My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs
By: Brian Switek
3.98
Format: None pages,
Dinosaurs, with their awe-inspiring size, terrifying claws and teeth, and otherworldly abilities, o…
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1. Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
By: Neil Shubin
4.03
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are b… read more
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- history
- biology
- palaeontology
- nonfiction
- nature
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"We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"Look at the first arch in a human and a shark, and you find a very similar state of affairs: jaws."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"Many of the molecules that microbes use to cause us misery are primitive versions of the molecules that make our own bodies possible."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
2. Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
By: Paul Theroux
4.06
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
National BestsellerIn Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Theroux recreates an epic journey he took th… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel."-Paul Theroux, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
"You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time."-Paul Theroux, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
"Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life."-Paul Theroux, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
"The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a book, and you are able to stroll along both the real and imagined road."-Paul Theroux, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
3. Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History’s Most Iconic Extinct Creatures
By: Ben Mezrich
3.24
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Science fiction becomes reality in this Jurassic Park-like story of the genetic resurrection of an … read more
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- history
- biology
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
4. My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs
By: Brian Switek
3.98
Format: None pages,
Dinosaurs, with their awe-inspiring size, terrifying claws and teeth, and otherworldly abilities, o… read more
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- history
- biology
- palaeontology
- dinosaurs
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
5. The Mosquito Coast
By: Paul Theroux
4.13
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family t… read more
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6. You Are SO Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah!
By: Fiona Rosenbloom
4.28
Format: 320 pages,
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7. The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
By: Riley Black
3.95
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books! "This is top-drawer science writi… read more
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- palaeontology
- dinosaurs
- nonfiction
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"That's the goal of paleontology, after all - to start with the offerings of death and work back towards life."-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"It's an extension of how we often cope in the wake of our own personal traumas, remembering the wounds as we struggle to see the growth stimulated by terrible events. Resilience has no meaning withou…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"In time, extinction comes for all species. Some leave descendants. Others do not. Beautiful as the image is, there is no tree of life. The shape of biodiversity is more like a chaotic blanket, indivi…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
8. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
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- biology
- palaeontology
- nonfiction
- nature
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9. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
By: Steve Brusatte
4.20
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today the… read more
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- palaeontology
- dinosaurs
- nonfiction
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"There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...let's not forget about those birds--they are dinosaurs, they survived, they are still with us. The dinosaur empire may be over, but the dinosaurs remain."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...another trove of spectacular fossils, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia...provide unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of dinosaurs and early birds."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
10. Lights (Sheets, #3)
By: Brenna Thummler
4.27
Format: 366 pages, None
Marjorie, Eliza, and Wendell the ghost are back to uncover the secrets of Wendell’s human life in t… read more
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11. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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- history
- biology
- palaeontology
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
12. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
By: Marisa Crane
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form … read more
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"My head feels the way watercolor looks when it bleeds."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"Maybe we wanted another person to join us while we watched the world burn."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"Here I was thinking my tears might move her enough to forgive me for not turning my body into a home."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"We argued so often we thought we’d made a mistake marrying for love when there were things like fear and loneliness to bind you."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
13. The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
By: Susan Casey
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the … read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
14. The Stars Did Wander Darkling
By: Colin Meloy
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A suspenseful and atmospheric horror set in 1980s Oregon, perfect for fans of Stranger Things, Neil… read more
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15. Drowned Country (The Greenhollow Duology, #2)
By: Emily Tesh
3.98
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
This second volume of the Greenhollow duology once again invites readers to lose themselves in the … read more
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16. Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology (The Rediscovered Series)
By: Michael J. Benton
4.39
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Over the past twenty years, the study of dinosaurs has transformed into a true scientific disciplin… read more
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- history
- biology
- palaeontology
- dinosaurs
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
17. Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea and the Shipwreck of the Titanic
By: Daniel Stone
3.81
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the national bestselling author of The Food Explorer, a fascinating and rollicking plunge into… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
"History, after all, isn't told by the dead."-Daniel Stone, Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea and the Shipwreck of the Titanic
18. Twilight Falls (Shady Hollow, #4)
By: Juneau Black
4.03
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
The fourth book in the Shady Hollow mystery series sees Vera embroiled in a case involving star-cro… read more
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"Coming from the city like you did, you must have been free of all that old-fashioned nonsense." - "As long as you live among others, you're never free of other ideas. That's what society means."-Juneau Black, Twilight Falls (Shady Hollow, #4)
19. Bitch: On the Female of the Species
By: Lucy Cooke
4.45
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom. Studying zoology m… read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
20. Seasonal Fears (Alchemical Journeys, #2)
By: Seanan McGuire
3.83
Format: 482 pages, Hardcover
Melanie has a destiny, though it isn’t the one everyone assumes it to be. She’s delicate; she’s fra… read more
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21. Vampire Weekend
By: Mike Chen
3.56
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Being a vampire is far from glamorous...but it can be pretty punk rock. Everything you've heard … read more
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