Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them
By: Tove Danovich
4.21
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
An immersive blend of chicken-keeping memoir and animal welfare reporting by a journalist who accid…
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1. How to Speak Chicken: Why Your Chickens Do What They Do & Say What They Say
By: Melissa Caughey
3.60
Format: 224 pages,
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2. 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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- science
- memoir
- animals
- nonfiction
- birds
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- audiobook
3. 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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- biography memoir
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- birds
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- audiobook
"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
4. 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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- memoir
- animals
- 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
5. Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts
By: Sarah Thornton
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests After years o… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. 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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- science
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
7. George: A Magpie Memoir
By: Frieda Hughes
3.83
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“ He was a hectic, unprincipled bird, but it was impossible not to love him.” From poet and painter… read more
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- animals
- biography memoir
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- birds
- nature
- audiobook
"The joy of such a purpose is that it gives you a reason to ignore everything else. There is nothing so effective in taking one's mind off the practical concerns of our lives as a living creature that…"-Frieda Hughes, George: A Magpie Memoir
8. Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
By: Peggy Orenstein
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, sp… read more
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- animals
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"The beauty was just mind-boggling for this English girl...It was like being in your own national park, but without the signs telling you what you're supposed to think."-Peggy Orenstein, Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
9. 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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- science
- animals
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
- audiobook
10. The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors
By: Erika Howsare
3.79
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
A masterful hybrid of nature writing and cultural studies that investigates our connection with dee… read more
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- science
- memoir
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"Humans are subtracting animals and adding themselves; beings that wear fur or bark are cut down by those in cotton."-Erika Howsare, The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors
11. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris
By: Glynnis MacNicol
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
12. Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless
By: Laurah Norton
3.87
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating deep dive into the dark world of forensic science as experts team up to solve the ide… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
13. The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire
By: Tim Schwab
3.72
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A powerful investigation of Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation, showing how he uses philanthropy t… read more
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- science
- journalism
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The foundation enjoys unparalleled privileges in the marketplace. It is not taxed or regulated as a private company because all its deal making happens through charitable agreements. It is not scruti…"-Tim Schwab, The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire
"Bill Gates is not plowing hundreds of millions of dollars into journalism because he believes in the democratic ideals of the free press or because he is a personal fan of watchdog reporting. His pri…"-Tim Schwab, The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire
"Gates donates money from his private wealth to his private foundation. He then assembles a small group of consultants and experts at the foundation’s half-billion-dollar corporate headquarters to dec…"-Tim Schwab, The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire
"Across most of the diseases the Gates Foundation works on, its track record of innovation is quite weak. Gates planted its flag as the leading voice on malaria, working with a number of different com…"-Tim Schwab, The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire
14. The French Ingredient: A Memoir
By: Jane Bertch
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The inspiring and delicious memoir of an American woman who had the gall to open a cooking school i… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- food
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. 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
- animals
- nonfiction
- 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
16. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
By: Camille T. Dungy
4.19
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
17. Romaine Wasn't Built in a Day: The Delightful History of Food Language
By: Judith Tschann
3.29
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"A truly delightful smorgasbord of history and linguistics that kept us entertained—and made us hun… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. The Grace-Filled Homestead: Lessons I've Learned about Faith, Family, and the Farm
By: Lana Stenner
4.11
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
These charming snapshots of life on the farm invite readers to incorporate the heart of homesteadin… read more
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- nonfiction
19. Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End
By: Alua Arthur
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead b… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
20. Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
By: Leila Philip
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times Editors' Choice NPR Science Friday Book Club Selection An intimate and revelato… read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
- science
21. The Borrowed Hills
By: Scott Preston
3.87
Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition
A cinematic neo-Western set in the fells of northern England. "Half Tarantino and half pitch-bla… read more
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"We’d burned through everything, even what we’d no right to, rubbed out the stars and hid the moon, and if the night sky wasn’t already black, we’d have had a good go at making it."-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills
"She’d look at me like I’m an idiot since I am one, but she still looked at me. That’s how Helen was, and that’s how I’ve always been. That’s why I like dogs more than people. Why I am a bloody dog. T…"-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills
"Two weeks of thinking I’d sort it out tomorrow, what came next. Eating crisps in bed or in the bath and getting a headache from all the salt. Daytime telly on as if it can keep you warm—the kind that…"-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills
"It rained on the day of my dad’s funeral. Folk here are born with waterproof skin and a double set of eyelids like a trout. But I’ve seen nowt like it before. Wherever the ground dipped it turned to …"-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills
22. The Wise Hours: A Journey into the Wild and Secret World of Owls
By: Miriam Darlington
3.62
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
One minute I was sipping my tea by the window. There was nothing but the palest edge of grey light … read more
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- science
- memoir
- animals
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
- audiobook
23. Birdgirl
By: Mya-Rose Craig
3.94
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Discover a powerful, evocative and urgent new young voice in nature writing*WINNER OF THE SOMERSET … read more
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- science
- memoir
- animals
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
- audiobook
24. Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them
By: Tove Danovich
4.21
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
An immersive blend of chicken-keeping memoir and animal welfare reporting by a journalist who accid… read more
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- science
- memoir
- animals
- biography memoir
- food
- nonfiction
- birds
- journalism
- nature
- audiobook
25. The Purest Bond: Understanding the Human–Canine Connection
By: Jen Golbeck
4.24
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A feel-good, comprehensive exploration of the profound bond between humans and dogs from Jen Golbec… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- animals
- science
26. The Modern Homestead Garden: Growing Self-sufficiency in Any Size Backyard
By: Gary Pilarchik
4.09
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
With this accessible and indispensable gardening reference, discover how little land and effort it … read more
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- nonfiction
27. The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival
By: Lisa M. Hamilton
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Katherine Boo and Tracy Kidder, a deeply reported drama ranging from the mist-c… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
28. Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea
By: Hannah Stowe
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"A sensuous book, more felt than described, more described than explained, more painted than part … read more
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- memoir
- animals
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
29. The Regenerative Garden: 80 Practical Projects for Creating a Self-sustaining Garden Ecosystem
By: Stephanie Rose
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Discover how to work with nature, instead of against it, by employing permaculture techniques to cr… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
30. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
By: Nicola Twilley
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific my… read more
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- science
- food
- nonfiction
- audiobook
31. Catherine, the Princess of Wales: A Biography of the Future Queen
By: Robert Jobson
3.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Through the author’s extensive connections within the royal household, this dynamic new biography t… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
