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  • Astonishing Animals

    Extraordinary Creatures and the Fantastic Worlds They Inhabit

    by Tim Flannery ...
    From the authors of A Gap in Nature, a breathtaking visual adventure showcasing ninety of the world’s most astounding creatures.Sumptuous birds of paradise, amazing soft-shell turtles, frogs that look like tomatoes, and terrifying fish (including the deep-water angler fish from Finding Nemo) are just some of the extraordinary creatures that can be found in Tim Flannery and Peter Schouten’s new ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ways of Being

    Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

    by James Bridle ...
    Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle’s Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence—plant, animal, human, artificial—and how they transform our understanding of humans’ place in the cosmos.What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans or shared with other beings— beings of flesh, wood, stone, and silicon? The last few ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Year of No Garbage

    Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey to Zero Waste

    by Eve O. Schaub ...
    "Eve’s brave and honest experiment reveals the shocking impact of the throwaway society we’ve become and at the same time showing small ways we can all do better.” —Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, founder of Plastic Free JulyYear of No Garbage is Super Size Me meets the environmental movement.In this book Eve O. Schaub, humorist and stunt memoirist extraordinaire, tackles her most difficult challenge to date ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Nutmeg's Curse

    Parables for a Planet in Crisis

    by Amitav Ghosh ...
    In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment.A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, Amitav Ghosh’s new book traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the sea ... Read more

    $17.99 USD $12.99 USD

  • Forest Types of Southwest Ohio and Southeast Indiana

    A methodology for identifying, projecting, and restoring our 8 local forest types

    by Indigenous Landscapes ...
    This book introduces and describes the local forest type expressions based on their physical environment characteristics; Soil PH, Topography, Hydrology, and Soil Parent Material + the correlated tree species. This information was extrapolated from cross-studying over a thousand acres of soil surveys with disturbed forest regeneration, 2nd growth forests, and older growth forests. Each forest type ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • The Whale

    In Search of the Giants of the Sea

    by Philip Hoare ...
    A travelogue through the history, literature, and lore of the remarkable mammals that we long have been fascinated with, from Moby-Dick to Free Willy.From his childhood fascination with the gigantic Natural History Museum model of a blue whale, to his abiding love of Moby-Dick, to his adult encounters with the living animals in the Atlantic Ocean, the acclaimed writer Philip Hoare has been ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Remember Me?

    Loving and Caring for a Dog with Canine Cognitive Dysfunction

    by Eileen B Anderson ...
    Remember Me? is an award-winning guidebook for owners of dogs who are losing their mental faculties as they age, and the story of a dog and owner who retained their bond through this most difficult situation.If you have an aging dog, Remember Me? will give you the information you need to weather the difficult condition and give their dogs the most fulfilling life possible.In Remember Me?, you will ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conversations with Birds

    The Metaphysics of Bird and Human Communication

    by Alan Powers ...
    An exploration of communicating with birds and the lessons they can teach us• Discusses specific birdtalk techniques and offers insights into many species• Looks at the long-standing tradition of “avitherapy” throughout history and in literature and the arts• Explains how song-talk with birds restores peace, calms anxiety, and enhances healthFor decades Alan Powers has studied bird vocalizations, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Crusoe, Castaways and Shipwrecks in the Perilous Age of Sail

    by Mike Rendell ...
    “Fascinating” stories of real-life people and events that inspired the author of the classic adventure novel Robinson Crusoe (Historical Novel Society).This book looks at some of the stories that inspired Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe—stories of bravery, determination, and good fortune, as well as human negligence, sheer stupidity, and bad luck. In addition to an overview of Defoe’s life ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sergeant Stubby

    How a Stray Dog and His Best Friend Helped Win World War I and Stole the Heart of a Nation

    by Ann Bausum ...
    Meet Sergeant Stubby: World War I dog veteran, decorated war hero, American icon, and above all, man's best friend. Stubby's story begins in 1917 when America is about to enter the war. A stowaway dog befriends Private James Robert "Bob" Conroy at the Connecticut National Guard camp at Yale University and the two become inseparable. Stubby also wins over the commanding officer and is soon made an ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Halsey's Typhoon

    The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue

    by Bob Drury, Tom Clavin ...
    This account of a disaster at sea during World War II is “a powerful and engrossing story of tragedy, survival, and heroism” (Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down).In the final days of 1944, Admiral William “Bull” Halsey is the Pacific theater’s most popular and colorful naval hero. After a string of victories, the “Fighting Admiral” and his thirty-thousand-man Third Fleet are charged with ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls

