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"In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas-- and a new unrest-- begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires with throngs of...
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F MATHE
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F MATHE
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Rothschild - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F MATHE
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F MATHE
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3 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 34 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 34 people are on the wait list.
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"From an exhilarating new voice comes a dazzling debut novel about an Indian-American immigrant building a life for herself in the Midwest-a brilliant and utterly absorbing story of love, friendship, and precarity in 21st century America Graduating into the trough of yet another American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. However mind-numbing the work, her entry-level consulting job is the key that unlocks every door: she can pick up the...
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1 copy, 17 people are on the wait list.
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"A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully built mirages"--
4) Book lovers
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Mosinee - MCPL - Adult Fiction Large Print
LT HENRY
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LT HENRY
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6 copies, 475 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 499 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 499 people are on the wait list.
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"A by-the-book literary agent must decide if happily ever after is worth changing her whole life for in this insightful, delightful new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation. Nora Stephens' life is books-- she's read them all-- and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine...
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Graphic Novels
B BEATON GN
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B BEATON GN
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush-part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can't find it in the homeland they love so much. Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands, where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet is never discussed. Beaton's natural cartooning prowess is on full display as she draws colossal machinery and mammoth vehicles set against a sublime...
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Nonfiction
616.8914 AVIV
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616.8914 AVIV
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Rothschild - MCPL - Adult Nonfiction
616.8914 AVIV
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616.8914 AVIV
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3 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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"The highly anticipated debut from the acclaimed award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv compels us to examine how the stories we tell about mental illness shape our sense of who we are"--
In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions about how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress. Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes...
7) The hacienda
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Fiction Large Print
LT CANAS
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LT CANAS
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2 copies, 30 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
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"Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, dark secrets, and the woman pulled into their clutches... In the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz's father is executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumors surrounding his first wife's sudden demise, choosing instead to seize...
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"When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O'Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started forty years earlier. As a lifelong O'Hara fan who grew up amid his bohemian cohort in the East Village, Calhoun thought the project would be easy, even fun, but the deeper she dove, the more she had to face not...
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1 copy, 39 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"A young Native American boy in a splintering family grasps for stability and love, making all the wrong choices until he finds a space of his own"--
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Nonfiction Biography
B COOPERJO
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B COOPERJO
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Edgar - MCPL - Adult Nonfiction Biography
B COOPERJO
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B COOPERJO
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2 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
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"From Chloé Cooper Jones--Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient--a groundbreaking memoir about disability, motherhood, and a journey to far-flung places in search of a new way of seeing and being seen. "I am in a bar in Brooklyn, listening to two men, my friends, discuss whether my life is worth living." So begins Chloé Cooper Jones's bold, revealing account of moving through the world in a body...
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F SAUND
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F SAUND
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Rothschild - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F SAUND
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F SAUND
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Books on CD Fiction
CD SAU
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CD SAU
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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In his stories, Saunders explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. Wickedly funny, unsentimental, and perfectly tuned, the stories challenge and surprise as they encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality. -- adapted from back cover
"The 'best short story writer in English' (Time) is back with a masterful collection...
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F WILSO
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F WILSO
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Marathon City - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F WILSO
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F WILSO
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Fiction Large Print
LT WILSO
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LT WILSO
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6 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here comes an exuberant, bighearted novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives forever. Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge--aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner--is determined to make it through yet another sad summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a talented artist who has just moved...
13) Solito: a memoir
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Mosinee - MCPL - Adult Nonfiction Biography
B ZAMORA
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B ZAMORA
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1 copy, 191 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 181 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 181 people are on the wait list.
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"Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago--'one day, you'll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.' Javier's adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone except for a group of strangers...
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F STRAU
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F STRAU
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Edgar - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F STRAU
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F STRAU
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Spencer - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F STRAU
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F STRAU
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Rothschild - MCPL - Adult Fiction Large Print
LT STRAU
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LT STRAU
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Stratford - MCPL - Adult Large Print Fiction
LT STRAU
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LT STRAU
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Books on CD Fiction
CD STR
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CD STR
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Rothschild - MCPL - Adult Books on CD Fiction
CD STR
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CD STR
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6 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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26 copies, 22 people are on the wait list.
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26 copies, 22 people are on the wait list.
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"What if you could take a vacation to your past, without the filter of memory? What would you give to go back in time and relive your youth, in person, with the people who shared it? On the eve of her 40th birthday, Alice's life isn't terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn't exactly the one she expected. She's happy with her apartment, her romantic status, her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But something is missing. Her...
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3 copies, 25 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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"A New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and "one of our greatest living writers" (Shondaland) reimagines the love story in this fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss. Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again. It's been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she's almost a new person now-an artist with her own studio, and sharing a brownstone...
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Visit from the Goon Squad volume 2
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F EGAN
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F EGAN
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Mosinee - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F EGAN
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F EGAN
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Rothschild - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F EGAN
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F EGAN
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Hatley - MCPL - Adult Fiction Large Print
LT EGAN
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LT EGAN
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Rothschild - MCPL - Adult Books on CD Fiction
CD EGA
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CD EGA
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3 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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"The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is "one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis." Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, "Own...
17) Trust
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1 copy, 214 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 381 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 381 people are on the wait list.
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"An award-winning writer of absorbing, sophisticated fiction delivers a stylish and propulsive novel rooted in early 20th century New York, about wealth and talent, trust and intimacy, truth and perception. In glamorous 1920s New York City, two characters of sophisticated taste come together. One is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; the other, the brilliant daughter of penniless aristocrats. Steeped in affluence and grandeur, their marriage excites...
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F MANDE
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F MANDE
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Rothschild - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F MANDE
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F MANDE
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Athens - MCPL - Adult Fiction Large Print
LT MANDE
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LT MANDE
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Mosinee - MCPL - Adult Books on CD Fiction
CD MAN
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CD MAN
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5 copies, 30 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 150 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 150 people are on the wait list.
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"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at...
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Athens - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F ZEVIN
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F ZEVIN
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Rothschild - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F ZEVIN
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F ZEVIN
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Fiction Large Print
LT ZEVIN
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LT ZEVIN
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1 copy, 802 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 1036 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 1036 people are on the wait list.
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"A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry"--
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits...
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Nonfiction
591.5 YONG
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591.5 YONG
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Mosinee - MCPL - Adult Nonfiction
591.5 YONG
1 available
591.5 YONG
1 available
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28 copies, 150 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 141 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 141 people are on the wait list.
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"The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world.This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension--the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires (and fireworks), songbirds that can see the Earth's magnetic...