Download or read book Parrot s Lament The and Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue Intelligen written by Eugene Linden and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorilla shrewdly sells back a missing key chain to the highest bidder. An orangutan picks a lock to let himself out of his zoo enclosure and two elephants adopt a tag-team strategy to keep their handlers from putting them back into theirs. In The Parrot's Lament, noted environmentalist Eugene Linden offers more than one hundred true anecdotes about animal acts of cooperation, heroism, escape—even tales of deception or manipulation of human beings. Drawing on the first-person experiences of veterinarians, field biologists, researchers, and trainers, Linden has compiled a warmly entertaining and powerfully persuasive argument for animal consciousness that, while not human, far exceeds what humans usually grant animals. Scientifically sound and emotionally compelling, The Parrot's Lament contains remarkable stories that are sure to resonate with animal lovers, turning skeptics everywhere into believers.
Download or read book ORCAS INTRIGUE written by Laura Gayle and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Camille Tate has always run away...but vanishing whenever life gets too frightening has never solved anything. When a broken heart sends Cam to remote Orcas Island to try her hand at caretaking and writing a screenplay, she finds quiet beaches and cozy bookstores, plus a host of intriguing folks, including a rugged boat-builder, a glamorous neighbor, and a reassuring sheriff's deputy. But an escalating nest of mysteries and the haunting sense of being watched soon leave Cam wondering if she can believe her own perceptions. As intrigue turns to danger, she must decide whether there is anyone she can trust, or if it's time for her to vanish yet again.
Download or read book When the Moon Slips Away written by Snd Svoboda and published by Twenty-Third Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sr. Melannie can take the most ordinary things and turn them into beautiful meditations. She makes you say, Why didnt I ever notice that? She makes you feel like singing Gods praises as you pray and reflect over the extraordinary gifts of nature. Reading this book is a wonderful spiritual experience as you encounter nature in unexpected ways with refreshing new insights. Great for spiritual reading and a wonderful gift book.
Download or read book Intrigue My Desires Harris Kat Part I written by Charmaine Louise Shelton and published by CharmaineLouise New York, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He’s a card-carrying playboy. She’s scheming to be the cat to his mouse. Will their high-stakes war of wills lead to handcuffs or happily ever after? Harris Steele isn’t about to settle down. As the last-standing bachelor of a quartet of billionaire brothers, the handsome executive would rather share his good looks and money with a variety of beautiful women. But after only two meetings with his cousin’s smooth-talking and drop-dead gorgeous assistant, he can’t wait to whisk her away for international nights of exotic passion. Kat Roberts flaunts her body to distract her prey. So when the hunky enemy asks her out on a date, it should only make her corporate espionage mission that much easier. Yet as the chivalrous tycoon welcomes her into the family’s inner ranks, their sizzling chemistry seeds doubt into her ability to betray the one man truly tugging on her heartstrings. Though determined not to be a sucker for love, Harris allows the blaze of attraction to burn away his natural caution. And every time Kat slips confidential information to his foes, she dreads it will turn into the knife that could permanently sever their growing relationship. Can these sworn rivals overcome the odds and ignite an unquenchable flame? Intrigue My Desires is the steamy fourth book in the STEELE International, Inc. billionaire romance series and is part one of the Harris & Kat trilogy. If you like jet-setting heroes, independent heroines, and hot and heavy action, then you’ll adore Charmaine Louise Shelton’s boardroom-to-bedroom romp. Buy Intrigue My Desires for a tempestuous tryst today!
Download or read book Maximum Velocity written by David Lee Summers and published by WordFire +ORM. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of action-packed, science fiction adventure tales featuring pirates, strong women, soldiers, horrors, vagabonds, and deadly battles in space. The Full-Throttle Space Tales series collected action-packed, high octane, science fiction stories across the full potential of the genre. Here, the original editors have teamed up to pick the very best of Full-Throttle Space Tales, eighteen stories collected here for the first time. Stories by David Boop, C. J. Henderson, W. A. Hoffman, Julia Phillips, David Lee Summers, Carol Hightshoe, Irene Radford, Bob Brown, Scott Pearson, Alan L. Lickiss, Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Dayton Ward, Anna Paradox, Ivan Ewert, Erik Scott de Bie, Shannon Page, Mark Ferrari, Gene Mederos, Jean Johnson, Mike Resnick, and Brad R. Torgersen Buckle your seatbelts, because we’re going to accelerate to Maximum Velocity!
