The Magnificent Migration: On Safari with Africa's Last Great Herds
By: Sy Montgomery
3.99
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Sibert medalist and National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery takes readers on a staggering, emoti…
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1. 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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- africa
- travel
- animals
- nonfiction
- 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
2. The Elephant Scientist (Scientist in the Field Series)
By: Caitlin O'Connell , Donna M. Jackson , Timothy Rodwell , None
3.75
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
In the sprawling African scrub desert of Etosha National Park, they call her "the mother of all ele… read more
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- africa
- picture books
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
3. The Headmaster's Wager
By: Vincent Lam
3.64
Format: 221 pages, Hardcover
A superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting debut novel about one man's loyalty to… read more
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4. 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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- nonfiction
- nature
- science
5. Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5)
By: Alan Bradley
4.19
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, wh… read more
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6. Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
By: Yvon Chouinard
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
In his long-awaited memoir, Yvon Chouinard-legendary climber, businessman, environmentalist, and fo… read more
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7. The First Ladies
By: Marie Benedict
4.04
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights a… read more
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8. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
By: Kate Beaton
4.41
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more
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- nonfiction
9. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
By: Michael Pollan
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee coll… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"Memory is the enemy of wonder"-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
"For great many species today, “fitness"-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
"The bubble logic driving tulipomania has since acquired a name: “the greater fool theory."-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
"It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins."-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
10. Horse
By: Geraldine Brooks
4.27
Format: 401 pages, Hardcover
A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American… read more
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- animals
"I don't rightly know who was my great-grandfather, much less his father. How come you know that about a horse?"-Geraldine Brooks, Horse
"She felt a little clandestine, as if she were ten years old again, sneaking a dead rat past her mother so she could articulate a Rattus norvegicus domestica for her bedroom display."-Geraldine Brooks, Horse
"You have to know that bigots are unwittingly handing you an edge. By thinking you're lesser than they are, they underestimate you. Lean on that. Learn to use it, and you'll get the upper hand."-Geraldine Brooks, Horse
11. The Great Divide
By: Cristina Henríquez
3.70
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more
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"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide
12. The Vaster Wilds
By: Lauren Groff
3.77
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited g… read more
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- nature
"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds
13. The Defector (Apollo Murders, #2)
By: Chris Hadfield
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author, astronaut, and fighter pilot Chris Hadfield comes a rivetin… read more
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14. Warlight
By: Michael Ondaatje
3.60
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
In a narrative as mysterious as memory itself - at once both shadowed and luminous - Warlight is a … read more
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"A memoir is the lost inheritance."-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight
"we order our lives with barely held stories"-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight
"the lost sequence in a life, they say, is the thing we always search out"-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight
"I was about to enter a borderless terrain between adolescence and adulthood"-Michael Ondaatje, Warlight
15. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
- science
16. Five Little Indians
By: Michelle Good
4.48
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential sch… read more
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17. Hotline
By: Dimitri Nasrallah
4.15
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more
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"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline
18. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
4.10
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impa… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"I was struck, and not for the first time, by how much easier it is to ruin an ecosystem than to run one."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"If control is the problem, then, by the logic of the Anthropocene, still more control must be the solution."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"He’s a burly man with sparse white hair and a white beard who looks like Santa might look if Santa, in the off-season, carried a tackle box."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"Here I was, trying to finish a book about the world spinning out of control, only to find the world spinning so far out of control that I couldn't finish the book."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
19. Here We Are
By: Graham Swift
3.45
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In his newest novel, acclaimed author Graham Swift marries the erratic devastations of reality with… read more
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20. Le Sablier
By: Édith Blais
4.28
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
En janvier 2019, les familles d'Edith Blais et de l'Italien Luca Tacchetto lancent un appel à l'aid… read more
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- africa
- nonfiction
21. More Myself: A Journey
By: Alicia Keys
4.14
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
An intimate, revealing look at one artist’s journey from self-censorship to full expressionAs one o… read more
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- nonfiction
"..."Empire" isn't just about New York. It's about hope. No matter where we're from, we all want the opportunity to work hard and breathe life into our ambitions."-Alicia Keys, More Myself: A Journey
"The world can be a challenging place for us women to navigate. We often find ourselves feeling burned out, incapable, and lonely and yet we’re still so resilient."-Alicia Keys, More Myself: A Journey
"We adjust ourselves to fit, to adapt to others’ ideas of who we should be. We shift ourselves not in sweeping pivots but in movements so tiny that they are hardly perceptible even in our view. Years …"-Alicia Keys, More Myself: A Journey
"When you don't speak the truth for years at a time, the words left unspoken slowly leak the air out of your connection. Even if, years later, you are ready to say what you couldn't earlier, the momen…"-Alicia Keys, More Myself: A Journey
22. An Elephant in My Kitchen
By: Françoise Malby-Anthony
4.39
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A blonde, chic Parisienne, Francoise never expected to find herself living on a South African game … read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
23. The Hacienda
By: Isabel Cañas
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the… read more
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"Colonialism carved the landscapes of our homes with ghosts, It left gaping wounds that still weep"-Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
"Of course he did not question. Men do not trouble themselves with women's bodies, save when they can be of use to serve or to sate them."-Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
"Instead, he described the way the sun set in the valley of Apan: first rich golden, deepening to amber, and then, with a swift, sure strike, night overtook the sun like the extinguishing of a candle.…"-Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
24. Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past
By: Brett Popplewell
4.31
Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition
Into the Wild meets Born to Run meets The Stranger in the Woods in a fascinating true story of… read more
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- nature
25. Horizon
By: Barry Lopez
4.16
Format: 572 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award-winning author of the now-classic Arctic Dreams, a vivid, poetic, capa… read more
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- nonfiction
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26. Woman, Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay
By: Merilyn Simonds
4.20
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
From award-winning author Merilyn Simonds, a remarkable biography of an extraordinary woman -- a Sw… read more
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- animals
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27. Our Homesick Songs
By: Emma Hooper
4.01
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
From Emma Hooper, critically acclaimed author of Etta and Otto and Russell and James, a People maga… read more
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28. The Magnificent Migration: On Safari with Africa's Last Great Herds
By: Sy Montgomery
3.99
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Sibert medalist and National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery takes readers on a staggering, emoti… read more
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- travel
- photography
- picture books
- middle grade
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
29. Stoneface: Memoir of a Defiant Dene
By: Stephen Kakfwi
4.45
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Former Premier of the Northwest Territories Stephen Kakfwi transforms politics into philosophy and … read more
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30. Murder Rides A Gale Force Wind: An Island Mystery
By: Yvonne Maximchuk
3.92
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
WAS IT REALLY MURDER? Big crime comes to a town too small to merit even that title. Residents of th… read more
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31. The Goodbye Girls
By: Juliet Domvile
3.61
Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition
The first client for two newbie funeral planners is a murdered biker. What could go wrong? When … read more
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