Santos, Rita
Summary: "The solitary leopard seal is a fierce hunter and a graceful swimmer. It spends most of its time swimming in the frigid waters of Antarctica. How does it survive in this extreme environment? With the help of color photos and fun facts, this accessible text explores how the leopard seal's life cycle, body structure, and behaviors have adapted to make it one of the most fearsome predators in one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.79 SANBodden, Valerie
Summary: Explores the appearance, behavior, and habitat of snow leopards, big cats from Central Asia who cannot roar, and offers a story from folklore explaining why their fur has spots.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education, Creative Paperbacks 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.75 BODBodden, Valerie
Summary: Explores the appearance, behavior, and habitat of snow leopards, big cats from Central Asia who cannot roar, and offers a story from folklore explaining why their fur has spots.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education, Creative Paperbacks 2018
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Summary: Explores the similarities between leopards and cheetahs, and how to tell them apart. Discover how traits like size, fur patterns, and hunting practices can be used to identify these big cats. Additional features include a side-by-side comparison of the animals, an activity encouraging readers to demonstrate their knowledge, a phonetic glossary, sources for further reading, an introduction to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.75 PEAHumphrey, Natalie
Summary: "A leopard seal is much larger and heavier than a cougar, but is size alone all the leopard seal needs to win this battle? While these animals would never meet in the wild, young readers will jump into this bizarre match up and make their own decision. With vivid photographs of these animals paired with approachable text, readers will learn how both species have adapted to their natural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2023
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.75 HUMBorgert-Spaniol, Megan
Summary: "Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces snow leopards to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN BORGish, Melissa.
Summary: "A look at leopards, including their habitats, physical characteristics such as their spotted fur, behaviors, relationships with humans, and threatened status in the world today"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.7554 GISGentle, Victor.
Summary: An introduction to the physical characteristics and behavior of the leopard, a smart predator that can climb trees and that lives in a variety of environments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. Stevens 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 599.75 GENRaatma, Lucia.
Summary: Rarely seen by human eyes, the elusive snow leopard prowls the rocky cliffs of its mountain home in search of prey. Readers will discover why this fascinating cat is so hard to find, how it survives in the freezing temperatures of its habitat, and what it has in common with other large cats. They will also find out why snow leopards move up and down mountains as the seasons change and how they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.7554 RAAUrquhart, Jennifer C.
Summary: Text and pictures introduce lions, tigers, leopards, and the other big cats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 1990
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: JE 599.74 URQHillard, Darla.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbor House 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.7554 HILUrquhart, Jennifer C.
Summary: Text and pictures introduce lions, tigers, leopards, and the other big cats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.755 URQOsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: "A nonfiction book about snow leopards and other wild cats"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.75 OSBTesson, Sylvain
Summary: "The Art of Patience is an account of an expedition to the mountains of Tibet in search of the elusive snow leopard. After recovering from an accident, adventurer Sylvain Tesson and his traveling companions embraced the virtues of patience and silence, and were rewarded when the snow leopard revealed itself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.1 TESWollard, Kathy
Summary: "You can't believe your eyes. But you can believe the numbers. The Photicular series, with four books published in the last five years, now has 2 million copies in print--and with every new title published the backlist rises to the occasion. After last year's success with Jungle (over 215,000 copies in print in just a few months), here comes Wild -- the book, and the idea, for which the series...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 590 WOLLeopardi, Giacomo
Summary: Giacomo Leopardi is Italy's greatest modern poet, the first European writer to portray and examine the self in a way that feels familiar to us today. A great classical scholar and patriot, he explored metaphysical loneliness in entirely original ways. ... Leopardi's poetry is notoriously difficult to translate, and he has been less well known to English-language readers than his central...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 458.4 LEOEisler, Kim Isaac.
Summary: Presents the rags-to-riches tale of how unemployed ship worker Richard "Skip" Hayward revived the influence and wealth of the dying Pequot clan by establishing Connecticut's controversial and profitable casino, Foxwoods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.3 EISFleming, Candace
Summary: How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child ... and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLEFriedman, Matti
Summary: The little-known story of Leonard Cohen’s concert tour to the front lines of the Yom Kippur War, including never-before-seen selections from an unfinished manuscript by Cohen and rare photographs. In October 1973, the poet and singer Leonard Cohen—thirty-nine years old, famous, unhappy, and at a creative dead end—traveled from his home on the Greek island of Hydra to the chaos and bloodshed of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COHEN, LEONARD FRIArnosky, Jim
Summary: "In the sixth picture book in his Sterling gatefold series, acclaimed nature writer and illustrator Jim Arnosky introduces awe-inspiring wild predators: carnivores that survive through tooth and claw. Follow the huge paw prints of big cats like the African lion and the speedy cheetah; of massive bears like the fierce grizzly; and the grey wolf. A spectacular double gatefold plus two single...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.7 ARNDay, Nick (Nicholas)
Summary: "On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c'est partie! The Mona Lisa, she's gone! No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2023