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Osprey Island / Thisbe Nissen.

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  • ISBN: 0385720629
  • ISBN: 9780385720625
  • Physical Description: 279 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: 1st Anchor Books edition
  • Publisher: New York : Anchor Books, 2005.

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Formatted Contents Note:
Ones they came back for -- Lodge at Osprey Island -- Where the osprey makes its nest -- Raptor is a bird of prey -- To what direction will your chicks take wing? -- How black the night that blinds our human hearts -- As fodder blazes stored above the byre -- In the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge -- Mechanics of flight -- Osprey builds its nest of sticks and all the rubbish it can collect -- How the osprey tends its nestlings -- Blessings of hypothermia -- On the interaction of species -- Nature of the structure of a lie -- Broodiness of hens: a brief lesson in avian reproduction -- If the price were treachery -- Long time helpless in the nest -- As they flee you'd think they float on wings -- WWCD? -- Shore recedes, and I too on the shore -- Grief-spurred, swift-swooping -- That flesh of his own flesh -- Night is the surest nurse of troubles souls -- Eyrie of osprey.
Subject: Single mothers > Fiction.
Custody of children > Fiction.
Accident victims > Fiction.
Community life > Fiction.
Summer resorts > Fiction.
Islands > Fiction.
Child custody.
Genre: Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Short stories.

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