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Author
Series
Mysteries of nature trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In The Secret Wisdom of Nature, master storyteller and international sensation Peter Wohlleben takes readers on a thought-provoking exploration of the vast natural systems that make life on Earth possible. In this tour of an almost unfathomable world, Wohlleben describes the fascinating interplay between animals and plants and answers such questions as: How do they influence each other? Do lifeforms communicate across species boundaries? And what...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Set amidst the London Blitz of World War II, when desperate British Services used homing pigeons to carry messages across enemy lines, comes a bittersweet tale of courage, soul mates, and sacrifice about two people brought together and then driven apart by war"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Japanese folktales is Yei Theodora Ozaki's classic collection of twenty-two traditional Japanese stories. The book introduces the reader to the rich world of the Japanese imagination, a world of ghouls, goblins, and ogres ; sea serpents and sea kings; kindly animals and magic birds; demons and dragons, princes and princesses."--Back cover.
Twenty-two Japanese legends and fairy tales about peasants and kings, good and bad forces, princesses, animals,...
5) Steve Jobs
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Based on interviews with Steve Jobs and with his family members, friends, and competitors, this book describes the life and career of the man whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized industries from personal computers to digital publishing.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"An other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962. In the hidden high security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda discover a secret classified experiment"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Greystone Kids/Greystone Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This captivating tale will inspire children across the world to build compassion for an iconic yet vulnerable animal. In award-winning author Eliza Robertson's stunning debut children's book, a young, brave wolf named Spur is looking for food with her brother when, suddenly, a flying beast appears in the sky. What was that thing? And where did her brother go? The next time the helicopter appears, Spur knows just what to do to save her wolf pack and...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 206
Publisher
Distributed by Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
H. L. Mencken was the most provocative and influential journalist and cultural critic in twentieth-century America. In this volume and a companion, The Library of America presents all six series of Prejudices (1919-1927), the iconoclastic collections that helped blast American literature out of its complacency and into a new age of frankness and maturity. The fantastic linguistic inventiveness, full-bodied humor, and unwaveringly fierce courage of...
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: This spirited anthology of contemporary American poetry focuses on the new poem-the hybrid-a synthesis of traditional and experimental styles. As Cole Swensen argues in the introduction to this comprehensive new anthology, the long-acknowledged "fundamental division" between experimental and traditional is disappearing in American poetry in favor of hybrid approaches that blend trends from accessible lyricism to linguistic exploration....
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
A dazzling new anthology of 180 contemporary poems, selected and introduced by America's Poet Laureate, Billy Collins. Inspired by Billy Collins's poem-a-day program with the Library of Congress, Poetry 180 is the perfect anthology for readers who appreciate engaging, thoughtful poems that are an immediate pleasure. A 180-degree turn implies a turning back-in this case, to poetry. A collection of 180 poems by the most exciting poets at work today,...
Author
Language
English
Description
The author's premise is that within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. Here, the author unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through these stories and commentaries, the...
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