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The Birds of Indiana is a treasure trove for ornithologists, birders, and art-lovers everywhere. Drawing on decades of fieldwork and data collection and featuring the paintings of one of America's finest bird artists, this classic work is an introduction, a reference, and most important, a natural history of Indiana's birds, including over 390 species.
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2016.
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English
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Tiger is fast asleep, but oh dear! She's lying completely in the way. Just how will the animals get past without waking her up? Luckily, Frog has an excellent idea and, holding his balloon, he floats right over sleeping Tiger! Fox is next, followed by Tortoise, Mouse and Stork, but it will be tricky for them all to get past without Tiger noticing! It's a good job that the reader is there to help keep Tiger asleep, isn't it? But where exactly are they...
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"This book shows black-and-white images from the city's glorious past alongside eye-catching contemporary photographs of how the scene looks today. It features historic places such as the indiana statehouse, the Soldiers' and Sailots' Monument, Lockerbie Square, and the Federal Building, as well we modern areas of interest such as the Monon Trail and Circle Center, all showing the mixture of Preservation and change in this historic city."---Jacket....
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2000.
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English
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Presents photographs and descriptions of twenty-five historic sites throughout Indiana, featuring locations that are open to the public, drawn from ten years of "Destination Indiana" columns which appeared in the Indiana Historical Society's magazine "Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History."
9) Old Bear
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Old Bear falls asleep for the winter, he has a dream that he is a cub again, enjoying each of the four seasons.
10) Indiana
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[1984]
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English
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This book gives a clear picture of the Hoosier State today--the people who live here, the farmsteads and courthouse squares, the landscape ranging from sand dunes along Lake Michigan to old steamboat towns bordering the Ohio River. -Taken from inside flap.
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[2004]
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English
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So many trees, so little time. What's a nature lover to do? If you can't tell the difference between an Eastern hemlock and a scrub pine, or a cottonwood and a black willow, 101 Trees of Indiana is the field guide for you. 101 Trees of Indiana contains all you need to identify a tree in the Hoosier State, whatever the season. Not since Dr. Charles Deam's Trees of Indiana was published in 1953 has the subject been covered so thoroughly. Ecologist Marion...
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The captivating landscapes of America's heartland offer an inviting escape from the everyday in Indiana Across the Land. Although a road trip from the shores of Lake Michigan to the Ohio River could be accomplished in only six hours, photographers Lee Mandrell and DeeDee Niederhouse-Mandrell take readers the long way around the Hoosier state, embarking on a breathtaking journey across the seasons, down windswept dunes, through old-growth forests,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 4
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1300L
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English
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First published in 1963, James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America's so-called "Negro problem." As remarkable for its masterful prose as for its frank and personal account of the black experience in the United States, it is considered one of the most passionate and influential explorations of 1960s race relations, weaving thematic threads of love, faith, and family into a candid assault on the hypocrisy of the "land of the...
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[2009]
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English
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This book is about the journeys that stay with us because they were memorable--sometimes, even extraordinary. We all have memories of journeys involving cars, trains, buses, bridges, roads, and more. We remember how they affected us, changed our lives--it's the journeys that make us who we are. Each compelling photograph in this remarkable collection will trigger such reminiscences--some pleasant, some sad, but all special.
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English
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This glorious book of photography, featuring more than 200 magnificent National Geographic images of all 50 states, is a gift-worthy celebration of America's unique natural and cultural treasures. America the Beautiful showcases the stunning spaces closest to our nation's heart--from the woods in the Great Appalachian Valley that Davy Crockett once called home to the breathtaking sweep of California's Big Sur coast to the wilds of Alaska. It also...
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