Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

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relax. Find a comfortable spot.

Adjust your volume.

Take a nice deep breath in.

Let it out slowly, and off we go.

Tonight let's relax with some new selections from bird biographies, a guidebook for

beginners, an introduction to 150 common land birds of the eastern United States.

By Alice E. Ball, author of a year with the birds. Illustrated by Robert Bruce Horsful, painter of backgrounds in habitat groups

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