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Not Dead Yet: Rebooting Your Life after 50

Barbara Ballinger - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Two long-time, seventy-something writing partners share how they and other aging boomers can navigate this new stage of their lives with optimism, energy, humor, honesty, and empathy.It's a gift to reach old age and to arrive there well and ready for more years. The two authors of Not Dead...
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Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation: Why Physicists Are Studying Human Consciousness and AI to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe

George Musser - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

"This is a delightful account of one of the deepest and most fascinating explorations going on today at the frontier of our knowledge." -- Carlo Rovelli, bestselling author of The Order of Time and Seven Brief Lessons on PhysicsA revelatory exploration of how a "theory of everything"...
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Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World―and How You Can, Too

Ijeoma Oluo - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across America.In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo offered a vital guide...
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Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

Charan Ranganath - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, one of the world's top memory researchers reveals the powerful role memory plays in nearly every aspect of our lives, from recalling...
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Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived

Tim Flannery - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

Internationally bestselling author and renowned scientist Tim Flannery and his daughter, scientist Emma Flannery, delivers an informative-yet-intimate portrait of the megalodon, an extinct shark and the largest predator of all timeWhen Tim Flannery was a boy he found a fossilized tooth...
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Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles

Samuel Graydon - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

Walter Isaacson's Einstein meets Craig Brown's 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret, in this innovative biography of the famous physicist told in ninety-nine dazzling vignettes.. Most of us would agree that Albert Einstein's name is synonymous with "genius" and that his likeness...
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Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades

Rebecca Renner - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Editors' Choice"Delivers everything its title promises and much more." - NPR"Remarkable... Every species, and every person who fights for its continued existence, deserves a book like this." -- The New York Times"This nail-biter account has the intensity...
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The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

Douglas Preston - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God, presents the jaw-dropping discovery of a vast Egyptian tomb containing dozens of sealed burial chambers, as well as recounting tales of pirate treasure, mysterious deaths, archaeological mysteries, and more ... . What's...
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Quantum Body: The New Science of Living a Longer, Healthier, More Vital Life

Deepak Chopra M.D. - Harmony
Format: Hardcover

Joining forces with two leading scientists, New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra offers a quantum leap for improving our physical and mental health.. In an unprecedented collaboration between three of today's most powerful minds, Deepak Chopra, M.D., teams up with physicist...
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Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World

Joe Roman PhD - Little, Brown Spark
Format: Hardcover

A "fascinating" exploration (Elizabeth Kolbert) of how ecosystems are sculpted and sustained by animals eating, pooping, and dying - and how these fundamental functions could help save us from climate catastrophe.. If forests are the lungs of the planet, then animals migrating...
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