Margaret enjoys a wide variety of fiction and
non-fiction but is particularly well read in
natural history. While Webster Enterprises
has lured her away from her old job at the
bookstore she still helps out (with this web
site for instance) and we still claim her as
part of our family. Here are some of her
recent and all time favorite books.
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ISBN-13: 9780140235081
Availability: Out of Print
Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 10/1994
In 1978 Ivan Doig published This
House of Sky, a magnificently
written book telling of growing up
in rugged mountain wilderness in
the 1940s. He was a boy of six
when his mother died and his
father and grandmother
struggled to become a family for
him. As Doig says, ?Wounded
hard, they go off to their private
ways. Until at last the wifeless
man offers across to the
daughter-robbed woman. And I
am the agreed barter between
them.?
Doig thought, with the
satisfaction of 150,000 readers,
that the story had been told. But
then he discovered his mother?s
letters from the end of the war
years. Out of her narrative come
the resonances of heart and
earth. This book, Heart Earth,
was published in 1993. So now,
enjoy both of these books from a
writer who really proves the
power of language.
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9781578050840
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Published: Sierra Club Books, 8/2002
$12.95
ISBN-13: 9780618127368
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Published: Mariner Books, 6/2001
I have been an avid fan of the
writings of Rick Bass since
reading his first nonfiction book,
Winter. Colter proved to be a
heart-arming story of a man and
his dog.
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ISBN-13: 9780316089739
Availability: Out of Print
Published: Back Bay Books, 1/2003
North Carolina author Robert
Inman has just seen his fourth
novel published, entitled Captain
Saturday. I have enjoyed all of
his other novels very much, and
this one was just as warmly
humorous, fun, and entertaining
as the others (Home Fires
Burning, Old Dogs and Children,
and Dairy Queen Days). In
Captain Saturday, Will Baggett,
has been the celebrity TV
weatherman in Raleigh for 20
years. In a series of events,
Will?s
comfortable, job-centered, well-
planned life drastically unravels,
as he loses his job, serves jail
time, and retreats to his
childhood home, where he must
confront his past and get
reacquainted with some
eccentric family members. At
home, too, Will must deal with
changes in his relationship with
his wife and son. These
characters are great fun to know,
and the ending was just what I
was hoping for!
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780140169300
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Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 5/1992
$7.99
ISBN-13: 9780743455961
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Published: Pocket Books, 7/2002
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780142001745
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Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 1/2003
$7.99
ISBN-13: 9780345345059
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Published: Ballantine Books, 12/1986
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780375703478
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Published: Vintage, 2/2000
$39.95
ISBN-13: 9780679451228
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Published: Knopf, 1/2000
Everything you want to know
about bird identification, by
contemporary
wildlife painter David Sibley. The
book includes more than 6,600
illustrations, with nearly every
species shown both in flight and
at rest.
Each
species also has complete voice
descriptions. Maps of distribution
for
each species are included for
summer and winter ranges,
migration
routes, and even rare
occurrences. - Peggy & Margaret
Spilker
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9780618573080
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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 10/2006
In this beautiful book, Julie Zickefoose presents short essays describing her
many interactions with nature on her rural property in southeastern Ohio. Zickefoose arranges her essays according to the four seasons and includes her own watercolors and field sketches. The author contributes a monthly commentary to NPR and also to Birdwatcher's Digest. She has published more than 40 of her articles and 17 cover paintings. This nature journal is well written, with humor and wsdom, an is enhanced by her wonderful watercolors.
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780393061727
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 9/2007
A brand new book by one's favorite author is always a cause of celebration, and I've hit the jackpot. The Zoookeeper's Wife: A War Story, by Diane Ackerman, is the true story of Jan Zabinski and his wife, Antonina, the zookeepers of the Warsaw Zoo in Poland. Together, during World War Two, they participate in the Polish resistance, share their love and respect for all creatures, and through incredible odds temporarily harbor hundreds of Jews amonth the bombed-out buildings of the zoo. These hidden people are then safely and silently sent on out to the rest of their lives. Like the next book on my "recommended" list (The Snoring Bird, by Bernd Heinrich), this book taught me world history while examining the human need to be a part of the natural world and told the personal stories of the strength and complexity of the human spirit.
$29.95
ISBN-13: 9780060742157
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Ecco, 5/2007
This is the true story of Heinrich's father and family as they live and die through both World Wars and the incredible circumstances that brought them to live in America. Bernd Heinrich is professor of emeritus of biology at the University of Vermont.
