Fowl Play: A History of the Chicken from Dinosaur to Dinner Plate
By: Sally Coulthard
4.13
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From dinosaur to dinner plate, Sally Coulthard tells the fascinating – and sometimes shocking – sto…
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1. Der Pfau
By: Isabel Bogdan
3.50
Format: 218 pages, Hardcover
Eine subtile Komodie in den schottischen Highlands - very british! Ein charmant heruntergekommener … read more
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- audiobook
2. The Known World
By: Edward P. Jones
4.33
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, The Known Worldis a daring and ambitious work by… read more
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3. Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?: The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization
By: Andrew Lawler
3.76
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
From ancient empires to modern economics, veteran journalist Andrew Lawler delivers a sweeping hist… read more
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4. Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth
By: Marcia Bjornerud
4.50
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
To many of us, the Earth's crust is a relic of ancient, unknowable history. But to a geologist, sto… read more
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5. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By: Cat Bohannon
4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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- science
- history
- biology
- evolution
- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
By: Virginia Postrel
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Neanderthal string to 3D knitting, an “expansive” global history that highlights “how textiles… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
7. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
By: Dan Flores
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa So… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- animals
- nonfiction
- science
"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
8. 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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- biology
- nonfiction
- science
- audiobook
9. The Woods are Waiting
By: Katherine Greene
3.43
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Lisa Jewell and Ruth Ware, Katherine Greene’s debut thriller is a dark descent … read more
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- audiobook
10. The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
By: Sarah Ogilvie
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Murray took Dictionary work with him to the hospital when Ada was giving birth. If you look at page 2, column 1 of the first volume of the printed Dictionary, twenty-third line from the bottom, you w…"-Sarah Ogilvie, The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
11. Worn: A People's History of Clothing
By: Sofi Thanhauser
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and captivatingly told history of clothing and the stuff it's made of--an unparalleled d… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- nonfiction
- microhistory
- science
12. Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind
By: Annaka Harris
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "If you’ve ever wondered how you have the capacity to wonder, some fas… read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- science
- audiobook
13. 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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- history
- biology
- animals
- nonfiction
- science
14. Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality
By: Eliot Schrefer
4.35
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
This groundbreaking illustrated YA nonfiction title from two-time National Book Award finalist and … read more
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- audiobook
- biology
- animals
- nonfiction
- science
"Traditions are just peer pressure from dead people."-Eliot Schrefer, Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality
15. Ingredients: The Strange Chemistry of What We Put in Us and on Us
By: George Zaidan
3.69
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
Cheese puffs. Coffee. Sunscreen. Vapes. George Zaidan reveals what will kill you, what won't, and w… read more
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- science
- food
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"An oak tree can make 25 kilograms of glucose every single day. That’s the weight of a small child or a female golden retriever."-George Zaidan, Ingredients: The Strange Chemistry of What We Put in Us and on Us
"Food goes bad because of life: the life that lingers in its cells after the organism dies and the life takes over the body of the dead. Preventing that life prevents decomposition."-George Zaidan, Ingredients: The Strange Chemistry of What We Put in Us and on Us
16. Losing Our Minds: The Challenge of Defining Mental Illness
By: Lucy Foulkes
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and incisive book that questions the overuse of mental health terms to describe univer… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"There isn’t a clear boundary between the everyday and the pathological."-Lucy Foulkes, Losing Our Minds: The Challenge of Defining Mental Illness
"Grief is the price we pay for love, the saying goes; I would add that all forms of psychological distress are the price we pay for being alive. Suffering is part of being human."-Lucy Foulkes, Losing Our Minds: The Challenge of Defining Mental Illness
17. Fowl Play: A History of the Chicken from Dinosaur to Dinner Plate
By: Sally Coulthard
4.13
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From dinosaur to dinner plate, Sally Coulthard tells the fascinating – and sometimes shocking – sto… read more
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- history
- biology
- evolution
- animals
- food
- nonfiction
- birds
- microhistory
- audiobook
18. Silk: A World History
By: Aarathi Prasad
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the compl… read more
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- history
- biology
- nonfiction
- microhistory
- audiobook
19. Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13)
By: Lois McMaster Bujold
4.62
Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition
When Rozakajin, road-weary bandit and army deserter, spots a hapless blond young man in a country i… read more
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20. Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water
By: Amorina Kingdon
3.89
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A captivating exploration of how underwater animals tap into sound to survive, and a clarion call f… read more
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- biology
- animals
- nonfiction
- science
21. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
By: Evan Friss
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more
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- history
- audiobook
