A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement
By: Ernest Freeberg
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From an award-winning historian, the outlandish story of the man who gave rights to animals. In Gil…
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1. Happy All the Time
By: Laurie Colwin
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Guido and Vincent are childhood best friends—third cousins, really—living in Cambridge and dreaming… read more
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2. The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
By: Dan Jones
4.27
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Rebels depend on willful gullibility."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
"Extravagance was a political necessity."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
"Much of the outward business of kingship came naturally."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
"As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
3. The Tiger's Wife
By: Téa Obreht
3.20
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Tea Obreht, the youngest of The N… read more
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4. 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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- history
- biography
- 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
5. The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
By: Florence Williams
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
An intrepid investigation into nature’s restorative benefits by a prize-winning author. For cent… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
6. Madhouse at the End of the Earth
By: Julian Sancton
4.27
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expeditio… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- science
"Among the greatest threats future travelers to Mars are likely to face is an interplanetary version of winter over-syndrome. The unknown icescapes around the earth poles, particularly Antarctica, see…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
"Cook referred to the symptoms collectively as polar anemia. Researchers today use the term winter over-syndrome. But it's essentially the same thing. A prevailing theory suggests it's a form of hypot…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
"But in emphasizing the likelihood of a connection between winter over-syndrome and what is now known as seasonal effective disorder, a variation in mood that correlates with a dwindling of daylight h…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
"Note: Dr. Lawrence Polinkis who analyzed clinical data from American men and women at Antarctica's Mcmurdo station Amundsen Scott's South Pole station posits specifically that the memory loss and oth…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
7. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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- nature
- history
- nonfiction
- environment
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"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
8. Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades
By: Rebecca Renner
3.81
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the… read more
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- nature
- history
- animals
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
9. 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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- nature
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- environment
- science
10. Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York
By: Barbara Weisberg
3.43
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Shocking revelations of a wife’s adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposi… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
11. 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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- nature
- history
- animals
- nonfiction
- 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
12. A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
By: Mark Dawidziak
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his my… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends will call it.' -- EDGAR ALLAN POE"-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
"The glow of the fireside poets failed to warm a world coping with the cold realities of a new century. Their light faded as we became less sure of comforting messages and more intrigued by Poe's trou…"-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
13. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
4.05
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
14. Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
By: Elizabeth Varon
4.15
Format: 516 pages, ebook
An authoritative biography of the controversial Confederate general, who later embraced Reconstruct… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
"I have some little reputation, but my men made it all for me. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, Article in -Sumter Republican-, October 29, 1864."-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
"...the power of battle is in generalship more than in the number of soldiers. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (1876)"-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
"[The] object of politics is to relieve the distress of the people and to provide for their future comfort. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, Letter to the New Orleans Times, June 8, 1867."-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
"It does not look like generalship to lose a battle and a cause and then lay the responsibility upon others. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (1896)"-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
15. Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia
By: Gregory J. Wallance
3.99
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Ru… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
16. When Two Feathers Fell From The Sky
By: Margaret Verble
3.61
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Louise Erdrich meets Karen Russell in this deliciously strange and daringly original novel from Pul… read more
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17. Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
By: Jason Roberts
4.25
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of A Sense of the World comes this dramatic, globe-spanning and meticul… read more
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- biography
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
18. The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero
By: Peter S. Canellos
4.34
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
The “superb” ( The Guardian ) biography of an American who stood against all the forces of Gilded A… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
19. God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible
By: Candida Moss
3.97
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From an award-winning biblical scholar, the untold story of how enslaved people created, gave meani… read more
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- history
20. A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement
By: Ernest Freeberg
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From an award-winning historian, the outlandish story of the man who gave rights to animals. In Gil… read more
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- animals
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
21. Flipped: How Georgia Turned Purple and Broke the Monopoly on Republican Power
By: Greg Bluestein
4.38
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of the unlikely heroes, the cutthroat politics, and the cultural forces that turne… read more
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- history
