The Zookeepers' War: An Incredible True Story from the Cold War
By: J.W. Mohnhaupt
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The unbelievable true story of the Cold War’s strangest proxy war , fought between the zoos on eith…
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1. The Whale Rider
By: Witi Ihimaera
3.84
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he's focused on his duti… read more
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- animals
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"Even the good guys,' she said, 'can't win all the time."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"This is the last spear. It is the seed of Paikea and we must return it to the land."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"Man might carve his mark on the earth but unless he's vigilant, Nature will take it all back."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"Sometimes life has a habit of flooding over you and rushing you along in its overwhelming tide."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
2. Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
By: Paul Greenberg , Paul Greenberg
4.06
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
In Four Fish, award-winning writer and lifelong fisherman Paul Greenberg takes us on a culinary jou… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- animals
"Humans seem to have an innate drive to master other creatures."-Paul Greenberg, Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
"When reeling a fish in to not simply feel “the power of wildness intimately but the same time recognize the right of that wildness to continue"-Paul Greenberg, Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
"Natural selection has a new aspect, one that is psychological denial. Such denial where the “individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, wh…"-Paul Greenberg, Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
"It was one of those rare moments where one has a vision of the scope of the wild ocean. Not just small cylinders firing to keep a tiny engine running, but rather the giant, massive gears of nature, e…"-Paul Greenberg, Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
3. The Quilter's Apprentice (Elm Creek Quilts, #1)
By: Jennifer Chiaverini
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
After moving with her husband, Matt, to the small college town of Waterford, Pennsylvania, Sarah Mc… read more
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- audiobook
4. The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
By: Mark Obmascik
3.47
Format: 185 pages,
For those who thought bird-watching was a sedate Sunday hobby, here comes the rollicking tale of th… read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
5. Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone
By: Juli Berwald
4.27
Format: 412 pages, Hardcover
A former ocean scientist goes in pursuit of the slippery story of jellyfish, rediscovering her pass… read more
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6. Elegy for Eddie (Maisie Dobbs, #9)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
3.89
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
In this latest entry in the acclaimed, bestselling mystery series, Maisie Dobbs takes on her most p… read more
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7. Journey to Munich (Maisie Dobbs, #12)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
4.06
Format: None pages, ebook
Working with the British Secret Service on an undercover mission, Maisie Dobbs is sent to Hitler's … read more
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8. A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and re… read more
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9. Obsessed: : A Memoir of My Life with OCD
By: None
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A brave teen recounts her debilitating struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder--and brings read… read more
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10. A Dangerous Place (Maisie Dobbs, #11)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
4.23
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Maisie Dobbs returns in a powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy: a brutal murde… read more
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11. True History of the Kelly Gang
By: Peter Carey
3.87
Format: 334 pages,
"I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dea… read more
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12. Under Enemy Colors (Charles Hayden, #1)
By: Sean Thomas Russell
3.50
Format: 306 pages,
1793: the thunder of cannon fire echoes across the English Channel, chilling the stoutest hearts .… read more
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13. Star Trek Memories
By: William Shatner , Chris Kreski
4.65
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Contains Captain Kirk's (William Shatner's) reminiscences about his years with the show Star Trek a… read more
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14. 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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- nonfiction
- history
- animals
- audiobook
"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
15. Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
By: Lynne Olson
4.26
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In the 1960s, the world’s attention was focused on a nail-biting race against the international ca… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"He demonstrated a feminism very unusual for his time by encouraging her in all her undertakings and helping her overcome the obstacles that arose with her projects,"-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
"Above all, she talked about the great debt she owned her parents for encouraging her to do what she wanted and for providing her with unstinting support, not to mention stellar education, that enable…"-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
"My parents were humanists,“ Desroches later told an interviewer. “They taught me humanist values such as respect for one another, for your neighbors, for people in general, respect for civilizations.…"-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
16. A Terrible Country
By: Keith Gessen
3.88
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
A literary triumph about Russia, family, love, and loyalty--the first novel in ten years from a fou… read more
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"Our grandmother lived in the center of Moscow. The rents there were almost as high as Manhattan's. On my PMOOC salary I would be able to rent approximately an armchair."-Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country
"You had to be fundamentally stupid , I sometimes thought, to become the sort of academic specialist that hiring committees liked. You had to be thick somehow. You had to block out all the other thing…"-Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country
17. The Museum of Lost Quilts (Elm Creek Quilts, #22)
By: Jennifer Chiaverini
4.11
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Jennifer Chiaverini’s beloved and bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series returns with the first Elm Cr… read more
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- audiobook
18. The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
By: James Patterson
3.92
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
Booksellers and librarians are superheroes, saving lives every single day. Here are their amazing, … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Different books speak to us at different times."-James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
19. What's Cooking in the Kremlin: From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork
By: Witold Szabłowski
4.28
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
“Riveting—a delicious odyssey full of history, humor, and jaw-dropping stories. If you want to unde… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
20. 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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- history
- animals
- audiobook
21. Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
By: Michelle Nijhuis
4.10
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement—told through the lives and ideas of the peopl… read more
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- history
- animals
22. The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us
By: Meg Lowman
4.05
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
Nicknamed the “Real-Life Lorax” by National Geographic, the biologist, botanist, and conservationis… read more
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- audiobook
23. Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change
By: Thor Hanson
4.06
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
*A New York Times Editor's Choice pick *Shortlisted for the 2022 Pacific Northwest Book Awards … read more
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- animals
- audiobook
24. Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
By: Bethany Brookshire
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats t… read more
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- history
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- audiobook
25. Once & Future, Vol. 5: The Wasteland
By: Kieron Gillen
4.25
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Final Volume and Battle of the Iconic Arthurian Fantasy Series Where the Fate of Kings and Engl… read more
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26. All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia
By: Simon Garfield
3.65
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars a… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
27. Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
By: Haben Girma
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Audiobook
Born with deaf-blindness, Girma grew up with enough vision to know when someone was in front of her… read more
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- audiobook
"Communities designed with just one kind of person in mind isolate those of us defying our narrow definition of personhood."-Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
"Sighted or blind, Deaf or hearing, each of us holds just the tiniest fraction of the world's wisdom. Admitting we don't know everything will aid us on this Trek for Knowledge."-Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
"It's a sighted, hearing classroom, in a sighted, hearing school, in a sighted, hearing society. They designed this environment for people who can see and hear. In this environment, I'm disabled. They…"-Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
"Here at LCB, I'm surrounded by people who understand that blindness is just limited eyesight. With the right tools and training, blind people can compete as equals with sighted peers. Places like LCB…"-Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
28. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
By: Emily Nussbaum
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
29. Still Alive: A Wild Life of Rediscovery
By: Forrest Galante
4.40
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Very few individuals can truthfully say that their work impacts every person on earth. Forrest Gal… read more
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- animals
30. The Zookeepers' War: An Incredible True Story from the Cold War
By: J.W. Mohnhaupt
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The unbelievable true story of the Cold War’s strangest proxy war , fought between the zoos on eith… read more
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- wildlife
- history
- world history
- historical
- war
- animals
- germany
- nonfiction
- audiobook
31. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
By: Jesselyn Cook
4.45
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more
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