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The Thing with Feathers

McCall Hoyle
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Author : McCall Hoyle
Publisher : Blink
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780310758303

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Emilie Day believes in playing it safe: she’s homeschooled, her best friend is her seizure dog, and she’s probably the only girl on the Outer Banks of North Carolina who can’t swim. Then Emilie’s mom enrolls her in public school, and Emilie goes from studying at home in her pj’s to halls full of strangers. To make matters worse, Emilie is paired with starting point guard Chatham York for a major research project on Emily Dickinson. She should be ecstatic when Chatham shows interest, but she has a problem. She hasn’t told anyone about her epilepsy. Emilie lives in fear her recently adjusted meds will fail and she’ll seize at school. Eventually, the worst happens, and she must decide whether to withdraw to safety or follow a dead poet’s advice and “dwell in possibility.” From Golden Heart award-winning author McCall Hoyle comes The Thing with Feathers, a story of overcoming fears, forging new friendships, and finding a first love, perfect for fans of Jennifer Niven, Robyn Schneider, and Sharon M. Draper.

The Thing with Feathers

Noah Strycker
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Author : Noah Strycker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780698152731

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"[Strycker] thinks like a biologist but writes like a poet." -- Wall Street Journal An entertaining and profound look at the lives of birds, illuminating their surprising world—and deep connection with humanity. Birds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood. As we learn more about the secrets of bird life, we are unlocking fascinating insights into memory, relationships, game theory, and the nature of intelligence itself. The Thing with Feathers explores the astonishing homing abilities of pigeons, the good deeds of fairy-wrens, the influential flocking abilities of starlings, the deft artistry of bowerbirds, the extraordinary memories of nutcrackers, the lifelong loves of albatrosses, and other mysteries—revealing why birds do what they do, and offering a glimpse into our own nature. Drawing deep from personal experience, cutting-edge science, and colorful history, Noah Strycker spins captivating stories about the birds in our midst and shares the startlingly intimate coexistence of birds and humans. With humor, style, and grace, he shows how our view of the world is often, and remarkably, through the experience of birds. You’ve never read a book about birds like this one.

Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

Max Porter
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Author : Max Porter
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555979379

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Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar--a man adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden, accidental death. And there are his two sons who like him struggle in their London apartment to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. The father imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness, while the boys wander, savage and unsupervised. In this moment of violent despair they are visited by Crow--antagonist, trickster, goad, protector, therapist, and babysitter. This self-described "sentimental bird," at once wild and tender, who "finds humans dull except in grief," threatens to stay with the wounded family until they no longer need him. As weeks turn to months and the pain of loss lessens with the balm of memories, Crow's efforts are rewarded and the little unit of three begins to recover: Dad resumes his book about the poet Ted Hughes; the boys get on with it, grow up. Part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief, Max Porter's extraordinary debut combines compassion and bravura style to dazzling effect. Full of angular wit and profound truths, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers is a startlingly original and haunting debut by a significant new talent.

Hope Is the Thing With Feathers

Christopher Cokinos
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Author : Christopher Cokinos
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781101057100

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A prizewinning poet and nature writer weaves together natural history, biology, sociology, and personal narrative to tell the story of the lives, habitats, and deaths of six extinct bird species.

Feathers

Jacqueline Woodson
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Author : Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0142411981

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When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.

Hope Is the Thing with Feathers

Emily Dickinson
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Author : Emily Dickinson
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781423652830

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Part of a new collection of literary voices from Gibbs Smith, written by, and for, extraordinary women—to encourage, challenge, and inspire. One of American’s most distinctive poets, Emily Dickinson scorned the conventions of her day in her approach to writing, religion, and society. Hope Is the Thing with Feathers is a collection from her vast archive of poetry to inspire the writers, creatives, and leaders of today. Continue your journey in the Women’s Voices series with Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte and The Feminist Papers by Mary Wollstonecraft.

The Thing About Feathers

Janine Edgeworth
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Author : Janine Edgeworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798517905130

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'The Thing about Feathers is that they can be a sign from the other side, your loved one saying hello - or for me, a reminder that all that is a load of rubbish. ' In an era when positive thinking and motivational quotes are all the rage, Sammie believes she too can create the life of her dreams - until her husband drops dead.Widowed at twenty-nine, Sammie is left devastated. Everything she believes in is thrown upside down. Long, lonely days become more bearable with a drink - or two. Sammie spends most of her time in her back garden. When Jojo, the kid from the house behind starts chatting to her, the two form an unlikely bond. But not all is as it seems with the young girl...Can Jojo's secret help Sammie to find hope again or will both their lives unravel even further?Compelling, laugh-out-loud and heartfelt. This debut novel is a must-read.

