A Forest in the Clouds: My Year Among the Mountain Gorillas in the Remote Enclave of Dian Fossey
By: John Fowler
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In A Forest in the Clouds, John Fowler takes us into the world of Karisoke Research Center, the rem…
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1. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
By: Steven Johnson
3.89
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
From Steven Johnson, the dynamic thinker routinely compared to James Gleick, Dava Sobel, and Malcol… read more
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"New ideas need old buildings."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It is a great testimony to the connectedness of life on earth that the fates of the largest and the tiniest life should be so closely dependent on each other."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"When the next great epidemic does come, maps will be as crucial as vaccines in our fight against the disease. But again, the scale of the observation will have broadened considerably: from a neighbor…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It’s true enough that the Victorians were grappling with heady issues like utilitarianism and class consciousness. But the finest minds of the era were also devoted to an equally pressing question: W…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
2. 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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"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
3. Gorillas in the Mist
By: Dian Fossey
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of the most important books ever written about our connection to the natural world, Gorillas in… read more
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4. Prayers for Sale
By: Sandra Dallas
3.75
Format: 272 pages,
Hennie Comfort is eighty-six and has lived in the mountains of Middle Swan, Colorado since before i… read more
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5. Young Jane Young
By: Gabrielle Zevin
4.47
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who make… read more
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6. 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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- africa
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7. The Guardian
By: Nicholas Sparks
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Julie Barenson's young husband left her two unexpected gifts before he died: a Great Dane puppy nam… read more
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8. The Patriarch (Bruno, Chief of Police, #8)
By: Martin Walker
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
A beloved village, a renowned family, a suspicious death--it's the latest adventure in the Dordogne… read more
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9. Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
By: Geraldine Brooks
3.74
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
With a New Afterword As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Geraldine… read more
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10. Bruno, Chief of Police (Bruno, Chief of Police #1)
By: Martin Walker
3.71
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The first installment in a wonderful new series that follows the exploits of Benoit Courreges, a po… read more
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11. Enrique's Journey
By: Sonia Nazario
3.88
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
A true story from award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounting the odyssey of a Honduran boy w… read more
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"During that time, in between train rides, they sleep in trees or by the tracks, they drink from puddles, they beg for food."-Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey
"One Honduran teenager I met in southern Mexico had been deported to Guatemala twenty-seven times. He said he wouldn't give up until he reached his mother in the United States."-Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey
"Lourdes has decided. She will leave. She will go to the United States and make money and send it home. She will be gone for one year - less, with luck - or she will bring her children to be with her.…"-Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey
12. The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
By: James Rebanks
4.18
Format: 578 pages, Hardcover
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James … read more
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13. Ape House
By: Sara Gruen
4.01
Format: 0 pages, Hardcover
Sam, Bonzi, Lola, Mbongo, Jelani, and Makena are no ordinary apes. These bonobos, like others of th… read more
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14. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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- africa
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
15. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
By: Mary Roach
3.84
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? … read more
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- nature
- animals
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"The black bear is a ridiculously lovable species. There's a reason kids have teddy bears, not teddy goats or teddy eels."-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"Californians are like, 'Lions are everywhere now!'" What's on the rise are home security cameras. Doorbell cameras are the mammograms of wildlife biology."-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"So I’m curious, how far does the Pope think we should go in the direction of respecting and correcting the natural world and it’s wild inhabitants. Before I arrived the PIL media manager sent me a co…"-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"We are irrational in our species-specific devotions. I know a man who won’t eat octopus because of its intelligence. Yet he eats pork and buys glue traps for rats, though rats and pigs are highly in…"-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
16. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
By: Suzanne Simard
4.22
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their conne… read more
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- biography
