Bugged: The Insects Who Rule the World and the People Obsessed with Them
By: David MacNeal
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Insects have been shaping our ecological world and plant life for over 400 million years. In fact, …
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1. Lirael (Abhorsen, #2)
By: Garth Nix
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Lirael has never felt like a true daughter of the Clayr. Now, two years past the time when she shou… read more
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"It's always better to be doing."-Garth Nix, Lirael (Abhorsen, #2)
"Who or what are you? Besides insufferably rude?"-Garth Nix, Lirael (Abhorsen, #2)
"It was like someone far away calling someone else’s name."-Garth Nix, Lirael (Abhorsen, #2)
"As per usual, trouble comes in several directions at once."-Garth Nix, Lirael (Abhorsen, #2)
2. Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army and Other Diabolical Insects
By: Amy Stewart , Briony Morrow-Cribbs
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this darkly comical look at the sinister side of our relationship with the natural world, Stewar… read more
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- biology
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
3. The Way Things Are
By: Rolfe Humphries , Lucretius
3.97
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
..". [captures] the relentless urgency of Lucretius' didacticism, his passionate conviction and pro… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"There can be no centre in infinity."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
"Nothing exists but amalgams of matter and space."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
"Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
"For whatever changes and leaves its natural bounds is instant death of that which was before."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
4. The Sting of the Wild
By: Justin O. Schmidt
4.07
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
Entomologist Justin O. Schmidt is on a mission. Some say it's a brave exploration, others shake the… read more
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- biology
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
5. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
By: David Quammen
3.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
"Science writing as detective story at its best." --Jennifer Ouellette, Scientific American A New Y… read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- science
6. Abhorsen (Abhorsen, #3)
By: Garth Nix
4.35
Format: 26 pages,
The Ninth was strong and fought with might But lone Orannis was put out of the light Broken in two … read more
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7. The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
3.44
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The gripping story of how Joseph Lister's antiseptic method changed medicine forever In The Butcher… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
8. The World According to Garp
By: John Irving
4.10
Format: 610 pages, Hardcover
This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields—a feminist leader ahead o… read more
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"...energy begets energy."-John Irving, The World According to Garp
"Bonkie bit Garp!" Garp bit Bonkie"-John Irving, The World According to Garp
"In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases"-John Irving, The World According to Garp
"...the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar."-John Irving, The World According to Garp
9. Off Season (Dead River, #1)
By: Jack Ketchum
3.98
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
When Off Season, a novel about horror and cannibalism in modern-day Maine, was first released in 19… read more
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10. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
11. Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
By: Dan Saladino
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Dan Saladino's Eating to Extinction is the prominent broadcaster’s pathbreaking tour of the world’s… read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"The science writer David Quammen puts it: 'When we disrupt ecosystems, we shake viruses loose from their natural hosts, and when they happens, they need a new host. Often, we are it. And so, they spi…"-Dan Saladino, Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
12. Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
By: Nathalia Holt
3.88
Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition
The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space.In the 1940s and 50s, when the… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
13. The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
By: Jane Goodall
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope? Looking at the headlines--a global… read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
- science
"Of course, a great deal of our onslaught on Mother Nature is not really lack of intelligence but a lack of compassion for future generations and the health of the planet: sheer selfish greed for shor…"-Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
"She says that people who wonder how you can have hope in seemingly hopeless situations, like a death camp, confuse hope with idealism. Idealism expects everything to be fair or easy or good. She says…"-Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
14. The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World
By: Oliver Milman
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From ants scurrying under leaf litter to bees able to fly higher than Mount Kilimanjaro, insects ar… read more
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- biology
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
15. Butter
By: Asako Yuzuki
3.60
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more
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"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
16. Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
By: Camilla Townsend
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingd… read more
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- nonfiction
"Letters and diaries sometimes bring us close to grand moments or touching scenes in the history of Euro-Americans, but harkening back to the thoughts and feelings of the less powerful, we meet only s…"-Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
17. The Daughters of Ys
By: M.T. Anderson
3.84
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
An Atlantis-like city from Celtic legend is the setting of this mythical graphic novel fantasy re-i… read more
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18. Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)
By: A. Deborah Baker
3.69
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
If you trust her you’ll never make it home… Avery is an exceptional child. Everything he does is… read more
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"It's better to forget a home than to lose it,"-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)
"Frightened means you've the sense to be afraid, and it's cowards who get things done, more often than not."-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)
"Girls who are ignored can learn to be impossible, can learn to listen, and look, and learn more than they were ever meant to know."-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)
"It's fine not knowing things. Not knowing things means you have room to learn, and learning's about the most important thing there is,"-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)
19. The Hummingbirds' Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings
By: Sy Montgomery
4.14
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Hummingbirds fascinate people around the world. The lightest birds in the sky, hummingbirds are cap… read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
- science
20. The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield's War on Vaccines
By: Brian Deer
4.02
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Brian Deer exposes a conspiracy of fraud and betrayal behind attacks on a mainstay of medicine. … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"If he could do what he did -- and I'll show you what he did -- who else is doing what in the hospitals and laboratories that we may one day look to for our lives?"-Brian Deer, The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield's War on Vaccines
21. Bugged: The Insects Who Rule the World and the People Obsessed with Them
By: David MacNeal
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Insects have been shaping our ecological world and plant life for over 400 million years. In fact, … read more
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- animals
- nonfiction
- popular science
- nature
- science
