Ignition: Lighting Fires in a Burning World
By: M.R. O'Connor
4.48
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A work of on-the-ground reporting into the science of, and cultural ideas around, wildfires and fir…
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1. Upstream: Selected Essays
By: Mary Oliver
2.43
Format: None pages,
Comprising a selection of essays, Upstreamfinds beloved poet Mary Oliver reflecting on her astonish… read more
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- nonfiction
2. The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
By: John Vaillant
4.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- science
3. Basin and Range
By: John McPhee
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
The first of John McPhee's works in his series on geology and geologists, Basin and Range is a book… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
4. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.45
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- science
5. Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
By: Stephanie Land
3.62
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling m… read more
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- nonfiction
6. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
By: Heather Cox Richardson
4.42
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more
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- nonfiction
7. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
By: Annie Proulx
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more
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- climate change
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
8. 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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- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"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
9. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
10. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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- nonfiction
11. 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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- climate change
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
12. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
By: Jeff Goodell
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more
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- climate change
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
13. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
By: Rebecca Boyle
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- science
14. Crow Talk
By: Eileen Garvin
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Nationally bestselling author of The Music of Bees Eileen Garvin returns with a moving story of hop… read more
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15. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
By: Sebastian Junger
3.92
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
16. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
By: Kevin Fedarko
4.36
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more
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- nonfiction
"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
17. The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History
By: Manjula Martin
3.69
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural hi… read more
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- climate change
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
18. The Way of the Hermit: My Incredible 40 Years Living in the Wilderness
By: Ken Smith
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Subconsciously, I pressed myself into the loch's banks as that summer inched forward. We'd got off … read more
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- nonfiction
19. Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles
By: Jay Owens
3.90
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Combining history and science, a sweeping look at the smallest substance and the biggest challenges… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- science
20. Ignition: Lighting Fires in a Burning World
By: M.R. O'Connor
4.48
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A work of on-the-ground reporting into the science of, and cultural ideas around, wildfires and fir… read more
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- climate change
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
21. This Contested Land: The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America's National Monuments
By: McKenzie Long
4.03
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
One woman’s enlightening trek through the natural histories, cultural stories, and present perils o… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
