Bob's bookshelf: all en-US Thu, 20 Oct 2016 10:50:57 -0700 60 Bob's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Phineas Redux (Palliser, #4) 374360 768 Anthony Trollope 0641563582 Bob 5 4.07 1874 Phineas Redux (Palliser, #4)
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average rating: 4.07
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]]> <![CDATA[Arnie and a House Full of Company (Arnie, #2)]]> 1278842 243 Margarete Sigl Corbo 0449217132 Bob 3 3.76 1985 Arnie and a House Full of Company (Arnie, #2)
author: Margarete Sigl Corbo
name: Bob
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1985
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Small House at Allington (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #5)]]> 144463 The Small House at Allington is the fifth book in Anthony Trollope's Barchester series. As with all of Trollope, it is beautifully written and draws the reader into its many interwoven tales.

Former Prime Minister John Major declared this particular novel to be his favourite book of all time, and in doing so, he was joining the good company of the countless Trollope fans who have ensured this work's lasting fame, and helped to enshrine its place as a literary classic.

]]> 695 Anthony Trollope 0140433252 Bob 4 4.05 1864 The Small House at Allington (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #5)
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average rating: 4.05
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]]> Crazy Critter Lady 12846776 238 Kelly Meister-Yetter 1461054486 Bob 5 3.33 2011 Crazy Critter Lady
author: Kelly Meister-Yetter
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Kelly Meister is a funny and engaging story-teller who makes the day-to-day details of caring for wild and domesticated animals shine in this delightful memoir. If she's not consoling the neighbor's lonely thousand-pound horse, or trying to find a vet for an under-the-weather raccoon, she's looking after the domestic ducks that have been dumped at a pond near her house - which is, fittingly enough, a renovated chicken coop. Crazy Critter Lady is a must-read for every animal lover, and a self-portrait that will leave you wanting more of Kelly and her critters.
]]> <![CDATA[Circling the Waggins: How 5 Misfit Dogs Saved Me from Bewilderness]]> 15754035 344 Cayr Ariel Wulff 0978692861 Bob 5 4.29 2012 Circling the Waggins: How 5 Misfit Dogs Saved Me from Bewilderness
author: Cayr Ariel Wulff
name: Bob
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2012
rating: 5
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There’s a lot more to living with dogs than wet noses and going walkies. Cayr Ariel Wulff entertainingly chronicles the rocky flip side of pet care in "Circling the Waggins," a heroic tale of triumph over turmoil and exhaustion. Wulff and her companion Dalene take in the misfits that have defeated lesser souls, including genius behemoth Waldo � a 75-pound golden/boxer mix with equal parts brains and brawn � an exuberant but mentally challenged Shih-tzu/Chihuahua named Rocket Boy, plus three more dogs, aging cats, and way too many accidentally acquired pet mice. Despite the challenges presented by this demanding and eccentric crew, Wulff’s chronicles may still send you to the animal shelter to do a bit of rescue on your own. You’ll want to reap the rewards of love and joy which "Waggins" so beautifully describes.
]]> <![CDATA[Ukulele Heroes: The Golden Age]]> 14371121
The book begins with how the uke came to the mainland United States from Hawai'i, and the Hawai'ian song craze of 1916-17, fueled by Tim Pan Alley. Profiled stars include Ukulele Ike, Johnny Marvin, Wendell Hall, “Wizard of the Strings� Roy Smeck, George Formby, Arthur Godfrey, Tessie O'Shea, who was a guest along with the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show , and Tiny Tim. Author Ian Whitcomb also describes how, when a British teen idol coming off a Top Ten hit, he took out his secondhand Martin uke and recorded his version of a 1916 novelty called “Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go with Friday on Saturday Night?� scoring another hit that led him to appearances on Shindig! , Dick Clark's Where the Action Is , and The Pat Boone Show .

Ukulele The Golden Age is essential for any uke enthusiast, and features a detailed discography and filmography, essential for any student of the art.]]> 176 Ian Whitcomb 1458416542 Bob 5 ʾԴdz󾱴’s Jiminy Crickett was one Ukelele Ike, whose sagging vaudeville fortunes were rescued by the Disney company. Or that cowboy star Gene Autry started out as a ukelele wielding singer in the Al Jolson mold. Or that British invasion star Ian Whitcomb’s second coming as a ragtime performer was scuttled by eccentric 1960s uke-ster Tiny Tim.

Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Whitcomb tells all in this lavishly illustrated, endlessly entertaining tribute to stringed ‘lamb chop� wielders, vividly and anecdotally tracing the origins of the instrument as the axe of choice in old Hawaii to its record industry ups and downs from the 1910s to the present day.

Readers with an interest in pre-WWII pop music will find much to salivate over here, while newbies who don’t know ragtime from a ragdoll or a uke from an URL will enter a whole new world populated by fantastic characters that not even J.K. Rowling could have conceived of. Tying it all together is the effervescent and endearing Whitcomb, who weaves his own personal story as a self-described ‘one-hit wonder� (“You Turn Me On�) into the greater fabric of the history of popular song. And what a talented yarn spinner he is, as adept at telling a rousing tale as he is at performing in the old British music hall style.

Inspirational sentence (from a section on bawdy British ukelele star George Formby, as he meets his wife-to-be): "She liked his sparkling eyes that radiated innocence, as if he'd just been dropped by the stork and was bewildered by what he saw down here below."

Whitcomb’s previous histories of popular music include After the Ball: Pop Music from Rag to Rock, Tin Pan Alley: A Pictorial History, and Irving Berlin & Ragtime America. Fans of more recent music will enjoy Whitcomb’s ongoing anecdotes about rock icons, including George Harrison, a ukelele fanatic who would subject innocent visitors to day-long lessons on the instrument, and Bob Dylan, who invited Tiny Tim to his Woodstock, NY fortress of solitude for a command performance.

And speaking of Tiny Tim, Whitcomb uses Ukelele Heroes to face down and ultimately forgive the man who turned the uke and its Tin Pan Alley repertoire into a garish joke in the late 1960s, just when Whitcomb was trying to garner respect for the instrument. He and his act ended up tarnished by the Tiny Tim brush, though he’s gone on to arrange, perform, and act in films when he isn’t tirelessly hitting the stage to extol the virtues of the old time songs.

Want even more Whitcomb? He’s got scads of great CDs. But for an up-close-and-personal dose of musical history, I highly recommend The Ian Whitcomb Show on XM satellite radio and downloadable as podcasts via iTunes.
]]> 4.12 2012 Ukulele Heroes: The Golden Age
author: Ian Whitcomb
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average rating: 4.12
book published: 2012
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I’ll bet you didn’t know that the voice of ʾԴdz󾱴’s Jiminy Crickett was one Ukelele Ike, whose sagging vaudeville fortunes were rescued by the Disney company. Or that cowboy star Gene Autry started out as a ukelele wielding singer in the Al Jolson mold. Or that British invasion star Ian Whitcomb’s second coming as a ragtime performer was scuttled by eccentric 1960s uke-ster Tiny Tim.

Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Whitcomb tells all in this lavishly illustrated, endlessly entertaining tribute to stringed ‘lamb chop� wielders, vividly and anecdotally tracing the origins of the instrument as the axe of choice in old Hawaii to its record industry ups and downs from the 1910s to the present day.