    Animal Movement and the Robots of the Future

    by David Hu ...
    Discovering the secrets of animal movement and what they can teach usInsects walk on water, snakes slither, and fish swim. Animals move with astounding grace, speed, and versatility: how do they do it, and what can we learn from them? In How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls, David Hu takes readers on an accessible, wondrous journey into the world of animal motion. From basement labs at MIT to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Monkey in the Mirror

    Essays on the Science of What Makes Us Human

    by Ian Tattersall ...
    An “absorbing” look at how our species evolved, from the curator of human evolution at the American Museum of Natural History (Kirkus Reviews).What makes us so different from those other animals? How did we get this way? How do we know? And what exactly are we? These questions are what make human evolution a subject of general fascination. Ian Tattersall, one of those rare scientists who is also a ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fire Weather

    A True Story from a Hotter World

    by John Vaillant ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION • ONE OF *TIME'*S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF THE YEAR • A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind from the award-winning, best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce • Winner ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • How to Potty Train a Puppy... in 7 Days or Less! The Best Beginner's Guide to House Training Your Pup Quickly and Easily

    by Dennis Mitchell ...
    House Training Done RightTrying to housebreak your new best friend can be a terrifying time of smelly messes and constant frustration. Fortunately, with the advice in this book, you can use your dog's own nature to train him successfully, easily and without ever raising your voice.Dogs don’t want to make a mess inside the house – it goes against their nature. Dogs are also eager to please their ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Entangled Life

    How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

    by Merlin Sheldrake ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “brilliant [and] entrancing” (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi—the great connectors of the living world—and their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our bodies, expand our minds, and help us address our most urgent environmental problems.“Grand and dizzying in how thoroughly it recalibrates our understanding of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Otherlands

    A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

    by Thomas Halliday ...
    “Immersive . . . bracingly ambitious . . . rewinds the story of life on Earth—from the mammoth steppe of the last Ice Age to the dawn of multicellular creatures over 500 million years ago.”—The EconomistLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE • “One of those rare books that’s both deeply informative and daringly imaginative.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White SkyONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • River-Horse

    A Voyage Across America

    by William Least Heat-Moon ...
    New York Times bestseller: “A coast-to-coast journey by way of great rivers, conducted by a contemporary master of travel writing” (Kirkus Reviews).In this memoir brimming with history, humor, and wisdom, the author of Blue Highways and PrairyErth “voyages across the country, from Atlantic to Pacific, almost entirely by its rivers, lakes and canals in a small outboard-powered boat” (San Francisco ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Braiding Sweetgrass

    Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

    by Robin Wall Kimmerer ...
    As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Urban Tree Book

    An Uncommon Field Guide for City and Town

    by Arthur Plotnik ...
    Open The Urban Tree Book and discover the joys of forest trekking--right in your city or town. This first-of-a-kind field guide introduces readers to the trees on their block, in neighborhood parks, and throughout the urban landscape. Unlike traditional tree guides with dizzying numbers of woodland species, The Urban Tree Book explores nature in the city, describing some 200 tree types likely to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Forest Walking

    Discovering the Trees and Woodlands of North America

    by Peter Wohlleben, Jane Billinghurst ...
    From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees, this guide to awakening your senses and engaging deeply with the forest is the perfect gift for hikers and walkers.“This book will fast-track you into the joys of spending time amongst the trees.”—Tristan Gooley, author of The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs and How to Read Water<s... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Beak of the Finch

    A Story of Evolution in Our Time (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by Jonathan Weiner ...
    **PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A dramatic story of groundbreaking scientific research of Darwin's discovery of evolution that "spark[s] not just the intellect, but the imagination" (Washington Post Book World).“Admirable and much-needed.... Weiner’s triumph is to reveal how evolution and science work, and to let them speak clearly for themselves.”—The New York Times Book Review**On a desert island in ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • Landlines

    The Remarkable Story of a Thousand-Mile Journey Across Britain

    by Raynor Winn ...
    The powerful story of a 1,000-mile healing walk—from the lochs of Scotland to England's southwest coast—in a remarkable evocation of modern-day Britain.Raynor Winn knows that her husband Moth’s health is declining, getting worse by the day. She knows of only one cure. It worked once before. But will he—can he?—set out with her on another healing walk?The Cape Wrath Trail is hundreds of miles of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Lone Wolf

    by Sara Driscoll ...
    Series Book 1 - An F.B.I. K-9 Novel
    An agent with the FBI’s elite K-9 unit works with her loyal search-and-rescue Labrador to sniff out a terrorist in this “tense and exciting” thriller (Leo J. Maloney, author of Arch Enemy).FBI Agent Megan Jennings and her canine partner Hawk are an effective team. With his highly trained sense of smell, Hawk can locate bodies anywhere—living or dead. When a bomb rips apart a government building in ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus