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A Watch Of Nightingales
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Author : Liza Wieland
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2009
A Watch Of Nightingales written by Liza Wieland and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Fiction categories.
A modest, quiet woman, Mara Raynor never dreamed she'd one day find herself in charge of the small private school in Washington, D.C., where for many years she taught music and choir. But after the unexpected death of her husband, the school's headmaster, Mara finds herself thrust into the public eye, burdened not just with the responsibilities of acting headmaster---a role she never wanted---but also with a potentially explosive political and religious controversy that tests parents' and school administrators' spirit of tolerance. When a Sikh student is caught wearing a ceremonial knife on school grounds, fear spreads among parents and the school board. Coming at the same moment as the disappearance of Mara's teenage daughter, the controversy quickly assumes a far more personal nature. Not just any student, the Sikh boy is both the son of a woman with whom Mara shares a complicated past and---as Mara soon discovers---her own daughter's boyfriend. As it moves back and forth in time between the school in contemporary Washington and a girls' boarding school in the British countryside in 1977, A Watch of Nightingales weaves a rich and textured exploration of fear and remorse, the mysteries of love, and the complicated tensions that ring down the generations from parent to child. "Conjuring the entwined lives of teachers and students in two schools (and two generations) on either side of the Atlantic, A Watch of Nightingales stands alongside The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Goodbye, Mr Chips as a testament to the responsibilities, rewards, and risks of teaching. This is a book of luminous insight and quiet but telling wisdom, about youth and maturity and the bridge of loss and remorse that connects them. Liza Wieland's is a mature and deeply moving vision, conveyed in prose that sings as sure and clear as the birds of her title." ---Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl Praise for Liza Wieland: "[T]here is a nobility and boldness to her characters that lends them a heroism missing from much modern fiction and makes these stories wholly absorbing adventures of the heart." ---Ron Hansen, author of Exiles: A Novel "Liza Wieland understands down to the bone how loneliness and love compel her characters to make their impossible choices. Not only does she have a searing intelligence and wisdom, her prose is by turns graceful and astonishing." ---Jane Hamilton, author of A Map of the World Liza Wieland is the author of four previous works of fiction: The Names of the Lost; Discovering America; You Can Sleep While I Drive; and Bombshell, as well as a volume of poems, Near Alcatraz. Her work has been awarded two Pushcart Prizes, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, and the North Carolina Arts Council. She teaches creative writing and literature at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.
A Watch Of Nightingales
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Author : Geoffrey Keynes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
A Watch Of Nightingales written by Geoffrey Keynes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with English poetry categories.
Nightingale
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Author : Bethan Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2021-11-11
Nightingale written by Bethan Roberts and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-11 with Nature categories.
A melodious paean to the natural history and symbolic meaning of the most prized, poetized, and mythologized of songbirds. The nightingale has a unique place in cultural history: the most prized of songbirds, it has inspired more poems than any other creature, and it is also the most mythologized of birds. Nightingale juxtaposes the bird of poetry, music, myth, and lore with the living bird of wood and scrubland, unpicking the entangled relationship between them. Covering a huge range of poets, musicians, artists, nature writers, and natural historians—from Aristotle, Keats, and Vera Lynn to Bob Dylan—Nightingale charts our fascination through history with this nondescript yet melodious little brown bird. It also documents the nightingale’s disappearance from British breeding grounds and the implications this has for nightingale conservation.
An Unkindness Of Ravens
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Author : Chloe Rhodes
language : en
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Release Date : 2014-09-11
An Unkindness Of Ravens written by Chloe Rhodes and has been published by Michael O'Mara Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Collective nouns are one of the most charming oddities of the English language, but have you ever stopped to wonder where these peculiar terms actually came from?
No Waste In The Wild
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Author : Melanie Graves
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2023-05-11
No Waste In The Wild written by Melanie Graves and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-11 with Education categories.
You're never too old to let yourself go hog wild reading out loud to a child, or nestled in a nook to read in quiet. Enjoy turning the pages of this incredibly beautiful A to Z book filled to the brim with illustrations made by the art student classes at Indiana's - Bloomington High School South. While you're at it, you can yelp at the moon with a pack of jackals, and slither into the dark with a rumba of rattlesnake neonates. Each chapter starts with an alphabet letter used for a group of animals living collectively in a habitat suitable for their needs such as; A is for an armory of Aardvarks, and Z is for a zeal of zebras. This book delves into the dynamics of the food chain and how wildlife interconnects. Individual species of wildlife are their own unique beings. One important thing is they all have to eat to survive in the wild, however, each goes about fulfilling their needs in different ways. In this book, find out who, what, where, when, why, and how wildlife spends most of the day and night tending to their homes and hunting and foraging for food to feed theirselves and their young.