Readers with an interest in pre-WWII pop music will find much to salivate over here, while newbies who don’t know ragtime from a ragdoll or a uke from an URL will enter a whole new world populated by fantastic characters that not even J.K. Rowling could have conceived of. Tying it all together is the effervescent and endearing Whitcomb, who weaves his own personal story as a self-described ‘one-hit wonder� (“You Turn Me On�) into the greater fabric of the history of popular song. And what a talented yarn spinner he is, as adept at telling a rousing tale as he is at performing in the old British music hall style.

Inspirational sentence (from a section on bawdy British ukelele star George Formby, as he meets his wife-to-be): "She liked his sparkling eyes that radiated innocence, as if he'd just been dropped by the stork and was bewildered by what he saw down here below."

Whitcomb’s previous histories of popular music include After the Ball: Pop Music from Rag to Rock, Tin Pan Alley: A Pictorial History, and Irving Berlin & Ragtime America. Fans of more recent music will enjoy Whitcomb’s ongoing anecdotes about rock icons, including George Harrison, a ukelele fanatic who would subject innocent visitors to day-long lessons on the instrument, and Bob Dylan, who invited Tiny Tim to his Woodstock, NY fortress of solitude for a command performance.

And speaking of Tiny Tim, Whitcomb uses Ukelele Heroes to face down and ultimately forgive the man who turned the uke and its Tin Pan Alley repertoire into a garish joke in the late 1960s, just when Whitcomb was trying to garner respect for the instrument. He and his act ended up tarnished by the Tiny Tim brush, though he’s gone on to arrange, perform, and act in films when he isn’t tirelessly hitting the stage to extol the virtues of the old time songs.

Want even more Whitcomb? He’s got scads of great CDs. But for an up-close-and-personal dose of musical history, I highly recommend The Ian Whitcomb Show on XM satellite radio and downloadable as podcasts via iTunes.

]]> <![CDATA[One Man's Owl: Abridged Edition]]> 205126 240 Bernd Heinrich 0691000654 Bob 0 currently-reading 4.21 1987 One Man's Owl: Abridged Edition
author: Bernd Heinrich
name: Bob
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1987
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]]> <![CDATA[Hand-Taming Wild Birds at the Feeder]]> 484430 150 Alfred G. Martin 0911469079 Bob 5 4.10 1991 Hand-Taming Wild Birds at the Feeder
author: Alfred G. Martin
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average rating: 4.10
book published: 1991
rating: 5
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Although Alfred G. Martin's book fulfills the premise of its title with valuable tips on getting up close and personal with feeder birds, it's far more than that. This is really a memoir of one man's encounter with many species of wild birds in the woods of New England. Martin is a man who would throw open the window of his cabin on an icy cold winter's day and invite a flock of 200 Redpolls inside to peck seed off his kitchen floor. Nuff said! I wish I'd known him.
]]> <![CDATA[Pete Dunne's Essential Field Guide Companion: A Comprehensive Resource for Identifying North American Birds]]> 352041
After determining the most likely possibilities by considering such factors as habitat and season, the birder uses characteristics such as size, shape, color, behavior, flight pattern, and vocalizations to identify a bird. The book provides an arsenal of additional hints and helpful clues to guide a birder when, even after a review of a field guide, the identification still hangs in the balance.

This supplement to field guides shares the knowledge and skills that expert birders bring to identification challenges. Birding should be an enjoyable pursuit for beginners and experts alike, and Pete Dunne combines a unique playfulness with the work of identification. Readers will delight in his nicknames for birds, from the Grinning Loon and Clearly the Bathtub Duck to Bronx Petrel and Chicken Garnished with a Slice of Mango and a Dollop of Raspberry Sherbet.]]> 732 Pete Dunne 0618236481 Bob 5 4.52 2006 Pete Dunne's Essential Field Guide Companion: A Comprehensive Resource for Identifying North American Birds
author: Pete Dunne
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average rating: 4.52
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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]]> Born Without a Tail 1104733 176 Cayr Ariel Wulff 1419664360 Bob 5 3.69 2007 Born Without a Tail
author: Cayr Ariel Wulff
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average rating: 3.69
book published: 2007
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]]> The Moonstone 6138
This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive 1871 edition.]]> 528 Wilkie Collins 0375757856 Bob 4 3.90 1868 The Moonstone
author: Wilkie Collins
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average rating: 3.90
book published: 1868
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Duke's Children (Palliser, #6)]]> 374380 Plantagenet Palliser must face new challenges and a changing world if he is to hold his family together in the final installment of the Palliser Novels.

After losing his devoted wife, Glencora, Duke Plantagenet Palliser takes on a task he has never had the time or skills to bother with before: dealing with his children. Palliser has never been a doting father, what with the responsibilities of title and duty constantly beckoning him away, but now his government no longer needs him. And it does not take him long to realize that his children have somehow become adults of their own accord—though not for the better.

Unbeknownst to Palliser, his late wife had given their daughter, Lady Mary, her blessing to pursue a courtship with a poor gentleman friend of the duke’s eldest son, Lord Silverbridge. Meanwhile, Silverbridge has followed his father’s wishes by entering Parliament only to become enamored with an American heiress who refuses to marry unless Palliser willingly welcomes her into the family. And Palliser’s youngest, Lord Gerald, has managed to get himself expelled from Oxford.

With such odds set against him, the duke will have to find it within himself to change, to face the end of the proper world he has always known, and to accept the new world his family has embraced for the good of all.

With The Duke’s Children, Anthony Trollope brings one of the great classic Victorian sagas to a close.]]> 525 Anthony Trollope 0140433449 Bob 4 4.08 1880 The Duke's Children (Palliser, #6)
author: Anthony Trollope
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average rating: 4.08
book published: 1880
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]]> Dombey and Son 50827 880 Charles Dickens 0812967437 Bob 3 3.94 1848 Dombey and Son
author: Charles Dickens
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average rating: 3.94
book published: 1848
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Last Chronicle of Barset (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #6)]]> 149789
Drawing on his own childhood experience of genteel poverty, Trollope gives a painstakingly realistic depiction of the trials of a family striving to maintain its standards at all costs. With its sensitive portrayal of the proud and self-destructive figure of Crawley, this final volume is the darkest and most complex of all the Barsetshire novels.]]> 890 Anthony Trollope 0140437525 Bob 5 4.16 1867 The Last Chronicle of Barset (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #6)
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average rating: 4.16
book published: 1867
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]]> <![CDATA[Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)]]> 414295 here and an older one here.

