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Weird Dinosaurs: The Strange New Fossils Challenging Everything We Thought We Knew

John Pickrell - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover

From the outback of Australia to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and the savanna of Madagascar, the award-winning science writer and dinosaur enthusiast John Pickrell embarks on a world tour of new finds, meeting the fossil hunters who work at the frontier of discovery. He reveals the dwarf...
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A Walking Life: Reclaiming Our Health and Our Freedom One Step at a Time

Antonia Malchik - Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Hardcover

For readers of On Trails: an incisive, utterly engaging exploration of walking: how it is fundamental to our being human, how we've designed it out of our lives, and how it is essential that we reembrace it"I'm going for a walk." How often has this phrase been uttered by someone...
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Under the Stars USA 1 (Lonely Planet)

Lonely Planet - Lonely Planet
Format: Hardcover

From wild camping to curling up in a cabin, discover 200 amazing places to sleep under the stars in the USA. Lonely Planet's experts have scoured the nation to recommend the best campsites, wild camping spots, huts, cabins and refuges across the country, providing practical advice about...
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Farm Dogs: A Comprehensive Breed Guide to 93 Guardians, Herders, Terriers, and Other Canine Working Partners

Jan Vorwald Dohner - Storey Books
Format: Print book

Gain a deeper understanding of your canine friends through these in-depth breed profiles that showcase how working dogs think. From familiar breeds like the Border Collie, Corgi, and Dachshund to the lesser-known Akbash, Puli, and Hovawart, Janet Vorwald Dohner describes 93 breeds of livestock...
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Theodore Roosevelt National Park Map (National Geographic Trails Illustrated Map, 259)

National Geographic Maps - Natl Geographic Society Maps
Format: Map

* Waterproof * Tear-Resistant * Topographic MapExpertly researched and created in partnership with local land management agencies, National Geographic's Trails Illustrated map of Theodore Roosevelt National Park includes both the north and south units of the park, as well as the Magpie...
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Poetry from Scratch: A Kitten's Book of Verse

Jennifer McCartney - Countryman Press
Format: Print book

The newest entry in the feline literary canon is here ... so pee on this, cat poet wannabes Hipster cats, stay-at-home-mom cats, windowsill cats, and outdoor cats -- you'll find them all here, immortalized in prose about, for, and sometimes by, cats. With a Brooklyn edge, author Jennifer...
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A Desert Harvest: New and Selected Essays

Bruce Berger - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A career-spanning collection of Bruce Berger's beautiful, subtle, and spiky essays on the American desertOccupying a space between traditional nature writing, memoir, journalism, and prose poetry, Bruce Berger's essays are beautiful, subtle, and haunting meditations on the landscape...
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The Inner Life of Cats: The Science and Secrets of Our Mysterious Feline Companions

Thomas McNamee - ?Hachette Books; First Edition
Format: Hardcover

Our feline companions are much-loved but often mysterious. In The Inner Life of Cats, Thomas McNamee blends scientific reportage with engaging, illustrative...
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Afterglow

EILEEN MYLES - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover

Prolific and widely renowned, Eileen Myles is a trailblazer whose decades of literary and artistic work "set a bar for openness, frankness, and variability few lives could ever match" (New York Review of Books) . This newest book paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of a beloved...
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All My Dogs: A Memoir

Bill Henderson - Pushcart Press
Format: Paperback

"With dry humor and enviable honesty, this gem ... tells Henderson's life story through his thirteen dogs." - Publishers Weekly "All My Dogs dogs is exactly as the title describes, a story in chronological order, beginning in childhood, of all the dogs Henderson has loved....
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