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Dolphins

By: Sam Drumlin

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Beginning readers will learn about dolphins through easy-to-follow text and full-page photographs. This exceptional resource allows readers to be introduced to one of the worlds most intelligent mammals. It is sure to make splash with any emerging reader.

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1448898803

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Orcas

By: Sam Drumlin

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Orcas

By: Sam Drumlin

Readers will become engrossed in this informative volume on orcas. Full-page photographs and basic text take readers into the depths of the ocean. A picture glossary and index enhance the text and are first-rate resources for readers.

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1448898846

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Manatees

By: Sam Drumlin

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Manatees

By: Sam Drumlin

Readers are introduced to basic facts about manatees in this exciting volume. Vibrant photographs and straightforward text will inspire any young reader to keep learning about manatees. They are sure to be enchanted with these big, gentle mammals.

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1448898838

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Sea Otters

By: Sam Drumlin

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Sea Otters

By: Sam Drumlin

Readers are introduced to sea otters in this educational guide. Full-page, colorful photographs inspire readers to explore further. Fact-filled pages are written in accessible text, encouraging even the most reluctant of readers.

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144889882X

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Harp Seals / Las focas de Groenlandia

By: Sam Drumlin

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Harp Seals / Las focas de Groenlandia

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Simple text and photographs present basic facts about harp seals.

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1448899850

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Harp Seals

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Harp Seals

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Educational text and stunning full-color photographs introduce readers to harp seals. They will learn many exciting facts about the various stages of a harp seal's life. Reader-curiosity about this adorable marine mammal is sure to be satisfied.

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1448898854

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Orcas / Las orcas

By: Sam Drumlin

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Orcas / Las orcas

By: Sam Drumlin

Readers will become engrossed in this informative volume on orcas. Full-page photographs and basic text in English and standard Latin-American Spanish take readers into the depths of the ocean. A picture glossary and index enhance the text and are first-rate resources for readers.

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1448899877

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Walruses / Las morsas

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Walruses / Las morsas

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Readers will explore the world of walruses through fun facts and understandable text in English and standard Latin-American Spanish. Vivid full-page photographs make this a great choice for any reader. A picture glossary and index supplement the text.

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1448899893

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Dolphins / Los delfines

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Dolphins / Los delfines

By: Sam Drumlin

Beginning readers will learn about dolphins through full-page photographs and easy-to-follow text presented in both English and standard Latin-American Spanish. This exceptional resource introduces readers to one of the worlds most intelligent mammals. It is sure to make splash with any young reader.

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Walruses

By: Sam Drumlin

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Walruses

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Readers will explore the world of walruses through fun facts and understandable text. Vivid full-page photographs make this a great choice for any reader. A picture glossary and index supplement the text.

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1448898811

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Sea Otters / Las nutrias marinas

By: Sam Drumlin

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Sea Otters / Las nutrias marinas

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Simple text and photographs present basic facts about sea otters.

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1448899885

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Manatees / Los manatíes

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Manatees / Los manatíes

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Given its enormous girth, it's not hard to believe that the 1,500-pound manatee is actually a marine relative of the elephant. This gentle giant and its habitat have been greatly harmed by humans, but much work has been done to protect manatees from future damage. Readers follow along with the accessible text and full-color photographs as they find out what manatees eat, what their social life is like, and why they are in so much danger from people."--Publisher.

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1448899869

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Greater Boston

Adapting Regional Traditions to the Present

By: Sam Bass Warner

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Greater Boston

Adapting Regional Traditions to the Present

By: Sam Bass Warner

Selected byChoice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title "A study of the economic and social characteristics of greater Boston's cities and suburbs."--Boston Globe "Affection combined with wisdom is the strength of the book. Warner's acute eyes and ears allow him to realize a lasting portrayal of greater Boston at the beginning of the twenty-first century. . . . Warner's observations about the metropolitan future have national implications."--H-Urban

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812217691

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9780812217698

The Last Book

By: Sam Pickering

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The Last Book

By: Sam Pickering

Readers familiar with Sam Pickering's delightful essays will certainly hope that the title of his latest collection is not intended as prophecy. A true original, Pickering offers observation on everyday life that never fail to sparkle with wit, insight, amusement, and wonder. Freely blending fact with fiction-"Writing makes liars of us all," he notes-Pickering ranges easily and amiably from his home base in Storrs, Connecticut, to his roots in middle Tennessee, with numerous side trips to observe the natural world to refelct on the bonds of family and friends. One essay finds him playing auctioneer at a local arts council event, jollying the attendees with "tattered country tales" and fanciful, extravagant claims for items being sold. In another piece, his tongue-in-check remarks about the split infinitive, when quoted in a newspaper, ignite a small controversy that lands him on radio talk shows and provokes a flood of sometimes angry e-mail. Yet, whenever the irritations of the human world become a bit too wearying, Pickering finds ready refreshment in the doings of birds and insects and the splash of sunlight on a tree or flower. Throughout these sixteen essays, Pickering implicitly heeds the advice he offers his son just before the boy much meet the parents of his prom date: :The good storyteller, I instructed Francis, heaps paragraph upon paragraph, just like a waitress serving mashed potatoes in a family-style restaurant." Having dined at the table of a master storyteller, readers will depart this collection feeling fully sated-indeed, well nourished. The Author: A native of Nashville, Sam Pickering is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut and author of eleven previous books of essays. His most recent collections are Living to Prowl, Deprived of Happiness, and A Little Fling.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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157233147X