Son of a bankrupt landowner, Frank Gresham is intent on marrying his beloved Mary Thorne, despite her illegitimacy and apparent poverty. Frank's ambitious mother and haughty aunt are set against the match, however, and push him to save the family's mortgaged estate by making a good marriage to a wealthy heiress. Only Mary's loving uncle, Dr Thorne, knows the secret of her birth and the fortune she is to inherit that will make her socially acceptable in the eyes of Frank's family - but the high-principled doctor believes she should be accepted on her own terms. A telling examination of the relationship between society, money and morality, Dr Thorne (1858) is enduringly popular for Trollope's affectionate depiction of rural English life and his deceptively simple portrayal of human nature.]]> 557 Anthony Trollope 0140433260 Bob 4 4.15 1858 Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)
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average rating: 4.15
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]]> <![CDATA[The Eustace Diamonds (Palliser, #3)]]> 73954
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.]]> 794 Anthony Trollope Bob 5 3.96 1873 The Eustace Diamonds (Palliser, #3)
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average rating: 3.96
book published: 1873
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]]> Phineas Finn (Palliser, #2) 374352 752 Anthony Trollope Bob 4 3.98 1869 Phineas Finn (Palliser, #2)
author: Anthony Trollope
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average rating: 3.98
book published: 1869
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Can You Forgive Her? (Palliser #1)]]> 374371 847 Anthony Trollope 0140430865 Bob 5 3.97 1865 Can You Forgive Her? (Palliser #1)
author: Anthony Trollope
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average rating: 3.97
book published: 1865
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)]]> 267123 The Warden centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in possession of an income from a charity far in excess of the sum devoted to the purposes of the foundation. On discovering this, young John Bold turns his reforming zeal to exposing what he regards as an abuse of privilege, despite the fact that he is in love with Mr. Harding's daughter Eleanor. It was a highly topical novel (a case regarding the misapplication of church funds was the scandalous subject of contemporary debate), but like other great Victorian novelists, Trollope uses the specific case to explore and illuminate the universal complexities of human motivation and social morality]]> 336 Anthony Trollope 0192834088 Bob 4 3.75 1855 The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
author: Anthony Trollope
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average rating: 3.75
book published: 1855
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]]> <![CDATA[Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #2)]]> 125321
Barchester Towers is one of the best-loved novels in Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire series, which captured nineteenth-century provincial England with wit, worldly wisdom and an unparalleled gift for characterization. It is the second book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire.]]> 418 Anthony Trollope 1406923044 Bob 5 4.03 1857 Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #2)
author: Anthony Trollope
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average rating: 4.03
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]]> Our Mutual Friend 31244 Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heap’s expected heir, is found in the Thames, fortunes change hands surprisingly, raising to new heights “Noddy� Boffin, a low-born but kindly clerk who becomes “the Golden Dustman.� Charles Dickens’s last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend encompasses the great themes of his earlier works: the pretensions of the nouveaux riches, the ingenuousness of the aspiring poor, and the unfailing power of wealth to corrupt all who crave it. With its flavorful cast of characters and numerous subplots, Our Mutual Friend is one of Dickens’s most complex—and satisfying—novels.]]> 801 Charles Dickens 0375761144 Bob 5 4.08 1865 Our Mutual Friend
author: Charles Dickens
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average rating: 4.08
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]]> The Way We Live Now 149785 776 Anthony Trollope 1853262552 Bob 5 4.07 1875 The Way We Live Now
author: Anthony Trollope
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average rating: 4.07
book published: 1875
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]]> Hard Times 5344
Without a moral compass to guide them, the children sink into lives of desperation and despair, played out against the grim background of Coketown, a wretched community shadowed by an industrial behemoth. Louisa falls into a loveless marriage with Josiah Bouderby, a vulgar banker, while the unscrupulous Tom, totally lacking in principle, becomes a thief who frames an innocent man for his crime. Witnessing the degradation and downfall of his children, Gradgrind realizes that his own misguided principles have ruined their lives.

Considered Dickens' harshest indictment of mid-19th-century industrial practices and their dehumanizing effects, this novel offers a fascinating tapestry of Victorian life, filled with the richness of detail, brilliant characterization, and passionate social concern that typify the novelist's finest creations.

Of Dickens' work, the eminent Victorian critic John Ruskin had this to say: "He is entirely right in his main drift and purpose in every book he has written; and all of them, but especially Hard Times, should be studied with close and earnest care by persons interested in social questions."]]> 384 Charles Dickens 0321107217 Bob 3 3.55 1854 Hard Times
author: Charles Dickens
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average rating: 3.55
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]]> Nicholas Nickleby 325085 817 Charles Dickens 0140435123 Bob 5 3.92 1839 Nicholas Nickleby
author: Charles Dickens
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average rating: 3.92
book published: 1839
rating: 5
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]]> Little Dorrit 31250 860 Charles Dickens Bob 3 4.00 1857 Little Dorrit
author: Charles Dickens
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average rating: 4.00
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]]> Bleak House 31242
“Jarndyce and Jarndyce� is an infamous lawsuit that has been in process for generations. Nobody can remember exactly how the case started but many different individuals have found their fortunes caught up in it. Esther Summerson watches as her friends and neighbours are consumed by their hopes and disappointments with the proceedings. But while the intricate puzzles of the lawsuit are being debated by lawyers, other more dramatic mysteries are unfolding that involve heartbreak, lost children, blackmail and murder.

The fog and cold that permeate Bleak House mirror a Victorian England mired in spiritual insolvency. Dickens brought all his passion, brilliance, and narrative verve to this huge novel of lives entangled in a multi-generational lawsuit—and through it, he achieved, at age 41, a stature almost Shakespearean.]]> 1017 Charles Dickens 0143037617 Bob 5 4.01 1853 Bleak House
author: Charles Dickens
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average rating: 4.01
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rating: 5
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]]> David Copperfield 58696 882 Charles Dickens Bob 5 4.02 1850 David Copperfield
author: Charles Dickens
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average rating: 4.02
book published: 1850
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]]> Oliver Twist 18254
The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself lured into a den of thieves peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the Artful Dodger, vicious burglar Bill Sikes, his dog Bull's Eye, and prostitute Nancy, all watched over by cunning master-thief Fagin. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.

This Penguin Classics edition of Oliver Twist is the first critical edition to faithfully reproduce the text as its earliest readers would have encountered it from its serialisation in Bentley's Miscellany, and includes an introduction by Philip Horne, a glossary of Victorian thieves' slang, a chronology of Dickens's life, a map of contemporary London and all of George Cruikshank's original illustrations.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 608 Charles Dickens Bob 5 3.88 1838 Oliver Twist
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]]> Great Expectations 2623
Pip must discover his true self, and his own set of values and priorities. Whether such values allow one to prosper in the complex world of early Victorian England is the major question posed by Great Expectations, one of Dickens's most fascinating, and disturbing, novels.

This edition includes the original, discarded ending, Dickens's brief working notes, and the serial instalments and chapter divisions in different editions. It also uses the definitive Clarendon text.]]> 544 Charles Dickens 0192833596 Bob 5 3.78 1861 Great Expectations
author: Charles Dickens
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average rating: 3.78
book published: 1861
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]]> <![CDATA[Voices (Inspector Erlendur #5)]]> 498405
The Christmas rush is at its peak in a grand Reykjavík hotel when Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson is called in to investigate a murder. The hotel Santa has been stabbed, and Erlendur and his detective colleagues have no shortage of suspects between hotel staff and the international travelers staying for the holidays.

But then a shocking secret surfaces. As Christmas Day approaches, Erlendur must deal with his difficult daughter, pursue a possible romantic interest, and untangle a long-buried web of malice and greed to find the murderer.

