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and of the refuge a little girl took from the turmoil at home with her passionately spirited paternal grandmother

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In this romantic page-turner from the author of Everything

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Return of the Osprey: A Season of Flight and Wonder Poetry_Gift_Guide her close friendsA memoir, tribute to a once endangered species, and natural history, Return of the Osprey recounts the many discoveries David Gessner made when he immersed himself for an entire nesting season in the lives of the ospreys that had returned to his seagirt corner of Cape Cod. The osprey, hailed by Roger Tory Peterson as the symbol of the New England coast, all but vanished during the 1950s and '60s because of the ravages of DDT. In the next few decades,