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Yellow Bird : oil, murder, and a woman's search for justice in Indian country / by Murdoch, Sierra Crane,author.;
"When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence, the landscape had been altered beyond recognition, her tribal government swayed by corporate interests, and her community burdened by a surge in violence and addiction. Three years later, when Lissa learned that a young white oil worker, Kristopher 'KC' Clarke, had disappeared from his reservation worksite, she became particularly concerned. No one knew where Clarke had gone, and no one but his mother was actively looking for him. Unfolding like a gritty mystery, Yellow Bird traces Lissa's steps as she obsessively hunts for clues to Clarke's disappearance. She navigates two worlds -- that of her own tribe, changed by its newfound wealth, and that of the non-Native oil workers, down on their luck, who have come to find work on the heels of the economic recession. Her pursuit becomes an effort at redemption -- an atonement for her own crimes and a reckoning with generations of trauma. Yellow Bird is both an exquisitely written, masterfully reported story about a search for justice and a remarkable portrait of a complex woman who is smart, funny, eloquent, compassionate, and -- when it serves her cause -- manipulative. Ultimately, it is a deep examination of the legacy of systematic violence inflicted on a tribal nation and a tale of extraordinary healing"--
Subjects: Yellow Bird, Lissa.; Clarke, Kristopher.; Criminal investigation; Missing persons; Oil industry workers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The bird way : a new look at how birds talk, work, play, parent, and think / by Ackerman, Jennifer,1959-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.""There is the mammal way and there is the bird way." This is one scientist's pithy distinction between mammal brains and bird brains: two ways to make a highly intelligent mind. But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring, and lately, scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviors they have, for years, dismissed as anomalies or mysteries. What they are finding is upending the traditional view of how birds conduct their lives, how they communicate, forage, court, breed, survive. They're also revealing the remarkable intelligence underlying these activities, abilities we once considered uniquely our own--deception, manipulation, cheating, kidnapping, infanticide, but also, ingenious communication between species, cooperation, collaboration, altruism, culture, and play. Some of these extraordinary behaviors are biological conundrums that seem to push the edges of--well--birdness: A mother bird that kills her own infant sons, and another that selflessly tends to the young of other birds as if they were her own. Young birds that devote themselves to feeding their siblings and others so competitive they'll stab their nestmates to death. Birds that give gifts and birds that steal, birds that dance or drum, that paint their creations or paint themselves, birds that build walls of sound to keep out intruders and birds that summon playmates with a special call--and may hold the secret to our own penchant for playfulness and the evolution of laughter. Drawing on personal observations, the latest science, and her bird-related travel around the world, from the tropical rainforests of eastern Australia and the remote woodlands of northern Japan, to the rolling hills of lower Austria and the islands of Alaska's Kachemak Bay, Ackerman shows there is clearly no single bird way of being. In every respect, in plumage, form, song, flight, lifestyle, niche, and behavior, birds vary. It's what we love about them. As E.O Wilson once said, when you have seen one bird, you have not seen them all"--
Subjects: Birds;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Birds of Ontario / by Bezener, Andy,1971-; James, Ross D.,1943-; Ross, Gary,1961-; Nordhagen, Ted.; Pluciennik, Ewa,1954-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 361) and indexes.
Subjects: Birds; Bird watching;
© c2000., Lone Pine Pub.,
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Bear and bird / by Millward, Gwen.;
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Subjects: Bears; Birds; Best friends; Helping behavior; Friendship;
© 2012., Egmont UK,
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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The gallows bird [sound recording] / by Läckberg, Camilla,1974-; Riley, Eamonn.;
Read by Eamonn Riley.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Mystery fiction.; Audiobooks.; Detectives; Murder; Hedstrom, Patrik (Fictitious character);
© p2011., Harper Audio,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Bird Watching (UK)
Mode of access: Internet.
Subjects: Outdoors;
© , Bauer Media (UK)
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Hooray for birds! / by Cousins, Lucy.;
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Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Birds;
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The Painted Bird. by Marhoul, Václav,film director.; Keitel, Harvey,actor.; Cvancarová, Jitka,actor.; Sands, Julian,actor.; Kotlár, Petr,actor.; Skarsgård, Stellan,actor.; Kier, Udo,actor.; Raven Banner (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Harvey Keitel, Jitka Cvancarová, Julian Sands, Petr Kotlár, Stellan Skarsgård, Udo KierOriginally produced by Raven Banner in 2019.A young Jewish boy somewhere in Eastern Europe seeks refuge during World War II where he encounters many different characters.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; War films.;
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The bird hotel : a novel / by Maynard, Joyce,1953-author.;
Deciding to restore and run a decaying lakefront hotel called La Llorona in a small Central American village, Irene, a troubled yet talented artist, meets a colorful cast of characters who change her life.
Subjects: Magic realist fiction.; Novels.; Americans; Hotels; Villages; Women artists;
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Birds of Canada / by Bird, David M.(David Michael),1949-; Block, Nicholas L.; Vuilleumier, François,1938-;
Subjects: Bird watching; Birds;
© c2010., Dorling Kindersley,
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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