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Salmon Wars - Book
MPS263
$19.99  
Paperback, Catherine Collins, 368 pages, 5.4 x 0.9 x 8.2", 9781250871503
A Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent and a former private investigator dive deep into the murky waters of the international salmon farming industry, exposing the unappetizing truth about a fish that is not as good for you as you have been told. A decade ago, farmed Atlantic salmon replaced...

$12.99  
Board book, Lenka Chytilova, 14 pages, 9.8 x 0.7 x 8.3", 9781641243452
A charming picture book to show kids what it would be like to explore the jungle! Unique board book teaches kids about the exciting world of the rainforest An amazing adventure takes children deeper into the tangled vines with every new turn of the page Learn about plants, bugs, and animals that...

$6.99  
Mary Pope Osborne & Natalie Pope Boyce , 128 pages, 5 x 7, 9781984893208
Track the facts about the unicorn of the sea--the narwhal--and its closest relatives! When Jack and Annie came back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #33:   Narwhal on a Sunny Night,  they had lots of questions. What is a narwhal? Why is it nicknamed the unicorn of the sea? What...

$15.00  
Paperback, Sue Halpern, 224 pages, 5.2 x 0.5 x 8, 9780375701948
Every autumn, the monarch butterflies east of the Rockies migrate from as far north as Canada to Mexico. Memory is not their guide — no one butterfly makes the round trip — but each year somehow find their way to the same fifty acres of forest on the high slopes of Mexico’s Neovolcanic...

Supernavigators
WPC148
$25.95  
hardcover, David Barrie, 320 pages, 6 x 9, 9781615195374
“Just astonishing . . . Our natural navigational capacities are no match for those of the supernavigators in this eye-opening book.”—Frans de Waal,   The New York Times Book Review Publisher's note:  Supernavigators   was published in the UK under the title  Incredible Journeys....

$22.00  
Paperback, Freeman House, 248 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780807085493
Part lyrical natural history, part social and philosophical manifesto,  Totem Salmon  tells the story of a determined band of locals who've worked for over two decades to save one of the last purely native species of salmon in California. The book-call it the zen of salmon restoration-traces...

$19.95  
Paperback, Gail Damerow, 320 pages, 7 x 9.3 x 1", 9781603425612
From addled to wind egg and crossed beak to zygote, the terminology of everything chicken is demystified in The Chicken Encyclopedia. Complete with breed descriptions, common medical concerns, and plenty of chicken trivia, this illustrated A-to-Z reference guide is both informative and...

$18.00  
Paperback, Helen Scales, 320 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9781472936820
There's something about fish that leaves a cold, slimy whiff in many people's minds. Either that, or fish are simply “food”; catching fish to eat is so deeply ingrained that we fish for fish, but we don't pigeon a pigeon or deer a deer. It's difficult to think of fish as wild, living things,...

King of Fish
RUN022
$16.95  
Paperback, David Montgomery, 271 pages, 6 x 9, 9780813342993
Traces the human impact on salmon over the last 1,000 years and examines the implications for recovery of salmon stocks as well as threatened species world wide. Concludes with provocative recommendations for natural resource use.

$17.99  
Justin Anderson, 32 pages, 10 x 11, 9781536225129
Discover the majestic unicorn of the sea with this suspenseful narrative from a BBC filmmaker and gorgeous art from an award-winning illustrator. With a   crack  and a   creak,  the frozen sea begins to melt—the ice splits apart and a new pathway forms. As winter comes to an end,...

Into Great Silence
PGN305
$18.00  
paperback, Eva Saulitis, 268 pages, 6 x 9, 9780807014462
Science entwines with matters of the human heart as a whale researcher chronicles the lives of an endangered family of orcas   Ever since Eva Saulitis began her whale research in Alaska in the 1980s, she has been drawn deeply into the lives of a single extended family of endangered orcas...

The Genius of Birds
PGN233
$18.00  
Paperback, Jennifer Ackerman, 352 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780399563126
An award-winning science writer tours the globe to reveal what makes birds capable of such extraordinary feats of mental prowess   Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of...

$9.99  
DK, 72 pages, 8.8 x 11.3, 9780744081565
Behold the brilliant bugs that lurk beneath every log and leaf - from bright butterflies to organized ants - in this illustrated guide. Become an eyewitness to the many different varieties of insects in this picture-led reference guide that will take you on a visual tour of the world of...

$12.99  
Paperback, Sharon Mentyka, 228 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9781943328604
Sometimes finding your way home takes more than courage. It takes a leap of faith. Chasing at the Surface  tells the story of a young girl’s courage and the healing power of nature. After her mother unexpectedly leaves home, twelve-year old Marisa struggles with her feelings of loss and...

$18.99  
Paperback, Rebecca Giggs, 352 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9781982120702
Winner of the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction * Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award A “delving, haunted, and poetic debut” ( The New York Times Book Review ) about the awe-inspiring...

$19.99  
Hardcover, Dave Eggers, 56 pages, 10.8 x 7.9 x 0.6", 9781951836733
From Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author Dave Eggers, Soren’s Seventh Song is a deadpan take on creativity and persistence, as told through the eyes of a humpback whale looking for a new song—with color illustrations by Mark Hoffman. Soren, a young humpback whale, loves...
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