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A Hummingbird in My House

Anyone enchanted by the beauty and grace of hummingbirds will treasure this lovable true story of Squeak, a young ruby-throated hummingbird who becomes part of Arnette Hedcamp's life and household.

Creating a Hummingbird Garden

Turn your garden into a glorious haven for hummingbirds. Here are the basics on planning, planting, and maintaining a beautiful outdoor space that will lure these tiny creatures and give you hours of gardening pleasure. This charmingly illustrated volume provides a variety of garden plans, including essential information on hardiness zones, soil conditions, and sun and shade preferences, and is packed with facts on the lives and habits of hummingbirds. When your winged guests linger in your garden, you'll delight in consulting the hummingbird identifier in Creating a Hummingbird Garden. Here is everything you need to know to attract hummingbirds, from their favorite flowers to instructions for making hummingbird feeders.

First Flight; A Mother Hummingbird's Story

When Noriko and Don Carroll moved from New York City to suburban Las Vegas, they found a tiny nest on a clothesline on their back porch. As the Carrolls settled into their new home, so did a female hummingbird they named Honey. For weeks, the Carrolls watched in fascination as they witnessed an event few humans are privy to-the birth and growth of two hummingbirds. First Flight is the beautifully photographed story of Honey and her two chicks, Ray and Zen. In over 50 stunning, full-color close-ups, it captures the grace, the beauty, and the simultaneous strength and fragility of one of nature's tiniest birds. Professional photographer Don Carroll's images of his tiny housemates are woven throughout with Noriko's charming narrative describing the mother bird and her developing brood. Not just for bird enthusiasts, First Flight is a magical mix of hummingbird field guide, personal story, and new life taking flight. Readers will be captivated by the inherent drama as it unfolds in miniature, and they'll cheer as babies Ray and Zen make their own first flights out into a bright new world.

Flight of the Hummingbird: An Environmental Parable

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Growing a Hummingbird Garden

A how-to book on creating a beautiful garden just for your hummingbirds.

The Hummingbird Book

Copiously illustrated with maps, line drawings, and full-color photographs, each of these large-format (8 1/2 x 10 7/8) paperback books contains the essential information that backyard nature enthusiasts want and need to attract, identify, and understand birds and butterflies, and to grow and identify beautiful wildflowers at home.

Hummingbird Gardens

This book shows how to attract hummingbirds to gardens by planting the flowers they love.

Hummingbird Gardens; Turning Your Yard Into Hummingbird Heaven

Hummingbirds enliven your garden with their glittering colors and bold, inquisitive personalities, as they dash from one tempting bloom to the next. In this handbook, learn how to attract North America’s tiniest birds to your yard by planting flowers they love.

Hummingbird House

Kate Banner, an American midwife in Nicaragua, loses another patient. A young Nicaraguan woman who had given birth only the night before on the bottom of a swamped wooden boat. She knows it is time to go home. Because to care for the children of war, you have to cut off pieces of your heart. But traveling home leads her to Guatemala, where even children sometimes disappear. Patricia Henley's Hummingbird House is a devastatingly powerful and emotionally trustworthy story of a human heart unbinding itself in the most unjust of worlds.

Hummingbird Nest

When a mother hummingbird builds a nest on a family's porch, her actions and the birth and development of her fledglings are recorded by the family in this poignant journal of poems.

It's a Hummingbird's Life

Provides information about the ruby-throated hummingbird, including interesting facts about their habitat, physical characteristics, and mating habits.

La Golondrina Y El Colibri/ The Swallow and the Hummingbird

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Memoirs of a Middle-Aged Hummingbird

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Ruby-Throated Hummingbird

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Song of the Hummingbird

From Aztec Princess to slave and concubine, Hummingbird (or Huitzitzilin in her native Nahuatl) recounts her life during the Spanish conquest of Mexico. She experienced first-hand the wonder of the gods' arrival, those bearded armored men who descended from their vessels on horseback, and the brutal devastation of her land and her people. She witnessed the obliteration of Tenochitlan and suffered the loss of her identity, being forced to discard her traditional garb, to speak a language foreign to her tongue, and to forsake her ancestral gods. Expressing a confidence and freedom that women have strived for centuries to attain, Huitzitzilin passionately relates her tale to Father Benito, the priest who seeks to confess and convert her, to offer her an absolution she neither needs nor wants. Instead, she forces him to see the conquest, for the first time, through the eyes of the conquered. In Song of the Hummingbird, Limon pays homage to the pre-Colombian woman, celebrates the endurance of the human spirit in the face of cataclysm and mourns our collective loss of treasures more valuable than all the plundered gold.

Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

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The Bee Hummingbird

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The Crystal Hummingbird

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The Hummingbird Book: The Complete Guide to Attracting, Identifying, and Enjoying Hummingbirds

Copiously illustrated with maps, line drawings, and full-color photographs, each of these large-format (8 1/2 x 10 7/8) paperback books contains the essential information that backyard nature enthusiasts want and need to attract, identify, and understand birds and butterflies, and to grow and identify beautiful wildflowers at home.

The Hummingbird Cabinet: A Rare And Curious History of Romantic Collectors

With a light step, Pascoe explores the 19th-century zeal for collecting that was inspired by the lives and works of the Romantic poets, as well as by such questing individuals as French emperor Napoleon. She uses the search for items associated with Percy Bysshe Shelley (his guitar, his hair, even his heart) as her initial point of reference and then tells stories of collecting as a coping mechanism, as a vehicle for fantasy and glory. She illuminates how literary expression adumbrated and echoed the desires expressed by the collectors, whose hobbies, like the longing that such writers expressed, embodied "romantic structures of feeling" that could never be entirely satisfied. While the writers' works survive in their published integrity, these Romantic collections have, for the most part, faded, dispersed, or disappeared. Science, academia, and institutional repositories have long since trumped that particular kind of collecting. This intriguing book is recommended for academic and large public libraries.

The Hummingbird Garden: Turning Your Garden, Window Box, or Backyard into a Beautiful Home for Hummingbirds

Bird and gardening expert Mathew Tekulsky uncovers the simple steps any gardener can take to attract and enjoy one of nature's most beautiful creatures. He introduces hummingbird habits and reveals the regions where they live and migrate. The core of the book tells about the flowers that provide the nectar hummingbirds seek, with loads of advice on how the home gardener can grow these plants. A chapter is devoted to hummingbird feeders, and appendixes give complete information on hummingbird and plant varieties, bird and conservation organizations, mail-order sources, and more.

The Hummingbird Theory

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The Hummingbird Wizard

Driving full steam ahead with her life after the unexpected death of her husband, Annie Szabo was not planning on veering off course again. But her late husband's family, an outrageous and proud clan of Gypsies, has other plans. When Annie's oldest friend, Jerry, turns up dead, she is plunged back into the family she tried to leave behind. Suspecting murder, Annie is forced to form an alliance with Madame Mina, her stubborn and powerful mother-in-law, the heart of the Szabo family. Determined to catch Jerry's killer, the two women must unlock the pattern of a tapestry wild with lawyers, criminals, kink, magic, and even more death. One thing is certain, to catch a killer with a hidden agenda, Annie and Mina must use all of their resources.

The Hummingbird's Daughter

When sixteen-year-old Teresita, the illegitimate and beloved daughter of a powerful late-nineteenth-century rancher, arises from death possessing the power to heal, she is declared a saint and finds her family and faith tested by the impending Mexican civil war. By the author of The Devil's Highway.

The Hummingbird: World's Smallest Bird

Describes in simple text, the hummingbird, the smallest bird in the world.

The Legend of the Hummingbird: A Tale from Puerto Rico

In stories, people may be changed into plants or animals for protection or punishment. In this magical tale from Puerto Rico, children meet Alida and Taroo and find out why a beautiful flower and a tiny bird were created.

The Mysteries of Hummingbird Falls

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The Ruby-Throated Hummingbird

In this invitingly written book, June Osborne paints a fully detailed portrait of perhaps the best-known hummingbird in the United States, the ruby-throat. Drawing from her own birdwatching experiences, she offers an "up close and personal" look at a female ruby-throat building her nest and rearing young, as well as an account of a day in the life of a male ruby-throat and stories of the hummers' migrations between their summer breeding grounds in the United States and Canada and their winter homes in Mexico and Central America.

Outwitting Squirrels Book

The defense manual of cunning strategies, for dealing with that crafty, greedy creature pillaging your birdfeeder before your very eyes!