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  • TUCO AND THE SCATTERSHOT WORLD
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    TUCO AND THE SCATTERSHOT WORLD
    BRIAN BRETT
    The acclaimed author’s memoir of life with an African grey parrot offers “a thoughtful and generous celebration of minds and bodies different from our own” (Times Literary Supplement, UK).   For thirty years, Brian Brett shared his office and his life with Tuco, a remarkable parrot given to asking questions such as “Whaddya know?” and announcing “Party time!” when guests showed...

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  • CROWS
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    CROWS
    CANDACE SAVAGE
    A treasure trove of stories, poems, and information on the brainy, black-feathered bird that’s rich in insight and humor. This revised and expanded edition of Candace Savage’s best-selling book about ravens and crows is enhanced by additional paintings, drawings, and photos, as well as a fascinating selection of first-person stories and poems about remarkable encounters with cr...

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  • SLOW ROAD TO BROWNSVILLE
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    SLOW ROAD TO BROWNSVILLE
    DAVID REYNOLDS
    An adventurous Englishman explores the forgotten landscape of America’s Wild West in this “illuminating, elegantly written travelogue” (Financial Times).   In his acclaimed memoir Swan River, David Reynolds invited readers into the world of his youth, growing up in Manitoba, Canada. Now, in Slow Road to Brownsville, Reynolds brings readers on a road trip along Highway 83, a lit...

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  • BÄRLE'S STORY
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    BÄRLE'S STORY
    ELSE POULSEN
    The award-winning zookeeper and author of Smiling Bears shares her account of rescuing and rehabilitating a bear held in a Caribbean circus. When a nineteen-year-old female polar bear named Barle is rescued from the inhumane conditions of a circus in the Caribbean and flown to safety in Detroit, zookeeper Else Poulsen—renowned throughout the world for her work rehabilitating ab...

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  • THE ENERGY OF SLAVES
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    THE ENERGY OF SLAVES
    ANDREW NIKIFORUK
    “A robustly researched and smoothly written overview of the many challenges confronting our devotion to fossil fuels” from the author of Tar Sands (Quill & Quire).   Ancient civilizations relied on shackled human muscle. It took the energy of slaves to plant crops, clothe emperors, and build cities. Nineteenth-century slaveholders viewed critics as hostilely as oil companies an...

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  • POLAR WIVES
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    POLAR WIVES
    KARI HERBERT
    The lives and adventures of seven intrepid women are revealed in “this gem of a book . . . as captivating as the northern landscape itself” (Portland Book Review). Polar explorers were the superstars of the "heroic age" of exploration, a period spanning the Victorian and Edwardian eras. In Polar Wives, Kari Herbert reveals the unpredictable, often heartbreaking lives of seven r...

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  • CURIOUS BY NATURE
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    CURIOUS BY NATURE
    CANDACE SAVAGE
    The author of Strangers in the House examines nature’s connection to herself and humanity in this collection of essays. Curious by Nature showcases Candace Savage’s exploration of the varied ways we relate to wildlife from our retelling of fairytales about the big, bad wolf to our struggles to find a balance between harvesting trees and allowing grizzly bears the space to roam....

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  • HOCKEY'S ORIGINAL 6
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    HOCKEY'S ORIGINAL 6
    MIKE LEONETTI
    “Hockey historians will appreciate the precision action shots taken of the first cohort of NHL stars . . . a record of how hockey has evolved.” —Winnipeg Free Press   The hockey stars of the 1950s and ’60s—Rocket Richard, Gordie Howe, Dave Keon, Bobby Hull, Jean Beliveau, Terry Sawchuk, Tim Horton, and others—were some of the most passionate players in National Hockey League hi...

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  • WALKING FOR FITNESS
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    WALKING FOR FITNESS
    MARNIE CARON
    “This book is a step-by-step guide to get you started and offers good advice on everything from the right shoes and diet to staying motivated.” —Good Times Magazine   Includes tips and walking programs by Olympian Lynn Kanuka   Walking is the most popular physical activity in North America, and for good reason: it can be done by people of all ages and all levels of physical abi...

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  • SEEKING SICKNESS
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    SEEKING SICKNESS
    ALAN CASSELS
    “Alan Cassels strips layers of expectation, hype, jargon, false-starts, and conflicts of interest off the medical screening mantra.” —Nortin M. Hadler, author of Worried Sick Why wouldn’t you want to be screened to see if you’re at risk for cancer, heart disease, or another potentially lethal condition? After all, better safe than sorry. Right? Not so fast, says Alan Cassels. H...

