The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease
By: Daisy Hernández
3.99
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had be…
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1. The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America
By: Tamara Winfrey Harris
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
What's wrong with black women? Not a damned thing! The Sisters Are Alrightexposes anti-black-woman … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
2. The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
By: Molly Caldwell Crosby
4.11
Format: 176 pages,
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- history
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
3. What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley
By: Rick Bragg , Kim Cross
3.78
Format: 584 pages, Hardcover
Immersive reporting and dramatic storytelling set you right in the middle of the horrific superstor… read more
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4. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
By: Monica Murphy , Bill Wasik
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing, lively history of a fearsome and misunderstood virus that binds man and dog. The mos… read more
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5. My Body Is a Book of Rules
By: Elissa Washuta
3.73
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
As Elissa Washuta makes the transition from college kid to independent adult, she finds herself ove… read more
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6. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
By: Sabrina Imbler
4.12
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more
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- science
- memoir
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
7. The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
By: Steven W. Thrasher
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful an… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- health
- medical
- politics
- nonfiction
- science
8. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
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"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
9. This Body I Wore: A Memoir
By: Diana Goetsch
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A captivating memoir of one woman's long journey to late transition, as the trans community emerges… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
10. 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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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
11. American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption
By: Gabrielle Glaser
4.34
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, th… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
- audiobook
12. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
By: Uché Blackstock
4.46
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- memoir
- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
13. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
14. We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys
By: Erin Kimmerle
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Forensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle investigates of the notorious Dozier Boys School--the true st… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
15. A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
By: Sara Manning Peskin
4.21
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the ve… read more
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- history
- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
16. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
By: Christina Thompson
4.24
Format: 365 pages, Hardcover
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intel… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- history
- science
"Vision is not so much about just looking but knowing what to look for. It's experience."-Christina Thompson, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
17. Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir
By: Beth Nguyen
3.63
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter r… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
18. The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
By: Janice P. Nimura
3.59
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
19. 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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- science
- history
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"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
20. Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
By: David Quammen
4.21
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
National Book Award finalist Breathless tells the story of the worldwide scientific race to deciphe… read more
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- history
- health
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- nonfiction
- nature
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"The more numerous we become, the more crowded, the more interconnected, the more demanding of resources, the more invasive of wild places, the more disruptive of richly diverse ecosystems—the closer …"-David Quammen, Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
21. The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease
By: Daisy Hernández
3.99
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had be… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- memoir
- health
- medical
- politics
- medicine
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
22. Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU
By: Wes Ely
4.38
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Winner of a Christopher Award “Perhaps one lesson to draw from the pandemic, with help from books … read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
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23. The Memory Thief: The Secrets Behind How We Remember—A Medical Mystery
By: Lauren Aguirre
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD "Aguirre writes clearly, conc… read more
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- science
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. The Hidden Language of Cats: How They Have Us at Meow
By: Sarah Brown
3.85
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Descended from shy, solitary North African wild cats, domestic cats set up homes with devoted owner… read more
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- science
- history
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
25. The Road to the Country
By: Chigozie Obioma
3.92
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, heart-racing, mystical novel about a university student in Lagos trying to save his bro… read more
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- audiobook
"It has always seemed to him that the world was full of things; that even in one’s loneliest moments, there was often a crowd. But the things one loved remained invisible, hidden amongst the multitude…"-Chigozie Obioma, The Road to the Country
26. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
By: Pamela Prickett
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
27. 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
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
28. The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History
By: Vidya Krishnan
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Harvard Public Health Magazine, Best Public Health Books and Journalism of 2022 The definitive so… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- health
- medical
- politics
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
29. The Unfiltered Enneagram: A Witty and Wise Guide to Self-Compassion
By: Elizabeth Orr
4.06
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
From Instagram’s snarkiest Enneagram expert comes a hilarious and insightful book that shows how em… read more
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- audiobook
30. A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
By: Perri Klass
4.09
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The fight against child mortality that transformed parenting, doctoring, and the way we live. Only … read more
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- history
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- nonfiction
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31. Uncharted: How Scientists Navigate Their Own Health, Research, and Experiences of Bias
By: Skylar Bayer
4.72
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
People with disabilities are underrepresented in STEM fields, and all too often, they face isolatio… read more
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