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Roses round the door
By Doreen Tovey. 1982
The author describes her introduction to the English countryside, as well as to the village "characters" she and her husband…
meet on their quest to find a country home of their own. 1982.River monsters: true stories of the ones that didn't get away
By Jeremy Wade. 2011
Révérence à la vie: conversation
By Jean-Philippe de Tonnac, Théodore Monod. 1999
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.Remembering the farm: memories of farming, ranching, and rural life in Canada, past and present
By Allan Anderson. 1977
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.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 est Dieu?
By Jean Soler. 2012
" Dans un style clair et accessible à tous, Jean Soler met d'abord en lumière six contresens sur le dieu…
de la Bible, une divinité qui n'est pas le Dieu unique des trois religions monothéistes mais un dieu parmi d'autres, du nom de Iahvé, conçu comme le dieu national des seuls Juifs. Il relate ensuite, sans référence aucune au surnaturel, la généalogie du dieu Dieu, telle qu'il l'a reconstituée à partir des acquis de la recherche scientifique. Il explique enfin pourquoi cette croyance peut porter plus que d'autres à l'extrémisme et à la violence, comme on l'a vu avec les Croisades, l'Inquisition ou les Guerres de religion, et comme on le voit de nos jours avec les conflits du Moyen-Orient, sans compter l'influence, indirecte mais bien réelle, de l'idéologie monothéiste sur le nazisme et le communisme, ces deux fléaux du siècle passé. " -- 4e de couv.Que grignote une plante carnivore pour son goûter? et autres questions 100 % nature
By Alain Korkos, Christine Beigel. 2010
Cet ouvrage se propose de répondre à quelque 71 questions, à la fois farfelues et scientifiques, en lien avec le…
monde animal et végétal, les phénomènes qui le régissent et les secrets de ses habitants. Les petits curieux y découvriront notamment ce qui permet à la mouche de marcher au plafond, comment sont fabriquées les bottes en caoutchouc et les parfums, ce qu'est le corail, quelle est la symbolique des arbres, ce qu'est l'herboristerie, quelle est l'origine des nains de jardin, pourquoi la plupart des animaux possèdent une queue ou pourquoi certains affirment que les pets des vaches détruisent l'ozone. Années 2-4. 2010.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.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.Pour un pacte écologique
By Nicolas Hulot. 2006
"Au printemps 2006, j'ai proposé au Comité de veille écologique de ma fondation de travailler avec moi à ce qui…
pourrait constituer les bases d'un pacte écologique entre les Français et leur nouveau président. Ce programme d'action, à la fois ambitieux et réaliste, vise à définir clairement des objectifs politiques et à proposer des mesures concrètes, techniquement et juridiquement applicables dès le début de son mandat, ainsi que des initiatives diplomatiques prioritaires. Au XVIIIe siècle, la France des Lumières montra au reste du monde que l'homme pouvait prendre en main son destin. Elle peut à nouveau être à l'avant-garde d'une mutation essentielle pour le genre humain." Nicolas Hulot. 2006.Prairie: a natural history
By Candace Sherk Savage. 2004
Traces the prairies from prehistory to the present. Describes their geography and climate, flora and fauna, their taming by agriculture…
and their uncertain future. Sidebars offer additional information (on ants, droughts and skunks, just to name a few). A through guide to North America's largest ecosystem. 2004.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.