Life in the Cold: An Introduction to Winter Ecology
By: Peter J. Marchand
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Peter Marchand believes that winter is unfairly misunderstood, a season associated with "stillness,…
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1. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
By: Mary Roach
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh … read more
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2. Inherent Vice
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.31
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon- private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally… read more
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3. Dark Lord of Derkholm (Derkholm, #1)
By: Diana Wynne Jones
3.44
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
Everyone - wizards, soldiers, farmers, elves, dragons, kings and queens alike - is fed up with Mr C… read more
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4. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more
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"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
5. Moby-Dick or, The Whale
By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco
3.55
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more
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"Call me Ishmael."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
6. 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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"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
7. Starter Villain
By: John Scalzi
4.16
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularl… read more
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"So we’re like Spotify, but for evil."-John Scalzi, Starter Villain
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"Dogs are the worst. They'll sell you out for a treat and a head pat."-John Scalzi, Starter Villain
8. Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
By: Martha Wells
4.26
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
SciFi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCr… read more
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"I was tired of pretending to be human. I needed a break."-Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
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9. Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard
By: Douglas W. Tallamy
4.37
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Douglas W. Tallamy’s first book, Bringing Nature Home, sparked a national conversation about the li… read more
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10. Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
By: Martha Wells
4.38
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
Murderbot wasn’t programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it res… read more
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"I was having an emotion, and I hate that."-Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
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11. Bewilderment
By: Richard Powers
3.92
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
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"Apparently God had made life on one planet only, and only one country of that planet's dominant species needed to manage it."-Richard Powers, Bewilderment
12. Life in the Cold: An Introduction to Winter Ecology
By: Peter J. Marchand
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Peter Marchand believes that winter is unfairly misunderstood, a season associated with "stillness,… read more
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