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Wednesday 8 January 2020

Happy Island miracles in pictures & words

ORANJESTAD - Books, they can shake your world upside
down. A good book is changing your mood like that
perfect vacation spot that energizes your spirit. Take
these two together and what you get is a vacation book,
a memory of that wonderful, heavenly place where you
spent your valuable leisure time. Aruba Today dived into
a local book store and wondered what Aruba books blow
the visitor’s mind. Sylvia Wouters, store manager at Bruna
Book Store, gladly helped us out and informed us about a
small selection of Happy Island miracles in pictures and
words.

Bird Wildlife of Aruba Hardcover by Greg Peterson
Popular book that gives an overview of Aruba’s birds
together with descriptions. The book contains full page
photographs of over two hundred species of birds taken in
Aruba's wildlife. A checklist, for scientific and educational
purposes, is at the end of the book containing the names
of all bird species that can be found in Aruba. Where
possible, the status (resident, migrant, and vagrant,
introduced) and abundance (common, fairly common,
uncommon, scarce, and rare) of the particular bird
species will be added to the checklist.

We Are Aruba by Linda Reijnders
Worldly life tales of islanders that come from 76 different
countries. This is a book that tells the stories of immigrants
who make up for the multicultural society that Aruba is.
A world within an island, a cocktail of people. The book
is visibly enriched with a picture of each interviewed
immigrant and an image of her/his country as well as
a map with the country’s location. In the back you will
find a list with all nationalities living in the island and their
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