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In this mesmerizing first novel, a young American graduate student abandons her research deep in the Australian rain forest to investigate her professor's mysterious disappearance.
Annabel Mendelssohn has an unusual but oddly satisfying life - studying spectacled fruit bats in the rain forest of Australia. She spends her free time discovering waterfalls and e-mailing her sister, Alice, who has settled for the more domesticated science of grant administration....
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Isla of adventure volume 3
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Little Simon
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Isla, her best gecko friend, Fitz, and a few new animal friends, investigate the mysterious sounds coming from the rainforest.
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This freewheeling black comedy features a bizarre cast of characters, including a Japanese man with a ball floating six inches in front of his head, an American CEO with three arms, and a Brazilian peasant who discovers the art of healing by tickling one's earlobe with a feather. By the end of this hilarious tale, they each have risen to the heights of wealth and fame, before arriving at disasters-both personal and ecological- that destroy the rain...
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In a malarial outpost in the South American rain forest, two misplaced gringos converge and clash in this novel from the National Book Award-winning author. Martin Quarrier has come to convert the elusive Niaruna Indians to his brand of Christianity. Lewis Moon, a stateless mercenary who is himself part Indian, has come to kill them on the behalf of the local comandante. Out of this struggle Peter Matthiessen creates an electrifying moral...
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Mary Pope Osborne's Magic tree house volume 6
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Retells, in graphic novel form, the tale of eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister, Annie, who are whisked away to the Amazon rainforest for a high-stakes adventure"--
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Three men are found dead in the locked second-floor office of a Honolulu building, with no sign of struggle except for the ultrafine, razor-sharp cuts covering their bodies. The only clue left behind is a tiny bladed robot, nearly invisible to the human eye. In the lush forests of Oahu, groundbreaking technology has ushered in a revolutionary era of biological prospecting. Trillions of microorganisms, tens of thousands of bacteria species, are being...
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Alexander Hawke thrillers volume 4
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English
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Things along America's southern border are rapidly reaching the boiling point. American girls are being snatched from their homes, ranches are burning, and armed Mexican troops cross the border at will in support of narcotics smugglers and illegal immigrants. By day, Americans take up arms and plan reprisals. An all-out border war is no longer inconceivable--it's happening! On assignment for the British Secret Service, a man leads a mysterious expedition...
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
c2002
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English
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Where?' someone yells, 'Where are we landing?' 'Africa. Somewhere.' A plane in trouble, a terrifying plummet into the depths of an African jungle, and capture by rebel military troopsall in just the first chapter of this brilliant debut novel by Marcus Stevens. Lewis' day begins with a bitter quarrel with his wife and ends on a crumbling, overgrown jungle airstrip somewhere deep in war-torn Congo. With the cockpit on fire, the pilots of his plane...
11) Origin
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Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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"Pia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest. She was raised by a team of scientists who have created her to be the start of a new immortal race. But on the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pia discovers a hole in the electric fence that surrounds her sterile home--and sneaks outside the compound for the first time in her life. Free in the jungle, Pia meets Eio, a boy from a nearby village. Together, they embark...
12) Wild rain
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Leopard people volume 2
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Berkley Pub
Pub. Date
c2004
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English
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Challenge Island STEAM adventures volume 2
Publisher
West Margin Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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After finding themselves mysteriously transported to a magical island, this time in a rainforest swamp, Daniel, Joy, and Kimani must figure out how to safely traverse across the island with their knowledge of friction and pulleys.
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Adventures of Riley volume 7
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Eaglemont Press
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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While visiting his uncle in Borneo, nine-year-old Riley learns how illegal logging is endangering the rain forest and helps to rescue a baby orangutan.
16) De noche llegan
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Felou
Pub. Date
c2009
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Español
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"Atrapados en una selva tan misteriosa como las sombra que aparecen por las noches, Tim y Frank descubren los matices que, a la distancia, creían entender. El clamor de la naturaleza en medio del silencio de los hombres los enfrenta a sus propios conflictos y los lleva a la mujer que los reunió. Voces amortiguadas por una vegetación llena de vida, la constante amenaza de armas detrás de los arbustos, ausencia de nombres, estos son algunos elementos...
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