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Ocean animals sleep, just like you! This informative, rhyming picture book dives deep to look at where and how ocean animals sleep in the sea.
Many ocean animals are active during the day, but where and how do they sleep at night? From sharks to dolphins and sea turtles to octopuses, plus parrotfish and whales and more, discover what these ocean creatures do when it's time to go to sleep and the day is through.
Where Do Ocean Creatures Sleep...
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Welcome to the amazing world of Antelopes Photos and Facts for Everyone! The animal facts in nature book to be amazed by Antelopes.You will find Antelopes in nature with pictures to include the many Antelopes species, size, breeding, eating habits, and interesting facts. Antelopes Photos and Facts for Everyone is Book 106 of the Learn with Facts Series. This book is around a clear concept: The amazing life of Antelopes with facts and color photos.Be...
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Dive into the frozen depths of the Earth's most extreme environments with "Beneath Absolute Zero: The Secret Lives of Cold-Loving Organisms." In this captivating exploration, readers will embark on a journey to uncover the hidden world of organisms that thrive in temperatures colder than anything thought possible.From the icy landscapes of polar regions to the depths of the ocean floor, this book reveals the astonishing adaptations and survival strategies...
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Welcome to the amazing world of Turkeys Photos and Facts for Everyone! The animal facts in nature book to be amazed by Turkeys.You will find Turkeys in nature with pictures to include the many Turkeys species, size, breeding, eating habits, and interesting facts. Turkeys Photos and Facts for Everyone is Book 101 of the Learn with Facts Series. This book is around a clear concept: The amazing life of Turkeys with facts and color photos.Be sure to read...
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As part of his challenge to the theory of evolution, the outspoken creationist presents alternative theories of bird flight and migration.
In 1932, Bernard Acworth established the Evolution Protest Movement (now called the Creation Science Movement) for the purpose of criticizing evolutionary theory in scientific terms. A freelance journalist and amateur ornithologist, he took aim at the accepted science of ornithology with a keenly skeptical eye....
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Beautifully rugged Arizona attracted a wide range of characters including drifters, dreamers, builders, loners, prospectors, and the first to arrive, the Native Americans. Each group was seeking a better life. Clashes of wills became legends such as a shootout at the O. K. Coral and events along the Outlaw Trail. All became part of the tapestry of Arizona where both towering events and small acts of kindness changed lives.
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Real-life tales that explore the complexities of human-animal relationships-from domestic pets to farm animals to wildlife.
In this collection, thirty-seven writers from across Canada tell thought-provoking stories of extraordinary encounters with a variety of animals-from rats and salamanders to wolves and bears. From tributes to a favorite cat or dog to tales of a chance encounter with a moose or a cougar, these stories are sure to entertain and...
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Bypassed by time and "Joisey" Shore–bound vacationers, the marshes and forests of the Bayshore constitute one of North America's last great undiscovered wild places. Sixty million people live within a tank of gas of this environmentally rich and diverse place, yet most miss out on the region's amazing spectacles.
Bayshore Summer is a bridge that links the rest of the world to this timeless land. Pete Dunne acts as ambassador and tour guide, following...
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For green thumbs and giftgivers alike, this lyrical story expresses how seeds-like children-can blossom despite the odds.
Discover seven different flowers that blossom from seven different kinds of seeds-each resilient in their own way as they take root. This heartfelt story serves as a metaphor for the strength in seeds-and humans-and the beauty and diversity in flowers, or the people we blossom into.
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Welcome to the amazing world of Roosters Photos and Facts for Everyone! The animal facts in nature book to be amazed by Roosters.You will find Roosters in nature with pictures to include the many Roosters species, size, breeding, eating habits, and interesting facts. Roosters Photos and Facts for Everyone is Book 66 of the Learn with Facts Series. This book is around a clear concept: The amazing life of Roosters with facts and color photos.Be sure...
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Part of the trilogy of memoirs that inspired the television show The Durrells in Corfu: A naturalist's adventures with animals-and humans-on a Greek island. When his family moved to a Greek island, young naturalist Gerald Durrell was able to indulge his passion for wildlife of all sorts as he discovered the new world around him-and the creatures and people who inhabited it. Indeed, Durrell's years growing up on Corfu would inspire the rest of his...
92) Small Jewels
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Every day is a jewel: most are flawed, some are perfect, but every one is precious.If you think nothing ever happens around here, you'd be sadly mistaken. Between escapee heifers, runaway children, morning staff meetings, trips to the (sort of) big city, and interrogations by the county attorney, small town life is pretty exciting. I barely have time to stop and catch my breath!
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Tyler is a thoughtful little turtle who likes playing with his friends in the sea. When he finds out that his friend Finn the butterflyfish has a problem he wants to help. But just what can a turtle do for a fish?
Tyler Help Find a New Home is the second in a series of children's picture books written in accordance with a number of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.
With fantastic, colourful animal characters, the stories show children...
94) Suburbitat
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"Jim's superb guide will motivate landowners to embrace their environmental responsibilities no matter what ecosystem they live in." Douglas Tallamy - Author of Bringing Nature Home and Nature's Best Hope
SUBURBITAT - will be a great benefit to city planners, developers, landscape architects, HOA boards, homeowners, and anyone interested in creating beautiful landscapes that restore native biodiversity and conserve natural resources. This book...
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A lively, thought-provoking overview of climate change from the perspectives of people who are dealing with it on the ground.
Climate change has become one of the most polarizing issues of our time. Extremists on the left regularly issue hyperbolic jeremiads about the impending destruction of the environment, while extremists on the right counter with crass, tortured denials. But out in the vast middle are ordinary people dealing with stronger storms...
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"Utterly engaging….A novel of ideas, of big themes….William Boyd is a champion storyteller." - New York Times Book Review
William Boyd's classic Brazzaville Beach has been called as a "bold seamless blend of philosophy and suspense… [that] nevertheless remains accessible to general readers on a level of pure entertainment." (Boston Globe). Released to coincide with Boyd's latest novel, Ordinary Thunderstorms, Brazzaville Beach tells the story...
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The Garden Interior is the beautiful and inspired story of how one great garden raised a family and of what goes on inside the heart and mind of a gardener. Against the backdrop of the story of one modern-day family growing up in a rambling old arts and crafts house with a gorgeous acre of lush, mature gardens, this loving memoir is filled with gardening wisdom, humor, and nostalgia for growing up in the 1960s and 70s; it is also loaded with distinctive...
98) Hawks In Flight
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Among the world's most popular birds, hawks can be some of the most difficult birds to identify. They're most often seen flying high above and at a distance.
In the first edition of Hawks in Flight, Pete Dunne, David Sibley, and Clay Sutton presented a holistic method of hawk identification, using general body shape, the way they move, and the places they are most likely to be seen.
The new edition of the book that Roger Tory Peterson called...
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A tale of musical plants, dancing animals, and one little girl's dream of saving the planet-includes a special augmented-reality feature!
Pacha's imagination is bigger than the Andes Mountains, homeland of her ancestors. In her dreams, the plants and animals on her PJs come alive-and she journeys with them to learn more about herself.
Then after a stress-induced asthma attack, her magical pajamas carry her into an epic dream where she encounters...
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From the co–author of the New York Times bestseller When Elephants Weep comes a book that uses true stories backed by scientific research to explore the way young animals discover their worlds and learn how to survive.
How does a baby animal figure out how to get around in the world? How much of what animals know is instinctive, and how much must they learn?
In Becoming a Tiger, bestselling author Susan McCarthy addresses these intriguing matters,...
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