"Birder, environmentalist and activist Mya-Rose Craig is an international force. In her moving memoir, Birdgirl, she chronicles her mother's struggle with mental illness, and shares her passion for social justice and fierce dedication to preserving our planet. Meet Mya-Rose - otherwise known as "Birdgirl." In her words: "Birdwatching has never felt like a hobby, or a pastime I can pick up and put down, but a thread running through the pattern of my...

Rosanne S. McHenry worked as a California State Park Ranger at Folsom Lake and the Auburn State Recreation Area in the late 1980s, when the life of a patrol ranger could get extremely rough and tumble. From drug busts and drunken brawls to teen romance on display; from an attack goose to a pot-bellied pig on the loose, she regales her readers with madcap adventures. Within the pages of this book is the madness and gladness of the profession. The...

Get the Summary of Jonathan Meiburg's A Most Remarkable Creature in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "A Most Remarkable Creature" by Jonathan Meiburg is a comprehensive exploration of the caracaras, a group of raptors with unique social behaviors and intelligence. The book traces the evolutionary history and ecological significance of these birds, particularly the striated caracaras of the Falkland Islands, which...

When author Sue Westwind marries at midlife and moves to sixty acres of prairie woodland, she imagines that her life will now be fulfilled in ways she has always longed for. Yet the man she marries soon chafes at the demands of their rural life and tragically loses the passion for her that once had assured her their union would always be idyllic. As her husband grows silent and distant both from her and the land they live on, she finds erotic fulfillment...

"Als ich mich aus der stressigen Geschäftswelt verabschiedete, hatte ich keine Ahnung welchen Weg Gott für mich vorbereitet hatte. Doch als er ihn mir zeigte, wurde für mich ein Traum wahr: Ich machte meine Tierliebe zum Beruf. Heute zähle ich Katzen, Hunde, einen Haufen Hühner, diverse Ziegen und Pferde zu meinen regelmäßigen Gästen. Sie erinnern mich täglich daran, dass es einen wunderbaren Gott gibt, der mich in meiner Unvollkommenheit...

How did she navigate the world of venture capitalists and investment bankers to engineer the sale of her company and reap a personal fortune? And what does her subsequent odyssey to buy and donate a new national park in Maine's north woods-thus repaying what she regards as the "harmonic debt to the planet" she incurred by manufacturing beauty products-tell us about America and the American dream? Queen Bee is a fascinating biography of a fascinating...

This story is the anti-memoir of Chance, an immigrant to Australia from the UK, who has an affinity for water and lives by the Logan and then the Brisbane rivers, where he is a victim of monstrous river flooding and desiccating droughts. Wanting protection, he first investigates conditions with an ego-driven analysis striving for scientific detachment. His findings are inconclusive until he changes to philosopher Heidegger's method, phenomenology. His...

"Discover the true story of a man who lived alone in the mountains with a hobby of measuring snowfall that led to groundbreaking data tracking in climate change studies"--

The incredible story of how one man went from a hired hunter to becoming one of America's top champions for this iconic animal.

**A Los Angeles Times and USA Today Bestseller**
In this wonderous and eye-opening exploration, Steve Searles, the reknown and respected "Bear Whisperer" of Mammoth Lakes, takes the reader on a journey into the lives of these remarkable creatures and the world we share.

In...