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Thunder in the Mountains - Book - Paracay
Thunder in the Mountains - Book
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“Beautifully wrought and impossible to put down, Daniel Sharfstein’s Thunder in the Mountains chronicles with compassion and grace that resonant past we should never forget.”―Brenda Wineapple, author of Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877 After the Civil War and Reconstruction, a new struggle raged in the Northern Rockies. In the summer of 1877, General Oliver Otis Howard, a champion of African American civil rights, ruthlessly pursued hundreds of Nez Perce families who resisted moving onto a reservation. Standing in his way was Chief Joseph, a young leader who never stopped advocating for Native American...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8.3 x 5.6
Author: Daniel J., Sharfstein
ISBN: 9780393355659
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Crazy Brave: A Memoir - Book
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A “raw and honest” (Los Angeles Review of Books) memoir from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding shelter in her imagination, a deep spiritual life, and connection with the natural world. Narrating the complexities of betrayal and love,   Crazy Brave   is a haunting, visionary memoir about family and the breaking apart necessary in finding a voice. 12...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Joy Harjo
ISBN: 9780393345438
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The Big Sticker Book of the Blue - Book
WWN836
Featuring more than 200 stickers, this beautifully illustrated and jam- packed sticker activity book brings the natural world of the sea to life. Following the highly successful   The Big Book of the Blue   comes this vibrant non- fiction sticker activity book. Starting with fascinating ocean facts, the activities in the book invite children to draw, color, and play games with ocean wildlife, inspiring their interest in nature as they play. The delightful “Sid the Sardine” accompanies readers throughout the book, explaining the more than twenty activities and games as he swims along. Author Yuval Zommer’s rich illustrations...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8 x 12
Author: Yuval Zommer
ISBN: 9780500651803
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50 Hikes in Kentucky: From the Appalachian Mountains to the Land Between the Lakes
50 Hikes in Kentucky: From the Appalachian Mountains to the Land Between the Lakes - Book
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Explore Kentucky's extensive, diverse, and often overlooked network of trails. Hikers in Kentucky will find a stunning array of natural rock arches, rushing rivers, spring wildflowers, and even a recently reintroduced herd of elk. Within the 670,000-acre Daniel Boone National Forest lie two wilderness areas, the Red River Gorge Geological Area, and a trail system highlighted by the 269-mile Sheltowee Trace National Recreation Trail. Outside the national forest lie Cumberland Falls, centered around the mighty waterfall and its world famous moonbow, and Natural Bridge, one of the largest natural arches in the eastern US. An overview...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 0.7 x 9
Author: Hiram Rogers
ISBN: 9780881505511
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A Sea Voyage - Book
WWN833
An exciting pop-up book that takes children on a journey across the sea, discovering one fantastic boat after another along the way Boats come in all shapes and sizes, and children will be enchanted by the range illustrated here in three dimensions as they follow a single boat across the sea and discover fellow vessels. With six three-dimensional pop-up paper designs brought to life in color by illustrator and pop-up book expert Gérard Lo Monaco, A Sea Voyage will fire the imaginations of sailors and explorers both young and old, and offer children an exciting way to discover different ways to journey across the sea. Illustrated in...
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Book Type: Pop-up Book
Dimensions (IN): 7 x 10
Author: Gérard LoMonaco
ISBN: 9780500650882
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Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry - Book
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A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today. Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry. This companion anthology features each poem and poet from the project―including Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bitsui, and Layli Long Soldier, among others―to offer readers a chance...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Joy Harjo
ISBN: 9780393867916
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Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems - Book
WWN848
A musical, magical, resilient volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near the Arkansas River. Stomp dance songs, blues, and jazz ballads echo throughout. Lost ancestors are recalled. Resilient songs are born, even as they grieve the loss of their country. Called a "magician and a master" ( San Francisco Chronicle ),...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Joy Harjo
ISBN: 9780393353631
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The Secret Galaxy PAPERBACK - Book
WWN844
A lyrical narrative voice (the voice of the Milky Way galaxy itself) is augmented by sidebars filled with amazing facts and insights about our galaxy, and by extension, our universe. Inspired by Tilbury House’s award-winning, Kirkus-starred book The Secret Pool (2013). A lyrical narrative voice (the voice of the Milky Way galaxy itself) is augmented by sidebars filled with amazing facts and insights about our galaxy, and by extension, our universe. Features Mike Taylor’s extraordinary night sky photography and breathtaking NASA images of the births and deaths of stars and galaxies. Combines a read-aloud bedtime story with...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 9 x 10
Author: Fran Hodgkins
ISBN: 9780884488354
$995
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The Woman Who Fell from The Sky: Poems - Book
WWN849
Joy Harjo, one of this country's foremost Native American voices, combines elements of storytelling, prayer, and song, informed by her interest in jazz and by her North American tribal background, in this, her fourth volume of poetry. She draws from the Native American tradition of praising the land and the spirit, the realities of American culture, and the concept of feminine individuality.
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Joy Harjo
ISBN: 9780393313628
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The Big Sticker Book of Birds - Book - Paracay
The Big Sticker Book of Birds - Book
WWN863
This book has over two hundred stickers and is filled with fun facts and activities centered around birds. Drawing from Yuval Zommer’s hugely popular, fact-filled  The Big Book of Birds , this jam-packed sticker activity book brings the avian world alive in a creative way. Taking fascinating facts as its starting point, activities invite children to draw, color, and play games with birds from around the world―creating an interest in nature as they play. Yuval Zommer’s rich illustrations illuminate some of the quirkiest creatures in the animal kingdom.  The Big Sticker Book of Birds  features over two hundred fantastic...
