Fastest Things on Wings: Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood
10 best books like Fastest Things on Wings: Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood (Terry Masear): Godiva, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, What Rose Forgot, The Birds of Pandemonium, East of the Mountains, No Dogs in Heaven?: Scenes from the Life of a Country Veterinarian, Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness, Never Turn Your Back on an Angus Cow: My Life as a Country Vet, The Diary, The Tale Teller
| Author | Nicole Galland |
| ISBN | 0062026887 |
Everyone knows the legend of Lady Godiva-the woman who (in)famously rode naked on horseback through Coventry to relieve her people from unfair taxation. But why would a lady of the court take it all off and risk everything, including husband, home, and well-being?
In this richly imagined...
Winner of the 2019 PEN/EO Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing
In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North...
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In New York Times bestselling author Nevada Barr's gripping standalone, a grandmother in her sixties emerges from a mental fog to find she's trapped in...
| Author | Michele Raffin |
| ISBN | 1616201363 |
Each morning at first light, Michele Raffin steps outside into the bewitching bird music that heralds another day at Pandemonium Aviaries. A full symphony that swells from the most vocal of more than 350 avian throats representing more than 40 species. “It knocks me out, every day,” she says.
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| Author | David Guterson |
| ISBN | 1400032652 |
From the author of Snow Falling on Cedars comes this bestselling novel about a dying man’s final journey through a landscape that has always sustained him and provided him with hope and challenges.
When he discovers that he has terminal cancer, retired heart surgeon Ben Givens refuses to...
| Author | Robert T. Sharp |
| ISBN | 0786715243 |
For the millions of animal enthusiasts in America, here's a heartwarming collection of tales by veterinarian Robert Sharp that relate the joys and misadventures of being an animal doctor in small-town U.S.A. With humor and compassion, No Dogs in Heaven? portrays the great and not-so-great characteristics...
| Author | Lyanda Lynn Haupt |
| ISBN | 0316019100 |
I thought this book was going to be about crows, and it WAS supposed to be about crows. That's what her editor asked her to do and it almost seemed that she felt the subject was beneath her. I find crows fascinating and an integral part of our cities ecosystem, not to mention they are scarily intelligent....
Never Turn Your Back on an Angus Cow: My Life as a Country Vet
| Author | Jan Pol |
| ISBN | 1592408974 |
The star of The Incredible Dr. Pol shares his amusing, and often poignant, tales from his four decades as a vet in rural Michigan.
Dr. Jan Pol is not your typical veterinarian. Born and raised the in Netherlands on a dairy farm, he is the star of Nat Geo Wild’s hit show The Incredible Dr. Pol...
| Author | Eileen Goudge |
| ISBN | 1593155433 |
When the two grown daughters of Elizabeth Marshall discover an old diary of their mother’s in her attic, it comes as a shock to learn that the true love of Elizabeth’s life was not their father. This is the mystery the two daughters must unravel as they stay up late reading the words penned by Elizabeth...
| Author | Anne Hillerman |
| ISBN | 0062391976 |
Legendary Navajo policeman Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn takes center stage in this riveting atmospheric mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman that combines crime, superstition, and tradition and brings the desert Southwest vividly alive.
Joe Leaphorn may have retired...
