02247cam a2200301 4500 2676326495 TxAuBib 20260207120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781609530716 1609530713 B008164OSE Amazon c70ed471-db0c-4137-8ffe-1c3388cba0f7 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 914381 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Cobb, William J. The Bird Saviors [Libby eBook]. Unbridled Books, 2012. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Literary. HTML:<p>When a dust storm engulfs her Colorado town and pink snow blankets the streets, a heartbreaking decision faces Ruby Cole, a girl who counts birds: She must abandon her baby or give in to her father, whom she nicknames Lord God, and marry a man more than twice her age who already has two wives. She chooses to run, which sets in motion an interlocking series of actions and reactions, upending the lives of an equestrian police officer, pawnshop riffraff, a disabled war vet, Nuisance Animal destroyers, and a grieving ornithologist—a field biologist studies the decline of bird populations. All the while, a growing criminal enterprise moves from cattle rustling to kidnapping to hijacking fuel tankers and murder as events spin out of control,.<br /> Set in a time of economic turmoil, virus fears, climate change, fundamentalist cults and illegal immigrant hardship, The Bird Saviors is a visionary story of defiance, anger, and compassion, in which a young woman ultimately struggles to free herself from her domineering father, to raise her daughter in the chaos of the New West, and to become something greater herself.</p>. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-02-06 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C70ED471-DB0C-4137-8FFE-1C3388CBA0F7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C70ED471-DB0C-4137-8FFE-1C3388CBA0F7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)