One of Indridason's most accomplished works to date, Voices is sure to win him a multitude of new American suspense fans.]]> 320 Arnaldur Indriðason 1846550335 Bob 4 3.92 2002 Voices (Inspector Erlendur #5)
author: Arnaldur Indriðason
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average rating: 3.92
book published: 2002
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[One Step Behind (Kurt Wallander, #7)]]> 39799 450 Henning Mankell 0099448874 Bob 5 4.09 1997 One Step Behind (Kurt Wallander, #7)
author: Henning Mankell
name: Bob
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1997
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Don't Look Back (Konrad Sejer #2)]]> 280346
Critically acclaimed across Europe, Karin Fossum's Inspector Sejer novels are masterfully constructed, psychologically convincing, and compulsively readable. They evoke a world that is at once profoundly disturbing and terrifyingly familiar.
]]> 320 Karin Fossum 0156031361 Bob 5 3.80 2004 Don't Look Back (Konrad Sejer #2)
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average rating: 3.80
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]]> <![CDATA[The Abominable Man (Martin Beck, #7)]]> 1105468 216 Maj Sjöwall 0007242972 Bob 4 4.02 1971 The Abominable Man (Martin Beck, #7)
author: Maj Sjöwall
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average rating: 4.02
book published: 1971
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Murder at the Savoy (Martin Beck, #6)]]> 316834 204 Maj Sjöwall 0394723422 Bob 4 3.88 1970 Murder at the Savoy (Martin Beck, #6)
author: Maj Sjöwall
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average rating: 3.88
book published: 1970
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Sidetracked (Kurt Wallander, #5)]]> 39796
In the award-winning Sidetracked, Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame. The next day he is called to a beach where Sweden’s former Minister of Justice has been axed to death and scalped. The murder has the obvious markings of a demented serial killer, and Wallander is frantic to find him before he strikes again. But his investigation is beset with a handful of obstacles—a department distracted by the threat of impending cutbacks and the frivolity of World Cup soccer, a tenuous long-distance relationship with a murdered policeman’s widow, and the unshakably haunting preoccupation with the young girl who set herself on fire. Fascinating and astute, Sidetracked is a compelling mystery enhanced by keen social awareness.]]> 420 Henning Mankell 1400031567 Bob 5 4.08 1995 Sidetracked (Kurt Wallander, #5)
author: Henning Mankell
name: Bob
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1995
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Man on the Balcony (Martin Beck, #3)]]> 163767
A quietly relentless thriller, The Man on the Balcony juxtaposes the most inhuman of crimes with the humanity of the men who must solve it -- their perseverance, frustration, and horror -- resulting in a police procedural that is as moving and credible as it is enthralling.]]> 192 Maj Sjöwall 0679745963 Bob 5 3.91 1967 The Man on the Balcony (Martin Beck, #3)
author: Maj Sjöwall
name: Bob
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1967
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Man Who Went Up in Smoke (Martin Beck, #2)]]> 913882 192 Maj Sjöwall 0679745971 Bob 5 3.84 1966 The Man Who Went Up in Smoke (Martin Beck, #2)
author: Maj Sjöwall
name: Bob
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1966
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Laughing Policeman (Martin Beck, #4)]]> 927672 224 Maj Sjöwall 0679742239 Bob 5 3.98 1967 The Laughing Policeman (Martin Beck, #4)
author: Maj Sjöwall
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average rating: 3.98
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rating: 5
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]]> Roseanna (Martin Beck, #1) 595538 224 Maj Sjöwall 067974598X Bob 5 3.77 1965 Roseanna (Martin Beck, #1)
author: Maj Sjöwall
name: Bob
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1965
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Boy Who Followed Ripley (Ripley, #4)]]> 160472 “Tom Ripley è immancabilmente un discendente di Gatsby, uno spiantato senza passato che non si fermerà davanti a niente.� Frank Rich, The New York Times Magazine]]> 292 Patricia Highsmith 067974567X Bob 3 3.73 1980 The Boy Who Followed Ripley (Ripley, #4)
author: Patricia Highsmith
name: Bob
average rating: 3.73
book published: 1980
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Locked Room (Martin Beck, #8)]]> 1105470 291 Maj Sjöwall 0007242980 Bob 4 3.94 1972 The Locked Room (Martin Beck, #8)
author: Maj Sjöwall
name: Bob
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1972
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Ripley Under Ground (Ripley, #2)]]> 427499 ]]> 298 Patricia Highsmith 0679742301 Bob 4 3.79 1970 Ripley Under Ground (Ripley, #2)
author: Patricia Highsmith
name: Bob
average rating: 3.79
book published: 1970
rating: 4
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]]> Ripley's Game (Ripley, #3) 227017 255 Patricia Highsmith 0099283689 Bob 5 3.83 1974 Ripley's Game (Ripley, #3)
author: Patricia Highsmith
name: Bob
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1974
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)]]> 156024 The Ambassadors, The Talented Mr. Ripley—is up to his tricks in a 90s film and also Rene Clement's 60s film, "Purple Noon."]]> 249 Patricia Highsmith Bob 5 3.91 1955 The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
author: Patricia Highsmith
name: Bob
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1955
rating: 5
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]]> Poodle Springs 247060 Raymond Chandler died in 1959, he left behind the first four chapters of a new Philip Marlowe thriller. Now three decades later, Robert B. Parker, the bestselling creator of the Spenser detective novels, has completed Poodle Springs in a full-length masterpiece of criminal passion.
"More than just an impressive homage, this is a first-rate detective novel with all of the suspense, action, and human drama that we have come to expect from the best."--Playboy


Philip Marlowe is alive and well and living in Poodle Springs, California. He's married to a wealthy heiress now. But living in the lap of luxury hasn't made a dent in Marlowe's cynicism--or his talent for attracting trouble. Soon he's on a trail of greed, lust, and murder as dark and cunning as any he's ever seen. Philip Marlowe is back in business.


"Raymond Chandler fans, throw away your dog-eared copies of The Big Sleep...Philip Marlowe has returned!"--Milwaukee Journal]]> 304 Raymond Chandler 042512343X Bob 3 3.58 1989 Poodle Springs
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name: Bob
average rating: 3.58
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rating: 3
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]]> Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7) 153590 Playback is a classic novel by Raymond Chandler, the master of hard-boiled crime.

Stalking the tawdry neon wilderness of forties and fifties Los Angeles, Raymond Chandler's hard-drinking, wise-cracking Phillip Marlowe is one of the world's most famous fictional detectives.

Playback finds Marlowe mixing business with pleasure - getting paid to follow a mysterious and lovely red-head named Eleanor King. And wherever Miss King goes, trouble seems to follow. But she's easy on the eye and Marlowe's happy to do as he's told, all in the name of chivalry, of course. But one dead body later and what started out as a lazy afternoon's snooping soon becomes a deadly cocktail of blackmail, lies, mistaken identity - and murder . . .


'Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence' Daily Telegraph

'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times

'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony Burgess


Best-known as the creator of the original private eye, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen, and he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction. His books include The Big Sleep, The Little Sister, Farewell, My Lovely, The Long Good-bye, The Lady in the Lake, Playback, Killer in the Rain, The High Window and Trouble is My Business.]]> 166 Raymond Chandler Bob 3 3.78 1958 Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)
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name: Bob
average rating: 3.78
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rating: 3
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]]> The Simple Art of Murder 2051 384 Raymond Chandler 0394757653 Bob 5 4.15 1944 The Simple Art of Murder
author: Raymond Chandler
name: Bob
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1944
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Trouble Is My Business (Philip Marlowe, #8)]]> 11318
Trouble is my business --
Finger man --
Goldfish --
Red wind]]> 224 Raymond Chandler Bob 5 4.06 1950 Trouble Is My Business (Philip Marlowe, #8)
author: Raymond Chandler
name: Bob
average rating: 4.06
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)]]> 852401 250 Raymond Chandler 039475767X Bob 5 4.00 1949 The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
author: Raymond Chandler
name: Bob
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1949
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)]]> 2052
This is an alternate cover edition.]]> 231 Raymond Chandler 0394758285 Bob 5 3.96 1939 The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
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average rating: 3.96
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]]> <![CDATA[The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)]]> 2054 379 Raymond Chandler 0394757688 Bob 5 4.19 1953 The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
author: Raymond Chandler
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]]> <![CDATA[The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)]]> 776159 266 Raymond Chandler 0394758250 Bob 5 4.06 1943 The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Mask of Dimitrios (Charles Latimer, #1)]]> 46429 A Coffin for Dimitrios remains Eric Ambler's most widely acclaimed novel.]]> 304 Eric Ambler 0375726713 Bob 5 3.93 1939 The Mask of Dimitrios (Charles Latimer, #1)
author: Eric Ambler
name: Bob
average rating: 3.93
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)]]> 2050 Alternative cover edition of ISBN 9780394758275

Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard.]]> 292 Raymond Chandler Bob 5 4.12 1940 Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
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]]> Strangers on a Train 15677 Strangers on a Train, galvanized the reading public. Here we encounter Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno, passengers on the same train. But while Guy is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno turns out to be a sadistic psychopath who manipulates Guy into swapping murders with him. “Some people are better off dead,� Bruno remarks, “like your wife and my father, for instance.� As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy is trapped in Highsmith’s perilous world, where, under the right circumstances, anybody is capable of murder.

The inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1951 film, Strangers on a Train launched Highsmith on a prolific career of noir fiction, proving her a master at depicting the unsettling forces that tremble beneath the surface of everyday contemporary life.]]> 281 Patricia Highsmith 0393321983 Bob 5 3.79 1950 Strangers on a Train
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average rating: 3.79
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]]> <![CDATA[The Postman Always Rings Twice]]> 25807 The Stranger - is the fever-pitched tale of a drifter who stumbles into a job, into an erotic obsession, and into a murder.]]> 116 James M. Cain 0752861743 Bob 5 3.79 1934 The Postman Always Rings Twice
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]]> Nightmare Town: Stories 321270 Introduced by Colin Dexter, one of England's greatest writers of detective fiction, here are twenty long-unavailable stories by Dashiell Hammett, the author of The Maltese Falcon and one of the finest writers of the twentieth century.

In the title story, a man on a bender enters a small town and ends up unravelling the dark mystery at its heart. A woman confronts the brutal truth about her husband in the chilling story, The Ruffian's Wife. His Brother's Keeper is a half-wit boxer's eulogy to the brother who betrayed him. The Second Story Angel recounts one of the most novel cons ever devised. In seven stories, the tough and taciturn Continental Op takes on a motley collection of the deceitful, the duped, and the dead, and once again shown his uncanny ability to get at the truth. In three stories, Sam Spade confronts the darkness in the human soul while rolling his own cigarettes. And the first study for The Thin Man sends John Guild on a murder investigation in which almost every witness may be lying.

In Nightmare Town, Dashiell Hammett, America's poet laureate of the dispossessed, shows us a world where people confront a multitude of evils. Whether they are trying to right wrongs or just trying to survive, all of them are rendered with Hammett's signature gifts for sharp-edged characters and blunt dialogue.

Hammett said that his ambition was to elevate mystery fiction to the level of art. This collection of masterful stories clearly illustrates Hammett's success, and shows the remarkable range and variety of the fiction he produced.

As a novelist of realistic intrigue, Hammett was unsurpassed in his own or any day. - Ross MacDonald

A legend of a different kind: exemplary, not only of a certain kind of American fiction, but also of a certain kind of American life - Margaret Atwood

Cover photograph: Mark Adams]]> 405 Dashiell Hammett 033048110X Bob 5 4.06 1999 Nightmare Town: Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels]]> 30003 Here are ten of his classic suspense stories from the twenties and thirties - selected and introduced by Lillian Hellman.

The Gutting of Couffignal (35p)
Fly Paper (36p)
The Scorched Face (41p)
This King Business (56p)
The Gatewood Caper (18p)
Dead Yellow Women (58p)
Corkscrew (54p)
Tulip (48p)
The Big Knockover (57p)
$106,000 Blood Money (?)]]> 480 Dashiell Hammett 0679722599 Bob 5 4.20 1927 The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels
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]]> Double Indemnity 56616 Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. First published in 1935, this novel reaffirmed James M. Cain as a virtuoso of the roman noir.

Walter Huff was an insurance salesman with an unfailing instinct for clients who might be in trouble, and his instinct led him to Phyllis Nirdlinger. Phyllis wanted to buy an accident policy on her husband. Then she wanted her husband to have an accident. Walter wanted Phyllis. To get her, he would arrange the perfect murder and betray everything he had ever lived for.]]> 115 James M. Cain 0679723226 Bob 5 4.07 1936 Double Indemnity
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name: Bob
average rating: 4.07
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]]> <![CDATA[The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)]]> 2049
Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the �40s and �50s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily.

In The High Window, Marlowe starts out on the trail of a single stolen coin and ends up knee-deep in bodies. His client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband’s collection. That’s the simple part.

But Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck: they always end up dead. If Marlowe doesn’t wrap this one up fast, he’s going to end up in jail - or worse, in a box in the ground.

Starring Toby Stephens, this thrilling dramatisation by Robin Brooks retains all the wry humour of Chandler’s serpentine suspense novel. It was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 8 October 2011.]]> 272 Raymond Chandler 0394758269 Bob 4 4.05 1942 The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
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]]> The Continental Op 30004
The tenth clew.--The golden horseshoe.--The house in Turk Street.--The girl with the silver eyes.--The whosis kid.--The main death.--The farewell murder.]]> 288 Dashiell Hammett 0752856170 Bob 5 4.18 1930 The Continental Op
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average rating: 4.18
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]]> The Glass Key 30007 Dashiell Hammett's tour de force of crime fiction combines a bulletproof plot, authentically corrupt characters, and writing of telegraphic crispness.]]> 214 Dashiell Hammett 0752851330 Bob 5 3.96 1931 The Glass Key
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name: Bob
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]]> <![CDATA[Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)]]> 30005
The Op was in Personville, derogatory nickname aside, as the result of a letter to the Continental Detective Agency in San Francisco from Donald Willsson, publisher of the local paper, asking for an agent to visit. No other information. As soon as the OP arrives, the body count begins and it starts with his client!

'Red Harvest' is more than a superb crime novel; it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in America and one of the greats of 20th century literature.

Librarian's note #1: this entry relates to the novel 'Red Harvest.' Collections, and other Hammett stories can be found elsewhere on ŷ.

Librarian's note #2: the two serialized novels are: 1. The Cleansing of Poisonville (which later became Red Harvest), and 2. The Dain Curse.

