03198cam a2200349 4500 1568032859 TxAuBib 20240906120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781954118508 1954118503 B0BW644M4N Amazon 84cddd8b-c096-4858-8314-9b5534b98557 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9635416 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Renkl, Margaret,. The Comfort of Crows [Libby eBook] : A Backyard Year. Spiegel & Grau, 2023. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 10MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p><b><br /></b></p> <p><b>REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK</b></p> <p><b>THE PERFECT GIFT FOR NATURE LOVERS, BIRDERS, AND GARDENERS, WITH ORIGINAL COLOR ART THROUGHOUT * USA TODAY BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * AMAZON EDITOR'S PICK * INDIE NEXT PICK</b></p> <p><b>From the beloved New York Times opinion writer: a luminous book that traces the passing of seasons, both personal and natural.</b></p> <p>In <i>The Comfort of Crows</i>, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasons—from a crow spied on New Year's Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year, to the lingering bluebirds of December, revisiting the nest box they used in spring—what develops is a portrait of joy and grief: joy in the ongoing pleasures of the natural world, and grief over winters that end too soon and songbirds that grow fewer and fewer.</p> <p>Along the way, we also glimpse the changing rhythms of a human life. Grown children, unexpectedly home during the pandemic, prepare to depart once more. Birdsong and night-blooming flowers evoke generations past. The city and the country where Renkl raised her family transform a little more with each passing day. And the natural world, now in visible flux, requires every ounce of hope and commitment from the author—and from us. For, as Renkl writes, "radiant things are bursting forth in the darkest places, in the smallest nooks and deepest cracks of the hidden world."</p> <p>With fifty-two original color artworks by the author's brother, Billy Renkl, <i>The Comfort of Crows</i> is a lovely and deeply moving book from a cherished observer of the natural world.<br /></p>. Biography & Autobiography. Family & Relationships. Nonfiction. Nature. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-09-06 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=84cddd8b-c096-4858-8314-9b5534b98557&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=84cddd8b-c096-4858-8314-9b5534b98557&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=84cddd8b-c096-4858-8314-9b5534b98557&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXMLR