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  Tracking Giants - Big Trees Tiny...

  Amanda Lewis, Dr. Diana...

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  Amanda Lewis was an overachieving, burned-out book editor most familiar with trees as dead blocks of paper. A dedicated "indoorswoman," she could barely tell a birch from a beech. But that didn't stop her from pledging to visit all of the biggest trees in British Columbia, a Canadian province known for its rugged terrain and gigantic trees. 
   
   
   
  The "Champion" trees on Lewis's ambitious list ranged from mighty Western red cedars to towering arbutus. The only problem? Well, there were many . . . 
   
   
   
  Climate change and a pandemic aside, Lewis's lack of wilderness experience, the upsetting reality of old-growth logging, the ever-changing nature of trees, and the pressures of her one-year time frame complicated her quest. Burned out again—and realizing that her "checklist" approach to life might be the problem—she reframed her search for trees to something humbler and more meaningful: getting to know forests in an interconnected way. 
   
   
   
  Weaving in insights from writers and artists, Lewis uncovers what we're really after when we pursue the big things—revealing that sometimes it's the smaller joys, the mindsets we have, and the companions we're with that make us feel more connected to the natural world.

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  Thin Places - A Natural History...

  Kerri ní Dochartaigh

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  Kerri ní Dochartaigh was born in Derry, on the border of the North and South of Ireland, at the very height of the Troubles. She was brought up on a council estate on the wrong side of town—although for her family, and many others, there was no right side. One parent was Catholic, the other was Protestant. In the space of one year, they were forced out of two homes. When she was eleven, a homemade bomb was thrown through her bedroom window. Terror was in the very fabric of the city, and for families like ní Dochartaigh's, the ones who fell between the cracks of identity, it seemed there was no escape. 
   
   
   
  In Thin Places, a luminous blend of memoir, history, and nature writing, ní Dochartaigh explores how nature kept her sane and helped her heal, how violence and poverty are never more than a stone's throw from beauty and hope, and how we are, once again, allowing our borders to become hard and terror to creep back in. Ní Dochartaigh asks us to reclaim our landscape through language and study, and remember that the land we fight over is much more than lines on a map. It will always be ours, but—at the same time—it never really was.

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  Peach Street to Lobster Lane:...

  Felicity Cloake

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  'A glorious freewheel through the culinary quirks and delights of the USA – an unmissable treat!' – Tim Spector 
  When the nation’s ‘taster-in-chief’ Felicity Cloake announced her dream to cycle across America, the reactions were… mixed: “You’ll get squashed,” warned a Californian colleague. “You’ll be murdered,” added her mum. Friends panicked: “But… what will you eat?” 
  Determined to prove there’s more to American food than the cartoonish glamour of burgers and doughnuts (though she tries those too), Felicity embarks on the ultimate coast-to-coast adventure, tackling highways, byways and pieways by bike in an unforgettable election year. While the news cycle spins with outrage, what she discovers on the ground is far richer: a wildly varied place of warm hospitality, local pride and unforgettable flavours — from crawfish stew to sauerkraut balls, Memphis barbecue to Mission burritos, Italian beef to Tex-Mex gyoza, she dives into iconic dishes and the stories behind them. 
  Drawn to the scale, energy and contrasts of a country as complex as its cuisine, Felicity takes us along for the ride — mile by mile, meal by meal — finding a nation that’s welcoming, generous and full of heart where it counts: around the table. 
  Felicity Cloake, in her latest non-fiction masterpiece, PEACH STREET TO LOBSTER LANE, takes us on a culinary journey across America, exploring regional cuisines and cultural narratives through her unique lens. Her travelogues, filled with the best of American cooking, are a testament to her adventurous spirit and love for recreation. 
  For fans of Stanley Tucci (What I Ate in One Year), Peter Mayle (My Twenty-Five Years in Provence), Nigella Lawson (Cook, Eat, Repeat), Max Halley (Max's Sandwich Book), and Janine Marsh (My Four Seasons in France). 
  HarperCollins 2025

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  Radio Pheonix Rosewel - Radio...

  Chris Camov, Ward Everaadt

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  Radio Phoenix, a dodgy little Australian community radio station broadcasting in the 1960's, held together with gaffer tape, bad decisions, and a mostly inept voluntary crew who probably shouldn’t even be trusted with electricity!  
  At the helm is Mick, the self-appointed boss — a bloke who reckons the world owes him a living and runs the joint by rules he makes up as he goes.  
  Then it all goes pear-shaped - In a moment of absolute madness the station is accidentally burnt to the ground! 
  With the town-folk breathing down their necks rumours of alien visitations, and a hard deadline looming.  The race is on to get Radio Phoenix back on air before the locals completely lose the plot ... and their minds! 
  Armed with no money, no brains, bugger-all common sense, and a truckload of bad luck, the question isn’t how they’ll pull it off— or if they’ll torch what’s left of the town along with it? 

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  German Phrasebook - 2500 Super...

  Simple Language Learning

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  If want to enrich your travels with the most popular and useful German phrases and vocabulary close at hand, then pay attention... 
  This phrasebook will help those who want to gain practical knowledge of the German language. It is the ideal companion for traveling to German-speaking countries, as it makes it easy to communicate without any knowledge of the language. 
  Clearly arranged according to situations, it offers practical help with the most important words, phrases, and topics. 
  Here's just a tiny fraction of topics you'll discover:Good To KnowPronunciationTips For Becoming A Better SpeakerThe BasicsUseful Verbs and AdjectivesArriving At the Airport and Traveling By PlaneGetting Around: Car, Bus, Train or Cab?AccommodationAt the Restaurant, Food, and CookingThe SupermarketShoppingPost Office, the Bank, and TelephoneThe Body and Going to the DoctorHair/Beauty Salon and Going OutArt, Culture and Typical German TopicsFamily and RelationshipsWork and EducationOpinions, Descriptions, Likes and DislikesEmergenciesAnd much, much more 
  So if you want to make your stay in German-speaking countries as fun and easy as possible, then scroll up and click the "add to cart" button!

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  The Awful German Language

  Mark Twain

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  I went often to look at the collection of curiosities in Heidelberg Castle, and one day I surprised the keeper of it with my German. I spoke entirely in that language. He was greatly interested; and after I had talked a while he said my German was very rare, possibly a "unique"; and wanted to add it to his museum.    If he had known what it had cost me to acquire my art, he would also have known that it would break any collector to buy it. Harris and I had been hard at work on our German during several weeks at that time, and although we had made good progress, it had been accomplished under great difficulty and annoyance, for three of our teachers had died in the mean time. A person who has not studied German can form no idea of what a perplexing language it is.

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