Browsing: Zoology

All the children are afraid of Bo the bat, but he just wants to have fun like everybody else. Bo shows his young neighbors how bats can be helpful — not scary — in this engaging picture book that’s perfect for Halloween!

Follow 10 familiar plants and animals through thousands of years of evolution in this fascinating glimpse into civilization, domestication, and our wild past. “Excellent” (The Guardian).

This inspiring memoir of one woman’s experience in the field is an exotic adventure story, a surprise journey of self-discovery,…

A moving true story: In war-torn Mosul, zookeeper Abu Laith found himself evacuating a string of animals from the city’s zoo — including a lion cub and a bear. “An engaging yet heartbreaking narrative that reads like fiction” (Kirkus Reviews).

For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist’s human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic…

New York Times BestsellerPrimatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions.Frans de Waal has spent…

The first book in the Wendel Wright Chronicles series. Fifteen-year-old Wendel Wright and his family are forced to move to…

Aidan HughesI was cruel to Deidre La Russo.Said things I should never say to a woman.Seen things happen to her.Things…

Voted America’s Best-Loved Novel in PBS’s The Great American ReadHarper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the…

On May 27th, 1784, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart met a flirtatious little starling in a Viennese shop who sang an improvised…