Transient and Strange: Notes on the Science of Life
By: Nell Greenfieldboyce
3.81
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing debut from the beloved NPR science intimate essays about the intersection of scienc…
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1. 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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- audiobook
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- nature
- science
2. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
3. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.45
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
4. 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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- audiobook
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- nature
- science
"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
5. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
6. 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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- audiobook
- adult
- nonfiction
- science
7. 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
- adult
- nature
- audiobook
8. If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
By: Geraldine DeRuiter
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
9. Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices
By: Noah Whiteman
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An evolutionary biologist tells the story of nature’s toxins and why we are attracted—and addicted—… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
10. Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
By: Shannon Reed
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile and Thurber… read more
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- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- audiobook
"I think, therefore, I cry..."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"Life is so much better with books than without."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"But reading! That I could do. When I read, I felt smart."-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
"The act of reading makes me feel safe. Not the book itself--but the exercise of running my eyes over the words. The translation from symbol into meaning. The direct, pleasant diction of the voice ins…"-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
11. Ten Birds That Changed the World
By: Stephen Moss
3.97
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- essays
- nature
- audiobook
12. The Tusks of Extinction
By: Ray Nayler
3.85
Format: 192 pages, ebook
When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA. Moscow has res… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA."-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction
"But there were links [to memories] that were broken as well. That no longer led to other memories. Were those memories still there, disconnected but whole, like planets that had escaped the gravity o…"-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction
"He was afraid to lose this memory. He returned to it often, like a person checking their pockets to make sure their keys were still there. He had lost so many memories of her. The further away he mov…"-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction
13. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
By: Rebecca Boyle
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
14. Modern Poetry: Poems
By: Diane Seuss
4.53
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more
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15. Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
By: Lisa Kaltenegger
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- adult
- nature
- audiobook
16. In a Flight of Starlings
By: Giorgio Parisi
3.44
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
In this enchanting little book, celebrated physicist Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodo… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- essays
- nature
- audiobook
"In the sciences and in poetry, there is hardly a trace in the finished product of the arduous work that the creative process has demanded, or of the doubts and hesitations that have been overcome in …"-Giorgio Parisi, In a Flight of Starlings
17. A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging
By: Lauren Markham
4.08
Format: 263 pages, ebook
A provocative, virtuosic inquiry that reveals how the valorization of migrations past is intimately… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
18. One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy
By: Dominic Erdozain
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation’s founders did not intend the Second A… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. Parasol Against the Axe
By: Helen Oyeyemi
3.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The prize-winning, bestselling author of Peaces and Gingerbread returns with a novel about competit… read more
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- audiobook
20. 100 Poems
By: Seamus Heaney
4.27
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Selected poems from a Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection of … read more
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- nature
21. They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms
By: Mike Hixenbaugh
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas subu… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories
By: GennaRose Nethercott
3.76
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
From the author of the breakout fantasy novel Thistlefoot : a collection of dark fairytales and fra… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
23. Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
By: Venki Ramakrishnan
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"Utterly fascinating." —Bill Bryson A groundbreaking exploration of the science of why and how we a… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- science
24. Glorious Exploits
By: Ferdia Lennon
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
25. Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
By: Ross Perlin
4.31
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary Ne… read more
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- nonfiction
26. And Then? And Then? What Else?
By: Daniel Handler
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold, candid, vulnerable, and entertaining memoir of the literary life of Daniel Handler, the wri… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"A universally loved rebel, an immensely popular loner, the imaginary writer is everyone's favorite, if only because you don't have to read anything to appreciate their work, although I must say I pre…"-Daniel Handler, And Then? And Then? What Else?
"Surely all artistic output stems from something a little nobler than boredom. It’s why I like to dress it up and say ennui instead, to mean another kind of boredom, a French kind, more glamorous, bet…"-Daniel Handler, And Then? And Then? What Else?
"There is, in fact, a whole planet of literary appreciation that is only distantly orbiting the actual texts. People declare themselves in favor of Jeffersonian democracy, or label a situation Kafkaes…"-Daniel Handler, And Then? And Then? What Else?
27. The Moth Presents: A Point of Beauty: True Stories of Holding On and Letting Go
By: The Moth
4.33
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From storytelling phenomenon and hit podcast The Moth, featuring contributions from Elizabeth Gilbe… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
28. Transient and Strange: Notes on the Science of Life
By: Nell Greenfieldboyce
3.81
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing debut from the beloved NPR science intimate essays about the intersection of scienc… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- adult
- nonfiction
- essays
- journalism
- nature
- science
29. Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice
By: David S. Tatel
4.48
Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition
A memoir by one of America’s most accomplished public servants and legal thinkers—who spent years d… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
30. May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It
By: Alex Edmans
4.08
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
How our biases cause us to fall for misinformation—and how to combat it. Our lives are minefield… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- science
