Zarankin, Julia
Summary: "When Julia Zarankin saw her first red-winged blackbird at the age of thirty-five, she didn't expect that it would change her life. Recently divorced and auditioning hobbies during a stressful career transition, she stumbled on birdwatching, initially out of curiosity for the strange breed of humans who wear multi-pocketed vests, carry spotting scopes and discuss the finer points of optics with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Douglas and McIntyre 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZARANKIN, JULIA ZARTarte, Bob.
Summary: For much of his life, the closest Bob Tarte got to a nature walk was the stroll from parking lot to picnic table on family outings. But then a chance sighting of a dazzling rose-breasted grosbeak in wife-to-be Linda's backyard prompts a fascination with birds, which he had never cared about before in the least. Soon he is obsessed with spotting more and more of them-the rarer the better-and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TARTE, BOB TARO'Kane, Trish
Summary: In this affecting memoir, O'Kane (Guatemala in Focus), a natural sciences lecturer at the University of Vermont, elegantly weaves personal and natural history as she details how her fascination with birds compelled her to quit her journalism career, return to school at age 45 to get a PhD in environmental studies, and become an ardent conservationist. Interspersed with O'Kane's account of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2024
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Summary: "Thomas C. Gannon's Birding While Indian spans more than fifty years of childhood walks and adult road trips to deliver, via a compendium of birds recorded and revered, the author's life as a part-Lakota inhabitant of the Great Plains. Great Horned Owl, Sandhill Crane, Dickcissel: such species form a kind of rosary, a corrective to the rosaries that evoke Gannon's traumatic time in an Indian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press 2023
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Summary: "At a personal and professional crossroads, a man resets his life and finds sobriety, love, and 618 bird species, cycling his way to a very Big Year. In Birding Under the Influence, Dorian Anderson, a neuroscience researcher on a pressure-filled life trajectory, walks away from the world of elite institutions, research labs, and academic publishing. In doing so, he falls in love and discovers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2023
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANDERSON, DORIAN ANDCooper, Christian
Summary: "Christian Cooper is a self-described Blerd (Black nerd), an avid comics fan, and an expert birder who devotes every spring to gazing upon the migratory birds that stop to rest in Central Park, just a subway ride away from where he lives in New York City. When birdwatching in the park one morning in May 2020, Cooper was engaged in the ritual that had been a part of his life since he was ten...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COOPER, CHRISTIAN COOCraig, Mya-Rose
Summary: "Birder, environmentalist and activist Mya-Rose Craig is an international force. In her moving memoir, Birdgirl, she chronicles her mother's struggle with mental illness, and shares her passion for social justice and fierce dedication to preserving our planet. Meet Mya-Rose - otherwise known as "Birdgirl." In her words: "Birdwatching has never felt like a hobby, or a pastime I can pick up and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CRAIG, MYA-ROSE CRAObmascik, Mark.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598 OBMNathan, Leonard
Summary: Adding up Nathan's works of prose, poetry, and translation results in an impressive total of 22 books. Nathan now takes readers on an entertaining bird-watching journey to such places as Manitoba, Texas, and Arizona--on beaches and in a marshy pond, a stand of Monterey cypresses, a stand of pecan trees, a wildlife refuge, and a peach orchard. Nathan sprinkles his narrative with the writings of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.0723 NATHarkness, Joe
Summary: When Joe Harkness suffered a breakdown in 2013, he tried all the things his doctor recommended: medication helped, counselling was enlightening, and mindfulness grounded him. But nothing came close to nature, particularly birds. How had he never noticed such beauty before? Soon, every avian encounter took him one step closer to accepting who he is. The positive change in Joe's wellbeing was so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Unbound 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARKNESS, JOE HARDel Rizzo, Suzanne
Summary: "A young girl introduces herself to a new neighbor from Syria and bonds with him over shared interests in nature, birdwatching, and finding small treasures. His anxieties about his new life are eased when his knowledge from having pet pigeons in Syria helps save an injured cardinal. Polymer clay art depicts fall and winter scenes in a neighborhood where most residents are immigrants and where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pajama Press Inc. 2021
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Summary: "The story of a year in the bird-life of a three-acre woodlot in rural Connecticut, in which the reader shadows the author month by month as he watches, listens, and chronicles the movement of the seasons through the complex and fascinating lives of the birds that come and go. Illustrated with twenty-five line drawings that mimic a 'notebook diary' style, the narrative opens the eyes of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.072 TOUStrycker, Noah K.
