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  Call of the Kingfisher - Bright...

  Nick Penny

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  Call of the Kingfisher is the enchanting debut from composer and wildlife recordist Nick Penny. This love letter to a short stretch of Northamptonshire's River Nene celebrates all the wild things that live there, especially the kingfishers. Nick has walked beside the river at Oundle for four decades. But for a whole year he gave the waterway all the time it asked for. The more attention he gave it, the more he saw the kingfishers and heard their high whistling calls. Set in a lovely but little-known part of England, Call of the Kingfisher relates a year by the river, the author's experiences there and the different people he meets. Other strands are woven around the elusive feathered protagonist: explorations of local history and landscape, from Roman and Bronze Age sites to watermills and centuries-old stone churches; visits at different times and to different places in the valley; homages to naturalists who lived nearby; forest dawns and dusks listening to the precious song of nightingales. But the background tapestry is the sights and sounds, and greens and browns, of the riverbank, shot through with the blue and orange threads of a kingfisher's glowing feathers.As a composer and wildlife recordist, Nick has a deep interest in sounds in the natural environment. He uses the local landscape and wildlife sounds as inspiration, and brings fresh insights into the sounds of the countryside. The book includes access to a number of high-quality birdsong recordings made alongside the River Nene - audio soundbites of nature's riches, from kingfishers and nightingales to owls and cuckoos. This is a book about the things that can be seen and heard when we approach nature with patience and curiosity. It celebrates people who have used that focus to help preserve wildlife and pass on their knowledge to future generations. Above all, Call of the Kingfisher serves as a call to appreciate what we've got, wherever we are, and to use our ears as much as our eyes when we experience the natural world.

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  The Traces - An Essay

  Mairead Small Staid

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  The Traces is a ranging inquiry into the seductions of memory and travel, the fragile paradox of desire, and the art of making meaning from a life. 
  Mairead Small Staid’s debut, The Traces, is a work of memoir and criticism that explores the nature of happiness in art, literature, and philosophy, structured around a season spent in Italy and a reading of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. 
  Poised between plummeting depressions, the author considers the intellectual merits of joy and the redeeming promise offered by the beauty, both natural and manmade, that surrounds her. Traveling from Florence to Rome to Capri, The Traces draws on the fields of physics, history, architecture, and cartography, spurred by thinkers from Aristotle and Montaigne to Cesare Pavese and Anne Carson.

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  The Language Guide for Travelers...

  YouGuide

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  The Language Guide for Travelers - Dogri to Odia is a practical phrasebook for travelers, pairing essential Dogri and Odia words and phrases for everyday situations - greetings, directions, dining, shopping, transport and emergencies. Compact, easy to navigate and made for real trips, it helps you communicate with confidence wherever your journey takes you.

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  Over the Water - Essays on Islands

  Various Various

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  Outside, the Tyrrhenian Sea laps gently against old stones and Eduardo's red hibiscus flowers close up for the night. I can hear distant strains of music bounce between the hills and imagine it's coming from Da Giannino's.
  In these essays, thirteen writers capture the magic and mirage of islands. Octavia Bright remembers a formative trip to the fish-shaped island of Elba in Tuscany; Megan Nolan sees Manhattan anew after discovering the joys of wandering the city alone; Noreen Masud flies to Tasmania, hoping to catch sight of a duck-billed platypus, and K Patrick takes a two-hour ferry from the Isle of Skye to the Isle of Lewis.
  Over the Water will transport you to shores far and near, a perfect travel companion filled with timeless essays.

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  Three Graces Bluz - An Annette...

  Patrick W Emmett

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  Annette Dupart recalls the story of when her cousin, Wolf LeDuc's three daughters show up, after 18 years of seperation. 26-year-old Abby LeDuc shows up on his doorstep and tells him that she is running away from her abusive fiance. Wolf, her father, offers her protection.  
  Eric Ortiz, her fiance is in a rage and vows to find Abby. He sends two goons out to question her sister, Becky. Instead they assault her and she runs for her life, too. Eric tracks Abby down to Germantown, TN.  Eric never  allowed her tohave any cash, credit cards or contact with family or friends, and he took her car. Desperate, she took 25 - $100 bills from large stacks in his desk. When he discovers the missing money he tells the Cuban Mob in Miami that she took all of their cash and a large stash of cocaine.  
  The Cuban Mob asks their Columbian supplier to go with Eric to Germantown to recover Abby and anything she may have taken. 
  Wolf's family is under siege by members of the Cuban Mobsters and the Columbian. They bring several men to Germantown.  
  Wolf, his two girls, Annette and her family are all attacked by Eric and his companions. Then, Wolf's third daughter shows up, she is an 18-year-old  child from a former lover, who was killed by the Cuban mob.  
  Wolf has help from his close friend, Chick Farrel and the FBI. The Cuban gives up to work on a drug deal in Memphis. The FBI and the DEA thwart his plans.  
  Annette's baby son, Jon, is caught in the crossfire as men attack her home.  Looking back, Annette refers to the three girls as the Three Graces, from Greek Mythology. All of this is giving Wolf, Annette and their family, a case of Three Graces Bluz.

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  Toujours Provence

  Peter Mayle

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  Taking up where his beloved A Year in Provence leaves off, Peter Mayle offers us another funny, beautifully (and deliciously) evocative book about life in Provence. With tales only one who lives there could know—of finding gold coins while digging in the garden, of indulging in sumptuous feasts at truck stops—and with characters introduced with great affection and wit—the gendarme fallen from grace, the summer visitors ever trying the patience of even the most genial Provençaux, the straightforward dog "Boy"—Toujours Provence is a heart-warming portrait of a place where, if you can't quite "get away from it all," you can surely have a very good time trying.

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