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9781572331471

Terrible Sanity

By: Sam Pickering

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Terrible Sanity

By: Sam Pickering

Terrible Sanity is wondrous sanity. Pickering's essays are acetaminophen for hippish days. "Life doesn't have a neat beginning and a tidy end," Roger, a character in V. S. Naipaul's Half a Life, says. "Life is always going on." In this collection, Pickering depicts the joy and sadness of life's going on. He observes that great knowledge often brings small pleasure while the small knowledge that all people experience brings great pleasure. A dental hygienist tells him that every day patients greet her on the street and in stores. "Their faces are always unfamiliar, and I never recognize them," she says, "but if they opened their mouths wide, I'd know them immediately." For the record she also volunteers that in twenty years of tooth-scrubbing, she had only been bitten once"--

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Madville Publishing

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1948692538

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9781948692533

Haunted Boston Harbor

By: Sam Baltrusis

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Haunted Boston Harbor

By: Sam Baltrusis

Ghosts lurk in the waters near Boston's historic seaport, haunting the secluded islands scattered throughout the harbor. Boston Harbor brims with the restless spirits of pirates, prisoners and victims of disease and injustice. Uncover the truth behind the Lady in Black on Georges Island. Learn about the former asylums on Long Island that inspired the movie Shutter Island, and dig up the skeletal secrets left behind by the Woman in Scarlet Robes. From items flying off the shelves at a North End cigar shop to the postmortem cries of tragedy at the centuries-old Boston Light on Little Brewster, author Sam Baltrusis breathes new life into the horrors that occurred in the historic waters surrounding Boston.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1626199566

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9781626199569

A Little Fling, and Other Essays

By: Sam Pickering

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A Little Fling, and Other Essays

By: Sam Pickering

No matter where he finds himself, Sam Pickering's thoughts invariably return to his roots. Whether traipsing through a New England field near his home, overhearing a conversation at the local coffee shop, or enjoying idle time in Nova Scotia, he finds connections in life that always seem to lead him back to Tennessee.

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1572330627

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The Druid

By: Sam Stewart

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The Druid

By: Sam Stewart

The British were indeed worried. An extraordinary number of prominent British citizens were dying around the world in appalling and intriguing circumstances. Of greater concern was the tightly guarded knowledge that they were all latent or overt homosexuals. While evidence of this was bound to come to light in each individual case, no one outside the highest government, intelligence and police circles in London knew that each murder could be linked by a common thread... one man's campaign for revenge.

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Authors On Line Ltd

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0755200942

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9780755200948

Autumn Spring

By: Sam Pickering

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Autumn Spring

By: Sam Pickering

No one creates so many memorable, saucy aphorisms-piquant, bitter-sweet, arousing." -Pat C. Hoy II, New York University Sam Pickering's essays are funny and wise-and always intoxicating, eggnog to warm glazed winter nights and juleps to cool sweltering summer days. He wanders Connecticut, Canada, and the South, seeding his old farm in Nova Scotia with words and scattering paragraphs in and about classrooms at the University of Connecticut. He describes the great flowerings of summers and falls. He mulls over vanishing friendships, then hunts for buried treasure in a library. He endures a massage, ponders the genteel, and explores shadowy alcoves and books. For him home is where heart and heartache thrive together. Students make him laugh and weep, and in part his book is a teaching manual crammed with anecdotal good sense. He buries his old dog George and picks up Bert, a rescue dachshund addicted to unmentionable munchies and cloddish doggy behavior, an animal who obstinately refuses to cross the Rainbow Bridge. Pickering runs road races, although he says anyone in a motorized walker could leave him far behind. In "Premortem" he anatomizes his vanishing muscles and then decides to have a knee operation in hopes of shuffling fast enough to keep a heeltap ahead of the pale rider on the white horse. This is a book about love and happiness-a restorative collection that shows readers how to enjoy life's small glories even among its indignities. When the going gets sour, Pickering tells a joke and transforms the sour into sweet delight. Sam Pickering teaches English at the University of Connecticut. The inspiration for the teacher in the movie Dead Poets Society, Pickering is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and a master of the essay form. Among his dozen collections of essays are A Little Fling and The Last Book, both published by the University of Tennessee Press.

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1572335963

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9781572335967

One Grand, Sweet Song

Essays

By: Sam Pickering

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One Grand, Sweet Song

Essays

By: Sam Pickering

One Grand, Sweet Song is a collection of familiar essays in which Sam Pickering explores libraries and woods and fields. He wanders over hills and far away—to Caribbean and Canada—but he always returns to the local, to Connecticut and his memories of a Southern childhood. He ponders writing and aging, joy and lunacy. He celebrates family and Christmas. He laughs and tells terrible lies, and jokes. He runs half-marathons, and on a farm in Nova Scotia, he tries to write his Walden. “O World, I cannot hold thee close enough!” Edna St. Vincent Millay once exclaimed. In these pages Pickering embraces his world with great love, wrapping it in words and pulling it and the reader unforgettably close. Pickering has written 28 books and 100s of articles. The subject matter of the books ranges. Three are scholarly studies, two of which focus on 18th century children’s literature. Four are travel books, three of these describing his family’s meanderings in Australia. One book mulls teaching, and another is a memoir. The rest of Pickering’s books are collections of familiar essays, providing his take or perhaps “untake” on things. “Reading Pickering,” a reviewer wrote in the Smithsonian, “is like taking a walk with your oldest, wittiest friend.”

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