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Like "Life of Pi, Beatrice and Virgil" uses animals to discuss the human condition, in this case, to address the atrocities of the Holocaust. At the center of the novel is the relationship between two Henrys, a novelist and a taxidermist, who collaborate on a play about a donkey and a howler monkey who have survived a genocide. Heartbreaking and utterly original, the novel asks enduring questions about life and art, truth and deception, responsibility...
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English
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"Caught up in a passionate love affair, Scarlett unravels her obsession with her lover's taxidermy. The delicate balance of loneliness and jealousy, entrapment and freedom that they so intimately share tips when her twin brother shows up."--Publisher's description.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"From award-winning novelist Betina González, a dizzying, luminous English-language debut about an American town overrun by a mysterious hallucinogen, forcing its citizens to confront the secrets of their past and rely on unexpected relationships"--Provided by publisher.
In a small Midwestern city, the deer population starts attacking people. Beryl, a feisty senior and ex-hippie, trains a squad of fellow retirees to hunt the animals down. At the...
6) Toehold
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English
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"Mary Ellen Madden moves to Toehold, Alaska, to escape her past and start a new job as a hunting guide, and as she learns more about the town's eccentric residents, she realizes everyone has a past they are trying to hide, including Cody Rosewater, the town's taxidermist, who helps Mary Ellen settle in and begins to awaken her desires."--
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Beacon Press
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English
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He was complex, quirky, pugnacious, and difficult. He seemed to create enemies wherever he went, even among his friends. A fireplug of a man who stood only five feet eight inches in his stocking feet, he had an outsized ambition to make his mark on the world. And he did. William Temple Hornaday (1854-1937) was probably the most famous conservationist of the nineteenth century, second only to his great friend and ally Theodore Roosevelt. Hornaday's...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Transformed from a curious onlooker to an empathetic participant, journalist Milgrom delves deeply into the world of taxidermy, encountering a world of intrepid hunter-explorers, eccentric naturalists, and gifted museum artisans, all devoted to the paradoxical pursuit of creating the illusion of life.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Explores the reasons that people preserve the bodies of animals, tracing the life story of taxidermy pioneer Carl Akeley and the author's experiences at such venues as the International Taxidermy championship, taxidermy training classes, and the garage workplaces of people who preserve beloved pets.
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English
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"Early one morning, Congressman Alexander Paine Wilson is planning his reelection campaign when a mysterious delivery arrives at his townhouse. Inside is a gigantic taxidermied aardvark. What does it mean? The story hurtles between present day Washington, DC, where Wilson tries to get rid of the unsightly beast before it destroys his career, and Victorian England, where readers meet the aardvark's taxidermist and the naturalist who hunted her, and...
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Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Down on his luck and still pining for his ex-wife, South Carolina taxidermist Romie Futch spends his evenings drunkenly surfing the Internet before passing out on his couch. In a last-ditch attempt to pay his mortgage, he replies to an ad and becomes a research subject in an experiment conducted by the Center for Cybernetic Neuroscience in Atlanta, Georgia." --
12) Stuffed
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Told through the eyes and hands of acclaimed artists across the world, the film explores the surprising world of taxidermy, where sculptors must also be scientists. From a studio in Los Angeles that has elevated taxidermy to the forefront of fashion to fine artists in the Netherlands, these passionate experts push creative boundaries while revealing the importance of preserving nature." --
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A sweeping historical narrative of the life of Carl Akeley, the famed explorer and taxidermist who changed the way Americans viewed the conservation of the natural world
During the golden age of safaris in the early twentieth century, one man set out to preserve Africa's great beasts. In this epic account of an extraordinary life lived during remarkable times, Jay Kirk follows the adventures of the brooding genius who revolutionized taxidermy and...
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
A quiet, cynic taxidermist, who suffers from epilepsy attacks, is obsessed with committing the perfect crime. He claims that the police are too stupid to find out about it when it's well executed, and that the robbers are too stupid to execute it the right way. He feels that he could do it himself by relying on his photographic memory and his strategic planning skills. He is invited on a hunting trip away from his home. Once there, an accident gives...
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Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Walter Potter (1835-1918), a British country taxidermist of no great expertise, built anthropomorphic taxidermy tableaux that became famous icons of Victorian whimsy, including his masterpiece The Death & Burial of Cock Robin. His tiny museum in Bramber, Sussex, was crammed full of multi-legged kittens, two-headed lambs, and a bewildering assortment of curios. Potter's inspired and beguiling tableaux found many fans in the contemporary art world:...
17) Heads by Harry
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A Japanese-American family in Hawaii receives a double shock when a son discovers his homosexuality and a daughter becomes pregnant out of marriage. The family are the Yagyuus, father a taxidermist, mother a science teacher, parents of three children and by the end of book grandparents of one. Final volume in a trilogy which began with Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers.
Author
Series
Chickenhare ; 1
Publisher
Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Chickenhare and his turtle friend Abe must fight for their lives when Mr. Barley sells them to an insane taxidermist. Presented in graphic novel form.
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Series
Chickenhare ; 2
Publisher
Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Things are going from bad to worse for our feathered and furry friend Chickenhare and his partner in hijinx, Abe! Their narrow escape from the evil taxidermist Klaus is going to seem like a cakewalk compared to the dangers they'll face in this episode.
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