Birds of Nebraska: Their Distribution and Temporal ...
The bird book Nebraska deserves: Nebraska is known to the North American birding community almost exclusively for a single phenomenon: the spectacular spring migration of waterfowl and cranes along the Platte River in late March. The state is otherwise [... more]
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Thucydides: Book III-V
Unparalleled: I will spare a full-blown review. But if you have the extra money or could easily afford it, I would recommend the newer more expensive edition of this book with the introduction by Victor Davis Hanson. There, you will have maps to your [... more]
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The Tapir's Morning Bath: Solving the Mysteries of the ...
journey of discovery: On the trail of the scientists who make the trails A journalist follows researchers into the South American rain forest to study the mystery of their devotion By Diana Muir Deep in the tropical rain forest, a small fruit-eating bat [... more]
CDN$15.95
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Nineteen Minutes
Written with Love and Filled with Exceptional Insights: We've read about too many school shootings. These are intensely sad events as young lives are ended and harmed while sickening fear is permanently released to further separate communities. We all [... more]
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Bringing Your Soul to Work: An Everyday Practice
Like eating an Oreo Cookie!: I love a profound exploration of a topic as much as an experiential treatment. In his two books (This one co-authored with Cheryl Peppers and "The Stirring of Soul in the Workplace"), Alan gives us both. His first [... more]
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What If...?: Amazing Stories
Not very trippy what-ifs: A what-if book should have really intriguing what-ifs for the writers in the book to work from (or should at least collect intriguing tales of the sort). It's not good enough to get decent writers...the what-ifs have to be [... more]
CDN$8.99
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Ethical Ambition
From Amazon.co.uk: Author of Ethical Ambition Derrick Bell is a constitutional lawyer currently teaching at NYU law school and is the author of seven books including the New York Times bestseller Faces at the Bottom of the Well. Ethical Ambition is a [... more]
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Vegetarian Soups For All Seasons: A Treasury of ...
Inspired one-dish meals: For me, the one thing that matters about a cookbook is: is it *inspired* or not? The ones that are not may have one to a few usable recipes, almost by accident, but the majority are either based on stale ideas, or they are too [... more]
CDN$22.95
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Judas Child
From Amazon.com: Readers familiar with Mallory, the intriguing and original heroine of O'Connell's four previous suspense novels, will recognize familiar themes of loss and abandonment in the brilliant, enigmatic forensic psychologist Ali Cray, whose [... more]
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Magick Life
From Amazon.co.uk: Aleister Crowley, occultist, poet, novelist, bisexual adventurer and drug user was not a man to inspire half-hearted reaction in his own lifetime. He was either adored or vilified. So Martin Booth's crisply written, agenda-free [... more]
CDN$17.50
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The Contemplative Heart
an admirer of good writing & thinking: This book is so well written that the act of reading is in itself contemplative. It is not so much difficult to read, but rather each sentence resonates with a depth that requires stillness & presence of [... more]
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Lady Susan
Minor treasures from the Jane Austen treasure chest: Jane Austen is known for six complete novels, each one a masterpiece. This Penguin Classics compilation features one novel unpublished in her lifetime and two unfinished fragments. This book is proof [... more]
CDN$18.73
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