The Killer Whale Journals: Our Love and Fear of Orcas
By: Hanne Strager
4.48
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
When intrepid biology student Hanne Strager volunteered to be the cook on a small research vessel i…
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1. Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
By: Frederik Pohl
4.06
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe... and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When… read more
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"They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind."-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
"Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die."-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
"He described stars as thin as air, immense clouds of glowing gas; told us about the prestars of the Orion Nebula, just now blossoming into loose knots of warm gas that might in a million years be sun…"-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
"It was a dimly glowing mass of pale-blue light, mottled, immense, and terrifying. Even at the first glimpse I knew it was not a sun. No sun can be so blue and so dim. It hurt the eyes to look at it, …"-Frederik Pohl, Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
2. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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3. The Sea Around Us
By: Rachel Carson , Ann H. Zwinger
3.79
Format: 704 pages,
The Sea Around Usis one of the most remarkably successful books ever written about the natural worl… read more
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4. Raptor Red
By: Robert T. Bakker
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A pair of fierce but beautiful eyes look out from the undergrowth of conifers. She is an intelligen… read more
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5. Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas
By: Eva Saulitis
3.59
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Science entwines with matters of the human heart as a whale researcher chronicles the lives of an e… read more
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6. The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
By: Dan Egan
4.23
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over t… read more
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7. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
By: Sabrina Imbler
4.12
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more
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"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
8. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By: Cat Bohannon
4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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9. Weasels in the Attic
By: Hiroko Oyamada
3.43
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
From the acclaimed author of The Hole and The Factory, a thrilling and mysterious work that explore… read more
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"We meet at school, or work, or maybe a store. Wherever it is, there's just a random group of individuals, right? Within that group, you find your mate. If you were in a different group, you' d end up…"-Hiroko Oyamada, Weasels in the Attic
10. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
11. The Puma Years
By: Laura Coleman
4.34
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
In this rapturous memoir, writer and activist Laura Coleman shares the story of her liberating jour… read more
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"The jungle really seems to listen to everything. I've never felt so vulnerable. It won't stop listening, and I don't know how to tell it that I hate it."-Laura Coleman, The Puma Years
12. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.06
Format: 165 pages, Hardcover
From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction--a collecti… read more
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"It is this way with wonder: it takes a bit of patience, and it takes putting yourself in the right place at the right time. It requires that we be curious enough to forgo our small distractions in or…"-Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
13. 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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14. The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
By: Helen Czerski
4.23
Format: 446 pages, Hardcover
A scientist’s exploration of the "ocean engine"―the physics behind the ocean’s systems―and why it m… read more
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15. The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
By: Katherine Morgan Schafler
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From psychotherapist Katherine Morgan Schafler, an invitation to every “recovering perfectionist” t… read more
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"Energy management beats time management."-Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
"Feeling less in danger is not the same as feeling safe."-Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
"Enthusiasm itself will not be enough to sustain an endeavor."-Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
"Forgiveness is not a line you cross, it's a path you walk on."-Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
16. How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
By: Tom Mustill
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill—the nature documentarian who wen… read more
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"What confounds this dilemma further is that individual animals within a species have varying cognitive abilities. To quote the Yosemite National Park ranger who, when asked why it was proving so hard…"-Tom Mustill, How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
17. Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture
By: Virginia Sole-Smith
4.31
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids believe that “fat” is b… read more
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18. Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
By: Nick Pyenson
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Smithsonian's star paleontologist takes us to the ends of the earth and to the cutting edge of … read more
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"We, as paleontologists, are used to asking questions without having all the facts."-Nick Pyenson, Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
"We sent whalesong into interstellar space because the creatures that sing these songs are superlative beings that fill us with awe, terror, and affection. We have hunted them for thousands of years a…"-Nick Pyenson, Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
19. The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage
By: Tom Ireland
4.43
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
At every moment, within your body and all around you, trillions of microscopic combatants are fight… read more
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20. The Night Travelers
By: Armando Lucas Correa
3.84
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban… read more
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21. The Killer Whale Journals: Our Love and Fear of Orcas
By: Hanne Strager
4.48
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
When intrepid biology student Hanne Strager volunteered to be the cook on a small research vessel i… read more
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