Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds
10 best books like Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds (Lyanda Lynn Haupt): Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder, A Contract With God and Other Tenement Stories, The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human, The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds, God Is Love: Deus Caritas Est, Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down, Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World, Moon Rush: The New Space Race
| Author | Annie Dillard |
| ISBN | 0072434171 |
An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's exploration on foot in the author's own neighborhood in Tinker Creek, Virginia. In the summer, Dillard stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall she watches a monarch...
| Author | Kenn Kaufman |
| ISBN | 0618709401 |
At sixteen, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of the high school where he was student council president and hit the road, hitching back and forth across America, from Alaska to Florida, Maine to Mexico. Maybe not all that unusual a thing to do in the seventies, but what Kenn was searching for was a little different:...
A Contract With God and Other Tenement Stories
| Author | Will Eisner |
| ISBN | 0878160183 |
‘A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories’ written and illustrated by Will Eisner, one of the giants in the sequential arts arena, is a perfectly executed graphic novel, which provides the reader a peek at the American experience during the early 1930s. Through four interconnected graphic...
| Author | Noah Strycker |
| ISBN | 1594486352 |
An entertaining and profound look at the lives of birds, illuminating their surprising world—and deep connection with humanity.
Birds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood. As scientists come to...
| 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...
God Is Love: Deus Caritas Est
| Author | Benedict XVI |
| ISBN | 1574557580 |
In today's high-tech, fast-paced world, love is often portrayed as being separate from Church teaching. With his first encyclical, Pope Benedict XVI hopes to overturn that perception and describe the essential place of love in the life of the Church. The Holy Father explains the various dimensions...
| Author | Bill McKibben |
| ISBN | 0735219869 |
"I hope no one secedes, but I also hope that Americans figure out creative ways to resist injustice and create communities where everybody counts. We've got a long history of resistance in Vermont and this book is testimony to that fact."
-Bernie Sanders
A book that's also the beginning...
| Author | Ishmael Reed |
| ISBN | 1564782387 |
"Folks. This here is the story of the Loop Garoo Kid. A cowboy so bad he made a working posse of spells phone in sick. A bullwhacker so unfeeling he left the print of winged mice on hides of crawling women. A desperado so onery he made the Pope cry and the most powerful of cattlemen shed his head to the Executioner's...
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
| Author | Noah Strycker |
| ISBN | 0544558146 |
Traveling to 41 countries in 2015 with a backpack and binoculars, Noah Strycker became the first person to see more than half the world’s 10,000 species of birds in one year.
In 2015, Noah Strycker set himself a lofty goal: to become the first person to see half the world’s birds in one year....
Moon Rush: The New Space Race
| Author | Leonard David |
| ISBN | 1426220057 |
Veteran space journalist digs into the science and technology--past, present, and future--central to our explorations of Earth's only satellite, the space destination most hotly pursued today.
In these rich pages, veteran science journalist Leonard David explores the moon in all its...