Download or read book Harlequin Intrigue September 2021 Box Set 2 of 2 written by Tyler Anne Snell and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin Intrigue brings you three new titles at a great value, available now! Enjoy these suspenseful reads packed with edge-of-your-seat intrigue and fearless romance. SURVIVING THE TRUTH The Saving Kelby Creek Series by Tyler Anne Snell When Willa Tate presents Detective Kenneth Gray with a buried box containing evidence of a thirty-five-year-old crime, he knows his newly formed task force will leave no stone unturned to find answers. But protecting Willa and righting past wrongs pits the dogged cop against a killer desperate to silence the truth forever. FOR THE DEFENSE A Raising the Bar Brief by Maggie Wells Deputy Lori Cabrera is shocked to discover that a powerful local businessman is a front for a drug-trafficking ring tucked away in her own rural Georgia community. It figures his defense attorney is none other than the distractingly handsome Simon Wingate. Is it possible the big-city attorney is putting more than his heart on the line to see that justice is served? DEAD IN THE WATER by Janice Kay Johnson Claire Holland is terrified when a kayaking adventure accidentally intercepts a smuggling operation and her friend is gunned down. But before she can escape, Claire witnesses someone getting shot and falling overboard. Undercover DEA agent Adam Taylor is still alive but badly injured. Has Claire saved a handsome hero's life…just to find her own in jeopardy? Look for Harlequin Intrigue’s September 2021 Box Set 1 of 2, filled with even more edge-of-your seat romantic suspense! Look for 6 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Intrigue!
Download or read book Unusual Orcas Island written by Joseph Reigel and published by Joseph Reigel. This book was released on 2024-07-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orcas Island, Washington has long been known for its rare beauty and colorful history...but for many visitors and locals alike, the feeling that something strange lurks beneath the surface is all too real. Does Sasquatch really stalk the remote woods? Did pirates bury a fortune on Turtleback Mountain? Is there a portal to a hidden world in Mount Constitution, and an Atlantean energy vortex in East Sound? With scores of articles, first-hand accounts, and historical photographs, Unusual Orcas Island attempts to shed light on these legends, and to uncover others that have never been collected before.
Download or read book Orca Rising written by Chris Hannon and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A YA novel about a high-achieving teenager who gets recruited into a freelance spy agency, can he align his morals to their dubious methods?
Download or read book War of the Whales written by Joshua Horwitz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award: “Horwitz’s dogged reporting…combined with crisp, cinematic writing, produces a powerful narrative…. He has written a book that is instructive and passionate and deserving a wide audience” (PEN Award Citation). Six years in the making, War of the Whales is the “gripping detective tale” (Publishers Weekly) of a crusading attorney, Joel Reynolds, who stumbles on one of the US Navy’s best-kept secrets: a submarine detection system that floods entire ocean basins with high-intensity sound—and drives whales onto beaches. As Joel Reynolds launches a legal fight to expose and challenge the Navy program, marine biologist Ken Balcomb witnesses a mysterious mass stranding of whales near his research station in the Bahamas. Investigating this calamity, Balcomb is forced to choose between his conscience and an oath of secrecy he swore to the Navy in his youth. “War of the Whales reads like the best investigative journalism, with cinematic scenes of strandings and dramatic David-and-Goliath courtroom dramas as activists diligently hold the Navy accountable” (The Huffington Post). When Balcomb and Reynolds team up to expose the truth behind an epidemic of mass strandings, the stage is set for an epic battle that pits admirals against activists, rogue submarines against weaponized dolphins, and national security against the need to safeguard the ocean environment. “Strong and valuable” (The Washington Post), “brilliantly told” (Bob Woodward), author Joshua Horwitz combines the best of legal drama, natural history, and military intrigue to “raise serious questions about the unchecked use of secrecy by the military to advance its institutional power” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
Download or read book Orcas of the Gulf written by Gerard Gormley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Description: 揙rcas of the Gulf will be a pleasure to anyone who wants to explore the realities of nature. Mr. Gormley's awe and respect for these magnificent whales is shared with us as a small pod of orca pass through the familiar waters off New England. We find ourselves enveloped in the interlocked, interwoven spectrum of the sea; everyday life to the orca, white water drama and magical beauty to Man. Much seems incredible, impossible, even mythical, yet the author has included every available bit of science in his exciting and educational narrative. He takes us a few steps farther than science has yet gone with common sense and realism, challenging the scientists to discover the full world of the orca. His narrative theories on perception, communication, pod society and chillingly realistic assessment of human impact are most interesting. The values and perceptions expressed in this work are not human, but they may just be the orca's, and we can all learn from that.?/p> -William W. Rossiter, Vice President Cetacean Society International Author bio: Gerard Gormley lives in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, where he studies sea life, especially cetaceans, as an avocation. His previous natural history, A Dolphin Summer, won broad critical acclaim for its artistic and scientific merit. His third nature book, about humpback whales, is in progress. Formerly a submariner and science writer, Mr. Gormley supplements his writing income by selling collectible books over the Internet.
