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The Wildes : a novel in five acts / by Bayard, Louis,author.;
"Oscar Wilde, his wife, Constance, and their two sons deal with the aftermath of the famous playwright's imprisonment for homosexuality, told against the backdrop of Victorian England and World War I"--
Subjects: Queer fiction.; Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Novels.; Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900; Wilde family; Adultery; Authors; Bisexual men; Families; Married people;
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Pebble & Dove / by Jones, Amy,1976-author.;
"In the tradition of Karen Russell's Swamplandia!, a once-famous but now-abandoned aquarium-in-a-ship in Florida is the captivating backdrop for a novel of family secrets and dysfunction, and the ways in which it can sometimes take an animal to remind us how to be human. This is the story of a family falling apart, only to be brought back together again by an unlikely champion--a 1,000-pound aquatic mammal named Pebble. Lauren's life is a mess. She has a storage unit full of candles she can't sell, a growing mountain of debt, and a teenage daughter, Dove, who barely speaks to her. Then her husband sends her a text that changes everything. Eager to escape her problems, she drives herself and Dove south to her late mother's rundown trailer in Florida. While keeping her eccentric new neighbours at Swaying Palms at bay, Lauren begins to untangle the truth about her estranged mother. How did world-famous portrait photographer Imogen Starr end up at Swaying Palms?And what happened to her fortune and her photographs? Meanwhile, Dove has secrets of her own. A mysterious photograph leads her to discover the abandoned Flamingo Key Aquarium and Tackle, where she meets Pebble, the world's oldest manatee in captivity. It is Pebble, a former star attraction, and her devoted caretaker, Ray, who will hold the key to helping Lauren and Dove come to terms with Imogen's unexpected legacy. Darkly funny and sharply observed, Pebble & Dove is a moving novel about the complicated relationship between mothers and daughters, and learning how to choose between what's worth saving and what needs to be let go."--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Aquariums; Captive wild animals; Dysfunctional families; Family secrets; Manatees; Mothers and daughters;
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In the name of wild : one family, five years, ten countries, and a new vision of wildness / by Vannini, Phillip,author.; Vannini, April,author.; Vannini, Autumn,author.;
"Five continents. Ten countries. Twenty Natural World Heritage sites in five years. In the Name of Wild is the story of what happened when one family set out to learn what wildness means to people around the world. What draws us to seek out wild places? Do they mean the same to everyone? Part travelogue, part ethnography, this book takes us on a journey into the lives of the people who call places such as Tasmania, Patagonia, and Iceland home. They reveal that wildness isn't about the absence of people. It's about connections, kinship, and coexistence with the land."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; National parks and reserves.; Natural areas.; World Heritage areas.;
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Born to be wild : hundreds of free nature activities for families / by Garlick, Hattie.; Honey, Nancy,1948-; Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.;
Includes Internet addresses and index.LSC
Subjects: Outdoor recreation for children.;
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Becoming wild : how animal cultures raise families, create beauty, and achieve peace / by Safina, Carl,1955-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Some people insist that culture is strictly a human feat. What are they afraid of? This book looks into three cultures of other-than-human beings in some of Earth's remaining wild places. It shows how if you're a sperm whale, a scarlet macaw, or a chimpanzee, you too experience your life with the understanding that you are an individual in a particular community. You too are who you are not by genes alone; your culture is a second form of inheritance. You receive it from thousands of individuals, from pools of knowledge passing through generations like an eternal torch. You too may raise young, know beauty, or struggle to negotiate a peace. And your culture, too, changes and evolves. The light of knowledge needs adjusting as situations change, so a capacity for learning, especially social learning, allows behaviors to adjust, to change much faster than genes alone could adapt. Becoming Wild offers a glimpse into cultures among non-human animals through looks at the lives of individuals in different present-day animal societies. By showing how others teach and learn, Safina offers a fresh understanding of what is constantly going on beyond humanity. With reporting from deep in nature, alongside individual creatures in their free-living communities, this book offers a very privileged glimpse behind the curtain of Life on Earth, and helps inform the answer to that most urgent of questions: Who are we here with?"--
Subjects: Animal communities.; Animal societies.;
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Wolves / by Riggs, Kate.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 24) and index."A basic exploration of the appearance, behavior, and habitat of wolves, a family of wild dogs. Also included is a story from folklore explaining why wolves are different from domestic dogs."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Wolves;
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The simple wild : a novel / by Tucker, K. A.(Kathleen A.),1978-author.;
Subjects: Homecoming; Parent and adult child; Alienation (Social psychology); Families; Air pilots; Man-woman relationships;
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Into the wild / by Do, Anh.; Ley, Jeremy.; Ji, Annie.;
"When disaster separates Gwen from her family, she must fend for herself, all alone in the wilderness with only a wolf puppy, a Labrador, a chihuahua, and a greyhound for friends and help."--Ages 8-12.
Subjects: Survival fiction.; Survival; Human-animal relationships; Dogs;
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The wild path / by Baughman, Sarah R.;
Twelve-year-old Claire struggles to cope while her eighteen-year-old brother, Andy, is treated for drug addiction and her family prepares to sell her beloved horses, but finally accepts that change can be good.Audience: ages 8-12.LSC
Subjects: Brothers and sisters; Horses; Drug addiction; Rehabilitation; Families;
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Wild dark shore / by McConaghy, Charlotte,author.;
"From the beloved, New York Times bestselling author of Migrations and Once There Were Wolves, a novel about a family living alone on a remote island, when a mysterious woman washes up on shore"--
Subjects: Climate fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Castaways; Climatic changes; Families; Father and child; Islands; Nature; Secrecy; Seed banks; Social isolation; Storms; Survival at sea;
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