Cradle: Stories + Fables
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Craig Morgan Teicher
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| Timeless yet timely and hopeful with a dark underbelly, these fables revive a tradition running from Aesop to W.S. Merwin. With a poet’s mastery, Craig Morgan Teicher creates strange worlds populated by animals fated for disaster and the people who interact with them, or simply act like them, including a very sad boy who wishes he had been raised by wolves. There are also a handful of badly behaving gods, a talking tree, and a shape-shifting room. |
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Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
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David Sedaris
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| Featuring David Sedaris's unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new collection of keen-eyed animal-themed tales is an utter delight. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of everyday life. - - - - - |
The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct
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Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson
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| This was a X-Mas present from Dylan and has been a pretty interesting read so far. In this new look at the leafcutter ants, Pulitzer Prize winners Hölldobler (with Wilson for The Ants, 1990) and Wilson (On Human Nature, 1978) introduce the general reader to earth’s most evolved animal society. |
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The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories of Hans Christian Anderson
Seeing a theme here yet in my choice of what I read before going to bed? Wink.
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