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Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This fascinating picture book biography from beloved author of the Lemonade War series Jacqueline Davies and Caldecott honor–winning illustrator Melissa Sweet chronicles the life of scientist John James Audubon, who pioneered a technique essential to our understanding of birds thanks to his lifelong love for the species.
If there was one thing James loved to do more than anything else, it was to be in the great outdoors watching...
If there was one thing James loved to do more than anything else, it was to be in the great outdoors watching...
Author
Publisher
North Point
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
In the century and a half since Audubon's death, his name has become synonymous with wildlife conservation and natural history. But few people know what a complicated figure he was--or the dramatic story behind The Birds of America.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
John James Audubon came to America as a dapper eighteen-year-old eager to make his fortune. He had a talent for drawing and an interest in birds, and he would spend the next thirty-five years traveling to the remotest regions of his new countryoften alone and on footto render his avian subjects on paper. The works of art he created gave the world its idea of America. They gave America its idea of itself. Here Richard Rhodes vividly...
9) Darkness
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards continues her penchant for "fantastic storytelling" (RT Book Reviews) with this next heart-pumping romantic suspense novel, the tale of a brilliant ornithologist trapped on the remote Attu Island in Alaska, fighting for her life--and that of a handsome stranger--before they're swallowed up in darkness forever. BOOM. That's the sound that changes everything for Dr. Gina Sullivan, a renowned ornithologist...
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
As an autumn chill settles over Sparrow Island, an enjoyable evening turns into disaster when a guest's valuable diamond ring disappears. With all the partygoers considered suspects, Abby launches an investigation to help the distraught woman--and to clear her own name. Can she track down the thief before it's too late? Meanwhile, Abby's work on a seasonal display at the Nature Museum gets Bobby McDonald riled up about the ethics of eating turkey...
Author
Series
Love's academic volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Rival ornithologists hunt through England for a rare magical bird in this historical-fantasy rom-com reminiscent of Indiana Jones but with manners, tea, and helicopter parasols. Beth Pickering is on the verge of finally capturing the rare deathwhistler bird when Professor Devon Lockley swoops in, capturing both her bird and her imagination like a villain. Albeit a handsome and charming villain, but that's beside the point. As someone highly educated...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Running an island plane service with her grandfather on the remote islands of northern Scotland, Morag McGinty, on the verge of making a huge life change, is marooned on an off-grid island with a visiting ornithologist who has just the right perspective to help her pilot her course.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
For the past three years, Mr. Malik has been secretly in love with Rose Mbikwa, a woman who leads the weekly bird walks sponsored by the East African Ornithological Society. Just as Malik is getting up the nerve to invite Rose to the Nairobi Hunt Club Ball (the premier social occasion of the Kenyan calendar), Harry Khan, a nemesis from his school days, arrives in town. Khan has also become enraptured with Rose and announces his intent to invite her...
Author
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Tells the story of pioneering birder and activist Florence Merriam Bailey, whose compassionate approach to nature influenced modern bird-watching and inspired a lasting sense of curiosity and respect for the world's feathered creatures.
Author
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Audubon was not the father of American ornithology. That honorific belongs to Alexander Wilson, whose encyclopedic "American Ornithology" established a distinctive approach that emphasized the observation of live birds. In the first full-length study to reproduce all of Wilson s unpublished drawings for the nine-volume "Ornithology, " Edward Burtt and William Davis illustrate Wilson s pioneering and, today, underappreciated achievement as the first...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Frankie O'Neill and Anne Ryan would seem to have nothing in common. Frankie is a lonely ornithologist struggling to salvage her dissertation on the spotted owl following a rift with her advisor. Anne is an Irish musician far from home and family, raising her five-year-old son, Aiden, who refuses to speak. At Beauty Bay, a community of summer homes nestled on the shores of June Lake, in the remote foothills of Mount Adams, it's off-season with most...
17) Angels among us
Author
Series
Mysteries of Sparrow Island volume 11
Publisher
Guideposts Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Sparrow Island is in the midst of the hustle and bustle of the holiday season when a mysterious stranger makes himself at home in the company of an elderly widow. Can he be trusted? Strange happenings all over town and the recovery of long-lost paintings that hold a dark secret add to Abby's suspicions ...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"John James Audubon's passion for birds inspired a national movement to protect birds and their habitats. As a child, John would often skip school to roam the countryside. He collected bird nests, unique stones, bits of moss, and other items of interest and developed his talent for creating dramatic bird portraits and skills for observing them in the wild. Using his abilities as an acute observer, skilled writer, and exceptional artist, Audubon wrote...
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