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1) Wintering
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299 pages ; 25 cm
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There are two stories in play here, bound together when the elderly, demented Harry Eide escapes his sickbed and vanishes into the forbidding northernmost Minnesota wilderness that surrounds the town of Gunflint -- instantly changing the Eide family, and many other lives, forever. He'd done this once before, thirty-some years earlier, in 1963, fleeing a crumbling marriage and bringing along Gustav, his eighteen-year-old son, pitching this audacious,...
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This is the story of a woman forging a new life for herself after her marriage has foundered, shutting up her beloved Devonshire house and making a home for her two young children in London, elated at completing the collection of poems she foresees will make her name. It is also the story of a woman struggling to maintain her mental equilibrium, to absorb the pain of her husband's betrayal and to resist her mother's engulfing love. It is the story...
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The new season begins. The geese return... Selected as a NATURE BOOK OF THE YEAR by The TimesThe arrival of huge flocks of geese in the UK is one of the most evocative and powerful harbingers of winter; a vast natural phenomenon to capture the imagination. So Stephen Rutt found when he moved to Dumfries one autumn, coinciding with the migration of thousands of pink-footed geese who spend their winter in the Firth. Thus began an extraordinary odyssey.
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 The summer before my fortieth birthday, I was with friends on Folkestone beach, which juts into the English Channel as if reaching out to France. I snapped the seaside town bathed in the warmth of an Indian summer.
#2 I was there for the surgeon to explain the extent of the infection with something approaching awe. I was there to fret over H's temperature refusing...
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This is a detailed and accessible guide to wintering bees. Profusely illustrated and written in simple, plain language, "Wintering Bee in Four-Hive Boxes" is ideal for novice bee-keepers and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of bee-keeping literature.
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1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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There are almost 300 species of squirrels that can glide through the air, outwit rattlesnakes, and survive the coldest temperatures of any mammal. Uncover the extraordinary abilities of these cheeky nut lovers as a filmmaker puts their problem solving to the test on a specially designed obstacle course. And see the world through the eyes of an orphan red squirrel called Billy.
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Restore and reinvent yourself through the inner alchemy of wintering.
Sometimes we hit spiritual burnout because of events in our lives or in our spiritual work, or because we've just hit the wall and can't go any further. We hit a state of wintering, where we need to rest, reflect, and reinvent ourselves. In this book you will learn:
What wintering is and how it applies to spiritual and magical work
How to make peace with spiritual burnout, instead...
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Ultraman 80 volume 36
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日本語
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Mecha Gilarus invades the World Standard Time Center and disrupts clocks all around the world. Gridman heads to the World Standard Time Center in England, via satellite. Can Gridman fix the disrupted time?
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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From the shelter of our homes, snow looks magical, but it's a harsh reality to many animals. Snow means freezing temperatures, which these animals must endure for many months. Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan meets some of the world's most iconic snow animals across the globe, from the penguins of Antarctica to the bison of Yellowstone and the Arctic fox.
Takes a look at the world's most iconic snow animals across the globe.
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In The Amazing Monarch, author and photographer Windle Turley chronicles the life cycle of the monarch butterfly. Replete with page after page of full-color photographs, the book shows the monarch's rarely captured destination wintering grounds. The contrast of the orange and black pops off the page as the reader goes on a visual tour in the high mountains of Mexico. The multifaceted work also contains poems and quotations focusing on the beauty of...
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The Outdoor Girls in Florida, or Wintering in the Sunny South is a novel by Laura Lee Hope, first published in 1921. The story follows the adventures of a group of four teenage girls, Betty, Mollie, Amy, and Grace, who travel to Florida with Grace's family for the winter. They enjoy the warm weather and various activities, including boating, fishing, and exploring the local wildlife. The girls also get involved in solving a mystery related to a neighboring...
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The animal kingdom relies on staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human counterparts, who alter the environment to accommodate physical limitations, most animals are adapted to an amazing range of conditions. In Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival, biologist, illustrator, and award-winning author Bernd Heinrich explores his local woods, where he delights in the seemingly infinite feats of animal inventiveness...
15) Ravens in winter
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379 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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A fascinating and important work of ornithology, which led E.O. Wilson to call it "one of the most interesting discoveries I've seen in animal sociobiology in years," Ravens In Winter is a scientist's impassioned study to understand the mysterious social habits of one of nature's most formidable birds, the raven. Why do ravens, generally understood to be solitary creatures, share food between each other during winter? This was the question Bernd Heinrich...
16) Under the snow
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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A journey through the fields, forests, ponds and wetlands to see how animals survive in the snowy winter months, and when the sun's rays grow stronger, join all the animals as they get ready for springtime.
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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Every fall, insects disappear. And every spring, they return. Where do they go? The dragonfly dies, leaving its young safe in the muddy bottom of a stream. The monarch butterfly sails the air to dry mountains in Mexico. And the Arctic woolly bear caterpillar becomes a "bugsicle"--it freezes solid, then thaws out to live another day. The honeybee, praying mantis, field cricket, ladybug, and pavement ant also use awe-inspiring tricks to outwit the killing...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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When Lily, a young snowshoe hare, hears that winter is coming, she does not know what to expect, even as the other animals explain what they do to cope with the change of seasons, although, they note, snowshoe hares do not need to do the same.
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"When winter comes, animals seem to know just what to do. From frogs to deer to dragonflies, whether they're hiding, seeking or simply staying put, many animals have found ingenious ways to survive the cold. In this poetic exploration of just how they do that, expressive text and non-fiction sidebars seamlessly combine to carry young readers through late fall to early spring. Readers learn about all the different kinds of hibernation, how animals...
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