The Swallow and the Hummingbird
The Swallow and the Hummingbird

Author: Santa Montefiore

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-01-02

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 1471132064

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FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR A sweeping story of love that stretches across the years The war has ended and Rita Fairweather is waiting for George Bolton, her childhood sweetheart, to return home to Devon. She wants their future to be a continuing reassurance of their past. But George comes back as a man changed by the horrors he has experienced. Unable to settle back into a small-town life, George decides to travel to Argentina. And Rita promises to wait. But George faces irresistible temptation and an agonising choice. As the years pass, Rita keeps her word... but how long should she wait for the love of her life? ***PRAISE FOR SANTA MONTEFIORE*** ‘Nobody does epic romance like Santa Montefiore’ JOJO MOYES ‘An enchanting read overflowing with deliciously poignant moments’ DINAH JEFFERIES on Songs of Love and War ‘Santa Montefiore hits the spot for my like few other writers’ SARRA MANNING ‘One of our personal favourites’ THE TIMES on The Last Secret of the Deverills ‘Accomplished and poetic’ Daily Mail ‘Santa Montefiore is a marvel’ Sunday Express

Hummingbird's Squash
Hummingbird's Squash

Author: Terry Lofton

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13:

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Hummingbird tries new methods to grow huge fruits and vegetables and faces a bully with other plans for the garden, while Coyote plays tricks to teach her about the history and wisdom of traditional foods.

The Secret to Hummingbird Cake
The Secret to Hummingbird Cake

Author: Celeste Fletcher McHale

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 2016-02-09

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0718034236

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Friends since kindergarten, Carrigan, Ella Rae, and Laine thought they'd been through everything together. But when cancer threatens to rip the trio apart, their world spins in a way they've never known before. Through it all, will they discover the secret to the divine taste of hummingbird cake—and to friendships that never end? In the South you always say “yes, ma’am” and “no, ma’am.” You know everybody’s business. Football is a lifestyle not a pastime. Food—especially dessert—is almost a religious experience. And you protect your friends as fiercely as you protect your family—even if the threat is something you cannot see. In this Southern novel brimming with wit and authenticity, Laine, Carrigan, Ella Rae first met on the playground when they were five years old. Now, as adults, they’re still almost inseparable as they handle the outrageous curveballs that life sometimes throws—from devastating pain to absolute joy. As the three friends navigate everything from a devastating medical diagnosis to the rocky path of marriage, their bond is tested. Through it all, you’ll experience the essence and the joy of true friendship. And if you’re lucky, you just may discover the secret to hummingbird cake along the way. Women’s fiction, focused on friendship, and set in the South Full length, stand-alone novel Includes discussion questions for book clubs

Hummingbirds
Hummingbirds

Author: Glenn Bartley

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2022-07-26

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0691182124

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With their glorious colors, glittering iridescence, astonishing powers of flight, and many characteristics unique in the world of birds, hummingbirds are extraordinary--true jewels of nature. This beautiful book is a celebration of all aspects of hummingbirds and their world. It features hundreds of the most spectacular photographs of hummingbirds ever taken, exquisite illustrations, and a lively, readable text that presents the latest scientific information and includes up-to-date details about every species.

Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

Author: Henry Miller

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1962

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780811203227

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One of Henry Miller's most luminous statements of his personal philosophy of life, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird, provides a symbolic title for this collection of stories and essays. Many of them have appeared only in foreign magazines while others were printed in small limited editions which have gone out of print. Miller's genius for comedy is at its best in "Money and How It Gets That Way"--a tongue-in-cheek parody of "economics" provoked by a postcard from Ezra Pound which asked if he "ever thought about money." His deep concern for the role of the artist in society appears in "An Open Letter to All and Sundry," and in "The Angel is My Watermark" he writes of his own passionate love affair with painting. "The Immorality of Morality" is an eloquent discussion of censorship. Some of the stories, such as "First Love," are autobiographical, and there are portraits of friends, such as "Patchen: Man of Anger and Light," and essays on other writers such as Walt Whitman, Thoreau, Sherwood Anderson and Ionesco. Taken together, these highly readable pieces reflect the incredible vitality and variety of interests of the writer who extended the frontiers of modern literature with Tropic of Cancer and other great books.

HANDBOOK OF NATURE STUDY
HANDBOOK OF NATURE STUDY

Author: ANNA BOTSFORD COMSTOCK

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-01-08

Total Pages: 742

ISBN-13: 1409227944

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Anna Botsford Comstock's classic tome on Nature Study for Children--Parts I, II and III.Suitable for all ages.

Western Birds
Western Birds

Author: Bill Thompson

Publisher:

Published: 2013-09-15

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 1591865557

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DIVFilled with beautiful photos and entertaining, informative entries, Western Birds: The Backyard Guide is the perfect no-nonsense quick guide for the 55 most common bird species in the Western United States. /div

Taxonomy of the birds of the world
Taxonomy of the birds of the world

Author: fotolulu

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2018-10-30

Total Pages: 702

ISBN-13: 3748165609

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How do you come up with the idea to list all the birds in the world including the subspecies and to give all birds English names? There is a reason for it - my favorite saying, whose author is unknown: "Everyone said that ́s not possible - then there was one who did not know that and just did it!" I am an animal photographer and probably a little bit crazy. I ́ve built a complete animal database for mammals and birds over the last decade. This facilitates my work in determining and archiving images and assigning keywords, especially among the many subspecies. With this book, I would like to give all birding friends and ornithologists a complete overview in English. For this I have given unique English names to all subspecies. The naming should not meet any scientific requirements. The names are based on translations from the Latin name, geographical distribution areas and the names of the discoverers. The entries consist of the scientific name, the English name, the distribution areas and the author. I wish you a lot of fun with this book, but especially while watching the fascinating birdlife. fotolulu

The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade
The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade

Author: Theodore E. Stebbins

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 0300081839

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Martin Johnson Heade was one of the most significant American painters of the nineteenth century, creator of portraits, history and genre pictures, still lifes, ornithological studies, landscapes, and marines, and his own unique orchid and hummingbird compositions. This book brings a perspective to Heade and his works, presenting him as one of the most original and productive painters of his time. Theodore Stebbins builds on his acclaimed 1975 study of Heade, drawing on several newly discovered collections of Heade's letters and the painter's own Brazilian journal. Stebbins tells of Heade's training and early career as an itinerant portraitist and discusses his move to New York, where, under the influence of Frederic E. Church, he began painting landscapes and seascapes. He examines Heade's relationships with patrons and dealers, writers and scientists, and he sheds new light on Heade’s trips to Brazil, to the Central American tropics, and to London. And he describes Heade's move to Florida in 1883, which marked not his retirement but a final period of creativity that lasted until his death in 1904. The book includes not only an examination of Heade's life and works but also reproductions of all his 620 known paintings, including nearly 250 that have been discovered since 1975.