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Beastly Natures
Author | : Dorothee Brantz |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2010-07-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813929474 |
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Alligators
Author | : Kent A. Vliet |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2020-03-03 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1421433389 |
The ultimate guide to understanding the biology and behavior of the amazing and underappreciated American alligator. Few scenes put the senses on edge more than a submerged alligator, only eyes and snout showing, when peering across a southern lake on a misty morning. An iconic American predator, these reptiles grow to thirteen feet or more and can live as long as humans. Alligators are complex creatures, capable of terrific attacks and yet tending to their young in the same gentle way a mother duck looks after her brood. Once extremely numerous, alligators came close to extinction in the twentieth century, but thanks to conservation efforts have since made a comeback, reclaiming their rightful place as the monarchs of the southern wetlands. In this fascinating account, richly illustrated with more than 150 photographs from award-winning wildlife photographer Wayne Lynch, expert zoologist Kent A. Vliet introduces readers to the biology, ecology, and natural history of the American alligator. Sharing nuanced depictions of their hidden lives that will forever change the way you think of these giant reptiles, the book • combines captivating storytelling with the most current scientific facts • chronicles the life cycle of the alligator • explains why the alligator's precise anatomy and physiology make it so successful • covers a wide range of topics, from courtship and reproduction to communication, basking, nest-building, and hunting • reveals the alligator's sophisticated social life in detail • evaluates the alligator's environmental role as a keystone species • examines the complicated relationship between alligators and people
Elizabeth and Larry
Author | : Marilyn Sadler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780333564776 |
Elizabeth and Larry are contented best friends until Larry is scorned by neighbors for being an alligator. Suggested level: preschool, junior.
Storm Riders
Author | : Craig Lesley |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2001-02-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780312263980 |
"Follows the challenges and tragedies of Clark Woods, a foster parent who is raising a Native American son, Wade."--Jacket.
Oranges
Author | : John McPhee |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2011-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0374708703 |
A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice, but the author kept encountering so much irresistible information that he eventually found that he had in fact written a book. It contains sketches of orange growers, orange botanists, orange pickers, orange packers, early settlers on Florida's Indian River, the first orange barons, modern concentrate makers, and a fascinating profile of Ben Hill Griffin of Frostproof, Florida who may be the last of the individual orange barons. McPhee's astonishing book has an almost narrative progression, is immensely readable, and is frequently amusing. Louis XIV hung tapestries of oranges in the halls of Versailles, because oranges and orange trees were the symbols of his nature and his reign. This book, in a sense, is a tapestry of oranges, too—with elements in it that range from the great orangeries of European monarchs to a custom of people in the modern Caribbean who split oranges and clean floors with them, one half in each hand.
Honestly Dearest, You're Dead
Author | : Jack Fredrickson |
Publisher | : Minotaur Books |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2009-01-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429953047 |
A Safe Place for Dying, the first in Jack Fredrickson's highly acclaimed Dek Elstrom mystery series, was nominated for the Shamus Award for Best First Novel. Now, Chicago P.I. Dek Elstrom is back in an electrifying new mystery. A lawyer calls Dek with a fast, seven-hundred dollar proposition. A dead client named Dek to execute her will. No matter that Dek didn't know the woman. No matter, too, that the woman's estate was only worth a few hundred. Happens all the time, the lawyer said. To Dek Elstrom, broke and huddling in a cold stone turret in the middle of February, the sound of seven hundred falling down his chimney is louder than his voice of reason. He agrees, heads up to a hamlet ten miles north of nowhere. But instead of finding an easy-to-close estate, he finds blood and the markers of a shattered life. And something worse: links to the darkest part of his own past. He races to chase down leads to the killer, and his own ghost...before the dead woman is killed again.
Among the Oranges
Author | : D. White |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 2019-01-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1984575368 |
In “I’ll Meet you at Noon North of August among the Oranges,” a man deals with separation from his wife. He’ll have to give up the house in Malibu because without his wife’s income, he won’t be able to afford the high rent. In “Under the Cyclops Moon,” a young man got his girlfriend pregnant and now faces marriage for the first time. He works for his fiancée’s father but hates it. What was once good has become awful. He contemplates suicide. In “A Garden of Zero Roses,” a woman’s body was found in the garden. But who was she?
Uniquely Florida
Author | : Bob Knotts |
Publisher | : Heinemann-Raintree Library |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781432902933 |
What do the images on Florida's state seal stand for? How is Florida's state government different from all others? What has Florida contributed to our nation's space exploration program? You can find the answers to these questions in this book, which contains all kinds of fun and fascinating facts and features that help make Florida a one-of-a-kind place. Inside, you will also find information about Florida's unique state symbols. You can learn how to make a key lime pie, and find out why Florida's state gem cannot be found naturally anywhere in Florida. And, you'll find out why Florida really is the Sunshine State. Inside you'll find: maps that help you find your way around Florida, photographs that let you see what you are reading about, a glossary, index, and list of more books to read to help you find what you're looking for and better understand it.