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Silent Thunder: In the Presence of Elephants

9 best books like Silent Thunder: In the Presence of Elephants (Katy Payne): Jane Austen Ruined My Life, Elephant Memories: Thirteen Years in the Life of an Elephant Family, Storm Runners, My Squirrel Days, Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work, Among the Elephants, Across the Mekong River, Seer of Egypt, Echo of the Elephants: The Story of an Elephant Family

Jane Austen Ruined My Life
AuthorBeth Pattillo
ISBN0824947711
Before a proper review begins...I must rant about something that really bothered me about this book. It's a tiny flaw, but it really gets to me.

If one says "I love Jane Austen, I will write a book about her life and novels..." then one should ensure that every tiny detail is correct. At one point...
Elephant Memories: Thirteen Years in the Life of an Elephant Family
AuthorCynthia Moss
ISBN0226542378
Cynthia Moss has studied the elephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park for over twenty-seven years. Her long-term research has revealed much of what we now know about these complex and intelligent animals. Here she chronicles the lives of the members of the T families led by matriarchs Teresia,...
Storm Runners
AuthorRoland Smith
ISBN0545081750
The first in a middle-grade action-adventure series from Roland Smith!

Chase Masters and his father are "storm runners," racing across the country in pursuit of hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods. Anywhere bad weather strikes, they are not far behind. Chase is learning more on the road than...
My Squirrel Days
AuthorEllie Kemper
ISBN1501163345
Comedian and star of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious, refreshing, and inspiring collection of essays “teeming with energy and full of laugh-out-loud moments” (Associated Press).

“A pleasure. Ellie Kemper is the kind of stable, intelligent,...
Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work
AuthorJeanne Marie Laskas
ISBN0399159002
Five hundred feet underground, Jeanne Marie Laskas asked a coal miner named Smitty, “Do you think it’s weird that people know so little about you?” He replied, “I don’t think people know too much about the way the whole damn country works.”

Hidden America intends to fix that. Like...
Among the Elephants
AuthorIain Douglas-Hamilton
ISBN1499030444
The story of a scientist undertaking one of the most blessed PhD projects in history - the budget somehow includes a house being built in Tanzania, maids, personal assistants, a cook, and a small plane. Not to mention Douglas-Hamilton had the extreme luck of being one of the first scientists to pay more...
Across the Mekong River
AuthorElaine Russell
Alternate cover edition for ISBN 1466338105 / 9781466338104

In a California courtroom, seventeen-year-old Nou Lee reels with what she is about to do. What she must do to survive. She reflects on the splintered path that led to this moment, beginning twelve years ago in 1978, when her Hmong...
Seer of Egypt
AuthorPauline Gedge
ISBN0143052934
Huy has risen from lowly origins to become the Seer of the King. Yet Amunhotep’s patronage is both a blessing and a curse to Huy, who feels imprisoned by the gift Thoth has imposed on him and by the life he must live to keep it. Though rewarded with wealth and influence, Huy longs for the pleasures of those...
Echo of the Elephants: The Story of an Elephant Family
AuthorCynthia Moss
ISBN0688135137
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