Author: Jane Yolen
Publisher: Flashlight Press
ISBN: 1947277197
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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In this wondrous book by award-winning fantasy author Jane Yolen and award-winning fantasy illustrator Doug Keith, two children and a dog explore the coves and caves of a tiny island. Under the watchful eye of Grandpa, the kids are thrilled to discover a huge surprise: the craggy rocks, tufted grass, and wind-swept trees on Giant Island are much more than they seem. Stunning watercolor illustrations with a timeless, mythical feel depict the island above and below the water, as it rises and sinks. Perceptive young readers may giggle or gasp when they realize that the entire island is a giant, and then will revel in knowing the giant secret that the main characters have yet to discover. Jane Yolen's text entrances readers with hints of age-old magic, and pays tribute to mystery, curiosity, and friendship. Doug Keith's paintings invite readers to match the shiny rocks to the giant's eyes, the tunnel to his ears, and the trees and dripping water plants to his hair. Are the kids the first to learn the secret of Giant Island, or has Grandpa brought them here to discover for themselves what he discovered many years before? Visit Giant Island, where fantastical adventures await.
Author: Caroline Arnold
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618486052
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Describes the formation, geography, ecology, and inhabitants of the isolated Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean.
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385353227
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory. In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, set off to visit their son, whom they haven't seen in years. And, because a strange mist has caused mass amnesia throughout the land, they can scarcely remember anything about him. As they are joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and an illustrious knight, Axl and Beatrice slowly begin to remember the dark and troubled past they all share. By turns savage, suspenseful, and intensely moving, The Buried Giant is a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory.
Author: Tracey West
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780439104661
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 85
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Team Rocket lures the Pokâemon onto a ship for a party in order to steal them, but the ship sinks and they are all stranded on an island
Author: Christopher Pearse Cranch
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 337510345X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.
Author: Rosemary Gillespie
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520943724
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1110
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Islands have captured the imagination of scientists and the public for centuries—unique and rare environments, their isolation makes them natural laboratories for ecology and evolution. This authoritative, alphabetically arranged reference, featuring more than 200 succinct articles by leading scientists from around the world, provides broad coverage of all the island sciences. But what exactly is an island? The volume editors define it here as any discrete habitat isolated from other habitats by inhospitable surroundings. The Encyclopedia of Islands examines many such insular settings—oceanic and continental islands as well as places such as caves, mountaintops, and whale falls at the bottom of the ocean. This essential, one-stop resource, extensively illustrated with color photographs, clear maps, and graphics will introduce island science to a wide audience and spur further research on some of the planet's most fascinating habitats.
Author: Lisa McMann
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442493283
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Divided by their society into Wanted and Unwanted at thirteen, estranged twin brothers Aaron and Alex have both run into trouble--as mage of Artime, Alex must defend the island from attack, while Aaron continues to scheme to take over the islands and get rid of the Unwanteds altogether.
Author: John Michell
Publisher: Ingram
ISBN: 9781906069032
Category : Menhirs
Languages : en
Pages : 165
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A feast of extraordinary theories and personalities centred around the mysterious standing stones of antiquity. John Michell tells the incredible story of the amazing reactions, ancient and modern, to these prehistoric relics, whether astronomical, legendary, mystical or visionary.
Author: Steven N. Austad
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262547171
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 315
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Stories of long-lived animal species—from thousand-year-old tubeworms to 400-year-old sharks—and what they might teach us about human health and longevity. Opossums in the wild don’t make it to the age of three; our pet cats can live for a decade and a half; cicadas live for seventeen years (spending most of them underground). Whales, however, can live for two centuries and tubeworms for several millennia. Meanwhile, human life expectancy tops out around the mid-eighties, with some outliers living past 100 or even 110. Is there anything humans can learn from the exceptional longevity of some animals in the wild? In Methusaleh’s Zoo, Steven Austad tells the stories of some extraordinary animals, considering why, for example, animal species that fly live longer than earthbound species and why animals found in the ocean live longest of all. Austad—the leading authority on longevity in animals—argues that the best way we will learn from these long-lived animals is by studying them in the wild. Accordingly, he proceeds habitat by habitat, examining animals that spend most of their lives in the air, comparing insects, birds, and bats; animals that live on, and under, the ground—from mole rats to elephants; and animals that live in the sea, including quahogs, carp, and dolphins. Humans have dramatically increased their lifespan with only a limited increase in healthspan; we’re more and more prone to diseases as we grow older. By contrast, these species have successfully avoided both environmental hazards and the depredations of aging. Can we be more like them?
Author: Christopher Pearse Cranch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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How Little Jacket would go to sea -- His good and his bad luck at sea -- How he fared on shore -- How Huggermugger came along -- What happened to Little Jacket in the Giant's boot -- How Little Jacket escabed from Kobboltozo's shop -- How he made use of Huggermugger in travelling -- How Little Jacket and his friends left the Giant's island -- Mr. Nabbum -- Zebedee an Jacky put their heads together -- They sail for Huggermugger's island -- Huggermugger hall -- Kobboltozo astonishes Mr. Scrawler -- Mrs. Huggermugger grows thin and fades away -- The sorrows of Huggermugger -- Huggermugger leaves his island -- The last of Huggermugger.