How To See Nature
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Author : Paul Evans
language : en
Publisher: Batsford Books
Release Date : 2020-03-25
How To See Nature written by Paul Evans and has been published by Batsford Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-25 with Nature categories.
"Pack soup, cheese and a copy of How To See Nature by the Bard of Wenlock Edge and Guardian diarist." John Vidal With a title taken from the 1940 Batsford book, this is nature writing for the modern reader. Evans weaves historical, cultural and literary references into his writing, ranging from TS Eliot to Bridget Riley, from Hieronymus Bosch to Napoleon. It is a book both for those that live in the country and those that don't, but experience nature every day through brownfield edge lands, transport corridors, urban greenspace, industrialised agriculture and fragments of ancient countryside. The essays include the The Weedling Wild, on the wildlife of the wasteland: ragwort, rosebay willowherb, giant hogweed and the cinnabar moth; Gardens of Light, about the creatures to be found under moonlight: pipistrelle bats, lacewings and orb-weaver spider; The Flow, with tales from the riverbank, estuaries and seas, including kingfisher, minnow, otter and heron. The Commons looks at meadowland with a human footprint, with the Adonis blue butterfly, horseshoe vetch, skylark, black knapweed and the six-belted clearwing moth. The author also looks at the wildlife returned to Britain, such as wild boar and polecats, and finds nature in and around landscapes as varied as a domestic garden or a wild moor. The book ends with an alphabetical bestiary, an idiosyncratic selection of British wildlife based on the author's personal encounters.
Adventures In Woodcraft
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Author : Marcus Woodward
language : en
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2018-01-31
Adventures In Woodcraft written by Marcus Woodward and has been published by Read Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-31 with Sports & Recreation categories.
“Adventures in Woodcraft” contains a fantastic collection of nature stories and studies by various authors. Written almost exclusively by people involved with the Girl Guide and Boy Scout Associations, this vintage book is highly recommended for lovers of nature writing and the Great Outdoors. Contents include: “The First Week”, “The Most Wonderful Nest”, “The Mistletoe-Thrush”, “The Speckled Thrush”, “A Pat for a Thrush”, “Birds that like Comfort”, “Leaning over the Gate”, “Portrait of a Lapwing”, “A Lesson in Woodcraft”, “The Pride that Fell”, “The Duellists”, The Lamb and the Lapwing”, “The Snow-White Lapwing”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction.
The Complete Language Of Birds
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Author : Randi Minetor
language : en
Publisher: Wellfleet
Release Date : 2024-09-03
The Complete Language Of Birds written by Randi Minetor and has been published by Wellfleet this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-03 with Nature categories.
The Complete Language of Birds offers stunningly illustrated profiles of nearly 400 bird species, covering both their physical and mystical qualities.
The Boy Who Drew The Future
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Author : Rhian Ivory
language : en
Publisher: Firefly Press
Release Date : 2015-09-17
The Boy Who Drew The Future written by Rhian Ivory and has been published by Firefly Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-17 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Fifteen-year-old Blaze and Noah live in the village of Sible Hedingham over 100 years apart. They both have the same gift or curse - they draw pictures that later come true. Blaze in the 1860s is accused of being a witch and 'swam'. Noah, living in the present is desperate to keep his drawing a secret. But as he gets closer to Beth, must he tell her the truth, and change their futures?
Nextinction
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Author : Ralph Steadman
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-08-16
Nextinction written by Ralph Steadman and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-16 with Nature categories.
The Boids are back in town ... The follow-up to the award-winning EXTINCT BOIDS, this book features more of the incredible art of cartoonist Ralph Steadman. This time the focus is not on the birds that are gone, but the ones that there's still time to save. These are the 192 Critically Endangered birds on the IUCN Red List, species such as the Giant Ibis, the Kakapo, the Sumatran Ground-cuckoo and the iconic Spoon-billed Sandpiper – these, along with a number of classic Steadman creations such as the Unsociable Lapwing, are the NEARLY-EXTINCT BOIDS. Woids are again by author, conservationist and film-maker Ceri Levy. Together, Ceri and Ralph are THE GONZOVATIONISTS.