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10 best books like Red-tails in Love: Pale Male's Story—A True Wildlife Drama in Central Park (Marie Winn): Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Graphic Novel: A Modern Retelling of Little Women, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, Winter in the Blood, Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail, Burn the Place: A Memoir, Living Buddha, Living Christ, Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness, When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt, Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World

Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Graphic Novel: A Modern Retelling of Little Women
AuthorRey Terciero
ISBN0316522864
Little Women with a twist: four sisters from a blended family experience the challenges and triumphs of life in NYC in this beautiful full-color graphic novel perfect for fans of Roller Girl and Smile.


Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy are having a really tough year: with their father serving in the...
Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
AuthorKenn Kaufman
ISBN0618709401
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:...
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
AuthorChen Chen
ISBN1942683332
In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family—the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes—all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Holding all accountable, this collection fully embraces...
Winter in the Blood
AuthorJames Welch
ISBN0140086447
What caught my attention with this book was one of the blurbs on the cover (I read an edition different from the Penguin classics one) from Charles R. Larson from The New Republic that says:
"For some readers this will be the most significant piece of Indian writing they have yet encountered; for others,...
Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
AuthorBen Montgomery
ISBN1613747187
Winner of the 2014 National Outdoor Book Awards for History/Biography

Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother...
Burn the Place: A Memoir
AuthorIliana Regan
ISBN1572842679
A singular, powerfully expressive debut memoir that traces one chef's struggle to find her place and what happens once she does.

Burn the Place is a galvanizing memoir that chronicles Iliana Regan's journey from foraging on the family farm to running her Michelin-starred restaurant, Elizabeth....
Living Buddha, Living Christ
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
ISBN1573225681
When you are a truly happy Christian, you are also a Buddhist. And vice versa."
-- Thich Nhat Hanh Buddha and Christ, perhaps the two most pivotal figures in the history of humankind, each left behind a legacy of teachings and practices that have shaped the lives of billions of people over the course...
Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness
AuthorDoug Peacock
ISBN0805045430
For nearly twenty years, alone and unarmed, author Doug Peacock traversed the rugged mountains of Montana and Wyoming tracking the magnificent grizzly. His thrilling narrative takes us into the bear's habitat, where we observe directly this majestic animal's behavior, from hunting strategies,...
When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
AuthorKara Cooney
ISBN1426219776
This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra--women who ruled with real power--and shines a piercing light on our own perceptions of women in power today.

Female rulers are a rare phenomenon--but thousands of years ago in...
Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World
AuthorTim Low
ISBN0670077968
Tim Low, award-winning author of Feral Future, in an eye-opening book on the unique nature of Australian birds and their role in ecology and global evolution.

Renowned for its unusual mammals, Australia is a land of birds that are just as unusual, just as striking, a result of the continent's...
The Story Collector: A New York Public Library Book
AuthorKristin O'Donnell Tubb
ISBN1250143802
In the tradition of E. L. Konisburg, this middle-grade mystery adventure is inspired by the real life of Viviani Joffre Fedeler, born and raised in the New York Public Library.

Eleven-year-old Viviani Fedeler has spent her whole life in the New York Public Library. She knows every room by heart,...
The Feather Thief
AuthorKirk Wallace Johnson
ISBN1101981636
On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring...
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