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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

by Anne Lamott

Published: 1995-09-01

Paperback: 272 pages

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"A warm, generous and hilarious guide through the writer's world and its treacherous swamps." --Los Angeles TimesAdvice on writing and on life from an acclaimed bestselling author: "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds wr...

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Bird Cloud: A Memoir

by Annie Proulx

Published: 2011-01-04

Hardcover: 256 pages

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?Bird Cloud? is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four-hundred-foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. Proulx also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden ...

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The Bird House Book: How To Build Fanciful Birdhouses and Feeders, from the Purely Practical to the Absolutely Outrageous

by Bruce Woods, David Schoonmaker

Published: 1996-06-30

Paperback: 144 pages

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Over 30 fabulous birdhouses and feeders: a log cabin, a country cottage, a '50s diner, a San Francisco row house, and many others. Full-color photos, detailed patterns, grids, and instructions, plus charts on hole size, perch height, and feeding--and tips on attracting and protecting prefe...

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* * * * Fun,
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The Bird House: A Novel

by Kelly Simmons

Published: 2011-02-01

Paperback: 272 pages

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From the critically acclaimed author of Standing Still comes a psychologically charged novel about the power and failure of family.

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* * * Interesting

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Bird in Hand

by Christina Baker Kline

Published: 2009-08-01

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Four people, two marriages, one lifelong friendship: everything is about to change It was an accident. It was dark, it was raining, Alison had only had two drinks. And the other car ran the stop sign. But Alison finds herself trapped under the crushing weight of grief and guilt, feeli...

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* * * Slow,
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Bird in Hand: A Novel

by Christina Baker Kline

Published: 2010-06-29

Paperback: 288 pages

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“Well-done, thoughtful and thought-provoking.”—Publishers Weekly< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Four people, two marriages, one lifelong friendship: everything is about to change…From Christina Baker Kline, critically acclaimed author of The Way Life Should Be, comes Bird in Hand, a novel about love, marriage,...

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The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer: Close Encounters with Strangers

by Eric Hansen

Published: 2005-10-18

Paperback: 240 pages

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Eric Hansen survives a cyclone on a boat off the Australian coast, cradles a dying man in Calcutta, and drinks mind-altering kava in Vanuatu. He helps a widower search for his wife's wedding ring amid plane-crash wreckage in Borneo and accompanies topless dancers on a bird-watching expedition in California....

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* * * * Difficult,
Beautiful,
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The Bird Sisters: A Novel

by Rebecca Rasmussen

Published: 2011-04-12

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Love is timeless. So too is heartbreak.Whenever a bird flies into a window in Spring Green, Wisconsin, sisters Milly and Twiss get a visit. Twiss listens to the birds' heartbeats, assessing what she can fix and what she can't, while Milly listens to the heartaches of the people who've brou...

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Birdman

by Mo Hayder

Published: 2012-07-03

Paperback: 0 pages

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Now in Grove Press paperback for the first time, Birdman showcases Hayder at her spine-tingling best as beloved series character Jack Caffery tracks down a terrifying serial killer.In his first case as lead investigator with London’s crack murder squad, Detective Inspector Jack Caffery i...

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Birds of a Feather (Maisie Dobbs, Book 2)

by Jacqueline Winspear

Published: 2005-08-02

Paperback: 336 pages

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Jacqueline Winspear’s marvelous and inspired debut, Maisie Dobbs, won her fans from coast to coast and raised her intuitive, intelligent, and resourceful heroine to the ranks of literature’s favorite sleuths. Birds of a Feather finds Maisie Dobbs on another dangerously intriguing adven...