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Dimensions (IN): 8 x 12
Author: Yuval Zommer
ISBN: 9780500652008
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A Short Bright Flash: Augustina Fresnel and the Birth of the Modern Lighthouse
A Short Bright Flash: Augustina Fresnel and the Birth of the Modern Lighthouse - Book
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How a scientific outsider came up with a revolutionary theory of light and saved untold numbers of lives. Augustin Fresnel (1788–1827) shocked the scientific elite with his view of the physics of light. The lens he invented was a feat of engineering that made lighthouses blaze many times brighter, farther, and more efficiently than they had before. As secretary of France's Lighthouse Commission, he planned and oversaw the lighting of the nation's coast. Although Fresnel died young, his brother Léonor presided over the spread of the new technology around the globe. The new lights were of strategic importance in navigation, and the Fresnel...
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Author: Theresa Levitt
ISBN: 9780393350890
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The Big Sticker Book of Bugs - Book
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Featuring more than 500 reusable stickers, this beautifully illustrated and jam- packed activity book brings the world of bugs to life Following the success of   The Big Book of Bugs , here is an interactive book that brings the world of bugs to a child’s fingertips. The activities in the book invite children to draw, color, decorate, and place bugs in their natural habitats, encouraging children to engage with the information as they play. Children are first introduced to Freddy the Fly (who many will remember from   The Big Book of Bugs ) who buzzes with readers through the book, explaining each activity. The book includes...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 8 x 12
Author: Yuval Zommer
ISBN: 9780500651346
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When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry - Book
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Selected as one of Oprah Winfrey's "Books That Help Me Through" United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology. This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this country, whose literary traditions stretch back centuries. Opening with a blessing from Pulitzer Prize–winner N. Scott Momaday, the book contains powerful introductions from contributing editors who represent the five geographically organized sections. Each section begins with a poem...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Various
ISBN: 9780393356809
$1995
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How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2001 - Book
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Over a quarter-century's work from the 2003 winner of the Arrell Gibson Award for Lifetime Achievement. This collection gathers poems from throughout Joy Harjo's twenty-eight-year career, beginning in 1973 in the age marked by the takeover at Wounded Knee and the rejuvenation of indigenous cultures in the world through poetry and music.  How We Became Human  explores its title question in poems of sustaining grace.
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Joy Harjo
ISBN: 9780393325348
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A Map to the Next World: Poems and Tales
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"This breathtakingly honest collection of writings is alive with deeply felt and beautifully expressed emotions."―Wilma Mankiller In her fifth book, Joy Harjo, one of our foremost Native American voices, melds memories, dream visions, myths, and stories from America’s brutal history into a poetic whole.
Product Type : Map
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Joy Harjo
ISBN: 9780393320961
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Weird, Wild, Amazing! Water - Book - Paracay
Weird, Wild, Amazing! Water - Book
WWN861
Internationally renowned author and scientist Tim Flannery explores our planet’s rivers and oceans and the extraordinary animals that live in them. Can jellyfish become zombies? Are narwhals unicorns? Can a turtle live in a tree? Tim Flannery has the answers. In this informed and accessible book, he introduces some of the most spectacular and unusual creatures in Earth’s waters with in-depth and often bizarre facts. Flannery ties together concepts of climate change, evolution, conservation, and taxonomy throughout each animal’s profile, firmly connecting it to its environment while sparking wonder at its role in the...
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Dimensions (IN): 6.8 x 9.1
Author: Tim Flannery
ISBN: 9781324019473
$795
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50 Hikes in Alaska's Kenai Peninsula (2nd Edition)
50 Hikes in Alaska's Kenai Peninsula (2nd Edition) - Book
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An Explorer's 50 Hikes guide to one of Alaska's most stunning outdoor getaways. The Kenai Peninsula, with its proximity to Anchorage, is unarguably the gateway to the great outdoors of Alaska for vast numbers of visitors and locals alike. The Explorer's Guide 50 Hikes series, with its strength in providing the kind of narrative descriptions that allow you to choose which hikes to actually take and the critically acclaimed maps that make sure you make it back from where you were hiking, will provide any walker or hiker with the right tools for visiting one of the most beautiful regions on the planet. 50 black-and-white photographs and...
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 6 x 9
Author: Hiram Rogers
ISBN: 9781581573732
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Celestial Navigation
Celestial Navigation - Book
WWN128
Devoted to the practical and presented so even the most non-mathematical navigator can develop skill and competence. Includes techniques for checking compass and sextants.
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Book Type: Paperback
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Jeff Toghill
ISBN: 9780393302943
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Build-a-Bug - Book
WWN857
Mix and match heads, thoraxes, and abdomens to make 1,000 remarkable insects! From the best-selling illustrator of  Flip-a-Feather, Mix-a-Mutt, Flip-o-saurus,  and  Flip-o-storic  comes another book with charming artwork and die-cut pages for flip-and-flop fun―this time with insects!  Build-a-Bug  lets you create wacky combinations of ten types of insects, including a curious beetle, a climbing caterpillar, and a buzzing honey bee. Each flap includes a fun fact about the pictured species, and inside the front cover is a chart showing the real-life sizes of the insects featured, from the ant to the praying mantis.
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Book Type: Board Book
Dimensions (IN): 12 x 10
Author: Sara Ball
ISBN: 9780789214287
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Poet Warrior: A Memoir - Book
WWN850
National bestseller Three-term poet laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life. Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, and wise follow-up to   Crazy Brave ,   Poet Warrior   reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry with the power to unearth the truth and demand justice. Harjo listens to stories of ancestors and family, the poetry and music that she...
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Book Type: Hardcover
Dimensions (IN): 5.5 x 8.5
Author: Joy Harjo
ISBN: 9780393248524
$2500
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