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  • WHERE DO CAMELS BELONG?
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    WHERE DO CAMELS BELONG?
    KEN THOMPSON
    The ecologist and author of Do We Need Pandas? “presents a stimulating challenge to our perceptions of nature” and non-native species (George Monbiot).   You may be surprised to learn that camels evolved and lived for tens of millions of years in North America—and also that the leek, national symbol of Wales, was a Roman import to Britain, as were chickens, rabbits and pheasant...

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  • BETWEEN THE PIPES
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    BETWEEN THE PIPES
    RANDI DRUZIN
    A Canadian sportswriter profiles twelve legendary NHL goaltenders in a book that “reveals the changing face of professional hockey in the last half century” (Publishers Weekly).   Some NHL goalies are great and others are intriguing characters, but a select few are legends because they're both. Such is the case with the dozen players featured here. In Between the Pipes, veteran...

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  • OLIVE ODYSSEY
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    OLIVE ODYSSEY
    JULIE ANGUS
    This Mediterranean travel memoir offers “an engaging mix of history, food travelogue, and botany lesson . . . There is much to enjoy here” (Library Journal).   Inspired by her Syrian forebears’ intimate relationship with the olive, Julie Angus embarks on a voyage around the Mediterranean to unlock the secrets of the fruit that meant so much to them. Accompanied by her husband a...

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  • MORE THAN HONEY
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    MORE THAN HONEY
    MARKUS IMHOOF / CLAUS-PETER LIECKFELD
    The acclaimed director shares a gorgeously photographed and “wonderfully thorough immersion in the world of bees and beekeeping” (Rowan Jacobsen, author of Fruitless Fall). The saying goes that without bees, humankind would only survive for four more years; these crucial pollinators are, indeed, worth more than honey. In his award-winning documentary More Than Honey, Markus Imh...

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  • BEYOND FAIR TRADE
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    BEYOND FAIR TRADE
    MARK PENDERGRAST
    The author of Uncommon Grounds offers “a rich and resonantly detailed account of an unlikely partnership” that redefined the concept of fair trade (Coffee Review).   The Akha hill Tribe of Thailand has a long, tumultuous history. Politics, economics, and land development consistently worked against the Akha’s desire to move away from their dependency on opium production and cre...

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  • DIRTY KIDS
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    DIRTY KIDS
    CHRIS URQUHART
    “[A] fascinating debut . . . documenting the lives of teenage runaways who traverse America as part of a freewheeling counterculture.” —Publishers Weekly At age twenty-two, writer Chris Urquhart left a life of middle-class comfort to document the lives of these young nomads for a magazine feature. Captivated, she followed them for three more years. In honest prose interspersed ...

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  • WELLMANIA
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    WELLMANIA
    BRIGID DELANEY
    THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE HIT NETFLIX SERIES"I laughed so hard I choked on a donut reading this book."—Jen Mann, NYT-bestselling author of People I Want to Punch in the ThroatTired of late-night parties and all-day hangovers, thirty-something-year-old journalist Brigid Delaney decides to test the things that are supposed to make us healthy and whole, looking (with...

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  • BIG FIT GIRL
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    BIG FIT GIRL
    LOUISE GREEN
    “Finally—a fitness book for the rest of us! . . . [Big Fit Girl] is sure to usher in a new generation of tough, curvy athletes.” —Jessamyn Stanley, author of Every Body Yoga   In Big Fit Girl, Louise Green describes how the fitness industry fails to meet the needs of plus-size women and thus prevents them from improving their health and fitness. By telling her own story of how ...

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  • REINVENTING PROSPERITY
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    REINVENTING PROSPERITY
    GRAEME MAXTON / JORGEN RANDERS
    “An important contribution to the global debate about growth, equality, climate change, and the path to a viable human future.” —David Korten, international bestselling author of When Corporations Rule the World The biggest challenges facing human wellbeing today—widening income inequality, continuing global poverty, and environmental degradation—may be simple to solve in theor...

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  • HEART
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    HEART
    JOHANNES HINRICH VON BORSTEL
    “Describes the physiology behind the normal function of the heart with gusto and humor . . . well informed and accessible . . . a necessary book.” —Readings   In this lively and informative exploration of all aspects of the heart, Johannes Hinrich von Borstel offers a perfect mix of medical fact and amusing anecdote. A doctor, prospective cardiologist, and former paramedic—as w...

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