Librarian's note #3: there are a total of 28 Continental Op short stories plus one incomplete; they can be found by searching GR for: 'a Continental Op Short Story.' They are: 1. Arson Plus, 2. Crooked Souls, 3. Slippery Fingers, 4. It, 5. Bodies Piled Up, 6. The Tenth Clew, 7. Night Shots, 8. Zigzags of Treachery, 9. One Hour, 10. The House on Turk Street, 11. The Girl with the Silver Eyes, 12. Women, Politics & Murder, 13. The Golden Horseshoe, 14. Who Killed Bob Teal? 15. Mike or Alec or Rufus, 16. The Whosis Kid, 17. The Scorched Face, 18. Corkscrew, 19. Dead Yellow Women, 20. The Gutting of Couffignal, 21. Creeping Siamese, 22. The Big Knock-Over, 23. $106,000 Blood Money, 24. The Main Death, 25. This King Business, 26. Fly Paper, 27. The Farewell Murder, 28. Death and Company and, 29. Three Dimes (unfinished).]]> 215 Dashiell Hammett 0752852612 Bob 5 3.98 1929 Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
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]]> The Thin Man 80616 The Thin Man is a murder mystery that doubles as a sophisticated comedy of manners.]]> 201 Dashiell Hammett 0679722637 Bob 5 3.92 1934 The Thin Man
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]]> The Maltese Falcon 29999 213 Dashiell Hammett Bob 5 3.89 1930 The Maltese Falcon
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]]> Catch Me a Colobus 111785 221 Gerald Durrell 0006344623 Bob 3 4.09 1972 Catch Me a Colobus
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Garden of the Gods (Corfu Trilogy, #3)]]> 1022568 Part of the trilogy of memoirs that inspired the television show The Durrells in Corfu: A naturalist’s adventures with animals—and humans—on a Greek island.

When his family moved to a Greek island, young naturalist Gerald Durrell was able to indulge his passion for wildlife of all sorts as he discovered the new world around him—and the creatures and people who inhabited it. Indeed, Durrell’s years growing up on Corfu would inspire the rest of his life.

In addition to his tales of wild animals, Durrell recounts stories about his even wilder family—including his widowed mother, Louisa, and elder siblings Lawrence, Leslie, and Margo—with undeniable wit and humor.

The final chapter in Durrell’s reflections on his family’s time in Greece before the start of World War II, The Garden of the Gods is a fascinating look at the childhood of a naturalist who was ahead of his time.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Gerald Durrell including rare photos from the author’s estate.

]]> 196 Gerald Durrell 0002162687 Bob 3 4.35 1979 The Garden of the Gods (Corfu Trilogy, #3)
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]]> Menagerie Manor 48134 180 Gerald Durrell 0143038532 Bob 4 4.11 1964 Menagerie Manor
author: Gerald Durrell
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average rating: 4.11
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]]> The Overloaded Ark 111792 253 Gerald Durrell 0571209335 Bob 5 4.11 1953 The Overloaded Ark
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]]> The Bafut Beagles 401761 Gerald Durrell 0755111796 Bob 4 4.20 1954 The Bafut Beagles
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name: Bob
average rating: 4.20
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]]> The Drunken Forest 977388 The Drunken Forest. With Durrell for interpreter, an orange armadillo, or a horned toad, or a crab-eating raccoon, or a baby giant anteater suddenly discovers the ability not merely to set you laughing but actually to endear itself to you.

Contents

Explanation
Saludos

1. Oven-birds and burrowing owls
2. Eggbert and the Terrible Twins
Interlude
3. Fields of flying flowers
4. The orange armadillos
5. Bevy of bichos
6. Fawns, frogs, and fer-de-lance
7. Terrible toads and a bushel of birds
8. The four-eyed bird and the anaconda
9. Sarah Huggersack
10. Rattlesnakes and revolution
Interlude
11. The Rhea Hunt
Adios!

Acknowledgements]]> 203 Gerald Durrell 0140013148 Bob 4 4.18 1956 The Drunken Forest
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]]> A Zoo in My Luggage 48137 My Family and Other Animals will love this hilarious tale, which finds him as an adult still charmed by his beloved animals. A Zoo in My Luggage begins with an account of Durrell’s third trip to the British Cameroons in West Africa, during which he and his wife capture animals to start their own zoo. Returning to England with a few additions to their family—Cholmondeley the chimpanzee, Bug-eye the bush baby, and others—they have nowhere to put them as they haven’t yet secured a place for their zoo. Durrell’s account of how he manages his menagerie in all sorts of places throughout England while finding a permanent home for the animals provides as much adventure as capturing them. For animal lovers of all ages, A Zoo in My Luggage is the romping true story of the boy who grew up to make a Noah’s Ark of his own.]]> 198 Gerald Durrell 014303524X Bob 5 4.09 1960 A Zoo in My Luggage
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]]> <![CDATA[My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)]]> 48132 My Family and Other Animals was intended to embrace the natural history of the island but ended up as a delightful account of Durrell’s family’s experiences, from the many eccentric hangers-on to the ceaseless procession of puppies, toads, scorpions, geckoes, ladybugs, glowworms, octopuses, bats, and butterflies into their home.]]> 273 Gerald Durrell 0142004413 Bob 5 4.19 1956 My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Birds, Beasts and Relatives (Corfu Trilogy, #2)]]> 48131 My Family and Other Animals is based on his boyhood on Corfu, from 1933 to 1939. Originally published in 1969 but long out of print, Birds, Beasts and Relatives is filled with charming observations, amusing anecdotes, boyhood memories, and childlike wonder.]]> 248 Gerald Durrell 0140043853 Bob 5 4.33 1969 Birds, Beasts and Relatives (Corfu Trilogy, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Sandy: The Sandhill Crane Who Joined Our Family (Northwest Reprints (Paperback))]]> 536217 174 Dayton O. Hyde 0870714864 Bob 5 4.03 1968 Sandy: The Sandhill Crane Who Joined Our Family (Northwest Reprints (Paperback))
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average rating: 4.03
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Arnie the Darling Starling (Arnie, #1)]]> 379344 208 Margarete Sigl Corbo 0449206548 Bob 5 4.20 1983 Arnie the Darling Starling (Arnie, #1)
author: Margarete Sigl Corbo
name: Bob
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1983
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America]]> 15830
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America is an indispensable resource for all birders seeking an authoritative and portable guide to the birds of the East.]]> 432 David Allen Sibley 067945120X Bob 5 4.63 2003 The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America
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average rating: 4.63
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]]> <![CDATA[Providence of a Sparrow: Lessons from a Life Gone to the Birds]]> 5970
B fell twenty-five feet from his nest into the life of Chris Chester. The encounter was providential for both of them.
B and Chester spent hours together playing games like bottle-cap fetch or hide-and-seek. They learned “words� in each other’s vocabularies. B developed a fetish for nostrils and a dislike of the color yellow. He grew anxious if Chester came home late from work. At bedtime he would rub his sleepy eyes on Chester’s thumb and settle to sleep in his palm. Chester ended up turning part of his house into an aviary and adjusting his social life to meet B’s demands. This was a small price to pay, though, for the trust and comfort of a twenty-five-gram friend who brought joy and wonder back into his life.]]> 304 Chris Chester 1400033853 Bob 5 4.34 2002 Providence of a Sparrow: Lessons from a Life Gone to the Birds
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]]> <![CDATA[Red-tails in Love: Pale Male's Story—A True Wildlife Drama in Central Park]]> 469060
The scene of this enchanting (and true) story is the Ramble, an unknown wilderness deep in the heart of New York's fabled Central Park. There an odd and amiable band of nature lovers devote themselves to observing and protecting the park's rich wildlife. When a pair of red-tailed hawks builds a nest atop a Fifth Avenue apartment house across the street from the model-boat pond, Marie Winn and her fellow "Regulars" are soon transformed into obsessed hawkwatchers. The hilarious and occasionally heartbreaking saga of Pale Male and his mate as they struggle to raise a family in their unprecedented nest site, and the affectionate portrait of the humans who fall under their spell will delight and inspire readers for years to come.]]> 352 Marie Winn 0679758461 Bob 5 4.08 1998 Red-tails in Love: Pale Male's Story—A True Wildlife Drama in Central Park
author: Marie Winn
name: Bob
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1998
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dog Who Rescues Cats: The True Story of Ginny]]> 1493914 176 Philip González 0060927801 Bob 5 4.13 1995 The Dog Who Rescues Cats: The True Story of Ginny
author: Philip González
name: Bob
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1995
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Ravensong: A Natural And Fabulous History Of Ravens And Crows]]> 97509 208 Catherine Feher-Elston 1585423572 Bob 5 3.74 1991 Ravensong: A Natural And Fabulous History Of Ravens And Crows
author: Catherine Feher-Elston
name: Bob
average rating: 3.74
book published: 1991
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Birds of North America (Kaufman Focus Guides)]]> 680650 384 Kenn Kaufman 0395964644 Bob 5 4.35 2000 Birds of North America (Kaufman Focus Guides)
author: Kenn Kaufman
name: Bob
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2000
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds]]> 42777 384 Christopher Cokinos 0446677493 Bob 5 4.24 2000 Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds
author: Christopher Cokinos
name: Bob
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2000
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Birds of North America: A Guide to Field Identification]]> 1253628 Vintage hardcover 340 Chandler S. Robbins 0307136566 Bob 4 4.29 1966 Birds of North America: A Guide to Field Identification
author: Chandler S. Robbins
name: Bob
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1966
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America]]> 155840 380 Roger Tory Peterson Institute 039526619X Bob 5 4.32 1980 A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America
author: Roger Tory Peterson Institute
name: Bob
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1980
rating: 5
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]]> The Sibley Guide to Birds 15832
The Sibley Guide 's innovative design makes it entirely user friendly. The illustrations are arranged to facilitate comparison, yet still capture the unique character of each species.

