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Birds figure tellingly in the work of such nature writers as Gilbert White and Peter Matthiessen

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Swamplandia! Fiction_Gift_Guide Birds figure tellingly in theNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST The bravely imagined, wildly acclaimed debut novel from the author of Vampires in the Lemon Groveabout a thirteen year old girl who sets out on a mission through magical swamps to save her family. "Ms. Russell is one in a million. A suspensfuly, deeply haunted book." The New York Times Thirteen year old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her familys island home and gator wrestling