Chasing the Ghost Bear: On the Trail of America’s Lost Super Beast
By: Mike Stark
4.00
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2023 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award Reading the West Longlist for Nonfiction No anima…
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1. The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story
By: Dimitra Papagianni , Michael A. Morse
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In recent years, the common perception of the Neanderthals has been transformed, thanks to new disc… read more
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- nonfiction
2. 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
3. Fossil Legends of the First Americans
By: Adrienne Mayor
3.96
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs tha… read more
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- nonfiction
4. American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon
By: Steven Rinella
3.50
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the host of the Travel Channel's "The Wild Within." A hunt for the American buffalo--an advent… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
5. The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story
By: Ann Rule
4.67
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
Ann Rule was a writer working on the biggest story of her life, tracking down a brutal mass-murdere… read more
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6. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
7. Imperial Dreams: Tracking the Imperial Woodpecker Through the Wild Sierra Madre
By: Tim Gallagher
2.88
Format: 29 pages, Hardcover
Naturalist Tim Gallagher journeys deep into the savagely beautiful Sierra Madre, home to rich wildl… read more
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8. The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology In Greek And Roman Times
By: Adrienne Mayor
3.96
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Griffins, Centaurs, Cyclopes, and Giants--these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue … read more
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9. Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer--America's Deadliest Serial Murderer
By: Ann Rule
4.34
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
In her most personal and provocative book to date, the #1 bestselling master of true crime presents… read more
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10. Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Wayward Children, #2)
By: Seanan McGuire
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Ele… read more
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11. The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
By: Susan Orlean
4.22
Format: 160 pages,
The Orchid Thiefis Susan Orlean's tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered f… read more
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12. 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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- nonfiction
- nature
"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
13. My Effin' Life
By: Geddy Lee
4.58
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock… read more
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- nonfiction
14. Road of Bones
By: Christopher Golden
3.38
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
A stunning supernatural thriller set in Siberia, where a film crew is covering an elusive ghost sto… read more
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15. Just Like Mother
By: Anne Heltzel
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A girl would be such a blessing... The last time Maeve saw her cousin was the night she escaped … read more
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16. This Wretched Valley
By: Jenny Kiefer
3.33
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Four ambitious climbers hike into the Kentucky wilderness. Seven months later, three mangled bodies… read more
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17. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
By: Dara Horn
4.36
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more
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- nonfiction
"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
18. 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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- nonfiction
- nature
19. Extinction
By: Douglas Preston
4.14
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand–acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, … read more
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"If something can be done, it will be done-no matter how dangerous."-Douglas Preston, Extinction
"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception." Carl Sagan, in Extinction by Douglas Preston"-Douglas Preston, Extinction
"You actually think we want to be like you? You Sapiens, with your bleak and apocalyptic history? What a grim and self-loathing species you are! Look at what you worship as progress. The agricultural …"-Douglas Preston, Extinction
20. Dinosaurs
By: Lydia Millet
3.88
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
A man named Gil walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new… read more
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"They say those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, but don’t we all?"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"You gotta be a generalist, in the new climate. But that’s not enough either. If there’s too much poison around. We’re talking pesticides, mostly. Agrochemicals everywhere. Take the sparrows. So anywa…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"Good news. Maybe the insects would handle it. Since the dinosaurs didn’t have it in them. The insects might be naturals at revolution, with their hive minds. Their brainless, decentralized intelligen…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"And freedom, that sacred cow that was always invoked as an excuse for bad behavior, all manner of atrocity—what was it, even? They told you to love it, in the schools and the songs, but never said wh…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
21. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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- nonfiction
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
22. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes
By: Eric LaRocca
3.22
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
Three dark and disturbing horror stories from an astonishing new voice, including the viral-sensati… read more
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23. Gleanings (Arc of a Scythe, #3.5)
By: Neal Shusterman
4.04
Format: 423 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling Arc of the Scythe series continues with “captivating…thrilling” ( Sc… read more
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24. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.11
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on t… read more
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- nonfiction
"On the whole, I don't fear death. Instead, I fear a life where I could have accomplished more."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"If you travel beyond the cave door, you may just discover things that help solve your cave problems."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"We are more likely to be swayed by a single person who testifies with passion than by a bar chart containing data compiled from thousands of people."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"While there, I came to resent labels of all kinds. What are they, if not intellectually lazy ways of asserting you know everything about a person you've never met?"-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
25. Wild Spaces
By: S.L. Coney
3.51
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
Robert R. McCammon’s Boy’s Life meets H. P. Lovecraft in Wild Spaces, a foreboding, sensual coming-… read more
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"As funny as he thinks a fish would look, he wonders how the sea felt when her inhabitants started walking away. He wonders if maybe that’s why she keeps eating away at the land, trying to take back w…"-S.L. Coney, Wild Spaces
26. On Juneteenth
By: Annette Gordon-Reed
4.18
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annet… read more
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"History is always being revised, as new information, comes to light and when different people see known documents and have their own responses to them, shaped by their individual experiences."-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
"Origin stories matter, for individuals, groups of people, and for nations. They inform our sense of self; telling us what kind of people we believe we are, what kind of nation we believe in. They usu…"-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
"Why would White Texans be more obstreperous than other White southerners? It has been suggested that this was because, unlike other Southern states, Texas had not been defeated militarily. They had w…"-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
27. The Hawk's Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty
By: Sy Montgomery
3.77
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A splendid and luminous celebration of one of nature’s most perfect and mysterious creatures—the ha… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"Hawks do not play by our rules. You can never assume that a hawk, even one you raised from a chick, will forgive your mistakes—sometimes a single error ruptures the relationship forever. A hawk will …"-Sy Montgomery, The Hawk's Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty
28. Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
By: Jennifer Raff
3.79
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From celebrated anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story—and fascinating mystery—of how … read more
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29. The Hidden World of the Fox
By: Adele Brand
3.81
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
Ecologist Adele Brand has devoted her life to understanding the fabled yet enigmatic fox. Now she r… read more
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- nature
30. Chasing the Ghost Bear: On the Trail of America’s Lost Super Beast
By: Mike Stark
4.00
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2023 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award Reading the West Longlist for Nonfiction No anima… read more
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