Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs
By: Keena Roberts
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight meets Mean Girls in this funny, insightful fish-out-of-water mem…
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1. Cry of the Kalahari
By: Mark Owens , Delia Owens
4.33
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
This is the story of the Owens' travel and life in the Kalahari Desert. Here they met and studied u… read more
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- africa
- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
"For a scavenger, patience is the key to the pantry."-Mark Owens, Cry of the Kalahari
"I've about had it with flying," he grumbled, switching off the plane's systems, "It's ninety-nine percent boring and one percent sheer terror."-Mark Owens, Cry of the Kalahari
"The entire Blue Pride, nine in all, surrounded us, nearly all of them asleep. We were quite literally in bed with a pride of wild Kalahari lions."-Mark Owens, Cry of the Kalahari
"Especially after our Makgadikgadi experiences, we were very aware that the two absolute essentials for survival in the Kalahari were water and the truck."-Mark Owens, Cry of the Kalahari
2. Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales Of A Botswana Safari Guide
By: Peter Allison
3.66
Format: 336 pages,
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- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
3. Endangered (Ape Quartet #1)
By: Eliot Schrefer
4.75
Format: 2112 pages, Hardcover
The compelling tale of a girl who must save a group of bonobos--and herself--from a violent coup. T… read more
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4. Pieces of Happiness: A Novel of Friendship, Hope and Chocolate
By: Anne Østby
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A novel of five lifelong friends who, in their sixties, decide to live together on a cocoa farm in … read more
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5. Never Fall Down
By: Patricia McCormick
3.62
Format: 186 pages, Hardcover
This National Book Award nominee from two-time finalist Patricia McCormick is the unforgettable sto… read more
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6. Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders
By: Kathryn Miles
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Trailed is a beautifully written account of a great American tragedy--the unsolved murders of an u… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- nature
7. Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2019 PEN/EO Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing In Eager, environmental jour… read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
"Pandemonium isn’t convenient, but often it’s more natural than stability."-Ben Goldfarb, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
8. Chances Are...
By: Richard Russo
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a … read more
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- adult
"The only thing a warrior cannot fight is her own fierce nature."-Richard Russo, Chances Are...
"Fear is what makes us human and it is in overcoming fear that we show our strength."-Richard Russo, Chances Are...
"I don't know this song. They haven't taught me it to us at school." " When in doubt, just do what I do, Robs. Hum if you don't know the words"-Richard Russo, Chances Are...
"Bang, bang, bang. Bang, bang, bang. It seemed that only policemen and social workers—people who wanted to take you away—announced their arrival in that way."-Richard Russo, Chances Are...
9. The Lager Queen of Minnesota
By: J. Ryan Stradal
4.01
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
A novel of family, Midwestern values, hard work, fate and the secrets of making a world-class beer.… read more
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- adult
"Young man"-J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota
"Her mother told her once that the nicest thing you can do for someone is be happy to see them,"-J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota
"Money allows people to survive their mistakes, she knew from having observed that phenomenon from a distance, and people like her were fucked."-J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota
"She held the bottle to her lips and tilted, slightly. It tasted the like how she'd imagine dirt would taste if someone burned it on the grill. Nope she said, and handed the bottle back."-J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota
10. Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch
By: Erin French
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From Erin French, owner and chef of the critically acclaimed The Lost Kitchen, a TIME world dining … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- adult
"I always knew food held this kind of power, this something so simple as a piece of flaky halibut served with a silky puree of parsnips, lightly dressed leaves of arugula, a squeeze of lemon and a spi…"-Erin French, Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch
"For me, food wasn't a competition about who could make the best dish. It's greatest power was to make taste and turn it into a long lasting memory. As a girl, I had learned from my father that good f…"-Erin French, Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch
11. Free Lunch
By: Rex Ogle
4.37
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Instead of giving him lunch money, Rex’s mom has signed him up for free meals. As a poor kid in a w… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"I don't know why, but I don't trust the word free anymore. Lunch here is supposed to be free, but it feels like it costs me a lot."-Rex Ogle, Free Lunch
"On the back, it has the address, and says, free lunch! A chill runs up my spine. I don’t know why, but I don’t trust the word free anymore. Lunch here is supposed to be free, but it feels like it cos…"-Rex Ogle, Free Lunch
12. Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice
By: Tommie Smith
4.46
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
13. Inside Threat
By: Matthew Quirk
3.87
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In this electrifying thriller from the author of Red Warning and The Night Agent, an attack on the … read more
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14. Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed
By: Dashka Slater
4.30
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to… read more
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- nonfiction
15. Familia
By: Lauren E. Rico
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
What if your most basic beliefs about your life were suddenly revealed to be a lie? In this compell… read more
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- adult
16. From the Corner of the Oval
By: Beck Dorey-Stein
3.82
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
The compulsively readable, behind-the-scenes memoir that takes readers inside the Obama White House… read more
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- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- adult
17. Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs
By: Keena Roberts
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight meets Mean Girls in this funny, insightful fish-out-of-water mem… read more
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- africa
- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- animals
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- adult
- nature
18. Gone Wolf
By: Amber McBride
4.12
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Amber McBride lays bare the fears of being young and Black in America, in this… read more
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19. Nerves of Steel: How I Followed My Dreams, Earned My Wings, and Faced My Greatest Challenge
By: Tammie Jo Shults
4.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Nerves of Steel is the captivating true story of Tammie Jo Shults’s remarkable life—from growing up… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
20. Grand: A Memoir
By: Sara Schaefer
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Mennonite in a Little Black Dress and Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, comedian and E… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- adult
21. The Lost Coast (Clay Edison, #5)
By: Jonathan Kellerman
4.09
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The gripping new Clay Edison thriller from the bestselling father-son team who write "brilliant, pa… read more
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