Wild wool.--A geologist’s winter walk.--Summer days at Mount Shasta.--A perilous night on Shasta’s summit.--Shasta rambles and Modoc memories.--The city of the Saints.--A great storm in Utah.--Bathing in Salt Lake...
Forests and forestry
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Author:John MuirSummary: - Author:Martin, Emily WinfieldSummary:
A New York Times Snow and Rose didn't know they were in a fairy tale. People never do. . . . Once, they lived in a big house with spectacular gardens and an army of servants. Once, they had a father and mother who loved them more...
- Author:Arden, KatherineSummary:
New York Times bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debut with a creepy, spellbinding ghost story destined to become a classic. After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only...
- Author:Graff, Andrew J.Summary:
It's the summer of 1994 in Claypot, Wisconsin, and the lives of ten-year-old Fischer "Fish" Branson and Dale "Bread" Breadwin are shaped by the two fathers they don't talk about. Tired of seeing his best...
- Author:Valente, Catherynne M.Summary:
From New York Times bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente comes an inventive new fantasy following a boy journeying away from the only home he's ever known and into the magical realm of the dead in order to fulfill a bargain for...
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Author:Bentley, Peter J. G.Summary: - Author:Valério, GeraldoSummary:
What seems scary proves surprising in this magical wordless picture book. Guided by a circle of stars on the horizon, a stag bounds into a thick pine forest. Wolves lurk behind the trees, then begin to run after him. When the stag turns...
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Author:Cenkl, PavelSummary:Nearly 30 million acres of the Northern Forest stretch across New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Within this broad area live roughly a million residents whose lives are intimately associated with the forest ecosystem and whose...
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Author:Baker, AdamSummary:This Christmas chapter book mixes adult humor with childhood whimsy to create a story that kids and parents will love reading together. A survey, conducted by Harris Interactive, found that only one in three parents read bedtime stories...
- Author:Thomas, AidenSummary:
"There are moments of true tenderness, hope, and grief in this haunting, magical tale, and the narrator makes it all convincing. Teenage listeners will be drawn into this enchanting story." - Booklist, starred review. When...
- Author:Wohlleben, PeterSummary:
Il y a un Wood Wide Web comme il y a un World Wide Web! Par leurs racines, mais aussi par leurs feuilles et par le pollen qu’ils émettent, bouleaux, épinettes, sapins, érables, pins ou trembles communiquent entre eux. C’est du moins l’...
- Author:Flouw, BenjaminSummary:
Dans cet album, Renard feuillette un vieux livre de botanique où il tombe sur une fiche sans image, celle de la milléclat dorée. L'ouvrage indique que cette plante très rare de la famille des Biencachés ne pousse que dans la montagne et...
- Author:Tremblay, CaroleSummary:
En vacances au chalet de leur père, Nora et Léa se prélassent au bord de l'étang, quand Léa aperçoit une masse sombre flottant à la surface de l'eau. Une chose qui se révèle être le cadavre d'un raton laveur. Cette découverte...
- Author:Christie, MichaelSummary:
From the award-winning author of If I Fall, If I Die comes a propulsive, multigenerational family story, in which the unexpected legacies of a remote island off the coast of British Columbia will link the fates of five people over a...
- Author:Lee, Lori M.Summary:
Sirscha Ashwyn comes from nothing, but she's intent on becoming something. After years of training to become the queen's next royal spy, her plans are derailed when shamans attack and kill her best friend, Saengo. And then...
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Author:Elmquist, Laurie, Robinson, Shantala, Gould, HeatherSummary:This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function. From a carrier, a baby peers out at the trail. Leaves rustle overhead, and a turtle stretches toward the sun. Everything shimmers with light, including the jeweled wings of a...
- Author:Feist, Raymond ESummary:
Phil Hastings was a lucky man - he had money, a growing reputation as a screenwriter, a happy, loving family with three kids, and he'd just moved into the house of his dreams in rural of magic - and about to be altered irrevocably...
- Author:Anderson, M.T.Summary:
Clay has had his fill of home life. A global plague has brought the world to a screeching halt, and with little to look forward to but a summer of video-calling friends, vying with annoying sisters for the family computer, and tuning...
- Author:Gill, CharlotteSummary:
Fiction writer Charlotte Gill spent twenty years working as a tree planter in the forests of Canada and offers up a slice of tree planting life, while questioning the ability of conifer plantations to replace original forests that...
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Author:Jones, TanyaSummary:Dreams of Beautiful Whisper, Book One in the Elves of Eytherfel Series Not only is this a Y.A. Fantasy novel with elves, magic and romance (as if that wasn’t enough), but it is also a subtle Realty Fiction Fantasy Crossover. With...
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