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Stolen World
A Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers, and Skulduggery
Written by Jennie Erin Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $19.00
Tortoises disappear from a Madagascar reserve and reappear in the Bronx Zoo. A dead iguana floats in a jar, awaiting its unveiling in a Florida court. A viper causes mayhem from Ethiopia to Virginia. In Stolen World, Jennie Erin Smith takes the reader on an unforgettable journey, a dark adventure over... Read more >
A Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers, and Skulduggery
Written by Jennie Erin Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $19.00
Tortoises disappear from a Madagascar reserve and reappear in the Bronx Zoo. A dead iguana floats in a jar, awaiting its unveiling in a Florida court. A viper causes mayhem from Ethiopia to Virginia. In Stolen World, Jennie Erin Smith takes the reader on an unforgettable journey, a dark adventure over... Read more >
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Stolen World
A Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers, and Skulduggery
Written by Jennie Erin Smith
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $14.99
Tortoises disappear from a Madagascar reserve and reappear in the Bronx Zoo. A dead iguana floats in a jar, awaiting its unveiling in a Florida court. A viper causes mayhem from Ethiopia to Virginia. In Stolen World, Jennie Erin Smith takes the reader on an unforgettable journey, a dark adventure over... Read more >
A Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers, and Skulduggery
Written by Jennie Erin Smith
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $14.99
Tortoises disappear from a Madagascar reserve and reappear in the Bronx Zoo. A dead iguana floats in a jar, awaiting its unveiling in a Florida court. A viper causes mayhem from Ethiopia to Virginia. In Stolen World, Jennie Erin Smith takes the reader on an unforgettable journey, a dark adventure over... Read more >
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Nature Stories
Written by Jules Renard
Illustrated by Pierre Bonnard
Translated by Douglas Parmee
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2010
Price: $14.95
The natural world in all its richness, glimpsed variously in the house, the barnyard, and the garden, in ponds and streams, and at large in the woods and the fields, including old friends like the dog, the cat, the cow, and the pig, along with more unusual and sometimes alarming characters... Read more >
Written by Jules Renard
Illustrated by Pierre Bonnard
Translated by Douglas Parmee
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2010
Price: $14.95
The natural world in all its richness, glimpsed variously in the house, the barnyard, and the garden, in ponds and streams, and at large in the woods and the fields, including old friends like the dog, the cat, the cow, and the pig, along with more unusual and sometimes alarming characters... Read more >
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The Man Who Lives with Wolves
Written by Shaun Ellis and Penny Junor
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2010
Price: $15.00
What would compel a man to place himself in constant danger in order to become a member of a wolf pack? To eat with them, putting his head into a carcass alongside the wolves' gnashing teeth? To play, hunt, and spar with them, suffering bruises and bites? To learn their language... Read more >
Written by Shaun Ellis and Penny Junor
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2010
Price: $15.00
What would compel a man to place himself in constant danger in order to become a member of a wolf pack? To eat with them, putting his head into a carcass alongside the wolves' gnashing teeth? To play, hunt, and spar with them, suffering bruises and bites? To learn their language... Read more >
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Animal Magnetism
My Life with Creatures Great and Small
Written by Rita Mae Brown
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $16.00
My Life with Creatures Great and Small
Written by Rita Mae Brown
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $16.00
Rita Mae Brown’s earliest memory is of the soothing purr of Mickey, her family’s long-haired tiger cat, who curled up and claimed a spot in her crib. From there, a steady parade of cats, dogs, horses, and all manner of two- and four-legged critters have walked, galloped, and flown into and...
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A Nose for Justice
A Novel
Written by Rita Mae Brown
Format: eBook, 300 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $7.99
The thrilling start of a tail-wagging new series!
With her high-powered Wall Street job in the rearview mirror, thirty-four-year-old Mags Rogers arrives at her great-aunt Jeep Reed’s sprawling Nevada ranch to reassemble her life. In the passenger seat is Mags’s beloved wirehaired dachshund, Baxter. At Jeep’s side—to Baxter’s distress—is Jeep’s loyal German... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Rita Mae Brown
Format: eBook, 300 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $7.99
The thrilling start of a tail-wagging new series!
With her high-powered Wall Street job in the rearview mirror, thirty-four-year-old Mags Rogers arrives at her great-aunt Jeep Reed’s sprawling Nevada ranch to reassemble her life. In the passenger seat is Mags’s beloved wirehaired dachshund, Baxter. At Jeep’s side—to Baxter’s distress—is Jeep’s loyal German... Read more >
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The Tiger
A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
Written by John Vaillant
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $11.99
It’s December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers... Read more >
A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
Written by John Vaillant
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $11.99
It’s December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers... Read more >
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The Tiger
A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
Written by John Vaillant
Read by John Vaillant
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $40.00
It’s December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers... Read more >
A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
Written by John Vaillant
Read by John Vaillant
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $40.00
It’s December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers... Read more >
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The Tiger
A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
Written by John Vaillant
Read by John Vaillant
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $22.50
It’s December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers... Read more >
A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
Written by John Vaillant
Read by John Vaillant
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $22.50
It’s December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers... Read more >
Why Don't Woodpeckers Get Headaches?
And Other Bird Questions You Know You Want to Ask
Written by Mike O'Connor
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2010
Price: $12.00
In 1983, Mike O'Connor opened the Bird Watcher's General Store on Cape Cod, which might well have been the first store devoted solely to birding in the United States. Since that time he has answered thousands of questions about birds, both at his store and while walking down the aisles of... Read more >
And Other Bird Questions You Know You Want to Ask
Written by Mike O'Connor
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2010
Price: $12.00
In 1983, Mike O'Connor opened the Bird Watcher's General Store on Cape Cod, which might well have been the first store devoted solely to birding in the United States. Since that time he has answered thousands of questions about birds, both at his store and while walking down the aisles of... Read more >
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The Divine Life of Animals
One Man's Quest to Discover Whether the Souls of Animals Live On
Written by Ptolemy Tompkins
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 8, 2010
Price: $9.99
A journey through 20,000 years of history and myth in search of the answer to a single question: Do animals have souls?
Anyone who has ever mourned the loss of a cherished pet has wondered about the animal soul. Do animals survive the death of the body, or are they doomed to... Read more >
One Man's Quest to Discover Whether the Souls of Animals Live On
Written by Ptolemy Tompkins
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 8, 2010
Price: $9.99
A journey through 20,000 years of history and myth in search of the answer to a single question: Do animals have souls?
Anyone who has ever mourned the loss of a cherished pet has wondered about the animal soul. Do animals survive the death of the body, or are they doomed to... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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A Lion Called Christian
The True Story of the Remarkable Bond Between Two Friends and a Lion
Written by Anthony Bourke and John Rendall
Foreword by George Adamson
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $13.99
In 2008 an extraordinary two-minute film clip appeared on YouTube and immediately became an international phenomenon. It captures the moving reunion of two young men and their pet lion Christian, after they had left him in Africa with Born Free’s George Adamson to introduce him into his rightful home in the... Read more >
The True Story of the Remarkable Bond Between Two Friends and a Lion
Written by Anthony Bourke and John Rendall
Foreword by George Adamson
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $13.99
In 2008 an extraordinary two-minute film clip appeared on YouTube and immediately became an international phenomenon. It captures the moving reunion of two young men and their pet lion Christian, after they had left him in Africa with Born Free’s George Adamson to introduce him into his rightful home in the... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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The Bedside Book of Beasts
A Wildlife Miscellany
Written by Graeme Gibson
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $35.00
In a wonderfully diverse selection of writings and gorgeous illustrations, this stunning companion to The Bedside Book of Birds explores the relationship between predators and their prey.
The intricate, complex connection between the hunter and the hunted has defined animal life on earth throughout time. In The Bedside Book of Beasts, Graeme... Read more >
A Wildlife Miscellany
Written by Graeme Gibson
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $35.00
In a wonderfully diverse selection of writings and gorgeous illustrations, this stunning companion to The Bedside Book of Birds explores the relationship between predators and their prey.
The intricate, complex connection between the hunter and the hunted has defined animal life on earth throughout time. In The Bedside Book of Beasts, Graeme... Read more >
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The Red Hourglass
Lives of the Predators
Written by Gordon Grice
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2009
Price: $15.99
Snake venom that digests human flesh. A building cleared of every living thing by a band of tiny spiders. An infant insect eating its living prey from within, saving the vital organs for last. These are among the deadly feats of natural engineering you'll witness in The Red Hourglass, prize-winning author... Read more >
Lives of the Predators
Written by Gordon Grice
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2009
Price: $15.99
Snake venom that digests human flesh. A building cleared of every living thing by a band of tiny spiders. An infant insect eating its living prey from within, saving the vital organs for last. These are among the deadly feats of natural engineering you'll witness in The Red Hourglass, prize-winning author... Read more >
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When Elephants Weep
The Emotional Lives of Animals
Written by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Contribution by Susan McCarthy
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2009
Price: $14.99
This national bestseller exploring the complex emotional lives of animals was hailed as "a masterpiece" by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and as "marvelous" by Jane Goodall.
The popularity of When Elephants Weep has swept the nation, as author Jeffrey Masson appeared on Dateline NBC, Good Morning America, and was profiled in People... Read more >
The Emotional Lives of Animals
Written by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Contribution by Susan McCarthy
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2009
Price: $14.99
This national bestseller exploring the complex emotional lives of animals was hailed as "a masterpiece" by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and as "marvelous" by Jane Goodall.
The popularity of When Elephants Weep has swept the nation, as author Jeffrey Masson appeared on Dateline NBC, Good Morning America, and was profiled in People... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Man Who Lives with Wolves
Written by Shaun Ellis and Penny Junor
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $11.99
What would compel a man to place himself in constant danger in order to become a member of a wolf pack? To eat with them, putting his head into a carcass alongside the wolves' gnashing teeth? To play, hunt, and spar with them, suffering bruises and bites? To learn their language... Read more >
Written by Shaun Ellis and Penny Junor
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $11.99
What would compel a man to place himself in constant danger in order to become a member of a wolf pack? To eat with them, putting his head into a carcass alongside the wolves' gnashing teeth? To play, hunt, and spar with them, suffering bruises and bites? To learn their language... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Animal Magnetism
My Life with Creatures Great and Small
Written by Rita Mae Brown
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $11.99
Rita Mae Brown’s earliest memory is of the soothing purr of Mickey, her family’s long-haired tiger cat, who curled up and claimed a spot in her crib. From there, a steady parade of cats, dogs, horses, and all manner of two- and four-legged critters have walked, galloped, and flown into and... Read more >
My Life with Creatures Great and Small
Written by Rita Mae Brown
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $11.99
Rita Mae Brown’s earliest memory is of the soothing purr of Mickey, her family’s long-haired tiger cat, who curled up and claimed a spot in her crib. From there, a steady parade of cats, dogs, horses, and all manner of two- and four-legged critters have walked, galloped, and flown into and... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Dark Banquet
Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures
Written by Bill Schutt
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
"A witty, scientifically accurate, and often intensely creepy exploration of sanguivorous creatures."
—San Francisco Chronicle
For centuries, blood feeders have inhabited our nightmares and horror stories, as well as the shadowy realms of scientific knowledge. In Dark Banquet, zoologist Bill Schutt takes us on a fascinating voyage into the world of some... Read more >
Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures
Written by Bill Schutt
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
"A witty, scientifically accurate, and often intensely creepy exploration of sanguivorous creatures."
—San Francisco Chronicle
For centuries, blood feeders have inhabited our nightmares and horror stories, as well as the shadowy realms of scientific knowledge. In Dark Banquet, zoologist Bill Schutt takes us on a fascinating voyage into the world of some... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Ghosts of Tsavo
Stalking the Mystery Lions of East Africa
Written by Phillip Caputo
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2009
Price: $16.00
1898, Tsavo River Kenya, the British Empire has employed 140 workers to build a railroad bridge. The bridge's construction comes to a violent halt when two maneless lions devour all 140 workers in a savage feeding frenzy that would make headlines›and history—all over the world. Caputo's Ghosts of Tsavo is a... Read more >
Stalking the Mystery Lions of East Africa
Written by Phillip Caputo
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2009
Price: $16.00
1898, Tsavo River Kenya, the British Empire has employed 140 workers to build a railroad bridge. The bridge's construction comes to a violent halt when two maneless lions devour all 140 workers in a savage feeding frenzy that would make headlines›and history—all over the world. Caputo's Ghosts of Tsavo is a... Read more >
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hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Slaughterhouse
The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, And Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry
Written by Gail A. Eisnitz
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 25, 2009
Price: $11.99
Slaughterhouse is the first book of its kind to explore the impact that unprecedented changes in the meatpacking industry over the last twenty-five years — particularly industry consolidation, increased line speeds, and deregulation — have had on workers, animals, and consumers. It is also the first time ever that workers have... Read more >
The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, And Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry
Written by Gail A. Eisnitz
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 25, 2009
Price: $11.99
Slaughterhouse is the first book of its kind to explore the impact that unprecedented changes in the meatpacking industry over the last twenty-five years — particularly industry consolidation, increased line speeds, and deregulation — have had on workers, animals, and consumers. It is also the first time ever that workers have... Read more >
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trade paperback.
