The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction
By: Gísli Pálsson
3.77
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
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1. The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology In Greek And Roman Times
By: Adrienne Mayor
3.96
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Griffins, Centaurs, Cyclopes, and Giants--these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue … read more
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2. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
3. Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
By: Tom Chivers
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A captivating and user-friendly tour of Bayes’s theorem and its global impact on modern life from t… read more
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- nonfiction
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4. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By: Amy Tan
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Flexibound
A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more
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- birds
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"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
5. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
6. A Haunting in the Arctic
By: C.J. Cooke
3.78
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
1901-ben járunk. A fiatal nőt, Nickyt megtámadják, majd egy bálnavadász hajó, az Ormen fedélzetén … read more
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7. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
8. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
By: Thomas F. Schaller
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more
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- history
9. An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
By: Zeinab Badawi
3.97
Format: 531 pages, Kindle Edition
Everyone is originally from Africa, and this book is therefore for everyone. For too long, Afric… read more
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10. Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us about Our Past and Future
By: James Shapiro
4.10
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
From leading scholar James Shapiro, a timely exploration of what Shakespeare's plays reveal about o… read more
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- history
11. 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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- history
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"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
12. Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
By: Brian Merchant
4.14
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The "rich and gripping" true story … read more
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- nonfiction
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"If the Luddites have taught us anything, it’s that robots aren’t taking our jobs. Our bosses are."-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"It’s the same story, time and again: a new technology that promises to alleviate work degrades it instead."-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"The Luddites knew exactly who owned the machinery they destroyed. They saw that automation is not a faceless phenomenon that we must submit to. And they were right: Automation is, quite often and qui…"-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"Uber’s chief innovation is not that its app summons a car to your location with a smartphone and a GPS signal. It is that it used this moderately novel configuration of technology to argue that the o…"-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
13. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
14. Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
By: Jason Roberts
4.25
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of A Sense of the World comes this dramatic, globe-spanning and meticul… read more
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- animals
- natural history
- nonfiction
- nature
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15. Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our Future
By: Daniel Lewis
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A compelling global exploration of nature and survival as seen via a dozen species of trees that re… read more
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16. Mrs. Moreau's Warbler: How Birds Got Their Names
By: Stephen Moss
3.91
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
Swallow and starling, puffin and peregrine, blue tit and blackcap. We use these names so often that… read more
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- nonfiction
- birds
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17. Season of the Swamp
By: Yuri Herrera
3.77
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of… read more
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18. Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist
By: Jasmin Graham
4.15
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From a marine biologist and co-founder of Minorities in Shark Sciences, a powerful debut the uplif… read more
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19. Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World
By: Kelly Clancy
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A wide-ranging intellectual history that reveals how important games have been to human progress, a… read more
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"The problem is not that a paper-clip-maximizing AI will arise in the future and turn the universe into paper clips. The maximizers are already here. Any consequences too subtle to measure--environmen…"-Kelly Clancy, Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World
20. Full Speed to a Crash Landing (Chaotic Orbits, #1)
By: Beth Revis
4.03
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A high octane sexy space heist from New York Times-bestselling author Beth Revis, the first in a no… read more
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21. Queer As Folklore
By: Sacha Coward
4.13
Format: None pages, None
Queer as Folklore takes readers across centuries and continents which reveals the unsung heroes and… read more
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22. The Secret History of Sharks: The Rise of the Ocean's Most Fearsome Predators
By: John Long
4.11
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
World-leading paleontologist John Long presents the complete, untold story of how sharks emerged as… read more
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23. Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
By: Brenda Wineapple
4.40
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent history of the 1925 Scopes trial and how the teaching of evolution in public schools … read more
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24. Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
By: Edward Dolnick
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A historical adventure story about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading … read more
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25. The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction
By: Gísli Pálsson
3.77
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
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26. Odyssey (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #4)
By: Stephen Fry
4.42
Format: 400 pages, ebook
The final book in Stephen Fry's acclaimed internationally bestselling Greek myths series telling th… read more
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27. The Party: The perfect Christmas gift from the Sunday Times bestselling author
By: Tessa Hadley
3.43
Format: 111 pages, Kindle Edition
An irresistible novella about two sisters and a night that changes everything, from the master chro… read more
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28. The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.: A Biography
By: Peter Ames Carlin
3.87
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying cultural biography of the greatest and last American rock band of the millennium, w… read more
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29. Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War
By: Lyndal Roper
4.03
Format: 501 pages, Kindle Edition
The German Peasants' War was the greatest popular uprising in Western Europe before the FrenchRevol… read more
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30. The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings from History
By: Laurence Rees
4.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
How could the Nazis have committed the crimes they did? Why did commandants of concentration and de… read more
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31. How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide
By: Vaclav Smil
4.08
Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition
‘There is no author whose books I look forward to more’ BILL GATESIn this ambitious, myth-busting b… read more
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