Pamela S. Turner
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C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, George Schaller, David Quammen
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January 2009
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Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
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Hachiko: The True Story of a Loyal Dog
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2004
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Crow Smarts: Inside the Brain of the World's Brightest Bird
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The Frog Scientist (Scientists in the Field Series)
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The Dolphins of Shark Bay
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Comet Chaser: The True Cinderella Story of Caroline Herschel, the First Professional Woman Astronomer
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Project Seahorse
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Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes
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2005
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A Life in the Wild: George Schaller's Struggle to Save the Last Great Beasts
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A charming, heartfelt story that wraps you in a family's love. I will be singing this one to my grandchildren in bad Spanish! The illustrations are equally lovely. A wonderful book to own and to give as a gift. ...more | |
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Link is an excellent sentence-level writer. But as a novelist...this fell way, way short. I think there was a decent fantasy novel in there, but it needed to drop about 250 pages. The plot goes nowhere for way too long, and gets so unmoored from real ...more | |
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“A twelfth-century samurai’s main weapon was his bow, but his sword offered a last line of defense if he ran out of arrows or was knocked off his horse. Yet even as a backup weapon the sword carried a symbolic weight that the bow did not. Weapons like bows and spears were also used for hunting. The sword had a singular purpose: to end human life.”
― Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
― Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
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“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature