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Ride the wind: airborne journeys of animals and plants
By Seymour Simon. 1997
Discusses the migrations--seasonal journeys--of various birds, butterflies, locusts, spiders, and bats. Presents reasons for the move, the influence of the…
seasons, and how flight is accomplished. Includes brief mention of seeds that are also air travelers. Grades 3-6. 1997.Revenge of the land: a century of greed, tragedy, and murder on a Saskatchewan farm
By Maggie Siggins. 1991
Siggins chronicles the history of a single Saskatchewan farm from 1883 to the present. What she uncovers is a history…
fraught with corruption, greed, toil and deprivation, ending in a double murder. Some descriptions of violence. Winner of the 1992 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 1991.Rescuing Patty Hearst: memories from a decade gone mad
By Virginia Holman. 2017
This memoir is Virginia Holman's stunning debut and winner of the Pushcart Prize in 2001. Virginia delves into the often…
painful, occasionally joyful, moments of her childhood with a schizophrenic mother. Through touching honesty and self-reflection, Virginia confronts memories of a life in which reality and fantasy gradually became difficult to separate. 2017.Rescuing Penny Jane: one shelter volunteer, countless dogs, and the quest to find them all homes
By Amy Sutherland. 2017
Terrified Penny Jane; brassy but filthy Dixie Lou; tough-guy Dingo; and the crazed, nippy jester, Walter Joe. These are not…
your average cute-and-cared-for, well-trained pups--these are shelter dogs. Scared, aggressive, so painfully shy that they can't look you in the eye, they have languished so long without attention that they are slipping into a dark place, and soon will no longer be able to bond with people. A member of the elite corps of volunteers at Boston's Animal Rescue League, Amy Sutherland began walking shelter dogs in 2001 and has patiently helped train canines with serious behaviour problems. This is the story of her adventures with these remarkable dogs, from working at a shelter, helping dozens of animals discover that the right person can give them love, hope, and a whole new life, to adopting two rescue dogs of her own and fostering half a dozen more. 2017.Red-tails in love: a wildlife drama in Central Park
By Marie Winn. 1998
Winn tells about joining a band of birdwatchers and nature lovers in New York City. She records stories about Central…
Park and its wildlife--especially a pair of captivating hawks--during a six-year period. 1998.Red dog
By Louis De Bernières. 2001
Tales of a legendary mutt who became the beloved honorary 'mate' of labourers in the salt-and-iron works of northwestern coastal…
Australia. Red Dog was a 'red cloud kelpie, a fine old Australian breed of sheepdog' renowned for his restlessness, voracious appetite, libido, and remarkable flatulence, and memorialized with a bronze statue. 2001.Rainforest bird rescue: changing the future for endangered wildlife (Firefly animal rescue)
By Linda J Kenyon. 2006
Outlines the threats to survival of rainforest birds and introduces organizations and individuals trying to save them. Fast facts cover…
topics such as the animals' size, life span, senses, and diet, and readers who want to learn more about research or conservation related to these animals can consult the list of organizations and Web sites at the end. Grades 4-7. c2006.Rag cosmology
By Erin Robinsong. 2017
In this time of ecological precarity, "Rag Cosmology" is an urgent invitation to reinvent our modes of engagement with the…
environment we not only inhabit, but are. Refusing the lamentation that leaves us as resigned witnesses to devastation, "Rag Cosmology" counters fatalist narratives with the pleasures of ecological entanglement and engagement. Tracing relationships between seemingly irreconcilable things--economy and ecology, weather and lust, bills and inner voices, wages of avoidance and wages of listening--these poems offer the intimate and lush language of thought that yearn for an imaginative reinvention of how we understand what we are part of and what we are losing. Winner of the 2017 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (QWF). 2017.Qui a peur des crocodiles? (Découverte benjamin ; #10)
By Marie Saint-Dizier. 2005
Réédition. Volume publié en 1984 dans la même collection. Une encyclopédie "miniature" qui répond à de nombreuses questions: Comment naissent…
les crocodiles? Où vivent-ils? Sont-ils vraiment féroces?, etc. Années 1-3. 2005.Quand les éléphants pleurent: la vie émotionelle des animaux
By J. Moussaieff Masson, Susan McCarthy, Marie-France Girod. 1997
S'appuyant sur une série de portraits inoubliables, les auteurs tentent de montrer que les animaux de toutes les espèces ont…