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"Plants are attuned to one another's strengths and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. There is grace in complexity, in actions cohering, in sum totals."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"Such a marvel, the tenacity of the buds to surge with life every spring, to greet the lengthening days and warming weather with exuberance, no matter what hardships were brought by winter."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"This Mother Tree was the central hub that the saplings and seedlings nested around, with threads of different fungal species, of different colors and weights, linking them, layer upon layer, in a str…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"I was lucky to become one of the first in the new generation of women in the logging industry, but what I found was not what I had grown up to understand. Instead I discovered vast landscapes cleared…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
17. Birds in Flight
By: Anni Taylor
4.18
Format: 390 pages, Kindle Edition
Two estranged sisters reunite to solve the harrowing mystery of their missing mother. In 1998, t… read more
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18. In Bloom
By: Paul Tremblay
3.08
Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition
There’s something in the water in this hallucinatory short story by Paul Tremblay, bestselling auth… read more
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19. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath
By: Peter Zeihan
4.18
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting… read more
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20. It Waits in the Woods
By: Josh Malerman
3.72
Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition
Some chilling campfire tales ring too true to ignore. For one young woman, an urban legend calls he… read more
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21. The Seed Keeper
By: Diane Wilson
4.30
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakota family's struggle t… read more
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"My father traveled now with the stars, returned to the vast mystery that had so fascinated him all his life."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"What the white settlers called progress was a storm of fury thundering its way across the land, and none of us were strong enough to withstand it."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"I decided to give Rosie all the facts I could—because that's how the corporations work against us, twisting the truth till we're at war with each other."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"I thought about the aftermath of the 1862 war, when thirty-eight hastily condemned warriors had been hung in Mankato, in the country's largest-ever mass execution. Their bodies were buried in shallow…"-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
22. Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
By: Anderson Cooper
3.77
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting histor… read more
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23. A Taste for Vengeance (Bruno, Chief of Police, #11)
By: Martin Walker
4.15
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
When a British tourist fails to turn up for a luxurious cooking vacation in Bruno's usually idyllic… read more
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24. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
By: Griffin Dunne
4.19
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more
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"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
25. The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
By: Hope Jahren
4.14
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Lab Girl comes a slim, urgent missive on the defining issue of our t… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
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"All measures of conservation, as well as all technologies meant to wean us from fossil fuels, are worth pursuing in the same way that doing something is always more than doing nothing."-Hope Jahren, The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
"We are strong and lucky. Our planet is home to many who struggle to survive on too little. The fact that we are of the group with food, shelter, and clean water obligates us not to give up on the wor…"-Hope Jahren, The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
"Convincing people to examine their energy use is like trying to get them to quit smoking or eat more healthfully: they already know that they should do it, but there is a billion-dollar industry work…"-Hope Jahren, The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
"All species will go extinct eventually, even our own: it is one of nature's few imperatives. As of today, however, that train has not quite left the station. We still have some control over our demis…"-Hope Jahren, The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
26. The Paper Daughters of Chinatown
By: Heather B. Moore
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Based on true events, The Paper Daughters of Chinatown in a powerful story about a largely unknown … read more
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"Sometimes the most joyful moments for one person brought on deep pain for another."-Heather B. Moore, The Paper Daughters of Chinatown
27. Girl in the Tunnel: My Story of Love and Loss as a Survivor of the Magdalene Laundries
By: Maureen Sullivan
4.56
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
When Maureen Sullivan was just twelve years old, she confided in her teacher that she was being phy… read more
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- memoir
28. America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History
By: Ariel Aberg-Riger
4.48
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A critical, unflinching cultural history and fierce beacon of hope for a better future, America Red… read more
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29. The Liar's Bones (A Rachel McKenzie Mystery #1)
By: Morag Pringle
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Cold waves surround the woman, soaking her hair before pushing her onto the black rocks at the bott… read more
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30. The Ways of Water: A Novel
By: Teresa H. Janssen
4.34
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
As Josie Belle Gore, daughter of a Louisiana train engineer and Texas seamstress, journeys with her… read more
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31. A Forest in the Clouds: My Year Among the Mountain Gorillas in the Remote Enclave of Dian Fossey
By: John Fowler
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In A Forest in the Clouds, John Fowler takes us into the world of Karisoke Research Center, the rem… read more
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- science
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- memoir
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