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1) The Canaries
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Kim Moreno, a clinical lab technician with a leading Biopharma firm is at the top of her game. All the while she's living with intense anxiety and grief caused by the traumatic death of her baby sister Grace ten years ago. How did she really die and why did her father disappear, never to be heard from again? To manage her anxiety, Kim self medicates with synthetic opioids, stolen from work. Years later, helping her mother move into a new home, she...
2) 189 Canaries
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In a cozy room in northern Germany, a yellow canary sings rolling melodies to the miners and carpenters of the Harz mountains. But, today a bird dealer has come, and he will take the canary far, far away from everything he knows. The journey leads onto trains and steamships, across Europe and even the Atlantic. At last, the canary arrives in a room in New York where he hears a strangely familiar song...
This beautiful, poignant book introduces readers...
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This vintage book deals with the Norwich canary, a variety of canary originally brought over to England by Flemish weaver fleeing Spanish persecution in the 16th century. It is a comprehensive guide to caring for and managing this type of canary, complete with details concerning everything from selection and breeding, to making cages, exhibiting, and beyond. Highly recommended for those with a practical interest in keeping or breeding Norwich canaries....
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Originally published in 1933. The author was well known as 'The Bird Man of Alcatraz.' He wrote this book while serving a life sentence. A comprehensive work containing much information on: - Anatomy - Feeding - Feeding Experiments - Insects and Parasites - The Moult - Injuries - Septic Fever - Septicemia - Necrosis - Diarrhoea - Aspergillosis - Bacteriology - Pathogenic Organisms - Drugs.
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"Riveting...powerful...brilliant...necessary." (Kirkus Reviews)
For those drawn to both Tara Westover's moving account of a difficult childhood and Susan Cain's research on underappreciated traits...
Canaries Among Us reveals the exquisite joy and tender heartache inherent in raising a child who is undervalued by a community.
A lifeline to those struggling with learning differences, bullying, and anxiety, Canaries Among Us explores one of the most...
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"Perfect escapism as the main character turns loss into chance offerings." Five Star Review, Tails32x"A great, quick escape!" Five Star Review, MD...When COVID stalls one young woman's launch into adulthood, she must gather her courage to turn her losses into a silver lining.Does she have what it takes to bounce back from losing her job, her apartment and even her close family? Can she heal from the childhood loss of her mother by finding a mentor...
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This text contains a detailed treatise on color-breeding in canaries, concentrating on the cinnamon gene. Essentially a 'colour' variety, the ideal cinnamon canary is a rich, dark, glowing red brown in the yellow form and a subtle blend of pinky and softer browns in the buff form. While never being a popular variety, it has always attracted the connoisseur Fancier, who appreciates the richness and delicacy of its colouring. Chapters contained within...
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This antique text contains a detailed guide to canary management. Written for beginners, the purpose of this book is to explain how to successfully purchase, maintain, and breed your canary. It will also give advice on diseases and illnesses, and how to cure them. The chapters of this book include: 'How the Canary came to America', 'Buying your Canary', 'When you Arrive Home with your Bird and Cage', 'Cleaning and Feeding your Canary', 'Breeding your...
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A CDC scientist about to retire. An estranged mother of fifty years. Lives renewed despite environmental degradation.
The story begins in 2024 when daughter and mother reunite at a sub rosa laboratory that promises to prolong life. The daughter, on her way to the Vatican, stops at the laboratory in the North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC) to identify and evaluate her mother.
A driven epidemiologist-psychologist who investigates the causes, distribution,...
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At 20 years old, author Logan Towne was pretty sure there was more to life than he was experiencing in a small town in Minnesota. He researched and found what he believed was the perfect humanitarian mission. It changed him in all the obvious ways and even more in subtle ways he can hardly explain. It drives him to try to help not only the children he met on his trip but others that he became aware of. He wanted to help those people he met but he...
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Connu de l'Occident depuis au moins 1340, l'archipel des Canaries ne tomba définitivement sous la domination espagnole qu'en 1496. Ce livre se propose de faire découvrir les différentes étapes de cette conquête si espacée dans le temps. En chemin, le lecteur croisera la route de navigateurs venus d'Italie, des Baléares et du Portugal, de chevaliers français originaires de Normandie, et de bien d'autres personnages hauts en couleurs comme Luis...
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"Canaries Among Us explores one of the most widespread threats to children's well-being: a lack of acceptance. Kayla Taylor starts her day as an ordinary parent at a respected school, but her family's life turns upside-down when her child becomes the prime target of bullying. Taylor assumes the school will partner with her to solve the problem but is confounded when she finds the opposite: officials not only turn a blind eye to cruelty but also ostracize...
15) Willy and May
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32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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A girl who always looks forward to her visits with her Great-aunt May and May's canary Willy is terribly disappointed when she thinks she will not be able to see them one Christmas.
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This antique text comprises a detailed guide pertaining to the construction of bird cages for use inside the home. This wonderful guide contains everything one might need to know about the construction of bird cages, complete with step-by-step instructions and detailed illustrations that will enable the reader to make a variety of different styles of bird cages, from small and simple, to large and impressive. Many antique books such as this are increasingly...
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Canary breeding is a hugely popular hobby, and one that surpasses most hobbies, in that the amateur can very quickly, with knowledge and experience, excel as a breeder and exhibitor of the different varieties known to the canary fancy. This is a highly detailed and comprehensive guide to breeding and showing canaries, complete with a wealth of illustrations. Contents Include: Canary Keeping as a Hobby; Aviaries, Cages and Fittings; Breeding and General...
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How does our environment impact our health, and what can we do about it? 12,000 Canaries Can't Be Wrong is a culmination of Dr. Molot's 30 years of experience seeing more than 12,000 patients with environmentally linked illnesses. He explains how the environment contributes to the development and progression of many common conditions and illnesses, including chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and other pain disorders, chemical sensitivity, irritable...
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Mise à jour septembre 2018.
Vous naviguez dans les Canaries ou en avez l'intention?
Ces îles sont un véritable paradis pour les navigateurs. Nos guides écrits par un amoureux des Canaries qui y navigue régulièrement et en a l'expérience pratique vous en donnent les clés.
Vous y trouverez les informations administratives indispensables, les magasins d'accastillage, tous les artisans qui offrent des services aux navigateurs: motoristes, voiliers,...
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"As a firstborn son of a master craftsman, Henri Blanchard is expected to inherit the family barrel organ workshop, but he would prefer to make bobbin lace like his best friend Aimée. In an effort to put his misgivings aside and prove himself a worthy heir, he attempts dramatic feats that draw derision from the townsfolk and finally land him in jail, accused of murder. Threatened with the hangman's noose, he is forced to flee the cozy village of...
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