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1. The call of the honeyguide: what science tells us about how to live well with the rest of life

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Author:
Dunn, Rob
Publisher:
Basic Books
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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"How rethinking our relationships with other species can help us reimagine the future of humankind. In the woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa, sometime deep in our species' past, something strange happened: a bird called out, not to warn others of human presence, but to call attention to herself. Having found a beehive, that bird - a honeyguide - sought human aid to break in. The behavior can seem almost miraculous: How would a bird come to think that...

2. The call of the wild

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Author:
London, Jack, 1876-1916
Series:
Scholastic classics
Classic literature
100 greatest masterpieces of American literature
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Lexile measure:
1120L
Language:
English
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"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. The domesticated life of a powerful St. Bernard-Shepherd mix named Buck is quickly turned on end when he is stolen away from his master and put to work as a sled dog in Alaska. His once life of luxury turns into a life of survival...

3. A man called Ove: a novel

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Author:
Backman, Fredrik, 1981-
Lexile measure:
870L
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English
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"Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him “the bitter neighbor from hell.” But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn’t walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning...

4. The cuckoo's calling

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Author:
Galbraith, Robert
Series:
Cormoran Strike novel volume 1
Cormoran Strike
Lexile measure:
940L
Language:
English
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4.3 stars
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"After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, thelegendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier....

5. The call of the wild

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Adapted from the beloved literary classic, this film is the story of Buck, a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Alaskan Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team, and later its leader, Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in...

6. The call of the canyon

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Author:
Grey, Zane, 1872-1939
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English
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Carley Burch leaves her high society life in New York City to reclaim her fiance, Glen Kilbourne, who moved to Arizona to recover from World War I.

7. Beartown: a novel

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Author:
Backman, Fredrik, 1981-
Series:
Beartown
Lexile measure:
840L
Language:
English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here, comes a poignant, charming novel about a forgotten town fractured by scandal, and the amateur hockey team that might just change everything. Winning a junior ice hockey championship might not mean a lot to the average person, but it means everything to the residents of Beartown, a community slowly being eaten...

8. The long call

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Author:
Cleeves, Ann
Series:
Two rivers volume 1
Detective Matthew Venn volume 1
Language:
English
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4.3 stars
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From Ann Cleeves--bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows--comes the first in a gripping new series. "Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers."--Louise Penny In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. Once loved and cherished, the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community...

9. The call of the wild and White Fang

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Author:
London, Jack, 1876-1916
Series:
Collectors' Library
Barnes and Noble classics
Unabridged Classics
Lexile measure:
1010L
Language:
English
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Two classic tales of dogs, one part wolf and one a Saint Bernard/Scotch shepherd mix that becomes leader of a wolf pack, as they have adventures in the Yukon wilderness with both humans and other animals.

10. A sorceress comes to call

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Author:
Kingfisher, T.
Publisher:
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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4.7 stars
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"From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes A Sorceress Comes to Call - a dark reimagining of the Brothers Grimm's "The Goose Girl," rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic. *The hardcover edition features a foil stamp on the casing and custom endpapers illustrated by the author.* Cordelia knows her mother is . . . unusual. Their house doesn't have any doors between rooms - there are no secrets in this...

11. A boy called Bat

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Author:
Arnold, Elana K.
Series:
Boy Called Bat volume 1
Rhode Island Children's Book Award Nominee 2019
Lexile measure:
760L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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When his veterinarian mom brings home a stray baby skunk that needs rehabilitation before it can be placed in a wild animal shelter, Bat, who has autism, resolves to prove that he is up to the challenge of caring for the skunk permanently.

12. The call of the osprey

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Author:
Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw
Series:
Scientists in the field
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Lexile measure:
NC: Non-Conforming 1210L
Language:
English
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"A stunning addition to the Scientists in the Field series that explores mercury pollution found in the rivers and streams of Western Montana that might cause harm to humans--and the extinction of the entire osprey species."--

13. On call: a doctor's journey in public service

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Author:
Fauci, Anthony S., 1940-
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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"The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put him in the room with seven presidents"--

14. The sirens' call: how attention became the world's most endangered resource

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Author:
Hayes, Chris, 1979 February 28-
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English
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"We all feel it—the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. We bump into the zombies on their phones in the street, and sometimes they’re us. We stare in pity at the four people at the table in the restaurant, all on their phones, and then we feel the buzz in our pocket. Something has changed utterly: for most of human history, the boundary between public and private has been clear, at least in theory....

15. Call me by your name

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Author:
Aciman, André
Series:
Call me by your name volume 1
Language:
English
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Call Me By Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' house, a cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. Unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, at first each feigns indifference to the other. But during the warm, languorous summer weeks that follow, unrelenting buried currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire, intensify their passion...

16. A bear called Paddington

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Author:
Bond, Michael
Series:
Yearling Book
Paddington Bear volume 1
Lexile measure:
750L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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A very small bear found by Mr. and Mrs. Brown at Paddington station becomes one of the family.

17. Margin call

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Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Language:
English
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Set in the high-stakes world of the financial industry, MARGIN CALL is an entangling thriller involving the key players at an investment firm during one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. When an entry-level analyst unlocks information that could prove to be the downfall of the firm, a roller-coaster ride ensues as decisions both financial and moral catapult the lives of all involved to the brink of disaster....

18. Call me irresistible

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Author:
Phillips, Susan Elizabeth
Series:
Wynette Texas volume 6
Language:
English
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Ostracized for her role in halting best friend Lucy's wedding, Meg finds herself stranded without family support in a hostile Texas town where she unexpectedly falls for Ted Beaudine.

19. Last call

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Author:
Grippando, James, 1958-
Series:
Jack Swyteck volume 7
Language:
English
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Jack Swyteck is drawn into the investigation of a mother who was murdered on a hot Miami night twenty years ago.

20. Call of the sound dragon

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Author:
West, Tracey, 1965-
Series:
Dragon Masters volume 16
Lexile measure:
540L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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The city of Remus is being torn apart by a duel between two wizards, and Drake, Petra, and Griffith have traveled there to assist a blind dragon master, Tessa, in sorting out the situation; using the sound dragon's unique power to manipulate sound waves, the dragon masters retrieve the Power Crystal which is embedded inside an unbreakable rock, but will it be able to absorb the cloud of uncontrolled magic that is threatening the city before it is...
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