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Lawn Boy
Häftad, 2019
190 kr
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Recipient of the 2019 Alex Award??“Mike Muñoz Is a Holden Caulfield for a New Millennium--a '10th-generation peasant with a Mexican last name, raised by a single mom on an Indian reservation' . . . Evison, as in his previous four novels, has a light touch and humorously guides the reader, this time …
Noticing
Intimate Encounters With the Natural World
Av Richard Louv
Inbunden, 2026
294 kr
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The internationally bestselling author of Last Child in the Woods seeks a deeper personal connection to nature during this time of ecoanxiety and upheaval by exploring his own backyardLong beloved for his insightful, inspiring nature writing, Richard Louv returns with his most personal book yet. …
Night Magic
Inbunden, 2025
294 kr
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From a New York Times bestselling nature writer comes a celebration of what goes on outside in the dark, from blooming moon gardens to nocturnal salamanders, from glowing foxfire and synchronous fireflies that blink in unison like an orchestra of light. In this glorious celebration of the night, …
Wicked Plants
The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
Av Amy Stewart
Inbunden, 2009
295 kr
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A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a vine that strangles; and a leaf that triggered a war. In Wicked Plants, Stewart takes on over two hundred of Mother Nature’s most appalling creations. It’s an A to Z of plants that kill, …
Missing Sam
A Novel
Inbunden, 2026
319 kr
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Bestselling author Thrity Umrigar returns with a tense and twisty thriller about a woman who goes missing on a morning run, and the wife who must find her and clear her own name.One night after a party, old grievances surface between married couple Aliya and Sam and the night ends badly with a …
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Häftad, 2010
297 kr
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Named A Great American Novel by The Atlantic ! From the international bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and Afterlife , How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents is "poignant...powerful... Beautifully captures the threshold experience of the new immigrant, where the past is not yet …
Last Nomad
Coming of Age in the Somali Desert
Häftad, 2022
204 kr
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Finalist for the 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nonfiction AwardWinner of the 2022 Gold Nautilus Award, Multicultural & Indigenous CategoryBorn in Somalia, a spare daughter in a large family, Shugri Said Salh was sent at age six to live with her nomadic grandmother in the desert. The last of her …
Wicked Bugs
The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army & Other Diabolical Insects
Av Amy Stewart
Inbunden, 2011
190 kr
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In this darkly comical look at the sinister side of our relationship with the natural world, Stewart has tracked down over one hundred of our worst entomological foes—creatures that infest, infect, and generally wreak havoc on human affairs. From the world’s most painful hornet, to the flies that …
Daughters of Memory
Av Janis Arnold
Häftad, 1993
284 kr
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Claire Louise and Macy Rose Richards are sisters and best enemies--fierce adversaries in a lifelong rivalry by turns bitter and hilarious. But their rivalry hides a terrible secret buried somewhere in the past. As each sister tells her story in DAUGHTERS OF MEMORY, pieces of the puzzle begin …
Losing Eddie
Häftad, 1994
239 kr
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Deborah Joy Corey captures the voice of rural poverty and the voice of a single, struggling family in southeastern Canada. The voice belongs to an innocent nine-year-old girl, who, throughout this startling novel, remains a nameless, silent outsider in a family whose troubles don't leave much …
Cobb
A Biography
Av Al Stump
Häftad, 1996
240 kr
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A New York Times Notable Book; Spitball Award for Best Baseball Book of 1994; Basis for a major Hollywood motion picture. Now in paperback, the biography that baseball fans all across the country have been talking about. Al Stump redefined America's perception of one of its most famous sports …
Unexpected Salami
A Novel
Häftad, 1999
257 kr
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The Tall Poppies--a few days ago, they were just another Aussie band watching their fame ebb faster than a nitrous high. Then Stuart, the drummer, is gunned down by Australian drug lords, and the band is suddenly news in Australia, America, and even on CNN. Rachel, a chatty twenty-seven-year-old …
French Dirt
The Story of a Garden in the South of France
Häftad, 2002
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
157 kr
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A story about dirt—and about sun, water, work, elation, and defeat. And about the sublime pleasure of having a little piece of French land all to oneself to till. Richard Goodman saw the ad in the paper: "SOUTHERN FRANCE: Stone house in Village near Nimes/Avignon/Uzes. 4 BR, 2 baths, fireplace, …
Dog on the Cross
Stories
Av Aaron Gwyn
Häftad, 2004
244 kr
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A man miraculously survives a fall from the eighth floor of a drilling rig but is ever after plagued by an unwillingness to live. A preacher loses his ability to speak in tongues and begins to fake it. A young man is intent on suppressing his sinful love for his best friend even though he can think …
Very New Orleans
A Celebration of History, Culture, and Cajun Country Charm
Av Diana Hollingsworth Gessler
Inbunden, 2006
285 kr
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The exquisite antebellum mansions of the Garden District. Giant oaks stretching across boulevards and back in time to before the Civil War. The decadence of Bourbon Street. The vibrant sounds of jazz, blues, and Cajun music coming from every doorway or right from the street. Lacy iron balconies …
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
Av Aaron Lansky
Häftad, 2005
341 kr
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Boone
A Biography
Häftad, 2008
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
293 kr
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The story of Daniel Boone is the story of America—its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny. Bestselling, critically acclaimed author Robert Morgan reveals the complex character of a frontiersman whose heroic life was far stranger and more fascinating than the myths that surround him. …
