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Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
In one of NPR's 100 Best Thrillers Ever, FBI agent Pendergast discovers thirty-six murdered bodies in a New York City charnel house . . . and now, more than a century later, a killer strikes again.
In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered.
Inside are thirty-six bodies—all murdered and mutilated more than a century ago.
While FBI agent Pendergast investigates the old crimes, identical killings start...
In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered.
Inside are thirty-six bodies—all murdered and mutilated more than a century ago.
While FBI agent Pendergast investigates the old crimes, identical killings start...
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
For more than twenty-five years, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould wrote a column called "The View of Life" for Natural History magazine. More than twenty entries from that column comprise this collection, which includes such essays as "Boyle's Law and Darwin's Details," "Brotherhood by Inversion (or, As the Worm Turns)," "Darwin's American Soulmate," "The Diet of Worms and Defenestration of Prague," "The Dodo in the Caucus Race," "Reversing Established...
Publisher
Questar
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
An inside look at the environments of both Hawaii and Cuba in this two-episode disc. 'Violent Hawaii' delves into how forces of nature have created a tropical paradise. 'Cuba: Wild Island of the Caribbean' takes an unprecedented look at Cuba's wildlife.
Publisher
BBC Earth
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan travels deep inside the Arctic Circle to meet the Sami people and their reindeer. Venturing out in the wilderness only with his solo reindeer for company, he hopes to capture the magical Northern Lights.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Group USA
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"A guide to exploring the outdoors and asking questions about nature"--
Dr. Temple Grandin introduces young readers to geologists, astrophysicists, oceanographers, and many other scientists through a series of projects to understand the world around them.
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st University of Minnesota Press ed.
Language
English
Description
Acute natural perceptivity and a profound knowledge of the relationships to be found in nature combine here in vivid evocations of the sights, the sounds, the vast stillnesses, and the events of the wilderness as the seasons succeed each other. But Mr. Olson is not content merely to "describe"; he probes for meanings that will lead the listener to a different and more revealing way of looking at the out-of-doors and to a deeper sense of its eternal...
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
1992, c1991
Language
English
Description
"Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ideas and improbable allusions paragraph after paragraph and then, uncoiling, hit it with such power that his fans know they are experiencing the game of essay writing at its best." -John Noble Wilford, New York Times Book Review
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