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The hermit thrush sings / by Butler, Susan.(CARDINAL)746936;
After a natural disaster has all but destroyed the earth, the orphaned and "defective" Leora, while searching for her sister, defies the oppressive laws of the land and joins a band of rebels trying to overthrow the government.860LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Accelerated reader.; Science fiction; Science fiction;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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Song of the hermit thrush : an Iroquois legend / by Dominic, Gloria,1950-(CARDINAL)633956; Reasoner, Charles,illustrator.(CARDINAL)318491;
The animals and birds of the forest hold a contest to choose which will sing a song to greet the day.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Iroquois Indians; Tales; Tales; Iroquois Indians; Indians of North America; Folklore;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Sacred song of the hermit thrush : a Mohawk story / by Tehanetorens,author.(CARDINAL)777749; Fadden, David Kanietakeron,illustrator.(CARDINAL)371998;
"Long ago, when the birds had no songs, only man could sing. When the Great Spirit walked on the Earth, he noticed a great silence. He realized the birds had no songs. He devised a great game and told the birds who ever could fly the highest, would receive a very beautiful song. But not all the birds were honest. In his desire to win the game, the small hermit thrush jumped on the back of the great eagle. The eagle flew higher than any of the birds, but when he came back to land, the Great Spirit said the hermit thrush had gone the highest since he was on the eagle's back. Hermit thrush was awarded a beautiful song, but in his shame for not being honest, he flew into the deep woods. To this day, you may hear the lovely song of the hermit thrush, but you may not ever see him"--Amazon.com.AD580L
Subjects: Picture books.; Mohawk Indians; Indians of North America; Hermit thrush; Birdsongs;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Food habits of the thrushes of the United States / by Beal, F. E. L.(Foster Ellenborough Lascelles),1840-1916.(CARDINAL)320621; United States.Department of Agriculture.(CARDINAL)138479;
Gray-cheeked and Bicknell's thrushes. pp. 11.Hermit thrushes. pp. 18.Introduction. pp. 1.Olive-backed and russet-backed thrushes. pp. 13.Townsend's solitaire. pp. 3.Veery and willow thrush. pp. 9.Wood thrush. pp. 5.
Subjects: Thrushes;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A worse place than hell : how the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg changed a nation / by Matteson, John,author.(CARDINAL)485442;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-498 and index.The poet's son -- The blond artillerist -- Burnside's bridge and a Broadway bar -- An army in crisis -- A man of God -- "The most beautiful girl runner" -- "Beauty" and "Sallie" -- "Believe me, we shall never lick 'em" -- Caroline Street -- Pelham does first rate -- The stone wall -- Southbound trains -- "A worse place than hell" -- The prince of patients -- "Death itself has lost all its terrors" -- "Our fearful journey home" -- The song of the hermit thrush -- St. Patrick's Day, 1863 -- "The duty of fighting has ceased for me" -- "To act with enthusiasm and faith.""Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Matteson illuminates three harrowing months of the Civil War and their ineradicable legacy for America. In December 1862, the Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and threatened to break apart Abraham Lincoln's government. Five extraordinary individuals experienced Fredericksburg's cataclysmic repercussions - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, John Pelham, and Arthur Fuller. Guided by duty, driven by desire, they moved toward lofty destinies: a young Harvard intellectual steeped in courageous ideals, a gay Brooklyn poet condemned by guardians of propriety, a struggling writer desperate to serve the cause and gain her philosopher father's admiration, a West Point cadet from Alabama excelling in artillery tactics, and a one-eyed minister seeking to prove his manhood. Because of what they saw and suffered, America, too, would never be the same. In A Worse Place Than Hell, John Matteson creates a gripping tale of the Civil War and profound cultural transformation. He etches an exquisite portrait, revealing through these lives how America was redefined by its most tragic conflict."--
Subjects: Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935.; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.; Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888.; Pelham, John, 1838-1863.; Fuller, Arthur B. (Arthur Buckminster), 1822-1862.; Fredericksburg, Battle of, Fredericksburg, Va., 1862;
Available copies: 19 / Total copies: 19
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Bestiary : poems / by Kelly, Donika,author.; Finney, Nikky,writer of introduction.;
Donika Kelly's Bestiary is a catalogue of creatures--from the whale and ostrich to the pegasus and chimera to the centaur and griffin. Among them too are poems of love, self-discovery, and travel, from "Out West" to "Back East." Lurking in the middle of this powerful and multifaceted collection is a wrenching sequence that wonders just who or what is the real monster inside this life of survival and reflection. Selected and with an introduction by the National Book Award winner Nikky Finney, Bestiary questions what makes us human, what makes us whole.Winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize; selected by Nikky Finney.
