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xv, 456 pages : 1 map ; 25 cm
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English
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This is the last of Hemingway's manuscripts to be published in its entirety. Editors Lewis and Fleming have taken great pains to publish as complete and faithful a publication as possible without editorial distortion. Hemingway called this title his "African Book." It is a thoughtful, adventuresome, and comedic recounting of his final safari in Africa.
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"Only when he meets a professional hunter does Micah LaVeck learn the most precious lessons about living. His town on Aquidneck Island is beset with a flourishing coyote population. Residents are divided on how to cope. The mayor of Middletown offers a compromise: a lone professional hunter acting humanely and discreetly in concert with the Conservation Department's Division of Fish and Wildlife. Micah isn't the only one surprised when the hunter...
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Hunter's Moon is set in Michigan's wild, starkly beautiful Upper Peninsula, where a cast of recurring characters move into and out of each other's lives, building friendships, facing loss, confronting violence, trying to bury the past or seeking to unearth it. Once-a-year lovers, old high-school buddies on a hunting trip, a college professor and his wayward son, a middle-aged man and his grief-stricken father, come together, break apart, and, if they're...
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v unnumbered pages, 564 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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An exciting collection of dangerous adventures and groundbreaking exploration, The Best Adventure and Exploration Stories Ever Told compiles the works of authors from all over the world and from the very distant past to recent eras.Popular and well-known authors such as Herman Melville, Jack London, Joseph Conrad, and Jules Verne are featured, as well as Homer's mythic tales and Iceland's mesmerizing sagas from the tenth and eleventh centuries. Nonfiction...
11) Brian's hunt
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Two years after having survived a plane crash into the Canadian wilderness, a sixteen-year-old returns to the wild to befriend a wounded dog and hunt a rogue bear.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 19 x 27 cm
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An eight-year-old boy's father teaches his son an outdoorsman's lessons about wildlife, canoing, and handling a gun. When the boy is allowed to accompany his father to hunting camp, where they discover a shivering mouse who shares the warmth of their stove, the boy reminds his dad of a lesson he was taught.
14) The hunt
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296 pages ; 22 cm
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Seventeen-year-old Gene has passed as a vampire for years, carefully following every rule, but now, just as he finds a girl worth fighting for, he is chosen to participate in the hunt for the last remaining humans among ruthless vampires who soon suspect his true nature.
15) The capybaras
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"A charming and hilarious tale for kids ages 4-8 about how accepting others can enrich us all -- featuring capybaras, the beloved animal sensation capturing hearts around the world."--Provided by publisher.
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xii, 270 pages ; 24 cm
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Writing for magazines and newspapers for more than twenty years, including two decades at Field & Stream, Bill Heavey is unafraid to draw attention to his many and varied failures -- from sporting French lavender deodorant to scaring a UPS man half to death while bowhunting in his front yard. This is the second collection of Heavey's pieces from Field & Stream, as well as his writing from the Washington Post and elsewhere. In this far-ranging read,...
17) Huntress
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Seventeen-year-olds Kaede and Taisin are called to go on a dangerous and unprecedented journey to Tanlili, the city of the Fairy Queen, in an effort to restore the balance of nature in the human world.
18) Bad optics
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"In the eleventh Woods Cop Mystery, Conservation Officer Grady Service is on unpaid suspension but continues to voluntarily patrol the Mosquito Wilderness. He senses political shenanigans-an old foe lurking in the shadows and it seems someone wants to illegally commercialize the Mosquito. Grady realizes if he doesn't stop it, the wilderness will be destroyed. The tight story unfolds like a poker game, with one side bluffing and raising, while the...
19) Stone cross
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Arliss Cutter novel volume 2
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English
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"In a remote Alaskan village, Deputy US Marshal Arliss Cutter searches for a stone-cold killer amid a hotbed of corruption, lies, and long-buried secrets ... Winter comes early to the rural native community of Stone Cross, Alaska -- and so does hunting season. Caribou and moose are a major source of food through the long, dark months ahead. But Arliss Cutter has come here for a very different game. A federal judge is receiving death threats and refuses...
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