Secrets of the Octopus
By: Sy Montgomery
4.43
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Remarkable new discoveries affirm the octopus as one of nature’s most intelligent and complex anima…
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1. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By: Margaret Renkl
4.37
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more
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- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
2. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By: Amy Tan
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Flexibound
A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
- science
"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
3. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- science nature
- adult
- nature
- science
4. Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
By: Shannon Reed
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile and Thurber… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
"I think, therefore, I cry..."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"Life is so much better with books than without."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"But reading! That I could do. When I read, I felt smart."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"The act of reading makes me feel safe. Not the book itself--but the exercise of running my eyes over the words. The translation from symbol into meaning. The direct, pleasant diction of the voice ins…"-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
5. Barbie: The World Tour
By: Margot Robbie
4.62
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
For the press tour following the record-breaking release of Greta Gerwig’s award-winning, acclaimed… read more
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- photography
- nonfiction
- adult
"Love, friendship, networking - these are all critical connections and the foundation of a healthy, happy life."-Margot Robbie, Barbie: The World Tour
6. Secrets of the Octopus
By: Sy Montgomery
4.43
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Remarkable new discoveries affirm the octopus as one of nature’s most intelligent and complex anima… read more
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- biology
- photography
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- science nature
- adult
- nature
- science
7. Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show
By: Tommy Tomlinson
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Elephant in the Room comes the first inside account … read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- animals
8. We Loved It All: A Memory of Life
By: Lydia Millet
3.85
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A personal evocation of the glory of nature, our vexed position in the animal kingdom, and the diff… read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
- science
9. Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks
By: Crystal Wilkinson
4.43
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden legacy of Black Appalachians, through powerful … read more
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- nonfiction
10. Bear
By: Julia Phillips
3.38
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more
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- adult
- animals
- nature
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."-Julia Phillips, Bear
"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"-Julia Phillips, Bear
11. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
By: Ada Limon
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Published association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- nature
- science nature
12. That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
By: Amanda Jones
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part manifesto, the inspiring story of a Louisiana librarian advocating for inclusivit… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
13. The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System
By: Dante Lauretta
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A "captivating, behind-the-scenes account" of NASA’s historic OSIRIS-REx mission to return an aster… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
14. Medea
By: Blandine Le Callet
4.33
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Who was Medea, really? Beyond the hearsay, exaggerations, and distortions inflicted by time, thi… read more
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- adult
15. Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses
By: David Scheel
3.73
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A behavioral ecologist's riveting account of his decades-long obsession with octopuses: his discove… read more
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- biology
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- adult
- nature
- science
16. Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived
By: Tim Flannery
3.78
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Internationally bestselling author and renowned scientist Tim Flannery and his daughter, scientist … read more
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- biology
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
17. Otter Country: An Unexpected Adventure in the Natural World
By: Miriam Darlington
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A plan formed in my mind. I would explore the places in this land that hid my grail. I would spend … read more
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- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
18. I Was a Teenage Slasher
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.68
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story wi… read more
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- adult
19. Silk: A World History
By: Aarathi Prasad
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the compl… read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
20. Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age
By: Kathleen Sheppard
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The never-before-told story of the women Egyptologists who paved the way of exploration in Egypt an… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
21. My Life with Sea Turtles: A Marine Biologist’s Quest to Protect One of the Most Ancient Animals on Earth
By: Christine Figgener
4.39
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
“A wonderful book that will appeal to anyone interested in the world around us.”—DR. JANE GOODALL … read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
- science
"Optimismus ist eine Entscheidung. Mich selbst würde ich als kritisch-optimistisch bezeichnen: Ich glaube fest daran, dass es in Zukunft besser werden kann – ansonsten könnte ich mir gleich die Kugel …"-Christine Figgener, My Life with Sea Turtles: A Marine Biologist’s Quest to Protect One of the Most Ancient Animals on Earth
