Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing
By: Lev Parikian
4.26
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
This is the miracle of flight as you’ve never seen it before: the evolutionary story of life on the…
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1. Love in a Cold Climate
By: Nancy Mitford
4.40
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found One of Nancy Mitford's most beloved nov… read more
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2. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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- nonfiction
"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
3. The End of Drum-Time
By: Hanna Pylväinen
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An epic love story in the vein of Cold Mountain and The Great Circle, about a young reindeer herder… read more
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4. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
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- biology
- evolution
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
5. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
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- ecology
- biology
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
6. Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
By: Nicklas Brendborg
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A Sunday Times (UK) Best Book of the Year • This eye-opening book offers a "clear and captivating" … read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- popular science
- nature
- science
7. Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire
By: Eckart Frahm
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires At its … read more
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- nonfiction
8. Cloistered: My Years as a Nun
By: Catherine Coldstream
3.71
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery. Cloistered t… read more
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- nonfiction
9. Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way
By: Roma Agrawal
3.63
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Royal Society Science Book Prize A structural engineer examines the sev… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
10. Cairn
By: Kathleen Jamie
4.34
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Cairn: A marker on open land, a memorial, a viewpoint shared by strangers. For the last five yea… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
11. The Ghost Cat
By: Alex Howard
3.61
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A charming novel for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and How to Stop Time , following a cat thr… read more
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- animals
12. The History Lessons
By: Shalina Patel
4.38
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Taking a tour through history, from the Romans to the Second World War via Tudor courts, medieval c… read more
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- nonfiction
13. Growth: A Reckoning
By: Daniel Susskind
3.92
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
A revelatory account of the past, present, and future of economic growth - and how we should rethin… read more
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- nonfiction
14. 21st Century Yokel
By: Tom Cox
4.26
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
21st-Century Yokel explores the way we can be tied inescapably to landscape, whether we like it or … read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
15. Don't Stop the Music: A Year of Pop History, One Day at a Time - from 1894 to the present
By: Justin Lewis
4.21
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
'The deliciously simple conceit ― pop facts from every day of the year ― lets Lewis roam wide and f… read more
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16. Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing
By: Lev Parikian
4.26
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
This is the miracle of flight as you’ve never seen it before: the evolutionary story of life on the… read more
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- ecology
- biology
- evolution
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- popular science
- birds
- nature
- science
17. Infinite Life: A Revolutionary Story of Eggs, Evolution and Life on Earth
By: Jules Howards
4.30
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Every animal on the planet owes its existence to one crucial piece of evolutionary the egg. It'… read more
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- biology
- evolution
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
18. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
19. Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation
By: Tim Birkhead
3.85
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey throug… read more
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- biology
- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- birds
- nature
- science
20. In All Weathers
By: Matt Gaw
4.09
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring exploration of the power and beauty of British weather in all its wild and stormy form… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
