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2) Winter trees
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English
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A boy and his dog walk through a wintry forest and identify seven common trees.
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Mysteries of nature trilogy volume 1
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English
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A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • One of the most beloved books of our time: an illuminating account of the forest, and the science that shows us how trees communicate, feel, and live in social networks. After reading this book, a walk in the woods will never be the same again.
"Breaks entirely new ground ... [Peter Wohlleben] has listened to trees and decoded their language.
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Grow your own apples, figs, plums, cherries, pears, apricots, and peaches in even the smallest backyard! Ann Ralph shows you how to cultivate small yet abundant fruit trees using a variety of specialized pruning techniques. With dozens of simple and effective strategies for keeping an ordinary fruit tree from growing too large, you'll keep your gardening duties manageable while at the same time reaping a bountiful harvest. These little fruit trees...
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Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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"In an era of cell phone addiction and ever-expanding cities, many of us fear we've lost our connection to nature--but Peter Wohlleben is convinced that age-old ties linking humans to the forest remain alive and intact. Whether we observe it or not, our blood pressure stabilizes near trees, the color green calms us, and the forest sharpens our senses. Drawing on new scientific discoveries, The Heartbeat of Trees reveals the profound interactions humans...
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English
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This colorful illustrated guide to growing fruit trees at home provides detailed information on all aspects of amateur orchard keeping. Beginning with an overview of orchard principles and history, the volume covers site selection, planting processes, irrigation and fertilization, pruning and weeding, pest control and other optimization and troubleshooting topics, and harvesting, fruit preservation and produce uses. Additional chapters discuss extending...
7) Trees
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English
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"Trees is a must-have, field guide for beginners and experts alike. Whether you're on a nature hike or taking a stroll in your neighborhood, you'll want to take along a copy of this indispensable guide featuring some of the most familiar, distinctive, and widespread North American trees"--
8) Leaf jumpers
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English
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Illustrations and rhyming text describe different leaves and the trees from which they fall.
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English
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"Readers will discover that trees have their own social network, and helping one another thrive is trending. The fascinating mycorrhizal fungi network runs underground through the forest via the roots of trees, allowing for connection and communication. Listen to the Language of the Trees captures the magic of talking trees that take care of their neighbors (not to mention the mysterious fungi that help them do it). A lyrical read aloud, Listen to...
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"Trees can live a very long time, but what happens when they die? This unusual book describes, in lyrical prose accompanied by colorful and graphic illustrations, that trees have a whole long second life, continuing to contribute to their habitat, the environment, and the cycle of life"--
11) Christmas is
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English
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Christmas is many things to many people. It celebrates the birth of the Christ child. It is also Saint Nicholas and Santa Claus, angels, lights, Christmas trees, cards, carols, presents, and prayers. Christmas is... peace, love, and joy.
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English
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"If you were climbing a tree, just what might you see? Birds or animals or insects? Would you swing like a monkey? Or pick the ripest fruit straight from the branch? Join award-winning author and illustrator, Durga Yael Bernhard, on a trip around the world to climb its weirdest and most wonderful trees. No matter if you are in Africa, Asia, Europe, or America, there is a grand adventure waiting for you--provided you have a tree to climb in your neighborhood!...
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Most of us see trees every day, and too often we take them for granted. Trees provide us with everything from food, fuel and shelter to oxygen and filtered water. Deep Roots celebrates the central role trees play in our lives, no matter where we live. Each chapter in Deep Roots focuses on a basic element-water, air, fire and earth-and explores the many ways in which we need trees to keep our planet healthy and livable. From making rain to producing...
14) Sequoia
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English
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Standing tall above the tree line, Sequoia stretches his ancient arms and gathers clouds to him. He watches as days, seasons, years pass by. His branches are home to owls and choirs of frogs. Beneath his broad canopy, a world grows. This is his story.
15) Halloween tree
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Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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At a Christmas tree farm, a young pine tree who does not like people, decorations, or lights grows into a twisted, spooky, old tree, just right for Halloween.
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Permanent Publications
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Are you wondering which productive trees to plant in your garden? Or are you planning a forest garden? Perhaps you are planting an orchard but want a greater diversity of useful trees than is typical? Or you d like to know what unusual fruit trees you can use? The answers to all these questions can be found in master forest gardener Martin Crawford s new book. Crawford has researched and experimented with tree crops for twenty-five years and has selected...
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Princeton Univ Press
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Popular, award-winning, and unrivaled for its coverage and beauty, this is a magnificently illustrated guide to nearly 2,000 tree species found in North America and Europe. More spent over a decade painting these illustrations from real specimens, and fellow tree expert White's informative text describes key facts about each.
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Bushel & Peck Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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The story of the world's most enduring witnesses: the trees. From the Flower of Kent apple tree still standing in Sir Isaac Newton's yard, to the English oak given to Jesse Owens after facing down Hitler at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, to the California redwood saved from destruction by July Butterfly Hill, to the Callery pear tree still miraculously alive after the World Trade Towers fell, Witness Trees is a moving tribute to the world's most famous...
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English
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"Using lilting, rhyming couplets, this book explores the many items that are made from trees. But it doesn’t stop there! Kids will also learn about the many uses of live trees – and the environmental danger to trees posed by forest fires, floods, and deforestation. Kids are encouraged to be kind, not only to one another, but to the environment as well."--Amazon.
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