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1) The beaver
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A troubled husband and executive adopts a beaver hand-puppet as his sole means of communicating.
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The Beaver Bandit is an elusive creature, which will adopt any mantel, artifice, disguise, or appearance to carry out its business. In this context, business is the key word, as the Beaver Bandit is concerned with every element of that idea. This animal we can find at every layer and level of our lives. In fact, in every waking moment, we shall see the Beaver Bandit. This creature can take many forms, and might not appear the same to everyone. Therefore,...
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With their building prowess and distinctive features, beavers are a rare, but wonderful sight in UK waters following their extinction and re-introduction. Through informative chapters ranging from the psychological and environment to the inclusion of the beaver in myth, legend, art and literature, The Beaver Book is an ideal guide to its subject for all nature lovers, beautifully illustrated throughout with photography and artwork.
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Can everyone' s favourite insurance mathematician, Henri, combine the increasingly dangerous world of adventure parks with the unpredictability of blended-family life? He' s about to find out in the final instalment of the hilarious, nail-biting Rabbit Factor Trilogy.
Henri Koskinen, intrepid insurance mathematician and adventure-park entrepreneur, firmly believes in the power of common sense and order. That is until he moves in with painter...
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The Beaver and the Bear is a children's story about two friends named Tanou, a young bear cub and Boulo, a young beaver kit. In this first book, you will learn how Tanou and Boulo meet and become great friends. Excellently illustrated and wonderfully written, this children's book engages and delights kids of all ages.
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The Beaver That Lived in Trees is an educational book about beavers and other wild animals, but it is also a fairy tale. About 6 months ago I got a story about a beaver that lived in trees. So I started to write the next thing I knew I had a short story. Because I knew a few things about beaver and had tried to break open a beaver dam nearly lost my life because we were camped near that damn the beaver cut a large tree down that night right in our...
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Beavers can and do dramatically change the landscape. The beaver is a keystone species-their skills as foresters and engineers create and maintain ponds and wetlands that increase biodiversity, purify water, and prevent large-scale flooding. Biologists have long studied their daily and seasonal routines, family structures, and dispersal patterns. As human development encroaches into formerly wild areas, property owners and government authorities need...
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This book explores a relatively small but interesting and unusual region of Alberta between the North Saskatchewan and the Battle Rivers. The Beaver hills arose where mountain glaciers from the west met continental ice-sheets from the east to create a complex and diverse landscape. MacDonald relates how climate, water levels, wildlife, vegetation, and fire have shaped the possibilities and provided the challenges to the people who have called the...
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Along a stream a dam pops out of the water. Beavers are busy at work! These aquatic mammals have unique traits that aid them in building the perfect lodge to raise young beavers and keep predators away. Mary Holland's vibrant photographs document the beavers' activities through the course of a year. Do these beavers ever take a break? Follow along as they pop through the winter ice to begin the busy year of eating bark, building dams and gathering...
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Nandor Fodor was a British and American parapsychologist, psychoanalyst, author and journalist of Hungarian origin.
Fodor was one of the leading authorities on poltergeists, haunting and paranormal phenomena usually associated with mediumship. Fodor, who was at one time Sigmund Freud's associate, wrote on subjects like prenatal development and dream interpretation, but is credited mostly for his magnum opus, Encyclopedia of Psychic Science, first...
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The Beaverlings' Curse takes place in a simple time centuries ago. The story deals with the conflict between a Beaverling clan family and an evil sorceress. Despite the hardships faced by the family, they are taught the difference between right and wrong and the importance of living by the golden rule. Life's lessons can be learned at any age.
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It's Ramadan, a time to focus on good deeds and to fast, and Badir and his brother, Anis, are out for a walk one evening while they wait for their iftar meal. In the park Badir sees a rat. A very, very large rat. He soon learns it's actually a beaver, an animal that doesn't live in Tunisia, the country Badir and his family have emigrated from. It turns out that some of the neighbors who enjoy the park think this beaver is a bit of a pest, but Badir...
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If you like animals, you'll enjoy this book. If you wonder where we've been or where we're going in America, you'll profit from it.
-Roger Alestrom
A good read for young or old, for different reasons.
-C. K. Chesterson
One may think Bears is just a delightful tale, but it is more than that; it is a provocative one!
-Mrs. Wilbur Kozinski
I wish I had known what I learned in Bears in the Beaver's Pond when I was still in high school.
-Ben Stowe...
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Thornton W. Burgess was an important and influential American conservationist and a prolific author of charming children's stories. For over 50 years, Burgess published numerous popular books on the flora and fauna of the natural world and wrote a regular newspaper column called "Bedtime Stories". Often affectionately referred to as the "Bedtime Story-Man", Burgess celebrated his love for the natural world through humorous and educational stories...
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Long ago Beaver did not look like he does now. Yes, he had two very large front teeth, but his tail was not wide and flat. It was thick with silky fur. Vain Beaver is inordinately proud of his glorious tail. When he's not bragging about his tail, Beaver spends his time grooming it, while the other woodland creatures go about their business of finding food and shelter for their families. Eventually Beaver's boasting drives away his friends and he is...
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Even an event planner doesn't plan on murder. Keri Isles desperately needs to sell the Christmas Tree farm her cheating, ex-husband convinced his buddy, the judge, to saddle her with in the divorce settlement. Stuck in the Cascade Mountains, she's lost her Seattle-based event planner job and local job prospects are as scarce as internet service. When she finds the arrogant professor in charge of the nearby archeology dig floating face-down in her...
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