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What would be your experience if you could communicate with another species? What would be learned, and what would you tell them? Jonas works a high-risk job as a diver aboard an off-shore rig. He never thought he would be confronted with such questions.
Peek, a dolphin inhabits the waters around the rig and is curious about this human who spends so much time in the ocean. He never realized how enriching such an encounter could be.
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Can the answer to a simple science question change your life? For Garson Strangewalker, yes. In this second book in the Legend Keepers series, twelve-year-old Garson doesn't fit in a school. He's in a new community, hasn't made friends, and his father has gone missing. Each day's a struggle until a simple question he asks at the spring science fair sparks an interest in glaciers. He reads about them but can't get enough.
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This book is different from any other Edward Abbey book. It includes essays, travel pieces and fictions to reveal Ed's life directly, in his own words.
The selections gathered here are arranged chronologically by incident, not by date of publication, to offer Edward Abbey's life from the time he was the boy called Ned in Home, Pennsylvania, until his death in Tucson at age 62. A short note introduces each of the four parts of the book and attempts...
564) Daisies are Forever
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April Heatherton, history teacher and volunteer firefighter, is determined to protect the land she holds dear, especially the grave of an unknown pioneer woman who once trekked the Oregon Trail. Proposed logging operations are encroaching, and April soon finds herself organizing a local task force to try to stop them. Yet when April meets handsome Matt Spencer, son of the owner of Johnson Brothers Logging Company, she must reckon with her escalating...
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Jesse and the Climate Monster
An Introduction for parents and teachers
As the news of climate change and climate related disasters expands, our school age children are not immune to the feelings of fear and helplessness. Jesse and the Climate Monster, published as a bilingual (English/Spanish) book, allows young readers, their classmates and their families, an opportunity to begin to understand climate change as presented in an engaging tale. Within...
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New York Times bestselling author Eliot Schrefer’s second installment in the middle grade Animal Rescue Agency series sends your favorite fox and chicken duo on a tropical adventure to save the world’s biggest pangolin pop star.
After a frigid arctic rescue, Esquire and Mr. Pepper get the perfect opportunity to warm up—an invitation to Beatle the Pangolin’s private island concert. Sun and sand await!
But when Esquire and Mr. Pepper arrive,...
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At once expertly crafted and undeniably moving, these ten stories deftly explore our immutable connection with nature. The centerpiece of the collection is the arresting title story, in which a woman alone in her mountain cabin confronts a terminal illness. In the equally remarkable "Her First Elk," the same character recalls her most memorable and significant hunting experience. Set in locations ranging from Montana to Texas to Mississippi, the remaining...
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One hot Colorado afternoon, physician-turned-archaeologist Sarah MacLeish unearths the skeleton of an Ancestral Puebloan girl with a deformed leg. Her efforts to understand something of the long-ago life of that girl confront her with the flaws in her own body and her marriage. Sarah struggles with multiple sclerosis, and she is increasingly persuaded that her husband, archaeologist Harry MacLeish, is profoundly discontented in their childless marriage....
569) The Trees Are Dying
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A Message For Our Times
Amidst the degradation and decline of the modern world, Faery and Human search for a solution to nature's destruction. Turning to the mysterious Oracle for guidance, the seekers find only more despair. Yet, within the dreaded utterances is the way to reverse the planetary decay in a most subtle, unlikely way.
Will the prophecies come true?
Is the answer as simple as it sounds?
The Trees Are Dying combines Celtic mythology...
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Based on the upcoming major motion picture and inspired by the original classic novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, this full-color 96-page journal expands on the cinematic world of The Secret Garden through the point of view of Mary Lennox. Featuring unique content across both text and imagery, this journal format will open the reader's eyes to a more personal take on the events from the film.
When ten-year-old orphan Mary Lennox is sent to live with...
571) Botánicos: A novel
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Garwell Sorrentino was a legendary tropical botanist with the Cincinnati Botanical Garden, and arguably the world's expert on the rain forests of southeastern Peru. Twenty-five years ago, he was believed lost when an ultra-light craft that he was piloting alone above the unbroken forests of the Río Madre De Dios watershed caught fire and crashed. No trace of Sorrentino was ever found. His last graduate student and best friend, Anton Kovac,...
572) Look! Look!
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A girl in India discovers an ancient step well in this companion book to the creators' much-loved Out of the Way! Out of the Way!
When a girl discovers a slab of stone on a weedy patch of land, she calls to her friends, "Look! Look!" The children clear away the weeds and garbage and find more stones. They call their families to come and see and begin to dig around the stones. Word travels to villages nearby, and more and more people join in, until...
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Dash across the rainforest swamp with Daniel, Joy, and Kimani in the newest Challenge Island adventure!
"The Race Across Anaconda Swamp, the second Challenge Island title, in which three kids use teamwork and STEAM skills to navigate a perilous island adventure, [is forthcoming from West Margin Press.]"
-Publishers Weekly, Spring 2022 Children's Sneak Previews
Daniel, Joy, and Kimani are transported once again to a magical island-this time into...
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Join Isaac, a young nature enthusiast, on an unforgettable journey as he discovers the power of compassion, community, and his own voice in "Restless Winter: Isaac's Story." When a wandering bear named Agnes stumbles into Isaac's small town, life as he knows it changes forever. Fueled by a deep love for wildlife and a steadfast belief in his own ability to make a difference, Isaac embarks on a mission to protect Agnes and educate his community about...
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Do you like running through the sprinklers and splashing in the mud on a hot summer day? Yes, we all love our precious, cool water that makes plants grow and quenches our thirst. But as the planet Earth gets hotter and hotter, we need to think of clever means to save our waterways and replenish our water supplies. Maybe the other planets in our solar system can help by sharing their water with us!
In the sequel to Planet Family: The Tale of the...
576) Wash Ashore
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GOLD WINNER IN THE 17TH NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE BOOK AWARDS An unforgettable summer on Cape Cod.When a surprise inheritance brings Olive Adams to Cape Cod to live in her aunt's old house, she finds her fortune shifting like the sands. Can she navigate a new life in the welcoming but mysterious house? As a dangerous hurricane barrels up the coast, Olive struggles to save the land next door from destruction as she waits for her new love to return....
577) Winter Holiday
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Swallows and Amazons volume 4
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New friends, a blizzard, a frozen lake, and a case of the mumps make one grand wintertime adventure for a group of children in this classic series.
The Ds (Dick and Dorothea) meet the Swallows and Amazons during the winter beside the lake and they all become great friends: joining together in ice skating, learning semaphore signals, refashioning an igloo, and building an ice sled. But a misunderstanding leads to disaster as Dick and Dorothea head...
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The Wizard of Oz meets Avatar meets The AbyssOn the outside, Rigel is a super-bright, nerdy, high school grad, eagerly anticipating a future as an astronaut. On the inside, she's extremely stubborn, emotionally closed, and terrified of water.When she discovers she has a rare heart disease that needs immediate treatment, all her meticulous plans rocket into outer space. And when treatment begins in Florida, things go mysteriously awry and she finds...
579) No Place Like Home
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A hilarious story about finding your place in the world
George is a bit of a grump. He doesn't like ice cream, his tiny house, or the crowded city he lives in. Perhaps he would be happier if he could find a place that truly feels like home. And so George decides to go exploring...
Young children will delight in this fun, inviting story about discovering where you really belong.
580) Native Soil
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A contemporary Romance that asks questions about the way we live in the age of mass extinction - in one life, do we fight for place or planet? An absorbing read about a couple torn two ways, with vivid evocations of sweeping landscapes, family loyalties and a dash of science.
Impetuous, rich, and something of a snob, Olivia buys a hill farm and dedicates herself to nature recovery. A tragic accident has left her a widow at 29. No one can compare...
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