Eating Stone
Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
Written by Ellen Meloy
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 29, 2009
Price: $13.99
Long believed to be disappearing and possibly even extinct, the Southwestern bighorn sheep of Utah’s canyonlands have made a surprising comeback. Naturalist Ellen Meloy tracks a band of these majestic creatures through backcountry hikes, downriver floats, and travels across the Southwest. Alone in the wilderness, Meloy chronicles her communion with the... Read more >
Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
Written by Ellen Meloy
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 29, 2009
Price: $13.99
Long believed to be disappearing and possibly even extinct, the Southwestern bighorn sheep of Utah’s canyonlands have made a surprising comeback. Naturalist Ellen Meloy tracks a band of these majestic creatures through backcountry hikes, downriver floats, and travels across the Southwest. Alone in the wilderness, Meloy chronicles her communion with the... Read more >
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The Rhino with Glue-On Shoes
And Other Surprising True Stories of Zoo Vets and their Patients
Edited by Lucy H. Spelman, DVM and Ted Y. Mashima, DVM
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $16.00
A moray eel diagnosed with anorexia…A herd of bison whose only hope is a crusading female doctor from Paris…A vet desperately trying to save an orphaned whale by unraveling the mystery of her mother’s death…This fascinating book offers a rare glimpse into the world of wild animals and the doctors who... Read more >
And Other Surprising True Stories of Zoo Vets and their Patients
Edited by Lucy H. Spelman, DVM and Ted Y. Mashima, DVM
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $16.00
A moray eel diagnosed with anorexia…A herd of bison whose only hope is a crusading female doctor from Paris…A vet desperately trying to save an orphaned whale by unraveling the mystery of her mother’s death…This fascinating book offers a rare glimpse into the world of wild animals and the doctors who... Read more >
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In the Womb: Animals
Written by Michael Sims
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $26.00
In the Womb: Animals follows the developmental path of three different mammals utilizing some of the most amazing technology available. This incredible journey was first chronicled for the critically acclaimed National Geographic Channel special of the same name, where 3-D and 4-D ultrasound was used on animals for the first time... Read more >
Written by Michael Sims
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $26.00
In the Womb: Animals follows the developmental path of three different mammals utilizing some of the most amazing technology available. This incredible journey was first chronicled for the critically acclaimed National Geographic Channel special of the same name, where 3-D and 4-D ultrasound was used on animals for the first time... Read more >
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A Lion Called Christian
The True Story of the Remarkable Bond Between Two Friends and a Lion
Written by Anthony Bourke and John Rendall
Foreword by George Adamson
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $11.99
In 2008 an extraordinary two-minute film clip appeared on YouTube and immediately became an international phenomenon. It captures the moving reunion of two young men and their pet lion Christian, after they had left him in Africa with Born Free’s George Adamson to introduce him into his rightful home in the... Read more >
The True Story of the Remarkable Bond Between Two Friends and a Lion
Written by Anthony Bourke and John Rendall
Foreword by George Adamson
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $11.99
In 2008 an extraordinary two-minute film clip appeared on YouTube and immediately became an international phenomenon. It captures the moving reunion of two young men and their pet lion Christian, after they had left him in Africa with Born Free’s George Adamson to introduce him into his rightful home in the... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
Dark Banquet
Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures
Written by Bill Schutt
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $13.99
For centuries, blood feeders have inhabited our nightmares and horror stories, as well as the shadowy realms of scientific knowledge. In Dark Banquet, zoologist Bill Schutt takes readers on an entertaining voyage into the world of some of nature’s strangest creatures—the sanguivores. Using a sharp eye and mordant wit, Schutt makes... Read more >
Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures
Written by Bill Schutt
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $13.99
For centuries, blood feeders have inhabited our nightmares and horror stories, as well as the shadowy realms of scientific knowledge. In Dark Banquet, zoologist Bill Schutt takes readers on an entertaining voyage into the world of some of nature’s strangest creatures—the sanguivores. Using a sharp eye and mordant wit, Schutt makes... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
