Birding on Borrowed Time

5 best books like Birding on Borrowed Time (Phoebe Snetsinger): Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds, De dood is een zware klus, Lacci, Some Bright Morning, I'll Fly Away: A Memoir

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Author	Terry Tempest Williams
ISBN	0679740244

In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its...

The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds

Author	Julie Zickefoose
ISBN	0547003099

Julie Zickefoose lives for the moment when a wild, free living bird that she has raised or rehabilitated comes back to visit her; their eyes meet and they share a spark of understanding. Her reward for the grueling work of rescuing birds—such as feeding baby hummingbirds every twenty minutes all day...

De dood is een zware klus

Author

Khaled Khalifa

De oude Syriër Abd al-Latief heeft een laatste wens: hij wil begraven worden in zijn geboortedorp. Op zijn sterfbed vraagt hij zijn zoon Boelboel hem daarheen te brengen. Voor Boelboel zit er niets anders op: samen met zijn broer Hoessein en zijn zus Fatima gaat hij na hun vaders dood op weg. In een busje,...

Lacci

Author	Domenico Starnone
ISBN	8806194798

Che cosa lasciamo, quando lasciamo qualcuno? Una casa, una famiglia, il passato, un'idea di futuro, la nostra peggiore fotografia impressa a fuoco negli occhi di chi abbiamo amato. Passiamo la vita a spaccare vasi e incollare cocci illudendoci di essere nuovi di zecca. E cerchiamo di non guardare...

Some Bright Morning, I'll Fly Away: A Memoir

Author	Alice Anderson
ISBN	1250094968

The incredible true story of one woman's journey to relocate the place inside herself where strength, hope, and personal truth reside.

After Hurricane Katrina, Alice Anderson has returned home to assess the damage to her beloved Mississippi coastline and the once-immaculate home she’d...