Download or read book Once Upon a Loon written by Scott Rykken and published by Mission Point Press. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While watching a heart-warming story unfold during a peaceful morning looking out at a Minnesota lake, Scott Rykken took a remarkable series of photos of a loon, a painted turtle, and a muskrat interacting. It was touching to see how different species could interact so peacefully. The cover photo was originally posted on Facebook and went viral, shared by thousands of viewers and seen by millions around the world. People were reminded that friendships can happen at any time and in many forms. The photo was the inspiration for this picture book about how friends love and help each other.
Download or read book Loon written by Jack McLean and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Kids like me didn’t go to Vietnam,” writes Jack McLean in his compulsively readable memoir. Raised in suburban New Jersey, he attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, but decided to put college on hold. After graduation in the spring of 1966, faced with the mandatory military draft, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps for a two-year stint. “Vietnam at the time was a country, and not yet a war,” he writes. It didn’t remain that way for long. A year later, after boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, and stateside duty in Barstow, California, the Vietnam War was reaching its peak. McLean, like most available Marines, was retrained at Camp Pendleton, California, and sent to Vietnam as a grunt to serve in an infantry company in the northernmost reaches of South Vietnam. McLean’s story climaxes with the horrific three-day Battle for Landing Zone Loon in June, 1968. Fought on a remote hill in the northwestern corner of South Vietnam, McLean bore witness to the horror of war and was forever changed. He returned home six weeks later to a country largely ambivalent to his service. Written with honesty and insight, Loon is a powerful coming-of-age portrait of a boy who bears witness to some of the most tumultuous events in our history, both in Vietnam and back home.
Download or read book Once Upon a Grind written by Cleo Coyle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Billionaire Blend—a mystery with a sleeping beauty that is “so much fun to read.”* It’s Fairy Tale Week in New York City, and Clare Cosi has given her coffee truck a “Jack and the Beanstalk” makeover for the Central Park festival. Her ex-husband has contributed a bag of African coffee beans with alleged magical properties, and his octogenarian mother is giving out readings of the grinds. But Clare remains skeptical—until she receives a vision that helps her find a young model’s body in the park’s woods. The police dismiss “sleeping beauty” as the victim of a drug overdose. But when Clare uncovers evidence that points to murder, she winds up with a dangerous predator on her heels and an investigation that leads right back to her own NYPD detective boyfriend. If she doesn’t solve this mystery fast, those magic beans predict an unhappy ending. *Once Upon a Romance
Download or read book Peter Loon written by Van Reid and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2003-07-29 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set at the conclusion of the Revolutionary War, this delightful tale is penned by the author of the Moosepath League chronicles.
Download or read book Winter Loon written by Susan Bernhard and published by Little A. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When the spring thaw of a frozen Minnesota lake brings about shocking revelations that lead to violence, 15-year-old Wes Ballot embarks on a search for his missing father, the truth about his mother's death and a future he must claim for himself."--
Download or read book The Loon the Bat and the Raspberry Bush written by Allan Foster and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-10-07 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delve into the fantastical world of "The Loon, the Bat, and the Raspberry Bush," a treasury of unforgettable fables from gifted storyteller and naturalist Allan Foster. Featuring common plants and animals found in backyards, parks, local woodlots, and forests around the Great Lakes Region, this collection of carefully selected tales artfully explains such mysteries as why cardinals are red, how roses got their thorns, and why groundhogs spend half their lives underground. Each story is accompanied by a pencil sketch and brief natural history to help identify specific creatures and link them directly to the environment, delivering not only an intriguing naturalist lesson, but an entertaining tale. Using his signature storytelling technique, Foster associates local plants and animals with famous characters from myths and legends while other stories introduce not-so-famous and new characters-plants and animals that talk to each other, defend their homes, fall in love, risk their lives, and play practical jokes. Soar in the skies with the hummingbird army, solve a nutty case with Squirrel, and discover a very important lesson with a Canadian goose. Ideal for families and children alike, "The Loon, the Bat, and the Raspberry Bush" is the perfect tool for learning more about our exciting natural world.
Download or read book The Birds of Washington written by William Leon Dawson and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Campfires and Loon Calls written by Jerry Apps and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerry Apps shares 25 years of wilderness canoeing experience—wicked thunderstorms, inquisitive bears, swamping a canoe, and watching the night sky filled with stars—as well as advice from how to set up a camp and protect food from hungry bears, to minimalist cooking, appreciating a rainy day, and a history of the Boundary Waters region.
Download or read book The Silence of the Loons written by Mary Logue and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen tales of mystery by Minnesota's premier crime writers.
Download or read book Once Upon an Eskimo Time written by Edna Wilder and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the sacred tradition of her ancestors, in Once Upon an Eskimo Time Edna Wilder retells a year in her Eskimo mother’s life. Wilder eloquently captures the oral storytelling traditions of her people, and she employs descriptions of the weather and harsh climates of Alaska’s Norton Sound to illustrate the hardiness of her mother’s spirit. Family values, subsistence living, and the cycle’s of life form a narrative that captures the now-vanished lifestyle along the Bering Sea. “Readers of whatever age will enjoy Nedercook’s delightful account of the day-to-day, legends, and beliefs of the ancient Eskimo village of Rocky Point.”—Ames Tribune
Download or read book Stranger Things A Branches Book Looniverse 1 written by David Lubar and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wacky new series will have kids on the edge of their seats! This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!LOONIVERSE is an exciting new series that combines fantasy and humor... In this first book, Ed finds a coin bearing the words "strange, stranger, strangest." Once this coin comes into his life, strange things start happening all around him. One of his friends gets stuck in mid-air, his brother turns into a pool float, and his sister's food makes its way off her plate! Even more bizarre events all lead up to a surprise ending, leaving Ed with a new responsibility and a realization that there's more to this mysterious coin than meets the eye!
Download or read book Wilderness Cabin written by Peggy Lee Tremper and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After adopting two children in Newfoundland, Canada Peggy's Journey of Hope leads to the back woods of northern Minnesota where she builds a rustic cabin with the help of friends. The cabin is situated on forty acres with a small duck pond. She lives without electricity or running water and finds daily encounters with wild animals: deer, moose and even bear. Look for Book Three in the Journey of Hope Series, South to the Kingdom of the Sun.
Download or read book The Rover written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mystery on Pine Lake written by Tamra Wight and published by Cooper and Packrat. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trouble has come to the Wilder Family Campground, where someone is out to harm a family of loons. Cooper Wilder and his new best friend, Packrat, must find the culprit, fend off a bully, save the campground, and still have time for s'mores!
Download or read book The Audubon Magazine Published in the Interests of the Audubon Society for the Protection of Birds written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Loon Lessons written by James D. Paruk and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of the common loon, from biology to behavior, from one of the world’s foremost observers of the revered waterbird Even those who know the loon’s call might not recognize it as a tremolo, yodel, or wail, and may not understand what each call means, how it’s made, and why. And those who marvel at the loon’s diving prowess might wonder why this bird has such skill, or where loons go when they must leave northern lakes in winter. For these and so many other mysteries, Loon Lessons provides evolutionary and ecological explanations that are curious and compelling. Written by one of the world’s foremost experts on the subject, the book is a compendium of knowledge about the common loon and an engaging record of scientific sleuthing, documenting more than twenty-five years of research into the great northern diver. James D. Paruk has observed and compared loons from Washington and Saskatchewan to the coasts of California and Louisiana, from high elevation deserts in Nevada to mountain lakes in Maine. Drawing on his extensive experience, a wealth of data, and well-established scientific principles, he considers every aspect of the loon, from its plumage and anatomy to its breeding, migration, and wintering strategies. Here, in the first detailed scientific account of the common loon in more than thirty years, Paruk describes its biology in an accessible and entertaining style that affords a deeper understanding of this beautiful and mysterious bird’s natural history and annual life cycle.
Download or read book Backpacker written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-05 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.
