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Running an island plane service with her grandfather on the remote islands of northern Scotland, Morag McGinty, on the verge of making a huge life change, is marooned on an off-grid island with a visiting ornithologist who has just the right perspective to help her pilot her course.
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Frankie O'Neill and Anne Ryan would seem to have nothing in common. Frankie is a lonely ornithologist struggling to salvage her dissertation on the spotted owl following a rift with her advisor. Anne is an Irish musician far from home and family, raising her five-year-old son, Aiden, who refuses to speak. At Beauty Bay, a community of summer homes nestled on the shores of June Lake, in the remote foothills of Mount Adams, it's off-season with most...
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"It's a few days before Christmas, and Meg's grandfather is hosting a scientific conference on owls at the Caerphilly Inn. Most of the family are there, helping out in one capacity or another, including Meg's grandmother, Cordelia - invited by Grandfather in rare gesture of peace-making, to share her expertise on rehabilitating large birds, including owls. An unexpectedly severe snow storm traps the conference-goers in the hotel, and one of the visiting...
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Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2003.
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English
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John James Audubon embarks on an expedition to the Canada's maritime provinces to document the Great Auk and other rare birds, sailing with Royal Navy Captain Henry Bayfield, who is determined to chart the coastline along the way.
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Forced to abandon his ornithology work after being wounded in combat, World War II veteran Jim Carroway secludes himself on a tiny island off the coast of Maine, where an old friend's captivating daughter draws him out of isolation during the month before she starts college.
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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A mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again. After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. When a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin, barefoot and covered in bruises, Joanna enlists the help of her reclusive neighbor, Gabriel Nash, to solve the...
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She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Charles Booker is thrilled to start married life in Two Harbors, Minnesota, with his ambitious ornithologist bride, Caroline-but he sabotages his own happiness when, blinded by his desire for a family, he tricks Caroline into a pregnancy she doesn't want. Caroline, bold and unapologetic, follows her own nature and holds Charles to his promise to parent their daughter without her help-an arrangement that allows her to travel the world and follow her...
11) Last things
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1999]
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English
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Eight-year-old Grace's father Jonathan tries to teach her about a rational, reasonable world, but she is drawn more and more into her mother's "strange world of myth and obsession" in a journey that takes her to New Orleans, the Nevada desert, a lighthouse-shaped hotel in California, and finally back to Vermont.--Jacket.
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