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"The intimate, multi-generational story of the Kennedy family as seen through their Hyannis Port compound on Cape Cod—the iconic place where they’ve celebrated, mourned, and forged the closest of bonds—based on more than a hundred in-depth interviews by a Rolling Stone editor whose pieces have appeared in such publications as Town & Country, Esquire, and Vanity Fair. Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, is synonymous with the Kennedy family. It is...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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An account of a conservationist's efforts to save a rogue herd of elephants in spite of his limited experience; describes how he gave them a home in his South African reserve and endeavored to provide what was required for their survival.
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Picador USA
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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In 'A Buzz in the Meadow' Goulson tells the story of how he bought a derelict farm in the heart of rural France, together with 33 acres of surrounding meadow and how, over a decade, he has created a place for his beloved bumblebees to thrive. But other creatures live there too, a myriad insects of every kind, many of them ones that Goulson has studied before in his career as a biologist. You will learn about how a deathwatch beetle finds its mate,...
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Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"An interior design book featuring the stunning homes of those who have made significant contributions to Black American culture-from chef Alexander Smalls to Don Cheadle and Bridgid Coulter to Danielle Brooks. From the creators of the lifestyle brand AphroChic comes an interior design book that steps into the intimate spaces of actors and musicians, creative rooms of artists and curators, generational homes with history, and "boss" offices of entrepreneurs...
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"A lyrical and evocative collection of personal stories from the author of Under the Tuscan Sun, in which the queen of wanderlust reflects on the comforts of home. Veranda Book Club Pick • “A soulful meditation on ‘what home means, how it hooks the past and pushes into the future’ . . . spellbinding.”٬٢٠١٤؛Publishers Weekly (starred review) Though Frances Mayes is known for her travels, she has always sought a sense of home wherever...
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"From one of our most intrepid and eloquent adventurers of the natural world: an account of her search for home--experiences traveling in Greenland, the North Pole, the Channel Islands of California, Japan; of herding animals in Wyoming and Montana, and her embrace of the balance between the ordinary and celestial. In The Solace of Open Spaces, Gretel Ehrlich announced her aspiration as a writer to assign the physical qualities of the earth--weather,...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"The beloved author Peter Mayle, champion of all things Provence, here in a final volume of all new writing, offers vivid recollections from his twenty-five years in the South of France--lessons learned, culinary delights enjoyed, and changes observed. Twenty-five years ago, Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, were rained out of a planned two weeks on the Cô̂te d'Azur. In search of sunlight, they set off for Aix-en-Provence; enchanted by the world...
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Viking
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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A lavishly illustrated personal tour of the great star's homes and collections. The book contains many of Streisand's own photographs of the rooms she has decorated, the furniture and art she has collected, and the ravishing gardens she has planted on her land on the California coast.
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"Bird Cloud" is the name the author gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four hundred foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. She also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, kestrels, elk, deer and a dozen antelope. She fell in love with the land, then owned by the Nature Conservancy,...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997.
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English
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In Tommy Makem's Secret Ireland, the beloved Irish folksinger leads the way to his favorite places in Ireland. Along the way, Makem shares his memories, his songs, and the stories he grew up with. A born storyteller, Makem brings life to Ireland's legends and history. He notices the highways and byways running quietly through beautiful, ever-changing country scenes. Makem introduces the reader to people who are warm and welcoming, their character...
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