Racing Hummingbirds

Author: Jeanann Verlee
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1935904906
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
Racing Hummingbirds examines, critiques, and at times delights in one woman's navigation through the many worlds of manic depression and her struggle to maintain humanity in the process. Jeanann Verlee's award-winning debut collection is a series of narratives, prayers, and conjurings which address gender, sex, race, poverty, heartbreak, and survival with such stark intimacy, you will find yourself living inside. These poems cannot possibly be about you, yet they are. They cross boundaries and reclaim hope. They are as the opening poem suggests, nothing short of communion. Fierce and formidable, Jeanann Verlee is poised to make an indelible mark – much like a razor slashing silk – on what's become a comfortably placid poetic landscape. Her unflinching and uncompromising stanzas will change the way you move through the world. -Patricia Smith, “Blood Dazzler” Any storyteller can recount powerful experience [she] makes you feel something powerful is happening in the telling. It is when safety dissolves that we discover possibility...It’s a special person that will make you wish they were your villain. -Brian S. Ellis, “Uncontrolled Experiments in Freedom" ...a roller coaster of imagistic magic. Form, language, allusion, and voice interact, collide, shape-shift, and duel...throughout an utterly arresting mosaic. -Danse Macabre Magazine

Hummingbirds: Faster Than a Jet!

Author: Emma Carlson-Berne
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1477710094
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26

Book Description
If a hummingbird and a full-sized jet had a race, the jet would win, but if you shrank the jet down to the hummingbirds size, that would change everything. The hummingbird would be the hands-down winner against a jet and even a space shuttle. Students will enjoy learning fun facts about the hummingbird, including information about its life cycle, range, habitats, and just how fast it can flap its wings.

The Hummingbird Book

Author: Lillian Q. Stokes
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 031604847X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 186

Book Description
Attract amazing hummingbirds to your backyard! With this comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide, you'll find it easy to attract these tiny jewel-like birds to your own yard. With this comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide, you'll find it easy to attract these tiny, jewel-like birds to your own yard. The Stokes Hummingbird Book provides all the information you need to bring hummingbirds up close, identify them, and understand their fascinating and varied behavior. The book includes: Range maps and full-color photographs to help you identify and locate hummingbirds Information on how to select the proper feeders, what to use in them, when to put them up, and when to take them down Advice on what flowers to plant to attract hummingbirds in your part of the country Amazing facts about hummingbirds, such as how fast they fly and how much they weigh Guidelines for photographing hummingbirds Complete information on hummingbird behavior, including flight displays, breeding habits, and feeding A special section on attracting orioles, with photographs and behavior guides for each of the eight species found in North America A resource list for hummingbird supplies

Hummingbirds

Author: Crawford H. Greenewalt
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486264318
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
Definitive study of 65 known species of hummingbird: physical characteristics, habitat, behavior and flight dynamics, much more. Magnificently illustrated complete text containing much groundbreaking information. Published under the auspices of The American Museum of Natural History. 75 full-color photographs. 163 black-and-white illustrations. Index. Maps. Graphs. Diagrams.

Hummingbirds

Author: Connie M. Toops
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
8 1/2 x 11 128 pgs 100 color photos index bibliography

Hummers

Author: Millie Miller
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781555660123
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
Reminiscent of nineteenth-century botanical prints, the full-color illustrations in these small nature guides are miniature watercolors, as delightful to look at as they are accurate.

Hummingbirds of North America

Author: Dan True
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826315724
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
A fully illustrated guide, keyed state by state, to all 16 species of North American hummers, including all of their personal quirks and habits.

Hummingbirds

Author: Jeanette Larson
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 1580893325
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 67

Book Description
Hummingbird facts accompany tales from various peoples of the Americas to give readers an informative and cultural look at these amazing birds.

Hummingbirds

Author: Mary Kirby
Publisher: Digital Scanning Inc
ISBN: 1582188459
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 118

Book Description
Mary and Elizabeth Kirby were naturalists and gifted illustrators during the Victorian era. The sisters introduced the natural world to women and children through a series of colorful books. At the time, women's contribution to the sciences was not encouraged, and many times not even acknowledged. Women produced "pretty pictures" of flowers, birds and insects, and these were viewed as "hobbies" by the scientific mainstream despite the technical brilliance and amazing accuracy of the work. Hummingbirds is a volume showcasing the "jewels of the avian world." At a time when women were denied access to higher education, Mary and Elizabeth Kirby produced books exploring the wonders of nature and science for an audience hungry for scientific knowledge. Proudly presented as published in 1874

No Matter the Wreckage

Author: Sarah Kay
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1938912578
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
Top selling poet Sarah Kay releases her debut collection of work from the first decade of her career. Following the success of her breakout poem, "B," No Matter the Wreckage presents readers with new and beloved work that showcases Kay's skill for celebrating family, love, travel, history, and unlikely love affairs between inanimate objects ("Toothbrush to the Bicycle Tire"). Both fresh and wise, Kay's poetry allows readers to join in on her journey of discovering herself and the world around her. - 2011 TED speaker (recording has been viewed 3 million times online) - First book, "B" was ranked #1 Bestselling Poetry Book on Amazon - Featured on HBO, American Public Radio, Huffington Post, CNN.com, etc. - Founder and Co-Director of Project VOICE