Subjects: Poetry.; American poetry;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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The music of wild birds / by Pelikan, Judy.(CARDINAL)757384; Mathews, F. Schuyler(Ferdinand Schuyler),1854-1938.(CARDINAL)321256; Mathews, F. Schuyler(Ferdinand Schuyler),1854-1938.Field book of wild birds and their music.;
Subjects: Birdsongs.; Songbirds.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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The singing life of birds : the art and science of listening to birdsong / by Kroodsma, Donald E.(CARDINAL)326490;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-451) and indexes.Beginnings -- Hearing and seeing bird sounds -- The Bewick's wren -- The American robin -- Good listening, good questions, this book -- How songs develop -- Learning songs: where, when, and from whom -- The white-crowned sparrow -- The song sparrow -- Borrowed songs: mimicry -- The northern mockingbird -- Songs that aren't learned -- Tyrant flycatchers: alder and willow flycatchers, eastern phoebe -- Why some species learn and others don't -- The three-wattled bellbird -- The sedge wren -- Dialects: how and why songs vary from place to place -- The great marsh wren divide -- The black-capped chickadee -- The chestnut-sided warbler -- Travels with towhees, eastern and spotted -- The tufted titmouse -- Extremes of male songs -- Songbirds without a song -- The blue jay -- Songbirds with especially complex songs -- The brown thrasher -- The sage thrasher -- The winter wren -- Songbirds with especially beautiful songs -- The Bachman's sparrow -- The wood thrush -- The hermit thrush -- Music to our ears -- Songs on the wing -- The American woodcock -- Tireless singers -- The whip-poor-will -- The red-eyed vireo -- The hour before the dawn -- The eastern wood-pewee -- Chipping and Brewer's sparrows -- The eastern bluebird -- She also sings -- The barred owl -- The Carolina wren -- The northern cardinal.Accompanying CD contains field recordings keyed to sonograms in the text.
Subjects: Nature sounds.; Sound recordings.; Birdsongs.;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 9
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American women afield : writings by pioneering women naturalists / by Bonta, Marcia,1940-(CARDINAL)328381;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-248).Amelia Laskey: Watching a Carolina Wren's nest -- Caroline Dormon: Camping in the Kisatchie Wold -- E. Lucy Braun: the forest of Lynn Fork of leatherwood -- Ruth Harris Thomas: Crip, come home -- Rachel Carson: Sea pansies, Basket starfish, The other road.Cordelia Stanwood: The hermit thrush: the voice of the northern woods -- Agnes Chase: Eastern Brazil through an agrostologist's spectacles -- Ynes Mexia: Camping on the equator -- Mary Sophie Young: Mary S. Young's Journal of Botanical explorations in Trans-Pecos, Texas, August-September, 1914 -- Edith Clements: Ecology and World War I -- Edith Patch: Marooned in a potato field -- Ann Haven Morgan: Fresh-water sponges in winter -- Margaret Morse Nice: The Awakening -- Nellie Harris Rau: Behavior of pompilid wasps.Susan Fenimore Cooper: Summer -- Graceanna Lewis: Birds and their friends -- Mary Treat: Plants that eat animals -- Martha Maxwell: From on the plains and among the peaks -- Annie Trumbull Slosson: Experiences of a collector collecting on Biscayne Bay, part II -- Katharine Dooris Sharp: The woman botanist -- Althea Sherman: The home life of the chimney swift, Down with the house wren boxes -- Elizabeth Gifford Peckham: Communal life, Ammophila and her caterpillars -- Alice Eastwood: Letter: May 7, 1906 in Portu Bodega -- Anna Botsford Comstock: a dweller in tents.Armed with hand lenses and opera glasses, traveling on foot, by buggy, or model T, they explored thousands of miles of deserts, forests, beaches, and jungles. They were pioneering women naturalists who observed, studied, and experimented, then returned to write up their findings. What resulted were exquisitely written and scientifically accurate accounts of their explorations into natural science - a field long dominated by men.Marcia Myers Bonta has collected the most charming and sensitive writings of twenty-five women naturalists of the late nineteenth through early twentieth centuries and supplemented them with well-researched biographical profiles. From Susan Fenimore Cooper's early warnings about the profligate use of natural resources to Mary Treat's tenacious defense of her scientific discoveries, from Alice Eastwood's defiance of convention to Caroline Dormon's, Lucy Braun's, and Rachel Carson's impassioned pleas to save the earth, American Women Afield catalogs the determination and devotion of these early scientists and acknowledges their invaluable contributions to ornithology, entomology, botany, agrostology, and ecology.
Subjects: Biographies.; Natural history; Women naturalists; Naturalists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Field book of wild birds and their music : a description of the character and music of birds, intended to assist in the identification of species common in the Eastern United States / by Mathews, F. Schuyler(Ferdinand Schuyler),1854-1938.(CARDINAL)321256;
First copyrighted in 1904, this edition is reprinted from the Fifteenth Impression.
Subjects: Birds; Birdsongs.; Birds.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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