The Nighthawk's Evening

The Nighthawk's Evening
Title The Nighthawk's Evening PDF eBook
Author Gretchen N. Newberry
Publisher
Pages 168
Release 2021-10
Genre Nature
ISBN 9780870711503

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In her late thirties, Gretchen Newberry left her office job in Portland, Oregon, to become a wildlife biologist studying nighthawks. The common nighthawk, Chordeiles minor, has long fascinated birders, scientists, farmers, and anyone who has awoken to its raspy calls on a hot city night. In The Nighthawk's Evening, Newberry charts her journey across North America to study these birds, from the islands of British Columbia to rooftops in South Dakota, Oregon sagebrush, and Wisconsin forests. This acrobatic, night-flying bird nests on rooftops and flocks in the thousands as it migrates from Alaska to Argentina and back every year. Nighthawks are strange animals, reptiles with feathers, sleepy during the day, but quick, agile, and especially adept at survival. They have the ability to withstand extreme temperatures and adapt to many habitats, but they are struggling for survival in the Anthropocene. Newberry's story focuses on the bird itself--its complex conservation status and cultural significance--and the larger, often hidden world of nocturnal animals. Along the way, she gives readers insight into the daily life of a scientist, especially one who works primarily at night. The Nighthawk's Evening uses one scientist and one species to explore the challenges, disappointments, and successes of scientific research and conservation efforts. An accessible work of science, it will appeal to birders, students, wildlife managers, and anyone who is fascinated by urban wildlife.

Night Hawks

Night Hawks
Title Night Hawks PDF eBook
Author Charles Johnson
Publisher Scribner
Pages 192
Release 2019-05-07
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1501184393

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From National Book Award winner Charles Johnson, “the celebrated novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and essayist…comes a small treasure, one to be read and considered and reread” (The New York Times Book Review), showcasing his incredible range and resonant voice. Charles Johnson’s Night Hawks presents an eclectic, masterful collection of stories tied together by Buddhist themes and displaying all the grace, heart, and insight for which he has long been known. Spanning genres from science fiction to realism, “Johnson’s writing, filled with the sort of long, layered sentences you can get happily lost in, conveys a kindness; a sense that all of us…have our own stories” (The Seattle Times). In “The Weave,” Ieesha and her boyfriend carry out a heist at the salon from which she has just been fired—coming away with thousands of dollars of merchandise in the form of hair extensions. “Night Hawks,” the titular story, draws on Johnson’s friendship with the late playwright August Wilson to construct a narrative about two writers who meet at night to talk. In “Kamadhatu,” a lonely Japanese abbot has his quiet world upended by a visit from a black American Buddhist whose presence pushes him toward the awakening he has long found elusive. “Occupying Arthur Whitfield,” about a cab driver who decides to rob the home of a wealthy passenger, reminds readers to be grateful for what they have. And “The Night Belongs to Phoenix Jones” combines the real-life story of a “superhero” in the city of Seattle with an invented narrative about an aging English professor who decides to join him. With precise, elegant, and moving language, Johnson creates an “arresting” array of “indelible moments that show Johnson to be a master of the short form” (Library Journal, starred review). Night Hawks is “a masterpiece…[that] ultimately offers a message of empowerment and hope” (Oprah.com).

The Night Hawks

The Night Hawks
Title The Night Hawks PDF eBook
Author Elly Griffiths
Publisher Ruth Galloway Mysteries
Pages 363
Release 2021
Genre Fiction
ISBN 035823705X

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There's nothing Ruth Galloway hates more than amateur archaeologists, but when a group of them stumble upon Bronze Age artifacts alongside a dead body, she finds herself thrust into their midst--and into the crosshairs of a string of murders circling ever closer.

Night of the Republic

Night of the Republic
Title Night of the Republic PDF eBook
Author Alan Shapiro
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages 117
Release 2012
Genre Poetry
ISBN 0547329709

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The tenth collection of poems from Alan Shapiro, author of SONG AND DANCE and OLD WAR

The Great Darkness

The Great Darkness
Title The Great Darkness PDF eBook
Author Jim Kelly
Publisher Allison & Busby Ltd
Pages 351
Release 2018-02-15
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0749022574

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1939, Cambridge. The opening weeks of the Second World War, and the first blackout - The Great Darkness - covers southern England, enveloping the city. Detective Inspector Eden Brooke, a wounded hero of the Great War, takes his nightly dip in the cool waters of the Cam. The night is full of alarms, but in this Phoney War, the enemy never comes. But daylight reveals a corpse on the riverside, the body torn apart by some unspeakable force. Brooke investigates, calling on the expertise and inspiration of a faithful group of fellow 'nighthawks' across the city, all condemned, like him, to a life lived away from the light. Within hours The Great Darkness has claimed a second victim. War, it seems, has many victims. But what links these crimes of the night?

The Night Hawk Star

The Night Hawk Star
Title The Night Hawk Star PDF eBook
Author Junko Morimoto
Publisher
Pages 32
Release 1993
Genre Birds
ISBN 9780091827311

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This is the story of Night Hawk thought to be the plainest and most awkward bird to stand on two feet.

Ruth Galloway 13

Ruth Galloway 13
Title Ruth Galloway 13 PDF eBook
Author Elly Griffiths
Publisher
Pages 368
Release 2021-02-04
Genre Detective and mystery stories
ISBN 9781787477803

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The thirteenth book in the bestselling Dr Ruth Galloway series.