The Sibley Guide to Birds provides a wealth of new
—Captioned illustrations show many previously unpublished field marks and revisions of known marks
—Nearly every species is shown in flight
—Measurements include length, wingspan, and weight for every species
—Subspecies and geographic varients are covered thoroughly
—Complete voice descriptions are included for every species
—Maps show the complete distribution of every summer and winter ranges, migration routes, and rare occurrences

Both novice and experienced birders will appreciate these and other innovative
—An introductory page for each family or group of related families makes comparisons simple
—Clear and concise labels with pointers identify field marks directly
—Birds are illustrated in similar poses to make comparisons between species quick and easy
—Illustrations emphasize the way birds look in the field

With The Sibley Guide to Birds , the National Audubon Society makes the art and expertise of David Sibley available to the world in a comprehensive, handsome, easy-to-use volume that will be the indispensable identification guide every birder must own.]]> 544 David Allen Sibley 0679451226 Bob 5 4.68 2000 The Sibley Guide to Birds
author: David Allen Sibley
name: Bob
average rating: 4.68
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]]> <![CDATA[Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur]]> 7059341
Snowball is a cockatoo whose dance video went viral on YouTube and who’s now teaching schoolchildren how to dance. You’ll meet Harris’s hawks named Fire and Smoke. And you’ll come to know and love a host of other avian characters who will change your mind forever about who birds really are.

Each of these birds shows a different and utterly surprising aspect of what makes a bird a bird—and these are the lessons of Birdology : that birds are far stranger, more wondrous, and at the same time more like us than we might have dared to imagine. In Birdology, beloved author of The Good Good Pig Sy Montgomery explores the essence of the otherworldly creatures we see every day. By way of her adventures with seven birds—wild, tame, exotic, and common—she weaves new scientific insights and narrative to reveal seven kernels of bird wisdom.

The first lesson of Birdology is that, no matter how common they are, Birds Are Individuals, as each of Montgomery’s distinctive Ladies clearly shows. In the leech-infested rain forest of Queensland, you’ll come face to face with a cassowary—a 150-pound, man-tall, flightless bird with a helmet of bone on its head and a slashing razor-like toenail with which it (occasionally) eviscerates people—proof that Birds Are Dinosaurs. You’ll learn from hawks that Birds Are Fierce; from pigeons, how Birds Find Their Way Home; from parrots, what it means that Birds Can Talk; and from 50,000 crows who moved into a small city’s downtown, that Birds Are Everywhere. They are the winged aliens who surround us.


Birdology explains just how very "other" birds Their hearts look like those of crocodiles. They are covered with modified scales, which are called feathers. Their bones are hollow. Their bodies are permeated with extensive air sacs. They have no hands. They give birth to eggs. Yet despite birds� and humans� disparate evolutionary paths, we share emotional and intellectual abilities that allow us to communicate and even form deep bonds. When we begin to comprehend who birds really are, we deepen our capacity to approach, understand, and love these otherworldly creatures. And this, ultimately, is the priceless lesson of Birdology : it communicates a heartfelt fascination and awe for birds and restores our connection to these complex, mysterious fellow creatures.]]> 260 Sy Montgomery 1416569847 Bob 5 4.13 2010 Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur
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average rating: 4.13
book published: 2010
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]]> Ravens in Winter 122665
Design by Louise Fili.]]> 400 Bernd Heinrich 0679732365 Bob 5 4.20 1989 Ravens in Winter
author: Bernd Heinrich
name: Bob
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1989
rating: 5
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]]> King Solomon's Ring 13965 King Solomon's Ring, the book which brought him worldwide recognition, is a delightful treasury of observations and insights into the lives of all sorts of creatures, from jackdaws and water-shrews to dogs, cats and even wolves. Charmingly illustrated by Lorenz himself, this book is a wonderfully written introduction to the world of our furred and feathered friends, a world which often provides an uncanny resemblance to our own. A must for any animal-lover!]]> 192 Konrad Lorenz 0415267471 Bob 5 4.25 1949 King Solomon's Ring
author: Konrad Lorenz
name: Bob
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1949
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder]]> 543888 320 Kenn Kaufman 0618709401 Bob 5 4.27 1997 Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
author: Kenn Kaufman
name: Bob
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1997
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America]]> 15831 480 National Geographic Society 0792268776 Bob 5 4.36 1983 National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America
author: National Geographic Society
name: Bob
average rating: 4.36
book published: 1983
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior]]> 136486
Thus did The New York Times , in 1999, greet David Allen Sibley’s monumental book, which has quickly been established nationwide as the peerless, standard bird identification guide.

The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior is the new landmark book from David Allen Sibley. Designed to enhance the birding experience and to enrich the popular study of North American birds, the book combines more than 795 of his full-color illustrations with authoritative text by 48 expert birders and biologists. In this new guide Sibley takes us beyond identification, to show us how birds live and what they do .

