The Age of Dinosaurs: The Rise and Fall of the World’s Most Remarkable Animals
By: Steve Brusatte
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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1. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
By: Stephen Jay Gould
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Bu… read more
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- palaeontology
- nonfiction
- nature
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"Alter any event, ever so slightly and without apparent importance at the time, and evolution cascades into radically different channel."-Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
"Thus, physics and astronomy relegated our world to a corner of the cosmos, and biology shifted our status from a simulacrum of God to a naked, upright ape."-Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
"Algunas transformaciones son manifiestas y heroicas; otras son tranquilas y sin acontecimientos notables en su devenir, pero no menos importantes en su resultado."-Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
"Some fifteen to twenty Burgess species cannot be allied with any known group, and should probably be classified as separate phyla. Magnify some of them beyond the few centimeters of their actual size…"-Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
2. Last Stop on Market Street
By: Matt de la Peña , Christian Robinson
4.30
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
"Sometimes when you're surrounded by dirt, CJ, you're a better witness for what's beautiful." CJ… read more
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"He wondered how his nana always found beautiful where he never even thought to look."-Matt de la Peña, Last Stop on Market Street
"Sometimes when you're surrounded by dirt...you're a better witness for what's beautiful."-Matt de la Peña, Last Stop on Market Street
"Nana, how come we don't got a car?' 'Boy, what do we need a car for? We got a bus that breathes fire, and old Mr. Daniels, who always has a trick for you."-Matt de la Peña, Last Stop on Market Street
3. The Song Of The Dodo: Island Biogeography In An Age Of Extinctions
By: David Quammen
3.59
Format: 378 pages,
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- nature
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4. Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
By: Amy Stewart , Briony Morrow-Cribbs , Jonathon Rosen
3.91
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes p… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- nature
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5. Dinosaur Empire! (Earth Before Us #1): Journey through the Mesozoic Era
By: Abby Howard
3.21
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Ronnie is just a normal fifth-grader trying to pass her science class's impossible quiz on the hist… read more
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- history
- middle grade
- dinosaurs
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- science
6. The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History
By: Joseph M. Marshall III
4.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
A captivating biography of the man who became a legend at the Battle of the Little Bighorn As a bri… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
7. Dinosaurs: The Ultimate Guide to How They Lived
By: Paul Barrett , Darren Naish
3.72
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Dinosaurs are one of the most spectacular groups of animals that have ever existed. Many were fanta… read more
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8. The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs
By: David Hone
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
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9. T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
By: Walter Álvarez
4.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The story of one of the greatest adventures of twentieth-century science, told by the central figu… read more
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10. Darwin's Radio (Darwin's Radio #1)
By: Greg Bear
4.00
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
Molecular biologist Kaye Lang's theory--that ancient diseases encoded in the DNA of humans can retu… read more
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11. 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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- history
- natural history
- palaeontology
- dinosaurs
- nonfiction
- nature
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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
12. Comfort Food
By: Kitty Thomas
3.69
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
THE ORIGINAL DARK ROMANCE Published in early 2010. If you love dark romance, this is where it star… read more
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"And that was when I knew. I had to kill him."-Kitty Thomas, Comfort Food
"His touch was like heroin in my veins,and I was a grateful addict."-Kitty Thomas, Comfort Food
"People always think that they'll never break. They'll never give in, CIA operatives somehow crack, but not them"-Kitty Thomas, Comfort Food
"He said it with everything he did, every touch, every caress, every physical pleasure he bestowed upon me. Give it all to me. Give me your will."-Kitty Thomas, Comfort Food
13. The One and Only Family (The One and Only #4)
By: Katherine Applegate
4.46
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
For more than a decade, readers have been enchanted by the modern classic The One and Only Ivan , a… read more
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- middle grade
- audiobook
14. Azula in the Spirit Temple (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
By: Faith Erin Hicks
3.75
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Azula continues her destabilizing campaign against the Fire Nation and her brother, Fire Lord Zuko.… read more
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- middle grade
15. Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
By: Alexa Hagerty
4.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against h… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
16. Tree. Table. Book.
By: Lois Lowry
4.39
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Everyone knows the two Sophies are best friends. One is in elementary school, and one is . . . well… read more
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- middle grade
- audiobook
17. Wrecker
By: Carl Hiaasen
4.04
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Wrecker needs to deal with smugglers, grave robbers, and pooping iguanas—just as soon as he finishe… read more
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- middle grade
- audiobook
18. Not Quite a Ghost
By: Anne Ursu
4.08
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy comes an unforgettable and … read more
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- middle grade
- audiobook
19. Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology (The Rediscovered Series)
By: Michael J. Benton
4.39
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Over the past twenty years, the study of dinosaurs has transformed into a true scientific disciplin… read more
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- history
- natural history
- palaeontology
- dinosaurs
- nonfiction
- nature
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20. A Righteous Man
By: Tochi Onyebuchi
3.29
Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition
A missionary in nineteenth-century Africa suffers a chilling crisis of faith in a short story about… read more
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21. Dear Mothman
By: Robin Gow
4.25
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
Poet and author Robin Gow’s moving middle-grade novel in verse Dear Mothman is about a young trans … read more
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- audiobook
22. The Magician
By: Rebecca Serle
3.63
Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition
A mother-to-be is awed by her own mother’s chaotic and unknowable approach to life and its natural … read more
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23. Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
By: Adam Rutherford
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Control is … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
"However, if your understanding of a science extends only to the point where your political preconceptions are supported, then you are an ideologue, not a scientist."-Adam Rutherford, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
"The press loves a heretic, especially one who can set fire to things and then walk away to look for the next pile of kindling. It is more problematic when the arsonist is in the heart of government, …"-Adam Rutherford, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
24. Stag
By: Karen Russell
3.32
Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition
Feeling alone? Join the party in a darkly comic and deeply felt short story about fragility and res… read more
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25. Telephone of the Tree
By: Alison McGhee
4.18
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable story of grief and the support of community as a young girl, faced with aching los… read more
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- audiobook
26. Life Through the Ages II: Twenty-First Century Visions of Prehistory
By: Mark P. Witton
4.38
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
What was life like on our planet long before the early humans emerged? Paleontologist Dr. Mark P. … read more
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- dinosaurs
- nonfiction
- science
27. The Age of Dinosaurs: The Rise and Fall of the World’s Most Remarkable Animals
By: Steve Brusatte
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Think you know about dinosaurs? Think again! New York Times bestselling and award-winning author St… read more
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- middle grade
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28. Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils
By: Dean R. Lomax
4.47
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Fossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to kno… read more
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- geology
- natural history
- palaeontology
- dinosaurs
- nonfiction
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29. Dinopedia: A Brief Compendium of Dinosaur Lore (Pedia Books, 5)
By: Darren Naish
4.30
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
An illuminating and entertaining collection of dinosaur facts, from A to Z Dinopedia is an illus… read more
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- palaeontology
- dinosaurs
- nonfiction
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30. William
By: Mason Coile
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Psychological horror meets cyber noir in this delicious one-sitting read — a haunted house story in… read more
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31. Dinosaurs—The Grand Tour: Everything Worth Knowing About Dinosaurs from Aardonyx to Zuniceratops
By: Keiron Pim
4.27
Format: 584 pages, Kindle Edition
A Main Selection of Scientific American Book Club “Remarkably all-encompassing and superbly illustr… read more
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