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Running an island plane service with her grandfather on the remote islands of northern Scotland, Morag McGinty, on the verge of making a huge life change, is marooned on an off-grid island with a visiting ornithologist who has just the right perspective to help her pilot her course.

A mysterious ornithologist staying at Mrs. Lattimore's Victorian home and doing research on Southern vultures seems familiar to Judge Deborah Knott and Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, especially after a murderer strikes.

"It's a few days before Christmas, and Meg's grandfather is hosting a scientific conference on owls at the Caerphilly Inn. Most of the family are there, helping out in one capacity or another, including Meg's grandmother, Cordelia - invited by Grandfather in rare gesture of peace-making, to share her expertise on rehabilitating large birds, including owls. An unexpectedly severe snow storm traps the conference-goers in the hotel, and one of the visiting...

"A new short story collection from international literary star Gunnhild Øyehaug"--

Presents some of the career work done by Cordelia Stanwood, who began her study of birds when ornithology was a very young science.

Eight-year-old Grace's father Jonathan tries to teach her about a rational, reasonable world, but she is drawn more and more into her mother's "strange world of myth and obsession" in a journey that takes her to New Orleans, the Nevada desert, a lighthouse-shaped hotel in California, and finally back to Vermont.--Jacket.

"By the time he died in 1881 at the age of seventy-eight, the British ornithologist John Gould had produced over forty lavishly illustrated books on birds, including some three thousand lithographs whose accuracy and artistic value eclipsed those of his greatest rival, the American John James Audubon. Yet in the course of his career Gould also alienated colleagues, collected an impressive body of enemies, worked his wife to death, passed off the lithographs...