Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
By: Lucas Bessire
3.85
Format: None pages, ebook
Finalist for the National Book AwardAn intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heart…
Want to Read $ 9.99"I feared putting a child through more pain than I had gone through. Yet the more I tried to avoid acting like the men in my childhood, the more them I seemed to become."-Lucas Bessire, Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
"I feared putting a child through more pain than I had gone through. Yet the more I tried to avoid acting like the men in my childhood, the more them I seemed to become."-Lucas Bessire, Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
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1. The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
By: J. Drew Lanham
4.23
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
"In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. Al… read more
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"In driving creatures to extinction and decimating habitats without so much as a backward glance or lingering regret, human hands create disharmony. That, to me, is evil."-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
"To save wildlife and wild places the traction has to come not from the regurgitation of bad-news data but from the poets, prophets, preachers, professors, and presidents who have always dared to insp…"-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
"But on far too many Sundays I was pulled from the roaming rhythm and natural worship that truly fulfilled me. A church Sunday meant that God was suddenly confined to something that seemed much less m…"-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
"I am a man in love with nature. I am an eco-addict, consuming everything that the outdoors offers its all-you-can-sense, seasonal buffet. I am a wildling, born of forests and fields and more comforta…"-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
2. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
By: Marc Reisner
4.53
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. I… read more
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3. One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient
By: David Biro
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
It is a situation we all fear and none of us can imagine: a life-threatening diagnosis. But what if… read more
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4. 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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5. The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
By: Dan Egan
4.23
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over t… read more
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6. Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring
By: Brad Gooch
4.39
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
“It’s all the grade school Walt Disney and Dr. Seuss; the adolescent acid trips; the fondness for … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
7. The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence
By: Laurence Ralph
4.25
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but e… read more
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8. 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
- nature
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- environment
- 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
9. The Brilliant Abyss
By: Helen Scales
4.04
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A journey into the alien depths of the sea, and into our possible future, from a marine biologist k… read more
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"The oceans, it turns out, are full of bone-eating worms"-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
"Not so very long ago, the deep was a tremendous void containing myths, legends and endless unknowns."-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
"There are no compelling reasons for exploiting the deep, just industry and politics vying to push into that last frontier."-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
"The deep has no stars at night to remind us it is there, and no moon shining down. And yet, this hidden place reaches into our daily lives and makes vital things happen without our knowing. The deep,…"-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
10. Home Sweet Maison: The French Art of Making a Home
By: Danielle Postel-Vinay
3.64
Format: 288 pages, ebook
French Women Don’t Get Fat meets The Little Book of Hygge in this lively, sophisticated, and practi… read more
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11. What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia
By: Elizabeth Catte
4.02
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America’s “forgotten tribe” of white working… read more
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12. Os Supridores
By: José Falero
4.36
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Com este seu primeiro romance, José Falero já se apresenta como um dos nomes mais relevantes da nov… read more
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"Mas Pedro já estava familiarizado com imperfeições como todo pobre que se preza, ainda que não se considerasse merecedor delas, como todo pobre que se despreza."-José Falero, Os Supridores
13. Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West
By: Heather Hansman
4.02
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning journalist rafts down the Green River, revealing a multifaceted look at the present a… read more
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- history
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14. Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever
By: Eddie Ndopu
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A memoir penned with one good finger, Ndopu writes about being profoundly disabled and profoundly s… read more
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15. The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities
By: Peter S. Alagona
4.10
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
One of Smithsonian Magazine 's Favorite Books of 2022 With wildlife thriving in cities, we have th… read more
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16. A Most Tolerant Little Town: A Forgotten Story of Desegregation in America
By: Rachel Louise Martin
4.22
Format: 384 pages, ebook
An intimate portrait of a small town living through tumultuous times, this propulsive piece of forg… read more
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17. The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi
By: Boyce Upholt
4.07
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping history of the Mississippi River―and the centuries of human meddling that have transform… read more
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18. Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
By: Lucas Bessire
3.85
Format: None pages, ebook
Finalist for the National Book AwardAn intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heart… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- memoir
- agriculture
- politics
- anthropology
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"I feared putting a child through more pain than I had gone through. Yet the more I tried to avoid acting like the men in my childhood, the more them I seemed to become."-Lucas Bessire, Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
19. On Common Ground: Learning and Living in the Loess Hills
By: Brian T. Hazlett
4.00
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
On Common Ground is an exciting multidisciplinary, multimodal project and partnership between the a… read more
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20. Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela (Music and Social Justice)
By: Yana Stainova
4.29
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
El Sistema is a nationwide, state-funded music education program in Venezuela. Founded in 1975 by e… read more
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21. Families on the Edge: Experiences of Homelessness and Care in Rural New England (Culture and Psychiatry)
By: Elizabeth Carpenter-Song
4.00
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
An intimate account of rural New England families living on the edge of homelessness, as well as th… read more
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