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  • Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder

    A Memoir

    by Julia Zarankin ...
    When Julia Zarankin saw her first red-winged blackbird at the age of thirty-five, she didn’t expect that it would change her life. Recently divorced and auditioning hobbies during a stressful career transition, she stumbled on birdwatching, initially out of curiosity for the strange breed of humans who wear multi-pocketed vests, carry spotting scopes and discuss the finer points of optics with ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder

    A Memoir

    by Julia Zarankin ...
    Narrated by Nan McNamara ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 51 min

    When Julia Zarankin saw her first red-winged blackbird at the age of thirty-five, she didn’t expect that it would change her life. Recently divorced and auditioning hobbies during a stressful career transition, she stumbled into birdwatching, initially out of curiosity for the strange breed of humans who wear multi-pocketed vests, carry spotting scopes, and discuss the finer points of optics with ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Dreams and Reality

    A Memoir

    by Shifra Lipshitz ...
    Translated by Julia Zarankin ...
    Series series NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
    Dreams and Reality**, originally published in Yiddish in 1979, recounts Shifra Lipshitz's (1898–1984) nearly fifty-year sojourn in the Soviet Union that began as idealized infatuation and ended with radical disillusionment.** Born in Poland, Lipshitz became a leftwing activist, fleeing to the Soviet Union illegally in 1923. A believer in Bolshevik ideology, she lived and worked in Soviet Ukraine ... Read more

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    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds -- how they live and how they think.“There is the mammal way and there is the bird way.” But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring, and lately, scientists have ... Read more

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    Through the Garden

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    A Globe and Mail 100 Best BookFinalist, Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for NonfictionFinalist, City of Victoria Butler Book PrizeA deeply affecting portrait of a long partnership and a clear-eyed account of the impact of a serious illness, writing as consolation, and the enduring significance of poetry from one of Canada's most celebrated voices.When we ran off together in 1978, abandoning our ... Read more

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    Amazon Canada First Novel Award finalistA brilliant novel whose lead character returns home to their long-estranged mother who is now suffering from dementia.Alani Baum, a non-binary photographer and teacher, hasn’t seen their mother since they ran away with their girlfriend when they were seventeen — almost thirty years ago. But when Alani gets a call from a doctor at the assisted living facility ... Read more

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    Her Turn

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    One of The Globe and Mail’s “Summer 2021 books preview: 40 hot reads that will captivate you”One of Maclean’s’ “20 books you should read this summer”For fans of Nora Ephron and Jennifer Weiner, here is Katherine Ashenburg's witty, contemporary new novel about a forty-something newspaper columnist navigating her bold next chapter, set in Washington against the 2015 US presidential primary.In the ... Read more

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    Likeness

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    When the worst that can happen, happens, the only useful lesson is the knowledge that it can. That's the take-away: a world can actually end, time can actually run out, sadness can prevail. But I didn't know that then . . .From one of Canada's most celebrated writers and the author of the classic memoir The Danger Tree comes an occasionally hilarious, sometimes heart-breaking meditation on love, ... Read more

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    The Thing with Feathers

    The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human

    by Noah Strycker ...
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    Birds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood. As we learn more about the secrets of bird life, we are unlocking fascinating insights into memory, relationships, game theory, and the nature of intelligence itself.The Thing with Feathers explores the astonishing homing abilities of pigeons, the good deeds of fairy ... Read more

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    A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl

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    A field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's Fish Owl in the forbidding reaches of eastern RussiaWhen he was just a fledgling birdwatcher, Jonathan C. Slaght had a chance encounter with one of the most mysterious birds on Earth. Bigger than any owl he knew, it looked like a small bear with decorative feathers. He snapped a quick photo and shared it with experts. Soon he was ... Read more

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    How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans

    by Tony Angell, John Marzluff ...
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    New research indicates that crows are among the brightest animals in the world. And professor of Wildlife Science at the University of Washington John Marzluff has done some of the most extraordinary research on crows, which has been featured in The New York Times, National Geographic, and the Chicago Tribune, as well as on NPR and PBS. Now he teams up with artist and fellow naturalist Tony Angell ... Read more

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    “A stunning, spellbinding, poetic triumph." —Toronto StarFrom Giller-shortlisted author Kathleen Winter (author of the bestseller Annabel): A stunning novel reimagining the lost years of misunderstood Romantic Era genius Dorothy Wordsworth.When young James Dixon, a local jack-of-all-trades recently returned from the Battle of Waterloo, meets Dorothy Wordsworth, he quickly realizes he’s never met ... Read more

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