une vie émotionnelle riche et complexe: ils aiment et souffrent, rient et pleurent, connaissent la solitude, la déception et la curiosité, regardent en arrière avec nostalgie, anticipent le bonheur à venir, etc. 1997. Titre uniforme: When elephants weep.Queen of Shaba: the story of an African leopard
By Joy Adamson. 1980
This book records Joy Adamson's life with Penny, a female leopard whom she installed in her home near Nairobi, Kenya,…
with the intent to release her into the wild when the animal had reached maturity. 1980.Psychic animals: a fascinating investigation of paranormal behavior
By Dennis Bardens. 1987
Puppy school: 7 steps to the perfect puppy
By Gwen Bailey. 2005
Puppy preschool: raising your puppy right--right from the start
By John Ross, Barbara McKinney. 1996
This manual describes steps in obedience training for puppies and recommends beginning as early as eight weeks of age. The…
authors also discuss many other aspects of dog-owning, from choosing the right breed to "bonding" with your new pet. c1996.Probably inevitable
By Matthew Frederick Tierney. 2012
A collection of high-energy poems jolted by the philosophy and science of time. Sailing through the rhythms of a world…
made concrete by Samuel Johnson, before it was undone by Niels Bohr, Tierney uses his wit and legerdemain to grapple with the gap between what's seen and what's experienced. Winner of the 2013 Trillium Book Award for Poetry. c2012.Prairie fires: the American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
By Caroline Fraser. 2017
Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls - the pioneer girl who survived…
blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains, and the woman who wrote the famous autobiographical books. But the true story of her life has never been fully told. Now, drawing on unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries, and land and financial records, Caroline Fraser - the editor of the Library of America edition of the Little House series - masterfully fills in the gaps in Wilder's biography, setting the record straight regarding charges of ghostwriting that have swirled around the books and uncovering the grown-up story behind the most influential childhood epic of pioneer life. Set against nearly a century of epochal change, from the Homestead Act and the Indian Wars to the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, Wilder's dramatic life provides a unique perspective on American history and our national mythology of self-reliance. Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. 2017.Pourquoi les chats ont-ils des moustaches?
By Elizabeth MacLeod, Claude Cossette. 2008
Des informations claires et succinctes sur les chats: leur histoire, les races les plus populaires, leurs caractéristiques physiques, leur comportement…
et plus. Anneés 3-6. c2008. Titre uniforme: Why do cats have whiskers?Les emplumés: drôles d'oiseaux des Îles de la Madeleine
By Brigitte Le Blanc, Laurence Lemieux. 2014
Cartonné relié tête-bêche à mi-chemin entre le documentaire, l'album humoristique et le livre-jeu. Au recto, on présente six familles d'oiseaux…
qui peuplent les îles de la Madeleine et au verso, six autres issus de l'imagination de l'auteure. Chaque bête en vedette fait l'objet d'une page avec une illustration stylisée et amusante sous laquelle se trouve un paragraphe offrant des informations instructives ou humoristiques sur son comportement et son cri. Au centre du livre, quelques pages sont divisées en trois languettes qui correspondent à la tête, le corps et la queue d'un oiseau. L'enfant est invité à s'amuser à créer de nouveaux oiseaux en interchangeant les languettes. Un lexique offre la définition des mots difficiles et typiques de la région. Années 1-3. 2014.La révolution tranquille au Manitoba français: essai
By Raymond-M Hébert. 2012
Les années 1960 ont bouleversé et transformé la société québécoise de fond en comble. Ces changements dans les domaines politiques,…
sociaux et administratifs eurent un écho au Manitoba français, alors qu'une longue période de réflexion et de débats vigoureux vint opérer des changements tout aussi profonds dans cette petite société apparemment isolée du Québec, mais soumise aux mêmes pressions démographiques et idéologiques. Le mouvement vers le renouveau du leadership de la communauté franco-manitobaine et surtout la laïcisation de ses institutions y furent particulièrement prononcés. Le présent essai trace l'histoire transformatrice de cette période. Gagnant de Prix littéraire Rue-Deschambault 2013. 2012.Pointe Maligne, l'infiniment oubliée: L'infiniment Oubliée (Visages ; #24)
By Nicole V Champeau. 2009
Pointe Maligne met en situation le fleuve Saint-Laurent dans sa partie ontarienne, à partir du lac Saint-François en remontant vers…
Cornwall (Pointe Maligne) jusqu'aux Mille-Îles. L'auteure nous invite à la suivre dans son périple d'où se dégage à travers les écrits, les cartes, les siècles et les personnes qui ont sillonné les lieux, une poésie de l'histoire. Prix du Gouverneur général, section essais, 2009. 2009.