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One Book Chelmsford 2021 How To Be a Good Creature by Sy Montgomery
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The wild parrots of Telegraph Hill : a love story ... with wings
by Mark Bittner
The author describes his arrival in San Francisco as a teenager, his growing fascination with a flock of wild parrots that make their home on the city's Telegraph Hill, his determination to earn the birds' trust, his evolution into the local wild parrot expert, and the documentary film that transformed his life when he fell in love with the filmmaker..
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Featherhood : a memoir of two fathers and a magpie
by Charlie Samson Gilmour
Forging a bond with a clever magpie, a man struggling with the past and his own uncertainties as a parent discovers that the poet father who abandoned him as a baby had a jackdaw companion.
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Marley & me : life and love with the world's worst dog
by John Grogan
Follows the life story of an exuberant golden Labrador who gets into perpetual trouble and experiences a range of inspiring adventures, from comforting his human companions in the aftermath of a devastating miscarriage, to shutting down an entire beach, to guarding a seventeen-year-old neighbor in the aftermath of a stabbing attack.
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H is for hawk
by Helen Macdonald
An award-winning best-seller from the UK recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator as part of her personal recovery.
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We bought a zoo
by Benjamin Mee
A former British newspaper columnist describes how he uprooted his family to the English countryside and purchased a dilapidated zoo, home to more than two hundred exotic animals, which he planned to refurbish and reopen as a family business, a scheme complicated by a lack of money, skeptical staff, family tension, and his wife's devastating illness.
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Dewey, the library cat : a true story
by Vicki Myron
Follows the development of an endearing kitten abandoned in an Iowa library drop-box into an affable library mascot who made many friendships with the library staff and patrons of all ages
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The sound of a wild snail eating
by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Bedridden and suffering from a neurological disorder, the author recounts the profound effect on her life caused by a gift of a snail in a potted plant and shares the lessons learned from her new companion about her the meaning of her life and the life of the small creature
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Seabiscuit : an American legend
by Laura Hillenbrand
The author retraces the amazing journey of Seabiscuit, a horse with crooked legs and a pathetic tail that nevertheless made racing history in 1938, thanks to the efforts of a trainer, an owner, and a jockey who transformed a bottom-level racehorse into a legend.
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How to catch a mole : wisdom from a life lived in nature
by Marc Hamer
Infusing his wanderings with brilliant poetry and stark, simple observations on nature’s oft-ignored details, the author, a former mole-catcher who vowed to stop trapping moles forever, shares what led him to this strange career.
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Lost among the birds : accidentally finding myself in one very big year
by Neil Hayward
The author, at a crossroads in his life, found a calm among birds that had eluded him in the confusing world of humans and, entering a race to find the most birds in one year, shocked the birding world—and himself—by finding 749 species of bird and breaking the long-standing Big Year record.
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All creatures great and small
by James Herriot
Recalls the early career of James Herriot, a country veterinary surgeon in Yorkshire, describing the joys and trials of working with his unique clientele
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A big little life : a memoir of a joyful dog
by Dean R. Koontz
The best-selling suspense author presents a tribute to the late golden retriever previously depicted in Bliss to You that describes his family's adoption of a retired service animal, the numerous lessons he learned throughout their relationship, and the family's grief upon her passing.
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Late migrations : a natural history of love and loss
by Margaret Renkl
The widely followed New York Times opinion writer presents a collection of brief essays on the natural world, her Alabama childhood, her complicated parents and her transition to the role of a caregiver
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