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1) Walden
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English
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In 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into a cabin by Walden Pond. With the intention of immersing himself in nature and distancing himself from the distractions of social life, Thoreau sustained his retreat for just over two years. The work is considered a paean to the virtues of simplicity and self-sufficiency.
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University Press of Kansas
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English
Description
Since the last wild bison found refuge on the back of a nickel, the public image of natural Kansas has progressed from Great American Desert to dust bowl to flyover country that has been landscaped, fenced, and farmed. But look a little harder, George Frazier suggests, and you can find the last places where tenacious stretches of prairie, forest, and wetland cheat death and incubate the DNA of lost, wild America. Documenting three years spent roaming...
3) We are bears
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English
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When Mother Bear and her two cubs leave the den for the first time they practice behaviors including climbing, searching, swimming, digging, and finally sleeping.
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Pendergast novels volume 3
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English
Description
FBI agent Pendergast and archaeologist Nora Kelly join forces to stop a vicious murderer when the discovery of the remains of thirty-six victims of a nineteenth-century killer apparently sets off a new series of similar killings.
8) Reliquary
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Series
Pendergast novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant D'Agosta of the New York police and anthropologist Margo Green team up with the Navy's special forces to destroy monsters roaming New York's subterranean world--sewers, tunnels--killing the homeless to eat their brains, the monsters' staple food. By the author of Relic.
13) McCrephy's field
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
Relates how the plants and animals around a farmer's barn change over the course of fifty years.
15) The north woods
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Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
[c1972]
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English
Description
Photographs and text explore the seasonal landscapes, vegetation, and natural inhabitants of the forest belt extending through northern Minnesota, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and the Northwest Territories.
19) Two tiny mice
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Language
English
Description
Two mice explore the fields and woodlands around them, observing many animals before finally going home to sleep in their tiny nest.
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Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When a series of accidents and other strange happenings at the Capitol City Natural History Museum lead to rumors that the museum is being haunted by the ghost of a Pterosaur, ten-year-old Wilson Kipper and his friends set out to solve the mystery.