Migrations

Charlotte McConaghy
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Author : Charlotte McConaghy
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250204011

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* INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Amazon Editors' Pick for Best Book of the Year in Fiction "Visceral and haunting" (New York Times Book Review) · "Hopeful" (Washington Post) · "Powerful" (Los Angeles Times) · "Thrilling" (TIME) · "Tantalizingly beautiful" (Elle) · "Suspenseful, atmospheric" (Vogue) · "Aching and poignant" (Guardian) · "Gripping" (The Economist) Franny Stone has always been the kind of woman who is able to love but unable to stay. Leaving behind everything but her research gear, she arrives in Greenland with a singular purpose: to follow the last Arctic terns in the world on what might be their final migration to Antarctica. Franny talks her way onto a fishing boat, and she and the crew set sail, traveling ever further from shore and safety. But as Franny’s history begins to unspool—a passionate love affair, an absent family, a devastating crime—it becomes clear that she is chasing more than just the birds. When Franny's dark secrets catch up with her, how much is she willing to risk for one more chance at redemption? Epic and intimate, heartbreaking and galvanizing, Charlotte McConaghy's Migrations is an ode to a disappearing world and a breathtaking page-turner about the possibility of hope against all odds.

The Feather Thief

Kirk Wallace Johnson
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Author : Kirk Wallace Johnson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781101981627

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As heard on NPR's This American Life “Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air “One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor A rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an underground world of fanatical fly-tiers and plume peddlers, for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief. On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside the museum, the champion fly-tier grabbed hundreds of bird skins—some collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwin's, Alfred Russel Wallace, who'd risked everything to gather them—and escaped into the darkness. Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist high in a river in northern New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide told him about the heist. He was soon consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? Had Edwin paid the price for his crime? What became of the missing skins? In his search for answers, Johnson was catapulted into a years-long, worldwide investigation. The gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man's relentless pursuit of justice, The Feather Thief is also a fascinating exploration of obsession, and man's destructive instinct to harvest the beauty of nature.

The Trickiest Thing in Feathers

Corey Ford
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Author : Corey Ford
Publisher : Wilderness Adventures Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1885106211

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Corey Ford, one of America's finest and most loved outdoor writers, was also a dedicated wingshooter. Every fall he and his English setters, Tober and Cider, would hunt the hills and thickets of New Hampshire for grouse and woodcock. Corey also frequented the heart of quail country in North Carolina. There he would spend several weeks each winter pursuing the gentleman bobwhite quail. Here is a collection of his best wingshooting stories, many of them previously unpublished. Written with a sense of humor, The Trickiest Thing in Feathers is a definitive collection of lost bird hunting classics.

A Thing With Feathers

J John Nordstrom
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Author : J John Nordstrom
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798580095516

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Jonah, a forty-year-old lawyer and wannabe writer, disgusted with the nonstop corruption in the legal profession in Washington, D.C., quits the practice of law, loses his girlfriend, and becomes suicidal. Haunted by dreams and visions of Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson dancing together, he comes to believe Fate has a plan for him, however. As finances get desperate, he takes a low-paid job as a reference librarian in a law library. But there is one catch: he must pretend to be gay, as the twin tyrants of County Bar, Superintendent Crawford and Law Librarian Mimi Streeter, hire only submissive gay men and women financially on the edge, to control them. Despite moral reservations, he agrees to attempt the ruse, but when the tyrants realize they have been deceived, they respond in kind to protect their criminal fiefdom. Streeter and Crawford hire, on the sly, twenty-seven-year-old Julia, a much younger woman lawyer in library science school, as Jonah's superior, with the expectation he'll will quit in FU resentment. The plan backfires when romance ensues as the lovers tentatively test the theory that the one is a soulmate for the other, that Poe and Dickinson might have found one another, albeit in the 21st century. But Crawford and Streeter are not done with them yet... So begins the dark chess game, in which Jonah and Julia must fight to protect that which is most beautiful and dear to them, or be destroyed in the process.

Fur, Feather, Fin—All of Us Are Kin

Diane Lang
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Author : Diane Lang
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781481447102

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Fur, Feather, Fin—All of Us Are Kin by Diane Lang Pdf

Come along on a rhyming tour through the amazing animal kingdom—from mammals to millipedes and everything in between—with this engaging picture book about how all creatures are connected! There are so many wild and wonderful animals in our world. Some have fur, some have feathers, some have fins, but all are connected. This fact-filled rhyming exploration of the diversity of the animal kingdom celebrates mammals, birds, insects, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and more! It’s a perfect match for budding naturalists and animal enthusiasts everywhere.

Feathers: Not Just for Flying

Melissa Stewart
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Author : Melissa Stewart
Publisher : Triangle Interactive, Inc.
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781684446940

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Feathers: Not Just for Flying by Melissa Stewart Pdf

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Young naturalists meet sixteen birds in this elegant introduction to the many uses of feathers. A concise main text highlights how feathers are not just for flying. More curious readers are invited to explore informative sidebars, which underscore specific ways each bird uses its feathers for a variety of practical purposes. A scrapbook design showcases life-size feather illustrations.

A Sack Full of Feathers

Debby Waldman
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Author : Debby Waldman
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781551433325

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In this retelling of a Jewish folktale, a boy named Yankel, who loves to tell stories, learns an important lesson.

Without Feathers

Woody Allen
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Author : Woody Allen
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Humor
ISBN : UCSC:32106014757626

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Here they are--some of the funniest tales and ruminations ever put into print, by one of the great comic minds of our time. From THE WHORE OF MENSA, to GOD (A Play), to NO KADDISH FOR WEINSTEIN, old and new Woody Allen fans will laugh themselves hysterical over these sparkling gems.