The Last Elephants
By: Colin Bell
4.53
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
The Last Elephants was inspired by the devastating results of the continent-wide Great Elephant Cen…
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1. Elephant Dawn: The Inspirational Story of Thirteen Years Living with Elephants in the African Wilderness
By: Sharon Pincott
4.48
Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition
In 2001, Sharon Pincott traded her privileged life as a high-flying corporate executive to start a … read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
2. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
By: Art Spiegelman
4.38
Format: 159 pages, Hardcover
The first installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting … read more
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- nonfiction
"Friends? Your friends? If you lock them together in a room with no food for a week…Then you could see what it is, friends! …"-Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
"Maybe your father needed to show that he was always right - that he could always SURVIVE - because he felt GUILTY about surviving."-Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
3. Paris Underground (Classics of World War II the Secret War)
By: Etta Shiber
4.35
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
True story of two middle-aged women, an American (author Etta Shiber) and an Englishwoman (her frie… read more
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- nonfiction
"Kitty's remark stuck in my mind. It was true, I thought, that we had experienced miraculous luck again and again. Was it all luck or was it the guiding hand of Providence? And could we always count o…"-Etta Shiber, Paris Underground (Classics of World War II the Secret War)
"I am a priest, but in this war I have been a soldier, and a soldier who has not surrendered. For I was fighting for more than a military decision between two powers, rivals for control over the same …"-Etta Shiber, Paris Underground (Classics of World War II the Secret War)
4. Cry of the Kalahari
By: Mark Owens , Delia Owens
4.33
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
This is the story of the Owens' travel and life in the Kalahari Desert. Here they met and studied u… read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
- science
"For a scavenger, patience is the key to the pantry."-Mark Owens, Cry of the Kalahari
"I've about had it with flying," he grumbled, switching off the plane's systems, "It's ninety-nine percent boring and one percent sheer terror."-Mark Owens, Cry of the Kalahari
"The entire Blue Pride, nine in all, surrounded us, nearly all of them asleep. We were quite literally in bed with a pride of wild Kalahari lions."-Mark Owens, Cry of the Kalahari
"Especially after our Makgadikgadi experiences, we were very aware that the two absolute essentials for survival in the Kalahari were water and the truck."-Mark Owens, Cry of the Kalahari
5. Kim
By: Rudyard Kipling , None
2.86
Format: 358 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Kim is set in an imperialistic world; a world strikingly masculine, dominated by travel, trade and … read more
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6. The Lost World
By: Michael Crichton
4.00
Format: 202 pages, Mass Market Paperback
It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary d… read more
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7. Coming of Age With Elephants: A Memoir
By: Joyce Poole
4.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The educational and inspirational biography of Joyce Poole describes the life of a courageous woman… read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
8. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
9. The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
By: Richard Preston
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
The bestselling landmark account of the first emergence of the Ebola virus.A highly infectious, dea… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
10. The Elephant Whisperer
By: None , Graham Spence , Lawrence Anthony
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of 'rogue' elephants… read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
11. Prey
By: Michael Crichton
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles -- micro-robo… read more
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12. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
By: Candice Millard
3.84
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirr… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"..the charm of the scenery was perhaps enhanced by the reflection that my eyes might never look upon it again....Masses of brown-purple clouds covered the quarter of the heavens where the sun was abo…"-Candice Millard, River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
13. Norse Mythology
By: Neil Gaiman
4.10
Format: 301 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780393356182 Neil Gaiman, long inspired by ancient … read more
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"Ragnarok is coming."-Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology
"And the game begins anew."-Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology
"Rebirth always follows death."-Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology
"Of course it was Loki. It's always Loki."-Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology
14. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
By: Isabel Wilkerson
4.53
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more
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- nonfiction
"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
15. Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
By: Michael Crichton
4.11
Format: 466 pages, Kindle Edition
An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind… read more
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"Welcome...to Jurassic Park!"-Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
"Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth."-Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
"Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always."-Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
"They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners."-Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
16. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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- animals
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
17. All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team
By: Christina Soontornvat
4.51
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
An account of the amazing Thai cave rescue told in a you-are-there style that blends suspense, scie… read more
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- nonfiction
18. The Bandit Queens
By: Parini Shroff
3.93
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Geeta's no-good husband disappeared five years ago. She didn't kill him, but everyone thinks she di… read more
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"So I’d stay home. So my world wouldn’t get any bigger."-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens
"At least you were seen. Hated, but seen. I was just invisible."-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens
"Thanking him had nearly given her an ulcer, but she'd managed by imagining him dead."-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens
"It wasn’t as though she wanted people looking at her — it was far safer to be invisible."-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens
19. Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
By: Kevin M. Kruse
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In this instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the… read more
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- nonfiction
"Violence meant to seize and shore up power—a claim to sovereignty through the violence of the mob—is fundamentally American."-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
"Although in this case it is an understandable, emotional reaction meant to decry antidemocratic violence, the notion that January 6 is 'not who we are' is one manifestation of what has become a regul…"-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
"People may hear ‘white nationalism’ and assume it to be adjacent with patriotism, or at the very least consider it as pro-American. But after 1983 the nation at the heart of white nationalism was not…"-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
20. The One
By: John Marrs
4.11
Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition
How far would you go to find The One? A simple DNA test is all it takes. Just a quick mouth swab… read more
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"Don't worry, the only skeletons in my closet belong to the mice."-John Marrs, The One
"Trying to come up with one answer to suit everyone was like trying to push the tide back into the ocean with a broom"-John Marrs, The One
"Maybe when you took it back to the basics, that's what love really was: just being there for someone when the sun rises and sets.- Jade"-John Marrs, The One
"Sometimes, the grass is not greener on the other side, and we should stay in the field where we belong. And sometimes we just need to take a gamble and hope for the best."-John Marrs, The One
21. The Hidden World of Gnomes
By: Lauren Soloy
4.25
Format: 96 pages, ebook
A delightful introduction and collection of facts about the secret lives of gnomes that will charm … read more
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- nature
22. The Last Elephants
By: Colin Bell
4.53
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
The Last Elephants was inspired by the devastating results of the continent-wide Great Elephant Cen… read more
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- photography
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- environment
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- science
23. The Last Giants: The Rise and Fall of the African Elephant
By: Levison Wood
4.11
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
This book comes at a critical time. Fifty years ago, Africa was home to just over 1.3 million eleph… read more
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