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Top Dog: The Story of Marine Hero Lucca by Maria Goodavage
epub |eng | 2014-10-23 | Author:Maria Goodavage [Goodavage, Maria]

OVER THE YEARS, Chris Willingham had met dog handlers who had served in Vietnam. While he was an instructor at Lackland, several Vietnam War dog handlers worked with his students ...
( Category: Military August 25,2017 )
Temple Stream by Bill Roorbach
epub |eng | 2015-08-27 | Author:Bill Roorbach

FLASH FORWARD TO THE SPRING OF 2000. ONE EARLY APRIL morning, sleepless with her pregnancy, Juliet woke me, said: “We have to leave Ohio.” “Yes,” I said. “Promise me,” she ...
( Category: Rivers August 25,2017 )
Into Woods by Bill Roorbach
epub |eng | | Author:Bill Roorbach

My gorgeous niece Kristen when she was four (a long, long time ago, but quick, seventeen years), always asked if she could see what I had under any Band-Aids. She ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 25,2017 )
Where Do Camels Belong? by Ken Thompson
epub |eng | 2014-02-21 | Author:Ken Thompson

USEFUL ALIENS Sometimes eradication efforts are halted by the discovery that the target is actually doing something useful. From the 1960s to the 1980s, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 24,2017 )
Grayson by Lynne Cox
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-04 | Author:Lynne Cox [Cox, Lynne]

six There was no sign of the whale’s mother by the jetty, underwater, or anywhere else so I started swimming back toward the pier, hoping the baby whale would follow. ...
( Category: Specific Groups August 24,2017 )
The House Guests by John D. MacDonald
epub |eng | 2013-06-11 | Author:John D. MacDonald [MacDonald, John D.]

Thus was devised the system we followed for years. Dr. Sellman would hold them until we announced our arrival and send them along. We would ship them back and he ...
( Category: Memoirs August 24,2017 )
Home by Beth Powning
epub |eng | 2014-08-24 | Author:Beth Powning

Of Contour and Hollow Fields are square, and marked by posts and fences. They are bits of the planet brought to heel, remnants of vanquished forests. Yet within their human ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays August 24,2017 )
Babylon's Ark by Lawrence Anthony
epub |eng | 2011-06-21 | Author:Lawrence Anthony

NOW I HAD ADDITIONAL HELP, I could start planning ahead further than twelve hours at a time and begin cementing some basic administration into place. Even though the Iraqi staff ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 23,2017 )
Wildlife Wars: The Life and Times of a Fish and Game Warden by Grosz Terry
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-07-15 | Author:Grosz, Terry [Grosz, Terry]

“OK, let me continue.” I moved over to the bed of the pickup and looked at the two five-gallon metal tins. They were old lard tins, probably from some restaurant, ...
( Category: Biological Sciences August 23,2017 )
Owl by Desmond Morris
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Desmond Morris

A less arduous creative process enjoyed by the Wounaan women is the making of small cloth appliqué patches called molitas. On these too the owl is a favoured subject. As ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 23,2017 )
The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing About Climate Change by Bill McKibben
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-03-27 | Author:Bill McKibben [McKibben, Bill]

Less “Cheap Patriotism,” More Deep Patriotism We have gone through a period during which people waving American flags have done great damage to the country, to the people of Iraq, ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 23,2017 )
Beyond Your Doorstep by Hal Borland
epub |eng | 2013-12-10 | Author:Hal Borland [Borland, Hal]

Chapter 9 A Badeling of Birds Someday someone will write a usable book on how to look for birds, a book that will tell where and when to watch for ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 23,2017 )
A Single Swallow by Horatio Clare
epub |eng | 2010-03-04 | Author:Horatio Clare [Horatio Clare]

CHAPTER 6 Nigeria: Gulf of Oil, Coast of Slaves Nigeria: Gulf of Oil, Coast of Slaves WE WAKE TO rain falling quite hard with a hissing noise. Bodies are stirring ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 23,2017 )
Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard
epub |eng | | Author:Annie Dillard

VI The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega. It is God’s brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blended note of ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 23,2017 )
Nightingales in November by Mike Dilger
epub |eng | | Author:Mike Dilger

Safely ensconced underground, once the Puffin chick reaches around a week old, it should be able to maintain its body temperature well enough so that it can be left unsupervised ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 23,2017 )

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