Subterranea: Journey into the Depths of the Earth’s Most Extraordinary Underground Spaces
By: Chris Fitch
4.28
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"A deep dive into the mysteries of the underworld. Secret crypts, underground rivers, and engineeri…
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1. The Origin of Species
By: Charles Darwin
4.01
Format: 703 pages, Hardcover
Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- nature
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"Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends."-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
"...Showing that they descend from common parents, and consequently must be ranked as varieties."-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
"I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification."-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
"The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient."-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
2. Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
By: Lydia Kang , Nate Pedersen
4.00
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Discover 67 shocking-but-true medical misfires that run the gamut from bizarre to deadly. Like when… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
"Unfortunately, the theory that 'more is better' is a really, really crappy theory when it comes to arsenic."-Lydia Kang, Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
"It is perhaps oddly appropriate that the symbol for the god Mercury was the caduceus—two snakes entwined on a winged rod. The symbol is commonly and incorrectly associated with the medical establishm…"-Lydia Kang, Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
3. Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction
By: Robert J.C. Young
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Postcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing … read more
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4. The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
By: Deborah Blum
3.60
Format: 212 pages,
Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very… read more
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5. Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)
By: Mervyn Peake
4.27
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
Starts with the birth and ends with the first birthday celebrations of the heir to the grand, tradi… read more
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6. The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
By: Ian Mortimer
4.01
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
Imagine you could get into a time machine and travel back to the 14th century. This text sets out t… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
"Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception."-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
"You might find it alarming to think that your doctor will not actually need to see you in person but might make a diagnosis based on the position of the stars, the colour and smell of your urine, and…"-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
"So, as long as you can get enough to eat, and can avoid all the various lethal infections, the dangers of childbirth, lead poisoning, and the extreme violence, you should live a long time. All you ha…"-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
"Collectively they remind us that history is much more than an education process. Understanding the past is a matter of experience as well as knowledge, a striving to make spiritual, emotional, poetic…"-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
7. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
By: Mary Roach
3.84
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- nature
- science
"The black bear is a ridiculously lovable species. There's a reason kids have teddy bears, not teddy goats or teddy eels."-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"Californians are like, 'Lions are everywhere now!'" What's on the rise are home security cameras. Doorbell cameras are the mammograms of wildlife biology."-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"So I’m curious, how far does the Pope think we should go in the direction of respecting and correcting the natural world and it’s wild inhabitants. Before I arrived the PIL media manager sent me a co…"-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"We are irrational in our species-specific devotions. I know a man who won’t eat octopus because of its intelligence. Yet he eats pork and buys glue traps for rats, though rats and pigs are highly in…"-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
8. Eclipse the Moon (Starlight's Shadow, #2)
By: Jessie Mihalik
3.94
Format: 435 pages, Paperback
Kee Ildez has been many things: hacker, soldier, bounty hunter. She never expected to be a hero, bu… read more
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9. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
By: Kate Beaton
4.41
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more
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- nonfiction
10. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- nature
- science
11. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
12. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
By: Tim Marshall
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more
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- geography
- nonfiction
- history
- science
13. Revenge of the Librarians
By: Tom Gauld
3.94
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
Confront the spectre of failure, the wraith of social media, and other supernatural enemies of the … read more
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14. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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- history
- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
15. All the Little Bird-Hearts
By: Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
3.80
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
Sunday lives with her sixteen year old daughter Dolly, the same house she has lived in all her life… read more
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16. Alive At The End Of The World
By: Saeed Jones
4.35
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more
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- nonfiction
"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
17. Go Here Instead: The Alternative Travel List
By: DK Eyewitness Travel
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Bursting with beautiful photography, this alternative bucket list takes some of the world's best-kn… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
18. Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
By: Rob Dunn
4.19
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets … read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"I know what I want my dust to say about me."-Rob Dunn, Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
"Every surface; every bit of air; every bit of water in your home is alive. The average house has thousands of species."-Rob Dunn, Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
19. Ship Wrecked (Spoiler Alert, #3)
By: Olivia Dade
3.54
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
After All the Feels and Spoiler Alert, Olivia Dade once again delivers a warm and wonderful romanti… read more
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"But empathy requires imagination, and he didn’t have enough of either."-Olivia Dade, Ship Wrecked (Spoiler Alert, #3)
20. Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American
By: Laura Gao
4.24
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
After spending her early years in Wuhan, China, riding water buffalos and devouring stinky tofu, La… read more
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- nonfiction
21. Sacred Spaces: Everyday People and the Beautiful Homes Created Out of Their Trials, Healing, and Victories
By: Carley Summers
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A gorgeous photography collection, featuring home interiors and profiles of the people who have tra… read more
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- nonfiction
22. Miss Memory Lane: A Memoir
By: Colton Haynes
4.28
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A brutally honest and moving memoir of lust, abuse, addiction, stardom, and redemption from Arrow a… read more
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- nonfiction
23. Global
By: Eoin Colfer
4.16
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Time is running out for Sami and Yuki. Sami and his grandfather live in a village along the Indian … read more
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24. The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps
By: Ben Coates
3.89
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From rowing the canals of Amsterdam to riding a cow through the Alps, via Cold War nuclear bunkers,… read more
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- travel
- geography
- nonfiction
- history
"All along the river, the people I spoke to were hard-working and deeply attached to the mental security blanket of having a decent house, clean car and steady job. They were relatively wealthy, but a…"-Ben Coates, The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps
"Several years of living in the Netherlands had reduced my innate English prudishness somewhat, but I still suffered from a typical Englishman's angst at public nudity. Cowering between the changing r…"-Ben Coates, The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps
25. Subterranea: Journey into the Depths of the Earth’s Most Extraordinary Underground Spaces
By: Chris Fitch
4.28
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"A deep dive into the mysteries of the underworld. Secret crypts, underground rivers, and engineeri… read more
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- history
- adventure
- travel
- geology
- photography
- nonfiction
- geography
- nature
- science
26. Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
By: Will Hunt
3.81
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A panoramic investigation of the subterranean landscape, from sacred caves and derelict subway stat… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
"My thoughts earthwormed down inside my body, chewing through my inner architecture. It was the feeling of being peeled open, turned inside out. I felt the rhythmic clenching of my heart, my lungs bal…"-Will Hunt, Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
27. Harry Potter: A Magical Year – The Illustrations of Jim Kay
By: J.K. Rowling
4.45
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A unique and beautiful gift book celebrating the art of Jim Kay – 366 magical moments from J.K Rowl… read more
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28. Tutankhamun's Trumpet: Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects from the Boy-King's Tomb
By: Toby Wilkinson
4.21
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
On 26 November 1922 Howard Carter first peered into the newly opened tomb of an ancient Egyptian bo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
29. David Copperfield's History of Magic
By: David Copperfield
3.85
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An illustrated, illuminating insight into the world of illusion from the world’s greatest and most … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
30. National Geographic Spectacle: Rare and Astonishing Photographs
By: National Geographic Society
4.53
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An exquisite photo collection showcasing awe-inducing moments from around the world, including the … read more
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- photography
- nonfiction
- nature
31. Underground Worlds: A Guide to Spectacular Subterranean Places
By: David Farley
3.87
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A visual and anecdotal exploration of the curious worlds hidden beneath our feet, including ancient… read more
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- travel
- history
- nonfiction
