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1) Earthly joys
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English
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Sir Robert Cecil, advisor to the newly crowned King James I, relies on his loyal gardener for practical advice. Combining beautifully ordered landscapes with the turmoil of a country teetering toward civil war, the author brilliantly brings the past to life through the eyes of one remarkable man and his family.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Early one morning, Congressman Alexander Paine Wilson is planning his reelection campaign when a mysterious delivery arrives at his townhouse. Inside is a gigantic taxidermied aardvark. What does it mean? The story hurtles between present day Washington, DC, where Wilson tries to get rid of the unsightly beast before it destroys his career, and Victorian England, where readers meet the aardvark's taxidermist and the naturalist who hunted her, and...
3) Grey dog
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Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1901, and Ada Byrd -- spinster, schoolmarm, amateur naturalist -- accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge, grateful for the chance to re-establish herself where no one knows her secrets. She develops friendships with her neighbors, explores the woods with her students, and begins to see a future in this tiny farming community. Her past -- riddled with grief and shame -- has never seemed so far away. But then, Ada begins to witness...
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Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
At the center of this story of majesty and high mountain magic are three Magdalenas-Mary, a woman whose uncertain journey opens the book; Magdalena Mountain, shrouded in mystery and menace; and the all-black Magdalena alpine butterfly, the most elusive of several rare and beautiful species found on the mountain. And high in the Colorado Rocky Mountain wilderness, sharing the remote territory of the Erebia magdalena butterfly, lives the enigmatic...
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
Calpurnia, Callie Vee es una niña que vive en un pueblo de Texas Central in 1899. A pesar de que su madre insiste en que aprenda a tocar el piano, coser y cocinar, ella está más interesada en lo que ocurre tras lapuerta cerrada de la biblioteca, oen el laboratorio de su abuelo. Poco a poco, irá ganándose a este señor un tanto hurãno y empezará a colaborar con él en sus observaciones del medio natural, aprenderá quien es Darwin, y también...
Author
Series
Bone rattler mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When Duncan McCallum is asked by Benjamin Franklin to retrieve an astonishing cache of fossils from the Kentucky wilderness, his excitement as a naturalist blinds him to his treacherous path. But as murderers stalk him Duncan discovers that the fossils of this American incognitum are not nearly as mysterious as the political intrigue driving his mission. The Sons of Liberty insist, without explaining why, that the only way to keep the king from pursuing...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Composed in small scenes, Followed by the Lark is a novel of meditations―on loss, on change, on the danger and healing that come from communion with the natural world. Henry David Thoreau's connection to nature was tied to his feelings of grief; before he was twenty-seven years old and went to live at Walden Pond, two of those closest to him had died―his older brother, John, and his friend Charles Wheeler. Nature provided solace for these losses,...
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