The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
By: Cynthia Barnett
4.05
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A compelling history of seashells and the animals that make them, revealing what they have to tell …
Want to Read $ 9.99"Seashells were money before coin, jewelry before gems, art before canvas."-Cynthia Barnett, The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
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1. Now - The Physics of Time
By: Richard A. Muller
4.33
Format: None pages,
A monumental work on the flow of time, from the universe's creation to "now," by the best-selling a… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
2. The Sea Around Us
By: Rachel Carson , Ann H. Zwinger
3.79
Format: 704 pages,
The Sea Around Usis one of the most remarkably successful books ever written about the natural worl… read more
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3. The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
By: Henry Beston , Robert Finch
4.00
Format: 176 pages,
The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of the classic book about Cape Cod, "written with simplicity,… read more
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4. Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves
By: James Nestor
4.15
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
An Amazon Best Book of 2014 While on assignment in Greece, journalist James Nestor witnessed someth… read more
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5. God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
By: Meghan O'Gieblyn
4.27
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
A meditation on what it might mean to be human in an age of ever-accelerating technology. read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- science
"As black-box technologies become more widespread, there have been no shortage of demands for increased transparency. In 2016 the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation included in its st…"-Meghan O'Gieblyn, God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
6. 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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- audiobook
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
7. Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
By: Dan Saladino
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Dan Saladino's Eating to Extinction is the prominent broadcaster’s pathbreaking tour of the world’s… read more
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- audiobook
- nature
- history
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"The science writer David Quammen puts it: 'When we disrupt ecosystems, we shake viruses loose from their natural hosts, and when they happens, they need a new host. Often, we are it. And so, they spi…"-Dan Saladino, Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
8. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By: Cat Bohannon
4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- history
- science
9. The Last Hope
By: Susan Elia MacNeal
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
All will be revealed in the no-holds-barred finale of the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Awar… read more
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- audiobook
10. The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder
By: Douglas Preston
3.81
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God , presents jaw-droppi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
11. Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture
By: Matt Baume
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
There's a secret storyline hidden across some of the most popular sitcoms of the 20th century. F… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
12. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
By: Annalee Newitz
3.79
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history—and figure out why … read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- history
- science
"Often it is in the most squalid and filthiest of places that we can uncover profound truths about a society that considers itself civilized."-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
"There was no giant sign proclaiming the end of life as they'd known it; instead, there was a mounting pile of annoyances and disappointments."-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
"City leaders pour resources into beautiful spectacles for political reasons, rather than providing good roads, functioning sewers, relatively safe marketplaces, and other basic amenities of urban lif…"-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
13. Emily Eternal
By: M.G. Wheaton
3.38
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Meet Emily - she can solve advanced mathematical problems, unlock the mind's deepest secrets and ev… read more
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- audiobook
14. The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
By: Susan Casey
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the … read more
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- audiobook
- history
- animals
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
15. Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You
By: Brad Stulberg
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A revelatory book on rethinking change, creating a rugged and flexible mindset … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
By: Gloria Dickie
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of 2023 A Scientific American Best… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"Whenever people had asked me which bear was my favorite, I had dithered and hedged. "I like them all equally," I would say, diplomatically. Sun bears were cute with lolling tongues. Grizzlies were em…"-Gloria Dickie, Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
17. Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History
By: William Alexander
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author William Alexander takes readers on the surprisingly twisty journe… read more
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- science
- history
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
18. Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
By: Alexandra Lange
3.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as malls. Since their birth in the 1950s, they… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"These early successes were a boon to developers, who could now confidently double their shopping area and add the final technological breakthrough that made a mall a mall: air-conditioning."-Alexandra Lange, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
"People often tell me that they get lost in malls. Malls are a habitat. Some of us are natives. If you grew up hiking, you know to look for blazes. If you grew up with malls, you know to look for the …"-Alexandra Lange, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
19. When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
By: Kevin F. Adler
4.26
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Think about the last time you saw or interacted with an unhoused person. What did you do? What did … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
20. The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice
By: C. Alexander Hortis
3.61
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony—before even Lizzie Borden—there was P… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
21. Worn: A People's History of Clothing
By: Sofi Thanhauser
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and captivatingly told history of clothing and the stuff it's made of--an unparalleled d… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- history
- science
22. Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House
By: Alex Prud'Homme
4.04
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
A wonderfully entertaining, often surprising narrative history of presidential food: from Washingto… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
23. The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
By: Cynthia Barnett
4.05
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A compelling history of seashells and the animals that make them, revealing what they have to tell … read more
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- audiobook
- ecology
- history
- unfinished
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"Seashells were money before coin, jewelry before gems, art before canvas."-Cynthia Barnett, The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
24. Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.
By: Sy Montgomery
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and New York Times bestseller Sy Montgome… read more
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- audiobook
- nature
- animals
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"Never give up on a turtle. Because turtles never give up."-Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.
25. The Usual Santas: A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers
By: Peter Lovesey
3.25
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Eighteen delightful holiday short stories by some of your favorite Soho Crime authors! This captiva… read more
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- audiobook
26. Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
By: Cecelia Watson
3.67
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
A page-turning, existential romp through the life and times of the world’s most polarizing punctuat… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"The semicolon was born in Venice in 1494"-Cecelia Watson, Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
"At times I've felt less like a punctuation theorist than like a punctuation therapist"-Cecelia Watson, Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
27. The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird
By: Jack Emerson Davis
3.75
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you’re not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Amer… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
28. Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs
By: Juli Berwald
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The story of the urgent fight to save coral reefs, and why it matters to us all Coral reefs are … read more
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- audiobook
- ecology
- animals
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
29. Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea
By: Bill François
4.11
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
If we were able to listen under water, what would we hear? What would we learn? How would it change… read more
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- audiobook
- ecology
- history
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"When school ends, everyone must relearn in their own way"-Bill François, Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea
"By being aware of our place and role in the ecosystem, we preserve it."-Bill François, Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea
"Don't try to exchange words, only to share that which transcends words."-Bill François, Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea
"A human being is nothing more than a very large community, on every level."-Bill François, Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea
30. Taiwan Travelogue
By: Shuang-zi Yang
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history… read more
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31. Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
By: Edward Dolnick
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A historical adventure story about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading … read more
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- history
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
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