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Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A woman in search of a new beginning is put to the test in ways she never imagined in an empowering and provocative page-turner by the author of Not That I Could Tell. Katie’s divorce was, in a word, humiliating. So when her friend Bess offers a fresh start—a resident caretaking job at a nature preserve—Katie accepts. No matter that she’s not exactly a “nature person.” How hard can it be? But from day one, something...
3) Because it is so beautiful: unraveling the mystique of the American west : a nonfiction collection
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
©2017
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A mountaineering mathematician's lyrical meditation on the duality of wilderness and those poets and explorers who have traversed it
Yes, every inch of the globe has been seen, mapped, photographed, and measured, but is it known? Robert Leonard Reid doesnt think so. To draw a circle and calculate its diameter is not to know the circle. In this collection, Reid distinguishes himself from many science-based nature writers, using the natural world as...
Author
Series
Horrible Harry volume 33
Publisher
Published by Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When his best friend Doug discovers his top-secret hideout, Harry enlists his friends' help to save it from being developed into an apartment building"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2013].
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Boris is a warthog who lives in Hogg Bay, in an old bus that used to travel all over the world, but now just sits there--until one day when his parents take him on an adventure.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Boasting an extraordinary variety of pristine habitats, Gabon may be the last best hope for many of Africa's native species. But Gabon is an embattled paradise, surrounded by war-torn nations and rampant exploitation of natural resources. Fortunately, a dedicated group is determined to preserve Gabon's natural riches, with an unprecedented 11,000 square mile network of national parks unlike anything Africa has ever seen.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
From stunning new nature footage filmed with the most advanced cameras, to a new look at classic natural history favorites, this collection brings you six National Geographic productions, each taking you closer to the natural world, presenting fascinating facts and behaviors, and illuminating the lives of the creatures that share our planet.
12) Bird bonanza
Author
Series
Nancy Drew clue book volume 18
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Clue Crew investigates who sabotaged the River Heights Nature Park's fundraiser.
Nancy and her friends must unearth the person who sabotaged the River Heights Nature Park’s fundraiser in the eighteenth book in the interactive Nancy Drew Clue Book mystery series. Nancy, Bess, and George are excited to be attending Bird Bonanza Camp. They’ll spend their time learning all about different kinds of birds and taking part in fun crafts and activities....
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning ecology writer goes looking for the wilderness we've forgotten. Many people believe that only an ecological catastrophe will change humanity's troubled relationship with the natural world. In fact, as J.B. MacKinnon argues in this unorthodox look at the disappearing wilderness, we are living in the midst of a disaster thousands of years in the making--and we hardly notice it. We have forgotten what nature can be and adapted to a...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"McKenzie Long visits thirteen national monuments, from Golde Butte in Nevada to Katahdin Woods and Waters in Maine, and writes an eye-opening exploration of the stories these natural sites tell, the passions they stir, and the controversies surrounding them today. In essays both contemplative and resonant, This Contested Land confronts an unjust past and imagines a collaborative future that bears witness to these regions' enduring Indigenous connections"--
"One...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It's home to over a billion people. Yet you can see animals that exist nowhere else on Earth, where the natural world has been woven into people's lives and where wilderness still holds strong. From the Valley of the Flowers in West Himalaya and turtles hatching on the beaches of the east coast to the lions of the Gir forest, it reveals a land packed full of unrivalled wildlife experiences.
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