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The Secret Language of Cats

Susanne Sch tz - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover

Have you ever wondered what your cat is saying Cats do not meow randomly, nor do they growl or hiss because they have nothing better to do. Cat sounds have a purpose, and they can carry important messages, whether for us or other cats.Susanne Schtz is hard at work on breaking the cat code....
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National Geographic Complete National Parks of the United States, 3rd Edition: 400 Parks, Monuments, Battlefields, Historic Sites, Scenic Trails, Recreation Areas, and Seashores

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

National Geographic's wide-ranging travel guide to recreation areas, trails, historic sites, nature hikes, seashores, camping, and campgrounds is geared to everyone who loves outdoor recreation. This 544-page reference is the ultimate travel planner for all things national parks, filled...
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100 Animals That Can F*cking End You

MAMADOU NDIAYE - Voracious
Format: Paperback

A wittily informative field guide to the deadliest animals on Earth from "AnimalTok" star @mndiaye97 Ever wonder how to tell if a moose is about to subtract you? Curious why you should be terrified of cassowaries, the "velociraptor that time forgot?" Questioning whether...
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Women Who Hike: Walking with America's Most Inspiring Adventurers

Heather Balogh Rochfort
Format: Paperback


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Big Lonely Doug: The Story of One of Canada's Last Great Trees

Harley Rustad - House of Anansi Press
Format: Paperback

On a cool morning in the winter of 2011, a logger named Dennis Cronin was walking through a stand of old-growth forest near Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island. His job was to survey the land and flag the boundaries for clear-cutting. As he made his way through the forest, Cronin came across...
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Dragons in the Snow: Avalanche Detectives and the Race to Beat Death in the Mountains

Ed Power
Format: Paperback

Edward Power sets the reader down in the midst of a February 2017 blizzard that raked Utah's Uinta Range as nine snowboarders made their way into the backcountry for a day of intense adventure. As the boarders were taking their first turns, expert avalanche forecaster Craig Gordon was tracking...
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Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea

Hannah Stowe - Tin House Books
Format: Hardcover

A book to sweep you away from the shore, into a wild world of water, whale, storm, and starlight -- to experience what it's like to sail for weeks at a time with life set to a new rhythm. As a young girl, Hannah Stowe was raised at the tide's edge on the Pembrokeshire coast of Wales,...
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A Cloud a Day:

Gavin Pretor-Pinney - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

Cloudspotter and bestselling author Gavin Pretor-Pinney delivers a moment of calm atmospheric contemplation to members of his Cloud Appreciation Society by sharing a cloud image and story every day. A Cloud a Day urges all of us to keep our heads in the clouds with 365 fascinating formations...
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Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal

Sarah Maslin Nir - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of works by such authors as Susan Orlean and Mary Roach, a New York Times reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist explores why so many people - including herself - are obsessed with horses.It may surprise you to learn that there are over seven million horses in America...
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The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

Riley Black - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks readers through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries, and the million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping disruptions that overtook this one spot, and imagining what might have been happening elsewhere on the globe....
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