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  • Lost Memphis

    Series series Lost
    Memphis is a city founded on some of the great vestiges of our past. City staples such as steamboats, cotton plantations and exchange centers, relics symbolic of the city's rich industrial and agrarian legacy, have either been forgotten or completely lost. Every city, especially one as thoroughly modern as Memphis, naturally loses even the more recent aspects of its past through growth and ... Read more

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  • Haunted Memphis

    Series series Haunted America
    "Spine-tingling ghost stories . . . Thrilling tales of the Bluff City's past" ( Memphis Reads).Much like its muddy riverbanks, the mid-South is flooded with tales of shadowy spirits lurking among us. Beyond the rhythm of the blues and tapping of blue suede shoes is a history steeped in horror. From the restless souls of Elmwood Cemetery to the voodoo vices of Beale Street, phantom hymns of the ... Read more

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  • The Ghostly Tales of Memphis

    Series series
    Ghost stories from the Birthplace of Rock 'n Roll have never been so creepy, fun, and full of mystery! The haunted history of Memphis comes to life--even when the main players are dead. Come for the blues and barbecue, but stay for the ghosts. Have you heard about the spirits at the Memphis Zoo? Or how about the grisly history surrounding the Grand Carousel? Dive into this spooky chapter book for ... Read more

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  • A State of Change

    California's Forgotten Landscapes (Revised and Updated)

    A magnificently illustrated classic of California natural history, now updated in a long-awaited reissue."This wonderful book is a vivid reminder of how things began, and also as a vision of the rich and beautiful world we can work toward in our shared future." —Kim Stanley Robinson"This brings a lost world straight back to life—and one hopes it will help us work to restore it in the real world." ... Read more

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  • Deep Oakland

    How Geology Shaped a City

    by Andrew Alden ...
    A San Francisco Chronicle BestsellerRead the rocks as only a geologist can, with this deep drill-down into Oakland’s geological history and its impacts on the city’s urban present."This book has turned me into a newcomer to my own city, but has also changed the way I will view any landscape. I can think of few greater gifts than that."—Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing"Spending time with ... Read more

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  • Looking Up

    Help Through Chaos

    I have written poetry and captured photos around me for many years, so I have decided to share some of my words and insights with the world. I hope readers can find inspiration, comfort, and strength in my work as well. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    How To Write A Novel (Unabridged)

    Narrated by Laura Cunningham ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 38 min

    I address myself to the man or woman of talent—those people who have writing ability, but who need instruction in the manipulation of characters, the formation of plots, and a host of other points with which I shall deal hereafter. Although no school could turn out novelists to order there is yet enough common material in all art-work to be mapped out in a course of lessons. I shall show that the ... Read more

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    Stories and science surrounding the beloved bat, from an ecologist who has dedicated his life to the curious creature.Few people realize how sophisticated and intelligent bats are. Merlin Tuttle knows, and he has stopped at nothing to find and protect them on every continent they inhabit. Sharing highlights from a lifetime of adventure and discovery, Tuttle takes us to the frontiers of bat ... Read more

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  • The Control of Nature

    by John McPhee ...
    While John McPhee was working on his previous book, Rising from the Plains, he happened to walk by the engineering building at the University of Wyoming, where words etched in limestone said: "Strive on--the control of Nature is won, not given." In the morning sunlight, that central phrase--"the control of nature"--seemed to sparkle with unintended ambiguity. Bilateral, symmetrical, it could with ... Read more

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  • Rising

    Dispatches from the New American Shore

    A Pulitzer Prize Finalist, this powerful elegy for our disappearing coast "captures nature with precise words that almost amount to poetry" ( The New York Times).Hailed as "the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing" ( Chicago Tribune), Rising is both a highly original work of lyric reportage and a haunting meditation on how to let go of the places we love.With every record ... Read more

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  • A Natural History of Lake Ontario

    Formed by glaciers more than twelve thousand years ago, Lake Ontario has captivated nature lovers for generations. Unique among the Great Lakes for having once been connected to the sea, fossils from ocean life have been found near the lake's shores. Damage done to Lake Ontario's ecosystem from centuries of human activity was center stage in the fight to pass the Clean Water Act and the ... Read more

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  • Feathers

    The Evolution of a Natural Miracle

    by Thor Hanson ...
    One of America's great nature-writers explores the magic and science of feathers.**“An illuminating study of an evolutionary marvel.” ―**EconomistWinner of the John Burroughs MedalFeathers are an evolutionary marvel: aerodynamic, insulating, beguiling. From flying dinosaurs to showgirls on the Las Vegas Strip, their story spans hundreds of millions of years—yet has never been fully told. In ... Read more

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