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Shadow Kin, UnknownA Novel of the Half-light City

by Scott, M. J. (Melanie Joy)
Unknown, 2011
Added Nov 20, 2012

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Relics, BookTravels in Nature's Time Machine

by Naskrecki, Piotr
Book, 2011
Added Sept 08, 2012

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This item is a Multnomah County Library Staff Pick. See more of our favorites at our blog, An Embarrassment of Riches: https://web.multcolib.org/blog/embarrassment-riches. For the purpose of the gorgeous and astounding book, Relics: Travels in Nature's Time Machine by Piotr Maskrecki, the author defines a relic in this way: Relic: a creature or habitat that, while acted upon by evolution, remains remarkably similar to its earliest manifestations in the fossil record. Do we have relics here in the U.S. of A.? Bunches. Among them, the Atlantic horseshoe crab. It lives on the eastern North American Coast and has been doing a mass spawning every Spring, like clockwork, for 440 million years. Relics not found in the U.S. : Emerald and black mottled treerunnner: Its cache of eggs is normally stashed in elevated piles of leaves in the geographical area of Africa called the Guiana Shield. If the nest is disturbed by a predator near the end of the eggs' development, all the eggs will hatch at once, within seconds of each other, the infant lizards scattering in all directions. The Atewa dinospider from West Africa is from an ancient group of arachnids that go back all the way to the Carboniferous period. When was that? Three-hundred million years ago. What's a dinospider look like? Think brown pipe cleaners--those fuzzy things you used in third grade art class. And New Guinea....my goodness. You're amazing. A giant, newly discovered and as yet unnamed gliding frog (think flying squirrel) and an equally astonishing and also as yet unnamed tiny frog of the species Choerophryne, smaller than a human fingernail. I'd go further into the spider arena but I know it's gonna freak out some of you. But I can't leave without mentioning the Goliath tarantula that weighs in over 150 grams--about a third of a pound--that the author of this book thought at first was a small mammal when he saw it scurrying across the forest floor. I'm not an arachnophobe but the picture of this bad boy was all it took for me to close the book.

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Before I Go to Sleep, BookA Novel

by Watson, S. J. (Steven J.)
Book, 2011
Added Aug 17, 2012

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Into the Darkest Corner, UnknownA Novel

by Haynes, Elizabeth
Unknown, 2012
Added Aug 17, 2012

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Case Histories, BookA Novel

by Atkinson, Kate
Book, 2005
Added Aug 17, 2012

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The Gods of Gotham, Unknown

by Faye, Lyndsay
Unknown, 2012
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The Invisible Ones, Unknown

by Penney, Stef
Unknown, 2012
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The Yard, Unknown

by Grecian, Alex
Unknown, 2012
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The Bedlam Detective, BookA Novel

by Gallagher, Stephen
Book, 2012
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The Truth of All Things, Book

by Shields, Kieran
Book, 2012
Added Aug 17, 2012

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In the Cut, Unknown

by Moore, Susanna
Unknown, 1995
Added Aug 17, 2012

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Gold, BookA Novel

by Cleave, Chris
Book, 2012
Added Aug 08, 2012

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Gone Girl, BookA Novel

by Flynn, Gillian
Book, 2012
Added Aug 08, 2012

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Shadow of Night, Book

by Harkness, Deborah
Book, 2012
Added Aug 08, 2012

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Canada, Book

by Ford, Richard
Book, 2012
Added Aug 08, 2012

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Fifty Shades of Grey, Book

by James, E. L.
Book, 2012
Added Aug 08, 2012

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Fifty Shades Darker, Unknown

by James, E. L.
Unknown, 2012
Added Aug 08, 2012

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Railsea, Book

by Miéville, China
Book, 2012
Added Aug 08, 2012

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The Other Wes Moore, UnknownOne Name, Two Fates

by Moore, Wes
Unknown, 2010
Added Jun 19, 2012

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The Other Wes Moore, UnknownOne Name, Two Fates

by Moore, Wes
Unknown, 2010
Added Jun 19, 2012

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The Other Wes Moore, Audiobook CD[the Story of One Name and Two Fates]

by Moore, Wes
Audiobook CD, 2010
Added Jun 19, 2012

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The Other Wes Moore, BookOne Name, Two Fates

by Moore, Wes
Book, 2010
Added Jun 19, 2012

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