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American Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide collects poems, essays, and letters from the 1700s to the present that focus on wildflowers and their place in our culture and in the natural world. Editor Susan Barba has curated a selection of plants and texts that celebrate diversity: There are foreign-born writers writing about American plants and American writers on non-native plants. There are rural writers with deep regional knowledge and urban writers...
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Aaron Falk novels volume 2
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Central Library - Mysteries - 1st Floor
Harper, J.
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Harper, J.
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Harper, J.
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Harper, J.
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Harper, J.
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Harper, J.
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Harper, J.
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Harper, J.
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Harper, J.
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Harper, J.
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Five women go on a hike. Only four return. Jane Harper, the New York Times bestselling author of The Dry, asks: How well do you really know the people you work with? When five colleagues are forced to go on a corporate retreat in the wilderness, they reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking down the muddy path. But one of the women doesn't come out of the woods. And each of her companions tells a slightly different story about what happened....
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304.2 W
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304.2 W
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304.2 W
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304.2 W
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304.2 W
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304.2 W
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In an era of cell phone addiction and ever-expanding cities, many of us fear we've lost our connection to nature -- but Peter Wohlleben is convinced that age-old ties linking humans to the forest remain alive and intact. Whether we observe it or not, our blood pressure stabilizes near trees, the color green calms us, and the forest sharpens our senses. Drawing on new scientific discoveries, The Heartbeat of Trees reveals the profound interactions...
4) The deep
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Solomon, R.
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Solomon, R.
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Solomon, R.
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Solomon, R.
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"The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society -- and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the [...] song "The Deep" from Daveed Diggs's rap group clipping. Yetu holds the memories for her people -- water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners -- who live idyllic...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Heller, P.
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Heller, P.
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Heller, P.
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Heller, P.
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Heller, P.
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Heller, P.
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Heller, P.
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Heller, P.
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Heller, P.
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Heller, P.
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"Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of...
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Graff, A.
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Graff, A.
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Graff, A.
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Graff, A.
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Graff, A.
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Graff, A.
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"An instant classic, for fans of Huckleberry Finn, Peace Like a River, and Jim the Boy: when two hardscrabble young boys think they've committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Will the adults trying to find and protect them reach them before it's too late?"--
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Vanderah, G.
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Vanderah, G.
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A mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again. After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. When a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin, barefoot and covered in bruises, Joanna enlists the help of her reclusive neighbor, Gabriel Nash, to solve the mystery...
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Central Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
598.9 D
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598.9 D
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598.9 D
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598.9 D
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"Owls have existed for over sixty million years, and in the relatively short time we have shared the planet with these majestic birds they have ignited the human imagination. But even as owls continue to captivate our collective consciousness, celebrated British nature writer Miriam Darlington finds herself struck by all she doesn't know about the true nature of these enigmatic creatures. Darlington begins her fieldwork in the British Isles with her...
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East Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
590 N
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590 N
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590 N
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590 N
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"From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction-a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us"--
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Central Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
591.5 Y
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591.5 Y
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591.5 Y
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591.5 Y
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"The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world. This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension--the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires (and fireworks), songbirds that can see the Earth's magnetic...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Shafak, E.
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Shafak, E.
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Shafak, E.
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Shafak, E.
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Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Shafak, E.
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Shafak, E.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Shafak, E.
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Shafak, E.
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"A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches...
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"Imbler profiles ten of the ocean's strangest creatures, drawing astonishing connections between their lives and ours and illuminating wondrous models of survival, adaptation, identity, sex, and care on our faltering planet."--
13) Migrations
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Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
McConaghy, C.
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McConaghy, C.
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North Side Library - Fiction - Adult
McConaghy, C.
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McConaghy, C.
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McConaghy, C.
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McConaghy, C.
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McConaghy, C.
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McConaghy, C.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
McConaghy, C.
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McConaghy, C.
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"Franny Stone has always been a wanderer. By following the ocean's tides and the birds that soar above, she can forget the losses that have haunted her life. But when the wild she so loves begins to disappear, Franny can no longer wander without a destination. She arrives in remote Greenland with one purpose: to find the world's last flock of Arctic terns and follow them on their final migration. She convinces Ennis Malone, captain of the Saghani,...
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Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
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"In Earth Keeper: Reflections on an American Land, Momaday reflects on his native ground and its influence on his people. "When I think about my life and the lives of my ancestors, I am inevitably led to the conviction that I, and they, belong to the American land. This is a declaration of belonging. And it is an offering to the earth." he writes. Earth Keeper is a story of attachment, rooted in oral tradition. Momaday recalls stories of his childhood...
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Nonfiction - New Books
231.7 M
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231.7 M
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"Before the sacred Scriptures were ever written, there was a much earlier text: The Book of Nature. Barbara Mahany invites us to discover an ancient theology that focuses on the text of God first revealed through creation--nature in all its kaleidoscopic turnings." --