The World As We Knew It: Dispatches From a Changing Climate
By: Amy Brady
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Nineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflect…
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1. 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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2. Landmarks
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Landmarksis Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between … read more
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3. The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
By: Dan Egan
4.23
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over t… read more
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- audiobook
- nature
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- environment
- science
4. frank: sonnets
By: Diane Seuss
4.50
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more
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- nonfiction
"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets
5. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- audiobook
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
6. 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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- audiobook
- nature
- ecology
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
7. The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origi… read more
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- ecology
- nonfiction
- essays
- climate change
- environment
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- science
"This is the great burden that now rests upon writers, artists, filmmakers, and everyone else who is involved in the telling of stories: to us falls the task of imaginatively restoring agency and voic…"-Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
8. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
By: Melissa Febos
4.24
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of … read more
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- essays
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"Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many"-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"...The more we believe we ought to be something that we are not, the more money we will spend in that mission."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
9. Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
By: Margaret Atwood
4.07
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
This brilliant selection of essays—funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient—seeks ans… read more
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- essays
- audiobook
"However, this does not make The Handmaid’s Tale a “feminist dystopia"-Margaret Atwood, Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
"Do you as a writer expand the meanings of words, or are you merely their tool? Is your own language programming you like a computer, or are you wielding it like Prospero’s magic charms, and is there …"-Margaret Atwood, Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
10. A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
By: Victor LaValle
3.79
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
What if America's founding ideals finally became reality? A future of peace, justice, and love come… read more
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- anthologies
- audiobook
"I turned to my wife and said, "Damn, this country hates women." She said, "You're only now just figuring that out?"-Victor LaValle, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
"Father sat in his easy chair, occasionally shaking his head and saying how this was just the way the cycle worked—one time they vote for what they believe themselves to be and the next they get angry…"-Victor LaValle, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
"There are stories about perfection, but those stories are lies. No one ever made the world better by being perfect. There is only mess in humans, and sometimes that mess turns to magic, and sometimes…"-Victor LaValle, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
"It’s quiet for a second and so I start to think. About how people take from each other. They take and take. Our world itself is a great big taking. And life is just giving. We give away everything we…"-Victor LaValle, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
11. The Unseen Body: A Doctor's Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy
By: Jonathan Reisman
3.99
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this fascinating journey through the human body and across the globe, Dr. Reisman weaves togethe… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- science
12. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
By: Ada Limon
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Published association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more
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- nature
- ecology
- anthologies
- nonfiction
- environment
13. Fat Girls Hiking: An Inclusive Guide to Getting Outdoors at Any Size or Ability
By: Summer Michaud-Skog
3.96
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
“An invaluable guide…Kudos to the author for changing the narrative on inclusiveness, breaking down… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
14. Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
By: Curtis Chin
3.80
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
This memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
15. Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
By: Stacey Abrams
4.42
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
"This is a narrative that describes the urgency that compels me and millions more to push for a dif… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
"…any voter denied a say in democracy has been harmed, and a remedy is in order regardless of the effect on an electoral outcome."-Stacey Abrams, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
"I embrace identity politics because for the marginalized, the disadvantaged, and the minority groups still grappling for purchase in our politics, identity is the strongest defense against invisibili…"-Stacey Abrams, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
"Difference is real, and to acknowledge such does no harm to the American identity as a whole. The vibrance of our identity politics reaffirms the complexity of our nation and the underpinning of our …"-Stacey Abrams, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
"My non-concession speech on November 16, 2018, served as a declaration of intent. We have been taught to expect concessions not only to the outcome of an electoral contest but to the system that unde…"-Stacey Abrams, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
16. Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists
By: Leah Penniman
4.58
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A soulful collection of illuminating essays and interviews that explore Black people’s spiritual an… read more
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- audiobook
- ecology
- nonfiction
- essays
- environment
- nature
- science
17. The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands
By: Sarah Brooks
3.67
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Piranesi and The Midnight Library, a stunning historical fantasy novel set on a grand e… read more
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18. The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change
By: Geoff Dembicki
4.06
Format: None pages, ebook
Burning fossil fuels will cause catastrophic global warming: this is what top American oil executiv… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- climate change
- environment
- audiobook
19. The Coin
By: Yasmin Zaher
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more
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"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin
20. The World As We Knew It: Dispatches From a Changing Climate
By: Amy Brady
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Nineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflect… read more
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- ecology
- biography
- anthologies
- nonfiction
- essays
- climate change
- environment
- nature
- science
21. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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- essays
- audiobook
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
