"In this nonfiction picture book for young readers, we learn just why the mother nesting bird stays quiet and still while sitting on her eggs."-- Provided by publisher.
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Rhyming text explores the wonders of natural cooperation between flowers and the animals and insects of the forest.
Illustrations and rhyming text reassure a series of barnyard babies, as well as the reader, that mamas always come back.
"Greer Coffey is a principal dancer with a renowned Harlem company. Sebastian Coffey is an architect with a prestigious Midtown firm. The Coffey's are the ultimate dream couple -- until their world completely unravels. After Greer develops a career ending neurologic disorder, she...
Relates, in rhyming verse, how dump trucks and paving machines layer and compact hot asphalt to make a street.
Revel in rain throughout the seasons in this collection of poems about rain
Meet a friar who tamed a dangerous wolf, an abbess who rescued a wounded boar, a faithful man who shared a tiger's cave, and many more holy men and women befriended by God's creatures!
"This poetic picture book asks the question: what do little animals dream? The surprising answers lend an eye and ear to the nocturnal rhythms of the forest"-- Provided by publisher.
"The Indigenous Art Collection, cared for by Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, and located at 10 Wellington, Gatineau, Quebec, is one of the most important collections of contemporary Indigenous art in Canada. Comprising over 4,300 artworks by both prominent...
"Greer Coffey is a principal dancer with a renowned Harlem company. Sebastian Coffey is an architect with a prestigious Midtown firm. The Coffey's are the ultimate dream couple -- until their world completely unravels. After Greer develops a career ending neurologic disorder, she...
Ask not what your cat can do for you--ask what you can do for your cat. Tired of politics as usual? Despair not: Rita Mae Brown's intrepid feline co-author, Sneaky Pie, is taking time off from her busy schedule writing bestselling mysteries to run for President of the United...
"This is an anthology of poetry and short prose about the Sonoran Desert that is organized in the manner of a field guide"--Provided by publisher.
The chase is on in New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown's gripping new foxhunting mystery, featuring the irrepressible "Sister" Jane Arnold and the wily antics of her four-legged friends. In Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, a century-old crime reawakens bad will-and stirs u...
In this thrilling new foxhunting mystery from New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown, an investigation into a missing and valuable object flushes out murder, ghosts, and old family rivalries. Now "Sister" Jane Arnold and a pack of four-legged friends must catch the sc...
The famous Saddlebred show in Shelbyville, Kentucky, is the perfect opportunity for remarried newlyweds Harry and Fair Haristeen to finally go on their long-delayed (second) honeymoon-a chance to combine business and pleasure, as well as to drop in on some old friends. Mrs. Murph...
"Come here, cowboy." Luminous gray eyes...long dark curls...come-hither smile. For months, Conn Flannigan was haunted by tantalizing images of a night he couldn't remember--and a woman he couldn't forget. He'd returned to St. Valentine to find her and recover his lost memories....
"One of the most entrancing (and effective) detectives in modern cozy mysteries." -Booklist A celebration for cat lovers and mystery aficionados alike, Cat Coming Home-the 16th appearance of feline detective Joe Gray-is a holiday gift from acclaimed author Shirley Rousseau Murph...
Ecocriticism can be described in very general terms as the investigation of the many ways in which culture and the environment are interrelated and conceptualized. Ecocriticism aspires to understand and often to celebrate the natural world, yet it does so indirectly by focusing p...