Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food
By: Lenore Newman
3.88
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
In Lost Feast, food expert Lenore Newman sets out to look at the history of the foods we have loved…
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1. Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi (Penguin Library of American Indian History)
By: Timothy R. Pauketat
3.63
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
The fascinating story of a lost city and an unprecedented American civilization While Mayan an… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- anthropology
2. Oranges
By: John McPhee
4.04
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and o… read more
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- nature
- history
- food
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
3. I Was Told There'd Be Cake
By: Sloane Crosley
3.87
Format: 172 pages,
From the author of the novel, The Clasp, hailed by Michael Chabon, Heidi Julavits, and J. Courtney … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
4. The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food
By: Dan Barber
3.32
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Barber explores the evolution of American food from the 'first plate,' or industrially-produced, me… read more
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- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
5. The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Randolph Hogan
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
This is Marquez's account of a real-life event. In 1955, eight crew members of the destroyer Caldas… read more
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6. Delicious Foods
By: James Hannaham
3.68
Format: 593 pages, Hardcover
Darlene, a young widow and mother devastated by the death of her husband, turns to drugs to erase t… read more
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- audiobook
7. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more
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8. Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
By: Gabrielle Hamilton
4.00
Format: 274 pages,
Before Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty hard-liv… read more
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9. Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America
By: Michael Ruhlman
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Cookbook author and food writer Ruhlman explores the evolution of the American grocery store and ho… read more
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10. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more
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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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- science
- history
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- audiobook
"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. 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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- science
- history
- nonfiction
- environment
- audiobook
13. 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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- science
- history
- nonfiction
- environment
- audiobook
14. American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption
By: Gabrielle Glaser
4.34
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, th… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
15. The Sleepwalkers
By: Scarlett Thomas
3.17
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From “one of the UK’s most interesting authors” (Kirkus Reviews), Patricia Highsmith meets White Lo… read more
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- audiobook
16. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!
By: David Zucker
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy class… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
17. Upright Women Wanted
By: Sarah Gailey
3.61
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
“That girl’s got more wrong notions than a barn owl’s got mean looks.” Esther is a stowaway. She… read more
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- audiobook
"Just because he needed killing doesn't mean I can sleep easy."-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted
"You really believe all that? About how there’s only one end in sight for people like you?"-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted
"When there's people around that we don't trust, we let them think we're the kinds of people who are allowed to exist. And the only kind of Librarian that's allowed to exist is one who answers to she."-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted
"Good," Esther said back, echoing Cye's words automatically because she didn't know what else to say, because you have a freckle on your bottom lip seemed like the wrong thing to say but it was the on…"-Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted
18. Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
By: Eyal Press
4.17
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of dirty work--the work that society considers… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
19. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
4.10
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impa… read more
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- nature
- science
- history
- nonfiction
- environment
- audiobook
"I was struck, and not for the first time, by how much easier it is to ruin an ecosystem than to run one."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"If control is the problem, then, by the logic of the Anthropocene, still more control must be the solution."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"He’s a burly man with sparse white hair and a white beard who looks like Santa might look if Santa, in the off-season, carried a tackle box."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"Here I was, trying to finish a book about the world spinning out of control, only to find the world spinning so far out of control that I couldn't finish the book."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
20. A Sweet Sting of Salt
By: Rose Sutherland
3.88
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Once a young woman uncovers a dark secret about her neighbor and his mysterious new wife, she’ll ha… read more
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21. Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History
By: William Alexander
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author William Alexander takes readers on the surprisingly twisty journe… read more
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- science
- history
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
22. Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
By: James Rebanks
4.43
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in… read more
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- nature
- history
- food
- nonfiction
- environment
"There were profoundly important questions about the potential effects of each new technology that it was nobody's job to ask or answer. There was no mechanism for farmers or ecologists to judge wheth…"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
"There is something about planting trees that feels good. If you have done it well, it will outlast you and leave the world a little richer and more beautiful because of your efforts. Planting a tree …"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
"Agricultural education is still overwhelmingly about change and innovation, and "disruption," not what is sustainable and what will work in the long run. From the modernizing perspective, the student…"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
23. Notes from a Young Black Chef
By: Kwame Onwuachi
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A memoir from “the most important chef in America” ( San Francisco Chronicle ) and chef of Tatiana,… read more
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- food
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- audiobook
"Like stolen labor, this stew became part of a Southern culture whose origins rest on the corrupt scaffolding of slavery."-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef
"Nothing is a turnoff like a New York City housing authority kitchen. People want to hear about that once you're successful, not when you're living in it."-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef
"Sometimes racism takes the form of ugly words and actions. Other times it remains unspoken, communicated by hostile looks and secret snickers. But the most corrosive form, and often the hardest to ad…"-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef
24. The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology
By: Mark Boyle
3.94
Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition
It was 11:00 pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped … read more
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- environment
- nature
- audiobook
25. Braised Pork
By: An Yu
3.45
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
One morning in autumn, Jia Jia walks into the bathroom of her Beijing apartment to find her husband… read more
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"You're like water. Your beauty is soft and quiet."-An Yu, Braised Pork
"Her father's hands, holding the chopsticks, were slightly unsteady - something she had first noticed years ago when he took her out to lunch, but tonight, it made her heart clench and tremble."-An Yu, Braised Pork
26. We Had a Little Real Estate Problem
By: Kliph Nesteroff
4.07
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
A Best Book of 2021 by NPR and Esquire From Kliph Nesteroff, “the human encyclopedia of comedy” … read more
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- history
- audiobook
27. Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
By: Claire L. Evans
3.94
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Women are not ancillary to the history of technology; they turn up at the very beginning of every i… read more
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- history
- science
- audiobook
28. Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
By: Jennifer Wright
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“This is the story of one of the boldest women in American history: a self-made millionaire, a cele… read more
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- history
- science
- audiobook
29. Playground
By: Richard Powers
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more
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- nature
30. Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food
By: Lenore Newman
3.88
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
In Lost Feast, food expert Lenore Newman sets out to look at the history of the foods we have loved… read more
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- science
- history
- travel
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- anthropology
31. Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation
By: Tim Birkhead
3.85
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey throug… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- nature
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