The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor
By: David L. Mearns
4.05
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
This gripping memoir by the world’s foremost marine geologist is an enthralling blend of maritime h…
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1. The Dragon Man (Peninsular Crimes, #1)
By: Garry Disher
3.77
Format: 239 pages, Paperback
Meet Hal Challis, Detective for the Mornington Peninsula police force in Southeast Australia, in th… read more
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2. The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue
By: Casey Sherman , Michael J. Tougias
3.85
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal nor'easter in years. As the weat… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics
By: Gary Smith
3.41
Format: 94 pages, Hardcover
Or that Asian Americans are most susceptible to heart attacks on the fourth day of the month? Or th… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
4. The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
By: Brian M. Fagan
4.12
Format: 543 pages, Paperback
The Little Ice Agetells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of mod… read more
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5. The Korean War
By: Max Hastings
3.75
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met… read more
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6. Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Nathaniel Philbrick, the bestselling author ofIn the Heart of the Seaand Mayflower, brings his prod… read more
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7. Shadow Divers
By: Robert Kurson
4.04
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which t… read more
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8. Deep Descent: Adventure and Death Diving the Andrea Doria
By: Kevin F. McMurray
3.67
Format: 499 pages, Hardcover
On a dense, foggy, late July evening in 1956, the Italian-flagged cruise liner "Andrea Doria," boun… read more
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9. 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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10. Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
By: Robert Kurson
3.62
Format: 57 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling new adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the auth… read more
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11. The Green Mill Murder (Phryne Fisher, #5)
By: Kerry Greenwood
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Phryne Fisher is doing one of her favorite things --dancing at the Green Mill (Melbourne's premier … read more
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12. Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times
By: George Crile
4.36
Format: 544 pages,
s/t: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress & a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the His… read more
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13. Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947
By: Christopher Clark
3.35
Format: None pages,
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14. The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
By: Riley Black
3.95
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books! "This is top-drawer science writi… read more
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"That's the goal of paleontology, after all - to start with the offerings of death and work back towards life."-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"It's an extension of how we often cope in the wake of our own personal traumas, remembering the wounds as we struggle to see the growth stimulated by terrible events. Resilience has no meaning withou…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"In time, extinction comes for all species. Some leave descendants. Others do not. Beautiful as the image is, there is no tree of life. The shape of biodiversity is more like a chaotic blanket, indivi…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
15. The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance
By: Mensun Bound
4.12
Format: 409 pages, Kindle Edition
"As thrilling as any tale from the heroic age of exploration. ... Bound's account is a triumph. The… read more
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- audiobook
- history
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- nonfiction
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16. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
By: Cat Jarman
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more
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17. 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
18. Alien Clay
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition
They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
19. Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver
By: Jill Heinerth
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From one of the world’s most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth’s fin… read more
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20. Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes
By: Ron Cowen
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einstein's general theory of re… read more
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- history
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- audiobook
21. The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey
By: Headline
3.78
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
The never-before-told story of one extremely rare copy of the Gutenberg Bible, and its impact on th… read more
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- biography
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- audiobook
"Printing meant arranging the letters into words, the words into perfectly straight lines, and the lines into even blocks of text to be inked and pressed onto paper or vellum. And each small step of t…"-Headline, The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey
"Decades later, it's striking to see the archival center clearly articulating the value of collections like Estelle's, using words that no one in the archdiocese could muster at the time of the sale: …"-Headline, The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey
22. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
By: Caroline Dodds Pennock
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Ag… read more
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23. Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea and the Shipwreck of the Titanic
By: Daniel Stone
3.81
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the national bestselling author of The Food Explorer, a fascinating and rollicking plunge into… read more
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"History, after all, isn't told by the dead."-Daniel Stone, Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea and the Shipwreck of the Titanic
24. Into the Deep: A Memoir from the Man Who Found Titanic
By: Robert D. Ballard
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Best known for finding the doomed ship Titanic, celebrated adventurer Robert Ballard has a lifetime… read more
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25. Put your Feet in the Dirt, Girl
By: Sonia Henry
4.29
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A memoir The bestselling author of Going Under recounts her real-life journey from hard-partying… read more
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26. Expedition Deep Ocean: The First Descent to the Bottom of All Five of the World's Oceans
By: Josh Young
3.58
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of the history-making mission to reach the bottom of all five of the world’s oce… read more
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27. Sailing Alone: A Surprising History of Isolation and Survival at Sea
By: Richard J. King
3.95
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A story as vast and exhilarating as the open ocean itself, SAILING ALONE chronicles the daring, dis… read more
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28. Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
By: Joshua B. Freeman
3.82
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
"Freeman’s rich and ambitious Behemoth depicts a world in retreat that still looms large in the nat… read more
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29. The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor
By: David L. Mearns
4.05
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
This gripping memoir by the world’s foremost marine geologist is an enthralling blend of maritime h… read more
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- biography
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- memoir
- adventure
- maritime
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
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30. The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast
By: Andrew Blum
3.49
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Tubes, a lively and surprising tour of the infrastructure behind the w… read more
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31. Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present
By: Philipp Blom
3.58
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Although hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, the temperature by the end of the sixtee… read more
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