Introductory essays outline the principles of avian evolution, life cycle, body structure, flight dynamics, and more. The 80 family-by-family chapters describe the amazing range of behavior dictated by birds� biology and environment. Among the subjects covered and illustrated

--molts and plumages
--habitats
--food and foraging
--vocalizations and displays
--courtship and breeding
--rearing of young
--migration and movements
--scientific groupings
--introduced species
--accidental species
--anatomy
--flight patterns
--nests and eggs
--conservation
--global distribution

Accessibly written, superbly designed and organized, and brilliantly illustrated, The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior is an indispensable source of information on the avian life around us.]]> 608 David Allen Sibley 0679451234 Bob 5 4.46 2001 The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior
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average rating: 4.46
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]]> Two in the Bush 48139 220 Gerald Durrell 0006345549 Bob 5 4.01 1966 Two in the Bush
author: Gerald Durrell
name: Bob
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1966
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]]> <![CDATA[The Parrot's Lament, and Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity]]> 10476
In The Parrot's Lament , noted environmentalist Eugene Linden offers more than one hundred true anecdotes about animal acts of cooperation, heroism, escape—even tales of deception or manipulation of human beings. Drawing on the first-person experiences of veterinarians, field biologists, researchers, and trainers, Linden has compiled a warmly entertaining and powerfully persuasive argument for animal consciousness that, while not human, far exceeds what humans usually grant animals.

Scientifically sound and emotionally compelling, The Parrot's Lament contains remarkable stories that are sure to resonate with animal lovers, turning skeptics everywhere into believers.]]> 224 Eugene Linden 0452280680 Bob 5 3.92 1999 The Parrot's Lament, and Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity
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name: Bob
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1999
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]]> <![CDATA[The Cowboy and His Elephant: The Story of a Remarkable Friendship]]> 344149
Bob Norris is a cowboy with an enormous empathy for animals. Handsome as a movie star, he was the Marlboro Man, with his face appearing on billboards around the world. But something was missing. When the hurt, vulnerable little elephant, Amy, came into his life, an incredible bond between the most unlikely of friends was forged.

Bob adopted Amy and through close observation, gentle training, humor, and endless perseverance, this accomplished horseman gradually coaxed Amy into overcoming her mistrust of humans, and her fear of the world. Amy became a beloved member of the Norris family, and partner to the ranch hands, but Bob knew from the start that the ultimate goal was for Amy to regain her confidence and her independence - even, if it were possible, to go back to the savannahs of Africa.

Amy may have left the cowboy's life, but she never left his heart. The Cowboy and His Elephant is a story of mutual friendship, of genuine love and compassion, and foremost, this is an American story with roots that run deep in the values and traditions of the American West.]]> 272 Malcolm MacPherson 0312304064 Bob 4 4.00 2001 The Cowboy and His Elephant: The Story of a Remarkable Friendship
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name: Bob
average rating: 4.00
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]]> <![CDATA[The Parrot Who Owns Me: The Story of a Relationship]]> 153272
The Parrot Who Owns Me is Joanna and Tiko’s story, as well as the story of the science of birds, and of parrots in particular. Woven into the narrative are insights and fascinating revelations from Dr. Burger’s work—not only about parrots, but also about what it means to be human.]]> 253 Joanna Burger 0375760253 Bob 3 3.98 2001 The Parrot Who Owns Me: The Story of a Relationship
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name: Bob
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2001
rating: 3
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]]> That Quail, Robert 157974 128 Margaret A. Stanger 006081246X Bob 5 4.27 1966 That Quail, Robert
author: Margaret A. Stanger
name: Bob
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1966
rating: 5
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]]> Mind of the Raven 254704 Mind of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich, award-winning naturalist, finds himself dreaming of ravens and decides he must get to the truth about this animal reputed to be so intelligent.

Much like a sleuth, Heinrich involves us in his quest, letting one clue lead to the next. But as animals can only be spied on by getting quite close Heinrich adopts ravens, thereby becoming a "raven father," as well as observing them in their natural habitat, studying their daily routines, and in the process painting a vivid picture of the world as lived by the ravens. At the heart of this book are Heinrich's love and respect for these complex and engaging creatures, and through his keen observation and analysis, we become their intimates too.

Throughout history there has existed an extraordinary relationship between humans and ravens. Ravens, like early humans, are scavengers on the kills of great carnivores. As scavengers, ravens were associated with hunters they found in the north: wolves and, later, men. The trinity of wolf, man, and raven in the hunt is an extremely ancient one. In considering the appeal of the raven, Bernd Heinrich suspects that a meeting of the minds might reside in that hunting trinity.

Heinrich's passion for ravens has led him around the world in his research. Mind of the Raven takes you on an exotic journey—from New England to Germany, Montana to Baffin Island in the high Arctic—offering dazzling accounts of how science works in the field, filtered through the eyes of a passionate observer of nature.

Heinrich has a true gift; through his stories, his beautiful writing, illustrations, and photography, the ravens come alive. Each new discovery and insight into their behavior is thrilling to read. just as the title promises, the reader is given a rare glimpse into the mind of these wonderful creatures. Following the dictum of Leonardo da Vinci�"It is not enough to believe what you see. YOU Must also understand what you see"—Bernd Heinrich enables us to see the natural world through the eyes of a scientist. At once lyrical and scientific, Mind of the Raven is bound to be a modern classic.]]> 380 Bernd Heinrich 0060930632 Bob 5 4.01 1994 Mind of the Raven
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name: Bob
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1994
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]]> <![CDATA[The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood]]> 133803 245 Sy Montgomery 0345496094 Bob 5 3.97 2006 The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
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average rating: 3.97
book published: 2006
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]]> <![CDATA[Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl]]> 3001512
On Valentine's Day 1985, biologist Stacey O'Brien first met a four-day-old baby barn owl -- a fateful encounter that would turn into an astonishing 19-year saga. With nerve damage in one wing, the owlet's ability to fly was forever compromised, and he had no hope of surviving on his own in the wild. O'Brien, a young assistant in the owl laboratory at Caltech, was immediately smitten, promising to care for the helpless owlet and give him a permanent home. Wesley the Owl is the funny, poignant story of their dramatic two decades together.

With both a tender heart and a scientist's eye, O'Brien studied Wesley's strange habits intensively and first-hand -- and provided a mice-only diet that required her to buy the rodents in bulk (28,000 over the owl's lifetime). As Wesley grew, she snapped photos of him at every stage like any proud parent, recording his life from a helpless ball of fuzz to a playful, clumsy adolescent to a gorgeous, gold-and-white, macho adult owl with a heart-shaped face and an outsize personality that belied his 18-inch stature. Stacey and Wesley's bond deepened as she discovered Wesley's individual personality, subtle emotions, and playful nature that could also turn fiercely loyal and protective -- though she could have done without Wesley's driving away her would-be human suitors!

O'Brien also brings us inside the prestigious research community, a kind of scientific Hogwarts where resident owls sometimes flew freely from office to office and eccentric, brilliant scientists were extraordinarily committed to studying and helping animals; all of them were changed by the animal they loved. As O'Brien gets close to Wesley, she makes important discoveries about owl behavior, intelligence, and communication, coining the term "The Way of the Owl" to describe his inclinations: he did not tolerate lies, held her to her promises, and provided unconditional love, though he was not beyond an occasional sulk. When O'Brien develops her own life-threatening illness, the biologist who saved the life of a helpless baby bird is herself rescued from death by the insistent love and courage of this wild animal.

Enhanced by wonderful photos, Wesley the Owl is a thoroughly engaging, heartwarming, often funny story of a complex, emotional, non-human being capable of reason, play, and, most important, love and loyalty. It is sure to be cherished by animal lovers everywhere.]]> 230 Stacey O'Brien 1416551735 Bob 5 4.07 2008 Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
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name: Bob
average rating: 4.07
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