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W. W. Norton & Company
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First edition.
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English
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"An air force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back to life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four,...
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"Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they call home. In the taverna, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof and is there when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to rubble, and when the teenagers vanish. Decades later, Kostas returns. He is a botanist looking for native species, but really, he's searching for lost love....
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Mysteries of nature trilogy volume 1
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English
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"A forester's fascinating stories, supported by the latest scientific research, reveal the extraordinary world of forests and illustrate how trees communicate and care for each other"--
7) Wishtree
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"A red oak tree and a crow help their human neighbors work out their differences"--
An old red oak tree tells how he and his crow friend, Bongo, help their human neighbors get along after a threat against an immigrant family is carved into the tree's trunk.
12) Leaf Man
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English
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A man made of leaves blows away, traveling wherever the wind may take him. On die-cut pages.
13) Maple
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Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
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English
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"A nature-loving little girl's favorite playmate is her maple tree, until the day she's surprised with a baby sister"--
15) Shake the tree!
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English
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It all begins with one tasty nut, hanging on the highest branch of a tree. A little Mouse looks at it longingly, he wants to eat it, so very much. But how can he get it down? By shaking the tree, of course! Can you, the reader, help him? Shake the tree, a little to the right (shake)... and a little to the left (shake shake). But - uh-oh - something else is falling from the tree, and it's looking rather hungry...
16) Fall is not easy
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Zino Press Children's Books
Language
English
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A tree tells why, out of all four seasons, autumn is the hardest.
17) The busy tree
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Marshall Cavendish Children
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Many different types of wildlife live in and around a tree that is their home, from chipmunks and woodpeckers to ants and spiders.
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