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The Moth presents occasional magic : true stories of defying the impossible / by Burns, Catherine,1969-editor.(CARDINAL)404166;
"Carefully selected by the creative minds at The Moth, and adapted to the page to preserve the raw energy of live storytelling, Occasional Magic features voices familiar and new. Alongside Adam Gopnik, Krista Tippett, Andrew Solomon, Rosanne Cash, Ophira Eisenberg, and Wang Ping, storytellers from around the world share times when, in the face of challenging situations, they found moments of beauty, wonder, and clarity, shedding light on their lives and helping them find a path forward." -- ONIX annotation.
Subjects: Anecdotes.; Biographies.; Moth (Organization); Moth radio hour (Radio program); Popular culture; Storytelling.;
Available copies: 16 / Total copies: 21
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The Moth presents a point of beauty : true stories of holding on and letting go / by Birbiglia, Mike,writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)501112; Moth (Organization),editor.(CARDINAL)800828;
"From storytelling phenomenon and hit podcast The Moth, featuring contributions from Elizabeth Gilbert, Quiara Alegraia Hudes, and Lin-Manuel Miranda alongside tales of an international rescue mission for Paddington Bear, a family matriarch running numbers in Detroit, an epic Lucha libre showdown in Mexico City, and more. An inspiring and entertaining collection of unforgettable true stories about finding unexpected beauty in life's transitions. Carefully selected by the creative minds at The Moth and adapted to the page to preserve the raw energy of stories told live, onstage and without notes, readers of The Moth Presents: A Point of Beauty will encounter moments that cut and moments that heal. If we look closely enough, we can find real beauty in moments when our lives change forever-for better or for worse"--
Subjects: Anecdotes.; Biographies.; Moth (Organization); Moth radio hour (Radio program); Popular culture;
Available copies: 16 / Total copies: 20
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Caterpillars in the field and garden : a field guide to the butterfly caterpillars of North America / by Allen, Thomas J.,1940-(CARDINAL)273936; Brock, James P.(CARDINAL)273935; Glassberg, Jeffrey.(CARDINAL)273934;
Includes bibliographical references (page 196) and indexes.
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Caterpillars; Caterpillars; Environmental education.;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 9
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Camilla and the caterpillars : how a young girl's love created a national park at home / by Figart, Frances,author.; Brass, Matt(Illustrator),illustrator.; Smokies Life (Organization),publisher.;
Subjects: National parks and reserves; Caterpillars;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Meticulous Jones and the skull tattoo / by Leathley, Philippa,author.; Schmida, Brie,illustrator.;
"On her tenth birthday, Meticulous Jones--known to her friends as Metty--receives her fate, as all children do, in the form of a magical tattoo on her hand. She hopes that her ink will reveal something exciting: a tattoo that will symbolize travel, or discovery, or adventure. What appears is a skull, balanced in the palm of a violet glove. Metty's fate is to become a murderer. Metty is swiftly hidden away by her father, Moral Jones, in a remote Welsh farmhouse, with only a miserable housekeeper (who's terrified she'll become Metty's first victim) for company. But when Moral goes missing, his sister, Aunt Magnificent, arrives to sweep Metty off to the glittering city of New London. Metty is mesmerized by the magic and enchantment she discovers there. But when she starts to hear rumors of a mysterious and dangerous organization known as the Black Moths, she wonders if they might be connected to her father's disappearance--and to her own fate...." --Ages 8-12.Grades 4-6.
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Novels.; Fate and fatalism; Magic; Missing persons; Tattooing;
Available copies: 35 / Total copies: 39
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Bloodsuckers of the animal world / by Rake, Jody Sullivan.(CARDINAL)662609;
Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index.Real vampires -- I want to bite your ankle! -- Blood thirsty bird -- Lampreys love blood -- The creepy candiru -- The buzz on mosquitoes -- Parasite moth -- Good night! sleep tight! -- Bugged by bugs -- Disgusting but helpful -- A fussy bloodsucking snail."Discusses various organisms throughout the world that consume blood as a part of their diets"--Provided by publisher.3456789560LAccelerated Reader ARAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Bloodsucking animals; Bloodsucking insects; Animals; Insects;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Natural beekeeping with Ross Conrad [videorecording] / by Conrad, Ross,1963-(CARDINAL)552277; Chelsea Green Publishing.; Mad River Media.;
Hives -- Smoker -- Hive tool & clothing -- Working with bees -- Bee types -- Bee development -- Bee stings -- Eggs -- Life span of bees -- Bee communication -- Varroa mites -- Non-toxic mite control -- Bears & other animals -- Wax moths -- Small hive beetles -- American foulbrood -- Chalkbrood -- Nosema -- Bee tea -- Seasons -- Harvesting.Produced by Mad River Media.Host: Ross Conrad.Vermont beekeeper, Ross Conrad, proposes a program of selective breeding and natural hive management. The video presents a comprehensive survey of natural beekeeping methods and challenges.
