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Author: Harry Turtledove
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 768
ISBN-13: 9780671578749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFacing an invasion by the Gradi and their fierce gods, Gerin, ruler of Fox Keep, invokes all the supernatural help he can from the god Mavrix, the aloof but powerful Biton, and the more elemental gods beneath the ground. Meanwhile, other conflicts are arising to complicate matters.
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Publisher: Bounty Books
Published: 2015-11-05
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780753730645
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Renate Raecke
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Published: 2021-01-26
Total Pages: 79
ISBN-13: 1662650590
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A collection of folktales at their absolute best" (Elizabeth Bird, SLJ.com) about a legendary scoundrel, brought to new life through Renate Raecke's lively retelling and Jonas Lauströer's expressive illustrations. Reynard the Fox has been a staple trickster character of European literature since at least the Middle Ages. The tales of his schemes have been told many times, and he always manages to win readers' sympathies. Reynard is a rascal, a ne'er-do-well. While we may suffer from his pranks, at the same time we smile at the shrewd thinking through which he escapes hopeless situations. In this expertly retold version, the classic tales of Reynard's exploits find a new life. They speak to us now as much as ever, for who among us doesn't know a Reynard-like figure in our lives?
Author: Lee Alan Dugatkin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2019-04-14
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 022659971X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears that are as docile and friendly as any lapdog. But, despite appearances, these are not dogs—they are foxes. They are the result of the most astonishing experiment in breeding ever undertaken—imagine speeding up thousands of years of evolution into a few decades. In 1959, biologists Dmitri Belyaev and Lyudmila Trut set out to do just that, by starting with a few dozen silver foxes from fox farms in the USSR and attempting to recreate the evolution of wolves into dogs in real time in order to witness the process of domestication. This is the extraordinary, untold story of this remarkable undertaking. Most accounts of the natural evolution of wolves place it over a span of about 15,000 years, but within a decade, Belyaev and Trut’s fox breeding experiments had resulted in puppy-like foxes with floppy ears, piebald spots, and curly tails. Along with these physical changes came genetic and behavioral changes, as well. The foxes were bred using selection criteria for tameness, and with each generation, they became increasingly interested in human companionship. Trut has been there the whole time, and has been the lead scientist on this work since Belyaev’s death in 1985, and with Lee Dugatkin, biologist and science writer, she tells the story of the adventure, science, politics, and love behind it all. In How to Tame a Fox, Dugatkin and Trut take us inside this path-breaking experiment in the midst of the brutal winters of Siberia to reveal how scientific history is made and continues to be made today. To date, fifty-six generations of foxes have been domesticated, and we continue to learn significant lessons from them about the genetic and behavioral evolution of domesticated animals. How to Tame a Fox offers an incredible tale of scientists at work, while also celebrating the deep attachments that have brought humans and animals together throughout time.
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781851245550
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Based on William Caxton's bestselling 1481 English translation of the Middle Dutch, this edition is an imaginative retelling of the Reynard story, expanded with new interpretations and innovative language and characterizations"--Publisher marketing.
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Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1992-01-08
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780520076846
DOWNLOAD EBOOKValued for its comic spirit, its high literary quality, and its clever satire of feudal society, the famous medieval poem about the legendary fox uses animals to represent the members of various classes.
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780439095433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTricky Fox uses his sack to trick everyone he meets into giving him ever more valuable items.
Author: Yoon Ha Lee
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Published: 2021-10-05
Total Pages: 75
ISBN-13: 1524875287
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnter a world of magic and myth, where foxes fall in love and robots build their own dragons. In The Fox’s Tower and Other Tales, New York Times bestselling author Yoon Ha Lee crafts together short and moving stories of love, adventure, magic, and nature. With poetic language and intricate world building, readers will be whisked away to a different adventure with every new story. Full of fascinating creatures and LGBT+ romances, this flash fiction collection combines the classic with the contemporary in Yoon’s captivating style.
Author: Kathi Appelt
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-03-08
Total Pages: 149
ISBN-13: 1442482443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorlds collide in a spectacular way when Newbery and National Book Award finalist Kathi Appelt and Pulitzer Prize nominee and #1 New York Times bestseller Alison McGhee team up to create a fantastical, heartbreaking, and gorgeous tale about two sisters, a fox cub, and what happens when one of the sisters disappears forever. Sylvie and Jules, Jules and Sylvie. Better than just sisters, more than best friends, they’d be identical twins if only they’d been born in the same year. And if only Sylvie wasn’t such a fast—faster than fast—runner. But Sylvie is too fast, and when she runs to the river they’re not supposed to go anywhere near to throw a wish rock just before the school bus comes on a snowy morning, she runs so fast that no one sees what happens…and no one ever sees her again. Jules is devastated, but she refuses to believe what all the others believe, that—like their mother—her sister is gone forever. At the very same time, in the shadow world, a shadow fox is born—half of the spirit world, half of the animal world. She too is fast—faster than fast—and she senses danger. She’s too young to know exactly what she senses, but she knows something is very wrong. And when Jules believes one last wish rock for Sylvie needs to be thrown into the river, the human and shadow worlds collide. Writing in alternate voices—one Jules’s, the other the fox’s—Kathi Appelt and Alison McGhee tell the searingly beautiful tale of one small family’s moment of heartbreak, a moment that unfolds into one that is epic, mythic, shimmering, and most of all, hopeful.
Author: Yossi Abolafia
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Published: 1992-05
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780440803003
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDonkey, Crow, and Rabbit join forces to prevent Fox from swindling Bear out of a jar of honey.
