World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments -- Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Paperback Children's All Ages - Language Arts a retired postal worker named

a retired postal worker named Richard Pavlick waited in his car--a parked Buick--on a quiet street in Palm Beach

the accumulation of power became an end in itself

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and the renewal of old dreams

World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments -- Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Paperback Children's All Ages - Language Arts a retired postal worker named"Hands down one of the most beautiful books of the year." NPR A New York Times Bestseller Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Beloved author Aimee Nezhukumatathil's celebrated work of nonfiction, now including additional essays and illustrations. As a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution, where her Filipina mother was a doctor; the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona, where she hiked with her