Subjects: Instructional films.; Instructional films.; Nonfiction films.; Bee culture.; Organic farming.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Ruthless creatures / by Geissinger, J. T.author.(CARDINAL)604234;
"Five years ago, my fianc©♭ disappeared. He left me with a wedding dress I'd never wear. Left me with the kind of scars that can't be healed. The man I built my future on vanished like a ghost. All that remained were my broken heart and a million unanswered questions. Until a mysterious stranger arrives in town. Tall, dark, and dangerous, Kage is as full of secrets as he is sex appeal. Though I know he's hiding something, I'm drawn to him like a moth to flame. Heat crackles between us with every look, desire flares into passion, and I fall hard, helpless to resist. But then I discover he's been sent to collect on an unpaid debt from my missing fianc©♭... And that debt is me."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Erotic fiction.; Romance fiction.; Organized crime; Missing persons; Man-woman relationships; Sadomasochism; Bondage (Sexual behavior);
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Never home alone : from microbes to millipedes, camel crickets, and honeybees, the natural history of where we live / by Dunn, Rob,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue: homo indoorus -- Wonder -- The hot spring in the basement -- Seeing in the dark -- Absence as a disease -- Bathing in a stream of life -- The problem with abundance -- The far sighted ecologist -- What good is a camel cricket? -- The problem with cockroaches is us -- Look what the cat dragged in -- Gardening the bodies of babies -- The flavor of biodiversity.Even when the floors are sparkling clean and the house seems silent, our domestic domain is wild beyond imagination. In Never Home Alone, biologist Rob Dunn introduces us to the nearly 200,000 species living with us in our own homes, from the Egyptian meal moths in our cupboards and camel crickets in our basements to the lactobacillus lounging on our kitchen counters. You are not alone. Yet, as we obsess over sterilizing our homes and separating our spaces from nature, we are unwittingly cultivating an entirely new playground for evolution. These changes are reshaping the organisms that live with us--prompting some to become more dangerous, while undermining those species that benefit our bodies or help us keep more threatening organisms at bay. No one who reads this engrossing, revelatory book will look at their homes in the same way again.
Subjects: Biology; Natural history;
Available copies: 22 / Total copies: 26
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Biology by numbers : an encouragement to quantitative thinking / by Burton, R. F.(Richard F.)(CARDINAL)325730;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-223) and index.An introduction to quantitative biology. The fundamental importance and usefulness of mathematical principles in biology. Putting two and two together. Darwin's earthworms. An inordinate fondness for beetles. The extinction of birds on Hawaiian islands. Pollen and honeybees. Estimating the sizes of redwoods and whales. Plant productivity and use of solar energy. The number of cells in the human body. William Harvey and the circulation of the blood. How our kidneys work. Calcium, and the small litter sizes of bats. Conclusions concerning biological arithmetic. Units, formulae and the use of old envelopes: confronting some obstacles to quantitative thinking. Units of measurement. Checking formulae for consistency of units; avoiding errors in calculation. Identifying appropriate units for unfamiliar quantities. Dimensional analysis. Approximate arithmetic. Cultivating a feeling for magnitudes. Looking at an equation. Aspects of energy metabolism. Energy from food. Basal metabolic rate. Fat storage and the control of appetite. Birds' eggs and respiratory quotients. Getting things in proportion. Aspects of human heat and energy balance. Fat as an acid to buoyancy in water. Buoyancy in fish. Temperature, metabolism and buoyancy -- a general formula. Blood volumes of snails. Blood volumes and animal populations -- another general approach. Perilous percentages, dangerous ratios. Dangers in treating losses of body heat in terms of percentages. Organ mass as a percentage of body mass -- the gonosomatic index. An organ of variable composition -- the snail's albumen gland. The composition of milk. Building a trophic pyramid. The smaller mass of predators than of prey. Populations of grazers on grassland. The base of the pyramid. Sodium in animals and plants. Sodium in herbivorous insects. The puddling behaviour of moths. The importance of sodium in the diet of moose. The distribution of sodium in the human body. Exchanges of water and carbon dioxide. Transpiration and photosynthesis. The dependence of plant productivity on rainfall. Solar energy used in transpiration and photosynthesis. The role of breathing in mammalian water balance. Water balance in foraging bumblebees. A geometric series. More approximate arithmetic. Darwin, Linnaeus and Malthus. Ancestors and inbreeding. The penetration of sunlight through water. Fish and probabilities. The genetic code. Introduction to logarithms. Natural logarithms. Bringing logarithms to life. How do logarithms come into biology? How else do logarithms come into biology? The growth of insects. The sizes of New Guinea fruit pigeons. Logaritms and sensation. Exponential relationships. Basic mathematics. Exponential increase: pollen grains in a sequence of sediments. Exponential decrease: dung flies and the attractiveness of dung. Exponential decline: viability of seeds in soil. Other ways of viewing an exponential decrease. Aspects of allometry. Relative growth: the claw of the fiddler crab. Relative growth of gourds. Macrotritopus -- a problem of taxonomy. Stag beetles -- failure of the relationship. Graphical estimation of scaling exponents and scaling coefficients. Antlers. Eye size in mammals. More on allometry, and on quantitative patterns in nature. Surface area/ volume relationships. Body size and metabolic rate in mammals: the importance of surface area. Body size and metabolic rate: Kleiber's rule. Birds' eggs: metabolism and water loss. The mammalian skeleton. Tree height and trunk diameter. Wind-borne seeds and fruit. The energetic equivalence rule. The self-thinning rule -- and a general caution. Numbers of bird species on Pacific islands. How the abundance of food affects rates of feeding. Rates of predation and the abundance of prey. Food availability and the grazing rates of herbivores. The characterization of trees and other branching systems.
Subjects: Biomathematics.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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