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2021.
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English
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Adult Winter Reading Challenge
Adult Winter Reading Challenge 2025
Adult Winter Reading: Heartwarming Stories
Adult Winter Reading: Historical Fiction
Adult Winter Reading Challenge 2025
Adult Winter Reading: Heartwarming Stories
Adult Winter Reading: Historical Fiction
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"The Elephant of Belfast chronicles a seven-month period of time when the Germans unexpectedly bombed Belfast, Northern Ireland, also known as the Belfast Blitz. Through the lens of the Bellevue Zoo and one of its zookeepers, twenty-year-old Hettie Quin, the novel animates how the war irrevocably impacted-and shaped the lives of Belfast's citizens in broad and intimate ways. In October 1940, Hettie meets Violet, a three-year-old Asian elephant arriving...
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"After two and a half years of ISIS occupation, and months of fighting between the militants and government forces, the Mosul Zoo was one of the few outdoor attractions still standing in Iraq's second city, its inhabitants kept alive by Abu Laith, a square-set 50-something mechanic and passionate animal lover. As the animals began to starve under the siege by advancing Iraqi army forces, Abu Laith, the "Father of Lions" and his protégées and family...
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"With stunning photographs and exemplary narrative nonfiction, the Sibert Honor-winning creators of The Elephant Scientist, Caitlin O'Connell and Timothy Rodwell, give readers a heartwarming insider's look into a day in the life of a zoo curator and the meaningful bonds that she forms with her menagerie."-- Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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When Balthazar Jones is tasked with setting up an elaborate menagerie within the Tower of London's walls to house the many exotic animals gifted to the Queen, life at the Tower gets all the more interesting. Penguins escape, giraffes are stolen, and the Komodo dragon sends innocent people running for their lives. Balthazar is in charge and things are not exactly running smoothly. Then his wife Hebe decides to leave him and his beloved tortoise "runs"...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Zookeeper Bob McGrew is back for another poop-filled adventure, this time in board book format! When a mysterious green poop is left behind at Bob McGrew's zoo, Bob is determined to find out who did it. Each one of the animals in the zoo explains why the poop doesn't belong to them in this hilarious rhyming adventure. Who could it belong to? Includes a squishy, sparkly poop that shows through the front cover and on every interior spread"-- Provided...
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[2022]
Language
Polish
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Jan and Antonina Zabinski, the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo in Poland, saved nearly 300 Jews during the Second World War. This is a poignant documentary that is an extraordinary true story about the humanitarian spirit, as exemplified by two people who, with enormous personal risk to themselves, faced the most challenging circumstances with bravery and decency. In 1965, Jan and Antonina Zabinski were recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations....
18) Where's Walrus?
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Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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Follows Walrus on a journey through the city, as he tries on different hats to disguise himself from the chasing zookeeper.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Adult Winter Reading Challenge 2025
Adult Winter Reading: Heartwarming Stories
Note to Shelf: November 2022
Adult Winter Reading: Heartwarming Stories
Note to Shelf: November 2022
Description
"'Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes...' Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It's 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic....
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