, Atticus M. Finch, middle-aged newspaper editor Tom Ryan set out during the winter of 2006-2007 to pay tribute to a friend who died of cancer by climbing all 48 of New Hampshire's 4,000- foot peaks to raise money for charity. This is the story of the adventure that strengthened the bond between man and dog and highlights the resilience of the human and animal spirit.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai to Tanzania’s utter beauty and the stunning desert solitude of Oman’s Empty Quarter -- and many places beyond.
In World Travel, a life of experience is collected into an entertaining, practical, fun and frank travel guide that gives...
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
America's First Families are unknowable in many ways. No one has insight into their true character like the people who serve their meals and make their beds every day. Full of stories and details by turns dramatic, humorous, and heartwarming, The Residence reveals daily life in the White House as it is really lived through the voices of the maids, butlers, cooks, florists, doormen, engineers, and others who tend to the needs of the President and First...
14) On animals
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
'How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets and naturalists for ages,' writes Susan Orlean. Since the age of six, when Orlean wrote and illustrated a book called Herbert the Near-Sighted Pigeon, she's been drawn to stories about how we live with animals and how they abide by us. Now, in On Animals, she examines animal-human relationships through the compelling tales she has written over the course of her celebrated career. These...
15) One man's owl
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
Description
This engaging chronicle of how the author and the great horned owl "Bubo" came to know one another over three summers spent in the Maine woods--and of how Bubo eventually grew into an independent hunter--is now available in a revised and abridged edition to be more accessible to the general reader.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
ix, 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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In One Wild Bird at a Time, Heinrich shares his great love: close, day-to-day observations of individual wild birds. There are countless books on bird behavior, but Heinrich argues that some of the most amazing bird behaviors fall below the radar of what most birds do in aggregate. Heinrich's passionate observations superbly mix memoir and science and lead to fascinating questions--and sometimes startling discoveries.
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Language
English
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When Kingsolver and her family move from suburban Arizona to rural Appalachia, they take on a new challenge: to spend a year on a locally produced diet, paying close attention to the provenance of all they consume. "Our highest shopping goal was to get our food from so close to home, we'd know the person who grew it. Often that turned out to be ourselves as we learned to produce what we needed, starting with dirt, seeds, and enough knowledge to muddle...
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Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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"Vermont's history is marked by fierce independence, generosity of spirit and the saga of human life along its steep slopes and fertile valleys. Meet the widow who outwitted Tories and may have spied for the Green Mountain Boys. Encounter the family who gained a national following by summoning spirits. Discover why one governor opposed women's suffrage and how that may have involved spirits of another sort. Visit an island retreat where Harpo Marx...
Author
Publisher
Trident Press
Pub. Date
[1969]
Physical Desc
160 p. : illus., port. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Few people would respond gracefully to the idea of feeding and housing a porcupine. But author Ronald Rood and his family were different. They were fascinated by all living creatures and had become acquainted with hundreds of them on their hundred-acre spread in Vermont...still, they had never know a porcupine, at least not intimately, until they encountered Piney...
This is the engaging account of the joys and hazards of raising a porcupine....
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction-a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us"--
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