Delia Owens

For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark. But Kya is not what they say. Abandoned at age ten, she has survived on her own in the marsh that she calls home. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life lessons from the...

"After being expelled from Botswana for writing their controversial best seller, Cry of the Kalahari, Delia and Mark Owens set off on a journey across Africa, searching for a new Eden. They found it in the North Luangwa Valley of Zambia, an area the size of Delaware with no roads, no buildings, and no people. Hippos and crocodiles swam in the rivers, lions stalked the bush, and elephants wandered into camp to eat the fruit of the marulu trees. But...

In Barkley Cove, een rustig stadje aan de kust van North Carolina, gaan al jarenlang geruchten over het moerasmeisje. Kya is in haar eentje opgegroeid in het moeras. Hier voelt ze zich thuis. De natuur is haar leerschool. Dan komt de tijd dat ze ernaar verlangt aangeraakt te worden en lief te hebben. Twee jonge mannen uit de stad raken geïntrigeerd door haar fascinerende schoonheid. Wanneer een van hen dood wordt gevonden, valt de verdenking onmiddellijk...

Gdzie śpiewają raki to powieść, która okazała się jednym z objawień literackich ostatnich lat. Barkley Cove, senne miasteczko gdzieś u wybrzeży Karoliny Północnej. W 1969 na jednym z tamtejszych mokradeł odnalezione zostaje ciało Chase'a Andrewsa. Miejscowi są przekonani, że za jego zniknięciem stoi tajemnicza Dziewczyna z Bagien. Oczy wszystkich zwracają się w kierunku Kyi Clark, a sama Kyia nagle musi zmierzyć się z dziesiątkami...

In this riveting real-life adventure, Mark and Delia Owens tell the dramatic story of their last years in Africa, fighting to save elephants, villagers, and-in the end-themselves. The award-winning zoologists and pioneering conservationists describe their work in the remote and ruggedly beautiful Luangwa Valley, in northeastern Zambia. There they studied the mysteries of the elephant population's recovery after poaching, discovering remarkable similarities...

The authors of Secrets of the Sahara battle the elephant poachers of Zambia in this "exciting . . . part adventure story, part wildlife tale" (The Boston Globe).
Intelligent, majestic, and loyal, with lifespans matching our own, elephants are among the greatest of the wonders gracing the African wilds. Yet, in the 1970s and 1980s, about a thousand of these captivating creatures were slaughtered in Zambia each year, killed...

A man called Otto: Based on the comical and moving New York Times bestseller, it tells the story of Otto Anderson, a grumpy widower whose only joy comes from criticizing and judging his exasperated neighbors. When a lively young family moves in next door, he meets his match in quick-witted and very pregnant Marisol, leading to an unexpected friendship that will turn his world upside down. Women talking: The women of an insular, ultraconservative...