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Authors, American 19th century Biography Bird watching Birds JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection Monarch butterfly Migration Natural history Massachusetts Walden Woods Nature Solitude Tan, Amy Wilderness areas Massachusetts Walden WoodsWilliams, Terry Tempest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.784 WILIrvine, Amy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.2 IRVMacKinnon, J. B. (James Bernard)
Summary: "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....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 WILMorales, Areli
Summary: "In the first picture book written by a DACA dreamer, Areli Morales tells her own powerful and vibrant immigration story of moving from a quiet town in Mexico to the bustling and noisy metropolis of New York City"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MORSchweber, Nate
Summary: In late-1940s America, few writers commanded attention like Bernard DeVoto. Alongside his brilliant wife and editor, Avis, DeVoto was a firebrand of American liberty, free speech, and perhaps our greatest national treasure: public lands. But when a corrupt band of lawmakers, led by Senator Pat McCarran, sought to quietly cede millions of acres of national parks and other western lands to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.78 SCHMoss, Marissa
Summary: After returning home from a year abroad, Marissa's husband, Harvey was diagnosed with ALS. The disease progressed quickly and Marissa was soon consumed with caring for Harvey while trying to keep life as normal as possible for their children. This is a story about the redemptive power of terminal illness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Conari Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.83 MOSHolmes-Binney, Debi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.9243 HOLLocker, Thomas
Summary: Introduces philosopher, writer, and environmentalist Henry David Thoreau, using selections from his own writings and an imaginary journey into the wilderness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fulcrum Pub. 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 THOGigliotti, Jim
Summary: "Learn more about the renowned British scientist, professor, and author who spent his entire career trying to answer the question: "Where did the universe come from?" Stephen Hawking was born exactly three hundred years after the death of the scientist Galileo, so maybe it was written in the stars that he would become a famous scientist in his own right. Although he was diagnosed with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2019
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Summary: Written by award-winning author Megan Hoyt, this thoughtful STEM picture book biography about the brilliant architect of Grand Central Terminal is a celebration of resilience in the face of adversity, creative problem solving, and, of course, trains! With whimsical illustrations by Dave Szalay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WILAnderson, Erin.
Summary: "Feel the magic of a beautiful landscape, see these wild places through the eyes of a child ..."--from p. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rimwalk Press 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 AND1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 398.2 AND
Kantner, Seth
Contents: The candy store -- Non-dairy creamer -- Counting fish -- Brothers on the trapline -- Iñupiaq mailman -- Walking from Barrow -- Shopping for porcupine -- Sharpshooter -- Good-bye our season -- Flower of the fringe -- Darkness -- Hanging with the hang-out-kings -- Once upon a frontier -- Bob and Carrie come out of the hills -- Conversations with China -- City boy -- Salting a moose -- These happy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KANTNER, SETH KANThoreau, Henry David
Contents: The texts of Walden, Civil disobedience, and other writings: Walden -- Civil disobedience -- Slavery in Massachusetts -- Walking -- Wild apples -- Journal: The Journal and Walden -- Selections from the Journal, 1845-54 -- Reviews and posthumous assessments -- Modern criticism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.303 THOTan, Amy
Summary: "In 2016, author Amy Tan grew overwhelmed by the state of the world: Hatred and misinformation became a daily presence on social media, and the country felt more divisive than ever. In search of peace, Tan turned toward the natural world just beyond her window and, specifically, the birds flocking to the feeders in her yard. But what began as an attempt to find solace turned into something far...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 598.072 TANVan Hemert, Caroline
Summary: 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 she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks of chickadees, ornithologist Caroline Van Hemert began to feel stifled in the isolated, sterile environment of the lab. Worried...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2019
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Summary: "Intellectually rich, intensely personal, and beautifully written, Tracks and Shadows is both an absorbing autobiography of a celebrated field biologist and a celebration of beauty in nature. Harry W. Greene, award-winning author of Snakes: The Evolutionof Mystery in Nature delves into the poetry of field biology, showing how nature eases our existential quandaries. More than a memoir, the book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Univ of California Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 570 GREAnthony, Lawrence.
Summary: In this inspiring, heartfelt account, Lawrence Anthony, conservationist and coauthor of The Elephant Whisperer, traces his efforts to save the endangered northern white rhino.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 599.66 ANTMcCarthy, Michael
Summary: "The moth snowstorm, a phenomenon Michael McCarthy remembers from his boyhood when moths 'would pack a car's headlight beams like snowflakes in a blizzard,' is a distant memory. Wildlife is being lost, not only in the wholesale extinctions of species but also in the dwindling of those species that still exist. The Moth Snowstorm records in painful detail this rapid dissolution of nature's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 MCCThomas, John L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Routledge 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 THOThoreau, Henry David
Summary: An unabridged republication of nineteenth-century essayist Henry David Thoreau's reflections on the natural world, written during a two year period when he lived alone in a cabin on the shores of Walden Pond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.3 THOMeloy, Ellen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.9 MELFitzmaurice, Ruth
Summary: "A transformative, euphoric memoir about finding solace in the unexpected for readers of H is for Hawk and When Breath Becomes Air. Ruth's tribe are her lively children and her filmmaker husband Simon who has ALS and can only communicate with his eyes. Ruth's other "tribe" are the friends who gather at the cove in Greystones, Co. Wicklow, and regularly throw themselves into the freezing cold...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FITZMAURICE, RUTH FITLourie, Peter.
Summary: Documents the annual efforts of a pair of biologists from the U.S. Geological Survey team to locate and tranquilize polar bears in the Alaskan wilderness to collect important information about species conservation and global warming.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children 2012