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"It's a few days before Christmas, and Meg's grandfather is hosting a scientific conference on owls at the Caerphilly Inn. Most of the family are there, helping out in one capacity or another, including Meg's grandmother, Cordelia--invited by Grandfather in rare gesture of peace-making, to share her expertise on rehabilitating large birds, including owls. An unexpectedly severe snow storm traps the conference-goers in the hotel, and one of the visiting...
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Running an island plane service with her grandfather on the remote islands of northern Scotland, Morag McGinty, on the verge of making a huge life change, is marooned on an off-grid island with a visiting ornithologist who has just the right perspective to help her pilot her course.
"Morag MacIntyre is a Scottish lass from the remote islands that make up the northernmost reaches of the UK. She's also a third-generation pilot, the heir apparent to...
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2016.
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Self-proclaimed "bird nerd" Sophie Castle has been given the opportunity of a lifetime: her own documentary about her fine-feathered friends. But her cameraman, Rigg Greensman, is unmotivated... and drop dead gorgeous. Can they work together to convince the public to love birds-without falling in love themselves?
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Birds were "the objects of my greatest delight," wrote John James Audubon (1785–1851), founder of modern ornithology and one of the world's greatest bird painters. His masterpiece, The Birds of America depicts almost five hundred North American bird species, each image—lifelike and life size—rendered in vibrant color. Audubon was also an explorer, a woodsman, a hunter, an entertaining and prolific writer, and an energetic self-promoter.
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[2019]
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After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. When a mysterious child shows up at her cabin, barefoot and covered in bruises, Joanna enlists the help of her reclusive neighbor, Gabriel Nash, to solve the mystery of the charming child. But the more time they spend together, the more...
8) Darkness
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"BOOM. That's the sound that changes everything for Dr. Gina Sullivan, a renowned ornithologist on a group research grant trip on the remote island of Attu, Alaska. When an everyday outing turns sinister at the onset of one of Attu's infamous storms, Gina expects thunder and lightning--but what she doesn't see coming is the small jet plane that drops out of the sky and into the water mere feet from her boat. Even more unprecedented: there's a sole...
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When eighteen-year-old witch Iris Gray accidentally enacts a curse that could have dire consequences, she must team up with witch-hating Pike Alder to make sure her magic is not unleashed on the world.
When Iris Gray was forced to leave her last home, she left behind a father who was no longer willing to start over. While the Witches' Council was lenient in their punishment, Iris knows they are keeping tabs on her. Now settled in Washington, Iris...
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"A woman of the Swedish aristocracy loses her young husband in the Russian revolution and finds her way to northern Ontario to work as a nurse for the Dionne Quintuplets before discovering a deep love of the birds that live on her handful of acres. She creates longitudinal behavior and population studies that are still used by Ornithologists today"--
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Recounts the life of John James Audubon, dreamer, vagabond, romantic, and genius, who traveled the backroads and bayous of the American wilderness searching out and studying birds. He was no amateur ornithologist; rather, he drew his birds from life, and his work always carried the line "drawn from nature by J.J. Audubon".
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Rosie Holland mysteries volume 1
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1998.
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A missing engineer, a reluctant psychic gardener, an outspoken advice columnist cum pathologist, and an elderly bird enthusiast are some of the colorful characters in Jo Bannister's entertaining The Primrose Convention. Primrose, the nearly 200-pound columnist, dives with gusto into the mysterious disappearance of a reader's brother in Scotland, dragging her resourceful friends and associates with her into sleuthing and danger. Bannister specializes...
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In this Pulitzer Prize—finalist biography, the author of Mad at the World examines the little-known life of the man behind the well-known bird survey.
John James Audubon is renowned for his masterpiece of natural history and art, The Birds of America, the first nearly comprehensive survey of the continent's birdlife. And yet few people understand, and many assume incorrectly, what sort of man he was. How did the illegitimate son of a French sea...
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[2020]
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"Mas alla de las estrellas te atrapara desde la primera hoja y te sorprendera de principio a fin. Es una historia increiblemente original, imaginativa y curiosa. Glendy Vanderah ha logrado crear un mundo que es muy real y, al mismo tiempo, completamente inusual" - Taylor Jenkins Reid, la aclamada autora de Los siete maridos de Evelyn Hugo "La hermosa historia humana escrita por Vanderah nos recuerda que, a veces, debemos mirar mas alla de las copas...
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Documents the biologist adventurer's treks in the vast wilderness region spanning the Pacific rainforest through the Alaskan Arctic, where she and her husband tested their physical boundaries while making profound natural-world connections.
For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure. During graduate school, as...
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