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Type: fiction

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Author: Halldor Laxness

2007-07-08

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Type: documentary

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Author: Jared Diamond

Description: This explores how humankinds' relationship to the environment has determined what civilizationsThis explores how humankinds' relationship to the environment has determined what civilizations and societies have been able to survive and which have failed. It provides ready data for how we should approach our own environmental problems and speaks to the sorts of responses that will prove fatal. ...

2007-06-21

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Author: Yann Martel

Description: This is a tale of a god-loving boy who is a son of a zookeeper. He practices Christianity,This is a tale of a god-loving boy who is a son of a zookeeper. He practices Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism so he relies on his religiousity when he is shipwrecked and spends months in a life boat with only one other survivor. This survivor is a tiger from his father's zoo, and although he is threatening, he is also what keeps Pi alive. His need for work and vigilence keep him from succumbing to despair. ...

2007-05-23

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Author: Richard Price

Description: This explores the aftermath of a tragic accident in which a young man is horribly injured inThis explores the aftermath of a tragic accident in which a young man is horribly injured in a way that changes him and all around him in shocking ways. He wakes from a coma thinking that his only living relative is not really who she claims to be. He believes his "real " sister has been replaced by an imposter. A famous neurologist visits the town, but as he is unable to help the young man, he loses faith in his abilities and questions whether his whole career has been exploitative. All of this occurs in a town where the sandhill crane returns every year so the turmoil of people's lives is juxtaposed with the rhythmn of nature. ...

2007-04-26

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Author: Jennifer Chiaverini

Description: This is the story of two families from two different place and times that become intertwinedThis is the story of two families from two different place and times that become intertwined by way of shared experiences and strong committment to family. It details how new places become home while people never forget the places of their youth and how saved relics from the past are priceless...

2007-04-26

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Type: educational

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Author: Rosalie Bonanno with Beverly Donofrio

Description: This is a memoir by the wife of Bill Bonanno, organized crime and mafia member. She describesThis is a memoir by the wife of Bill Bonanno, organized crime and mafia member. She describes her childhood and unbringing as one of sheltered innocence to the lives of the men in her family and to the other organized crime families that her father made alliance with. She learned to be a wife and mother and to not question her husband, father, or brothers as to where they were going, how they made their money, or what they did. Her marriage to Bill was not what she expected to be as her husband had a life that was separate and secret from her. She learns to be a more independent woman when her husband is sent to prison, but her new knowledge does not stop her love for him. ...

2007-03-20

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Author: unknown

Description: This describes the history of tigers in the world and their treatment by humans. It revealsThis describes the history of tigers in the world and their treatment by humans. It reveals the horrors that tigers endured at the hands of the British during their occupation of India and how their suffering continued after Independence. It makes it clear that the tiger has adjusted to this treatment by habituating to humans and becoming more aggressive as they have no option. It laments that the chances for the tiger to survive in the wild are very slim. ...

2007-03-20

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Author: David Baron

Description: This explains the predicament of nature- loving people coming up against animals altered byThis explains the predicament of nature- loving people coming up against animals altered by the enormous changes in the natural world. Although many places in the U.S. and in the world look like places suitable for wild animals, their are many changes that are changing the way animals deal with their environments. Animals that are tolerated and even encouraged as the deer were in Boulder, CO in the early 80's, will bring predators back. Predators that feed on dogs and deer that roam backyards become habituated to this lifestyle. There is risk when wild cats lose their fear of humans. This risk became realty in Boulder as humans became victims....

2007-03-14

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Author: Richard Ives

Description: This is a factual account from the journal of a naturalist tour quide from 1986 through 1990.This is a factual account from the journal of a naturalist tour quide from 1986 through 1990. Richard Ives leads wealthy westerners in east Asia - people who spend thousands of dollars to see the vanishing tiger in the wild. Between tours, Ives travels to understand the way in which the world is changing so that despite the efforts of conservationists, the tiger, and many other species are doomed. He concludes that their demise is inevitable while seeking out opportunites to see the tiger on its own terms before it is too late. ...

2007-03-05

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Author: David Lodge

Description: Vic Wilcox is the managing director of a large engineering firm. He is a self-made man whoseVic Wilcox is the managing director of a large engineering firm. He is a self-made man whose life centers around his factory. He thinks that university studies are for ivory tower elitists, if he thinks about it at all. When Robyn Penrose, a temporary lecturer at the local university is assigned to be his shadow in a town/gown attempt, he is irritated and skeptical. This annoyance is even greater when he discovers the shadow to be a women and a feminist. For her part, Robyn is equally irritated that her shaky position at the university doesn't allow her to say no to this shadow scheme. Neither believes any good can come of it, but the consequences are unexpected for both. ...

2007-02-13