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Books that
Feature Birds
Bird books for watchers, wanderers, symbol-readers, and anyone who suspects the sky is busy.
NATURE & ENVIRONMENT
LITERATURE
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Kazuo Ishiguro
“The Buried Giant has the clear ring of legend, as graceful, original and humane as anything Ishiguro has written.”
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Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Burgoyne
“A welcome meditation on living in harmony with the earth and fostering deeper connections with one another.”
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Mary Taylor Young
“Young infuses her accessible climate chronicle with a sense of wonder and a small measure of hope.”
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Alice Walker
Walker gives Black women’s voices room to grow from enforced silence into love, solidarity, and the power to shape their own lives.
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Cover unavailableThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 25th Anniversary Edition
Douglas Adams
Rescued moments before Earth’s demolition, Arthur Dent travels through space with Ford Prefect and encounters the galaxy’s people, problems, and bureaucracy.
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Richard Powers
“A magnificent achievement: a novel that is, by turns, both optimistic and fatalistic, idealistic without being naïve.”
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Haruki Murakami
“Murakami’s most ambitious attempt yet to stuff all of modern Japan into a single fictional edifice.”
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Becky Jensen
“This lion-hearted narrative is more than a journey into the wild; it's a powerful plunge into what it means to be human.”
Bernadette Murphy, New York Times bestselling author of Harley and Me: Embracing Risk on the Road to a More Authentic LifePublished endorsement
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