Download or read book The Last Sunset in the West written by Natalie Sanders and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2024-07-04 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully revised edition with updated information on the surviving members of the orca pod. In 2014, marine biologist Dr Natalie Sanders joined the crew of the research vessel Silurian to seek out Britain's West Coast Community of orca and study them before we lose them forever. Though this orca pod has delighted scientists and whale watchers for years, we still know relatively little about them, and what we do know comes mostly from citizen science and chance encounters. But what is abundantly clear is that pollution, entanglement, military sonar and climate change continue to have an enormous impact on whales and dolphins and other marine life throughout the world's oceans. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the marine world in this age of climate change. A captivating yet poignant account, it takes the reader from the Western Isles of Scotland to Vancouver Island and elsewhere. It also delves deep into the history of our relations with these beautiful and sentient creatures to explain what their loss means and how we can avoid similar tragedies in the future.
Download or read book The Seal Garden written by Ian McAllister and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When storms roar and orcas are on the prowl, it's the seal gardens of the Great Bear Sea that provide safety and shelter. Ian McAllister's glorious photographs reveal the beauty and mystery of this rarely seen place of refuge for sea lions, otters, a variety of seals and other sea mammals. This is the third title in the My Great Bear Rainforest series.
Download or read book A Quagmire on Orcas Island written by Aileen Nowatzki and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2015-12-18 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two dead bodies, seemingly unconnected, are found within a week on Orcas Island, a San Juan Island off the coast of Washington. Border concerns with Canada, bizarre murders, coupled with teenage kidnapping and runaways prompt the local authorities to call in experts, agents Bev and Brian Moore. These specialists in foreign intrigue are diverted from their international assignment in Italy to pose as journalists for a criminal investigation on the island. Clues lead to discovery of terrorist tactics and the attempted recruitment of teens into a quagmire of ruthless behavior. Aileen Nowatzki is a Californian writer of novels of intrigue. She received her MA in French and has worked as a teacher, a college instructor, a translator and a director of religious education. Extensive travel with her husband spans three continents and has provided her with a unique perspective on multi-cultural issues. Volunteerism is an important part of her weekly activities. Three children and young grandchildren keep her very active.
Download or read book The Octopus and the Orangutan written by Eugene Linden and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Octopus and the Orangutan, Eugene Linden takes readers on another unforgettable journey into the minds and hearts of animals. The Parrot's Lament, his acclaimed previous book, featured extraordinary true stories of animal consciousness and intelligence. Linden's latest book goes beyond our everyday encounters with animals at home and in the zoo in a wide-ranging collection of real-life anecdotes that offer further compelling evidence of their higher mental capabilities and their awareness of the needs and feelings of others. The Octopus and the Orangutanreveals extraordinary new details about animals introduced in The Parrot's Lament, and then finds intelligent behavior in surprising new places, ranging from the octopus's garden to the crow's nest. Amazing feats of stealth, deception, and larceny accompany unexpected acts of kindness and friendship. Animals show they are cagey bargainers and tough negotiators both with their human keepers and with one another. The animals themselves are our guides in this fresh look at the question of animal intelligence. From the beloved pets we think we know to the remarkable survival skills of creatures in the wild, Eugene Linden once again shares his wonder and joy at the infinite variety of animal behavior that continues to inform, amaze, and touch us all.
Download or read book Freeing Keiko written by Kenneth Brower and published by Gotham. This book was released on 2005 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the award-winning tradition of "Seabiscuit" comes this riveting account of the magnificent orca whose movie stardom brought world attention to sea life in crisis, and his inspiring journey from captivity to freedom. 8-page color photo insert.
Download or read book Merchant Vessels of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 2152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Place of Wonder written by Chase Adonai Trudeau (CAT) and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-06-24 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people I have loved and who are no longer on this earth, and many people I still love, believe that a scientific way of thinking has removed the mysteries that led less educated people to believe in a god. They think the scientific advances demonstrate superior scientific thinking that has led to the erosion of the foundations of faith, an erosion that no longer supports rational faith. If someone you love thinks along these lines, this book may be for them.