Summary: The author tells the story of how he traveled across forty-one countries in an attempt to see half of the world's birds in one year, sharing the challenges that he faced, as well as the birds and bird-lovers he found on the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598 STRGist, Deeanne.
Summary: In 1904 Texas Ranger Luke Palmer arrives in Brenham, Texas, with one goal--to capture the gang of outlaws led by Frank Comer. Undercover as a telephone repairman, he uses his days on the range to search, not realizing there's another pair of eyes watching him. Georgie Gail, switchboard operator and birder, heads out on a birding expedition, but instead of sighting a painted bunting, her opera...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GISFisher, Suzanne Woods
Summary: "Ben Zook had only two loves in his life: books and birds. In a stroke of good fortune, he'd stumbled onto a way to cobble together those two loves into a career, writing books about rare birds. He was as free as a bird--until a chase for a rare White-winged Tern takes him to the one place on earth he planned to never return: his Amish home in Stoney Ridge. Desperate for photographs of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FISFisk, Erma J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.4 FISWard, Jennifer
Summary: "A non-fiction guide to finding and observing birds for young bird-watchers."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2020
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Summary: While identifying 30 new species, this field guide is replete with excellent illustrations, detailed descriptions, observation hints, and range maps. Birders and bird watchers will never look at their feathered friends in quite the same way after they encounter these freakquent fliers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishers 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.2 SILSummary: "You are bird enthusiasts--researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors--seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your aviary. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats (actions). These habitats focus on several key aspects of growth: gain food tokens via custom dice in a birdfeeder dice tower; lay eggs using egg miniatures in a variety of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stonemaier 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Looking to shake up their routine lives, three amateur bird watchers compete to become the ultimate 'birder' by spotting the greatest number of species within a single calendar year. But the friendly rivalry soon turns into a hilariously complicated cross-country adventure as each man begins to realize that the quest for success comes at a price, and that's not chicken feed!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Big 2011Koch, Maryjo.
Summary: Bird watchers, naturalists, and art lovers alike will marvel at the exquisite watercolors and accurate information contained in this fascinating book--back in print after nearly a year. Drawing from her own field observations as well as from literature, scientific writings and mythology, Koch covers such topics as migration, courtship patterns, and evolutionary adaptations. 100 illustrations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithmark Publishers 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 598 KOCCousins, Lucy
Summary: In an exuberant display of color, Lucy Cousins invites little ones to imagine themselves as brilliant birds. Birds of all feathers flock together in a fun, rhyme-filled offering by the creator of Maisy. From the rooster's "cock-a-doodle-doo" at dawn to the owl's nighttime "tuwit, tuwoo," the cheeps and tweets of many bright and beautiful avian friends will have children eager to join in as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE COURosen, Jonathan
Summary: Today, forty-six million Americans are bird-watchers. The Life of the Skies is a genre-bending journey into the meaning of a pursuit born out of the tangled history of industrialization and nature longing. Jonathan Rosen set out on a quest not merely to see birds but to fathom their centrality--historical and literary, spiritual and scientific--to a culture torn between the desire both to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.072 ROSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 598.072 ROSSummary: The true story of Moe Berg, professional baseball player, Ivy League graduate, attorney, and a top-secret spy who helped the US win the race against Germany to build the atomic bomb.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018